nufc123 Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 1 minute ago, Optimistic Nut said: 'm guessing that's just for the Third Round but fucking hell we could have done with that rule last season. I was thinking the whole cup for some reason . Fucking hell that would have been wild . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 Every new rule is screwing us - it’s about time we turned into bastards - absolute joke Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Prontonise Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 That's a fucking diabolical rule. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
huss9 Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 3 hours ago, LFEE said: Good luck us ever getting a favourable cup draw this year… eh? that doesnt make sense. how does that reduce fixture pile up? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leemond Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 3 minutes ago, huss9 said: eh? that doesnt make sense. how does that reduce fixture pile up? It doesn't, it allows the Top 6 to play weakened teams and still get through. Hull's first team would stand no chance against Man City's 2nd string for example, but if they have to play a CL game, then let's say, Arsenal in the cup, in the same week, their chances of winning both games reduces. It's all to help the Sky 6 once again unfortunately. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 What in the name of fuck. 🙃 Yet another truly abhorrent shake-up to try and enable the ESL clubs to have their cake and eat it. It's all just so shameful and shameless. Oh well, at least we did our bit in easing fixture congestion for a couple of the precious sides last year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Icarus Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 This is basically them boiling the frogs after we all kicked off over the ESL. Every single one of these corrupt changes should be being met with the same energy. Absolute joke. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joelinton7 Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 You couldn’t write this. Every draw we got last season was rake after rake, hitting us square in the face. Now, they’ve decided that they’re not going to allow the top teams to be drawn against other top teams so that these top teams can have a little breather. Bent is the shape they can get and off is a direction they can fuck. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackflap Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 (edited) If we keep Isak and Bruno I can see us being a nightmare to play against next season, expanded European competitions and we'll be the only side with top 4 ambitions without the extra games. Likely to be less affected than most by the internationals as well. Not to mention the managerial upheavals around us Think the nature of the season gone past will have added a steel to the side and a massive chip on the shoulders of the players. Whereas before we've looked hesitant facing the better sides particularly away from home I think we'll impose ourselves on them a lot more. A bit more luck on the injury front and I honestly think we'll be closer in points to first than 5th Edited May 29 by jackflap Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 I don’t agree with it, the beauty of the cups, are the randomness of it. Hopefully this season they will stop pre-heating our ball. Maybe it benefits us in the years to come, or maybe they’ll introduce another rule tweak which only affects teams North of Washington. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 So am I interpreting this correctly? CL teams can still draw each other, just not teams in the EL/ECL? So Man City can still get Arsenal or Liverpool, but not Man Utd or Spurs? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 (edited) Every rule thats come in since all th talk about 'fairness' and 'sustainability' and the bogus compassion for the smaller clubs has benefitted the already massively advantaged. How did that happen? They're shameless. Its daylight robbery. Edited May 29 by Jonas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted May 30 Share Posted May 30 There's already a bye into the last 32, just no need for it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilcline Posted May 30 Share Posted May 30 13 hours ago, SteV said: So am I interpreting this correctly? CL teams can still draw each other, just not teams in the EL/ECL? So Man City can still get Arsenal or Liverpool, but not Man Utd or Spurs? Yeah, it's because the CL/EL first matchweeks are on different weeks as for the first one UEFA are having CL games on the Thursday aswell, calling it the "Exclusive" week or some other gimmicky shite. And clashes with the league cup 3rd round. So if a CL team drew an EL/ECL team they'd both be busy one of the weeks, this way they won't be. It's a dogshit rule and I'd be all for making everyone enter in round 2 or whatever it used to be and play the kids if they're not happy, but hopefully we get a bit of luck (ha!) and a couple of other good sides knock each other out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted May 30 Share Posted May 30 21 minutes ago, Kilcline said: Yeah, it's because the CL/EL first matchweeks are on different weeks as for the first one UEFA are having CL games on the Thursday aswell, calling it the "Exclusive" week or some other gimmicky shite. And clashes with the league cup 3rd round. So if a CL team drew an EL/ECL team they'd both be busy one of the weeks, this way they won't be. It's a dogshit rule and I'd be all for making everyone enter in round 2 or whatever it used to be and play the kids if they're not happy, but hopefully we get a bit of luck (ha!) and a couple of other good sides knock each other out. So really it’s of some benefit to CL teams, but more benefit to EL/ECL teams. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cf Posted May 31 Share Posted May 31 Had a dream last night that we beat Bournemouth 9-1 on the opening day of the season so anything less than that and I'll be disappointed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Prontonise Posted May 31 Share Posted May 31 9 minutes ago, Cf said: Had a dream last night that we beat Bournemouth 9-1 on the opening day of the season so anything less than that and I'll be disappointed. Scorers? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cf Posted May 31 Share Posted May 31 8 minutes ago, El Prontonise said: Scorers? I think Longstaff got one which is concerning. Behind that I don't remember my dreams very well Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee_Johnny Posted May 31 Share Posted May 31 3 hours ago, Cf said: Had a dream last night that we beat Bournemouth 9-1 on the opening day of the season so anything less than that and I'll be disappointed. Three hatricks, Osimhen, Isak and Mbeumo? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattoon Posted May 31 Share Posted May 31 Hang on, the idea of this, which just happens to have transpired when the sly 6 all get back in Europe, is to prevent "fixture pile up" by basically giving them a bye into the next round, ergo more games? Make it make sense. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted May 31 Share Posted May 31 7 hours ago, Cf said: Had a dream last night that we beat Bournemouth 9-1 on the opening day of the season so anything less than that and I'll be disappointed. Hope it was away as I'm already struggling for any time off that weekend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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