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I just seen Grimsby playing at home to Man Utd and the whole first team squad for Man Utd is playing or on the bench. Everton are at home to Mansfield tonight. Players such as Jack Grealish in Evertons team. Obviously, they coild both field a second team squad that could win these matches.but they dont.
As a club, we really should take the cup games seriously.
Its not as if we have been chasing any type of glory in the league.
The Cup games are our chance for a bit of fun and the fact that we throw these every.single season for actually no evident genuine reason at all, has been a disgrace over many many years.. Protecting players is clearly absolute tosh. They get injured in training or warm ups anyhow.
I hope when the FA Cup is on, we should play a first team squad.
Manchester United are doing this tonight against Grimsby away.
Its an insult and the club need to do better with this.
I hope this point is raised at the next fans forum as a weakened squad in the FA cup is only going one way.
Do i expect the club to take this on board - no i dont - not at all.
Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 10:50 - Aug 28 by Northernr
Grimsby owners here. Two local guys, bought the club on the bones of its arse in the Conference. Building the club back up with a focus and priority on building the support base, being part of their community and bringing joy to the town. Great manager as well.
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Why can’t this be us?
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Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 14:24 - Aug 28 with 1090 views
Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 09:31 - Aug 28 by eastside_r
I am no big fan of VAR but this reminded us of the ‘good old days’ where big clubs, especially ManU always got the marginal and contentious calls in their favour.
Yes but it still happens with VAR. Did you see Liverpool/Newcastle game? Newcastle (rightly) down to ten men, Konate already on a yellow pushes over Elliot who was running in on goal. No foul given. Should have been reviewed as I think he was the last man. Nothing. Liverpool win.
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Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 14:33 - Aug 28 with 1070 views
Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 14:24 - Aug 28 by nix
Yes but it still happens with VAR. Did you see Liverpool/Newcastle game? Newcastle (rightly) down to ten men, Konate already on a yellow pushes over Elliot who was running in on goal. No foul given. Should have been reviewed as I think he was the last man. Nothing. Liverpool win.
Fulham v Man Utd at the weekend had VAR giving a debatable penalty for Man Utd (Bassey was grappling with Mount, but was wrestling free from him). They then followed that up with VAR failing to highlight the obvious two handed push on Bassey which cleared him out the way and gave Utd a free header which led directly to the goal. VAR in the PL just seems to be someone in an office getting things wrong rather than the officials at the game. I would sooner just have the officials at the ground get it right/wrong and save everyone the complete buzz kill of having to wait around to find out what's happening. Especially when VAR seems to get as much wrong as it gets right.
Fulham FC: It's the taking part that counts
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Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 14:45 - Aug 28 with 1015 views
Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 14:33 - Aug 28 by Konk
Fulham v Man Utd at the weekend had VAR giving a debatable penalty for Man Utd (Bassey was grappling with Mount, but was wrestling free from him). They then followed that up with VAR failing to highlight the obvious two handed push on Bassey which cleared him out the way and gave Utd a free header which led directly to the goal. VAR in the PL just seems to be someone in an office getting things wrong rather than the officials at the game. I would sooner just have the officials at the ground get it right/wrong and save everyone the complete buzz kill of having to wait around to find out what's happening. Especially when VAR seems to get as much wrong as it gets right.
Totally. Even as a casual viewer of the Prem it's not fun seeing goals cancelled out by forensic examination of someone's toenail offside. Especially when bigger clubs get the decisions anyway.
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Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 15:05 - Aug 28 with 982 views
Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 14:45 - Aug 28 by nix
Totally. Even as a casual viewer of the Prem it's not fun seeing goals cancelled out by forensic examination of someone's toenail offside. Especially when bigger clubs get the decisions anyway.
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It's just the worst thing to ever happen to football, and the main reason why I don't want to go back to the Prem.
I'm just happy for us to win the occasional Championship football match
Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 14:45 - Aug 28 by nix
Totally. Even as a casual viewer of the Prem it's not fun seeing goals cancelled out by forensic examination of someone's toenail offside. Especially when bigger clubs get the decisions anyway.
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Some pundit remarked that the size of your boot can be the difference between being on and off. I should remember who it was as it’s a pertinent point. Big bloke - big feet - offside. Small bloke - smaller feet - onside.
Mess.
Did I ever mention that I was in Minder?
