Opinion Non-Crows AFL 9

[Kane McGoodwin]

I've never known how to spell or pronounce Blicsavs

Pronounce i go with.... Blitz-arse

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

****ing Jobe Watson another who makes games less enjoyable with his mind numbing obvious comments.

 

[FullyBigKPro]

Finlayson in trouble

If Tex got 6 weeks for his comment, this should surely be the same.

Cant play moral equivalence here.

 

[MrBarry]

******* Jobe Watson another who makes games less enjoyable with his mind numbing obvious comments.

All those drugs have turned his brain into mayonnaise

 

[MrBarry]

If Tex got 6 weeks for his comment, this should surely be the same.

Cant play moral equivalence here.

The big difference is saying a racial slur to a player who is black and making a homophobic comment to someone who is straight. If it was an outwardly gay player I would agree 100%

 

[Sanders]

A rare occasion to disagree with you Sandy but FA Cup retains relevance and, as you allude to (I think), the latter rounds attract their best lineups. Teams DO want to win it genuinely because silverware is still the name of the game and managers live and die by it.

As another poster pointed out for those who can't win the league, it's the next best thing. Qualifying for Europe is more important commercially, but you don't see teams sacrificing a FA Cup qtr final to hopefully focus on Europe (plus winner qualifies for Europa League), there is no sense in that.

You said it yourself

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

All those drugs have turned his brain into mayonnaise

I don't think he was particularly smart to begin with... taking the drugs no questions confirmed it.

 

[Sanders]

If you win the FA Cup it's suddenly a competition worth celebrating

If you get knocked out Oh well, means that we can fully concentrate on the important games and at least our schedule isn't too cluttered

And the fixture meant you had to play the kids and save yourself for a league game against Luton on Wednesday

 

[whattagun07]

Oh, I'd love to be an Oscar Baker weiner. That is what I'd truly like to be. 'Cause if I were an Oscar Baker wiener, Everyone would be in love with...MEEEEEEEE

 

[Bay62]

Pronounce i go with.... Blitz-arse

So do we!

 

[footy4ever]

This commentator's curse comedy skit is comfortably the worst piece of television ever filmed

Cringe!!!!!

 

[FullyBigKPro]

The big difference is saying a racial slur to a player who is black and making a homophobic comment to someone who is straight. If it was an outwardly gay player I would agree 100%

Agree mate, but with the way things are now is that even if the actual player it was directed to isn't gay (and how would anyone know?) what if players who were around it heard it are?

I know its only alleged and let the proper process take its place, but just think its hard to rate them at different levels based on what you think is worse... should be all under the same anti discrim banner.

 

[CrowToon]

You said it yourself

Yes but Sandy that proves they care. The only reason they rotate earlier is just good squad management and gives young players/reserves a chance to play in the first team. They have multiple fixtures a week when cups get into the equation so it is just pragmatic.

 

[Sanders]

FA cup is not unimportant.

You’re utterly, unarguably wrong but that is an awesome gif!

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Freo should've iced that game, but what a crock of shit for a game to be decided like that. The worst part is that if it was the shoe was on the other foot, that never would've been paid.

 

[Slime Roy]

Never more uncomfortable than looking for something at Bunnings eh Jobe?
So I spose the Commentary Box just comes naturally then?!

 

[Sanders]

Yes but Sandy that proves they care. The only reason they rotate earlier is just good squad management and gives young players/reserves a chance to play in the first team. They have multiple fixtures a week when cups get into the equation so it is just pragmatic.

That makes no sense. it’s a knock out competition

They play the seconds because other fixtures are more important

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

For all those who don't think English is much of an upgrade on ROB...

 

[FullyBigKPro]

Now we have two Vic teams, watch the umpiring get alot more neutral....

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Never more uncomfortable than looking for something at Bunnings eh Jobe?
So I spose the Commentary Box just comes naturally then?!

I wish he was now locked in at Bunnings rather than listening to his painful comments.

Channel 7 must be brain dead if they think he adds to the game.

 

[Crow_68]

If you win the FA Cup it's suddenly a competition worth celebrating

If you get knocked out Oh well, means that we can fully concentrate on the important games and at least our schedule isn't too cluttered

You arrogant lot.

