Checkafraud Trophy - Attendance / Results watch

[Kenneth E End]

Annoyingly, it looks like we have to go and try and win this now. And despite all the fines, we're now very healthy in profit from this competition.

 

[Bosox]

One game from a Wembley final and all the stupid academy teams long since departed. Mullins able to get some game time in the middle of his long suspension, Vassell continued his hot streak and Hylton scored for the first time since mid-December. What's not to like?

 

[MrGloverLover]

I suppose with 5 first teamers out it was always going to be tough but it would help if we stopped playing players out of position.

 

[mowgli]

Meh not bothered in the slightest the only good thing is we made £100,000 playing mostly bench warmers.

 

[That Fat Centre Half]

Genuinely did not even realise we had a game last night, that's how much I care about this.

I think there will be quite a good attendance for the Oxford game unfortunately though.

 

[oakroader]

tuesday pm on sky......might give it a glance!!
doubt if the attendance gets anywhere near 3000 to 4000 i hope

 

[GTFCfish]

doubt if the attendance gets anywhere near 3000 to 4000 i hope

Sadly it probably will because I would have thought Oxford will bring shit loads, 66 miles away and one game from Wembley.
Also whichever of Luton/Oxford get to Wembley play Coventry, 3 very well supported clubs so unfortunately I expect the Final attendance to be very good, which may make the idiots in charge of this competition think that these changes that everybody hates has actually been 'a success'.

 

[oakroader]

doubt if there would be enough fans to fill wembley arena..never mind the stadium itself.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Coventry v Luton/Oxford has the potential to be a 40-50k crowd. Just what we need. Coventry fans soon forgot about everything last night and turned up in their thousands. Thought they were staying away until SISU clears off?

 

[TimeyWimey]

Coventry v Luton/Oxford has the potential to be a 40-50k crowd. Just what we need. Coventry fans soon forgot about everything last night and turned up in their thousands. Thought they were staying away until SISU clears off?

They love the EFL Trophy. It's in their blood.

 

[oakroader]

to be fair,they need more reason to celebrate something,anything,than we do.....
wembley finals??...been there, done that,won some lost some....got the t shirt!!

 

[Bosox]

I expect the Final attendance to be very good, which may make the idiots in charge of this competition think that these changes that everybody hates has actually been 'a success'.

It won't do that, the revamp has already failed and two proper League teams having a good attendance for the final won't do anything to change that. We won the war already, the EFL has endured appalling press coverage for their changes and everyone sees them for the failure they are.

 

[Richard Cranium]

They'll do anything to not have to accept that this was a massive mistake and they got it wrong. 40k at Wembley is the last hope they've got.

 

[That Fat Centre Half]

Doubt I'd go if we reach the final but I don't think a well attended final will do anything other than show that the competition doesn't need B teams to attract interest.

The PR this has all got has been terrible, from the initial rejection of places in the competition by the big sides in the premier league, to us making a big deal about being fined for playing our youngsters and clubs subbing players after 30 seconds just to meet stupid regulations, and the social media backlash as well. From a PR standpoint its not been a success.

And at the end of the day the "they" are the clubs themselves, if your club votes for it again then it won't be because the final was well attended, they will always have been going to regardless. Even if we win, I guarantee we aren't voting for the format to continue.

 

[djs]

And to show how the rules change daily.

Thanks to Sky, neither semi-final will take place during the week designated for them - w/c 20 Feb..
Coventry played Wycombe last night.
Luton will play Oxford on Wed 1 March, 7.45pm, meaning that our league game at Newport, due for the previous night, is pp'd and rearranged for Mar 21.
BUT, if Oxford draw with Middlesbrough in the FA Cup, the Trophy semi will be put back until the following Mon, 6 March k/o 7.00pm!!
And if the game IS rearranged for Mon 6th, we can request that our game at Yeovil on Sat 4th be rearranged for Fri 3rd instead.

Hope you followed all of that, I'll be asking questions later.

 

[Kenneth E End]

Doubt I'd go if we reach the final but I don't think a well attended final will do anything other than show that the competition doesn't need B teams to attract interest.

The PR this has all got has been terrible, from the initial rejection of places in the competition by the big sides in the premier league, to us making a big deal about being fined for playing our youngsters and clubs subbing players after 30 seconds just to meet stupid regulations, and the social media backlash as well. From a PR standpoint its not been a success.

And at the end of the day the "they" are the clubs themselves, if your club votes for it again then it won't be because the final was well attended, they will always have been going to regardless. Even if we win, I guarantee we aren't voting for the format to continue.

Doubt I'd go if we reach the final but I don't think a well attended final will do anything other than show that the competition doesn't need B teams to attract interest.

The PR this has all got has been terrible, from the initial rejection of places in the competition by the big sides in the premier league, to us making a big deal about being fined for playing our youngsters and clubs subbing players after 30 seconds just to meet stupid regulations, and the social media backlash as well. From a PR standpoint its not been a success.

