[Football] Should the League Cup be axed?

[Wozza]

Most Albion fans can’t be bothered.

Potter not interested (okay, okay, ‘not prioritising…’).

No European reward from next season....

 

[beorhthelm]

it has a use, it should probably go back to the rule limiting the number of changes from the league game.

 

[Hastings gull]

Most Albion fans can’t be bothered.

Potter not interested (okay, okay, ‘not prioritising…’).

No European reward from next season....

Most fans know what the likely team will be, and go in that expectation, and it does give valuable experience to younger players, so that would, for me, seem to be drastic. Perhaps some honesty in advance might be a solution, whereas all clubs have to field a percentage of certain age groups, or whatever, though I imagine the sponsors would not be happy with what they would see as a dilution?

 

[Boys 9d]

As it's run by the English Football League, just have the 72 compete.

 

[Bozza]

Most fans know what the likely team will be, and go in that expectation

Far be it from me to make this go the same way as the other threads, but no one had any inkling that yesterday's team was going to be anything like that.

It was some way from what anyone could reasonably expect.

 

[Icy Gull]

Not as long as it’s a 1901 freebie

Does the Euro qualification really go next year? If so no Premier League team is going to bother. Or should I say they’ll be even less bothered

Graham Potter ahead of his time

 

[ManOfSussex]

From next year if you win it, you qualify for the UEFA Conference League - a new 3rd tier European competition. I don't think the £100k prize money from winning the league cup will come close to covering the losses for playing in a tinpot competition like that. France have already seen sense and scrapped their league cup.

That and the fact there's not one Championship club in the last 16 this year - if they can't be bothered with their own EFL cup, what is the point?

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

It’s already been axed as far as I’m concerned. Not worth traveling from Norfolk to watch. I might give it a go if I lived within walking distance of the ground but no further.

 

[studio150]

Maybe it is replaces the Checkatrade, and the Championship teams and down are free to play whoever they want, and the PL teams enter there U23 teams based on PL2 rules.
That way everyone knows where they stand

 

[Knocky's Nose]

I'd support it if they called it the 'Nobody Cares Cup' and were just honest about it.

 

[Weststander]

No. Still a major trophy that makes it that more unlikely one club can take all 4 major trophies in one season. Even petro dollars FFP cheats can’t manage it.

Dean Smith and others are taking it seriously. Well done them.

 

[Questions]

I never go to League cup games. I rarely go to FA cup games either unless I think we are going to take it seriously.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Gives teams like Rochdale/Colchester/Crawley needed funds.

 

[BensGrandad]

I think that it needs a revamp as it is abused by the Premier clubs. Either a rule change to say that they must field 7 players with at least 75% playing record of league games or scrap it and make it an U23s Cup.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

From next year if you win it, you qualify for the UEFA Conference League - a new 3rd tier European competition. I don't think the £100k prize money from winning the league cup will come close to covering the losses for playing in a tinpot competition like that. France have already seen sense and scrapped their league cup.

That and the fact there's not one Championship club in the last 16 this year - if they can't be bothered with their own EFL cup, what is the point?

UEFA should have brought back the cup winners cup or made this a lower nations cup.

 

[beorhthelm]

No. Still a major trophy

not really though. dont think i watched the final in over a decade.

 

[Weststander]

not really though. dont think i watched the final in over a decade.

I often do, unless it’s going to be very one sided (ManC against anyone).

Same with the FAC Final. That has a small fraction of the kudos it held in the 20th century. The entire day used to be a massive occasion.

 

[TheJasperCo]

I never go to League cup games. I rarely go to FA cup games either unless I think we are going to take it seriously.

What I'm thinking: if the League Cup were scrapped, would clubs take the FA Cup more seriously on account of it being the only major domestic trophy on offer?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Not as long as it’s a 1901 freebie

Does the Euro qualification really go next year? If so no Premier League team is going to bother. Or should I say they’ll be even less bothered

Graham Potter ahead of his time

I'd support it if they called it the 'Nobody Cares Cup' and were just honest about it.

Look how many Premier League clubs are out already. 9 out of 20 are gone.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I voted 'fence' because if we win I'm happy and if we lose I don't care.