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10pm tonight on Sky Sports News if anyone wanted to know.

Bristol City or Reading away please.

Spurs away please!

Newcastle away. I'll even be willing to hop on the metro and go to Sunderland.

Make it so :)

Spurs at home

man city at home

Away in London would be nice, for purely selfish reasons

Southampton away please.

We will get Sheffield Wednesday.

Are they seeded?

Home to someone shit, please. Let's actually have a cup run for a change.

Bound to be Gillingham away!!!! :)

Won't happen I'm afraid.

Seeded Teams

Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United, Manchester City, Wigan Athletic, Stoke City, Bolton Wanderers, Portsmouth, Blackburn Rovers, Sunderland, Hull City, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Birmingham City, Burnley, Newcastle United, Middlesbrough, West Bromwich Albion, Reading, Preston North End, Cardiff City, Swansea City, Ipswich Town, Bristol City, Queens Park Rangers, Sheffield Wednesday and Watford.

Unseeded Teams

Doncaster Rovers, Crystal Palace, Blackpool, Coventry City or Hartlepool United, Nottingham Forest or Bradford City, Barnsley, Macclesfield Town or Leicester City, Peterborough United, Scunthorpe United, Norwich City, Southampton, Leeds United, Millwall, Tranmere Rovers, Southend United, Huddersfield Town, Bristol Rovers, Leyton Orient, Swindon Town, Carlisle United, Gillingham, Hereford United, Rotherham United, Accrington Stanley and Port Vale.

Reading away would be very nice and take about 5000 like the last time we played the plastics "Run,Run,Run Reading"

We will get West Ham. boo.

Oopps forgot about the seedings, we'll get Preston at home..

If it's a Prem team we'll get someone like Stoke City or Hull City who've been in our division not too long ago.

Reading or Bristol City would be good for our fans to look forward too and we'd be underdogs too.

I know the big teams aren't there but it would be great to have Spurs, Man City or West Ham visit the County Ground (almost guarenteed television appearance too).

Newcastle is still my preference.

Ime at a stag do this weekend in Swansea...the home match v Mboro is part of the deal...great eh?...so i should imagine we will get Swansea away just to cheer me up....Spurs away would be my choice.

I'm crossing my fingers for Reading home/away. For no reason whatsoever I think we'd beat them too.

It'll be bristol city. as long as we win,and then meet a team with a bye for the third round.

Man City at home would be nice. Reckon they'd probably put out a crappy team though.

Gillingham away. Right the wrong.

...but we can't play Gillingham.

Crappy but winnable draw please. Im away.

I can't fucking believe we are not seeded ?

Bunch of tossers - do they not remember we have already won it once - should be a given !

Whilst a cup run would be nice, money would be even better and Man City away would be the big money game. Not sure they'd necessarily put out a weak team, they're not in Europe and with all the new players they need the games to get used to playing together (it will be only their 3rd 1st team game of the season). Plus its probably going to be their best chance of winning a trophy this season.

That's true actually. Man City away would be ace for the money but i'd prefer to play them at home. Not sure i'd be able to make the away trip ya see.

We're not going to win this trophy (well, not with my attitude anyway!) - is there much prize money in this cup per round?

We need to draw as big a club as possible, get a TV audience and make a good account of ourselves. Job done :)

Now, I'd happily dodge the a big teams in the FA Cup because prize money is good.

Away to Man City please, as I live only 10 mins from Eastlands!!

Seconded. There is  Spurs fan i know who constantly mocks me for supporting Town. I'd love to go to their place and win.

Premier new boys at home for me, Wolves, Burnely, Birmingham - good chance of TV coverage as well

anything with tv coverage so i dont have to go, im such an armchair fan in waiting.

Noooooooooooo we are always rubbish when televised!

A Southampton supporting friend once mocked me for supporting lower league Swindon.... *chortle*

TV. TV. TV. TV. TV.

Definately. I'm far more comfortable watching us on television when we're the underdog.

For your sake, I hope its TV :D

Port Vale away..... lovely.

Reading away

They would hammer us, home tie a must

Ipswich town would be nice.

Home to Spurs.

I don't give a fuck, as long as i can get to it easily from slough i don't care who we get

I'm not sure.

We somehow always manage to raise our game against bigger teams.  I'd be more concerned if we drew a league two team as thats where we always seem to go wrong!

Dont think we can Luci...think we have to play a seeded team..

Really?  Shows how much I know then! :D

If you look earlier on this thread someones been good enough to put the groups down..i didnt know either.

