League Cup 2020/21

[Kenny]

2nd Round entry for us this season. Rounds 2 - 4 played over just 3 weeks
Semi Final no longer over 2 legs

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Single leg semi is definitely to our advantage. Just need to get there now.

 

[Kenny]

On the Semi Final - As they are removing the home/away and not doing a neutral venue as the FA Cup do, I wonder if it will be home team with full home fans advantage* or make the home team give up 2 stands or 50% of the capacity



*presuming by that point fans are back in Stadiums

 

[pacamac]

On the Semi Final - As they are removing the home/away and not doing a neutral venue as the FA Cup do, I wonder if it will be home team with full home fans advantage* or make the home team give up 2 stands or 50% of the capacity



*presuming by that point fans are back in Stadiums

Be like a normal home game surely, they're not going to give away fans 50% of a home ground imagine the potential security and certainly logistically nightmare.

 

[Kenny]

Be like a normal home game surely, they're not going to give away fans 50% of a home ground imagine the potential security and certainly logistically nightmare.

Hard one to call as Semi Finals have always been (well in my life time anyway) about either neutral stadiums or a home and away tie to try and remove an advantage.

Image getting Bournemouth (stop laughing at the back) in the Semi Final and getting a shitty allocation for a huge game.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I don't get why they can't pick a neutral ground. See who goes through, pick a big ground somewhere in the middle, bung the hosting club a few quid (they won't be playing a match at the same time), done.

If we played Newcastle for instance you could play at Elland Road. Half each.

 

[pacamac]

Hard one to call as Semi Finals have always been (well in my life time anyway) about either neutral stadiums or a home and away tie to try and remove an advantage.

Image getting Bournemouth (stop laughing at the back) in the Semi Final and getting a shitty allocation for a huge game.

No I agree ideally they're two legged or neutral just saying although that release isn't so clear there's no way they're going to have a neutral crowd in a non neutral stadium if that makes sense.

 

[pacamac]

I don't get why they can't pick a neutral ground. See who goes through, pick a big ground somewhere in the middle, bung the hosting club a few quid (they won't be playing a match at the same time), done.

If we played Newcastle for instance you could play at Elland Road. Half each.

Sounds a great idea that! Reckon they should do it for the FA Cup.....keep some of the Wembley magic for the final whilst still making the semi an 'event' and it being neutral.

oh wait...…...

 

[jd1981]

You wouldn’t need the biggest stadiums either especially for a midweek game after Xmas. 25-30k stadiums will do allowing allocation of 11,500-12,500 per club.

 

[Spartacus]

I don't get why they can't pick a neutral ground. See who goes through, pick a big ground somewhere in the middle, bung the hosting club a few quid (they won't be playing a match at the same time), done.

If we played Newcastle for instance you could play at Elland Road. Half each.

Well that is just too fucking sensible....

 

[Spartacus]

Just realized I am now Peter Broadbent... googled him.... Back in the day when players moved for 10K and stayed for 14 years..... Thanks to the forum for making me look him up!

 

[Dinowolf]

Just realized I am now Peter Broadbent... googled him.... Back in the day when players moved for 10K and stayed for 14 years..... Thanks to the forum for making me look him up!

He was the 'Neves' of his day. A joy to watch.

 

[Tony Towner]

Reminds me more of Japan Moutinho.


Someone was going to do it, so may as well be me

 

[Parkins left foot]

Just realized I am now Peter Broadbent... googled him.... Back in the day when players moved for 10K and stayed for 14 years..... Thanks to the forum for making me look him up!

Would have seen him in 1959/60 when I was up there for a time, but don't remember.

He'd gone by the time I came back in 1970 - by all accounts a very cultured player

 

[Spartacus]

Reminds me more of Japan Moutinho.


Someone was going to do it, so may as well be me

I am Spartacus!

 

[VanWolfie]

Would have seen him in 1959/60 when I was up there for a time, but don't remember.

He'd gone by the time I came back in 1970 - by all accounts a very cultured player

I watched Peter Broadbent regularly between 1953 and early 1965 (just before he left Wolves). He was a fabulous footballer, a schemer of the first order (I guess that term isn't used much today). He had a body-swerve that often left opposing midfielders on their arse while he waltzed by with superb skill. He could also score goals as well as make them. He played for England in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, the one where Pele emerged as a top footballer. He would and should have played more regularly for England but when the player in your position is Johnny Haynes, the then captain of England, his chances were very limited. But Peter B was a superb artist on the ball. He was also a very good ballroom dancer and it showed in his intricate feints and body swerves. Later came Knocker Knowles, who subsequently gave up the game for his religious beliefs, whom many saw as the equivalent or even better type of player but for me Broadbent was the player who made the Wolves team of the 50s tick. What a team it was, with Bert Williams in goal, Billy wright at centre half, Bill Slater and Ron Flowers in midfield and Johnny Hancocks, Roy Swinbourne, Dennis Wilshaw, and Jimmy Mullen in attack. That's the team I fell in love with that has brought about a life-long devotion to Wolves. That team was fantastic and achieved such a lot. But the current team will, I think, eventually achieve a lot more.

 

[The Saturday Boy]

I don't get why they can't pick a neutral ground. See who goes through, pick a big ground somewhere in the middle, bung the hosting club a few quid (they won't be playing a match at the same time), done.

If we played Newcastle for instance you could play at Elland Road. Half each.

That would mean two sets of fans travelling to a stadium that is probably still going to face capacity restrictions with the possibility that one or the other team will be from an area facing local restrictions. Away fans are a going to be logistically difficult for a league game to the point I think it is unlikely there will be away fans at any time...so it’s unlikely they will allow two sets of “away” fans to descend on a location.

I think it is optimistic to think we won’t be increasing restrictions again over the winter period to ease pressure on the NHS which already faces problems over the winter without adding Covid. They pulled the trial events at a hint of an outbreak...pubs, spectator sports etc will all be closed over the winter either nationally or at least regionally.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I don't know where our R2 game is going to go.

We play Sheff Utd on the 14th and Man City on the 19th. Wherever you put it, we're not likely to have the mandated break between fixtures.

Not that I care about this shit tournament, send out the U23s.

 

[Tony Towner]

I don't know where our R2 game is going to go.

We play Sheff Utd on the 14th and Man City on the 19th. Wherever you put it, we're not likely to have the mandated break between fixtures.

Not that I care about this shit tournament, send out the U23s.

Norman and Cyber are preparing their voodoo dolls of you

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

That famous easy road to Europe through a cup won by City (x5), United and Chelsea since 2013.

Doesn't even get you in the Europa League now either.