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Season 2016/17 - Changes afoot!!
There will be the return of a Winter break (2 week) and more interestingly there are big changes to the League Cup format.
The season will start in July and there will initially be group matches to see who enters the last 16 of the Cup.
Teams in European action will receive a bye into the last 16.
There will also be representitives in the competion from the Highland and Lowland league winners.
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Re: Season 2016/17 - Changes afoot!!
Just read that no game in the group stages will finish a draw.
If it's a draw at the end of the 90 there will be a penalty shoot-out,and the winner of the said shoot-out will win a 'bonus' point.Presumablt that means the losing side will still receive 1 point for drawing the match in the 90 mins.
Bit radical but i suppose the competition did need freshened up.
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Need to do something to liven the league cup up, group stages will be good for lower league teams income, don't think the premier teams fans will flock to them in massive numbers tho.
Good idea IMO tho to try something different.
Winter break of 2 weeks is just for old firm to head abroad and make money. If it was a real winter break it would be st least a month.
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Re: Season 2016/17 - Changes afoot!!
Agree that the winter break is a waste of time, when exactly is our winter FFS?
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Re: Season 2016/17 - Changes afoot!!
The winter break only being 2 weeks is daft.
Either make it a full month at least or what's the point?
The last time we had the winter break the weather was decent during it and then horrific after it.Think Utd never played at home for about 2 months and in the end we had a massive back-log of games.Did we not play something ridiculous like 4 games in 10 or 11 days or something like that at one point?
Totally flawed concept in a country with weather as unpredictable as Scotland.
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Re: Season 2016/17 - Changes afoot!!
SlatefordArab wrote:
, when exactly is our winter FFS?
September - May it seems to be
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Thought about the LC restructure again: the group games were mostly very poorly attended last time round, especially towards the last rounds of games when they were meaningless. It may be a novelty on the first re-run again, but I can't see it being a long running success.
The group set up ran for about thirty years previously, and it was tired and unappealing by the end. Though I think it was binned not because the authorities realised a change was needed, but because Scottish Premier teams (well, the OF) complained of having too many fixtures. They'd gone from 34 to 36 in a league season a couple of years before the LC format was changed.
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