ScoRoss Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Great news for Liverpool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burning Gold Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Well it's about time. It's just silly to have an international competition right in the middle of the season every other year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azeem Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 Good now make it held once in four year instead of two years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honey Honey Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 What impact will this have on the sworms of giant insects that make the tournament worth watching Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan Posted July 21, 2017 Administrator Share Posted July 21, 2017 10 hours ago, LaSambadeStGermain said: Great news for Liverpool! why do people think that it's only Liverpool affected ?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IgnisExcubitor Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 Fantastic news. Glad someone saw sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 Also expanded to 24 teams As if the tournament wasn't already bad enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Mel81x+ Posted July 23, 2017 Subscriber Share Posted July 23, 2017 When I read it I was thinking its good for football in general. The players get to play the tournament in the summer months instead of the winter (I think that was always due to the weather but I could be wrong) and they don't run the risk of getting injured and not being able to play for their respective clubs. Good news all around and as for the number of teams invovled increasing its just a trend we have to get used to now. FIFA has its head screwed on backwards and it seems like they want everyone else to do so as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoRoss Posted January 15, 2020 Author Share Posted January 15, 2020 Moved back to January / February for 2021. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mpache Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 Snap back to reality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azeem Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 Africa & Asia should scrap the Afcon and Asian Cup respectively. They are poor spectacles that don't draw much crowd because of unease of travel between member states and there is possibly no way they can be scheduled without conflicting with player's club commitment. Have a Nations League type tournament in their place with home and away matches, the semi finals and final played in a single country. That would be more interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan Posted June 18, 2020 Administrator Share Posted June 18, 2020 2 minutes ago, Azeem said: Africa & Asia should scrap the Afcon and Asian Cup respectively. They are poor spectacles that don't draw much crowd because of unease of travel between member states and there is possibly no way they can be scheduled without conflicting with player's club commitment. Have a Nations League type tournament in their place with home and away matches, the semi finals and final played in a single country. That would be more interesting for AFCON it could be solved by having the tournament in summer months in odd years so as not to conflict with World Cup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azeem Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 12 minutes ago, Stan said: for AFCON it could be solved by having the tournament in summer months in odd years so as not to conflict with World Cup? Could be but that's not likely to be a permanent thing let's be honest and like i said there are other things as well poor crowds because of difficult travel and having poor crowds at your premium continental championship reflects poorly on the sport there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan Posted June 18, 2020 Administrator Share Posted June 18, 2020 9 minutes ago, Azeem said: Could be but that's not likely to be a permanent thing let's be honest and like i said there are other things as well poor crowds because of difficult travel and having poor crowds at your premium continental championship reflects poorly on the sport there I don't think the answer would be to cancel the tournaments though. The better option would be to find solutions as to how to make it work efficiently to benefit all nations that end up taking part at any given tournament. For AFCON, because of the vast spread of locations, maybe having regionalised groups and then neutral locations for knockouts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azeem Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 5 minutes ago, Stan said: I don't think the answer would be to cancel the tournaments though. The better option would be to find solutions as to how to make it work efficiently to benefit all nations that end up taking part at any given tournament. For AFCON, because of the vast spread of locations, maybe having regionalised groups and then neutral locations for knockouts? That's somewhat what i said, home and way then a single host country in the final four. Regionalised group won't work in Asia and Africa cause most of the strong teams are mostly from one region, few strong teams will always miss out from their region while likes of Kenya will qualify from East Africa With both of these expanded to 24 teams it's now out of reach of most countries to host them. In Asia it's almost going to East Asian, Australia or some rich gulf country hosting it and maybe someone like Thailand or India trying to host it one off time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 1 hour ago, Azeem said: Africa & Asia should scrap the Afcon and Asian Cup respectively. They are poor spectacles that don't draw much crowd because of unease of travel between member states and there is possibly no way they can be scheduled without conflicting with player's club commitment. Have a Nations League type tournament in their place with home and away matches, the semi finals and final played in a single country. That would be more interesting That not really fair to say they should be scrapped because they interfere with club football. They are not great to watch but to say they should go is disrespectful in my opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azeem Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 9 minutes ago, Gunnersauraus said: That not really fair to say they should be scrapped because they interfere with club football. They are not great to watch but to say they should go is disrespectful in my opinion Read rest of my post, I'm talking about replacing them with a tournament that's played during the international breaks like the Nations League in Europe, having a traditional Cup competition played in a host nation within few weeks is not workable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storts Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 On 15/01/2020 at 17:35, Inti Brian said: Snap back to reality. Oh there goes gravity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eco Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 3 minutes ago, Storts said: Oh there goes gravity Oh, there goes Rabbit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan Posted June 30, 2020 Administrator Share Posted June 30, 2020 Moved to January 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mpache Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 I have a suggestion. Why not, you know, move it to the European summer instead of postponing it to 2022? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ Posted June 30, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted June 30, 2020 9 minutes ago, Mpache said: I have a suggestion. Why not, you know, move it to the European summer instead of postponing it to 2022? Because rainy season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mpache Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 Just now, nudge said: Because rainy season. I was joking, but I did think the reason it wasn't in our summer was because of the heat, and didn't think Egypt was a very good sample size of the tournament. It makes more sense now though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azeem Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 African Nations League is the way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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