EFL Trophy

DAV007 said:
Seems the FA have created a bit of a Google Page Ranking and logistical nightmare

Mind you it's the same people who gave the yes man Hodgson a job, so it's not a shock they can't organise their own football trophy competition
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I'm not sure what the FA cup has to do with the paint pot or making thing more efficient (i.e. logistics)?
 
DAV007 said:
Seems the FA have created a bit of a Google Page Ranking and logistical nightmare

Mind you it's the same people who gave the yes man Hodgson a job, so it's not a shock they can't organise their own football trophy competition
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its another matter of modern society. us at the top know better than you. its not what you want its what we want because we know better than you lot. just vote with your feet and not bother to go. if every fan of div.1 and 2 teams did this it would soon be shoved somewhere it really belongs.
 
Isn’t it great a competition designed at improve the under 21’s of premier league sides is imposing a £5,000 fine for league 1 &2 sides for doing just that
 
EFL Clubs – a minimum of 5 ‘First Team’ players in the starting 11 as defined under the competition’s existing rules. (the statement in post 64) was taken from a Dan Jewell twitter post on the 6th July
 
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Just on sky sports news that because some if the premier league clubs have rejected the opportunity for their academy sides to take part in the competition, they're extending the invitation to other clubs with 'category one' academy sides, whatever that means, until there are enough to make up the sixteen places available to them!
 
AccyMad said:
Just on sky sports news that because some if the premier league clubs have rejected the opportunity for their academy sides to take part in the competition, they're extending the invitation to other clubs with 'category one' academy sides, whatever that means, until there are enough to make up the sixteen places available to them!
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I wonder how many more 'invited' teams will have to decline before Stanley are invited to enter a second team! :)
 
what if its a success and those clubs that have rejected the invite come out begging next season to be involved?
 
The top teams are in the U19 Champions League and the U21 international cup mid week, so that is why a lot are declining, it just isn't possible to play.
 
Chewbacca said:
The top teams are in the U19 Champions League and the U21 international cup mid week, so that is why a lot are declining, it just isn't possible to play.
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another well thought out move by the football league. probebly no one told them about the other competitions that exist. i wonder who gets these jobs at the top.
 
So the draw's been done & we've been grouped with Chesterfield, Crewe & Wolves Under 21's!!
Methinks admissions to these games will have to be made cheap to get much interest
 
I see our friends at Ewood are one of the category one clubs who have joined in the competition - nice to know they're supportive of our stance against the new format
 
Dates have been announced and we've only got one home match:
EFL Trophy: Group Stage fixtures

Match Day 1 – w/c 29th August 2016
Chesterfield v Wolverhampton Wanderers
Accrington Stanley v Crewe Alexandra

Match Day 2 – w/c 3rd October 2016
Crewe Alexandra v Wolverhampton Wanderers
Chesterfield v Accrington Stanley

Match Day 3 – w/c 7th November 2016
Crewe Alexandra v Chesterfield
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Accrington Stanley
 
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