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Blades receive petty little "Tin Pot Cup" fine..

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Not sure how this cup works but aren't you out anyway.

 

Wasn't it some sort of group stage and united were out before the last game, making it even more meaningless.

 

Scrap it.

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Wasn't it some sort of group stage and united were out before the last game, making it even more meaningless.

 

Scrap it.

 

I am assuming we are out, but I don't know.

I think we ended up with 4 points.

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We do accept the fine, even though we have firm grounds to appeal against it.

 

We had rights to withdraw from league competition due to having 3 or more players on international duty, for whatever reason this doesn't apply for this competition.

 

I stand by what we did and at no point haven't we accepted the fine, as you say...If you break a rule you pay the fine.

 

That doesn't however mean that we have to accept rules of the pathetic competition in the first place does it? The competition was a mockery before that offered little financial benefit and merely added to an already congested fixture list therefore to allow academy teams into the competition and congest things further in absolutely ridiculous.

 

Thankfully fans have been standing by their word and voting with their feet. Hopefully a combination of poor attendances and clubs blatantly breaking the rules will force a rethink. Not just for us because fingers crossed we do enough to not have to worry about the competition next season anyway, however for the other teams in league one and two and for football in general.

 

There is incentive but not much. You get nearly the same prize money as you get for winning the FA cup but that is because the PL stumped up the extra cash.

 

That said it it is potentially the PL giving the money back to themselves if any of any of their under 21's make it to the final. Also there are no rules saying senior players could not play for the 21's clubs, so that makes the competition even more of a joke.

 

Awful idea and the sooner its scrapped the better.

 

Also going off topic but something needs to be done by the FA and FIFA to stop clubs stockpiling young players like Italian clubs do.

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