The 'who boycotted the Leicester game but is going tonight' thread

[Razor1967]

Was told around 70, but perhaps there were some walk up on the night.

Definitely looked less than 100.

I actually did count them, that's how thrilling the game was.....

 

[1973Blade]

I counted 88.

I have big hands

 

[Foxy]

I actually did count them, that's how thrilling the game was.....

I was that bored that I couldn't drum up the motivation to count.

 

[JOEYDEE]

Serious question
As I've said I'm not particularly in favour of this competition but if we are in it I want to win it.
How many of those who are so critical of it would watch United, either on TV or live if we got to the final?
Just asking like

Or how many of us would have watched it tonight if it was on say..itv4 or similar..nearly all of us I dare say if we're honest !C'mon ...own up don't be embarrassed!

 

[axel smeets]

I counted 88.

I counted 82, my mate 95.

 

[Tyler Durden]

I counted 82, my mate 95.

Fucking hell he must be huge. How did he take up 13 seats?

 

[axel smeets]

Fucking hell he must be huge. How did he take up 13 seats?

He's got a cock like a rounders bat.

 

[Grappler]

How many in the 'I've seen Paul Coutts score twice since the summer break' club? *holds up hand excitedly*

Me too

 

[Champagneblade]

In my view the problem with this competition started when PL teams started putting out much changed teams in the league cup.

It served as a good vehicle to give game time to those young stockpiled players the greedy PL clubs had amassed.

Taking the money argument out of it, which I agree would be impossible, it would have been better if the Football League didn't invite the PL clubs to participate after the creation of the PL.

It would have been a real bloody nose to the greedy power Brokers if the competition retained its UEFA spot too.

That ship has sailed but back to last nights competition. Disappointing we didn't win a game of Football but the cup has become a sham now. Glad we are out of it.

 

[Revolution]

That ship has sailed but back to last nights competition. Disappointing we didn't win a game of Football but the cup has become a sham now. Glad we are out of it.

Wilder was diplomatic about it but the impression he gave in his post game interview was that he doesn't agree with the changes made to the competition either.

 

[Treeton Blade]

609
A record low for a Grimsby cup competition......... that record going to last a month I think

Wonder if we could postpone that game now we are both out?

Seem to remember we did something like that before in the 80`s?
Yorkshire & Humberside Cup rings a bell.

Save on fuel, tickets and ale, but miss out on Fish & Chips, so not all positive , but worth it IMO.

 

[Champagneblade]

Wilder was diplomatic about it but the impression he gave in his post game interview was that he doesn't agree with the changes made to the competition either.

I think selling it as a competition to bring on young players and then scheduling it in a week when a lot of the good ones have international call ups undermines their rationale.

When you have a need to enforce team selection, it also goes someway to showing it for what it is.

It's a sponsorship vehicle for the Football league but holds no value at all for those participating in it other than the eventual winners, who may be the Norwich U21s based on last night's showing! How embarrassing that would be - a competition for the lower league won by the second team of one of the higher ones.

Bit of a joke really.

 

[spongebobblade]

Wonder if we could postpone that game now we are both out?

Seem to remember we did something like that before in the 80`s?
Yorkshire & Humberside Cup rings a bell.

Save on fuel, tickets and ale, but miss out on Fish & Chips, so not all positive , but worth it IMO.

Agree with you there Treeton. 4 of us were going for fish and footy but now neither side can progress I can't see the point. Surely both clubs would be making a huge loss staging this fixture?
To think the group stages were supposed to freshen the competition up as well

 

[spongebobblade]

I actually did count them, that's how thrilling the game was.....

The 12 you missed must have been at the kiosk or shithouse then!

 

[sitwell]

The 12 you missed must have been at the kiosk or shithouse then!

on the pitch

 

[Ricky]

The trouble at the friendly game would be another reason to call off the Grimsby game.

But it won't be. In which case we should just play an entire team of youth/squad players, and Wilder should make that clear to any fans thinking of going.

 

[South London Blade]

Average attendance for first games was about 1400, last night's games was 1325 and the final round of games are the ones that are home games for invited teams.

I'm assuming that premier league teams are highly unlikely to be attending in force and travelling fans will be negligible, so likely that the average will be even less for the third games.

I bet Checkatrade are glad they agreed to sponsor this piss pot of a tournament.

 

[TJB.]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...ing-goalkeepers-and-dismal-attendances---how/

Note this;

Managers playing themselves
For their opening EFL Trophy match Exeter and Wycombe both named their managers among the substitutes, with the Wycombe manager Gareth Ainsworth even bringing himself on for the final five minutes.

Ainsworth, 43, had said before the start of the season that he thought the competition could be a good opportunity to blood youngsters but he feared the extra matches could stretch his squad, and so it proved.

Now seeing as we've fuck all to play for against Grimsby....who'd like to see Wilder don the red 'n white and roll back the years?!

 

[1danewhitehouse]

Hmmm so there were more there for the Leicester U21 match. So some people actually DID get slightly excited by this new farcical format. Come on own up who were you??? Or did some thick fuckers just think we were playing the champions??

Need to turn the title of the thread around...who the fuck went to the Leicester match but didn't go tonight???

Good explanations are required!

I didn’t go to either because as I said earlier, I want nothing to do with this shit-stain of a competition. However, the Leicester game was in the summer holidays. Young kids might have been excited to go and see Leicester as they are PL champs and would have been allowed to stay up due to no school the next day. I reckon that’s your answer.

 

[Beat Jedi]

I didn’t go to either because as I said earlier, I want nothing to do with this shit-stain of a competition. However, the Leicester game was in the summer holidays. Young kids might have been excited to go and see Leicester as they are PL champs and would have been allowed to stay up due to no school the next day. I reckon that’s your answer.

Bloody stupid kids. In my day you'd have been giving a good hiding for wanting to go to such a shit match.

 

[Frecheville Blade]

The trouble at the friendly game would be another reason to call off the Grimsby game.

But it won't be. In which case we should just play an entire team of youth/squad players, and Wilder should make that clear to any fans thinking of going.

We do that, we get fined

I still think we should, regardless. I also question at what point it becomes more cost-effective for Grimsby to play the match 'behind closed doors' - i.e. how many tickets do they have to sell to cover security, stewards etc.

 

[Snowman]

I'm still mystified why The Who boycotted Leicester but fancied this one. What is more, was it just Daltrey and Townsend or didn't the roadies fancy it either?

 

[1973Blade]

Is it

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...ing-goalkeepers-and-dismal-attendances---how/

Note this;

Managers playing themselves
For their opening EFL Trophy match Exeter and Wycombe both named their managers among the substitutes, with the Wycombe manager Gareth Ainsworth even bringing himself on for the final five minutes.

Ainsworth, 43, had said before the start of the season that he thought the competition could be a good opportunity to blood youngsters but he feared the extra matches could stretch his squad, and so it proved.

Now seeing as we've fuck all to play for against Grimsby....who'd like to see Wilder don the red 'n white and roll back the years?!

Hopefully if Ainsworth was only on the pitch for five minutes he managed not to end an opponent's career with an horrific tackle.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Why are we taking this shit from the FL/PL. For years there was perfectly good reserve league system, where junior players played against and with senior pros. . . .But Prem clubs scrapped it.
So fuck em.......