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Daggers

FA Cup 24-25

By Daggers, in General Football and Sport

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UniFox21

UniFox21

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Praise being given to spurs by Comms is really not deserved. Those players have the best in every department given to them, and they've taken 100+ minutes of football to break down a non league Tamworth side 

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Goober

Goober

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1 minute ago, The Bear said:

There's no way Tottenham would charge £20 for a freezing cold midweek night game against a non-league side, with the likelihood of a heavily changed and young team, and expect to get anywhere near 20k people turn up. 

 

Especially when lack of midweek slots mean that Spurs might be forced to play Sun/Tue/Thu with the replay being on a Tuesday. 

The point is Tamworth would still have made an absolute bomb regardless.

 

If they were getting rid of replays then they should've binned off ET as well and had games go straight to pens. Extra 30 mins is so heavily in favour of the bigger sides.

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Bilo

Bilo

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1 minute ago, The Bear said:

There's no way Tottenham would charge £20 for a freezing cold midweek night game against a non-league side, with the likelihood of a heavily changed and young team, and expect to get anywhere near 20k people turn up. 

 

Especially when lack of midweek slots mean that Spurs might be forced to play Sun/Tue/Thu with the replay being on a Tuesday. 

You'd get people in who'd go just to say they've been, because it's cheap and to keep building up loyalty points for more desirable fixtures. Make it cheap and you get at least 30k.

 

Basically the equivalent of England playing San Marino on a Thursday at Wembley where the atmosphere is dead, but you still get 50-60k turn up.

Bert

Bert

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3 minutes ago, The Bear said:

There's no way Tottenham would charge £20 for a freezing cold midweek night game against a non-league side, with the likelihood of a heavily changed and young team, and expect to get anywhere near 20k people turn up. 

 

Especially when lack of midweek slots mean that Spurs might be forced to play Sun/Tue/Thu with the replay being on a Tuesday. 

Daniel Levy is their chairman. Wouldn’t be so sure. 

Tommy Fresh

Tommy Fresh

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2 minutes ago, The Bear said:

There's no way Tottenham would charge £20 for a freezing cold midweek night game against a non-league side, with the likelihood of a heavily changed and young team, and expect to get anywhere near 20k people turn up. 

 

Especially when lack of midweek slots mean that Spurs might be forced to play Sun/Tue/Thu with the replay being on a Tuesday. 

Bet there's no end of folk who can't get in at Spurs normally and if not there would be tourists that would pay it

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leicsmac

leicsmac

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3 minutes ago, Tommy Fresh said:

Not as if we're talking about well off clubs squabbling over a few quid, this is money that could keep these clubs running comfortably for years 

I don't disagree.

 

It's just rather saddening that the game exists in any state that a team like Tamworth would prefer to draw to rather than beat a team like Spurs.

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Bert

Bert

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7 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

It’s to promote knife crime .

Not sure knife crime needs promoting 

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bovril

bovril

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1 minute ago, leicsmac said:

I don't disagree.

 

It's just rather saddening that the game exists in any state that a team like Tamworth would prefer to draw to rather than beat a team like Spurs.

It's always been the case that lower league teams want to play away at big teams, it's not a new thing. And I'm sure Tamworth would love to have won, tbh they came close at the end, but definitely a replay is better than going to extra time when the advantage will massively be with the PL team and their superior fitness. 

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Bilo

Bilo

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1 minute ago, Bert said:

Not sure knife crime needs promoting 

I was hoping somebody else would say this before I did and ended up causing offence. 😂

Tommy Fresh

Tommy Fresh

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2 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

I don't disagree.

 

It's just rather saddening that the game exists in any state that a team like Tamworth would prefer to draw to rather than beat a team like Spurs.

Taking a premier league side to a replay is still a huge achievement though and prior to them scrapping them, teams wouldn't of known any different 

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leicsmac

leicsmac

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3 minutes ago, bovril said:

It's always been the case that lower league teams want to play away at big teams, it's not a new thing. And I'm sure Tamworth would love to have won, tbh they came close at the end, but definitely a replay is better than going to extra time when the advantage will massively be with the PL team and their superior fitness. 

 

2 minutes ago, Tommy Fresh said:

Taking a premier league side to a replay is still a huge achievement though and prior to them scrapping them, teams wouldn't of known any different 

Yeah, I can't refute that.

 

Perhaps going forward there might bea better way of rewarding lower league teams when they draw a big name so that this is no longer a question.

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Bilo

Bilo

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1 minute ago, Tommy Fresh said:

Taking a premier league side to a replay is still a huge achievement though and prior to them scrapping them, teams wouldn't of known any different 

The balance sheet is the thing here. 45% of £700k or 55% of £125k? Not a difficult decision. It's not as if they're going on to win it.

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Bilo

Bilo

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5 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

 

Yeah, I can't refute that.

 

Perhaps going forward there might bea better way of rewarding lower league teams when they draw a big name so that this is no longer a question.

Guaranteed TV spot when they play at home to make up the gap, with that fee making up the difference in revenue between playing at home and playing away.

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Tommy Fresh

Tommy Fresh

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5 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

 

Yeah, I can't refute that.

 

Perhaps going forward there might bea better way of rewarding lower league teams when they draw a big name so that this is no longer a question.

Give them the chance to swap the tie if at home 

Tommy Fresh

Tommy Fresh

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7 minutes ago, The Bear said:

Bromley winning at Newcastle. 

 

Though I imagine they'll deliberately concede to take them back to Bromley for the replay to make a bit more money. 

Has anyone actually said that? As we've seen with Tamworth, they've held Spurs over 90 minutes and rather than get a commercially beneficial replay, they've ended up getting picked apart in extra time

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Parafox

Parafox

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21 minutes ago, ramboacdc said:

That Arsenal kit is god awful.

Agree. White numbers on white shirts doesn't work on TV.

Stuntman_Mike

Stuntman_Mike

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Nice to see Adidas ensuring their logo is as white as the rest of the Arsenal kit, wouldn't want them missing out on some much needed brand advertising. 

 

 

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