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Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 17:04 - Aug 28 with 775 views
The cups are our only realistic chance of getting European football back at Loftus Rd, too. There's so much a club like QPR could get out of taking cup football very seriously. A good run, generating much needed income. The possibility of going all the way to a final at Wembley in front of 80,000+ fans. And if the dream came true, as it did in 1967, European football back at Loftus Rd for the first time since the early 80s.
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Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 17:38 - Aug 28 with 698 views
Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 17:06 - Aug 28 by BushRanger82
The cups are our only realistic chance of getting European football back at Loftus Rd, too. There's so much a club like QPR could get out of taking cup football very seriously. A good run, generating much needed income. The possibility of going all the way to a final at Wembley in front of 80,000+ fans. And if the dream came true, as it did in 1967, European football back at Loftus Rd for the first time since the early 80s.
I could easily be wrong, but I don't think that you can enter European competitions now if you're not in the top league.
If I'm right, we would need to be promoted before winning the FA/League Cup to qualify.
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Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 19:44 - Aug 28 with 539 views
Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 17:38 - Aug 28 by terryb
I could easily be wrong, but I don't think that you can enter European competitions now if you're not in the top league.
If I'm right, we would need to be promoted before winning the FA/League Cup to qualify.
Modern football, that figures. Still, there's always the romance of a good cup run, quarter-final, semi-final, Final itself, and if won, no feeling like it! But no, that's not for us, just a miserable slog in the league, with a promotion maybe every decade, then back to the old routine. I was too young in '67. I was there in '82, and '86, and I wouldn't have missed those cup runs for the world.
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Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 22:48 - Aug 28 with 389 views
Amorim sounds like he’s getting the weekend out of the way, and then he’s gonna walk - ‘The players spoke really loud’ is him saying that the players are telling him ‘we’re not having you mate’.
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Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 22:53 - Aug 28 with 369 views
Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 22:48 - Aug 28 by Monkey_Roots
Amorim sounds like he’s getting the weekend out of the way, and then he’s gonna walk - ‘The players spoke really loud’ is him saying that the players are telling him ‘we’re not having you mate’.
Like they told Ten Haag, Solskjaer, Mourinho, Van Gaal, Moyes etc. Who are they having then, the bunch of prima donnas?
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Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 23:16 - Aug 28 with 322 views
for years QPR have struggled in cups, bad decisions, excuses but it is a mindset, one wonders how motivated the team is before going out onto the pitch? warnock hated cups and maybe that passed to team? a cup run can be revenue, glory, as said Grimsby faced a full man utd team, packed with big names, internationals and full house, live on tv and gave their all, and won. the joy on the fans faces , the noise the memories ! for us cup games seem as unimportant as friendlies. injuries? well we get em anyway, in training, league games whatever bookings /bans? they happen anyway . hopefully we take round THREE of the FA cup seriously cos, there is a danger of round ONE soon. and the fear of another vauxhall motors disaster.
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Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 10:18 - Aug 29 with 115 views
Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 22:48 - Aug 28 by Monkey_Roots
Amorim sounds like he’s getting the weekend out of the way, and then he’s gonna walk - ‘The players spoke really loud’ is him saying that the players are telling him ‘we’re not having you mate’.
Yeh the ITV interviewer really didn't pick up on that did he? He said it three separate occasions as well.
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Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 10:31 - Aug 29 with 79 views
Treating Cup Competitions Seriously on 10:17 - Aug 29 by themodfather
for years QPR have struggled in cups, bad decisions, excuses but it is a mindset, one wonders how motivated the team is before going out onto the pitch? warnock hated cups and maybe that passed to team? a cup run can be revenue, glory, as said Grimsby faced a full man utd team, packed with big names, internationals and full house, live on tv and gave their all, and won. the joy on the fans faces , the noise the memories ! for us cup games seem as unimportant as friendlies. injuries? well we get em anyway, in training, league games whatever bookings /bans? they happen anyway . hopefully we take round THREE of the FA cup seriously cos, there is a danger of round ONE soon. and the fear of another vauxhall motors disaster.
I'm pretty sure we hold the record for most exits at the 3rd round of the FA Cup,
If there was one thing I could ever want from those in charge, it would be to take these games seriously. I think it has to come from the club hierachy and the manager has to know they won't be under more pressure, doing it, though ironically now I think our current one is in a more difficult position as a result of not taking the game seriously.
I mean just winning 3 or 4 Cup games gives everyone a lift, even if the League form stays average. As manager it surely raises your profile, raises the profile of players, the club etc.
I realise I just said winning 4 Cup games, I apologise.
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