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Topic Originator: CitizenPar
Date: Wed 7 May 13:12
It all seems a tad complicated to me, but a change of format can surely only be good, in addition to an increased prize money pot.
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Topic Originator: ParfectXI
Date: Wed 7 May 13:18
It’s made complicated as it’s more of this tournament engineering BS! The top seed will play one of the bottom 2 seeds etc! It’s just a terrible way of doing things! Bring back everyone in a pot and let fate decide!
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Topic Originator: kelty_par
Date: Wed 7 May 13:25
Positives - increased prize money, teams won`t play just one game in August and get knocked out.
Negatives - continued presence of B teams, hundreds of games just to eliminate 8 teams, increased number of midweek games for part time teams at the start of the season could lead to more injuries etc, travelling costs even when refionalosed (e.g. Stranraer v Edinburgh City in South, Stirling v Peterhead in North?), seeded knock out round, teams potentially getting through losing 5 out of 6 games...
Aye, fair to say I`m not a fan.
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Topic Originator: Berry
Date: Wed 7 May 13:45
What a faff.
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Topic Originator: Playup_Pompey
Date: Wed 7 May 14:21
we will play the team that finishes the group in 14th/15th place (to be drawn after the group stage concludes)
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Wed 7 May 14:34
Big increase in prize money. if I understand it correctly Championship clubs can win between £30,000 and £150,000.
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Topic Originator: parsfan
Date: Wed 7 May 18:58
I hope KDM are insisting the final of "their" tournament is held in "their" stadium.
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Topic Originator: Socks
Date: Wed 7 May 21:17
I`m surprised any sponsor wants to put their name to this. What a load of utter mince.
It`s clearly contrived so that the B teams get more games against real football clubs. There`s a video on the SPFL site that explains the format - in the group round none of the B teams will play each other, so they`re all guaranteed 3 games against L1 sides and 3 more games against L2 sides.
Lower league clubs exist to play football in their own right. Their purpose is not to provide opposition to U20 teams.
Imagine having to play 6 games to get through to the last 32 of a competition when there are only 30 real clubs entering. When this was first mooted a few months ago, a close read of the careful wording seemed to show that this was entirely from the competitions working group. I`d be amazed if any clubs other than those entering B teams think it`s a good idea.
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Topic Originator: Parallel Lines
Date: Wed 7 May 21:48
It`s a steaming pile of Hotspur that what it is.
I watched the video and lost after 1 minute.
Just make it knockout from round 1 with all teams.
I looked for my pet in all the books on animals and birds and then I found it in the Book of Revelations.Marty Feldman
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Topic Originator: red-star-par
Date: Wed 7 May 23:38
When they bring in seeding to any competition it does nothing other than to totally ruin it, in my opinion
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Topic Originator: JnrB
Date: Thu 8 May 08:17
Absolutely dreadful for league 1 and 2 clubs, B teams shoehorned in, the omission of highland and lowland league clubs. There’s so much wrong with this.
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