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Peter Crouch, a very promising under 21's player and a possible England player if he gains sufficient experience from playing in this competition.
Quote from: drfchound on November 08, 2016, 08:50:48 pmPeter Crouch, a very promising under 21's player and a possible England player if he gains sufficient experience from playing in this competition.Don't you think their young lads benefit from playing along side him though? I do.
Quote from: GazLaz on November 08, 2016, 09:53:58 pmQuote from: drfchound on November 08, 2016, 08:50:48 pmPeter Crouch, a very promising under 21's player and a possible England player if he gains sufficient experience from playing in this competition.Don't you think their young lads benefit from playing along side him though? I do.To be fair Gaz, the competition is designed to give playing experience to young English players and not too many of them are getting game time.
Well, back in August, I said I'd give this competition a chance even though I was skeptical.Given that the 'experiment' (where has that term been used before?) is now over, I'm even more skeptical about it - given that a significant number of 'youth' teams have opted to field what could by and large be classed as first team players.I've given it a fair chance, seen a couple of games, and I don't think it's worked.Karl Robinson summed it up perfectly a while ago, then some of these teams took the urine sample, threw it in the face of the Football League, and made the tournament appear even less credible.Hopefully, the 'experiment' won't go any further and it'll go back to being a bog standard straight knockout competition next season - maybe with invited teams from the upper echelons of the Conference Premier.
tonights attendance 1,495 (including 92 from Vale)
I have said it before, and I will say it again. Make the group stages as local as you can and play them as pre-season games. You'll still have time for 3 or 4 other friendlies, as well as getting the fixtures out of the way. Delay the later rounds until after the FA Cup 3rd round, so that most clubs would by then be out of the FA and League cups.3rd and 4th division teams only ie 48 clubs. 16 mini groups of 3 teams= 2 games each, then a qualifying round of either the top 2 (32 teams) or the mini group leaders (16 teams). You then have 4 or 3 further rounds later in the season, including the final. Each club gets to play at least 2 games and one home one away, in the groups of 3.
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