Chuck a trade tickets

Weakened team and exit quietly please.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

I understand the opinion against the competition but £700k extra goes a long way at this level! Would you prefer for us to play a weakened team and exit quietly or play a strong team and win some significant prize money which could boost the playing budget? Couple that sort of money with a decent tie in the FA Cup or League Cup and you've earned well over £1m or half the benign loan.

nice sentiment but remember.....the 700k was for winning the competition....we havnt managed to win a single fking game in the 2 yrs of the format so lets not walk before we can even crawl.

Whatever the fans choose to do and say is one thing, the managers and major shareholder have stated their intentions to take the competition seriously, chance for "football fortune" etc ...but then gone and pretty much put a reserves team out in every game !!!  

Slag the fans off for boycotting a game and then treat it like a reserve game themselves...double standards, more terrible PR and just another reason to increase the boycott IMO.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

I understand the opinion against the competition but £700k extra goes a long way at this level! Would you prefer for us to play a weakened team and exit quietly or play a strong team and win some significant prize money which could boost the playing budget? Couple that sort of money with a decent tie in the FA Cup or League Cup and you've earned well over £1m or half the benign loan.

You're missing the point that that sort of money only came from winning it, and only one team will do that per season. Sorry to state the bleeding obvious, but you seem to have overlooked it.

One of the stated aims of the EFL and this competition is the "furthering of the England National team".

This season, the number of English players currently in first team squads has dropped from 33% last season to 30% this season, and among the top six teams in the Prem, there is only 21% of English players in their squads.

It's a compete sham and needs to be restored to what it was, or scrapped.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

I understand the opinion against the competition but £700k extra goes a long way at this level! Would you prefer for us to play a weakened team and exit quietly or play a strong team and win some significant prize money which could boost the playing budget? Couple that sort of money with a decent tie in the FA Cup or League Cup and you've earned well over £1m or half the benign loan.

And so if the Premier League teams offered enough to have 'B' teams in the lower leagues, that would be okay then? How much would you it take for Arsenal, Man Utd, Man City, Chelsea etc 'B' teams to buy Town's place in the football league?

Make no mistake this is just testing the waters, seeing how much lower league clubs will take to fund their own execution. Your post shows they are making progress... what they think is "after a while people will just accept it as the norm". Just don't go to the games, you may think you are just supporting your club but you aren't, you are supporting the Premier Leagues attempts to get 'B' teams into the lower leagues.

Don't compare us to Lincoln either. Town have a much bigger hard core support who have followed the club for decades and see the Checkatrade Trophy for what it is. Most of Lincoln fans have only started properly supporting their team in the last few season on the back of their success. Their gates in this competition is purely on the back of that success. This is not a dig at Lincoln either, fair play to Lincoln City Football club for making the most of that and there is much our own board could learn from them. Most of their fans just don't know better.

So if one of the aims of this competition is to bring on future England players why aren't the Premier teams the told they can only play English players, not French, Spanish, Serb etc.