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Dave the OAP

Dave the OAP

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Jul 5, 2003
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I will be retired by then

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Kinky Gerbil

Im The Scatman
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Jul 16, 2003
58,792
hassocks
This will have a knock on affected on the lower league clubs, lost money and longer contracts for players too make sure they are contracted for the season.
 








TWOCHOICEStom

TWOCHOICEStom

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Sep 22, 2007
10,910
Brighton
I would be over the moon if the English FA came out now and declared themselves out. Get that boycott ball rolling.

I can't believe nobody has done it already.
 






Bob!

Bob!

Coffee Buyer
Jul 5, 2003
11,633
TWOCHOICEStom said:
I would be over the moon if the English FA came out now and declared themselves out. Get that boycott ball rolling.

I can't believe nobody has done it already.
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There would still need to be a winter break to allow the non English players to be able to play in the tournament
 


atfc village

atfc village

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Mar 28, 2013
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WhingForPresident said:
Has it been established what happens to Championship and lower division sides that get international call-ups? Will all the leagues be on a break? If not, will those clubs have to be without their international players for that period or will they just not play and end up 5 or 6 games behind other teams?
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Happens already and Leagues carry on ,It's called The African Nations Cup.
 


Easy 10

Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
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Location Location
Plooks said:
Why wouldn't it?
We would miss a period of bad weather, have more games in towards the summer when it is nice. The UK is never hot enough for it to be a problem over the summer. The pitches would be in a better condition for the second half of the season after a break. Would remove the need for games occurring during a transfer window as that could be moved to the break. Players fresher. There are many potentially good things. What would be the negatives?
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Firstly, in this country we simply never know when the bad weather may strike. We could suspend the League for a few weeks of fairly benign weather, and then try to restart in the middle of a big freeze. Or vice-versa, we could lose a load of games to the weather in the run-up to the winter break, and then have to pack it all up for a few weeks afterwards for this break, further excaberrating the issue, just leading to more fixture congestion in the 2nd half of the season.

With a couple of exceptions, ie Blackpool, pitches in this day and age tend to hold up pretty well right throughout the season. A break in the winter would be neither here nor there in terms of improving pitches for the 2nd half of the season.

As for player freshness - the bigger clubs will just jet off to Dubai or wherever to shoehorn in a couple of lucrative friendlies during the break. For everyone else, squads these days should be able to adequately rotate to rest players for a week or two anyway without it having an overly adverse effect. Hell, that's what the Cup weekends are for these days isn't it.

A winter break would serve no benefit, and primarily could actually cause a lot more aggravation if we happen to get some evil weather falling either side of it.

And for that reason, I'm out.
 




MattBackHome

MattBackHome

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Jul 7, 2003
11,875
Easy 10 said:
Firstly, in this country we simply never know when the bad weather may strike. We could suspend the League for a few weeks of fairly benign weather, and then try to restart in the middle of a big freeze. Or vice-versa, we could lose a load of games to the weather in the run-up to the winter break, and then have to pack it all up for a few weeks afterwards for this break, further excaberrating the issue, just leading to more fixture congestion in the 2nd half of the season.

With a couple of exceptions, ie Blackpool, pitches in this day and age tend to hold up pretty well right throughout the season. A break in the winter would be neither here nor there in terms of improving pitches for the 2nd half of the season.

As for player freshness - the bigger clubs will just jet off to Dubai or wherever to shoehorn in a couple of lucrative friendlies during the break. For everyone else, squads these days should be able to adequately rotate to rest players for a week or two anyway without it having an overly adverse effect. Hell, that's what the Cup weekends are for these days isn't it.

A winter break would serve no benefit, and primarily could actually cause a lot more aggravation if we happen to get some evil weather falling either side of it.

And for that reason, I'm out.
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Just think of the DIY you could get done.

Actually bollocks to that; there will be a WORLD CUP on.
 


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Gwylan

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Jul 5, 2003
31,830
Uffern
TWOCHOICEStom said:
I would be over the moon if the English FA came out now and declared themselves out. Get that boycott ball rolling.

I can't believe nobody has done it already.
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A boycott isn't going to happen. It would English clubs not able to participate in the Champions League, I can't see the PL going for that
 






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Hotchilidog

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Jan 24, 2009
9,122
I'm having nothing to do with this tournament, regardless of when it gets played. The use of what amounts to slave labour, the multiple deaths in construction and the obscenity of FIFA corruption has rendered this tournament entirely meaningless. The European nations should simply boycott it. The Qatar WC has no sporting merit whatsoever.

if we do enter I shall not even bother to watch a single qualifier.
 


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loz

Well-known member
Apr 27, 2009
2,483
W.Sussex
Easy 10 said:
Firstly, in this country we simply never know when the bad weather may strike. We could suspend the League for a few weeks of fairly benign weather, and then try to restart in the middle of a big freeze. Or vice-versa, we could lose a load of games to the weather in the run-up to the winter break, and then have to pack it all up for a few weeks afterwards for this break, further excaberrating the issue, just leading to more fixture congestion in the 2nd half of the season.

With a couple of exceptions, ie Blackpool, pitches in this day and age tend to hold up pretty well right throughout the season. A break in the winter would be neither here nor there in terms of improving pitches for the 2nd half of the season.

As for player freshness - the bigger clubs will just jet off to Dubai or wherever to shoehorn in a couple of lucrative friendlies during the break. For everyone else, squads these days should be able to adequately rotate to rest players for a week or two anyway without it having an overly adverse effect. Hell, that's what the Cup weekends are for these days isn't it.

A winter break would serve no benefit, and primarily could actually cause a lot more aggravation if we happen to get some evil weather falling either side of it.

And for that reason, I'm out.
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^^^ this and more ^^^ Not only that, we have still a large Cricket loving public (like me) not only amateur village cricketers but also fans who would resent football mucking up their Cricket . For a lot of fans the chose to watch county cricket might draw them away from watching end of season dead rubbers in football.

And for that reason, I am out.
 












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