The Fun Factory Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 2 hours ago, tomav84 said: just to prove mine and @Rich192 's point. bournemouth 7 changes, brentford 9 changes, southampton 11 changes, plus heavy rotation for the other sides...because they know they have no chance of winning the cup take city, arsenal, liverpool etc out of the competition, these teams would (or should) go close to full strength They really wouldn't. The competition would be worthless as it wouldn't have a European spot and attendances would be even lower. It would be a glorified football league trophy. We will probably get Newcastle away now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted August 28 VT Supporter Share Posted August 28 Just now, The Fun Factory said: They really wouldn't. The competition would be worthless as it wouldn't have a European spot and attendances would be even lower. It would be a glorified football league trophy. We will probably get Newcastle away now. the only proposal i'm making is to have the teams in europe not participate. winner still gets a conf league place 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 Just now, The Fun Factory said: They really wouldn't. The competition would be worthless as it wouldn't have a European spot and attendances would be even lower. It would be a glorified football league trophy. We will probably get Newcastle away now. Why wouldn't it have a European spot? In theory if they took the European teams out of the league cup and kept the European place as the prize there would a rotation of "new" teams getting in to Europe each season Would be great for both the cup and English football 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 1 minute ago, tomav84 said: the only proposal i'm making is to have the teams in europe not participate. winner still gets a conf league place There is no way the premier league would allow that. Nor I would think Uefa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykeyb Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 3 easy rounds followed by something a little tougher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted August 28 VT Supporter Share Posted August 28 Just now, The Fun Factory said: There is no way the premier league would allow that. Nor I would think Uefa. it would go to a vote, for which you need 14 votes in favour. the non-european clubs would vote in favour meaning you'd just need 1 of the 7 teams playing in europe. i'd wager we'd vote in favour considering how little we've taken it seriously in recent seasons. pretty sure uefa won't have a say. the reason i believe it wouldn't go through is becuase carabao would likely pull their sponsorship if there's no 'big' teams in it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 1 minute ago, tomav84 said: it would go to a vote, for which you need 14 votes in favour. the non-european clubs would vote in favour meaning you'd just need 1 of the 7 teams playing in europe. i'd wager we'd vote in favour considering how little we've taken it seriously in recent seasons. pretty sure uefa won't have a say. the reason i believe it wouldn't go through is becuase carabao would likely pull their sponsorship if there's no 'big' teams in it The funny thing would be the likes of klopp and pep moan like **** about the fixtures but given the chance to not be in it they would probably have rejected it You'd have to open up that vote to the EFL too The sad reality is more clubs will see it as a one off pay day Vs Liverpool or utd on TV than they will about winning something, it's what football is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 1 minute ago, tomav84 said: it would go to a vote, for which you need 14 votes in favour. the non-european clubs would vote in favour meaning you'd just need 1 of the 7 teams playing in europe. i'd wager we'd vote in favour considering how little we've taken it seriously in recent seasons. pretty sure uefa won't have a say. the reason i believe it wouldn't go through is becuase carabao would likely pull their sponsorship if there's no 'big' teams in it There are only 3 countries in europe that have a second cup competition- England, Scotland (which is the oldest) and Portugal. France scrapped theirs, and Portugal has no European spot. Uefa would prefer none to give them more flexibility to further expand the European competitions and the Premier league attitude is lukewarm at best- the football league wants it to keep going as they run it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 Painful how long this takes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted August 28 VT Supporter Share Posted August 28 1 minute ago, villa4europe said: The funny thing would be the likes of klopp and pep moan like **** about the fixtures but given the chance to not be in it they would probably have rejected it You'd have to open up that vote to the EFL too The sad reality is more clubs will see it as a one off pay day Vs Liverpool or utd on TV than they will about winning something, it's what football is i think the teams that would reject it would be those that haven't won a trophy in ages like spurs. city i'm quite sure would not be in it given the choice. but yes, the EFL would also reject such a proposal due to the money involved for the lower division clubs (that for the most part don't make the 3rd round anyway) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 (edited) Is this draw ever going to happen? Oh crap we could still draw Chelsea. Edited August 28 by The Fun Factory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 It’ll be tomorrow soon ffs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 We are bound to be one of the two playing away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lochheads twin Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 Aston Villa will play away at Wycombe not bad. Hopefully a better display than last time!! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WallisFrizz Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 Not a bad tie at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepyvillian Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 Just now, Lochheads twin said: Aston Villa will play away at Wycombe not bad. Hopefully a better display than last time!! Maybe get Micah Richards as the mascot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisvilla4 Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 Wycombe away. That'll do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 Good draw that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 8-3 again please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 1 minute ago, The Fun Factory said: We are bound to be one of the two playing away. Correct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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