The FA cup is important in 2025 because... 07:50 - Jan 12 with 4621 views | RIPbobby | 1. It gives the reserve players a chance to play in a stadium with more than 200 people watching. 2. It gives people who don't have a season ticket more of a chance to see some football. |  | | |  |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 08:05 - Jan 12 with 4207 views | Blue_Heath | 3. The chance to keep our momentum going 4. A cup run would be fantastic |  | |  |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 08:22 - Jan 12 with 4149 views | TractorWood |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 08:05 - Jan 12 by Blue_Heath | 3. The chance to keep our momentum going 4. A cup run would be fantastic |
I think a cup run would be a massive distraction from our primary objective given our injuries. It's worth remembering staying in the prem is worth £150m or whatever. The FA cup is basically immaterial financially for a prem team. |  |
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The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 08:23 - Jan 12 with 4146 views | EssexBloo | Do ticket sales/TV revenue have much effect on our PSR? |  | |  |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 08:35 - Jan 12 with 4058 views | WeWereZombies |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 08:05 - Jan 12 by Blue_Heath | 3. The chance to keep our momentum going 4. A cup run would be fantastic |
5. The chance that a full live game will be on the BBC. |  |
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The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 09:05 - Jan 12 with 3706 views | Stewart27 |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 08:22 - Jan 12 by TractorWood | I think a cup run would be a massive distraction from our primary objective given our injuries. It's worth remembering staying in the prem is worth £150m or whatever. The FA cup is basically immaterial financially for a prem team. |
You’re speaking like a shareholder and not a fan. Also how is playing more football a distraction from playing football? |  | |  |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 09:08 - Jan 12 with 3672 views | MK1 | The F.A.Cup always has and always will be important to fans. Its just that most clubs in the early rounds don't see it that way. |  |
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The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 09:13 - Jan 12 with 3560 views | TractorWood |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 09:05 - Jan 12 by Stewart27 | You’re speaking like a shareholder and not a fan. Also how is playing more football a distraction from playing football? |
Speaking as someone who seen us lose 3-0 away at Hull for 20 years in the championship. We are finally here. Let's do everything possible to stay and really build the club. |  |
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The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 09:18 - Jan 12 with 3353 views | Stewart27 |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 09:13 - Jan 12 by TractorWood | Speaking as someone who seen us lose 3-0 away at Hull for 20 years in the championship. We are finally here. Let's do everything possible to stay and really build the club. |
But let’s also try and win a trophy. We had no chance when we were losing 3-0 to Hull. |  | |  | Login to get fewer ads
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 09:33 - Jan 12 with 2709 views | WinchBlue | It’s more or less irrelevant. Last year we lost to non league opposition but most of us would consider that season to be a huge success. |  | |  |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 09:40 - Jan 12 with 2548 views | Edmundo |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 09:33 - Jan 12 by WinchBlue | It’s more or less irrelevant. Last year we lost to non league opposition but most of us would consider that season to be a huge success. |
This season it's entirely possible to fit 3 or 4 more matches in, keep building a winning feeling (that was so important in previous successful seasons), and maybe just maybe shoot for the stars: we'd all remember a Wembley visit and love to stay in the PL. They aren't mutually exclusive goals. |  |
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The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 10:28 - Jan 12 with 2268 views | Bellevue_Blue |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 09:13 - Jan 12 by TractorWood | Speaking as someone who seen us lose 3-0 away at Hull for 20 years in the championship. We are finally here. Let's do everything possible to stay and really build the club. |
I totally get the need to prioritise the league but we have a 27 man squad for a reason. They need minutes and this is great opportunity to build fitness throughout the squad. Let's hope we win, get drawn against another lower league outfit, win again and then we are talking about being involved in the 5th round in March and thats a possible dilemma re exposing first team players. Until then, let's try and enjoy a decent cup run! |  | |  |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 10:34 - Jan 12 with 2241 views | Sharkey | It's quite often mentioned that Town are one of a very small number of clubs that has never played at the new Wembley. Am I right in thinking it's a 'grand total' of three appearances at Wembley (old or new) EVER? That must rank extremely low across the list of professional clubs. [Post edited 12 Jan 10:47]
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The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 11:11 - Jan 12 with 2130 views | Europablue |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 09:33 - Jan 12 by WinchBlue | It’s more or less irrelevant. Last year we lost to non league opposition but most of us would consider that season to be a huge success. |
