4th Round Draw

[macca155]

Watford away bollocks

[Holmes_and_Watson]

First out away at Watford

[sandwichsaint]

Yawn

[Bakovnetski]

Yup, that's fine. Winnable. 

[whelk]

2 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

Seema Jaswal can empty my ball bag any time she likes. 

You bloody old romantic you

[macca155]

Oh come on Ipswich v Maidstone fix

[Saint Matty 76]

Winnable but as boring a draw as you could possibly get

[kwsaint]

Good few all PL ties

[macca155]

Oooh Eastleigh v Utd (possibly)

Tasty

[bpsaint]

Get in! Go on Eastleigh!!!! 

[LGTL]

Couldn’t have been a more dull draw. 

Potentially brilliant draw for Eastleigh though!

[Wade Garrett]

We’ll fucking murder them.  5th round here we come.  Choo fucking choo.

[Whitey Grandad]

I shall be out of the country for the next round so at least I shan’t miss this game, but I would like to get through.

[Pamplemousse]

There are 4 all Championship ties so there will be at least 4 of us in the 5th Round. Decent ish chance of a Championship club going very far.

 

Ipswich and Blackburn will probably win and you can't rule out Swansea and West Brom creating a shock. That would be half the teams from the Championship

Edited 8 January, 2024 by Pamplemousse

[bpsaint]

What an utterly crap draw as a whole though, fucking Watford away, what a load of shite.

[obelisk]

Quite a few EPL teams will be missing by round 5. A championship team with a fair draw could go a fair way in the FA Cup this year.

[Paulwantsapint81]

Need to win it at 1st attempt 

Real incentive for Newport & Eastleigh 

[Secret Site Agent]

Away at Watford it is.

Would have preferred lower league team but there you go.

It's a winnable one, so we'll probably lose it 1-0 now I've jinxed it.

Want and Eastleigh v Man Utd where Manure come with their arrogant kids Under 18s and go 2-0 Down in the first Half.

[skintsaint]

Boring draw

[Secret Site Agent]

At least some of the Premier Teams will put each other out.

 

And allow the BBC and ITV to show only Premier Teams again and fuck the lower leagues

Edited 8 January, 2024 by Secret Site Agent
Cause I am mental

[Turkish]

doesn't get much duller than that

[SNSUN]

Shite. Winnable but shite. 

[Whitey Grandad]

What day does tonight’s game start?

[LGTL]

Coming out second ruined the rest of the draw too. Love the anticipation of seeing who’s left.

[Hatch]

Not far to travel for Man Utd fans. 

[whelk]

2 minutes ago, LGTL said:

Coming out second ruined the rest of the draw too. Love the anticipation of seeing who’s left.

Yeah massive anticlimax

[Whitey Grandad]

Just now, whelk said:

Yeah massive anticlimax

You get used to it 😢

[Challenger]

10 minutes ago, Secret Site Agent said:

At least some of the Premier Teams will put each other out.

 

And allow the BBC and ITV to show only Premier Teams again and fuck the lower leagues

Apart from Wrexham no doubt.

[woodsaint1]

Watford is the new Palace for us when it comes to cup draws 🥱

[SNSUN]

Beat them in the Semi in 2003 so let's do it again en route to the final.

[AlexLaw76]

1-1

[Mattio]

Wonder if we’ll get a big allocation 

[Pamplemousse]

7 minutes ago, Mattio said:

Wonder if we’ll get a big allocation 

Chesterfield got an allocation of about 4000 tickets in the last round, which is more than 15%. They were initially given 3500 and then requested more. Hopefully we get more than the 15%, can't see Watford selling out for us.

Edited 8 January, 2024 by Pamplemousse

[sfc4prem]

Shite draw but eminently winnable, particularly as I'm sure Watford and us will rest players, and our squad is much stronger than theirs - playing into our hands nicely.

[DT]

I had tickets for Hull that day with the kids. Moving it to a Tuesday night is not great. Anyone know if we  can get a refund? Or is that it? 

[JRM]

7 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

Chesterfield got an allocation of about 4000 tickets in the last round, which is more than 15%. They were initially given 3500 and then requested more. Hopefully we get more than the 15%, can't see Watford selling out for us.

