FA Cup Third Round

Dub13

Anybody want to be brave and pick out any upsets...?





07 January 2005
Burnley v Liverpool, 19:45



08 January 2005
Birmingham v Leeds, 15:00
Bournemouth v Chester, 15:00
Cardiff v Blackburn, 15:00
Charlton v Rochdale, 15:00
Chelsea v Scunthorpe, 15:00
Coventry v Crewe, 15:00
Derby v Wigan, 15:00
Hartlepool v Boston Utd, 15:00
Hull v Colchester, 15:00
Ipswich v Bolton, 15:00
Leicester v Blackpool, 15:00
Luton v Brentford, 15:00
Man Utd v Exeter, 15:00
Milton Keynes Dons v Peterborough, 15:00
Northampton v Southampton, 15:00
Notts County v Middlesbrough, 15:00
Oldham v Man City, 15:00
Plymouth v Everton, 17:30
Portsmouth v Gillingham, 15:00
Preston v West Brom, 15:00
QPR v Nottm Forest, 15:00
Reading v Swansea, 15:00
Rotherham v Yeovil, 15:00
Sheff Utd v Aston Villa, 12:30
Sunderland v Crystal Palace, 15:00
Tottenham v Brighton, 15:00
Watford v Fulham, 15:00
West Ham v Norwich, 15:00
Wolverhampton v Millwall, 13:00



09 January 2005
Arsenal v Stoke, 14:00
Yeading v Newcastle, 13:45

eirebhoy

Cardiff to beat Blackburn and Oldham to sneak a draw from city rivals Man City.

The Muppet

Sheffield UTD could cause Villa Problems.

por

Cardiff
Ipswich
Blackpool
Gillingham
Yeovil
Sunderland
Watford

Töpher

As much as I hate to say it, Villa will lose to Sheffield Utd. I'd almost put all my personal belongings on it!

Yeading to only lose 2-0 to Newacaste, and Man Utd 3 - 1 Exeter. (Another Carroll blunder! I'd fancy any team to score with him in goals!)

Dub13

I am going to go with Sheff Utd to beat Villa.
Sunderland to beat Crystal Palace

BolBill

Burnley will beat Liverpool because they'll field a weakened side (Liverpool that is)

por

BolBill wrote:

Burnley will beat Liverpool because they'll field a weakened side (Liverpool that is)

No weakened teams allowed in the FA Cup

FA Cup rule 18 (a)
18. PROVISIONS CONCERNING PLAYERS

(a) Each team participating in a match shall represent the full available strength of each competing Club.

BolBill

por wrote:

No weakened teams allowed in the FA Cup

FA Cup rule 18 (a)
18. PROVISIONS CONCERNING PLAYERS

(a) Each team participating in a match shall represent the full available strength of each competing Club.

That won't stop 'em.

Dub13

BolBill wrote:

Burnley will beat Liverpool because they'll field a weakened side (Liverpool that is)

A weakened Liverpool team will still beat Burnley.....we have good young players.Only a few weeks ago a weakened Liverpool team beat Spurs.

therecklessone

Burnley v Liverpool - Pool may make hard work of this, but should win.

Cardiff v Blackburn - Very tough game for Blackburn, remember Leeds?

Ipswich v Bolton - Chance for Ipswich here, Big Sam might rest a few.

Northampton v Southampton - Real chance of an upset, Saints are awful at the moment.

Sheff Utd v Aston Villa - Another possible upset

Sunderland v Crystal Palace - Will Dowie risk a full strength team? Possible upset.

Watford v Fulham - Tough one again.

West Ham v Norwich - My tip for upset, though in truth they're both Championship material.

por

BolBill wrote:

That won't stop 'em.

Admitedly they have a long injury list right now but they will not field a team similar to those that play for big clubs in the League Cup.

To the best of my knowledge no team has ever fielded a second string team in the FA Cup, thus obeying the rules.

Dub13

por wrote:

To the best of my knowledge no team has ever fielded a second string team in the FA Cup, thus obeying the rules.

