FMBlade's New Competition Proposal: The British/Irish Championship

[FMBlade1]

I've posted this a couple of times as a comment without expanding in full detail, so I will now and see what people think:

Firstly the League Cup and JPT in England, and the equivalent in Scotland Wales and Ireland would have to be scrapped to make way for this:

Stage One:

3 matches taking place starting in August before the season kicks off to replace boring pre-season friendlies done in a league format against local sides in the football league:

For example for us we'd be in a group with: Sheffield Wednesday, Barnsley and Rotherham.

Stage Two:

The top team from stage one plays against the top team from another group in that same region/county, for example the winner of: Leeds, Huddersfield, Bradford and Doncaster

Stage Three:

At this point it should be narrowed down to the best teams in the north/midlands/south of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. So if we reached this point we should expect to play someone like Manchester City.

Stage Four:

The quarter finals; best team in Scotland, Northern Ireland, ROI, Wales and four teams from England. The Scottish team plays the northern England team, the Irish teams face off and the Welsh team (we'll say that Cardiff and Swansea will be in this category with Wrexham getting a wildcard) plays an English team from the midlands/south.

Stage Five:

Semi Finals, though only over one leg (two if on popular demand)

Stage Six:

Final at Wembley for one year, Hampden Park, Millennium Stadium, Windsor Park and the Aviva Stadium for other years.

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All games that are drawn go straight to penalties, no replays or extra time.

This competition would:

1. Give guaranteed derby matches every season, which also means it will be cheaper and more convenient for travel

2. Stop Celtic and Rangers whinging about how good they are when they get put in their place, and in all seriousness offer a truly British competition (whether ROI want to be a part of it TBD)

3. Give guaranteed games and incomes in stage one for all clubs, which can be used to develop players if needs be and act as a better pre-season preparation

4. Cut down fixture pile-up for later on in the season as less rounds after September

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I'm sure there are flaws to this, look forward to reading about them

 

[Tarqs]

You do realise for the premier league teams, this is creating more fixtures than they currently have.

 

[FMBlade1]

You do realise for the premier league teams, this is creating more fixtures than they currently have.

This is true, but only 3 more and those are dealt with more easily as three of them would take place during early August replacing pre-season games.

Lots of PL teams don't like how few competitive opportunities there are for squad players/youngsters without them going on loan so this competition would give them the ideal opportunity if they didn't want to take it so seriously.

Some would moan about potentially not being able to play lucrative friendlies in China, though then they could always 'do a Liverpool' and play the kids/reserves.

(Edit: This is just a bit of fun as doubt it would ever happen, just expanding on something I've said previously)

 

[Harry's Game]

 

[Willglynning]

I can see SYP being massively in favour of that preseason /s

 

[Billyblade]

 

[Sheffsteel]

It’s a non starter.....there’s no interest outside the Old Firm....so no money to be made.

The only possibility (which is still unlikely) is to invite some Scottish clubs (mainly the old firm) into the EFL cup.
That competition is slowly dying....so it’s in their interest to do something different.

If the European competitions are expanded.....then the big 6 are likely to pullout of the EFL cup.
So the EFL could respond by inviting the bigger Scottish clubs into their competition.

 

[zablade]

I've posted this a couple of times as a comment without expanding in full detail, so I will now and see what people think:

Firstly the League Cup and JPT in England, and the equivalent in Scotland Wales and Ireland would have to be scrapped to make way for this:

Stage One:

3 matches taking place starting in August before the season kicks off to replace boring pre-season friendlies done in a league format against local sides in the football league:

For example for us we'd be in a group with: Sheffield Wednesday, Barnsley and Rotherham.

Stage Two:

The top team from stage one plays against the top team from another group in that same region/county, for example the winner of: Leeds, Huddersfield, Bradford and Doncaster

Stage Three:

At this point it should be narrowed down to the best teams in the north/midlands/south of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. So if we reached this point we should expect to play someone like Manchester City.

Stage Four:

The quarter finals; best team in Scotland, Northern Ireland, ROI, Wales and four teams from England. The Scottish team plays the northern England team, the Irish teams face off and the Welsh team (we'll say that Cardiff and Swansea will be in this category with Wrexham getting a wildcard) plays an English team from the midlands/south.

Stage Five:

Semi Finals, though only over one leg (two if on popular demand)

Stage Six:

Final at Wembley for one year, Hampden Park, Millennium Stadium, Windsor Park and the Aviva Stadium for other years.

--

All games that are drawn go straight to penalties, no replays or extra time.

This competition would:

1. Give guaranteed derby matches every season, which also means it will be cheaper and more convenient for travel

2. Stop Celtic and Rangers whinging about how good they are when they get put in their place, and in all seriousness offer a truly British competition (whether ROI want to be a part of it TBD)

3. Give guaranteed games and incomes in stage one for all clubs, which can be used to develop players if needs be and act as a better pre-season preparation

4. Cut down fixture pile-up for later on in the season as less rounds after September

--

I'm sure there are flaws to this, look forward to reading about them

Sorry but I got as far as the first bit where we play Wednesday and gave it a no.

I am more than comfortable enough with never playing them again at any level.

 

[bibbity bobbity boo]

I wouldn't fancy an away trip to Ross County on a wet Tuesday night.

 

[PokerBlade]

You can't just replace friendlies with competitive fixtures. Precisely the reason for friendlies is so teams can have non-competitive warm ups where they can make eight subs if they so choose and not worry about bookings and injuries. Every team starting their season with a local derby hardly accomplishes that.

Tightly regionalising the initial stage would hardly give a fair crack to smaller teams. The whole point of the JPT is to have a competition which the lower ranked clubs can realistically win.

