Welsh League Cup

[Smurph]

What positives this brings us?!

We’d be playing in Europe… would be able to attract far higher quality players than probably most of our championship counterparts because of that.

I’d imagine it would bring in extra revenue - if the competition money goes to the FAW - I don’t think they’d be taking our extra sponsorship deals etc

I’d love more European adventures!

You make some fair points.

Attracting higher quality players remains to be seen based on the possibility of playing in Europe. We still need to win the competition and then get through the qualifying rounds and offer competitive wages.

To get to the group stages we would need to play eight games. In the group that is an extra six games. How and when are we going to play all these extra games?

In terms of extra revenue we would need a marketing team capable in attracting extra sponsors.

I'm all up for an European tour, is it really worth the hassle?

 

[jack_lord]

My thoughts are we shouldn't be entertaining this. We can't have our cake and eat it.
There were plenty of people who were pissed off when we played in Europe after winning the League Cup and those same people are pissed off because we might be able to play in Europe under the Dragon.
We play in the Football league. That is our bread and butter. That is the bed in which we lye. fuck those bigots who have a go at us because we are a Welsh club when they are happy enough to see us defending the country.
We have earned the right to play in Europe under the Football pyramid and those who criticize us for trying to qualify in the Welsh cup are right unless of course we left the football pyramid and played in the Welsh league.
Incidentally, if we did play in the Welsh cup, TNS would probably beat us.

 

[ARQS]

I'm not sure we'll particularly be able to attract a higher quality of player on anything near enough a regular basis to make this worthwhile.

Bearing in mind we actually need to qualify for this thing in the first place which, in reality, we'd be lucky to once every 3 or 4 years or so...

Firstly they'll go where the money is which isn't here.

Secondly, would they be particularly seduced by the prospect of exiting before the group stages to the side that finishes 3rd in Croatia or whatever.

Thirdly, it's all very well and good going to glamorous places in western Europe but the thought of going to Kazakhstan, deep Russia, etc on a Thursday and then having to go straight to Rotherham ready for a league game would, I imagine, put a lot of players off too.