Administrator Stan Posted January 7 Administrator Posted January 7 Draw tomorrow before Wigan vs Man Utd. 1. Luton Town or Bolton Wanderers 2. Wrexham 3. Arsenal or Liverpool 4. Brighton & Hove Albion 5. Norwich City or Bristol Rovers (replay) 6. West Ham United or Bristol City 7. Tottenham Hotspur 8. Fulham 9. West Bromwich Albion 10. Southampton 11. Ipswich Town 12. Leeds United 13. Leicester City 14. Watford 15. Newcastle United 16. Sheffield Wednesday 17. Crystal Palace or Everton (replay) 18. Aston Villa 19. Nottingham Forest or Blackpool 20. Wigan Athletic or Manchester United 21. Manchester City 22. Blackburn Rovers 23. Sheffield United 24. Swansea City 25. Chelsea 26. AFC Bournemouth 27. Coventry City 28. Brentford or Wolverhampton Wanderers (replay) 29. Plymouth Argyle 30. Maidstone United 31. Newport County or Eastleigh (replay) 32. Hull City or Birmingham City (replay)
Administrator Stan Posted January 7 Author Administrator Posted January 7 Don't want anything too testing. Another opportunity to rotate would be handy. Any of 30/31/32 at home would be best.
Subscriber RandoEFC+ Posted January 7 Subscriber Posted January 7 Always handy to know how arsed you should be about a replay by seeing your next possible draw in advance.
Subscriber Dan+ Posted January 7 Subscriber Posted January 7 Only four new grounds in that for me and two of them are still not yet even through. It'd be nice to get Maidstone away but the thought of being the victim of a famous scalp would worry me slightly. Wrexham away for me. Never been there and very winnable. I'm very much in the camp of going for it. We're 1/66 to get promoted with the bookies. We would have to produce a once in a generation level of drop off to blow it and I think it would be good for us to get tested by a Premier League team in a competitive game later down the line - to gauge where we're 'really' at.
Lucas Posted January 7 Posted January 7 It probably won't happen but if you got say a Sheffield derby, Leeds v Man U, Liverpool v City, Spurs v Chelsea, maybe a potential Bristol or Birmingham derby, and Maidstone getting a home tie against say Newcastle, that would be a hell of an amazing round.
Administrator Stan Posted January 7 Author Administrator Posted January 7 31 minutes ago, Lucas said: It probably won't happen but if you got say a Sheffield derby, Leeds v Man U, Liverpool v City, Spurs v Chelsea, maybe a potential Bristol or Birmingham derby, and Maidstone getting a home tie against say Newcastle, that would be a hell of an amazing round. Man City getting Maidstone at home it is then.
Administrator Stan Posted January 8 Author Administrator Posted January 8 Watford vs Southampton Blackburn vs Wrexham Bournemouth vs Swansea West Brom vs Brentford/Wolves West Ham/Bristol City vs Nottm Forest/Blackpool Leicester vs Hull/Birmingham Sheff Weds vs Coventry Chelsea vs Aston Villa Ipswich vs Maidstone Liverpool vs Norwich/Bristol Rovers Tottenham vs Man City Leeds vs Plymouth Palace/Everton vs Luton/Bolton Newport/Eastleigh vs Wigan/Man Utd Sheff Utd vs Brighton Fulham vs Newcastle
LFCMike Posted January 8 Posted January 8 Norwich or Bristol Rovers at home, that'll do. Spurs v City as well
Administrator Stan Posted January 8 Author Administrator Posted January 8 Easy draw for Liverpool. Man City don't have the best record vs Spurs but then Spurs are missing Son, and de Bruyne and Haaland might be back for Man City. Happy with our draw. A bit of a test but hopefully should go through. Not many attractive ties for TV. Expecting the Chelsea, Tottenham, Man Utd (if they advance) and Newcastle games to be on TV.
Subscriber RandoEFC+ Posted January 8 Subscriber Posted January 8 Ipswich vs Maidstone surely needs to be on TV
Redcanuck Posted January 8 Posted January 8 Surely ManUtd away to Newport/Eastleigh will be moved? Eastleigh only holds 5500 and Newport isn't much bigger.
Reluctant Striker Posted January 9 Posted January 9 First time Villa have been this far in nearly a decade. Chelsea away is a better prospect than it has been during that time. But feels like it should be quite an even contest. And kind of have a feeling Chelsea will be putting everything they have into the cups.
