Wank Cup Injuries

[dandannieldanok]

Should we win this competition, Or even should we get to Wembley, I want to see these people moaning then.

Yes I was thinking something similar, I'd also guess that if we got to the final they'd have no qualms about buying a ticket for the Wembley final.

[Daggers]

IF we get to the final, would you turn down the chance to see your team play at Wembly?

I've answered this already in the original thread about the tournament during the summer - I am not going to a single match and that includes Wembley.

The answer is absolutely, categorically 'no'.

Many things I may be but I'm not a hypocrite.

[shen]

Should we win this competition, Or even should we get to Wembley, I want to see these people moaning then.

If we don't get promotion, and the injuries caused by this cup prove to be one of the reasons, then I can see a lot of moaning, regardless of a cup win...

[Sparky]

Went last night and probably go future matches but being knocked wouldnt hurt nearly as much as a league defeat

[Daggers]

Calm down missus.

I actually think the JPT is perfect for us this season. We have a large squad and for players like Adams, Berner, Campbell and Wesolowski this is a chance to stake a claim without upsetting the balance of the league team. Injuries will happen. I don't think we've missed Mattock and on current form we won't miss Gradel either - but Adams has had a chance to get match-fit and may even have started on Saturday anyway.

As Leese pointed out - the heavens are rent asunder whenever a couple of players go off for internationals, there is no difference here:

We now have one less option for the right wing at the expense of (what is claimed to be) a hugely inspiring victory over the mighty Lincoln...which will no doubt have fired up our team for Saturday...err, aside from the fact that we struggled to match them and won by default because they made two more mistakes than us.

[Matt]

If we don't get promotion, and the injuries caused by this cup prove to be one of the reasons, then I can see a lot of moaning, regardless of a cup win...

I totally understand that, BUT, did anyone moan about still being in the Carling Cup when we were in a relegation battle/not playing well in the league when we played Chelsea, and Levi got injured? Maybe but i'm quite sure I didn't see anything.

Does anyone fear, not one to be in the F.A Cup? At the end of the day we have little chance of winning it so why not write it off from the start, but I bet a few people want to do atleast a few rounds in it.

Atleast in this competition we do actually have a pretty strong chance of winning it.

[Daggers]

Should we win this competition, Or even should we get to Wembley, I want to see these people moaning then.

Yes I was thinking something similar, I'd also guess that if we got to the final they'd have no qualms about buying a ticket for the Wembley final.

I've answered this already in the original thread about the tournament during the summer - I am not going to a single match and that includes Wembley.

The answer is absolutely, categorically 'no'.

Many things I may be but I'm not a hypocrite.

[Matt]

What?

Are we supposed to be psychic now or something? Predict the future and what people are about to write?

We both posted those before you replied.

And as you replied to me the other day (About rules not allowing free tickets for this competition) sorry, I don't have a photographic memory that allows me to remember posts from a couple of months ago.

(Not exactly what you replied to me with, but the same scenario)

[shen]

I totally understand that, BUT, did anyone moan about still being in the Carling Cup when we were in a relegation battle/not playing well in the league when we played Chelsea, and Levi got injured? Maybe but i'm quite sure I didn't see anything.

Does anyone fear, not one to be in the F.A Cup? At the end of the day we have little chance of winning it so why not write it off from the start, but I bet a few people want to do atleast a few rounds in it.

Atleast in this competition we do actually have a pretty strong chance of winning it.

But there is a much larger financial incentive in the League/FA Cup. A good cup run and a potential tie against a big club means a lot financially, but in the JPT WE'RE one of the big clubs. It does say a lot when Lincoln saw this tie as a potential money spinner...

*edit: And only a select few saw Porter to be an integral part to our possible success Had e.g. Hume been injured, your argument would have been a bit more acceptable...

[Daggers]

You are entitled to not give a toss about this competition. But that doesn't give you the right to have a pop, from the safety of your keyboard, at those of us that do.

This is an internet forum - I'm entitled to say exactly what I think. But I never say anything I'm not prepared to say to peoples faces.

I'm in the Swan at 12 in the back room with a pint and a cheese and onion cob as usual; I'll be having the very same conversation as in this thread, well away from the safety of this keyboard.

[Munzie]

I've answered this already in the original thread about the tournament during the summer - I am not going to a single match and that includes Wembley.

The answer is absolutely, categorically 'no'.

Many things I may be but I'm not a hypocrite.

Although I don't know you, I do enjoy reading your posts. I also enjoy your passion about the subjects you debate.

I can understand your view point on this competition but find it hard to beleive that you do not want to be part of experiencing your team playing in a Wembley cup final. I know it's a big 'if' and agree that it's not our main focus for this season.

This year is all about proving to the football community that Leicester are marching on to bigger and better things. And to prove it, we''ll try to win whatever is put in our way (apart from the Carling Cup - cause we've won that before!)

Wining the league & JPT did wonders for McDons.

See you there?

