Carabao Cup fourth round - Lincoln (h)

[Picard]

Coming up.

[davefizzy14]

Hoping for a nice home draw

[whelk]

Didn’t realise the games are before Christmas. Might be a little more excitement after the WC dross

[Lee On Solent Saint]

Big chance to make the quarters here. Favourable home draw would be good for the new guy's first game.

[whelk]

Get on with the draw FFS

[whelk]

You can have too much of Dion Dublin’s homoerotic drooling over Rashford

[egg]

Gillingham at home please

[John Boy Saint]

Could be Bournemouth

[JRM]

Dragging out some of the most boring punditry I've ever heard 

[LGTL]

No rush lads FFS, they’ll be interviewing members of the crowd next. 

[Kenilworthy]

It is clearly taking longer than expected to warm the balls of the top six teams

[JRM]

4 minutes ago, Kenilworthy said:

It is clearly taking longer than expected to warm the balls of the top six teams

You just know it will be Man City v Gillingham and Liverpool v Lincoln 

[John Boy Saint]

Blimey the game will be kicking off in a minute

[saintwbu]

Lincoln at home!

[nta786]

Lincoln at home!!! 

[macca155]

Lincoln at home nice one

[davefizzy14]

We got Lincoln at home, thats great!

[trousers]

Excellent 

[macca155]

City v Liverpool lovely

[Yorkshire Saint]

Happy with that 

[egg]

Nice 👍😀

[Lighthouse]

Last played them in 1996, it was also a home LC game. They got a 2-2 draw and took us to a replay.

[Sunglasses Ron]

Just now, Lighthouse said:

Last played them in 1996, it was also a home LC game. They got a 2-2 draw and took us to a replay.

Correct!

I remember driving down to The Dell only to find out it had sold out!

 

 

[Forester]

Great opportunity to reach final this year.  City v Liverpool too

[LGTL]

Shame it’s not away, would have been a new ground. But can’t complain. Draw is opening up nicely. 

[Pilchards]

So if Jonesy loses this one in his first home game he’s going to feel a right cunt!

[macca155]

Fourth-round draw

Wolves v Gillingham

Southampton v Lincoln City

Blackburn Rovers v Nottingham Forest

Newcastle United v Bournemouth

Manchester City v Liverpool

Manchester United v Burnley

MK Dons v Leicester City

Charlton Athletic v Brighton

[Lighthouse]

2 minutes ago, Pilchards said:

So if Jonesy loses this one in his first home game he’s going to feel a right cunt!

I know some girls from Lincoln, that’s considered an acceptable greeting.

[Mixedkebab]

If we get through and avoid the winner of City/Liverpool and probably Newcastle we’ve got a cracking chance 

although I forget we are pretty shit 

Edited 10 November, 2022 by Mixedkebab
Forgot we were shit

[Roger]

9 minutes ago, Pilchards said:

So if Jonesy loses this one in his first home game he’s going to feel a right cunt!

What a lovely thing to say! Great that our fans are so supportive 

[Hatch]

11 minutes ago, Sunglasses Ron said:

Correct!

I remember driving down to The Dell only to find out it had sold out!

 

 

I was refused entry due to being too pissed.  Been out all day with Lincoln mates who had come down for the match 

[JRM]

10 minutes ago, Sunglasses Ron said:

Correct!

I remember driving down to The Dell only to find out it had sold out!

 

 

Remember it well somehow let in more people than seats , struggled in the game was lucky to get a replay , good draw good to have a cup run give the club a lift 

 

[Mr Brightside]

Got to be happy with that. 

[JRM]

Home game after a 6 week break, can act as a pre season for the manager , chance to give players proper run out and get through,  few days before Christmas,  school holidays etc should get a decent crowd in. 

[John Boy Saint]

Shame it was the other way round always thought the name Sincil Bank just had something about it - but one to knock off the list before they moved. And visited the Christmas Market with Mrs JBS. 

