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FA Cup Draw - Burnley at home


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Still confuses me as to why we belittle the cups. We have a real good chance of a cup run this year, and we should have got a lot further in the league cup. Now with the injuries we're picking up, it looks like they were rested in those games for no reason really. Doesn't look like we're going to do anything this season other than bog standard mid-table (which is progress, don't get me wrong!) but it would have been nice to have a bit of excitement in the cup, but the club don't seem to care about that. Nothing beats a day out at Wembley, no matter what cup it is. It can make an average season look so much brighter.

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Whats the point of being a half decent side in the Prem if you're not going to try in the cups !! It's the only genuine chance you have of Wembley and glory.

 

Ild rather have one day out at Wembley than loads of qualifiers in the pointless Euro wafer cup.

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Couldn't care less this season, don't have the squad to compete in 2 tournements, with current injuries they can't even deal with the league.

 

What kind of season can you envisage where you would care?

 

Being that we got to the final with far less resource than we have now not long ago.

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We could do with a good cup run. Don't understand all this "save ourselves for the league" pony, especially as we'll be mid table at best, come May. A good cup run is good for the soul of the club and the city as a whole. 2003 was a brilliant run and some memorable days out. And I bet the players look back on that fondly, especially when they are remembered as a Cup finalist. What good is it to a player to say "yeah I never played in a cup final, but I did come 10th in the PL a few times". Big yawn! ;) Seriously though, let's take the cup seriously and make a bloody good fist of trying to win it, if only to rub it in more to those fishy f***pigs down the road.

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I really want us to try and win the FA Cup. It is a massive competition for saints (the second biggest and the biggest one we could actually win!) Anyone who doesn't think the FA Cup is important needs to get over themselves and go ask a skate fan about their history...

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Anyone who doesn't think the FA Cup is important needs to get over themselves and go ask a skate fan about their history...

 

Are you suggesting we buy players we can't afford ahead of going into administration just to be able to gloat about winning a cup? ;)

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Would quite like to abuse Redknapp again, but he won't be bothered if we beat them. So no fun there. Boscombe would be quite good to shut a couple of plums who live near me up, but we could lose, so maybe not. Nice trip to London would be good, maybe Millwall . Away game would be nice , at least the people moaning about allocations will be able to build up some points on their customer numbers.

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I want the worst team in the competition and to play them at St Mary's. I want Saints to have the best possible chance of winning the FA Cup.

 

+1. Look at our run to the 2003 final. Spurs aside (which we anihilated anyway), we played lower league opposition all the way through the competition. (Despite making hard work of Millwall...)

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Only two genuine upsets in the second round, which leaves only 4 non-league teams in the hat for the third round: Grimsby Town, Kidderminster Harriers, Macclesfield Town and Wrexham (playing Oxford tomorrow night).

 

1 AFC Bournemouth

2 Arsenal

3 Aston Villa

4 Barnsley

5 Birmingham City

6 Blackburn Rovers

7 Blackpool

8 Bolton Wanderers

9 Brighton & Hove Albion

10 Burnley

11 Cardiff City

12 Charlton Athletic

13 Chelsea

14 Crystal Palace

15 Derby County

16 Doncaster Rovers

17 Everton

18 Fulham

19 Huddersfield Town

20 Hull City

21 Ipswich Town

22 Leeds United

23 Leicester City

24 Liverpool

25 Manchester City

26 Manchester United

27 Middlesbrough

28 Millwall

29 Newcastle United

30 Norwich City

31 Nottingham Forest

32 Queens Park Rangers

33 Reading

34 Sheffield Wednesday

35 Southampton

36 Stoke City

37 Sunderland

38 Swansea City

39 Tottenham Hotspur

40 Watford

41 West Bromwich Albion

42 West Ham United

43 Wigan Athletic

44 Yeovil Town

45 Sheffield United

46 Preston North End

47 Port Vale

48 Bristol Rovers or Crawley Town

49 Milton Keynes Dons

50 Carlisle United

51 Macclesfield Town

52 Southend United

53 Oldham Athletic or Mansfield Town

54 Rochdale

55 Peterborough United

56 Hartlepool United or Coventry City

57 Kidderminster Harriers

58 Plymouth Argyle

59 Wrexham or Oxford United

60 Fleetwood Town or Burton Albion

61 Grimsby Town

62 Leyton Orient

63 Bristol City

64 Stevenage

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Someone lower leagues and at home please. Although if we treat the FA Cup with the same disdain as we did the League Cup then its pretty pointless in any case. Hopefully we'll actually try to win this one.

 

Got a strange feeling that we'll be drawn away to a Premier League team.

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