FA Cup 3rd Round Draw | Chelsea (H) | 4:30pm, Sun 8 Jan

Crazy

Chavs away 5th Jan League
Chavs home 8th Jan FA Cup
W/c 9th Jan -> Carabao 5th round
Rags away 14th Jan League
Spursy home 19th Jan League
Wolves home 22nd Jan League
W/c 23rd Jan -> Carabao SF 1st leg
28th Jan -> FA Cup 4th round
W/c 30th Jan -> Carabao SF 2nd leg
Spursy away 4th Feb League
 
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Nice work for the dippers, either us or Chelsea go out, while their two hated rivals clash at the swamp. They get a home draw against mediocre opposition. Would love to win the fa cup a competition we have not dominated. Not a good draw for us but worse for Chelsea.
 
oddfellows said:
Crazy

Chavs away 5th Jan League
Chavs home 8th Jan FA Cup
W/c 9th Jan -> Carabao 5th round
Rags away 14th Jan League
Spursy home 19th Jan League
Wolves home 22nd Jan League
W/c 23rd Jan -> Carabao SF 1st leg
W/c 30th Jan -> Carabao SF 2nd leg
Spursy away 4th Feb League (or FA Cup 4th round)
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Fa Cup 4th round is the 28th Jan.
 
I think the next thing perhaps is to have a seeding system for future years in rounds 3 and 4 to avoid this situation.
Maybe not all the Premier league clubs but certainly the ones in European competitions.
We will no doubt put a 2nd string side out as will Chelsea so in essence your short changing the competition a little and the fans and some of the matches are rubbish.
 
Agree it' not the most exciting of draws.
All Premier League ties in the early rounds (apart from actual derbies maybe) don't really get the adrenaline pumping do they!
Over the past decade we must have played Chelsea in the various Cups more than anyone else(especially the last 4 or 5 seasons in particular)
 
oddfellows said:
Crazy

Chavs away 5th Jan League
Chavs home 8th Jan FA Cup
W/c 9th Jan -> Carabao 5th round
Rags away 14th Jan League
Spursy home 19th Jan League
Wolves home 22nd Jan League
W/c 23rd Jan -> Carabao SF 1st leg
W/c 30th Jan -> Carabao SF 2nd leg
Spursy away 4th Feb League (or FA Cup 4th round)
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4th round is 28th January not in February.
 
Aba452 said:
Disappointing, an easier draw would have been nice.

Wonder how seriously the scamps will treat it this year, must be a likely way of silverware, obviously via pens, la!

Glad I avoided watching the draw if meth head was doing it, the preen-in with bollock gob is very slightly more preferable. Ish.
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It was Mark Wright doing the draw for the home teams,and although he did play for the Dippers at one point, he was always a decent,level headed player .
He did come across as a likeable type of gent whilst pulling balls out of the pot .
 
pleased with that. got young kids and cant really afford to try and get premier league tickets so fa cup it is at home to a top side. hopefully my lad will get to see kev and haaland
 
Cricket Blue said:
I think the next thing perhaps is to have a seeding system for future years in rounds 3 and 4 to avoid this situation.
Maybe not all the Premier league clubs but certainly the ones in European competitions.
We will no doubt put a 2nd string side out as will Chelsea so in essence your short changing the competition a little and the fans and some of the matches are rubbish.
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To be honest even some championship and Div one sides have been known to play weakened sides in this. It’s not a very prestigious competition anymore.
 
Cricket Blue said:
I think the next thing perhaps is to have a seeding system for future years in rounds 3 and 4 to avoid this situation.
Maybe not all the Premier league clubs but certainly the ones in European competitions.
We will no doubt put a 2nd string side out as will Chelsea so in essence your short changing the competition a little and the fans and some of the matches are rubbish.
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No chance. We want these ties, we don’t want to avoid them.

We’ve had piss easy ties in the domestic Cups and the CL Group Stage and Ro16 for years now and it’s got us nowhere in terms of winning the CL. By the time we get to the bigger CL rounds and games, we lack big knock Cup game experience because we always get the likes of Newport or twat Shalke 10-1 on aggregate… does nothing for us.

The more big games the better for us.
 
Cricket Blue said:
I think the next thing perhaps is to have a seeding system for future years in rounds 3 and 4 to avoid this situation.
Maybe not all the Premier league clubs but certainly the ones in European competitions.
We will no doubt put a 2nd string side out as will Chelsea so in essence your short changing the competition a little and the fans and some of the matches are rubbish.
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Its a 150-year-old cup competition with an open draw
Seeding bullshit has turned the CL group stages into a fucking horror shiteshow
But yeah, let’s flush a century and a half of English football tradition tradition down the toilet so that for example Chuck in Tennessee, who has ‘followed’ City for five minutes in the same way he consumes Stranger Things and Game of Thrones, can watch some great content in the latter rounds
 
Cricket Blue said:
I think the next thing perhaps is to have a seeding system for future years in rounds 3 and 4 to avoid this situation.
Maybe not all the Premier league clubs but certainly the ones in European competitions.
We will no doubt put a 2nd string side out as will Chelsea so in essence your short changing the competition a little and the fans and some of the matches are rubbish.
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Seeding the FA Cup? Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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