There's only two teams in Scotland that anyone would be interested in drawing, and even they aren't very good. Nobody cares about playing Irish teams (who would have no chance of winning the cup). The only Welsh teams of note are in the English leagues anyway.

It could work out as more games at a time when teams are moaning about fixture congestion while eliminating pre-season.

Nope.

 

[Houston_Blade]

Just bring back the Anglo Italian cup if you want another pointless and shit cup competition that no one really wants to play in.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

We’re getting to the stage where we’ve got wall to wall football 24/7, World Cup expansion, Olympics, all for the money, do we need any more meaningless competitions?

 

[Dkc]

Belfast and Dublin teams playing each other? And teams from the ROI playing Rangers and NI playing Celtic? Hmmm.

Other Football and Sport transfer imminent btw

 

[Rochdaleblade]

Are y

I've posted this a couple of times as a comment without expanding in full detail, so I will now and see what people think:

Firstly the League Cup and JPT in England, and the equivalent in Scotland Wales and Ireland would have to be scrapped to make way for this:

Stage One:

3 matches taking place starting in August before the season kicks off to replace boring pre-season friendlies done in a league format against local sides in the football league:

For example for us we'd be in a group with: Sheffield Wednesday, Barnsley and Rotherham.

Stage Two:

The top team from stage one plays against the top team from another group in that same region/county, for example the winner of: Leeds, Huddersfield, Bradford and Doncaster

Stage Three:

At this point it should be narrowed down to the best teams in the north/midlands/south of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. So if we reached this point we should expect to play someone like Manchester City.

Stage Four:

The quarter finals; best team in Scotland, Northern Ireland, ROI, Wales and four teams from England. The Scottish team plays the northern England team, the Irish teams face off and the Welsh team (we'll say that Cardiff and Swansea will be in this category with Wrexham getting a wildcard) plays an English team from the midlands/south.

Stage Five:

Semi Finals, though only over one leg (two if on popular demand)

Stage Six:

Final at Wembley for one year, Hampden Park, Millennium Stadium, Windsor Park and the Aviva Stadium for other years.

--

All games that are drawn go straight to penalties, no replays or extra time.

This competition would:

1. Give guaranteed derby matches every season, which also means it will be cheaper and more convenient for travel

2. Stop Celtic and Rangers whinging about how good they are when they get put in their place, and in all seriousness offer a truly British competition (whether ROI want to be a part of it TBD)

3. Give guaranteed games and incomes in stage one for all clubs, which can be used to develop players if needs be and act as a better pre-season preparation

4. Cut down fixture pile-up for later on in the season as less rounds after September

--

I'm sure there are flaws to this, look forward to reading about them

Are you David moyes? He has just suggested this. What could liven up a dying competition more than a midweek schlep to Hamilton Accies or Dunfermline. I personally might fancy a trip to Edinburgh or Dublin, but it's a no from me.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Belfast and Dublin teams playing each other? And teams from the ROI playing Rangers and NI playing Celtic? Hmmm.

Other Football and Sport transfer imminent btw

Needs a little thought. And therein lies the problem.....

 

[Cheesebored]

 

[FMBlade1]

Are y

Are you David moyes? He has just suggested this. What could liven up a dying competition more than a midweek schlep to Hamilton Accies or Dunfermline. I personally might fancy a trip to Edinburgh or Dublin, but it's a no from me.

EFL Cup should be revamped as the 'British Cup', says David Moyes

David Moyes says the Carabao Cup should be revamped as the "British Cup" and include teams from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

www.bbc.co.uk

I'm ITK on some things

Or else he read my idea and stole it.

Re-read the post, the format I suggest specifically avoids midweek ties of long distances.

 

[DifferentClass]

So basically the Anglo-Scottish or Watneys all over again?

 

[XM657]

I've posted this a couple of times as a comment without expanding in full detail, so I will now and see what people think:

Firstly the League Cup and JPT in England, and the equivalent in Scotland Wales and Ireland would have to be scrapped to make way for this:

Stage One:

3 matches taking place starting in August before the season kicks off to replace boring pre-season friendlies done in a league format against local sides in the football league:

For example for us we'd be in a group with: Sheffield Wednesday, Barnsley and Rotherham.

Stage Two:

The top team from stage one plays against the top team from another group in that same region/county, for example the winner of: Leeds, Huddersfield, Bradford and Doncaster

Stage Three:

At this point it should be narrowed down to the best teams in the north/midlands/south of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. So if we reached this point we should expect to play someone like Manchester City.

Stage Four:

The quarter finals; best team in Scotland, Northern Ireland, ROI, Wales and four teams from England. The Scottish team plays the northern England team, the Irish teams face off and the Welsh team (we'll say that Cardiff and Swansea will be in this category with Wrexham getting a wildcard) plays an English team from the midlands/south.

Stage Five:

Semi Finals, though only over one leg (two if on popular demand)

Stage Six:

Final at Wembley for one year, Hampden Park, Millennium Stadium, Windsor Park and the Aviva Stadium for other years.

--

All games that are drawn go straight to penalties, no replays or extra time.

This competition would:

1. Give guaranteed derby matches every season, which also means it will be cheaper and more convenient for travel

2. Stop Celtic and Rangers whinging about how good they are when they get put in their place, and in all seriousness offer a truly British competition (whether ROI want to be a part of it TBD)

3. Give guaranteed games and incomes in stage one for all clubs, which can be used to develop players if needs be and act as a better pre-season preparation

4. Cut down fixture pile-up for later on in the season as less rounds after September

--

I'm sure there are flaws to this, look forward to reading about them

Being human your an extremely complexed being, so why over complicate life more than necessary. Also the driving force of any thing is £££or$$$$ , would have been done if there was a chance to make £££££.