Before someone pulls on their anorak and goes all MLG yes I know it’s currently the LNER stadium. 

[Saint Garrett]

Nice. Lovely draw. Nice for City to find Liverpool too. Realistically worse case it’s the following for next round if we manage to sneak past Lincoln. 

Forest

Wolves

Newcastle

Man Utd

Man City

Leicester

Brighton

 

 

[Noodles34]

36 minutes ago, Saint Garrett said:

Nice. Lovely draw. Nice for City to find Liverpool too. Realistically worse case it’s the following for next round if we manage to sneak past Lincoln. 

Forest

Wolves

Newcastle

Man Utd

Man City

Leicester

Brighton

 

 

Exactly. People saying the draw is for the taking and in the end, it may well be 8 PL teams left. 

[Saint86]

1 hour ago, Saint Garrett said:

Nice. Lovely draw. Nice for City to find Liverpool too. Realistically worse case it’s the following for next round if we manage to sneak past Lincoln. 

Forest

Wolves

Newcastle

Man Utd

Man City

Leicester

Brighton

 

 

Most of which will comfortably stroll past saints. 

Plus Jones doesn't take the cups seriously historically. 

[skintsaint]

8 minutes ago, Saint86 said:

Most of which will comfortably stroll past saints.

4/8 of those I would expect a decent chance to beat at home. The bigger teams field weaker teams too so always a chance.

Good draw for us, lower league at home. Gotta be in it to win it.

[JRM]

5 hours ago, Saint86 said:

Most of which will comfortably stroll past saints. 

Plus Jones doesn't take the cups seriously historically. 

Historically he's not had much of a squad outside his first XI though. 

In this case 

- First game in 6 weeks no need to rest players , possibly also have KWP and Livramento back by then plus not many players at world Cup. 

- First home game for new manager will want to start with a win build some confidence 

- few days before Christmas wants to make sure he gets his fair share of roast spuds at his Saints supporting inlaws a few days later won't want to upset them with a cup defeat. 

Get into the 1/4s and see who we get, might as well make a go of it once you get that far. 

[skintsaint]

Just had a flick at one of their forums, they actually seem confident to get a result. That's where we are at right now 😅

[JRM]

1 minute ago, skintsaint said:

Just had a flick at one of their forums, they actually seem confident to get a result. That's where we are at right now 😅

Probably fair enough if you look how we struggled against Sheffield Wednesday (but then they also just lost away at Chippenham Town so yeah bit of a cheek 🙄) 

[HarvSFC]

League One clubs aren’t having a World Cup break, whereas we’ll be restarting our season. That should hopefully be the only factor that causes the match to be a tight one.

We just need to get to a semi final and hope the only other three clubs remaining are Football League clubs. It’s happened before. 🤷‍♂️

[edprice1984]

A League One side at home with a chance to get to the QF's should mean we take this relatively seriously. 

I feel far more comfortable and confident this being at St Mary's than if we had to go to Sincil Bank. Tricky ties for Leicester, Forest and Brighton too. I would expect one of those to lose.

Hopefully City and/or Liverpool, Newcastle or Man Utd get drawn against each other (provided they get through) and then its simply a case of how much do you want to target the competition.

[John Boy Saint]

12 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

I know some girls from Lincoln, that’s considered an acceptable greeting.

There was a Lincolnshire councillor a few years who openly said that he would like a few outsiders to know some of the locals and hopefully deepen the local  gene pool!

[Saint Fan CaM]

Couldn’t have asked for a better draw to be honest, especially with Pool and City playing each other. Big opportunity for NJ to make an early impression on the team and the fans at home. Bet it’ll be a sell out.

[suewhistle]

18 hours ago, Kenilworthy said:

It is clearly taking longer than expected to warm the balls of the top six teams

Was that for the full squads or only the starting 22?

[AlexLaw76]

I have been to Lincoln. Quite nice and the cathedral is pretty spectacular 

[FarehamSaintJames]