Blades v Leicester U21s Boycott

[Deadbat]

If we got to the final would you go to Wembley?

Without doubt! Might be our best chance of ever winning at that damned stadium

My mate is a Barnsley fan. Season ticket holder but did not go to any of the Johnstone Paints games. He went to Wembley and said he felt a gloryhunter but not for long.

I just think it is a competition that all clubs could do without really

 

[1973Blade]

Damn, there are three people now voted that they will go, I was hoping I'd be the only one. I will be the one trying to start the Mexican wave.

 

[SB_90]

im looking to this boycott because after bolton it could be 32000 sellout

 

[spongebobblade]

According to the united site it's called the Checkatrade trophy now........ Try saying that when your pissed

 

[Eskimo]

I'd go if we played our u 21s against Leicester's

 

[spongebobblade]

Damn, there are three people now voted that they will go, I was hoping I'd be the only one. I will be the one trying to start the Mexican wave.

SCAB! SCAB! SCAB!

you start the wave, I'll finished it

 

[Fiery Blade]

EFL Cup = League Cup
EFL Trophy = JPT

Confusing, I know. Not a fan of either but I think the League Cup deserves a bit of respect, which I think Wilder did give it.

Unfortunately, the players (especially the strikers) didn't give it the same respect- It's about time that a defeat starts to hurt the players like it does the supporters. Whatever the competition I want to see the Blades win but the highly paid, under motivated excuses of players that currently turn out in the red and white seem not to care either way ! Is it modern day football or am I being cynical ???

 

[WorkingtonBlade]

buy ticket, don't go

Don't do that if you're avoiding the match on principle. By buying a ticket you'll be counted on the attendance figure, which is the figure the EFL will be relying upon to proclaim the whole experiment a great success and a demonstration of the excitement felt by fans of little clubs like ours at the idea of playing giants like Leicester.

I, for one, can't wait to play Sheffield Wednesday B in the league in a couple of years time.

 

[Dnblade]

According to the united site it's called the Checkatrade trophy now........ Try saying that when your pissed

Wonder if one or two United players are on Checkatrade's blacklist.

 

[LS5 Blade]

What we should do is boycott this game so the crowd is sub 500, and then every man and his dog rock up for the Walsall game 20K+

Its insulting to have to play against a teams U-21s

 

[sheepbridge]

Sheffield United Football Club versus A kids outfit from Leicester...what's our proud club coming to.
Play our Under 21's and pay any fine,and hopefully get knocked out...although we could get to the final and then pull out under protest I suppose.

Or alternately, make the 5 changes we are allowed to make, playing kids, then make 3 substitutions early changing 3 or the 5 outfield players who played the previous match, then the remaining two can get mysterious injuries and so we finish the match with a bunch of kids and none of the 10 outfield players who started the previous match.
Might be slightly controversial but would get attention and nobody could really complain about us playing a team of kids if Leicester can.

 

[WorkingtonBlade]

I'm sure that most people on here are old enough and intelligent enough to make their own decisions on what matches to go to or not without being told what to do by others. I know I am. Whatever you want to do, it's up to you but please just let people decide for themselves.

There's nothing wrong with organising ourselves. Of course it's up to each individual what they do - nobody is forced to take part in a boycott - but the aim is to make a statement by our actions, and that only works if we coordinate.

Go to the match if you want to - it's your choice - but be clear that if you do so you are supporting the EFL's aim of getting B teams into the lower divisions. That may not be your aim, but that is how the EFL will use any evidence of increased attendances, either in EFL Trophy matches against B Teams, or in the 2016/17 EFL Trophy as a whole.

 

[lingsbord]

If you "boycott" this game, will anyone know? The club must be expecting the sum total of no bugger in attendance anyway for the "new JPT" so what's the point? Boycott? Really? When does deciding not to be arsed because it's a crap competition become boycotting a match? I'm not going to that one - my non-attendance isn't a boycott, I'm not trying to make a statement to the club, and I think if anyone did try to make an organised boycott of the game there wouldn't be enough waving shoes to trouble a Timpsons carrier bag, but whatever floats your boat I guess.


"If a tree falls down in the forest and there's no-one there to hear it, does it make a noise?"

 

[Tyler Durden]

If you "boycott" this game, will anyone know? The club must be expecting the sum total of no bugger in attendance anyway for the "new JPT" so what's the point? Boycott? Really? When does deciding not to be arsed because it's a crap competition become boycotting a match?

Because it's not just because it's a crap competition, it's the restructure of the competition which inherently undermines every club who isn't a Premier League club with a B team is what is pissing many people off.

I don't give a shit what anyone calls their non-attendance of a match. The semantics don't matter, the main thing for me and those of a similar point of view is that as few people as possible turn up.

 

[Sean Thornton]

"If a tree falls down in the forest and there's no-one there to hear it, does it make a noise?"

If a seaon ticket holder doesn't attend and no one notices is he counted in the official attendance?

 

[Dnblade]

If a seaon ticket holder doesn't attend and no one notices is he counted in the official attendance?

