I'd rather, if we did draw the rats, do it later in the tournament like. Although if we get them away it's a bye to the next round...
Bit off topic, but as every ****er is on this thread, Alex Song has been offered a free transfer. Too ambitious?
Draw numbers 1. AFC Bournemouth 2. Arsenal 3. Bolton Wanderers 4. Brighton & Hove Albion 5. Cardiff City 6. Chelsea 7. Crystal Palace 8. Derby County 9. Doncaster Rovers 10. Everton 11. Fulham 12. Hull City 13. Liverpool 14. Manchester City 15. Middlesbrough 16. Milton Keynes Dons 17. Newcastle United 18. Norwich City 19. Nottingham Forest 20. Reading 21. Sheffield United 22. Sheffield Wednesday 23. Shrewsbury Town 24. Southampton 25. Swansea City 26. Tottenham Hotspur 27. West Bromwich Albion 28. Leyton Orient 29. Sunderland 30. Bradford City 31. Burton Albion 32. Stoke City
I was at the game tonight, we were quite poor first half. Bridcutt actually played quite well but Johnson was invisible and the passing all round was poor. Our first goal was quite lucky. To be honest Giacc coming on was what changed the game, he looked a little rusty but even so he was a yard ahead of everyone else in terms of reading the game. Pant looked good in goal and was never really troubled, Brown and JOS looked solid. Even though Bridcutt played well we missed Catts and Rodwell. PVA and Buckley were also a big misses as without them we had very little pace.
chelsea v bolton arsenal v southampton Wba v Hull Palace v Newcastle Leyton Orient v Sheff Utd Cardiff v Bournemouth Sunderland v Stoke Derby v Reading Liverpool v Boro Mk Dons v Bradford Man City v Sheff Wed Burton v Brighton Swansea v Everton Shrewsbury v Norwich Fulham v Doncaster Spurs v Notts Forest
If we beat Stoke there can only be a maximum of 7 prem teams left. Worth looking to field a strong team.
We will be playing Stoke at home in the third round of the Capital-One cup....we've all got to be happy at that,haven't we???
I was thinking I would prefer another lower league team. But.............. Methinks this may be better for us as we perform much better against higher league teams. If we can get the lads shooting boots and forward passes sorted early doors this may be a canny draw. And no I'm not underestimating Stoke they have been playing canny. But so have we, we have just been a bit toothless and not brave enough at times.
Stoke b team has Moses, walters, Adams, Huth & Crouch so thats canny strong like. I'll put the first team out me.
