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Well, might as well create a thread....

Plenty of teams playing today.

 

Cardiff played yesterday and won 3-1 vs Colchester- and they only had 4000 fans turn up!

We should have one of the highest attendances when we play.

 

Hope for upsets of course, except when we play tomorrow!

I really want to go to an away ground at a lower league club next round, providing we make it through! :)

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Full list of games:

 

Friday

Cardiff City 3-1 Colchester United

MK Dons 0-1 Chesterfield (2nd round, match replayed after Chesterfield fielded an ineligible player in the original tie, which they also won 1-0)

 

Saturday

3pm:

Barnsley v Middlesbrough

Blyth Spartans v Birmingham City

Bolton Wanderers v Wigan Athletic

Brentford v Brighton & Hove Albion

Cambridge United v Luton Town

Charlton Athletic v Blackburn Rovers

Derby County v Southport

Doncaster Rovers v Bristol City

Fulham v Wolverhampton Wanderers

Huddersfield Town v Reading

Leicester City v Newcastle United

Millwall v Bradford City

Preston North End v Norwich City

Rochdale v Nottingham Forest

Rotherham United v Bournemouth

Tranmere Rovers v Swansea City

West Bromwich Albion v Gateshead

 

Sunday

1pm:

Dover Athletic v Crystal Palace (BT Sport)

Queens Park Rangers v Sheffield United

Sunderland v Leeds United

 

3pm:

Aston Villa v Blackpool

Manchester City v Sheffield Wednesday

Southampton v Ipswich Town

Stoke City v Wrexham

 

3:30pm:

Yeovil Town v Manchester United (BT Sport)

 

4pm:

Chelsea v Watford

 

5:30pm:

Arsenal v Hull City (BBC)

 

Monday

7:45pm:

Burnley v Tottenham Hotspur

 

7:55pm:

AFC Wimbledon v Liverpool

 

Tuesday

7:45pm:

Everton v West Ham United

S****horpe United v Chesterfield

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On Saturday I meant - there are no live matches today and then bloody all Premier League ties over the next few days. FFS.

 

I want to watch Blyth Spartans and other such teams :x

 

tranmere v swansea and wba v gateshead are online.

pretty poor showing really

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On Saturday I meant - there are no live matches today and then bloody all Premier League ties over the next few days. FFS.

 

I want to watch Blyth Spartans and other such teams :x

 

You would think that the TV schedulers would have worked out that the Cup is about Blyth Spartans etc at this stage and offers something different than all premier league ties. However, just confirms the view that they do not think football life exists or matters outside the Premier teams. Ahhhhh !

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BBC still trying to wrap their heads around the idea that they don't have to show Prem clubs just because they can, and struggling with the idea that they've not already done their bit by showing live rounds before the third.

 

I can't really complain about Arsenal v Hull though, it was last year's final after all.

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BBC still trying to wrap their heads around the idea that they don't have to show Prem clubs just because they can, and struggling with the idea that they've not already done their bit by showing live rounds before the third.

 

I can't really complain about Arsenal v Hull though, it was last year's final after all.

 

Everton vs West Ham is an indescribably bad choice by BT. I hope it's a 0-0 snoozefest.

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You would think that the TV schedulers would have worked out that the Cup is about Blyth Spartans etc at this stage and offers something different than all premier league ties. However, just confirms the view that they do not think football life exists or matters outside the Premier teams. Ahhhhh !

For the broadcasters, it's all about the ratings. Sadly more people will watch Arsenal v Hull than will watch Blyth Spartans v Birmingham, which is why the BBC picked it. They have to justify the cost of the rights by pulling in the viewers.

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For the broadcasters, it's all about the ratings. Sadly more people will watch Arsenal v Hull than will watch Blyth Spartans v Birmingham, which is why the BBC picked it. They have to justify the cost of the rights by pulling in the viewers.

 

 

 

Well the damn tv licence. What does that even go towards.

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Half-Times:

 

Barnsley 0-0 Middlesbrough (delayed 15 minutes due to suspected gas leak)

Blyth Spartans 2-0 Birmingham City

Bolton Wanderers 0-0 Wigan Athletic

Brentford 0-0 Brighton & Hove Albion

Cambridge United 1-0 Luton Town

Charlton Athletic 0-1 Blackburn Rovers (delayed 15 minutes due to floodlight failure)

Derby County 0-0 Southport

Doncaster Rovers 0-0 Bristol City

Fulham 0-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers

Huddersfield Town 0-0 Reading

Leicester City 1-0 Newcastle United

Millwall 1-1 Bradford City

Preston North End 0-0 Norwich City

Rochdale 1-0 Nottingham Forest

Rotherham United 1-1 Bournemouth

Tranmere 0-1 Swansea City

West Bromwich Albion 2-0 Gateshead

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For the broadcasters, it's all about the ratings. Sadly more people will watch Arsenal v Hull than will watch Blyth Spartans v Birmingham, which is why the BBC picked it. They have to justify the cost of the rights by pulling in the viewers.

 

Says who, the BBC are the ones that don't have to do that.

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Today's results:

 

Barnsley 0-2 Middlesbrough

Blyth Spartans 2-3 Birmingham City

Bolton Wanderers 1-0 Wigan Athletic

Brentford 0-2 Brighton & Hove Albion

Cambridge United 2-1 Luton Town

Charlton Athletic 1-2 Blackburn Rovers

Derby County 1-0 Southport

Doncaster Rovers 1-1 Bristol City

Fulham 0-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers

Huddersfield Town 0-1 Reading

Leicester City 1-0 Newcastle United

Millwall 3-3 Bradford City

Preston North End 2-0 Norwich City

Rochdale 1-0 Nottingham Forest

Rotherham United 1-5 Bournemouth

Tranmere Rovers 2-6 Swansea City

West Bromwich Albion 7-0 Gateshead

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Any real upsets ? Forest perhaps.

 

Forest are out. lost away to rochdale, Pearce must be under real pressure now

WBA thumped Gateshead. Pulis put a very strong side out and got the desired result, get the club back to winning ways with a big one

Swansea won easily after merson had a right pop at their line up (despite most of the players all featuring this season in the prem)

 

Blyth were 2-0 at HT to lose to brum

no real upsets...Derby nearly drew at home to southport but a 90+min penalty, saved them

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The only ones in terms of current league position were Brighton (15 places below), Cambridge (10), Leicester (10), Preston (19) and Rochdale (21).

 

Meh. Leicester was a good result lol, especially after hearing Carver saying they would take this seriously because they haven't won a trophy in god knows how many years...

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I was wondering, but does it say as a PL Requirement, stadium capacity must be at least 15k?

If Bournemouth do get promoted, then what do they do? They have an 11k seater I think.

 

also, imagine if Brentford go up also....a lot of rules being re-written me thinks (if they make it)

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I was wondering, but does it say as a PL Requirement, stadium capacity must be at least 15k?

If Bournemouth do get promoted, then what do they do? They have an 11k seater I think.

 

Correct, 15,000 minimum. I would imagine they would have to extend pretty quickly or play at a bigger stadium. Can you think of one? ;)

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I was wondering, but does it say as a PL Requirement, stadium capacity must be at least 15k?

If Bournemouth do get promoted, then what do they do? They have an 11k seater I think.

 

Surely they could throw up a steel construction behind one of the goals with an extra couple of thousand seats in, pretty quickly? (i.e. from the moment they know about promotion)

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