Walsall roll call

Quoted from lobsterpot

I'm not going to any of the games in the comp but i will still be interested to see how town do and will be listening. I will still cheer if they score. Point is to vote with your feet and not give them the click at the turnstyle. I would even be up for paying the admission price of the home games if they made the price a £10 special straight into a fund or to the trust aslong as it wasnt counted as an attendance as obvs short term the club will be making a loss financially even if it was around the 1000-2000 mark per fixture and its obvs not the clubs fault. Well it is as they voted in but you know what i mean we still dont want gtfc to lose out cashwise if that makes any sense whatsoever!

As you have self corrected..it is entirely the clubs fault...they formed part of the "yes" vote.....look at Harvey's potential Celtic/Rangers invitation to join the league.....disastrous for lower league teams south of the border...potentially terminal for some teams north of the border.....purely financial all ways up.....nothing to do with good of the game, increase benefits to English clubs or the English game...its just potential increase in TV/Attendances/Sponsorship none of which will benefit teams like us apart from maybe the two games in the only season we play them as they fast track to the Premiership.

Quoted from sonik

These cup competitions have generated the clubs income around 6 to 8 hundred thousand pounds in the last 6 seasons. It is also a one year trial that maybe scraped if the vote goes the other way. Only two teams voted against the  proposal I believe out of 72. UTM

We havnt played in this competition for the last 6 seasons, the only reason the equivalent FA Trophy has generated the club income is because we pretty much started the competition as a favourite and have progressed to finals so accumulating cash along the way with a big Wembley pay off.

We are not favourites in this, the format has changed dramatically and ....regardless of the clubs financially biased outlook....a certain proportion of the fans arent going to put up with Premier League interference, so no matter how far we progress there will be reduced income for the club at every stage as fans arent going to go...and i hope in their hundreds if not thousands.

I truly hope every "yes"  club are left with egg on their faces on this one.

Agree mate.

If, and it's a big if, this competition succeeds, it represents a green light to introduce B teams into the lower leagues such as they do in Spain and Portugal, therefore reducing the number of places in these divisions. So for lower league club owners to back it is a bit like turkeys voting for Christmas.

Quoted from sonik

These cup competitions have generated the clubs income around 6 to 8 hundred thousand pounds in the last 6 seasons. It is also a one year trial that maybe scraped if the vote goes the other way. Only two teams voted against the  proposal I believe out of 72. UTM

Poppycock

Are Walsall fans boycotting this game?

Probably be around 1,200 at this game methinks

Hopefully far fewer than that.

Walsall forum reckons there will only be about 500

Will be interesting how many Grimsby fans are going tonight

i feel for those fans that haven't missed a game in 'X' amount of years, just so proving that Harvey and the clubs (that includes Fenty et al) don't have the supporters interests at heart.

The Premiershit has an over glutinous approach when it comes to money with players being paid an annual salary every week. The commercialism is fu(King ludicrous and most of these teams supporters have no idea on the complexity of being a football supporter. The fact that grass roots football is being left to rot is a travesty when most of these clubs have 'academies' for players as young as 8!