Full league cup fourth round draw

[Saint-Armstrong]

FULL LEAGUE CUP FOURTH ROUND DRAW

 

Sunderland vs SOUTHAMPTON

Leicester City vs Fulham

Birmingham City vs Stoke City

Manchester United vs Norwich City

Burnley vs West Ham United

West Bromwich Albion / Arsenal vs Chelsea

Tottenham Hotspur vs Hull City

Newcastle United vs Manchester City

 

 

Ties to be played week commencing 28th October.

[Viking Warrior]

That was quick typing

[Saint Garrett]

Crap draw. Meh! Just wanted a home draw!!

[Dazza82]

This will show how far we want to go in this competition, I would expect us to play a stronger side than we have so far to progress plus it might be against our good friend poyet!

[Saint_clark]

Could be entirely Prem in the quarters.

[hypochondriac]

Could be entirely Prem in the quarters.

 

Although the NPC teams have a decent chance to progress from that.

[Bourno]

It's half term - so cheap tickets and subsidised transport form our EPL away fund ha ha ha ha

[MINIBARCELONASAINT]

Does anyone have an inkling as to what the club travel would be like - cost, time, even likely to offer?

 

I'd be up for going if travel plus ticket didn't top £50ish.

[Saint-scooby]

Fly up, coach travel that long will kill most people

[Saint137]

Dull, but winnable

[stevegrant]

Ugh, what a **** draw for anyone who doesn't live within an hour or two of Sunderland

[trousers]

@kristemple: Sunderland play Newcastle on the Sunday before League Cup tie v #Saintsfc, and both Sund & Newc can't play their home cup ties on same night

[SuperMikey]

One of the games will get pushed to Wednesday then. Hopefully not ours, take advantage of a tired squad from the Sunday derby match.

[Toon Saint]

Drinks at mine beforehand? Gay men and Jewish peeps only.

[trousers]

Arsenal go through on penalties

[Sour Mash]

Does anyone have an inkling as to what the club travel would be like - cost, time, even likely to offer?

 

I'd be up for going if travel plus ticket didn't top £50ish.

You should get a coach and match ticket all in for £50 I reckon. Time? It's a good 6 hours drive I'd say.

[Griffo]

Quality draw.

[Sour Mash]

Tough draw travelwise and for some reason I think we'll struggle to go through,if it's on the Tuesday though I can't see how Sunderland could turn out a decent side.

[Whitey Grandad]

You should get a coach and match ticket all in for £50 I reckon. Time? It's a good 6 hours drive I'd say.

 

Yes, if I remember correctly the travel club used to reckon on 6 hours of driving, plus the rest stops, but we once got back from a Newcastle evening game before 02:30. That's without extra time of course.

[Grey Crab]

It's traditional for relegation-battlers to have a decent League Cup run, taking them to at least the semis. This means Sunderland will beat us.

[the saint in winchester]

You should get a coach and match ticket all in for £50 I reckon. Time? It's a good 6 hours drive I'd say.

 

The Flybe up to Toonland is pretty pricey and you'll need a night stop then back on the early bird plane, so you can't get rat-assed. OKay, you can, but stay awake all night then.

[DT]

Tough draw. And they'll have a new manager by then.

[Batman]

Tough draw. And they'll have a new manager by then.

 

Was about to say that.

But if you want to win the thing. You would have to be able to beat the bottom prem club

 

 

Will just depend on how many changes each team makes

 

Have no idea who we have in the league before or after

 

Edit. Fulham home before, then stoke away

[JRM]

Sunderland charged £10 a ticket in the last round v Peterborough , hopefully they'll do the same for this game , coach £25-£30 so could work out quite cheaply, would just be a long day sat on a coach getting back to Southampton about 4am!

[david in sweden]

This will show how far we want to go in this competition, I would expect us to play a stronger side than we have so far to progress plus it might be against our good friend poyet!

 

My thoughts too.

The "bench /fringe " players get an outing when we play lower league sides, good for them (and good for MP to evaluate them), and of course not force regulars to avoid injuries and play two matches a week,

but despite Sunderlands current league spot it won't be an easy fixture.

 

Now that it's down to the last 16 ....can MP see the possibility of a trip to Wembley ?...or a future Euro spot?......Swansea and Wigan got in last season.

 

Will be interesting to see the side he puts out, and how " interested " we are to have an extended cup run.

[JRM]

we certainly can't look at this competition as a burden on our squad, while others are playing European football etc ours have had breaks and none of the "first team" have really been risked in the first 2 rounds. hopefully we won't have too many international call ups in October and all players come back fit from that.

 

we now find ourselves in the last 16 with some of the bigger teams having tough draws, a win at Sunderland and a decent 1/4 draw and things will start to get exciting.

[Sour Mash]

I reckon if they can't have both Newcastle and Sunderland at home on the same night, we'll be on the Tuesday as Man City are also playing on the Sunday with a 4pm k.o. so can't see them agreeing to a Tuesday fixture.

[SNSUN]

I can see a stronger team being put out for this but probably still not full strength. One of the strikers will almost definitely start for this IMO.

[Hatch]

at least it will probably be streamed.