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Author Topic: EFL CUP - Championship clubs  (Read 731 times)

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EFL CUP - Championship clubs
« on: Thu 11 Aug 2022 07:33 »
Quote from BBC website:
"Fourteen Championship sides played lower-league opposition in the first round and, after all nine second-tier sides lost matches against lower-ranked clubs on Tuesday, only Blackburn and Rotherham managed to avoid shocks on Wednesday."

Speaks volumes to how "seriously" they treat this competition!

Only bonus is there are a lot of L1 vs Prem ties in Round 2 - just hope it's first teams and not L1 vs Prem Reserves.

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Re: EFL CUP - Championship clubs
« Reply #1 on: Thu 11 Aug 2022 09:12 »
I remember for so many years wanting to reach the 3rd round of the FA cup hoping for a lucrative big team tie, rarely got there. We played Arsenal one season and it literally financed our entire season. I hated how the big teams played their “cup team” though. First season in the prem and my team became that disrespectful prem club 😔

I hope a lower league team go on and win both cups, they are more deserving, imo.
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Re: EFL CUP - Championship clubs
« Reply #2 on: Thu 11 Aug 2022 09:16 »
The seeding also doesn't seem to help the lower league clubs when it comes to teams in the Midlands.
Walsall have been put in the south group, yet Villa, Wolves and West Brom are all in the north group, so Walsall miss out on the chance of a local derby despite being more northerly than both Villa and West Brom geographically

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Re: EFL CUP - Championship clubs
« Reply #3 on: Thu 11 Aug 2022 12:45 »
Birmingham were also in the south group as well, despite being in the same region as the likes of Villa, Wolves etc. Just baffling.

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Re: EFL CUP - Championship clubs
« Reply #4 on: Thu 11 Aug 2022 16:44 »
I remember for so many years wanting to reach the 3rd round of the FA cup hoping for a lucrative big team tie, rarely got there. We played Arsenal one season and it literally financed our entire season. I hated how the big teams played their “cup team” though. First season in the prem and my team became that disrespectful prem club 😔

I hope a lower league team go on and win both cups, they are more deserving, imo.

Hopefully the trend will carry on and you will only send your U18's for the next round. :)
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Re: EFL CUP - Championship clubs
« Reply #5 on: Thu 11 Aug 2022 20:27 »
Some of the lower clubs also made wholesale changes.  Last night Sheff Wed and and Sunderland both made massive changes and Wednesday blew Sunderland away.

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Re: EFL CUP - Championship clubs
« Reply #6 on: Fri 12 Aug 2022 19:43 »
I’m very happy with Crawley V Fulham…  a reasonable journey by car to get to the Broadfield…

We will probably end up getting Stroud as referee 🙄