FA Cup 24/25

We are number 28.

It’s live on Twitter

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Nice to start the run to our third Fa cup against the team we beat to win our second.

Soton v Swansea
Arsenal v Man U
Exeter v Oxford
Leyton O v Drby Cunty
Reading v Burnley
Aston Villa v West Ham
Norwich City v Brighton
Man City v Salford City
Millwall v Dagenham
Liverpool v Accrington Stanley who are they?
Bristol C v Wolves
Preston Knob End v Charlton
Chelsea v Morecambe
Middlesbrough v Blackburn
Bournemouth v West Brom
Mansfield Town v Wigan
Tamworth v Spuds
Hull v Doncaster
Sunderland v Stoke
Leicester losing to QPR
Brentford v Plymouth
Coventrycity v Sheffield Wednesdays
Newcastle v Bromley Macleary
Everton v Peterborough Eye Docs
Wycombe v Portsmouth Recashed
Birmingham City v Lincoln
Leeds v Harrogate
Forest v Luton Down
Sheffield Dirties v Cardiff Dirty
Ipswich v Bristol Rovers
Fulham v Watford Mind the Gap
Crystal Palarse v Stockport County

I would like us to have a proper go at the Cup this season. We've built a good early points total that should be plenty of buffer against any relegation worries, Guru has made it clear that we can't compete for a European spot, and we have enough squad quality and depth that we could have a legitimate shot at winning it.

Is that really 15 out of EPL clubs drawn at home??

BBC will want Arse v Man U and Tamworth v spudz.
Presume ITV will show bindippers v Accrington just because. And possibly Citeh v Salford. I think they are still crying over Wrexham being knocked out tho.

Notts are away, so assume we’ll be 3pm Saturday. As nature intended.

I think there’s a chance of Sunday at 2pm and extended highlights. Only about a quarter of the games will actually be Saturday at 3pm.

I’d have thought we’d be one of the least attractive ties. Perception will be little chance of an upset - they’ve been shit this year and we’re at home; we’re not in the automatic selection club and not even much novelty as we’ve played them in the league this year.

I wouldn’t mind a cup run to go with our mid-table security. It would be better if, by Jan 11th, Danilo and Sangare were fit, Taiwo found some form and we had a few more points from the next 7 games. (City, Scum, Villa, Brentford, Spudz, Everton, Wolves) W2D3L2 and we would be on >30pts. Even I might be happy with that state of affairs.

Cue 3rd round banana skin…against plucky little Luton.

We always struggle against plucky little Luton. One of those meh sort of ties. As a possible mid-table club, we'd ideally like a much lower opponent to ease our way through. A physical battle against Luton is no good.

Cupset. Focus on the clichés.

At least we won't be switching off at 2-0 up, you'd hope.

I would quite have liked us to draw Huddersfield away and thrashed them, including multiple dodgy penalties.

Called it. Although ITV have Tamworth and BBC have Salford.
ITV have also picked Villa v West Ham and (on ITV4) Millwall v Dagenham.

Be interesting to see what they price the Luton game at. Obviously should be £15 or less but I'd guess something around 20,000 will probably be the attendance regardless, so they'll probably be similar price to Newcastle.