[Nørbæk]

Originally posted by Maple:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Vegard_R:
I live an hour away from Lerkendal, Rosenborgs stadium and I go to see matches every now and then.
And you just see how hopeless it is, when they played a match in -5 degrees...

Even worse up in Tromsø when they played in the Royal League, you could barely see the ball for all the snow, kinda like when they knocked out Chelsea up there.

It says a lot about the state of football pitches when Tromsö is able to play in the middle of the winter while clubs in the most southern part in Sweden can't play on their home arena.

As for the failure of Royal League, I think here in Sweden the reasons are:
1. Media were very negative from the start.
2. Players, managers and clubs has whined nonstop about the bad pitches (when they otherwise would have played friendlies instead)
3. The domestic cup here in Sweden has no status either. If two top tier teams play each other in the cup, it's likely to attract about 1/4 of the audience if they played the match in the league.
4. Swedish TV showing the wrong matches focusing more on the Danish/Norwegian big teams instead of showing the biggest Swedish teams. IIRC Kalmar (quite good but really is a quite small club) vs Bröndby was shown instead of showing Djurgården playing IFK Göteborg (two big Swedish clubs)

PMLF, the problem with March to November is that Swedish teams whine excessively if they have to play two matches each week despite being fulltime professionals. :thdn:

Andy Jordan, Charlie Davies would sofar probably be chosen as flop of the season. He has a reputation as a tremendous goal squanderer and opponent team fans were disappointed when he had to leave for Copa America because they thought that strengthened Hammarby (his team). He has now been dropped to the bench too. </BLOCKQUOTE>

almost the same here; everyone, including yours truly, were negative from the start (and rightfully so ), the Danish cup is also not interesting here.

however, Danish TV did focus on the Danish teams, which, I guess, is a bit easier as we've somehow won it on all occassions.

even the 2007 final between our two biggest clubs, arch rivals Brøndby and FC København, didn't attract that much attention, and the teams didn't field their strongest line-ups.

[Mr Wallin]

Originally posted by Nørbæk:
Why Denmark agreed, I have no idea, as we haven't managed to keep a team in Europe pas x-mas since Brøndby reached the UEFA Cup semi back in the early 90's (was 1991?)

As we have managed anything since IFK Göteborg did their stuff back in the day...

Originally posted by PMLF:
Would it be feasible to play it from March to November, with a break in July?

Could do that, but it would just go alongside the normal league matches and have even less meaning to everyone.

[Mr Wallin]

Originally posted by mangelito:
Oh, I see... So you are just born in Botkyrka? Where do you live now?
From what I can see from other threads you seem to know a lot about swedish football, so I kind of thought that you would be a regular watcher of allsvenskan, and also a supporter of some team.

As I posted on last page my closest team is IFK Luleå but I used to live in Boden (they are actually better nowdays \o/).

And where you have gotten the impression I know swedish football I don't know, I usually feels like I'm posting more questions than answers in threads on that subject.

[Orzelek]

Originally posted by PMLF:
Would it be feasible to play it from March to November, with a break in July?

Nah, just close the tournament

[JJK]

Go JJK!

[Nørbæk]

Originally posted by Mr Wallin:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Nørbæk:
Why Denmark agreed, I have no idea, as we haven't managed to keep a team in Europe pas x-mas since Brøndby reached the UEFA Cup semi back in the early 90's (was 1991?)

As we have managed anything since IFK Göteborg did their stuff back in the day...

Originally posted by PMLF:
Would it be feasible to play it from March to November, with a break in July?

Could do that, but it would just go alongside the normal league matches and have even less meaning to everyone. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Agreed. The Swedish league sucks even more than the Danish.

[Nørbæk]

Originally posted by Orzelek:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by PMLF:
Would it be feasible to play it from March to November, with a break in July?

Nah, just close the tournament </BLOCKQUOTE>

[Vegard_R]

The idea was good, with keeping teams fit for Europe, but even though we had some good european runs in the late 90's with one quarter final in the CL from Rosenborg, and two quarter finals in the Cup-Winners Cup by Vålerenga and Brann, our teams usually exit as fast as all the other Scandinavian.

And as said the interest has died down from being an something new to just beeing boring.
Rosenborg fielded players who never even had sat on the bench for the first team and sent their first team squad on holiday.

[No TV for me!]

Originally posted by JJK:
Go JJK!

Let's hope JJK can continue their cup success and drop HJK in the next round.

[Nørbæk]

One match been played now:

Brøndby v FC Nordsjælland 2-1
1-0 Tobias Mikkelsen
2-0 Martin Ericsson
2-1 Martin Bernburg