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With a late Ameobi goal putting the Geordies ahead .... Shouldnt have to wait too long ...

Here are the magic numbers ...

1. Arsenal
2. Birmingham City
3. Bristol City
4. Burnley
5. Chelsea
6. Derby County
7. Fulham
8. Huddersfield Town
9. Hull City
10. Leeds United
11. Leicester City
12. Liverpool
13. Manchester City
14. Manchester United
15. Norwich City
16. Peterborough United
17. Southampton
18. Sunderland
19. Swansea City
20. Swindon Town
21. Tottenham Hotspur
22. Tranmere Rovers
23. West Bromwich Albion
24. West Ham United
25. Wigan Athletic
26. Accrington Stanley / Cardiff City
27. Aston Villa / Rotherham United
28. Everton / Stevenage
29. Morecambe / Newcastle United
30. Nottingham Forest / Millwall
31. Stoke City / Walsall
32. Watford / AFC Bournemouth

It'll be a lower-order Premier League team at best. They be the rules :)

Hudders at home.

Spurs, obviously ;)

That
L do for me - Chelsea home !!!

Chelsea, quality draw!

Shut my mouth.

Not too shabby.

Fucking Chelsea at home!! Game on!

That will do nicely

WOW

If only Di Canio was our manager,  oh the songs

 :)

Didn't we stuff them 4-0 at the County Ground in the cup during the mid 80's? Think Hazard was playing for them.

Cracking draw.

Yeah...what evs.

First competitive return to the County Ground for Chelsea since Hoddle's own return in Jan 1994?

Yeah, in the Simod Cup.

simod cup?

 I remember seeing us beat them 3-0 in the LC 50 years...not sure we've been drawn to play them since then.

Holy shit! Chelsea :)

Well that could be worse.

And his brother Eden might be this time...

Cracking draw. Gonna be a nightmare getting a ticket, I reckon second priority should go to those with a QPR stub :)

Typically statesman-like reaction from our leader, via Twitter:

JedMcCoy ‏@JedMcCoy 7m
Friggin get in there lets have it ..!!.!.

Can we please not give the bank to the Chelsea fans.

This!!

The least we deserved. Can't wait to do the match day thread.

Fuck a duck. Thought we'd draw the normal shit.

Who do we want in round 4? We can take out all of London :)

I reckon Cooper will play fringe players in this one. Promotion is the goal this season and we don't want to risk our expensive quality players against a run down Chelsea squad of hasbeen premier league journey men.

Surely going to be on sky tv

Amen brother.  But I don't know whether the League Cup has a similar % criteria for away support as the FA Cup.  Anyone know?

Just been checking after I said it, unfortunately so.


22.2 In all Cup Competition matches, the Visiting Club shall have the right to claim 15 per cent of all tickets reserved or otherwise sold in advance.

Fill the bank with Town fans. Charge Chelsea £60 for the cheapest tickets, call the minging old burgers Aberdeen Angus and charge them £13 with a bottle of coke thrown in. Any Stfc fan that's been to a game in the last 99 years can get in for £9.99. I expect the "anyone got a spare Chelsea ticket" thread soon.

Great draw, this is gonna be a good test for the new ticket system/office!!

Looks like I picked the wrong season to give up my season ticket. I hope my Torquay ticket stub counts!

Me too...or I'm back on the mercy of st holders who might help a mate out...

This will be a midweek game, right?

Jed, you should get a full house this Saturday if you say anybody with a ticket stub for Crewe will get a ticket!!

Yep

Yes. a few days after the Shitty game.

Must stand a decent chance of being televised?

Man U v Liverpool will be one and maybe us, Tranmere or Watford for a possible lower league club knocking out a Prem team.