[filbertway]

Daggers, you have been "Sigged"

[JakeShingler]

Mate, if it was a wa nk cup, you WOULD win it.

Im not your mate.

And why do you have to be such a tit.

[Guest]

[Daggers]

Although I don't know you, I do enjoy reading your posts. I also enjoy your passion about the subjects you debate.

I hold my hands up - on some topics I get a bit carried away but I wanted us to lose in Hartlepool and I wanted us to lose last night. I'll want us to lose the next round too in order to bring about a swift end to this tourno...as I would rather lose an insignificant battle but win a meaningful war.

As the beer kicked in last night I used some terms I'd not necessarily use now, but the sentiment remains.

See you there?

<_<

Seriously, I'll not be going if we get there....I'll be bitching about the fact that Peterborough away will have been moved because of it and now, being a midweek game, I'll not be able to go there.

I'm a miserable shit some days

Daggers, you have been "Sigged"

[Guest]

Peterborough away is my birthday game. Nobody moves it.

[lildave3]

Peterborough away is my birthday game. Nobody moves it.

I second this. Although it's not actually my birthday, it's just the first away game after it.

[Guest]

I second this. Although it's not actually my birthday, it's just the first away game after it.

Same here. Technically speaking.

Are you going to be legal? In the alcoholic sense? A beer would be in order if that was the case, however if the game was to be called off.......

[lildave3]

Same here. Technically speaking.

Are you going to be legal? In the alcoholic sense? A beer would be in order if that was the case, however if the game was to be called off.......

Yeah, first away game after my 18th.

Can't be moved

[Guest]

Yeah, first away game after my 18th.

Can't be moved

You're only getting a beer off me if it's on the 28th.

[Granno]

Exactly.

Im sure if we get to Wembley most people who are moaning about this competition will all be up for going. And why not? Chance to go and watch Leicester at Wembley is amazing and something I will always remember. Even if it's only the JPT which yeah is a pretty dyer competition but we still get to go and watch City.

I want City to do well in everything League and Competition we are in and if needless injuries are picked up along the way then that's life. I'm sure alot of our players would love to get to Wembley as for some of them it will be there first of many chance's and for some it could be their last chance to play at Wembley.

I'm feeling two trips to Wembley anyway this year.

That sums my thoughts up perfectly.

What I've put in bold also relates to the fans.

Should we get to Wembley it would be my first visit, and the chance to see city in a Cup Final, well the thought of it send s a shiver down my spine. I really couldn't give a toss if it was to be against Dagengam and Redbridge or anyone.

Maybe for some of the older generation (I mean people who went to Wembley in the 90's ) this competiton is a wank piss pot cup, but i don't think so.

[James.]

Well it would appear that there are a lot of fucking retards in this thread.

[Trav Le Bleu]

I say YES!

Play all our BEST AND GREATEST players in the JPT so that we can win win win!!!

Who cares about promotion? Since when was money and status important? When did these intangible things start to outweigh the sublime delight and overwhelming euphoria of an aesthetically crafted cup run in a minor trophy (One which - I might hasten to add - the likes of Man Utd, Chelsea and Arsenal haven't got a hope in hell of winning!). Wembley here we come and to hell in a handbasket the cost!

In years to come people will remember the 2008-09 season as the year we won the Johnson's Paint Trophy (or "The Wank Cup" as some would have it ), demolishing Dagenham & Redbridge in front of a crowd of 23,000 in our first trip to the new Wembley! Glory days indeed! No one will remember our league campaign and how we finished a battling 14th - a sacrifice worth making for the purity that comes with cup football.

And how we will remember our glory days in the JPT, looking back on those heady times as we battle for promotion from League 2. We will look back and laugh, yes LAUGH!, at the doubters who wanted to field weakened teams so as not to risk losing out in the corporate, money-driven, franchise. Free of the shackles of materialism, no longer under the forceful, downward pressing thumb of "the man", we will be liberated to enjoy LCFC as a football team. Aye, that's right, I said it, a football team! Not Mr Mandaric's personal pension fund!

Then, and only then, we will take small children into the back room of the Swan and Rushes and they will point at the old man, his cheese and onion cob mushed from the viscious gumming it will have recieved from this tired, bitter and broken man and they will point at him and say, "Behold the merchant of doom!" And he will not laugh. No, for there will be no humour left in this man. It left him - 23rd September 2008 - the day Max Gradel was injured in the JPT.

He will never recognise it for the catalyst it truly was.

[skinnydipper]

The J.P.T.

I don't give a shit

If we win it - great

If we don't - great

[Daggers]

Then, and only then, we will take small children into the back room of the Swan and Rushes and they will point at the old man, his cheese and onion cob mushed from the viscious gumming it will have recieved from this tired, bitter and broken man and they will point at him and say, "Behold the merchant of doom!" And he will not laugh. No, for there will be no humour left in this man. It left him - 23rd September 2008 - the day Max Gradel was injured in the JPT.

He will never recognise it for the catalyst it truly was.

Mmmmm...gummed cob and beer. *slurp*