Sean Dyche and Paul Cook

You said Cook and his staff ‘had rekindled your love for the game’ you can’t be that serious.

What a load of bloody shite!

Jr I was one of those that refused to go the other night. It might have only been a token gesture but I felt I needed to show my disdain for the way a competition designed for lower division clubs has been used to help premier league clubs who wouldn’t lift a finger to help a lower club if they were in trouble.

It’s the first time I can remember that I’ve actually chosen to miss a home match. Hopefully it’s the last but if we draw another such team later in the competition I will do the same again. I generally enjoy watching our youngsters even in pre season friendlies and I’ll be at the Accy match.

It’s a point of principle like the twentys plenty campaign. But that failed because those that talked about not paying more than 20 quid ended up doing and defeated their own campaign.

Look at what I said on the Quiet Again thread and look at what I said on this one and there is no discrepancy. My protest is against under 21 teams. Not lower division teams. Accrington have a genuine right to be in the competition. Boro and others don’t. The difference between me and you is that I follow up on what I say. If I said I wasn’t going to pay more than 20 quid I wouldn’t turn around and pay more than 20 odd quid. If I said I was sending my season ticket back I would send it back if I truly believed in what I said. I said I will boycott under 21 teams. I did and I’ll carry on doing it.

We both know you can’t say you’ve stuck to what you’ve said. Weak and hypocritical.

Hands up. You’ve got me there. I just don’t want to miss out on the glory of being there on the night that we could qualify for the knockout stage of the Checkatrade.com. Maybe I could sneak in as a concession and not have to fork out a tenner. After all ten’s plenty. Isn’t It?

But Boro under 23’s are probably as good if not better than most league 2 teams. It was a great test for the team PC played. It’s not like it was a team full of kids, there are many under 23’s playing first team football in all 4 English leagues. You need to stop focussing too much on the opposition and think about it being a competitive match involving the team you support. I couldn’t give a flying fek who we played, it’s totally irrelevant in the scheme of things. Middlesbrough u23’s or Exeter City if they run out onto the DW pitch, I want the tics to beat them and will be there to cheer um on.

That’s fine. Absolutely no problem with that.
But please, do not come back if/when we reach the final with thoughts about it.
By all means boycott the tournament. And that includes all the games, Accrington included.
I disagree with boycotts; as JR says if a Latics team are playing I’m there, I’ll never boycott them, but I fully respect your right to view things differently.
But please keep consistent.

Perhaps we are back at a level where Mick Mouse cups do matter. Lets not get a Johnny by Bollux attitude. Its something we could win without risking any first teamers and jeopardising our assault on promotion. Anyway your loss, was a great game and gave some youngsters a chance to taste some competitive action. People moan that we don’t give the young uns a chance and the same people don’t want to go and support them. We will agree to disagree, I’ve already got my Stanley game tickets and looking forward to the match. I’ll keep those posted who choose not to attend, on the progress of the academy boys and first team fringers.

I will be at the Crawley game next week.

I bet a lot won’t bother. But I will be there.

Incidentally, JRFATFAN, I am glad they won and glad young Victor got a goal. But no, I won’t be going to any of these games. My choice. And nothing wrong with thinking a bit bigger. Blackburn are coming today and theyve been talking about us like we are bumpkins the last week….so maybe we need to big ourselves up a bit? We need to be a bit more arrogant as a club as even when we win, like at Blackpool, the opposition give us no credit. It cheeses me off.