FA Cup changes

[Doha]

Non PL clubs getting dlcked over as usual. No replays is an absolute disgrace.

 

 

[Playa Amodores]

Midweek.? Surely attendances will be down, I can’t see any sense in that.

[Fosse69]

Midweek.? Surely attendances will be down, I can’t see any sense in that.

So they can be on TV? The foreign owned Premier League will ruin football as we know it.

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[jjvale_03]

It's as if they're trying to kill the competition. 

It's so obvious that they only care about maximising eyeballs (and therefore commercial revenues) on the latter stages, and it's massively beneficial for the FA if they 'big' teams make it through. Ironically, by scrapping replays they increase result variance and therefore we would expect more Premier League teams to go out in the 3rd and 4th rounds when they play weaker sides and don't have the safety net of a replay. 

 

 

[eh up nah]

Yet more stuff to make football a bit shitter.

[Playa Amodores]

26 minutes ago, Fosse69 said:

So they can be on TV? The foreign owned Premier League will ruin football as we know it.

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[philmpv]

It's as if they're trying to kill the competition. 
It's so obvious that they only care about maximising eyeballs (and therefore commercial revenues) on the latter stages, and it's massively beneficial for the FA if they 'big' teams make it through. Ironically, by scrapping replays they increase result variance and therefore we would expect more Premier League teams to go out in the 3rd and 4th rounds when they play weaker sides and don't have the safety net of a replay. 
 
 

It's all about protecting the poor top level players and teams from having too many games, to the clear detriment of the lower league clubs. Gone are the days it seems where a NL battling draw at home against a big boy would result in a massive well earned windfall for the small team.

I'd get it, to an extent, if the PL teams didn't have 80+ players on their books. They can easily rotate to give players a rest (if they need it) and blood some youngsters or fringe players who just might step up to the mark if given a chance. But they don't want to.

[aspin for england]

Non lge/ part time teams that get through,  to play 1st round proper games midweek ? 

[Vale Ball]

Only a matter of time before they have to have mixed teams and its a non contact sport to suit the TV and Saudis

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[DazFred]

1 hour ago, eh up nah said:

Yet more stuff to make football a bit shitter.

Isn't it shittier?

[philmpv]

Only a matter of time before they have to have mixed teams and its a non contact sport to suit the TV and Saudis

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That'll please Warren no end!

[valeblue]

Final nail in the FA cup coffin I’m afraid! The Premier league don’t like it and money talks unfortunately! The FA are in their pockets 

[Andy Proctor]

There's no changes this season by the looks of it as it says from the 24/25 season.

[eh up nah]

1 hour ago, DazFred said:

Isn't it shittier?

No

[bobbymanc]

I'd suggest a nationwide boycott from supporters if they bring this in, but the continued attendance of many at EFL Trophy games (including frankly sickening levels of attendance at recent finals) shows that on the whole we're a spineless lot. Suppose we get what we deserve by voting for U21 teams in that competition. They'll continue to steamroll us until we're in the National league, with Bournemouth reserves playing in league 1. These changes are simply a continuation of giving in to the Premier League for a couple of extra grand a year.