Seeded Teams

Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United, Manchester City, Wigan Athletic, Stoke City, Bolton Wanderers, Portsmouth, Blackburn Rovers, Sunderland, Hull City, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Birmingham City, Burnley, Newcastle United, Middlesbrough, West Bromwich Albion, Reading, Preston North End, Cardiff City, Swansea City, Ipswich Town, Bristol City, Queens Park Rangers, Sheffield Wednesday and Watford.

Unseeded Teams

Doncaster Rovers, Crystal Palace, Blackpool, Coventry City or Hartlepool United, Nottingham Forest or Bradford City, Barnsley, Macclesfield Town or Leicester City, Peterborough United, Scunthorpe United, Norwich City, Southampton, Leeds United, Millwall, Tranmere Rovers, Southend United, Huddersfield Town, Bristol Rovers, Leyton Orient, Swindon Town, Carlisle United, Gillingham, Hereford United, Rotherham United, Accrington Stanley and Port Vale.

Cardiff away please.

Cheers Rich...your a good man.any of the N East 3 for you eh?

I'd go to Middlesbrough but I'd have to get an early with work, the other two would be amazing.

Knowing my luck we'll draw them at the County Ground :)

Reading away

Will we definatelty be away because we are not seeded?

No.

Why are they saying on Sky sports that Leicester will definately be away and forest definately at home? I dont get it

i cant work that out either.

Here we go then.  One more time: Cardiff away.  Please.

Here we go then...

25 unseeded predrawn whether they are home or away???!

Half of its already happened!

so much for my Port Vale away prediction..

Bugger.  Not cardiff, rovers got them.

Away v Wolves

Great tie!

Not bad, could be persuaded to go to that...

Shit draw *yawn*.

I think that's an alright draw.

west ham v Millwall all police leave cancelled

West Ham v Milwall.  Nice.

happy with that draw.

Cheer up you grumpy fuck, it's a Premiership team FFS!

Im happy as well!
West Ham Vs Millwall....its gonna kick off in east london.

Shame it wasn't at home. I don't think I can go now.

ace,hope im not working and theres a train back.

i was told tales of west ham millwall last night at the den and my mate has just phoned me asking if i want a ticket, fuck that for a game of soldiers.

What date willit be??

24, 25 or 26 I guess.

Great draw (he said selfishly).

Shit draw

Im not sure draw

one of my last distant memories of swindon at wolves was a night game about 13ish years ago? when I decided that I would go by coach and taught me mate a card game(shoot pontoon if my memory serves me right) on the way out of Swindon..he subsequently took about £70 off me in the space of about an hour n half  :( fuck I was a damn good teacher  :D

think we got turned over as well but i'm sure someone on here will know the game I'm on about...

Good. A midlands game before i move back up north,makes up for having to miss the oldham match.

A tie we may actually win if they field a weakened side...although they do only have hull the next prem game. boo.

Yes,we played them in the cup when we were in the prem.They were taking the piss about our poor form when Summerbee smacked on home from about 30yrds.
Due to the fact of me drinking all day i cant remember the score but deffo Nicky scoring and us winning,

Best chance is if they play a semi reserve side.

Staying top flight is a bit of a holy grail for them, so they might not take it that seriously.

Its always nice to be involved in a draw. Doesnt happen very often. And a good proportion of draw's we have been involved in over the last 10 years have been subject to FAC replays which we have then lost.

Remember a game at Wolves a few years back with Bobby Howe scoring a belter.  Sure it was a cup game.  Anyone with clearer memories of this?

Will there be a dress-code for the game?

Something along the line of a Baggies shirt with 'Cox' on the back?

Yep, I agree. It makes a very pleasant change to be involved in a draw of any kind beyond the first round. I think it's winnable as well. I can't see that Wolves will be that bothered about the League Cup and will hopefully rest five or six regulars. You get some right funny results in this competition and there's no reason why we can't be one of those for once.

Yeah we won 2-1.

Ketsbaia scored for them.

Their fans got really pissed off because Swindon wouldnt stop singing. Quality support.

Vaguely, although I didn't go. Must have been around Roy Evans time I think?

That's the one, cheers.  Enjoyed that night immensely.

O'Halloran pen after Sabin was fouled was our other goal.  And yeah, as fans, we were great.

Wasn't Sabin on one of his penalty winning streaks? He seemed to win one every week around about that time.

Wolves and League Cup always reminds me of the semi final where we were cheated. Their keeper took Mayes out ala the Hun who took out the cheese eating surrender moneky in the World Cup. Then Emlyn and George Berry Berry took him out again.

