Is the League cup a waste of time?

[Iorfa]

McGeough slams cup format

Waterford United manager Jimmy McGeough has slammed the format of the League Cup, which gathers pace tonight (Tuesday) when his side host First Division Limerick FC at the Regional Sports Centre.

The Blues are flying high in the Premier Division having taken nine points from their first five games, their only defeats coming at the hands of big two Shelbourne and Bohemians.

But McGeough, who has one of the Premier Division’s smallest squads at his disposal, feels that the League Cup is a meaningless competition, and that it would have been better suited by a knock-out format rather than the current system, which sees 24 teams compete in eight round-robin groups before the quarter-finalists are decided.

McGeough told the Irish Sun: “Nothing can be gained from this competition. I don’t mean to degrade it but it is meaningless. You can’t get into Europe [from it] and I just don’t think there’s any value in it at all.

“I don’t have a big panel so why risk serious injury to players? I’ll give my under-21s a chance because I don’t want them twiddling their thumbs or getting disillusioned.”

www.eleven-a-side.com


Should it be transformed into an under-21 tournament?

[pete]

Originally posted by Liam O'Maonlai
I don’t have a big panel so why risk serious injury to players? I’ll give my under-21s a chance because I don’t want them twiddling their thumbs or getting disillusioned.”

He criticised & also justified a use of the tournament in the same article.

McGeough seems to be getting to be a bit of moaner now he up in the Premier.

[Iorfa]

Ah jaysis, he's always been an auld moaner, now he has a platform though

[EireBadBoy]

That statement has been lifted from an Aul Paper McGeough has found lying about.............
straight from the English Premier school of PR!!

Or is he justifying playing the U-21's???

[techs]

leasgue cup is great for the use of young talent. thats a good enough excuse to have it played

[Ash]

I don’t mean to degrade it but it is meaningless.
Classic

The league cup is a bit of a farce, unless Athlone Town win it,
then it will be the most coveted of trophies in Europe

Bring back the Division 1 Cup

[sadloserkid]

Leave it as it is. It's a great chance for smaller clubs to be in with a chance of winning a trophy, alá us.

[EireBadBoy]

And Us too..................

[goalside]

if the winner of the league cup qualifyed for europe it would be taken seriously.

[TommyT]

Depends how big a squad you have and whether or not your in Europe. Was McGeogh so dismissive of it when Waterford were in the 1st ?

[ramsie]

its good for the small clubs like us we get bigger crowds than league games for it which is a nice bit of money.

[The Sheliban]

As a so called "big club", the League Cup is really a means of keeping our fringe players happy. We have the League, the Cup and Europe, which means a minimum of 39 games a season, so why should we risk Jason Byrne getting injured in the League Cup?