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FA Cup Distraction

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Why would you not want the FA Cup? How else are clubs like Villa going to win anything? I would be genuinely angry at Lambert if I was a Villa fan, incredible negativity, he is basically saying we neet to concentrate on staying up!

In terms of a distraction - why? They are not midweek games to congest fixtures they are the same distance apart as league fixtures so not causing any extra workload.

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allen said:
Well, I'd say you've got nothing to worry about based on his performance in the cup last season, wouldn't you?
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Apples and pears. Because of our league position there is a temptation to view the cup as a distraction; whereas at Wigan it may have been seen as a launch pad to get league form going again.
 
davek said:
Apples and pears. Because of our league position there is a temptation to view the cup as a distraction; whereas at Wigan it may have been seen as a launch pad to get league form going again.
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That's not an easy viewpoint to argue. Staying in the Premier League - for any side - is more important than getting into Europe.
 
Clubs are more interested in staying in the PL than getting into the Europa which is a dogsh## competition in all honesty. Fixtures can be congested if there are replays, especially for teams who are in Europe already.

Give the winner a chance of the champions league, it will reinvigorate the whole competition and imagine how it would be for lower league teams, someone like Milwall for example with an opportunity like that!
 

its the Villa fans I feel very sorry for - this sort of small time mentality from their manager must be frustrating (well, we should know with our knives to gunfights) - massive club who deserve much much better.
 
technojoe said:
I'd love to win that again! It's a prestigous prize indeed plus I don't think any manager has won it with two different clubs, Roberto.......???
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Googled this (had no idea myself) and apparently he'd be the third:

Roberto Martinez, who led Wigan to their unlikely triumph last season before becoming Everton's manager, starts his quest to become only the third manager to win the trophy with two different clubs when Everton play Queens Park Rangers at Goodison Park.

No one has achieved that feat since Billy Walker steered Nottingham Forest to glory in 1959 having previously won it with Sheffield Wednesday in 1935. Herbert Chapman won the trophy with Arsenal and Huddersfield Town.

from: http://articles.timesofindia.indiat...4_1_mk-dons-oldham-athletic-huddersfield-town

Regardless, I'd take it!
 
WarwickHunt said:
Clubs are more interested in staying in the PL than getting into the Europa which is a dogsh## competition in all honesty. Fixtures can be congested if there are replays, especially for teams who are in Europe already.

Give the winner a chance of the champions league, it will reinvigorate the whole competition and imagine how it would be for lower league teams, someone like Milwall for example with an opportunity like that![/QUOTE]

Which is why unfortunately the FA will never go for it.
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I think Lambert has displayed a mental flaw there. I think tomorrow's game is probably one a lot of teams could do without. I don't see why he's worried to be honest. Villa aren't gonna get relegated or get Europe. I'd be absolutely devastated if I was a Villa fan hearing that....
 
I think if Lambert actually believes that the FA cup has no value or he would rather not be in it, then he is in the wrong job. A manager should want to win every competition their club are in. I am not saying its possible, but that should be the ultimate aim and for a club like Aston Villa, it is a chance of actually winning something. I know Villa are concerned more with survival, but there are 18 games remaining, 54 possible points, that they could get and they are mid table!

I would be angry if our manager took this view of the FA cup, at the end of all of the season I would rather have a trophy and an open top bus parade, than 5th place, no one is going to remember where you finished in the league 5 years down the line, let alone in 50 years!
 
njligernj said:
Googled this (had no idea myself) and apparently he'd be the third:

Roberto Martinez, who led Wigan to their unlikely triumph last season before becoming Everton's manager, starts his quest to become only the third manager to win the trophy with two different clubs when Everton play Queens Park Rangers at Goodison Park.

No one has achieved that feat since Billy Walker steered Nottingham Forest to glory in 1959 having previously won it with Sheffield Wednesday in 1935. Herbert Chapman won the trophy with Arsenal and Huddersfield Town.

from: http://articles.timesofindia.indiat...4_1_mk-dons-oldham-athletic-huddersfield-town

Regardless, I'd take it!
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If I remember rightly no manager has ever won it back to back with different clubs. So there's the potential to do that as a first. Be boss if we could win the FA cup at Roberto's first attempt for us. It's been a season of firsts so far, so why not!
 
We'd all love it if we won it.Hope we play a full strength team but we'll prob make a few changes. Alot of the time teams make too many changes resting players then they fall a goal or two behind and end up bringing on the players they have rested chasing the game.

WarwickHunt said:
You want the FA Cup to be magical again? Take away 4th place and give it to the FA Cup winner instead. Now every club will want a piece of it.
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Would definitely make it more interesting but would never happen because the winners often qualify through their league position anyway, and then you'd end up with the runners up in the Champions league(Millwall,Cardiff etc),unless the rule was if the winner had already qualified the Champions league place went to 4th place.
 

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