Absolutely Bigbob, he'd done the same thing the previous match (another dive, but hey...)

we then got drawn away to West Brom in the next round. I remember it well as it was the day of the World Trade Centre attack and didn't see right playing football on that day.

That's right, I remember now.  We played really well that night too.

Fine by me as it's a new stadium! Def doing this one!

Damn right we did.  Wierd day...

Carling cup on beeb 1 now.  What the hell is that Leicester kit!  Seems to be resurrecting the crystal palace diagonal stripe of the 70's.

Thanks gk - hopefully they'll show our goals, I've not seen them.

Decent draw, will definitely be doing my utmost to make this one.

Thats why I'm up!  They've said they're showing all the goals from the round.

Fantasitc, cheers gk.

Still have really good memories of putting them out at this stage in 2001 - about 250 of us outsinging 7000+ Wolves fans, brilliant night. Going out to West Brom just seemed irrelevant, having driven through rush hour Brum traffic listening to what was going on in the US unfolding, as wierd and unsettling a night as the night at Wolves was immense

Why did they seed teams then ? to protect the big boys and give them more of an advantage of going through to the next round, I think seeding is unfair, yep ok we could have drawn say Spurs at home which would have been a good draw financially, but equally if we had drawn someone like Accrington Stanley it would have given us a better chance of going to R3.

Seem to me it is just looking after the bigger teams in this cup, like they give a pass to the teams in europe...looking after the big boys

It was all too confusing, even Claire Tomlinson on Sky looked quite perplexed at one point.

It reminded me of my old Maths teacher who was once trying to explain algebra whilst not looking too confident - I had the sneakiest feeling that he was trying to explain something that didnt have a clue about himself.

Could have been worse, we might cause a 'cup shock', you never know. :D

This has potential to be similar to Leeds '03. Might just need to be done.

(I'd prefer the end result to be better though, for the record).

I remember when we played the in '96, and both legs were shown on Sky.

We were under McMuck, and they were managed by the tosser McGhee, who came out saying in the build up to the first leg, that Wolves had the better players, and thay they played to their potential that they would win.

We turned them over 2-0 at the CG, with the Chief scoring, and despite a lot of cheating by the Wolves players in the 2nd leg, and a great defensive performance by Ooh Shaun Taylor, we only lost 1-0 and turned them over 2-1 on agg.

Within days, McMuck sold Shaun Taylor to Shitty...

there is a possibility this could be the weds as west brom were drawn at home too

i fucking hope it is, im out the country until late tuesday...would be nice to see us against a team in a higher league, palace away was a good crack!

Or even better, Wolves '01

This is gonna be on at stoopid O'clock Bangkok time, fantatstic.

Although the landlord at my local is a Wolves fan, I might be able to talk him into letting me sitting at his bar, drinking his beer watching his big screen TV. (I have no sports channels at home)

I was at the 01 game.It was ace  :)

I'm going to be away in Paris for the game so i'm happy with the draw  :french: They might field a weaken side and if we play like we did Tuesday we would have a chance.

Did you misunderstand the rules/scope and were hoping we'd get PSG?

Of course   :D

We just thought the likelihood of us getting through to the next round was very low so perfect time to go away for a few days  :)

And the stats bear you out that that was a safe bet. S'all right we'll turn Wolves over like we did in 01, but if we draw West Brom in the 3rd round again, someone should notify the FBI!

happy enough with that.

think Wolves wont put out a strong team because survival is their aim this season, so we stand a chance of a cup upset.

on the flip side, even though Wolves are a Premiership Club I cant see taking a huge amount of fans like we did Leeds all them years ago.

be nice to take a good 3,000 following somewhere though.

I'd hope we'd get 1500 at the very least. Using this forum as a gauge, everybody seems up for going which is more than can be said for most midweek away games!

This fixture is essentially a warm up for the speedway play-off final.

I think that we'll lose the football, lose away in the speedway but win sufficiently at home to take the prize.

Hope tix aren't too pricy!

What is your price limit Luci?

I have an 'in' with the ticket office, I will see what I can do for you.

Haha I don't have a limit just don't want to pay a fortune!

It could happen.

Swindon Town would be the world centre of conspiracy theories.

Ditto.

The OS says we will have an allocation of around 1500 for the game, but we are allowed to claim 15% of all tickets going on sale. I'd have thought the club would have requested more than that, it's not as if Wolves are going to fill the home end for this one...

Nah, it's just Wolves are scared. Last time round 200 of us outsang 7000+ of them so they're worried we'll do it again :)

I don't think I'll be going to this. Can't afford it.