Chuckamate Trophy

Quoted from headingly_mariner

Reports on twitter suggesting that the EFL clubs have voted to go for the same format as last season. Rumour is that clubs have been sent an embargoed press realease.   a complete failure for football if true and another complete boycott needed.

If true then it just proves to fans that money is far more important that they are.

I cannot really influence how other clubs vote but I do need to know how GTFC voted. If, as I suspect they have gone against the fans wishes then not a lot I can do other than withdraw my (small) financial support of advertising, player shirt sponsorship, Trust membership etc Not a fortune but about £2,500 over the year

Quoted from LH

Boycott as in a proper boycott. Doesn't matter if you need to go to an away game because it's the last in your 92 or you're on 999 consecutive Town games and want your 1000. Don't go because the FL and PL are properly having your and hundreds of thousands of others pants down over this.


Likewise if it goes back to the original format we should try and get a big crowd in for all of our games to prove a point.

Completely agree, I'd like for my Son to grow up seeing Grimsby Town playing other clubs first teams, not premiership reserves.

I do hope that whatever the format that Grimsby Town did not vote for B teams. It'd be great if our club made a bit of a stand on behalf of fans. I think if we were fined for playing the reserves then the fans would crowdfund the fine.

The cloak and dagger nature of the vote speaks volumes to me. Why the secrecy?

They know it's not popular with fans but they plough on regardless, all the time telling us that last years competition was a success. Success for who would be my question.

If the competition is the same format as last year, it will be a boycott from me again.

My head says: from a business perspective, the inclusion of B teams means that the board should vote for this option. If this means we can sign a better player(s) that can promote us up the league, then I would have to go for it, too.

My heart says: it's a meaningless lower league competition for lower league clubs that gave me absolute joy when we won it. Keep the B teams out of it and let the dross fight out for the wembley trip.

Quoted from SteffiMariner

My head says: from a business perspective, the inclusion of B teams means that the board should vote for this option. If this means we can sign a better player(s) that can promote us up the league, then I would have to go for it, too.

At what cost in the long term? There is an agenda in the FA and Premier League to include B teams in the football pyramid. Allowing them into the trophy could be the beginning of this. It will be clubs like Grimsby Town that lose their place in the league to some Premier League reserve side. Unfashionable clubs like ours are the most at threat from this.

Quoted from ginnywings

The cloak and dagger nature of the vote speaks volumes to me. Why the secrecy?

They know it's not popular with fans but they plough on regardless, all the time telling us that last years competition was a success. Success for who would be my question.

If the competition is the same format as last year, it will be a boycott from me again.

I wish I had the will power to commit to this, I know I would leave the group stuff alone quite easily but if we got to the semi's and Wembley I would give in.

Let's wait until the news is released.

Then you can read it in full, try to understand everyone's viewpoint, and then dismiss it as rubbish.

Or...

You can dismiss it as rubbish without reading it to save time.

I'd like to know how the GTFC board voted on this. If it was to retain the current format, I'd then like someone from the club to explain why.

And then I'd like to know why they didn't consult us on the matter.

That really isn't much to ask for in the grand scheme of things.

Quoted from headingly_mariner

At what cost in the long term? There is an agenda in the FA and Premier League to include B teams in the football pyramid. Allowing them into the trophy could be the beginning of this. It will be clubs like Grimsby Town that lose their place in the league to some Premier League reserve side. Unfashionable clubs like ours are the most at threat from this.

Totally agree. It's the thin end of the wedge and the money men won't be happy until they control everything and little unfashionable clubs like ours are an irrelevance to them. We cannot let them have an inch.

I hope town didnt vote yes.  If so it puts me and others in such a inexcusable position forcing me to not go to town games and making me feel i have contributed to some of towns loss of income all because of the EFL's brainless antics.

Quoted from Cloudy

If true then it just proves to fans that money is far more important that they are.

I cannot really influence how other clubs vote but I do need to know how GTFC voted. If, as I suspect they have gone against the fans wishes then not a lot I can do other than withdraw my (small) financial support of advertising, player shirt sponsorship, Trust membership etc Not a fortune but about £2,500 over the year

I and 4 others will be doing the same with not buying season tickets and shirts if we have voted in favour of the competition. The competition is a farce and makes a mockery of the fans of these clubs. It depends on how much you would put on a price of the soul of football I suppose. D