Popular Post Lime Tree Heros Posted November 13, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted November 13, 2022 Whilst the Premier League and Championship are suspended during international breaks, Leagues 1 and 2 aren't, but teams can have league matches postponed if 3 or more players are called up. So with 27 of the 32 World Cup squads announced, how many Championship players are going? 21 Only 1 club has 3 players called up (Swansea) all the rest have 1 or 2 - 10 teams have no call ups at all. So it seems to me suspending the Championship for the duration of the World Cup is a fairly pointless overreaction and simply the FA creating a huge problem for itself. Sure Swansea should be allowed to postpone their games and games should be rescheduled to avoid England World Cup matches - but other than that the Championship should go ahead. Just another example of how out of touch the FA are with fans. 12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyonedavidhirst Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 3 minutes ago, Lime Tree Heros said: Whilst the Premier League and Championship are suspended during international breaks, Leagues 1 and 2 aren't, but teams can have league matches postponed if 3 or more players are called up. So with 27 of the 32 World Cup squads announced, how many Championship players are going? 21 Only 1 club has 3 players called up (Swansea) all the rest have 1 or 2 - 10 teams have no call ups at all. So it seems to me suspending the Championship for the duration of the World Cup is a fairly pointless overreaction and simply the FA creating a huge problem for itself. Sure Swansea should be allowed to postpone their games and games should be rescheduled to avoid England World Cup matches - but other than that the Championship should go ahead. Just another example of how out of touch the FA are with fans. Agree, though I don't think that if they did go ahead with the fixtures Swansea would want to miss too many and have to catch say 3-4 games up. However, if they have the choice to postpone but aren't made to then that seems fair to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradowl Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 Most of those 21 players will be heading home after group stages have finished. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleo Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 Gives em all a chance to get down to S6 and see some proper footy. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeyswfc Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 When you reel off that only 1 side has 3 call ups it doesn’t seem a bit redundant to pause the Championship. But since we aren’t in it, meh. Maybe the local non league sides will do well out of it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 I wouldn’t be happy if i supported a team that had two key players missing for 4 or 5 games and had to play teams with no one missing though! here is a novel idea: hold the World Cup in the summer 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The coach Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 Dosnt affect us..who cares 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latemodelchild Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 I think it restarts on the 11th December? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nero Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 6 hours ago, The coach said: Dosnt affect us..who cares But we shouldn't be in league 1 etc etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcguigan Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 10 hours ago, Lime Tree Heros said: Whilst the Premier League and Championship are suspended during international breaks, Leagues 1 and 2 aren't, but teams can have league matches postponed if 3 or more players are called up. So with 27 of the 32 World Cup squads announced, how many Championship players are going? 21 Only 1 club has 3 players called up (Swansea) all the rest have 1 or 2 - 10 teams have no call ups at all. So it seems to me suspending the Championship for the duration of the World Cup is a fairly pointless overreaction and simply the FA creating a huge problem for itself. Sure Swansea should be allowed to postpone their games and games should be rescheduled to avoid England World Cup matches - but other than that the Championship should go ahead. Just another example of how out of touch the FA are with fans. Wouldn’t it have been an EFL decision rather than FA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteOwl91 Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 Imagine if we had to play without Bannan, Smith and Windass for example for a month whilst other teams lost no one? That would be extremely unfair. It might only be 1 or 2 teams impacted but it would completely dent the integrity of the competition 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteOwl91 Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 To add, it also wouldn’t be fair to subject that club to a fixture pile up at the end of the season either when no one else does Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sham67 Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 I hate it when people lazily conflate the FA and the EFL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fudge27 Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 19 hours ago, Bazza said: I wouldn’t be happy if i supported a team that had two key players missing for 4 or 5 games and had to play teams with no one missing though! here is a novel idea: hold the World Cup in the summer It's a world Cup. Our seasons and time zones aren't the only people who matter. It stinks that Qatar and Russia before got the world Cup, but as fans we can't love football cos its the world's game then get the ******** in cos it doesn't fit our schedule once in a generation 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncanidaho Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 the cricket season carries on without players who are playing in Test teams. the rugby premiership carries in while the 6 nations and autumn internationals take place. we keep getting told football is about squads and that teams should be allowed to play whoever they want to from competition to competition. so why not have competitions carry on during the world cup? maybe teams could use the players they loaned out and some of the benchwarmers they buy to stop other teams buying them. it's 28 days, 4 weekends and that is only for the teams who go deep into the competition so live with it. besides, the england players will be all back in a fortnight anyway... 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beighton Owl 87 Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 Could probably half that number of Championship players if Wales hadn't qualified. No reason whatsoever for the championship to pause. Could say same about the Scottish Premiership but at the time the decision was made they could've still qualified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinburghowl Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 4 minutes ago, Beighton Owl 87 said: Could probably half that number of Championship players if Wales hadn't qualified. No reason whatsoever for the championship to pause. Could say same about the Scottish Premiership but at the time the decision was made they could've still qualified. Some squads are missing quite a few players so for me there should be a break. I think it’s right that the Championship and Scottish Premiership are having a break otherwise it’s unfair on the clubs that have players missing. There’s always a break in first team fixtures during these tournaments. Why change it? In Scotland Celtic would be missing 4 from their starting XI and Hearts 3 if there was no break. That’s quite a chunk for both. And like you say it would have been more if Scotland had qualified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morganowl Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 the only way to stop nonsense like this is hit them in the pocket . its almost pointless having sky sports etc upto xmas if supporters said no football i want 6 weeks credit they would soon change there mind. luckily this dont effect us just the 1 good reason we are in league 1 plus we get saturday 3pm games which in the championship if your doing well you dont play very often at that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspector Lestrade Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 If what the OP is saying is true then I completely agree with him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyboy66 Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 If it means dem blades will be playing three matches a week to catch up I'm all for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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