Cup Replays Scrapped

Quoted from Yossarian

I think its a good idea.  Mainly because if a lower league club has managed to hold (for example) a Premier League club to a draw over 90 minutes, they are more likely to get a result on the night than allow the bigger club to "regroup" for the replay.

How often do we see a plucky draw then smashed by a big score in the replay?

Worked well against Luton that didn't it. We held on for 90 minutes and then got smashed at home.... oh wait, we smashed them  

Quoted from ska face

Frankly it’s about time the EFL clubs - by which I mean the owners and the boards - grew some collective bøllocks and made a proper stand. In other words, they need to threaten a mass boycott of next year’s FA Cup.

Time after time after time the onus has fallen on fans to make a stand but ultimately we are replaceable because we amount to little more than £400 on a spreadsheet each year. The decisions taken by the FA, at the behest of the Premier League, have seen a gradual chipping away at the ability of small to medium-sized clubs to exist sustainably, let alone compete.

In the grand scheme of things maybe this is just a small change, but symbolically it’s huge and cumulatively it’s got to be the tipping point.

And for what? So a handful of individuals can make even more money on top of the tens of millions they pocket each year? The premier league is drowning in its own filth and the supposed guardians of the game just keep pouring more money their way to try and stem the insatiable greed of, what, 6 clubs?

Rick Parry needs removing from his position at the EFL as soon as is humanly possibly. All the other Premier League agents in EFL positions need jettisoning too.

B-teams, TV deals, EPPP, and now this - just what will it actually take for clubs to stand up for themselves for once?

Great post ska and so right about how the PL is drowning in its own filth. Forest , Everton docked points for financial cheating .’ , and Man City to be hammered in the near future. Everton in a complete financial mess , taking out a £100m loan at ridiculous interest rates that’s unsustainable… Clubs unable to make signings due to FFP and in Chelsea’s case having to sell players and do dodgy sales of club hotels to themselves… the list goes on . Out of control wages that record TV incomes can’t sustain… it’s just a joke . It’s out of control and will eat itself sooner or later . Same as anything that’s too good. , greed and arrogance will bring it crashing down . Really sorry to see the PL teams crashing out of Europe…

Quoted from golfer

Owners - foreign shits  Managers - foreign shits  Most players - foreign shits .  The shits don't give a toss about English football - the shits will move to whatever country they can make the most money.  10 years these shits will have THEIR Premiership in Saudi Arabia or somewhere similar.

I obviously agree with you about the owners, but don't blame the managers on the players at all. It's is their job to do the best for their own clubs, not their responsibility to think of anyone else. Doesn't mean it isn't irritating when PL managers whine about fixture congestion, as they do, but they aren't the ones organising things.

It's the vermin at the F.A. who are the ones to blame here. Weak or corrupt. Possibly both. Pathetic bunch of non-entities.

Quoted from Maringer

I obviously agree with you about the owners, but don't blame the managers on the players at all. It's is their job to do the best for their own clubs, not their responsibility to think of anyone else. Doesn't mean it isn't irritating when PL managers whine about fixture congestion, as they do, but they aren't the ones organising things.

It's the vermin at the F.A. who are the ones to blame here. Weak or corrupt. Possibly both. Pathetic bunch of non-entities.

It’s strange that the successful Managers are the main culprits for complaining about the number of games they have to play but that’s what happens if you’re successful at any level. I played for a very good Sunday League team and a decent Lincs League side meaning we normally had good cup runs as well as the league games. There was one awful winter (.81/82?) at the end of which at least half of our players, who played for the same two clubs, had to play 20 matches in 22 days at the end of the season! Not only draining physically but financially as it was still expected we would all have the normal beers after the game.

At the professional level when Arsenal did the double, only the fourth time this was achieved in 100 years. These feats were achieved by clubs with around 14 players of first team quality, 42 league matches, often more than one replay as penalties didn’t exist, atrocious muddy pitches in the winter and pitches covered in Spring during the summer. As much as I despised the Leeds team of the mid sixties and early seventies we all knew in reality they were the stand out team of that era but in fact they won very little, mainly due to fixture congestion.

Modern football has wonderful pitches, large squads, much improved medical facilities and treatment ( particularly in the Premiership) & more money then ever could be imagined even twenty years ago. But it’s still not enough for them. If you’re so tired stop playing each other eight to ten times at pre-season tournaments earning yet more money as you trip around the globe.

Think Golly said football in this country will collapse at some stage in the future and it’s hard to argue with that. Despite the massive incomes these greedy illegitimates receive they are still allowed to spend £35 million per season in excess of their income. Never was a rule more likely to bring football to its knees then being £105m in debt after three seasons in the Premiership

The EFL should collectively grow a backbone, and tell the FA to intercourse off.

Boycott the competition

Boycotting the FA Cup at league level would work - teams don't have to enter it , as proved by Manure many seasons ago.

Quoted from Hagrid

The EFL should collectively grow a backbone, and tell the FA to intercourse off.

Boycott the competition

And tell the PL to keep their solidarity money too?

And tell the PL clubs they aren’t invited into the EFL Cup despite the competition being key to the value of the EFL TV deal with Sky?

The last thing the EFL should do is declare war on the PL.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

And tell the PL to keep their solidarity money too?

And tell the PL clubs they aren’t invited into the EFL Cup despite the competition being key to the value of the EFL TV deal with Sky?

The last thing the EFL should do is declare war on the PL.

the PL dont give 2 felicitations about the EFL or the clubs in it.
The EFL would survive in one format or another, why should we be so dependent on the big 6 telling us what we can and cannot do?

Quoted from Hagrid

the PL dont give 2 felicitations about the EFL or the clubs in it.
The EFL would survive in one format or another, why should we be so dependent on the big 6 telling us what we can and cannot do?

Because without the co-operation the structure of English football would collapse and the PL would become in effect a closed shop.

Unfortunately we need them (the PL) more than they need us (the EFL). We have more to lose than them.

They wouldn’t care if we collectively blew our brains out. In fact they’d probably be happy, so why give them the satisfaction?

Agreed that a mass boycott is going to be the only way to stop this, but it won’t happen, financially the PL have the FA & EFL by the balderdash.

The only way the blow would’ve been softened today is to say straight to pens, give sides a genuine chance of going through but instead they’ll play sides who can throw on millions of pounds worth of players to overpower sides in ET. I’m convinced our cup run would’ve come to an end at Luton were it not for replays.