The cups are only irrelevant when you are doing well (or badly) in the league. Cups are a good chance to get injured players up to speed and bed in new signings. I don't mind how we do in the cups, but it will start to get interesting if we win a couple of matches. |  | |  |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 11:32 - Jan 12 with 2073 views | Sharkey |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 11:11 - Jan 12 by Europablue | The cups are only irrelevant when you are doing well (or badly) in the league. Cups are a good chance to get injured players up to speed and bed in new signings. I don't mind how we do in the cups, but it will start to get interesting if we win a couple of matches. |
They don't even seem to be relevant even if you are doing well in the league, sadly. Brentford rested six players, and it would take a heart of stone not to laugh. |  | |  |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 12:37 - Jan 12 with 1968 views | Vaughan8 |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 08:22 - Jan 12 by TractorWood | I think a cup run would be a massive distraction from our primary objective given our injuries. It's worth remembering staying in the prem is worth £150m or whatever. The FA cup is basically immaterial financially for a prem team. |
Ah yes, from a financialy point of view, all the big teams should just go out as its no benefit to them.............. However, from a fan (my) point of view, if we won the FA Cup and went down, that would still be great.........! |  | |  |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 12:46 - Jan 12 with 1943 views | itfc1108 |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 12:37 - Jan 12 by Vaughan8 | Ah yes, from a financialy point of view, all the big teams should just go out as its no benefit to them.............. However, from a fan (my) point of view, if we won the FA Cup and went down, that would still be great.........! |
And if we won the cup, and qualified for europe, then Kieran would definitely stay. |  | |  |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 13:19 - Jan 12 with 1846 views | pointofblue |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 09:05 - Jan 12 by Stewart27 | You’re speaking like a shareholder and not a fan. Also how is playing more football a distraction from playing football? |
Losing to Maidstone, in hindsight, was probably the best thing that could have happened to us last season. |  |
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The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 07:49 - Jan 13 with 1601 views | glasso | Let's be honest, the FA Cup is worthless and pointless until you win it, and then we'll be singing songs about it for the next 30 years |  | |  |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 08:29 - Jan 13 with 1520 views | TractorWood |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 13:19 - Jan 12 by pointofblue | Losing to Maidstone, in hindsight, was probably the best thing that could have happened to us last season. |
Maybe. Don't remember many people crying into their pint glasses in early May about the lack of a cup run. |  |
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The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 08:40 - Jan 13 with 1472 views | Ryorry |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 09:13 - Jan 12 by TractorWood | Speaking as someone who seen us lose 3-0 away at Hull for 20 years in the championship. We are finally here. Let's do everything possible to stay and really build the club. |
Losing 3-0 away at Grimsby in the freezing cold and lashing rain on a Tuesday night was even worse! |  |
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The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 08:46 - Jan 13 with 1432 views | textbackup |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 08:22 - Jan 12 by TractorWood | I think a cup run would be a massive distraction from our primary objective given our injuries. It's worth remembering staying in the prem is worth £150m or whatever. The FA cup is basically immaterial financially for a prem team. |
So we can’t have a nice cup run when looking at promotion, or when we are trying to stay up. Basically we need to be a sht mid table championship team again to really give it a go. But then we’d lose to non league teams in the 3rd round. |  |
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The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 08:49 - Jan 13 with 1423 views | Ryorry | Teams like Tamworth. Putting the soul back into football. |  |
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The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 08:58 - Jan 13 with 1366 views | TractorWood |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 08:46 - Jan 13 by textbackup | So we can’t have a nice cup run when looking at promotion, or when we are trying to stay up. Basically we need to be a sht mid table championship team again to really give it a go. But then we’d lose to non league teams in the 3rd round. |
Did you miss a cup run on 4 May last year? [Post edited 13 Jan 8:59]
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The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 09:00 - Jan 13 with 1351 views | JimmyJazz |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 11:32 - Jan 12 by Sharkey | They don't even seem to be relevant even if you are doing well in the league, sadly. Brentford rested six players, and it would take a heart of stone not to laugh. |
In their heart of hearts, Brentford probably realise they had no chance of winning the cup At the start there were 8 clubs who could realistically win the cup, Arsenal are out so that leaves 7. Quite likely the 2 finalists will be amongst those 7 Everyone else is just making up the numbers |  |
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The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 09:14 - Jan 13 with 1301 views | textbackup |
The FA cup is important in 2025 because... on 08:58 - Jan 13 by TractorWood | Did you miss a cup run on 4 May last year? [Post edited 13 Jan 8:59]
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I was busy celebrating. But then come fa cup final day i probably thought ‘wish town were there’ As I will this season if we get knocked out, and have every year since I started watching football |  |
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