Re: EFL Trophy
 

[QUOTE=Exile on Spencer St;1173604]On the BBC sport web site tonight it claims Pompey fans have voted to walk out of their games after kick off so to show what they think of the new format but without penalising their club's finances.

the other thing to is is not bother to turn up in the first place. if you normally go to these games as i do and you feel you are robbing the club of money donate your match admission cost to the club or do as i am going to do, buy 50/50 draw tickets up to the value of admission at the next home game.

Re: EFL Trophy
 

The trophy do new name is the checkatrade trophy

Re: EFL Trophy
 

the trophy should have been sponsored by primark.

Re: EFL Trophy
 

Being associated with this could do more harm to Checkatrade than a dozen dodgy plumbers.

Re: EFL Trophy
 

According to the bloke who dreamed it up, the revamped Paint Pot Trophy has been a great success.
6 of the 16 Category A clubs (i.e. mainly foreign owned global businesses) that were invited to join in refused to do so.
Half of the 16 (almost) Category A teams failed to qualify from their groups.
Average attendances were down from 3,221 to 1,404 (-56%) with only 274 watching West Brom B (or should that be 'almost A') against Gillingham.

Oh, but sponsorship money was up, so that's the benchmark for success, I guess.

As previously said, I'm staggered a business like Checkatrade, which is or should be all about trust and honest reviews, had anything to do with it.

Re: EFL Trophy
 

a trophy that should have been sponsored by some dodgy pay day loan firm or a back street money lender. the arthur daley memorial trophy could have done nice.

Re: EFL Trophy
 

Cheltenham are voting in favour of the format change