Spurs vs Gillingham in EFL Cup

Good home draw, should be a good excuse to test out some youngsters.

 

Full draw:

West Ham vs Accrington

Nottingham Forest vs Arsenal

Swansea vs Manchester City

Fulham vs Bristol City

Bournemouth vs Preston

Tottenham vs Gillingham

Everton vs Norwich

Leeds vs Blackburn

Derby vs Liverpool

Northampton vs Manchester United

QPR vs Sunderland

Brighton vs Reading

Newcastle vs Wolves

Stoke City vs Hull City

Leicester City vs Chelsea

Southampton vs Crystal Palace

 

Watford under estimated us to

 

Wasn't an insult to you guys, just that the EFL shouldn't be a priority for us in the early rounds and we have some more promising youngsters coming through this season. Need to give the new Kanes, Diers and Allis a chance to prove themselves.

Should be a good game though, looking forward to it

 

Hoping to make the trip over but not sure how i'm going to wrangle work around this one.

 

Probably for the best, you don't want to travel all that way only to get spanked 5-0 by our under 15s

 

I think Jamie O'hara has just signed for Gillingham.

 

I assume you all remember Justin Edinburgh or were you all mere babies at the time

 

Absolutely. He's done well at Gillingham after spending a bit of time learning the trade in non-league football. Faded badly at the end of last season and had a patchy start to this but here's hoping he gets the time and backing this season. Seems to be a promising lower league manager and hope he can get some recognition like Hughton has done.

 

Jamie O'Hara signed for them recently, so he's bound to hit a 30-yarder past Vorm/ McGee and with Edinburgh as gaffer he'll be doing his all to get his players well up for it.

As NKNG said, not that it's being disrespectful but it'll be great to test some of the young lads looking to break through, plus September is when our CL venture begins so we've got to prioritise Prem and CL. I think Onomah will definitely start, Winks and CCV too, maybe give McGee his debut in goal if Hugo is still out, Harrison and Edwards may be on the bench and perhaps KWP and Oduwa too if they've not been loaned out already. Some of the squad players will need to prove themselves as most of the first team have started the season well and don't look like losing their places any time soon.

I'd go with an XI of something like:

McGee
Trippier, CCV, Wimmer, Davies
Wanyama, Winks
Son, Onomah, Chadli
Kane/ Janssen

We could have Lopez and Nkoudou in by then, plus any other signing(s), while Son and/ or Chadli could've been sold, Poch may feel Dembele could do with the 90 minutes as he wouldn't have returned that long ago from his suspension, so there may be a bit of re-jigging to be done but something along those lines is what I'd like to see.

 

It will be a strong side that is put out (squad needs dictate that) .
So by definition the starting XI will not be disrespectful, just not the strongest.
The Spurs connections to Gillingham will make the match even more friendly.

 

Nasty sod. We loved him.
Great draw for me. My team v my local team.

 

The "they played for both" section also includes current players Paul Konchesky and Emmanuel Osadebe (youth),

 

A great tie for me personally, i have watched alot of the Gills in recent years and hope that we can get tickets to see what I think will be a good cup tie, interesting that the match appears to be on Tuesday when we are the 1600 Sunday league match

 

This game has now been confirmed for Wednesday 21st September at 8pm.
Stoke v Hull is the same time, while all other fixtures are 7.45pm. Don't know if that means it's televised.

 

Northampton V Man Utd is the televised match

 

I probably should've been able to work that out myself, shouldn't I?
Just to save some time, the first televised game of the FA Cup third round will be Man Utd v WeDon'tFuckingCare FC.
It really should count as financial doping.

 

"Just to save some time, the first televised game of the FA Cup third round will be Man Utd v Whoever FC."

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they've got to recoup their spending somehow!

 

They've had over 50 consecutive FA Cup games televised, IIRC.
I think that should cover it.