Don't think so..only 8.5k there last night and we have more season tickets than that,so I don't think they can't count.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Because it's not just because it's a crap competition, it's the restructure of the competition which inherently undermines every club who isn't a Premier League club with a B team is what is pissing many people off.

I don't give a shit what anyone calls their non-attendance of a match. The semantics don't matter, the main thing for me and those of a similar point of view is that as few people as possible turn up.

First the academy set up, now this. If there ever was a game to boycott it's a game against a PL B team.

Let the clubs send these kids out on loan for free to L1&2 & conference clubs if they want them playing older professionals.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Don't think so..only 8.5k there last night and we have more season tickets than that,so I don't think they can't count.

Err, oooookay

 

[Dnblade]

First the academy set up, now this. If there ever was a game to boycott it's a game against a PL B team.

Let the clubs send these kids out on loan for free to L1&2 & conference clubs if they want them playing older professionals.

There should be some type of ruling capping the amount of players they can have,and then they would be playing at clubs up and down the pyramid instead...why are they allowed to stockpile all the best talent..Chelsea have over 80 players on their books,or are they scared that if these players developed at other clubs they would have to pay a fee...Greedy Bastards.

 

[coolhandluke]

JPT , EFL Trophy , call it whatever they want , I've never been and the chances of me going now REGARDLESS of how we do are absolutely zero .

 

[Treeton Blade]

Got mine, think I will see every Blade I know at this one, only one stand open

 

[1973Blade]

I guess this won't happen, but if Leicester chose to play their first eleven would they be punished by the football league?

 

[Chezzy Blades]

I guess this won't happen, but if Leicester chose to play their first eleven would they be punished by the football league?

I would imagine so, as they're from North of the Watford Gap and don't play in claret and blue.

 

[larkymasher]

As a fan of the young players coming through the 18s and 21s I hope we play as young a team as possible. Semple, Brookes, Kelly, Hallam, Gilmoor should all be started . If that is the case then let's hope as many turn up as with the 21s final in May.
It shows these young lads a tad of respect on what would be a first team debut to either turn up and watch or just don't go and stop slagging it off all over a forum.

 

[1973Blade]

I would imagine so, as they're from North of the Watford Gap and don't play in claret and blue.

Perhaps we should field an undercover strength team and Leicester an over strength one so that we both get punished.

 

[S5Blade]

As a fan of the young players coming through the 18s and 21s I hope we play as young a team as possible. Semple, Brookes, Kelly, Hallam, Gilmoor should all be started . If that is the case then let's hope as many turn up as with the 21s final in May.
It shows these young lads a tad of respect on what would be a first team debut to either turn up and watch or just don't go and stop slagging it off all over a forum.

Except we have to start 6 players who started the previous match.... but good old Leicester can do what they want..... wanky competition with wank rules that has got even wanker.

 

[Chezzy Blades]

As a fan of the young players coming through the 18s and 21s I hope we play as young a team as possible. Semple, Brookes, Kelly, Hallam, Gilmoor should all be started . If that is the case then let's hope as many turn up as with the 21s final in May.
It shows these young lads a tad of respect on what would be a first team debut to either turn up and watch or just don't go and stop slagging it off all over a forum.

This would be the ideal situation. I won't be attending the Leicester game but I will go to the Walsall and Grimsby games and hope we use them as an exercise for our younger players just like the PL are trying to do.

 

[Chezzy Blades]

Except we have to start 6 players who started the previous match.... but good old Leicester can do what they want..... wanky competition with wank rules that has got even wanker.

We had to last season too but that didn't stop us making 10 (or maybe even 11) changes to the team at Hartlepool.

I think United probably view it that taking a nominal fine is better than risking injury to one of our first team players and potentially affecting our chances in the league.

 

[grafikhaus]

EFL Cup = League Cup
EFL Trophy = JPT

Confusing, I know. Not a fan of either but I think the League Cup deserves a bit of respect, which I think Wilder did give it.

After much searching, you are correct and the Crewe game was what used to be the League Cup. It's been utterly devalued by the fact it has no main sponsor and the ludicrous 'geographical groups' (which put Cambridge in the North...)

The League Cup was originally devalued when the pigs 'won' the Rumbelows Cup in 1991. After climbing the famous steps, they were met by Tracey, Rumbelows shop girl of the month. They didn't get a trophy, they were presented with a dishwasher.

This is what the 'suits' do with anything they touch. What used to be the second most important Cup competition (after the FA Cup) is now the source of ridicule and, judging by the number of bigger clubs who fell at the first hurdle this week, one that most clubs don't want.

Talking of which, I was hoping that the Crewe game would see our involvment in this charade end but now there's talk of the Leicester B game. When is it? (not that I'll be going) as there's no mention on the OS fixtures list.

Don't think so..only 8.5k there last night and we have more season tickets than that,so I don't think they can't count.

Whoooosh!!!

 

[larkymasher]

Except we have to start 6 players who started the previous match.... but good old Leicester can do what they want..... wanky competition with wank rules that has got even wanker.

Maybe if we had got our house in order over the last 6 years we would not be having the conversation.
Just one of the pit falls of being where we are.

You either go and watch or you don't ........ We have all heard both sides of the argument by now.