If someone told me a month ago that we would have been playing Chelsea in the cup partly thanks to Nile Ranger I would have had a chuckle  :)

20 quid booking fee per ticket if anyone wants me to get one

I think they are overwhelmed....

http://www.theshedend.com/topic/24420-capital-one-cup-201314/

I reckon most who went to QPR were season ticket holders. So even after season ticket and QPR stub holders only about 5500 will be taken up.

Be interesting to see if stubs from this weekend come into play.

They'd be mad not to include this weekend's stubs and announce it tomorrow to throw numbers on the gate.

It's going to cost me about £70 to go to this, unless I can find somebody to share fuel cost with. And that's if I even manage to get a ticket. One of the downsides of being an exile.

A sobering thought about this one. Assume a full house of 15K @ £20 average to allow for consessions. The actual gate money will pay two of Chelsea's top earners for ONE WEEK!

So in the space of half a year, by some strange sequence of accidents, Mark Cooper has gone from struggling manager of AFC Telford, with his managerial career seemingly on the wane, to facing Jose Mourinho in the dugout in the 3rd round of the League Cup as full-time manager of Swindon.

Even he must wonder how he's got from there to here in such a short space of time. It's a funny old game, football.

At this point its lovely to remember that my childrens junior reds membership counts as season tickets.  Marvellous.

Realistically looking at £250k-£300k in gate receipts, some of which will go to Chelsea. Then there's increased merchandise sales, potentially larger crowds in the run up (if stubs are required for tickets) and the chance of some TV/radio coverage money too.

Win win.

So, I've put together a team of Chelsea's reserves that they might play-

Schwarzer, Bertrand, Azpilicueta, Luiz, Kalas, Essien, Mata, van Ginkel, Moses, Lukaku, Ba

That's a pretty terrifying second string.

How dim am I?  I'd actually forgotten that the 'Special One' was back in charge of Chelsea.  I'm even more excited now  :)

The useless presenter on Sky Sports News earlier was waffling on about how great it would be to see Di Canio and Mourinho on the touchline together.

He wasn't even getting a salary at Telford, they were just covering his expenses.

How many per ST holder do we reckon?

2 at most i'd guess, It will be on TV which means everyone who wants a ticket will get one.

Won't stop some people queuing at the CG 12 hours before tickets go sale though.

Does the 15% minimum to away fans mean we can give the Arkells bit to our lot?

As a ST holder I hope it's 1 per ST.
Why the fuck should I be able to buy 2 seats, I only need 1 for every other game.

Will cost me about £200 to fly here.

Probably not, unless they put those seats back in the Stratton Bank.

If I don't get a ticket, I so hope it's on tv, as I'm surrounded by the dribbling shaven headed fuckwits round here. I'll wear the black Samsung shirt and really confuse the fools in the local pub. I'll even invite  the next door neighbour down, he wont have a clue who either side is even though he's a fanatical fan ( never goes) . Yeah I hate the bastards. 1 in a 100 chance of beating them, but they wont like it up em.

Get in.....

I have had three texts already....can you get me a ticket.......simple reply: would you of asked if we had Tranmere?

They can fuck off....even Mrs Flash asked if she could come along.....she can fuck off as well...

Hopefully one per season ticket with non holders needing stubs etc.

All i know is....I'm fucking going!!!

Excellent reposte! I'll use the Tranmere one myself.

1 per ST, stubs from this weekends and stubs from QPR first, everyone else second.

Thanks

Two of my sales team colleagues support Chelsea so I wonder how long it will take this morning? One lives in Crawley the other Basingstoke. I have had one missed call @ 8.03 from a sales colleague who got promoted to another division 18 months ago but he's a Pompey ST holder. Still they'll all get an out of office email till Monday or a voicemail saying the same.  :D

What will nark me most is the plastic Carling swilling SKY Sports watching replica shirt wearing "I've supported them all my life and go regularly brigade" who'll somehow manage to infiltrate all the three stands. I suspect there will those who will sell their tickets after they have aquired them whether they are ST holders or not.

