Checkatrade will have Development Teams again! (1 Viewer)

Nick · May 12, 2017

Apparently it's been voted for the U21 teams to be in it again next year.

Checkatrade Trophy: Under-21 teams to remain in revised competition

Changes made though to the rules:

Third-tier and fourth-tier clubs are now able to choose any goalkeeper and only four starting outfield players now have to be "qualifying first-team players", while invited sides need to have six under-21 players in their starting line-up.

hill83 · May 12, 2017

I want us knocked out of this at the earliest opportunity next season. Concentrate on the league.
Or win it.

ccfcway · May 12, 2017

to be fair, at least they have made some amends.

no PL team to play at home, relaxed selection process for FL teams etc

oldskyblue58 · May 12, 2017

so basically the Premier League and EFL want it to continue so the prize money goes up 50% to make it happen. Few L1 & L2 teams are going to turn down extra cash

All about the money as usual........ but it worked for us last season, cant imagine where we would be without it !

Skyblueweeman · May 12, 2017

Not ideal but the clubs want it and if it does help bring extra coffers to the purse, then surely that's a good thing.

I'm will hill83...the league is total priority this season but we're in the competition so lets see how far we get to retaining it and getting some more cash in the pot.

Nick · May 12, 2017

I'll still go, just so if we get to the final I can still be morally superior.*

*And because I like watching CCFC play. (sometimes)

covcity4life · May 12, 2017

Leagie and cup double next year!

ccfcway · May 12, 2017

oldskyblue58 said:
so basically the Premier League and EFL want it to continue so the prize money goes up 50% to make it happen. All about the money as usual........

this could well be the plan. Languish in the lower leagues for the next 20 seasons, watch the PL keep putting the prize money up by 50% each year and in 2040, boom, we win the trophy again and sisu leave with the £100m prize money in their pockets

Esoterica · May 12, 2017

These changes are certainly an improvement on last year's format: more money, U21s only playing away, relaxed the 'qualifying players' rule but I doubt this is enough to dissuade anyone who is against the U21 team inclusions.

Nick · May 12, 2017

Surely city fans won't have an issue with it? Bit late for the B Team boycott stuff to come back out again.

Liquid Gold · May 12, 2017

boooo

hill83 · May 12, 2017

Nick said:
Surely city fans won't have an issue with it? Bit late for the B Team boycott stuff to come back out again.

I have an issue with it. I didn't go to any of the games last year at all, not even league games and I went to the final. And I would do the same again.
Don't give a fuck.

Saying that though, I won't be pretending it was a boycott either.

Nick · May 12, 2017

hill83 said:
Saying that though, I won't be pretending it was a boycott either.

There's the difference!

"don't want to watch shite" is a bit different to "I am doing this to stand my ground against the evil people and do what's right for fellow fans (ps, please like and retweet)"

hill83 · May 12, 2017

Nick said:
There's the difference!

"don't want to watch shite" is a bit different to "I am doing this to stand my ground against the evil people and do what's right for fellow fans (ps, please like and retweet)"

Yeah I know.

#pretendboycott2k18boysontourOIOI

Nick · May 12, 2017

hill83 said:
Yeah I know.

#pretendboycott2k18boysontourOIOI

I hope you manage to defeat Skeletor.

sw88 · May 12, 2017

Only good thing about this is the fact we found a competition we were good at

letsallsingtogether · May 12, 2017

sw88 said:
Only good thing about this is the fact we found a competition we were good at

And as we are now league 2 maybe they will all field weaker sides and we sneak up in stealth mode.

Skyblueweeman · May 12, 2017

letsallsingtogether said:
And as we are now league 2 maybe they will all field weaker sides and we sneak up in stealth mode.

To be fair, we were pretty much L2 when we lifted it.

SBAndy · May 12, 2017

Why is it only a requirement for these u21 teams to field 6 u21s? Surely the whole thing should be u21s. Seen Bojan and Peter Crouch played in it last season for Stoke.

ccfc92 · May 12, 2017

Well the format gave us an easier route to the final last year, so same again would be nice.

League more important though, imo.

CJ_covblaze · May 12, 2017

I'm as pissed off as when they announced it last year. Will have the same stance too. Will only go when the U21/23s are all out or to the final if a L1/2 play one and hope there's 30k+ in one end and hardly anyone at the other.

Ashdown · May 12, 2017

Not a great move, as many others have said if Swansea under 23's had been at Wembley against Leicester Under 21's or whatever you would have been lucky to scrape a crowd of 10,000.

Brighton Sky Blue · May 12, 2017

Just think it's embarrassing to be used as practice fodder for the kiddies of the top flight and Championship.

CJ_covblaze · May 12, 2017

Been doing some digging. This is how the voting has gone. 11 voted to get rid of the U21/23 teams but 1 of those is unknown. The PR states 2 thirds voted in favour of keeping it but it's not known if Sheffield United, Bolton, Hartlepool and Orient all got a vote. Knowing the FL it wouldn't surprise me if they did but Lincoln, Rotherham, Wigan and Blackburn didn't!

Voted for U21/23:
Cambridge
Carlisle
Coventry
Doncaster
Luton
Stevenage
Wycombe

Against U21/23:
Bristol Rovers
Chesterfield
Exeter
Northampton
Oxford
Plymouth
Portsmouth
Shrewsbury
Walsall
Wimbledon

Not declared:
Accrington
Barnet
Blackpool
Bolton
Bradford
Bury
Charlton
Cheltenham
Colchester
Crawley
Crewe
Fleetwood
Gillingham
Grimsby
Hartlepool
Leyton Orient
Mansfield
Millwall
MK
Morecambe
Newport
Notts County
Oldham
Peterborough
Port Vale
Rochdale
Scunthorpe
Sheffield United
Southend
Swindon
Yeovil

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