Re: No cup replays
Posted: 21 Apr 2024, 11:07
Early 2000s I think?
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Wow, I know almost nothing about Swiss football but even I have heard of Servette. Didn't they play in Europe this season?genevabee wrote: ↑24 Apr 2024, 16:10 In France and Switzerland the lower-ranked team gets the choice of playing at home but matches can be switched for a variety of reasons, financial and logistical. In the first round in which the big boys entered the Swiss Cup this year, my local village side got drawn against the mighty (by Swiss standards) Servette, barely ten minutes up the road. The match was switched to the Stade de Genève because there was no way the minnows have the infrastructure to cope with more than a few hundred supporters.
I'd probably be in favour of this in the highly unlikely event that we got drawn at home to Tottenham or Arsenal... and we did set a precedent with Chelsea. In the replay vs no replay debate I can see see the argument for both. Rather than say one or the other why can't the two teams involved decide whether they want a replay or not before kick off? If the smaller club says yes, but the bigger club say no, the smaller club get's to chose the venue, home or away.genevabee wrote: ↑24 Apr 2024, 16:10 In France and Switzerland the lower-ranked team gets the choice of playing at home but matches can be switched for a variety of reasons, financial and logistical. In the first round in which the big boys entered the Swiss Cup this year, my local village side got drawn against the mighty (by Swiss standards) Servette, barely ten minutes up the road. The match was switched to the Stade de Genève because there was no way the minnows have the infrastructure to cope with more than a few hundred supporters.
Obviously the relative amounts of TV money and global advertising available for different competitions has changed priorities, but clearly the pressure to stop having replays has been going on for some time, FA cup final replays were dispensed with in the late 1990s followed by semis and quarters earlier in this century, Premiership and EFL regularly field teams full of subs in the early rounds of the cup so it was only a matter of time before the remaining replays were dispensed with.northantsbee wrote: ↑24 Apr 2024, 16:27I'd probably be in favour of this in the highly unlikely event that we got drawn at home to Tottenham or Arsenal... and we did set a precedent with Chelsea. In the replay vs no replay debate I can see see the argument for both. Rather than say one or the other why can't the two teams involved decide whether they want a replay or not before kick off? If the smaller club says yes, but the bigger club say no, the smaller club get's to chose the venue, home or away.genevabee wrote: ↑24 Apr 2024, 16:10 In France and Switzerland the lower-ranked team gets the choice of playing at home but matches can be switched for a variety of reasons, financial and logistical. In the first round in which the big boys entered the Swiss Cup this year, my local village side got drawn against the mighty (by Swiss standards) Servette, barely ten minutes up the road. The match was switched to the Stade de Genève because there was no way the minnows have the infrastructure to cope with more than a few hundred supporters.
I can't remember teams complaining in the 1970's of playing too many games when some ties were going to four replays played on mud baths.
Yeah, we had a good run in Europe this year, going out to Plzen on penalties in the end. We were 26,000 for the visit of Rangers and 28,000 for the visit of Roma... these are unheard of numbers for football around here.becbee wrote: ↑24 Apr 2024, 16:18Wow, I know almost nothing about Swiss football but even I have heard of Servette. Didn't they play in Europe this season?genevabee wrote: ↑24 Apr 2024, 16:10 In France and Switzerland the lower-ranked team gets the choice of playing at home but matches can be switched for a variety of reasons, financial and logistical. In the first round in which the big boys entered the Swiss Cup this year, my local village side got drawn against the mighty (by Swiss standards) Servette, barely ten minutes up the road. The match was switched to the Stade de Genève because there was no way the minnows have the infrastructure to cope with more than a few hundred supporters.
That must have been an amazing draw for your local village side. What was the score?
No thank you.Mikel Bee wrote: ↑28 Apr 2024, 09:21 This is what we are getting next season instead of replays.
https://theathletic.com/5450014/2024/04 ... mpetition/
"Adding insult to injury" springs to mind.