I expect Caddis to be banging on Jeds door this morning "Jed me old muka, i've changed my mind"

It will be 1 per ST holder.
Then people with QPR/Crewe stubs.
Then a free for all.

If Jed has any sense he will announce ticketing arrangments today and stick a few on the weekends gate.

Fuck me...it's the Wembley 'salt of the earth' uber-fan vs plastics debate all over again.  Three more weeks of this.  Brilliant.

really looking forward to this if i can get tickets we will have the "local" Chelsea Sky tv season ticket holders after tickets as well
Jed apart from ST give Priority to QPR tickets and Alex game tickets
Bring it on

Aah come on. Being smug about being "real fans" is the most fun most of us get. God knows we get little enough chance to be smug about the actual team! Except for Tuesday of course, and this morning. Couldn't wait to tell the kids this morning - they're still buzzing from Tuesday and they were well chuffed about getting Chelsea at home (even if their first guesses about "exciting news" did range from "going on a camping trip" to "getting a PS4").

Chelsea reserves vs Spurs Youth, I reckon we can give them a decent run. Come on!

I can't afford a Season Ticket this year, so was sort of hoping it would be two per ST. Oh well.

I might be able to sort you out if it is two per ST?

I think to be fair Ardiles, most people just seem to be concerned about a. getting a ticket for themselves and then b. making sure the remainder go to genuine Town fans as opposed to armchair Chelsea who only want a ticket because they happen to be playing in their town. Well I like to hope so anyway.

May yet be, they've not announced allocations yet have they?

This

Got to love how things get whipped up into a frenzy of 'what ifs?' and 'it should bes' every time we have a big or important game. The draw was only announced last night, have a bit of patience and stop trying to guess how the tickets will be allocated. There'll be an announcement on the club site soon enough I'm sure!

Quit it with your calm collected reasoning, this calls for a massive knee jerk reaction!

You're only saying that 'cause you're a season ticket holder  :)

I'll get you one if they give us two

Haha I know and I'd be the same without a ST as london_red's pointed out. I do sympathise with regular fans who won't end up being able to go but unfortuantely someone will have to lose out.

Times change don't they....in 93/94 in the Prem..."giants" Chelsea, had a smaller crowd at Stamford Bridge just over 11,000, for the game v STFC, than the 16000 at the CG

The home game with Chelsea was my only game that season. We lost 3-1 I think.

What a coincidence! I was working at the club then and that was the only game I missed all season with illness!

Some of those will probably be involved but I anticipate there will be some from the next level down, too.

It was early Jan 1994.  Hoddle's first game back after leaving us just 7 months before.  They murdered us and cries of 'Judas' rang around the ground.  And as Reg points out, this was in the days before they attracted all their hangers on.  The were a bog standard top flight side with poor crowds.

If the club are sensible and keep it to 1 per st holder then the number who miss out will be minimal really.

Hoddle's first game after leaving us in his time machine?!  ;)

What's the chance Jed et all will up the ticket prices for this one?

They'll have 2 games televised - obviously Manc v Scouse will be one and STFC v Chesea the other

Could be on a Wednesday

Oops.  Wrong decade.  Now corrected!

Yep...the 11,000 wasn't even their lowest crowd, they had 10,000 v Man City, when on a terrible run through autumn of 9 defeats 2 draws in 11....just before the start of the run, they had 31,000 v Scousers.

hopefully he does - we need the money - maybe Chelsea will give us their half

Depends what you mean by "up the prices". I doubt they'll be as cheap as the Torquay game, wouldn't be surprised to see usual league prices though

£25 in DRS and Arkells, £20 in Town End I would imagine.

Think people are panicking over nothing. It's the shitty cup remember not the fa cup. Will be plenty to go around to those who wants them. Season ticket holders should get 1 ticket only though. Why on earth should they be allowed 2?

Because we've all got fat arses and need a seat for each cheek

Because we're twice as good a fan as you.

