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Midfield_General

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Saints play Stoke at home. 

Tottenham vs. Man City

Newcastle (probably) vs. Chelsea

Man Utd vs. Leicester

Brighton vs. Liverpool

Preston vs. Arsenal 

Aston Villa vs. Crystal Palace 

Brentford vs. Sheffield Weds

 

Good chance to get through to the quarter finals and some of the bigger clubs will be going out. 

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CSA96

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Carabao Cup - 4th round

Brentford v Sheffield Wednesday
Southampton v Stoke City
Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City
AFC Wimbledon or Newcastle United v Chelsea
Manchester United v Leicester City
Brighton & Hove Albion v Liverpool
Preston North End v Arsenal
Aston Villa v Crystal Palace 

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hypochondriac

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Great result that. Good chance to progress and nice to be at home. At least two of the bigger teams will be out and a few of the other prem sides too. Always good to get some more games to give our squad players a run out. 

Lighthouse

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1 minute ago, macca155 said:

Nice one gives the squad players another game. Bit more exposure.

It's the kind of game where you'd hope and expect the likes of BBD, AA, Aribo and Smallbone to have enough to get the job done.

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austsaint

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16 minutes ago, Colinjb said:

Damn, I wanted Sheffield Wednesday

Maybe them next 🤞.  One plus with the “bloated” squad is being able to field a strong line up while resting the best X1.

Pamplemousse

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Out of the 8 ties, 6 of them have to be on the Wednesday as one of the teams play on the preceding Sunday, only our game and Brentford v Sheffield Wednesday can play on either day, so it will almost certainly be played on Tuesday. Bad news for Sky that all of the big teams have to play on the same day

VectisSaint

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13 minutes ago, austsaint said:

Maybe them next 🤞.  One plus with the “bloated” squad is being able to field a strong line up while resting the best X1.

Except of course that we can't field a strong best XI 😉

Football Special

Football Special

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Last time we were relegated from the premier league we reached the semi final of this competition so could we be about to see history repeat itself?

It's a good draw but I do remember Stoke at home last season being dreadful 0-1 defeat, won't be easy. 

Game is in school half term would be nice for them to do cheap tickets and get a decent crowd in

 

Saint Keef

Saint Keef

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8 hours ago, Saint_clark said:

Home to Stoke, as good as we could have hoped for. 

Redknapp is a cunt.

Yeah - the apple didn't fall far from the tree there did it. Carrying on the family tradition.

Matty's Caddy

Matty's Caddy

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10 hours ago, Football Special said:

Last time we were relegated from the premier league we reached the semi final of this competition so could we be about to see history repeat itself?

It's a good draw but I do remember Stoke at home last season being dreadful 0-1 defeat, won't be easy. 

Game is in school half term would be nice for them to do cheap tickets and get a decent crowd in

 

Fuck me, you’re a ray of sunshine 🙄

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Badger

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12 hours ago, LGTL said:

Nice draw, could open up slightly. Cup runs always make things feel just a tad better. 

 Unless there are a couple of upsets (Preston, or Wimbledon - twice - winning) I don't see it opening up as much as coming face to face with one of the big guns. But, one of them at home, and who knows. 

east-stand-nic

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On the face of it a very good draw and route in to the last 8. That said, is there any point to getting into the last 8, when they will likely be...

Brentford
Southampton
Manchester City
Chelsea
Manchester United
Liverpool
Arsenal
Aston Villa

On top of this, we will probably take the game to lightly, rest too many and get picked apart by Stoke and be the upset of the round as we so often are. Definitely a good opportunity for us to see some of the fringe players together. I would like to see more or Cornet for a start, if not before. I would also like to see BBD in a centre forward role rather than out wide. His goal to game ration last season at the Blades was exceptional when you consider how bad they were. I would also like to see game time for Edwards at the back and perhaps some trialing of trying KWP and Suga at the same time on the right. We should have more than enough for Stoke, and if we keep TD, AL and MF on the bench we will be able to call of some good strength if needed. Perhaps thereafter we get lucky again and draw Brentford at SMS in the QF.

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Badger

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1 minute ago, east-stand-nic said:

On the face of it a very good draw and route in to the last 8. That said, is there any point to getting into the last 8, when they will likely be...

