FA Cup third round draw
FA Cup third round draw
Who do you want and do you hold high hopes of a cup run? I'm going to be honest and say this year my feelings are the opposite from usual. I'm a traditionalist and I love the FA Cup so would love little more than to see us win the thing. This season, however, I'd happily see an early exit. In the Championship league games are scheduled for the weekend of every FA cup game so a run could cause fixture congestion in a league where there are already lots of midweek fixtures. Of course, an exit to a lower league team would be damaging so my hope is for a difficult draw against a tricky Premier League side before an inevitable exit.
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Perhaps we could go out in the draw this evening!
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(Now just watch us spring a shock!)
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That'll do nicely.Sandie wrote:Spurs away. Looks like we're both getting what we want then.
(Now just watch us spring a shock!)
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Newcastle on a Monday night for away fans! Sky really don't care do they?Sandie wrote:One of my more selfish reasons for not being keen on a cup run was that it would see our fixture at Newcastle - my annual away trip - being bumped to midweek to accomodate the 5th round fixtures if either us or Newcastle got that far. Now Sky have decided (as expected) to televise that game but have bumped the game to Monday sodding night. Great.
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That's a good point. We need our twelfth man in the away section singing and shouting us on. A smaller Villa fan presence will penalise us.Sandie wrote:It's also a key game, a showpiece of the Championship that will probably not have an atmosphere that is everything that it could be.
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The Villa name is still attracting attention. We're on TV again!
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Villa season ticket holders have a free home cup match on their ST. They will be desperate for a result.Sandie wrote:They probably see a chance that Spurs will Spurs it and there will be a shock. The headline on that site "Aston Villa V Spurs" is a bit confusing/misleading as it's at White Hart Lane.
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