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GrimRob
July 4, 2015, 6:32pm

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The FA Trophy final has been moved until the week after the play-off finals. However the semi finals are in March, so potentially a team could reach the final of the FAT and then qualfy again for Wembley via the play-offs before they had even played there in the Trophy. Not sure what that could do for ticket sales!

Yet another reason no to bother with it IMHO.


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Play theReserve team !!!!!
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Play the reserves but when we win the title we'll have one hell of a party in the capital.
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We have strength  in depth this season,

So play the 3 young lads with the ones who have not played many league games,

We could still win it.


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Hopefully with the return of the reserve team as well the young lads will be more prepared for senior action when the Trophy comes around.
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Hopefully with the return of the reserve team as well the young lads will be more prepared for senior action when the Trophy comes around.


PH showed no inclination to play our "reserves" in the FAT last season. The reality is we don't have enough registered players for a proper reserve team - we are not Arsenal. I know we'll play reserve fixtures but in those we can pad our team with trialists and unregistered youth players to make up an XI. You need 18 players for an FAT game.


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I've always had mixed feelings about the FA Trophy.

Teams like Cambridge and York have proved that you can take it seriously, win it, and still get promoted.

Other teams have sacked it off and won the league.

I want us to go out and win every match, no matter what the competition (especially if I've paid to go and watch it). I wouldn't ever accept less.

But I do wonder if it's a distraction. The difficulty is that it's hard to prove one way or the other.


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Get Tranmere away first round. Lose.


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Quoted from RichMariner
I've always had mixed feelings about the FA Trophy.

Teams like Cambridge and York have proved that you can take it seriously, win it, and still get promoted.

Other teams have sacked it off and won the league.

I want us to go out and win every match, no matter what the competition (especially if I've paid to go and watch it). I wouldn't ever accept less.

But I do wonder if it's a distraction. The difficulty is that it's hard to prove one way or the other.



Other teams have sacked it off and not won the league.
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Other teams have sacked it off and not won the league.


True. Although most of the other teams you're talking about never were in with a real shout of winning the league in the first place.
Too many postponed games in this league as it is without worrying about squeezing extra F.A trophy games in.


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