Other Competitions

[Rich]

Most people will agree that the league is the most important competition to win but with big games coming up against Belfast in both the Challenge Cup and British Knockout Cup was just wondering how important people rate the other three competitions.

For me personally I'm in the same boat as most, I'd take winning the league over winning all the other domestic competitions put together. However any trophy is nice and I would hate to think Blaze would do anything that may sacrifice our chances in these competitions in order to improve our league chances.

[thfnick]

For me the importance of the PO's has been some what down graded due to the "2 games and your there" qualification stage. Nice to win though.

The CC used to be a really coverted competition. Going back to the old Norwich Union days it was the season opener, qualification over before the league started and done and dusted by early December. The final was often a one off game staged at a neutral venue and was packed - I recall being one of 8000 people at the NEC. Now it's a confusing mess with stupid entry rules, poor organisation and nothing but a money making scheme.

BNOC - Invented as a cash cow, continued as a cash cow. Waste of time. Zero importance.

[Dave]

Playoff's is second best and is a sweet way of ending the season.

[Claret & Blue Army]

Totally agree that the play offs have been over diluted with the current format. My favourite one was with the groups of three where each played each other 4 times. Think we had London and Nottingham and had some pretty memorable meetings in such a short space of time.
Can't see the point of the Knock out cup and the subbuteo like trophy pretty much sums it up.
The Challenge cup would benefit from being pre season and not stretched out as it is.

Somebody needs to re-examine the blueprint as the UK game is way too messy at the moment to gain credibility.