Man You did when they played in the World Club Championship....in fact they did not want to enter a team at all that year.

jonno

Is the Liverpool game on TV?

por

Dub13 wrote:

Man You did when they played in the World Club Championship....in fact they did not want to enter a team at all that year.

Different situation completely, what is the story with that tournamnet anyway, that was 5 years ago, did it die a death ?.

jonno wrote:

Is the Liverpool game on TV?.

Friday night 19.45 Sky Sports 1

kensutz

therecklessone wrote:

Burnley v Liverpool - Pool may make hard work of this, but should win.

Cardiff v Blackburn - Very tough game for Blackburn, remember Leeds?

Ipswich v Bolton - Chance for Ipswich here, Big Sam might rest a few.

Northampton v Southampton - Real chance of an upset, Saints are awful at the moment.

Sheff Utd v Aston Villa - Another possible upset

Sunderland v Crystal Palace - Will Dowie risk a full strength team? Possible upset.

Watford v Fulham - Tough one again.

West Ham v Norwich - My tip for upset, though in truth they're both Championship material.

how many times have you watched us play in the Prem?? Over xmas we lost 9 first team players and had kids on the bench and they gave a good account of theirselves

eirebhoy

therecklessone wrote:

West Ham v Norwich - My tip for upset, though in truth they're both Championship material.

It won't really be an upset as West Ham are favourites.

therecklessone

kensutz wrote:

how many times have you watched us play in the Prem?? Over xmas we lost 9 first team players and had kids on the bench and they gave a good account of theirselves

Good account or not, you've 16 points from 22 games and will be playing Championship football next season.

I've seen you're games against Newcastle and Spurs (WHL) and the highlights from the Carrow Rd game against Spurs. Other than that its been goals and snippets of highlights. I'm not anti-Norwich believe me, I'm just facing the facts.

As eirebhoy has stated, West Ham are favourites for the match, that suggest anything to you?

kensutz

not really, I'm confident of us staying up this season. I've been to all games apart from when I was on holidays both home and away. We dont have too much to fear, we're a good footballing side and never change our style no matter who or where we're playing. Bookies odds are a load of crap IMO

therecklessone

kensutz wrote:

I've been to all games apart from when I was on holidays both home and away. We dont have too much to fear, we're a good footballing side and never change our style no matter who or where we're playing.

Fair play to ya. I agree about the footballing side bit by the way, just don't see the same conclusion to the season that you do. Best of luck anyway.

BolBill

kensutz wrote:

not really, I'm confident of us staying up this season. I've been to all games apart from when I was on holidays both home and away. We dont have too much to fear, we're a good footballing side and never change our style no matter who or where we're playing. Bookies odds are a load of crap IMO

i agree with reckless above, hope you stay up, like the way ye play but afraid I can't see it happening too. G'Luck though.

mike65

Don't fancy Wolves chances...

Mike.

Dub13

Anybody know when the replays will be played...?

Jivin Turkey

Can see most ties going to form, the likely upsets being Sheff Utd and Sunderland Id say.

Liverpool have a tough tie tomorrow, but should come through. Im in London on Saturday so Im heading to Stamford Bridge to see Scunthorpe try and pull the most unlikely of upsets out of the bag.

por

Dub13 wrote:

Anybody know when the replays will be played...?

Usually the following Tuesday or Wednesday week, i.e. 18th/19th

BolBill

por wrote:

Admitedly they have a long injury list right now but they will not field a team similar to those that play for big clubs in the League Cup.

To the best of my knowledge no team has ever fielded a second string team in the FA Cup, thus obeying the rules.

you'd wanna get out more mate, Bolton field a weakened team every season in the FA Cup, they arent interested in it, theres no money in it, they only want to avoid relegation.

Also, as predicted by moi, Liverpool ARE fielding a weakened side :rolleyes:

eirebhoy

BolBill wrote:

you'd wanna get out more mate, Bolton field a weakened team every season in the FA Cup, they arent interested in it, theres no money in it, they only want to avoid relegation.