I'm on holiday so missing the game, hoping that Sky decide to show the match.

Totally agree. Season Ticket holders are 1 person not 2, Season Ticket holders are no more special than the walk up fan or an exile. ST holders already get their seat reserved so they are guaranteed to go and got their season ticket at a lower price so... Plus may attract more fans who may want to come back again who don't regularly go.

The club should maybe have a "bring a plastic" promotion to smaller games like Tranmere for example. "The Plastic" gets in for a tenner to increase fan base.

I'm due to be doing something else Saturday, but if the club do a stub promotion for the Crewe game, I'll rearrange and drive down.

Big game Charlie. :-)

[/quote] Season ticket holders should get 1 ticket only though. Why on earth should they be allowed 2?
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Because our money has been asset stripped.?

Season ticket holders obviously have the priority for tickets. But If they really wanted to drum up some extra revenue from those fans who don’t come often/won’t come again they should then give priority for Chelsea tickets to fans who also buy a ticket for the Bristol City or Tranmere game at the same time.
That way the fans who want to go every week but don’t have a season ticket get a Chelsea ticket and the club gets money from fans who want a Chelsea ticket but wouldn’t go to another game, but now they have to if they want a Chelsea ticket.

Thats easy for you to say!

Its on the tv i think anyway.

@JedMcCoy: So who's live on sky then .. #STFC

Whether live on tv or not club should use a,stub promotion v Crewe and shitty for after STHs. More of a home crowd in both those games plus stops all the chelski fans in the town getting tickets that should go to town fans .

I heard about this being on TV three months ago

I heard about this 4 months ago.

He's probably talking about the Franchise game in about a weeks time.

Has Dan the fan jumped the gun for an exclusive.

I understand tickets will be allocated to those who have interacted with Jed on Twitter and not slagged him off on social media, after that its a free for all.

I doubt it - we've all known for ages the Dongs game was on Sky

On Sky Tue 24th.

Anyone know any sports bars in Cancun that show Sky sports?

There must be loads. Isn't Cancun a brits abroad type place?

I don't personally, no. I will be facing a similar issue to you in September though except that I'll be walking round Playa Del Carmen (next resort along from Cancun) looking for a bar showing Franchise vs STFC at 06:15 their time! Think my chances of success are much slimmer than yours....

Dont be daft - find one the night before and refuse to leave :)

I thought Cancun was somewhere else! Doh!

This place could show football - http://lataberna.com.mx/english.html

Where do you see this out of interest?

A mate has told me that Fox Sports is on at a lot of the hotels and show a lot of football, but I think there is two hopes of them showing either game.

At an extreme push I am going to try and watch the game over facetime, live from my parents television set.

Cheers, will check that out :)

Capital one cup tweet

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/10642741.Chelsea_tie_to_be_televised/

ah thanks

All televised Sky Sports games are on the Fox Soccer channel in America, so if you can get a bar with that in Mexico you're fine.

Trust me I watched the god awful Notts County FA Cup replay (can't even remember what year) in a bar in Orlando.

This.

Bollocks... I'm going to be mid flight to Canada, no chance of catching it...

Double bollocks, i'm in Portugal big family hol,gonna have to sneak out for a paper when i'm there.... :sherlock:

Morshead not expecting ticket news today. Later it is left the less chance of stubs from this weekend getting you a shove up te queue.

Isn't this exactly what STFC MyWorld loyalty points are for?

I dunno.

If you turn up on the day you don't accumulate points I guess? Or is everyone set up on myworld?

Supposed to be
Though so early in the season not gonna be much difference in the amount of points ppl have
Mine were manually adjusted at start August and still show have 15 despite games since then so hardly an up to date method

It feels like a long, long time since we had a 'super power' at the County Ground for a competitive game. Was it really the Blackburn Rovers tie in '95 when the were reigning Premier League champions? That's all I can think of.
 
If it's anything like that game then we're in for a(n unexpected) treat.

