| Extra Time/Player Welfare 12:09 - Jan 12 with 722 views | JohnBurkeQPR |
My first post on this forum (sort of) – I did post regularly on here around ten years ago when I was a teenager and most likely had terrible opinions about QPR and football in general. I am re-joining as I just cannot stand the toxicity of Twitter/X anymore (for anyone who saw a mental case betting on Lyndon Dykes to score a hattrick every week – that was me), so have deleted the app, but still need somewhere to discuss/vent!
I really enjoyed yesterday’s game and do not have a bad word to say about any of the team – each one left it all out there. What I do have a bad word to say about, is the mismanagement of the cup format from the FA.
In a so-called bid to ‘protect player welfare’ the FA have scrapped 3rd round replays. So, my question is, why have they not removed extra time, like they have done in the League Cup?
By the end of that match in normal time, I said to all my friends around me we would lose in extra time, because:
1) Our players were dead on their feet
2) West Ham have multi-million-pound players to bring off the bench, whilst we have our development squad (no criticism of them, they all did well when they came on)
Low and behold, West Ham’s quality eventually shone through and we did not overly challenge in second half of ET.
I just didn’t see it as fair at all. A lower league team go away to a Premier League team and go man for man, drawing the game in normal time. What were we rewarded with? Not an electric replay under the lights at Loftus Road, not a 50/50 chance of going through via penalties, but 30 more minutes of football to risk even more injuries, which did take place (Mbengue hopefully leaving with just cramp).
If they care so much about player welfare, an additional 30 minutes of football is not exactly the correct way to do it, and in no way benefits any lower league club in the circumstances.
If you’re going to scrap replays, give the underdogs a chance by going straight to penalties, and save player’s fitness in doing so. Win, win.
Whether or not this post would have happened had we won in ET however, I’m not sure! |  | | |  |
| Extra Time/Player Welfare on 12:17 - Jan 12 with 621 views | Northernr |
Nice to have you on here mate, we still chuckle about the Lyndon Dykes hat trick bets.
If you were cynical you could say it's another thing done for the benefit of the Premier League sides. Bigger, fitter squads, which will tell in extra time.
Saw it with Spurs last year, Tamworth held them for 90, and the they just stuck Madison and a couple of others on for extra time and won after all.
West Ham at ours in front of a full house would have been a great replay for us, and for the broadcasters.
Noone gives a sht about player welfare. They occasionally pretend they are if they think it can get them what they want (i.e. less pesky games against the likes of us, more mid-season tours of Dubai) but they don't care really.
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| Extra Time/Player Welfare on 12:21 - Jan 12 with 585 views | hoops_legend |
I understand your point but I also think it's not that much to expect another 30 mins form your players and certain players showed it's possible
Not a criticism of anyone aside form our fitness and medical team |  |
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| Extra Time/Player Welfare on 12:26 - Jan 12 with 564 views | JohnBurkeQPR |
| Extra Time/Player Welfare on 12:17 - Jan 12 by Northernr |
Nice to have you on here mate, we still chuckle about the Lyndon Dykes hat trick bets.
If you were cynical you could say it's another thing done for the benefit of the Premier League sides. Bigger, fitter squads, which will tell in extra time.
Saw it with Spurs last year, Tamworth held them for 90, and the they just stuck Madison and a couple of others on for extra time and won after all.
West Ham at ours in front of a full house would have been a great replay for us, and for the broadcasters.
Noone gives a sht about player welfare. They occasionally pretend they are if they think it can get them what they want (i.e. less pesky games against the likes of us, more mid-season tours of Dubai) but they don't care really.
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I promise I won't curse anymore of our players in the near future 
The Tottenham game was the first one that popped into my mind as well. Surprisingly, not many games went to ET this round but I would not be surprised if similar issues took place in round four.
A real shame that there won't be a game at Loftus Road, but at least we will have another/different London derby to look forward to next year. | | | |
| Extra Time/Player Welfare on 12:28 - Jan 12 with 554 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Welcome aboard, John! |  |
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| Extra Time/Player Welfare on 12:28 - Jan 12 with 552 views | colinallcars |
Straight to pens would indeed be better |  | | |
| Extra Time/Player Welfare on 12:31 - Jan 12 with 539 views | JohnBurkeQPR |
| Extra Time/Player Welfare on 12:21 - Jan 12 by hoops_legend |
I understand your point but I also think it's not that much to expect another 30 mins form your players and certain players showed it's possible
Not a criticism of anyone aside form our fitness and medical team |
I do agree in part that our players did look surprisingly knackered even before extra time, but even still, we had to play an extra game compared to West Ham during the festive period, and do not have the luxury of bringing players such as £20m Soucek and £15m Kyle Walker Peters off our bench to take over.
I could have seen us winning the replay, and with Walsh being a good shot stopper I could have also seen us having a chance on pens. | | | |
| Extra Time/Player Welfare on 12:36 - Jan 12 with 517 views | daveB |
Would have been great to have a replay, I thought extra time was inevitable that they'd score again. Would have been good to go straight to penalties |  | | |
| Extra Time/Player Welfare on 12:42 - Jan 12 with 480 views | JohnBurkeQPR |
| Extra Time/Player Welfare on 12:28 - Jan 12 by BrianMcCarthy |
Welcome aboard, John! |
Cheers Brian! | | | |
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| Extra Time/Player Welfare on 12:47 - Jan 12 with 453 views | LongsufferingR |
I was thinking exactly the same myself at 90 mins, but if they did that I wonder whether we would just end up with the lower league teams sticking 11 behind the ball early on just to hold out for pens. |  | | |
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