Also, as predicted by moi, Liverpool ARE fielding a weakened side :rolleyes:

How would getting out more increase his knowledge on this matter?

BolBill

eirebhoy wrote:

How would getting out more increase his knowledge on this matter?

Its an expression eirebhoy, maybe you've heard of things called "expressions" ?????

eirebhoy

BolBill wrote:

Its an expression eirebhoy, maybe you've heard of things called "expressions" ?????

nope

cournioni

I hope United give them a good thrashing.

This game could get some of the players form back on track, hopefully. United definately need a good win after the Spurs match.

por

BolBill wrote:

you'd wanna get out more mate, Bolton field a weakened team every season in the FA Cup, they arent interested in it, theres no money in it, they only want to avoid relegation.

Also, as predicted by moi, Liverpool ARE fielding a weakened side :rolleyes:

Fair enough then, as long as it does not go like the League Cup.

I'll have to go for a few pints tonight :rolleyes:

BolBill

por wrote:

Fair enough then, as long as it does not go like the League Cup.

I'll have to go for a few pints tonight :rolleyes:

Its going that way for the (so-called) top teams. Premiership and Champions League is where the money is and ever since the Bosman rule came in, football has gotten poorer and poorer. I mean Mickey Owen for 8 million !!!!! not all paid yet may I add.

eirebhoy

BTW, the BBC are showing Sheffield Utd v Villa tomorrow and Yeading v Newcastle on Sunday.

Drag00n79

The Beeb also have Plymouth VS Everton live tomorrow.

Third_Echelon

Sheffield united have just put a third past villa, so it looks like most people here were right about sheffield united scalping villa....

great game, in the second half anyway...

mike65

Villa can be a little agrieved at the loss (dodgy handball ignored, off side goal) but they were crap.

Mike.

Big Ears

mike65 wrote:

Don't fancy Wolves chances...

Mike.

86min Wolves 2-0 Millwalll .

eirebhoy

eirebhoy wrote:

Cardiff to beat Blackburn and Oldham to sneak a draw from city rivals Man City.

Got them mixed up, Cardiff drew and Oldham won.

Dub13

Dub13 wrote:

I am going to go with Sheff Utd to beat Villa.
Sunderland to beat Crystal Palace

2 right from me....

Brian017

I didn't see Sunderland winning as a shock. I expected them to win.

yop

Well done Exeter, 600k in pocket, more to come. Had their chances too. We should take them in the replay, just another match that we did not create much.

Dub13

Brian017 wrote:

I didn't see Sunderland winning as a shock. I expected them to win.

At the end of the day Sunderland are one Div lower than Palace.

Brian017

True, but they're roughly of the same strength prehaps with Sunderland just ahead. Palace were lucky to get promoted. I think Sunderland's wonderful FA Cup run last year ultimately cost them promotion

Töpher

Will see about Yeading tomorrow, no total destruction from any premiership team yet.
Man Utd, well, I'm happier with that than what I predicted.

But, the one that matters, wish I'd put my money of Sheff UTd. Well played to them, VIlla deserved nothing, again, sigh.

eirebhoy

Yeah, Sunderland were also favourites yesterday so that wasn't an upset.

Brian017

See, told you.

Töpher

Einst&#252 wrote: »

Yeading to only lose 2-0 to Newacaste,

Howzat for a predicition?

cournioni

I think the draw between United and Exeter could be a blessing in disguise for United. Hopefully Fergie will now get rid of some of the twats United have in their reserves now...

eirebhoy

PORNAPSTER wrote:

I think the draw between United and Exeter could be a blessing in disguise for United. Hopefully Fergie will now get rid of some of the twats United have in their reserves now...

Aye, he said it was the worst FA cup performance by Utd in his 18 years with the club.

cournioni

He apologised to the fans on MUTV too... I don't think I can remember him apologising to the United fans because of a performance/game.

Dub13

eirebhoy wrote:

Yeah, Sunderland were also favourites yesterday so that wasn't an upset.

AGAIN....At the end of the day Sunderland are one Div lower than Palace.