Would love to be a fly on the wall,pre match in the Chairmans office.
"Ows it hanging Roman"? . . . And you are?
As an aside,have we played them in the cup before apart from the Simod?
And as an aside to that . . What is todays equivilent of the Simod.
(sorry for the spolling)

JPT isn't it?  Don't know about cup ties but remember a few league games in the late 80's/early 90's.

I'm guessing Roman probably doesn't do early rounds of the cups away to lower league opposition. But I love the mental picture ....

See what you mean, but I'd never class Blackburn that way - despite their having won the league.  I bought 16 tickets for that game (for a group at work)...so demand can hardly have been at fever pitch. Villa last season felt like more of a 'big' game.  The last 'superpower' at the County Ground was possibly as far back as the 1993/94 Premiership season?

From memory the Simod cup was formally the full members cup which was the top 2 divisions equivelent of the LDV (which as we know covers the 2 lower leagues)  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Members_Cup

Yeah no simod equivalent now. I went to that 4-0 game, we mullered them.  I can also remember going there in 80 something and we lost 2-1 in a crowd of  about 9k of which 1500 were ours.

Was that 4-0 game on TV for some odd reason?  I'm sue I have a memory of watching a random game of ours on TV around that period that wasn't a league game.

Club released a VHS of it. Love the commentator.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wP05VxOM21c

Hi Sue

I knew I had issues.

Nice celebration after the third, well done sir.

1.05 mins into that video, its such a pleasure to see those audacious slide tackles from Kammy. That guy was a match winner, a proper legend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1BJfDvSITY

Wonderful....what a find, proper old CG shit heap pitch...seem to remember the Town fans joining in with the chants of Hollins Out.

Typical, White profiting from the god like genius of Bamber :)

Same commentator on all the town vids from that era
Have ( or had ) lots of them
May have to take a trip into the attic

Neither do I but the were Champions elect so they have a case. Status' change, Chelsea were mid-table fodder back then so Blackburn-Shearer-and-all would have been more exciting at that time.

1st Town game I ever went to, missed at least the opener as we struggled to park!

Thought it was earlier than 1988.

Wonder if Lee Power will decide if this is worth 1 of his 90 days a year he is allowed in the country.

sorry if I've missed it but any idea when ticket details will be online? I'm going to be back for this game so will be gutted if I miss it. City and Chelsea at home in the same week will be pretty decent for my first fixtures since Portsmouth.

Delayed comment on this, but what a great draw, under the lights at The CG, on the telly against Jose Mourinho's Chelsea...really looking forward to this, should be a good money earner!

Samuel Morshead tweeted he hadnt heard anything when I tweeted him earlier.

I suppose we will be looking at next week.  Might be a chance to have bumper gate this weekend missed.

Adver reckons announcement on monday on sale wednrsday

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10643251.Club_set_for_sell_out_clash_with_Chelsea/?ref=mr

How many points do you get per game?

Mine has a load of tickets I have brought listed with points as 0!

I hope if they use myworld points to allocate tickets they update the system!!!

Ah that's a bit annoying, my tickets have been bought at the gate for pretty much every game.

Mine now updated to 45 points
Looks like you get 15 per game no matter how many tickets you buy ( bought 4 for turkey,3 for Crewe and still 15 pts each )

Was only updated this morning by the looks of it

Ah mine has also updated. 10 points for away games, 15 for home.

I remeber that game really well, White and Bamber were unplayable that night and Calderwood marked England striker Kerry Dixon out of the game.

Would have expected away game to be worth more than home, not that it really matters I suppose

Well you not putting any cash into STFC on away matches but the other club

Yea I assumed that was the way are looking at it.

I did think that they might attribute a higher value to away games as one could say (not saying me) that making the effort to go to an away game shows more loyalty than an home game. Then again effort doesn't equal loyalty, I'm rambling now, I'll shut up.