Hope we field a strong side and dispatch either of the U21 sides. Obviously to progress but more importantly these sides devalue a great lower league competition. Since we first won the inaugural Freight Rover Trophy it has been a great opportunity for lower league teams to win silverware and step out at Wembley. WTF U21 teams bring to the competition baffles me.Would anyone turn up to a final or switch on the TV to watch should one of them reach the final ? Let the greedy gits in the Prem sort their own u21 game time exercises out and leave this cup for real clubs.
I don’t know how everybody else feels but to me it’s a bit humiliating playing a Premier League under 21 team ,they should never have been allowed in the competition. Hope we play our under 18 lads.
I agree with everyone who says that PL U21 sides should not be allowed to enter this competition.
A petition should be drawn up and sent to the EFL to show our annoyance of this.
I will be there when it is played and hope we play the strongest possible team we can, and hopefully we will knock the greedy bastards out of the competition.
Group games going to penalties and losers getting a point sounds like sports day at school.
U21s and U23s sides entering is a joke.
Removal of the regionalised aspect is stupid.
Scrapping of 2 legs for the semi/regional final is stupid.
A shadow of the comp I took great joy in us winning in 99
All EFL teams only,
Straight 1 game knockout,
Regionalised matches till the 1/4 finals,
In today’s climate replays and small league tables make no sense what so ever. Ffs we have to adjust to our current environment not make more games, it’s a joke