Trophy and now this shite? Games coming out of ears. Edit: We don't play in the vase right, still, **** ton of unnecessary games.
We need as many Tuesdays free as possible to play our last 4 home games of the season in Birmingham. No consideration what so ever.
Huge advantage for those who come up and those who finished 17th-20th then as they won’t have all these extra games?! Ridiculous
Didn’t think finishing 20th in league would give us an advantage next season. Halifax are going to be playing 4 times a week by April.
I bet the Prem fvckers make a rule that you have to play at least 7 from the previous Saturday or get a fine like with the LDF Autoglass TrophyCupShield or whatever it was. Honestly I wish they'd piss off to their Super League and let the rest crack on
An absolutely ridiculous decision considering the fixture congestion there can be due to postponements There should be far more midweek league games played in the earlier months of the season to limit the chances of games getting called off Just going to be another Gateshead situation where teams are playing 3 times at the week at the end of the year
Interested to see the logistics of this, surely all NL teams will be hosting the U21's, there's no shot we're humping 5-6 hours down to London to play Fulham youth on a Tuesday night?
That’s what’s been said, NL clubs only to host home matches. All a farce, and with us finishing 16th, I hope we put the reserves out.
I mean you can only regionalise it so much, us and Gateshead have Newcastle, after that the closest is probably Manchester/Liverpool. Total farce, how much have the PL dished out for us to bend over and take it.
Thought it was strange at the time that the NL didn't put a statement about the replays. Now we know why. The only plus point I can see is that the squad players will get a run out but I have a feeling there will be a rule that you have to play your strongest side.
Shambles, boycott this nonsense. Even those that have not qualified get 50% prize money, not sure how much or how? Money money money.
Wasn't there some daft rule like that in the EFL Trophy? For EFL sides anyway I'm sure we had to include a minimum number of regular players. The PL 'academy' sides could field whoever they wanted. So the PL squad ages ranged from 17 up to a player in his 30s in the manager's bad books or recovering from injury. Anyway. This is a shit idea. I hope some clubs have a backbone and refuse to play it.
National League taking a quick buck to swallow this load of old shit and to keep schtum about FA Cup Replays being scrapped (something that actually matters to its members) No way this should be happening. Problem is, football fans in this country just moan and don't do anything about it. Should be mass boycotts of this from fans and clubs.
Who's even going to attend these games. Surely cost more money to open stadiums. Pay stewards etc than you'd make off gates
There are some weirdoes who will equate playing a big 6 academy side to watching the real deal. In the EFL trophy at least that'll ad a few on the gate. But the most part, crowds are really low bar the semi or final. But for something like Solihull v Leicester U23s, Worthing v Bournemouth U23s, Dagenham v Luton U23s. Yikes. Can't imagine stuff like that being much interest, surely?
So teams Wealdstone and Halifax who were playing early 3 sometimes 4 games a week at the end of the season need more fixtures against a bunch of academy players. Makes perfect sense. And NL clubs will probably get fined if they field their kids.
We can vote with our feet. No way willI I be attending this rubbish. We do have the power to influence if only we would all exercise it.
