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Willo South coast - west of Brighton. 10 Nov 20 8.51am | |
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The teams in Europe have to play games in quick succession, on the back of a truncated pre-season. Perhaps if our beloved team was in such a situation our supporters might deem that the schedule was very challenging!
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topcat Holmesdale / Surbiton 10 Nov 20 8.57am | |
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
Or suggest European competitions scrap the league element and go back to being knock out games. Exactly this. They wanted the extra games, they have to deal with it. In fact, they have done so by buying filling their squad with quality the rest of us can't afford. Feck 'em.
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eaglesdare 10 Nov 20 9.35am | |
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Take the "big 6" or whoever finishes in a euro spot out of the league cup! they dont take it seriously anyway and gives others a chance to win a cup.
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Fatherken 10 Nov 20 9.40am | |
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no I have no sympathy at all for then .
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Phil’s Barber Crowborough 10 Nov 20 9.44am | |
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Absolutely no sympathy. Despite my absolute dislike of the bin dippers I quite like Klopp and admire greatly what he has done however, his rants at the weekend about the 5 substitutes were embarrassing. As others have said the big clubs have it all in their favour already, without naming a second eleven on the bench and being able to use five substitutes that would be first choice for any team in the bottom half of the league. They have had TWO votes on it Klopp, suck it up and get on with it and don’t throw a strop and start sulking just because you can’t get your own way that suits your team and these underhand tactics to put pressure on the Premier League to change it are shameful.
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becky over the moon 10 Nov 20 10.25am | |
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Originally posted by Willo
The teams in Europe have to play games in quick succession, on the back of a truncated pre-season. Perhaps if our beloved team was in such a situation our supporters might deem that the schedule was very challenging! Eddie Izzard - 29 marathons in 29 days and he's twice their ages........ poor little young, fit and well cared for darlings.
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jeeagles 10 Nov 20 12.30pm | |
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No sympathy for them either. This season has the potential to be much more interesting that previous years and potentially create a much more even playing field. 3 subs limits the tactical changes you can have in a match. 5 subs is a complete game changer with the opportunity to completely change a formation. The only reason I would like it, is that it would give more youngsters a chance. Id be willing to compromise at 4 subs, but the 4th must be U21.
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Dubai Eagle 10 Nov 20 12.59pm | |
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Give the Premier League clubs that are in European competitions the option to opt out of either 1 or both of the domestic cups this will reduce their match load
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Wilesy01 Bristol 10 Nov 20 1.08pm | |
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I am, and shall remain an ardent supporter of the National team and to that respect I want England to field the strongest team that it possibly can. It does annoy me when our top talent who play for the so called bigger clubs pick up injuries through fixture congestion and then can't play in qualifiers/big tournaments etc. Solution to this would be to scrap a lot of the nothing fixtures in the UCL (sorry APOEL Nicosia) and just get rid of the League Cup full stop. However the bigger clubs may not like this as it'd be a blow to thier revenues.
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Spiderman Horsham 10 Nov 20 1.56pm | |
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Originally posted by Wilesy01
I am, and shall remain an ardent supporter of the National team and to that respect I want England to field the strongest team that it possibly can. It does annoy me when our top talent who play for the so called bigger clubs pick up injuries through fixture congestion and then can't play in qualifiers/big tournaments etc. Solution to this would be to scrap a lot of the nothing fixtures in the UCL (sorry APOEL Nicosia) and just get rid of the League Cup full stop. However the bigger clubs may not like this as it'd be a blow to thier revenues. We should keep the league cup, too much of our traditions are being eradicated. If big 6 don’t want to enter fine, although may struggle sponsorwise,
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The Dolphin 10 Nov 20 4.09pm | |
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Good points from Andros today!
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doombear Too far from Selhurst Park 10 Nov 20 9.12pm | |
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I have little sympathy when every team in the PL is allowed 25 players in their squad PLUS any youngsters they choose to add to that squad (those under 21 as at beginning of Jan of the calendar year). Those English clubs involved in Europe are allowed 5 subs in those two competitions. The only slight sympathy (and it's very slight) is the TV scheduling, but even then, it's up to the clubs to manage their first team squad resources to take account of that.
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