Subscriber Dan+ Posted January 9 Subscriber Posted January 9 Our draw is the most TV avoid draw I think we've ever had. But I'm not unhappy with it. We were due a home tie (12 of our last 15 have been away) and we'll be favourites. I want a run.
Administrator Stan Posted January 9 Author Administrator Posted January 9 9 hours ago, Redcanuck said: Surely ManUtd away to Newport/Eastleigh will be moved? Eastleigh only holds 5500 and Newport isn't much bigger. Moved where?
LFCMike Posted January 9 Posted January 9 2 hours ago, Stan said: Moved where? I can't recall any recent examples where a lower league side has moved a game from their normal home ground to another bigger ground in the local area. It has happened before though. Pretty sure the FA banned clubs switching the tie to the oppositions home ground years ago though.
Administrator Stan Posted January 9 Author Administrator Posted January 9 37 minutes ago, LFCMike said: I can't recall any recent examples where a lower league side has moved a game from their normal home ground to another bigger ground in the local area. It has happened before though. Pretty sure the FA banned clubs switching the tie to the oppositions home ground years ago though. Yeah same, no recent recollection. I think it doesn't really matter these days.
Redcanuck Posted January 9 Posted January 9 9 hours ago, Stan said: Moved where? Eastleigh is only a few miles from St.Mary's Newport isn't far from Cardiff. They used to move ties to bigger grounds, in the old days Eastleigh or Newport would have agreed to have the game played at Old Trafford. It would have been the biggest payday in their history. I do believed they stopped all that and West Ham played away to Kidderminister 30 years ago ,so this might not get moved to St. Mary's if Eastleigh wins the replay. Southampton is away to Watford the next round so it's available and it would be a massive payday for Eastleigh. I suspect if Newport wins the replay they will play on their ground, they could put up temporary bleachers and get the capacity up to 10- 12,000 if that can be done safely. I forgot about Spurs playing Marine 3 years ago, Rossett Park only holds about 3200. I watched that game as well, it was quite the event.
Administrator Stan Posted January 9 Author Administrator Posted January 9 17 minutes ago, Redcanuck said: Eastleigh is only a few miles from St.Mary's Newport isn't far from Cardiff. They used to move ties to bigger grounds, in the old days Eastleigh or Newport would have agreed to have the game played at Old Trafford. It would have been the biggest payday in their history. I do believed they stopped all that and West Ham played away to Kidderminister 30 years ago ,so this might not get moved to St. Mary's if Eastleigh wins the replay. Southampton is away to Watford the next round so it's available and it would be a massive payday for Eastleigh. I suspect if Newport wins the replay they will play on their ground, they could put up temporary bleachers and get the capacity up to 10- 12,000 if that can be done safely. I forgot about Spurs playing Marine 3 years ago, Rossett Park only holds about 3200. I watched that game as well, it was quite the event. I think these days they'll let games be played at the normal designated grounds instead of moving it. While it was only Stevenage they played, Maidstone played at home at the weekend and capacity is only 4200. Had a look at previous seasons - first one that came to mind was Marine vs Tottenham in 2021. Hosted in their own ground and capacity is less than 2,000. Boreham Wood hosted Millwall at their ground, capacity 4,500. Chorley hosted Derby in their 4,200 capacity stadium.
Administrator Stan Posted January 9 Author Administrator Posted January 9 9 minutes ago, LFCMike said: Marine v Spurs was during the Covid season There were fans there though, right? As in they didn't move it to another stadium and kept it at Marine's own home ground.
Redcanuck Posted January 9 Posted January 9 2 minutes ago, Stan said: There were fans there though, right? As in they didn't move it to another stadium and kept it at Marine's own home ground. In hindsight, you wonder what Marine think now about playing the game at their ground? If the game was played at either Liverpool or Everton's ground their club treasury likely would have been a lot healthier. The club itself might have done better on the pitch with more money to spend.
LFCMike Posted January 9 Posted January 9 5 minutes ago, Stan said: There were fans there though, right? As in they didn't move it to another stadium and kept it at Marine's own home ground. Don't think so, it would have been January 2021 I think wouldn't it? Went into full lockdown again just before Christmas if I recall correctly. Before that you had the tiered bollocks where there was only a few thousand at PL games in areas that were allowed
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