Prince Monolulu
Everything in Moderation
Don't regard Man Ure in the same 'league' as Citeh, Chelski, Liverpool, Spurs, Arsenal and Cheltenham.
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It would have been home to Chelsea
- Thread starter Garage_Doors
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Don't regard Man Ure in the same 'league' as Citeh, Chelski, Liverpool, Spurs, Arsenal and Cheltenham.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
I don't think it would have been a big pay day, when you take into account the extra travel costs, stewards, policing etc. The big pay days are away to the big four where they get really large crowds. It would also be a mid week match thereby limiting a lot of our own fans who don't live in Sussex having difficulties getting there.
matthew
Well-known member
I don't hold with this I know we would have been given the same number but maybe the balls are thrown in slightly differently with Brighton in the draw and we get Stoke away...
Its a shame we took the club took the attitude that it is a lesser game . this competition represents one of our best chances of getting to a final and a good day out for the fans , not to mention a pay day .
Hey ho
Hey ho
I just think it's a massive overreaction, we've had an excellent start to the league campaign which I don't think even our most optimistic fans could have predicted... Most people seemed to concur with playing our 'reserve team' last night, presumably because they agree that first teamers could do with a break and this competition is far less important than the league. Now Hughton seems to be getting criticized solely because we would have drawn Chelsea, which is quite frankly ridiculous.
Saladpack Seagull
Just Shut Up and Paddle
Would they have turned up? They're more used to watching "their" team on Sky than actually attending matches. Walking around in Sussex in a shirt which (probably wrongly) implies you're from West London is simply saying "Look at me, I'm a winner" rather than the "Look at you, you're a w*nker" which the rest of us are actually thinking.......
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
I love cup football. This year the Carling Cup has been dire.
2 terrible away ties drawn.
2 woeful performances.
I hope for better in FA Cup round 3.
2 terrible away ties drawn.
2 woeful performances.
I hope for better in FA Cup round 3.
Return of the Rev
Well-known member
This! Burgess Hill managed to compete in a few cup competitions last season and nearly getting through the season undefeated in the league,probably on a smaller squad than the Albion and with the inconvenience of the players all having full time jobs! I know its difficult to compare but a winning mentality is the foundation of any great side/club.
Gritt23
New member
Missing out on Chelsea, is it such a big deal?
To the club I suppose, you get prize money for winning last night, and the extra revenue from Chelsea at home would be a good thing, but as a fan have I missed out? I used to LOVE the cups, both of them, whether it was sunny FA Cup days, or under floodlights in midweek for the League Cup. But this modern knee jerk reaction of "resting players" regardless of whether they need a rest or not. 2nd game of the season, or 1 game away from an International Break, we still need the majority of the side "rested" do we?.
So seeing as it would have been absolutely no different vs Chelsea, what have I missed out on? A chance to see our reserves, and bench warmers get played off the park by Chelsea, and not even their stars, as they too would have been rested. Honestly, I'd have been no more than 50/50 about going to that game anyway.
It pains me to say it, as I've always been so excited by the cups, but the automatic resting of players has turned it into a Cup version of the old Combination League, and I rarely went to that, even when I could walk in for FREE.
The Cup competitions, while the media try to convince us otherwise, are a casualty of the modern game.
To the club I suppose, you get prize money for winning last night, and the extra revenue from Chelsea at home would be a good thing, but as a fan have I missed out? I used to LOVE the cups, both of them, whether it was sunny FA Cup days, or under floodlights in midweek for the League Cup. But this modern knee jerk reaction of "resting players" regardless of whether they need a rest or not. 2nd game of the season, or 1 game away from an International Break, we still need the majority of the side "rested" do we?.
So seeing as it would have been absolutely no different vs Chelsea, what have I missed out on? A chance to see our reserves, and bench warmers get played off the park by Chelsea, and not even their stars, as they too would have been rested. Honestly, I'd have been no more than 50/50 about going to that game anyway.
It pains me to say it, as I've always been so excited by the cups, but the automatic resting of players has turned it into a Cup version of the old Combination League, and I rarely went to that, even when I could walk in for FREE.
The Cup competitions, while the media try to convince us otherwise, are a casualty of the modern game.
Bombadier Botty
Complete Twaddle
- Jun 2, 2008
- 3,258
Exactly, it's an utterly pointless thread. If we'd been in the hat we could have got absolutely any one of the teams in the draw and it probably wouldn't have been Chelsea, but how often do you hear it from fans of teams knocked out, looking at who their conquerors pulled out of the hat in the next round and saying "That could have been us" it's just fantasy, the only time you can say for sure that you would have drawn the team that your conquerors went on to get is if they had beaten your team in the semi final.
alfredmizen
Banned
- Mar 11, 2015
- 6,342
How many did Withdean hold ? How many times was it sold out ? Brighton are no different to Chelsea , just on a smaller scale.
But Walsall/Brighton was ball 2 so how on earth does the result affect the draw? It doesn't. Had we won we would have played Chelsea.
Bombadier Botty
Complete Twaddle
- Jun 2, 2008
- 3,258
As said before, by suggesting we got through (we didn't) you're rewriting history/changing history so by the same token the outcome of the draw would also be subject to change wouldn't it? COG scores the penalty and we go through and whoever was pulling the balls draws out Hull City for us in the next round.
kevo
Well-known member
- Mar 8, 2008
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Personally, I would like to see the League Cup scrapped. What is the point of it when most of the bigger teams only play their reserves? Shocks are not even shocks, because everyone knows that the better team would have rested most of their best players.
All it does is add to fixture congestion. If it was scrapped, then hopefully the FA Cup would benefit as it would be the sole cup competition so maybe teams would take it a bit more seriously.
Albumen
Don't wait for me!
End the thread.
Albumen
Don't wait for me!
Because the person that pulled out the second ball would have been swirling his balls (so to speak) for longer, albeit a fraction.
But how could our result have affected the draw? We were both going to be the same ball whoever won and ball 2 was going to play Chelsea.
Bombadier Botty
Complete Twaddle
- Jun 2, 2008
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Gritt23
New member
Fight it Kevo, don't let them brainwash you. This is the nonsense spouted by the teams at the top of the Prem, the same teams who vanish off to tour Asia or Australia or America the moment the season ends. "Fixture congestion" is just some made-up rubbish by the managers who want an excuse to play the stiffs in a Cup competition. They will happily stick two fingers up to the FA and claim everyone is tired from too much football, but they fall into line and fly halfway round the World when their marketing men announce "we need more sales in Melbourne, so you are playing 3 games there at the end of May."
Strangely, the further down the leagues you go, the more fixtures pile up in the second half of the season (due to poorer pitches meaning more winter postponements) and the less they moan about it.