Right, post everything for this seasons FA Cup here Are we in for the long haul or just passing by..... For the last 10 seasons we have been drawn away 8 times so I reckon we will get one of the top 6 away oh! forgot to mention - better than Chippy's effort Third round drawn is on Monday live on BBC2 from 7pm 1 Bournemouth 2 Arsenal 3 Aston Villa 4 Barnsley 5 Birmingham City 6 Bolton Wanderers 7 Brentford 8 Brighton and Hove Albion 9 Bristol City 10 Burnley 11 Burton Albion 12 Cardiff City 13 Chelsea 14 Crystal Palace 15 Derby County 16 Everton 17 Fulham 18 Huddersfield Town 19 Hull City 20 Ipswich Town 21 Leeds United 22 Leicester City 23 Liverpool 24 Manchester City 25 Manchester United 26 Boro 27 Millwall 28 Newcastle 29 Norwich City 30 Nottingham Forest 31 Preston 32 QPR 33 Reading 34 Sheffield United 35 Sheffield Wednesday 36 Southampton 37 Stoke City 38 ****aland 39 Swansea City 40 Tottenham 41 Watford 42 West Bromwich Albion 43 West Ham 44 Wolves 45 Woking / Peterborough United 46 MK Dons 47 Newport County 48 Wycombe Wanderers 49 Port Vale / Yeovil Town 50 Shrewsbury Town 51 Doncaster Rovers 52 Slough or Rochdale 53 AFC Wimbledon 54 Stevenage 55 Mansfield Town 56 Luton Town 57 Bradford City 58 Blackburn Rovers / Crewe Alexandra 59 AFC Fylde / Wigan Athletic 60 Gillingham / Carlisle United 61 Notts County 62 Forest Green Rovers / Exeter City 63 Fleetwood Town / Hereford United 64 Coventry City
There's no point getting our hopes up is there? I don't know if we really need this right now. Best to get put out of our misery in the 3rd round by one of the elite teams' youth side.
Will settle for any home draw and a Saturday or Sunday fixture as its probably the only game I will get to this Christmas. A Premier league side would be good as well.
Beating a standard team by a few goals might help on the old confidence issue, but also maybe someone like Aarons (or Mitro) can use it to further work their way into the good books. These are the positives I'll cling to because we all know we're not going to win it and, in fairness, any lengthy run in the cup with our current squad of players would be counter-productive.
I was hoping for the Mackems at home, however I can't see Ashley investing in the amount of toilet paper needed to keep the seats clean after their dirty bastards have left calling cards.
As it stands, we'll be resorting to playing the likes of Colback in the Cup. As we saw Saturday, all 7 of Chelsea's bench would have been first choice at NUFC. The blood baron's pensioners can afford to let Ake, Chalobah, Abraham and Loftus-Cheek leave - all of whom would also be starting for NUFC. Football is gloriously fcked beyond recognition, so I'll cast a glance at bbc.com later tonight but won't give a rats ass about who we play, be it Man City or Slough.