And at the end of the day the "they" are the clubs themselves, if your club votes for it again then it won't be because the final was well attended, they will always have been going to regardless. Even if we win, I guarantee we aren't voting for the format to continue.

Im relatively certain the "experiment" will revert back next season.

 

[oakroader]

regardless of my opinions on the way this competition has been set out..i would like to pass on my best wishes to both teams in their quest for a wembley final place.
obviously i'm biased towards the mighty hatters and hope they win.
will keep a cheeky eye on the tv tonight and ,hypocritically,contemplate buying a ticket should we progress!!
any wembley stadium visit for your teams',should be looked forward to and embraced ...IMO.
oakey

 

[Gladders]

A disappointing 6000+ Luton fans tonight, what happened to the boycott?

 

[Richard Cranium]

A disappointing 6000+ Luton fans tonight, what happened to the boycott?

Not sure how true it is. I read on Twitter that Coventry have already sold 25k of their allocation for the final. There will be 50k there at least. Why couldn't it have just been Fleetwood v Bury.

 

[That Fat Centre Half]

That's a lot less than it could have been to be fair. For reference the semi final against Brighton back in 2009 or whenever it was was 8711 and it's lower than our average this season as well.

There was also a bit of a campaign, perhaps too far to call it that, that articulated some fairly decent reasons about why the boycott was a good thing but the point had been made etc.

Like I said above, the attendance tonight wasn't going to sway whether we were going to vote for it or no. Even if we won the thing there is no way we are voting for it.

 

[Gladders]

It wasn't about you voting for it, it was about sending a message to every club about low attendances. 6000 is still far more than any other round.
Same as above with Coventry selling 25k, a boycott is a boycott, not oh we might get/have got to Wembley I'll go watch now.

 

[That Fat Centre Half]

But those voting for it arent looking at the averages. They are looking at how it impacted THERE club, not an average across all clubs. That's the point of the voting system.

Also just to be clear, didn't go myself and would have preferred it to be a bit less but the attendance tonight isn't particularly great for us, especially for a semi final.

 

[Super_horns]

Probably a few "fair weather fans" in that too given it was a semi final..

Its why I think you would have take quite a few to the final even if a hard core of fans had boycotted.

 

[That Fat Centre Half]

We would have taken quite a few to the final but not a particularly spectacular amount I don't think.

The turn out for our last trip in the playoff final against York was disappointing and it certainly wouldn't have come close to touching what we took to the JPT final vs Scunny.

 

[Kenneth E End]

I can't begrudge Oxford that result last night and especially second half of the first half we seemed quite meek and out of rhythm. Came back into it second half definitely and probably just about deserved to go 2-2, albeit Oxford wasted a lot of opportunities at 2-1.

And it had to be someone called Marvin Johnson scoring to knock us out.

Was Danny Hylton's 20th goal of the season last night too - what a player.

 

[Kenneth E End]

We would have taken quite a few to the final but not a particularly spectacular amount I don't think.

The turn out for our last trip in the playoff final against York was disappointing and it certainly wouldn't have come close to touching what we took to the JPT final vs Scunny.

Bit of a bad comparison that - it was £20-£30 for most of the seats v Scunthorpe and it was our first trip to Wembley old or new in over 25 years.

The prices for that York game was £38-£45 plus admin fees!

 

[BigDaveCUFC]

I don't think you can blame fans going to Wembley.........fans unable to miss just 2-3 home midweek games with plenty of other games to go to is a different thing.

But shame Luton went out......to have seen them put a youth team out, live on sky in final and then got fined for doing so would have done more damage

 

[djs]

A disappointing 6000+ Luton fans tonight, what happened to the boycott?

The club put out a lengthy statement last week repeating their views on the competition, and acknowledging the majority of fans views as well. Then went on to say that the point had been clearly and effectively made, that consultations are being held regarding the future of the competition, and asking fans to support the club in last night's game, with entry at £10.

I didn't go though, nor did I go to early rounds. I know of other people who didn't go, but donated the equivalent of the entrance money to SOLYD.

 

[BigDaveCUFC]

Carlisle today has allowed its fans to take part of a survey to generate fans views on the competition.

IF you do not select their 'keep it the same as 16/17 format option they instantly ask you in (well my view) a very patronizing way how do you make up for the £1.8 million loss of income.

i just told my club to stop being greedy selfish money orientated sods and think about the fact that without it we'd never seen the old Wembley, new Wembley or Millenium stadium.......competition always was never ever about making money.

sadly its all clubs bother to even consider these days.

 

[ThisTinpotLeague]

Probably make the money back by having decent young players that you can sell instead of renting out your integrity to blood the Premier League youngsters. Not to mention the complete irrelevance of it all - if all clubs lose money then you're not going to be at much of a competitive disadvantage.

Out of interest, how do Luton fans feel about their manager? Sorry if that's an obvious question, haven't really followed.