Brentford
Southampton
Manchester City
Chelsea
Manchester United
Liverpool
Arsenal
Aston Villa

 

The inevitable consequence of the 'seeded' early draw perhaps ? Even then I suspect many of the clubs will put out squad players, 'weakened' by their standards, but still an assembly of multi-million pound players.

east-stand-nic

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1 minute ago, Badger said:

The inevitable consequence of the 'seeded' early draw perhaps ? Even then I suspect many of the clubs will put out squad players, 'weakened' by their standards, but still an assembly of multi-million pound players.

No doubt about it. Makes me wonder, if they do not value the League Cup, then why bother trying to win it. Just bugger off and concentrate on the Champions League.

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The Kraken

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The format they brought in this season was a farce, letting the the clubs in Europe come in a round later than all others and then get a seeded draw to boot, so pretty much a free pass to the last 16.

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Saint Fan CaM

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45 minutes ago, east-stand-nic said:

On the face of it a very good draw and route in to the last 8. That said, is there any point to getting into the last 8, when they will likely be...

Brentford
Southampton
Manchester City
Chelsea
Manchester United
Liverpool
Arsenal
Aston Villa

On top of this, we will probably take the game to lightly, rest too many and get picked apart by Stoke and be the upset of the round as we so often are. Definitely a good opportunity for us to see some of the fringe players together. I would like to see more or Cornet for a start, if not before. I would also like to see BBD in a centre forward role rather than out wide. His goal to game ration last season at the Blades was exceptional when you consider how bad they were. I would also like to see game time for Edwards at the back and perhaps some trialing of trying KWP and Suga at the same time on the right. We should have more than enough for Stoke, and if we keep TD, AL and MF on the bench we will be able to call of some good strength if needed. Perhaps thereafter we get lucky again and draw Brentford at SMS in the QF.

No team to fear there whatsoever. It’s just a game of football…11 vs 11. Anything could happen. 😬

But yeah, a humiliating reaming is highly likely and we’ll be gifted a chance to “concentrate on the league”. 🤣

whelk

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We beat Man City with a shit team and shit manager. I really wonder why some of you lot are even interested in football? Clearly gives you no joy even at the stage where you can be optimistic! You are miserable about the ensuing defeat regardless of whether it happens or not.

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The Left Back

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1 hour ago, whelk said:

We beat Man City with a shit team and shit manager. I really wonder why some of you lot are even interested in football? Clearly gives you no joy even at the stage where you can be optimistic! You are miserable about the ensuing defeat regardless of whether it happens or not.

Agreed, it's just depressing on here at the moment.  Every thread seems to get infected with some version of 'we're doomed'. 

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Eric The Red

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3 hours ago, east-stand-nic said:

On the face of it a very good draw and route in to the last 8. That said, is there any point to getting into the last 8, when they will likely be...

Brentford
Southampton
Manchester City
Chelsea
Manchester United
Liverpool
Arsenal
Aston Villa

On top of this, we will probably take the game to lightly, rest too many and get picked apart by Stoke and be the upset of the round as we so often are. Definitely a good opportunity for us to see some of the fringe players together. I would like to see more or Cornet for a start, if not before. I would also like to see BBD in a centre forward role rather than out wide. His goal to game ration last season at the Blades was exceptional when you consider how bad they were. I would also like to see game time for Edwards at the back and perhaps some trialing of trying KWP and Suga at the same time on the right. We should have more than enough for Stoke, and if we keep TD, AL and MF on the bench we will be able to call of some good strength if needed. Perhaps thereafter we get lucky again and draw Brentford at SMS in the QF.

There will be at least one 'shock' in the 8 matches. Let's hope it isn't us!

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Football Special

Football Special

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10 hours ago, Matty's Caddy said:

Fuck me, you’re a ray of sunshine 🙄

I think predicting us to get to a semi final qualifies me as an optimist. 

Anyway, I'm actually looking forward to this , enjoy cup runs 👍🏻

Bad Wolf

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On 26/09/2024 at 20:53, Charlie Wayman said:

A few people implying this will be a formality, a walk in the park...

One thing our history has taught us surely is "never underestimate the opposition"

Sun Tzu and Nigel Adkins agree.

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