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Look forward to some of the away followings.

Not a terrible idea, would go some way to differentiating the League Cup from the FA Cup and giving it some point. I guess the issues comes from European spots, as neither FA would want to donate theirs.

Yes it is.

I wouldn't mind it but I can’t see British clubs going for it, they won't really gain anything from it.  We see British clubs play the old firm on a fairly regular basis in Europe so the novelty value has disappeared.

Scunthorpe v St Johnstone doesn’t quite have the same appeal.

Scottish clubs on the other hand need to do something to stop their domestic leagues dying a slow death so it makes sense for them to propose the idea.

Scottish Clubs are British clubs.

Good point, think that was wishfull thinking on my part.

I think by 'British Clubs', you meant to say 'English (and welsh) Clubs'?

Well yeah those that come under the banner of the FA.

st mirren on a tuesday night.... thats a long old poke!

Bad example!  St Mirren Park is about 3 mins in a cab (or a 15 minute walk, if you want to stretch your legs) from Glasgow Airport.  If we did get St Mirren on a Tuesday night, this one would just about be do-able!

Oh FFS! OK so your league's shit. Well sort it out then. Stop trying to muscle in on ours

I like this.

No thanks to a British League Cup. It's bad enough having to go to Carlisle, let alone Inverness Caley Thistle.

Went to watch St Mirren v Celtic years back....can remember the ground was painted bright red and both sets of fans were terrifying,it truly was/is a grim place(Paisley i think)

I like the idea of being ranked 15th within 5 years. Did they get Mr Whippy to come up with that? I wonder where the Corporate lawyer ended up after being bombed out as a non Exec Director of Royal United Hospital Bath - allegedly.

Pretty sure St Midden is in Paisley. A lot of the clubs in the West play in hovels. Motherwell, Hamilton, Partick etc. Make Swindon look like Vienna!

St Mirren is in Paisley...not a nice place, it's true.


I don't know Motherwell or Hamilton, but nothing wrong with Partick, surely?  One of the better parts of Glasgow.

So we've tried this a few times before and it didn't work, so we'll try again? I can't help thinking of Einstein's quote:

Fucking stupid idea.  Like the Anglo Italian it would last about two minutes.

it would be making a shit competition even worse.
they'll probably do it

It was a bit of an assumption. I have actually only been to Motherwell out of those places but to me most of the West of Scotland has a load of horrible towns (cumbernauld comes to mind) so assumed they were all as bad.

Is Cumbernauld west?  Horrible place, I agree.  As are a lot of the other satellite towns around Glasgow that grew up when the slums were cleared.

Maybe it's because I spend more time in Argyll and the Clyde Estuary...but I'm a big fan of the west of Scotland.  Places like Dunoon, Troon, Largs, Helensburgh and Oban are great places to live.  (But sadly, none of them have league football teams.)

Id love it.

But it probably wouldnt make any difference to us, they would probably only merge the two in the last 16 or something like that.

I quite like it too. Put those Scottish bastards in their place.

Lets face it, the interest in cups at our end of the football league couldnt be much lower.

Lower league fans dont seem to have the imagination for cup competitions any more.

Cumbernauld is North Lanarkshire. That is West enough for me!

Excuse me....nothing wrong with Inverness Caley Thistle....nice ground...east wind roars up the Moray Firth, and I would get to see STFC...lose probably :)

Not until clubs get to rounds where bigger clubs come in, no. It's a bit of a shame really, as it seems to have an effect on the players - how often have we gone out to a team in League Two or the Conference without putting up much of a fight? Far too often.