3rd Round Draw Crystal Palace Vs Stoke Brighton Vs Newcastle Tottenham Vs Coventry Wigan Vs AFC Bournemouth Fulham Vs Blackpool Aston Villa Vs Ipswich Charlton Vs Huddersfield Barrow/Macclesfield Vs Cardiff Barnsley Vs Burnley Man City Vs Watford Swansea Vs Arsenal Leicester Vs Burton Albion Millwall Vs Preston NE Cheltenham/Hereford Vs Everton Derby Vs Tranmere Crawley Vs Reading Aldershot Vs Rotherham/Notts County Middlesbrough Vs Harrogate/Hastings Accrington Stanley/Oxford Vs Sheffield Utd Southampton Vs Chelsea QPR Vs West Brom Peterborough Vs Norwich Lincoln/Mansfield Vs Liverpool Bolton Vs Sunderland Nottingham Forest Vs Oldham West Ham Vs Man Utd Hull City Vs Alfreton Town/Leyton Orient Blackburn Vs Bristol City Leeds Vs Birmingham Bury/Southend Vs Bradford/Brentford Luton Vs Wolves Sheff Wed Vs MK Dons
cheekily was hoping for hastings as only 25 mins from me , but happy with our draw and delighted for hastings being drawn to play middlesborough provided they win the replay,
Quite a few decent games, all of which I'd like to see: Crystal Palace vs Stoke City Wigan Athletic vs AFC Bournemouth Middlesbrough vs Harrogate Town or Hastings Lincoln City or Mansfield Town vs Liverpool Luton Town vs Wolverhampton Wanderers Barrow or Macclesfield Town vs Cardiff City Crawley Town vs Reading Derby County vs Tranmere Rovers
So we're going out again this year Gonna be a **** attendance, fringe players play, we lose, Cup misery... Broken record
So we're going out again this year Gonna be a **** attendance, fringe players play, we lose, Cup misery... Broken record
Why have I got the Crawley match running through my mind again? Please Bruce, don't make the same mistake Nick did - pick a decent side...
Nice draw and a good one for the fringe/squad players to get a game. Orient looked dire yesterday and Alfreton should have had the game wrapped up within 20 mins. They then hit the bar twice again after getting the score back to 2-3. Orient are no Crawley Town for starters. Good game to have and a nice 4th round draw looms large. Round 5 can be when we get a Big draw imo. IF City make it £10 adults, £5 concessions and kids(under 12) a quid then a big crowd should be assured.
For TV I think it'll be Man United V West Ham, the winner of Mansfield/Lincoln V Liverpool and Swansea V Arsenal.
You also forget game such as Crystal Palace v. Stoke City, Crawley Town v. Reading and Brighton v. Newcastle would also make good tv games. Who wants WHU v. MU anyway ? we see enough of them. Easy. Give it some thought then. Work it out if you can do.
I haven't got time to work you out, I need to get to Specsavers as I thought McShane handballed the winner on Saturday!
Any of those nine games in bold could be selected for TV. 5 games will be televised across ITV and ESPN.
Can not really see the point of this thread at all as everyone will have their own thoughts. Look forward your report on the matches actually selected. What about Leeds v Birmingham or QPR v WB?
How do you mean? We could get Manchester United in R4 if we both win our games. If we won that we could then get somebody like Charlton Atheltic. If I skew what you said, I think you meant you'd like us to get a crap team in the next round then get a bigger team apro pro achieving a moderately successful cup run.
I would suggest that Luton v. Wolvers would have more appeal than Peterboro v. Norwich. Especially for the older generation of fans who remember Luton in there better days.
Indeed Tommy, Indeed. You win the prize. That is exactly what i mean. To give others an example of this i will take us all back to 1971 FA Cup run when we most certainly had the luck of the draw. Rd.3 Charlton at home(BP) won 3-0 Rd.4 Blackpool at home(BP) won 2-0 Rd.5 Brentford at home(BP) won 2-1 Rd.6-qtr finals Stoke City at home(BP) Lost 2-3 after being 2-0 up by 2 waggy goals against Gordon Banks. (gate well over 41,000) Thats the sort of good cup run that had thousands of Hull City fans excited back then. But back to 2013, assuming we beat Orient, we could have a round 4 game against the winners of say Aldershot/Rotherham/Notts County and then a PL team in rd.5...someone like Newcastle or Sunderland maybe. ?
So why didn't you just say "If we beat Orient, I would like another lower league team in the 4th round so we have a good chance of meeting a premiership side in round 5"?
