Our Groups since the Competition was revamped:

20/21 - Fleetwood, Sunderland, TBC
19/20 - Morecambe, Blackpool, Wolves U21s
18/19 - Morecambe, Sunderland, Stoke City U21s
17/18 - Morecambe, Fleetwood, Leicester City U21s
16/17 - Fleetwood, Oldham Athletic, Blackburn Rovers U21s

So that’s Fleetwood and Morecambe thrice, and Sunderland twice, within 5 Season’s...

I still won't be going to that sort of game

Newcastle can’t be drawn in our Group:

Us, Harrogate and Sunderland would have made more sense. Fleetwood to Sunderland must be like a 300 mile round trip!

Hope it's not Leeds as "the big club" the utter melts, would be a shan to have to play their b side after kicking their first team out the same competition a few years back. Maybe that would prick the consciences of the analogue three....? Nah..

Us, Harrogate and Sunderland would have made more sense. Fleetwood to Sunderland must be like a 300 mile round trip!

Hope it's not Leeds as "the big club" the utter melts, would be a shan to have to play their b side after kicking their first team out the same competition a few years back. Maybe that would prick the consciences of the analogue three....? Nah..

And the fact that they’ve signed quite a few of our youth team players

Aston Villa for us...

Good 'local' match that with Villa, just like Wolves last season.

How are we going to boycott these games when most of the games will be behind closed doors anyway?

Rumour, unconfirmed, they may use Trophy as ‘Test’ fixtures.

Boycott still on regardless...

Good to see the Comp making headlines as ever!

CU dates confirmed:

Date change, Villa’s PL2 games taking precedence seemingly:

Date changed for an Aston Villa reserve game. I would have told them to [censored] off! What a tin pot [censored] trophy.

They're claiming fixture congestion but it's under 21's so I can't see any clash. I quite agree Nobby it's tinpot not wanted by the majority of the fans. I haven't supported it from day one. Totally ruined the trophy