FA Cup replays scrapped

fritter said:
How about the lower placed team (when the draw is made) are the home team. Always.
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Mute point with no crowds, but gate receipts revenue would see lower league sides and non league sides would prefer it to be the other way round.
 
DJ said:
Mute point with no crowds, but gate receipts revenue would see lower league sides and non league sides would prefer it to be the other way round.
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My immediate thought too, though if there are no crowds allowed, there wont be the gate so let them host in their little grounds
 
As much as I am against any seeding system in the FA Cup, the fact it exists in the League Cu means we should be able to (slightly) mitigate the no replay by forcing all fixtures to be played at lower seeded teams ground

edit: after all, we've let teams give up home advantage for bigger gate receipts in the past, so the genie is clearly out of the bottle
 
We don't tend to figure in replays....we are normally eliminated by half-time.

Hopefully that will change ...unless the players feel that 46 games will be enough for what they are paid !
Its difficult to gauge the mentality of most modern players....what they see as important in their overall outlook...other than Money.
 
RobTrent said:
The top 4 will be given automatic byes to the. semi-finals.
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With a stipulation that on reaching the final neither of the managers should bother wearing a suit for the occasion and that at least one absurdly rewarded player shall be able to drop the trophy , with everyone laughing about it rather than seeing it as disrespectful....
 
Brian Hutchings said:
We don't tend to figure in replays....we are normally eliminated by half-time.

Hopefully that will change ...unless the players feel that 46 games will be enough for what they are paid !
Its difficult to gauge the mentality of most modern players....what they see as important in their overall outlook...other than Money.
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Not just the players - our management don’t seem to care either , sticking out a cobbled together unmotivated and indifferent team .

Or was that in the league the last eighteen months ?
 
That's good. Miss the days when ties would go to 3/4 replays. So much more interesting in those days.

1971 saw the longest tie in Cup history. Oxford City and Alvechurch played 6 games for a total of 660 minutes.
 
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