The Capitol One cup kicks off with an away trip to the scenic surroundings of Spotland, Rochdale to play the newly promoted club. North End have been lucky over the years having seemed to have a succession of home draws in the first round this time they travel. Dale lost yesterday(Saturday) to Peterborough by 1-0 and no doubt will want to impress their own fans, having lost Hogan just before the season started following his transfer to Brentford they could find goals hard to come by. Cannot see Grayson making many changes to Saturday's line up but the likes of Kevin Davies may start only to not to over play goal machine Garner.
Man U join the competition in the next round. It would be a good chance to show Ferguson Sr what PNE thinks of him should NE win tonight and get MU at home. I suppose he still travels with the team. If I were van Gaal, I would not allow him anywhere near the team.
For 43 minutes Social media was awash with disappointment at the teams performance, then came two goals in 5 minutes and we then cruise through to the next round. Seeded again could get Man Utd, as if we will Bournemouth away will be the draw.