They'll definitely give us the whole 4000 behind the goal if we want it, you'd hope as it's an unattractive fixture for them as well make it cheap tickets. 

It's an easy away day, either quick drive or via London on the train for a few beers. Plenty of pubs in town centre short walk from ground so could be worse. We sold out league game really quickly so with plenty of tickets this time good opportunity for others who missed out to go. 

 

[JRM]

26 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

1-1

Yep. Then go to pens in the replay 

[TheAlehouseBrawlers]

4 minutes ago, JRM said:

They'll definitely give us the whole 4000 behind the goal if we want it, you'd hope as it's an unattractive fixture for them as well make it cheap tickets. 

It's an easy away day, either quick drive or via London on the train for a few beers. Plenty of pubs in town centre short walk from ground so could be worse. We sold out league game really quickly so with plenty of tickets this time good opportunity for others who missed out to go. 

 

Yep, not the most exciting fixture but a decent day out with plenty of options for a few shandies. Been there a few times, first time 40-something years back for our narrow League Cup defeat (on aggregate ) will get the entire end for the cup so should make a racket.

[Chez]

26 minutes ago, JRM said:

They'll definitely give us the whole 4000 behind the goal if we want it, you'd hope as it's an unattractive fixture for them as well make it cheap tickets. 

It's an easy away day, either quick drive or via London on the train for a few beers. Plenty of pubs in town centre short walk from ground so could be worse. We sold out league game really quickly so with plenty of tickets this time good opportunity for others who missed out to go. 

 

I think the whole end is about 5800 seats. Not sure we'd sell that many for a 4th round tie...

[TheAlehouseBrawlers]

24 minutes ago, Chez said:

I think the whole end is about 5800 seats. Not sure we'd sell that many for a 4th round tie...

We took something like that to Spurs 2 or 3 years back for a 4th round replay, think it was live on SKY too. And took 7,000+ to the old WHL long before that, think for 3rd round.

9,000 away for a 4th round tie in 1984.

Edit: Any excuse...

 

Edited 8 January, 2024 by TheAlehouseBrawlers
Why not...

[Charlie Wayman]

1 hour ago, sandwichsaint said:

Yawn

X 2. Underwhelming and the sort of nothing tie we're bound to cock up. Guess Watford feel the same way. Certainly not TV material.

[Charlie Wayman]

1 hour ago, SNSUN said:

Beat them in the Semi in 2003 so let's do it again en route to the final.

Plenty of all PL ties to whittle down their numbers so who knows but my money is on a defeat through apathy so it'll matter not a jot anyway.

[Chez]

5 minutes ago, TheAlehouseBrawlers said:

We took something like that to Spurs 2 or 3 years back for a 4th round replay, think it was live on SKY too. Took 7,000+ to the old WHL before too, think for 3rd round.

9,000 away for a 4th round tie in 1984.

Spurs in the new stadium may have been a little bit more appealing than Watford, but the `London' away games always seem to sell out.

I was at the WHL game in 1990. What a day.

Was the 9000 at nottarfkrap? I saw a small clip of the away game at Sheff Wednesday in the 6th round and that look like a huge following.

[Whitey Grandad]

our home game against Hull has been rearranged for the evening of Tuesday 20th February at 19:45. 

I can go to this one 😁

https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/hull-fixture-given-new-date

[davefizzy14]

Happy with the draw, a very good opportunity for us to progress

[musesaint]

Boring fixture but looking on the bright side an opportunity to progress - or just bomb out and focus on promotion 

win win situation 

[Hatch]

TV games will be 

Spurs / Man City

Newpotr/Eastleigh v Man U

Fulham / Newcastle

Chelsea  / Villa

Liverpool / Whoever they play

and probably  WBA v WOlves

[saintant]

It's an ok draw as far as I'm concerned. Reasonable chance of going through and if we do go out no disgrace and concentrate on the league.

[Saint Fan CaM]

Not a bad draw…one we can win but also not a complete upset / travesty if we lost. 0-1 Saints.

[Harry_SFC]

Let's be honest we will put out a reasonable side at worst. Apart from a couple of youngsters, the side against Walsall was pretty strong. So we should as well. As others have said - the draw is gonna open up for the championship sides. 

Edited 9 January, 2024 by Harry_SFC