If we can avoid a 3rd Round defeat to powerhouses such as Histon, Sutton and Newport, it’s definitely worth celebrating.

 

[Pugsley]

I've never known how to spell or pronounce Blicsavs

I thought it was a German pub.

 

[Pugsley]

If Tex got 6 weeks for his comment, this should surely be the same.

Cant play moral equivalence here.

Fancy if player in question made a nasty remark about his wife.

 

[Sanders]

The answer is virtually no one.

Who cares about the FA Cup?

The FA Cup has become boring. An idea is that the winner could gain automatic qualification to the Champions League.

www.spectator.co.uk

Who cares about the FA Cup?​

• 6 January 2024, 6:00am

The third round of the FA Cup, underway this weekend, is one of the highlights of the football calendar – or so we are meant to think. Premier League and Championship clubs finally enter the fray, prompting breathless talk of part-time bricklayers and plumbers getting to test their skills against elite footballers paid millions. The tantalising prospect is held up of an elite manager – think Pep Guardiola of Manchester City – patrolling the touchline at some tiny lower league ground. This is all part and parcel of the endless hyperbole and romanticism surrounding this oldest of cup competitions, often accompanied by seemingly endless drooling over previous acts of ‘giant-killing’ in the competition. Much of this – if not quite all – is somewhat deluded football propaganda of a North Korean vintage. The usual suspects, the broadcasters paying to cover the games, the TV presenters and pundits, continue to insist on the ‘glory’ and ‘specialness’ of the cup. This merely camouflages a more unpalatable truth: the competition matters little to football’s big clubs and the money masters in charge of the game.

An automatic Champions League spot would make winning the FA Cup important once more

The third-round cup action got going on Thursday evening in the game between Crystal Palace and Everton at Selhurst Park. Did you know it happened? It is hard to think of a duller game. Both teams have played each other regularly in the Premier League over recent years, and even now it is hard to discern any particular rivalry. ITV chose to broadcast it on ITV4, which says it all. Another 31 – mostly dull fixtures – will take place between now and Monday. One ‘standout’ tie is Arsenal and Liverpool going head to head. Expect the word ‘mouth-watering’ to crop up. There will be much talk about ‘iconic’ cup finals between these two teams in the past – the Charlie George goal in 1971 and so on. Even the fact that Arsenal will wear an all-white kit at home for the first time in their 138-year history will somehow be brought into play (removing the red is part of the club’s campaign against knife crime and youth violence), proving only that even the FA Cup is not immune to football’s determination to signal its awareness of every wider social issue outside the game. None of this will serve to disguise the routine nature of the tie itself. The two teams played each other just before Christmas in the Premier League (a 1-1 draw), a much more important fixture altogether. Just don’t expect anyone involved to admit it though. Shades of North Korea again. Anyone who points out the obvious truth that the emperor has no clothes must be taken out and shot.

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Simply put, the FA Cup is a shadow of what it used to be, a competition in terminal decline. All the hyperbole in the world will not save it. Once upon a time, long, long ago, it was a prize of equal stature to winning the league and coverage of the final was ‘event television’ across the whole day. The game has moved on. The big clubs play the competition because they are obliged to. They see it as a way of utilising their squads and giving vital rest to key players, who must be saved for the much more important Premier League and European games.
Like so much in football it comes down to money. It is estimated that Manchester City, last season’s Treble winners, made more than £250 million pounds from winning the Premier League, the Champions League and the FA Cup: only some £4 million of that came from winning the cup final at Wembley. No prizes then for guessing which competitions matter the most. Those in charge of the Football Association need to address the dwindling relevance of their premier cup competition and soon. One way would be to increase substantially the prize pot so as to incentivise the big clubs to take it seriously again. An even more radical idea is to push for the FA Cup winners to be allowed automatic entry into the Champions League. At the moment the winners can land a place in certain and specific circumstances, if they have some European pedigree. That’s unfair, like so much in football, on some of the historically less successful teams. An automatic Champions League spot would make winning the FA Cup important once more. It might even save it.

 

[GROTTO]

Old overweight angry man living in the basement in England.

Lets post random articles supporting our claim.

Why the FA Cup is such an important part of the English football calendar

Jack Patmore discusses the tradition of the FA Cup and its continued importance in the football landscape.

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