It twiggged on me last night that the draw for the first round was seeded geographically north/south. 25 teams have been seeded for the next round which means that they can't face each other, and they are basically the Premiership without the European contenders and the top of the Championship. That means that we have a good chance of meeting one of these:
http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/News/CarlingCupNews/0,,10794~1751903,00.html
Games will be played in 2 weeks time, week commencing August 24th.