might as well get this started as the draw is on Monday and the seeding had been announced Seeds - south 1. AFC Bournemouth 2. Birmingham City 3. Brentford 4. Brighton and Hove Albion 5. Bristol City 6. Charlton Athletic 7. Crawley Town 8. Ipswich Town 9. Leicester City 10. Leyton Orient 11. Millwall 12. Milton Keynes Dons 13. Peterborough United 14. Queens Park Rangers 15. Swindon Town 16. Watford 17. Yeovil Town Non seeds - south 18. AFC Wimbledon 19. Bristol Rovers 20. Cheltenham Town 21. Colchester United 22. Coventry City 23. Dagenham and Redbridge 24. Exeter City 25. Gillingham 26. Newport County 27. Northampton Town 28. Oxford United 29. Plymouth Argyle 30. Portsmouth 31. Southend United 32. Stevenage 33. Torquay United 34. Wycombe Wanderers Who do you want Who will we get Who will knock us out in the first round http://www.capitalonecup.co.uk/news/article/round-1-seedings-1314-861093.aspx (if you want to know the seeding for the dirty northerners)
Seeds - north 1. Barnsley 2. Blackburn Rovers 3. Blackpool 4. Bolton Wanderers 5. Burnley 6. Crewe Alexandra 7. Derby County 8. Doncaster Rovers 9. Huddersfield Town 10. Leeds United 11. Middlesbrough 12. Nottingham Forest 13. Notts County 14. Sheffield United 15. Sheffield Wednesday 16. Tranmere Rovers 17. Walsall 18. Wolverhampton Wanderers Non seeds - north 19. Accrington Stanley 20. Bradford City 21. Burton Albion 22. Bury 23. Carlisle United 24. Chesterfield 25. Fleetwood Town 26. Hartlepool United 27. Mansfield Town 28. Morecambe 29. Oldham Athletic 30. Port Vale 31. Preston North End 32. Rochdale 33. Rotherham United 34. Scunthorpe United 35. Shrewsbury Town 36. York City
Newport at home be nice to see them again cos it's been a few years. Probably lose to Blackburn away in the second round
We'll get someone like Southend or Northampton. Then get knocked out. It's still something to look forward to though
Hardly worth turning on the lights for some of these fixtures unless we are going to put 8-10K bottoms in the seats to improve our bank balance.
First and foremost, I'd like to see us get a home tie to start with. As (according to the Capital One Cup website) it's only single match games until the semi-finals (didn't the 2nd round used to be home and away?), at least a home tie "should" give us a better opportunity of actually winning a Cup match for the first time since about 1961 (well, it feels like that long ago!) For interest and bums on seats, you'd really want the Gas. Who else is going to bring more than a coachload in the first week of Aug? Maybe Newport I suppose. (Warning - "All Our Yesterdays" time again) I'm sure some of the other older people will remember back to the 60's and 70's when the League Cup was still a big thing. It actually retained that status (more or less) until the Premiership started in 92, when, for those in the top division, retention of status and league placing increasingly became far more of a priority because of the TV riches on offer. OK, the League Cup was always the poor relation of the FA Cup and rightly so, but certainly from the mid 60's (when the final started being held at Wembley) through to the 80's, it was still pretty well supported. I remember seeing City beat Leicester 2-1 back in 1970 (Leics included the likes of Shilton, Nish and Kellard in their team) in the 3rd round, watched by 16,575. Would we even break 10,000 if that was to happen again in a few months? Mind you, there was hardly any football on telly in those days, and only 4 channels! It just seems a bit of a shame that the League Cup is so maligned, when, aside from the league championships, it is still one of only 2-3 trophies that can be won in a season. But nowadays, no one really cares until the QF's when you have a realistic sniff of the old twin towers. Sorry chaps, I'll try to live in the "10's" in future posts and not back in the 60's and 70's!
Actually I think the big boys have started to care it can keep you in a job it's a way into Europe and the fans love a bit of silverware
