battlingbob Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 any ideas what number we are in the draw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint-luco Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 number 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 When is the draw? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilsburydoughboy Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 3.35 this afternoon on ITV. We will draw Bournemouth at St Marys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint-luco Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 3.35 this afternoon on ITV. We will draw Bournemouth at St Marys. thanks pilsburydoughboy i wont have to worry about watching it then, think i'll just carry on painting the spare bedroom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilsburydoughboy Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 I have not told her indoors that i already know this or i will have to perform some form of decorating also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krissyboy31 Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/FACompetitions/TheFACup/NewsAndFeatures/2009/SecondRoundDraw.aspx Draw Numbers 1 Gillingham 2 Bath City 3 Gateshead or Brentford 4 AFC Bournemouth 5 Lincoln City 6 Stockport County 7 Burton Albion or Oxford City 8 Barrow 9 Leeds United 10 Cambridge United 11 York City 12 Wycombe Wanderers or Brighton & Hove Albion 13 Hereford United 14 Exeter City 15 Southampton 16 Carlisle United or Morecambe 17 Forest Green Rovers or Mansfield Town 18 Oxford United 19 Paulton Rovers or Norwich City 20 Swindon Town 21 Port Vale or Stevenage Borough 22 Luton Town or Rochdale 23 Bromley or Colchester United 24 Accrington Stanley 25 Millwall or AFC Wimbledon 26 Stourbridge or Walsall 27 Staines Town 28 Wealdstone or Rotherham United 29 Torquay United 30 Barnet 31 Notts County 32 Huddersfield Town 33 Milton Keynes Dons 34 Rushden & Diamonds 35 Northwich Victoria or Charlton Athletic 36 Aldershot Town 37 Wrexham 38 Kettering Town 39 Tranmere Rovers or Leyton Orient 40 Northampton Town Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilsburydoughboy Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 I would love to see AFC Wimbledon draw MK Dons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickfinks Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 I would love to see AFC Wimbledon draw MK Dons yeah that would be a little weird.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itchen_dan Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 SAINTS v Exeter @ St Mary's I reckon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 It was Leeds United away in my flash-forward. So you can take that as gospel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bourno Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 I fancy a trip to Twerton Park to meet Bath City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulSaint Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 It was Leeds United away in my flash-forward. So you can take that as gospel. Yeah but had you been drinking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_Jonny Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 Looking at it, it is a bit naff that 40 teams are left in at round 2, meaning 20 left in for round 3 when the "big boys" enter the fray. That makes the likelihood of one of our gruesome bunch making it to the 1/4 finals basically nil. Hardly a fair competition is it. Maybe it should be the other way round? Or am I talking ****... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krissyboy31 Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 Looking at it, it is a bit naff that 40 teams are left in at round 2, meaning 20 left in for round 3 when the "big boys" enter the fray. That makes the likelihood of one of our gruesome bunch making it to the 1/4 finals basically nil. Hardly a fair competition is it. Maybe it should be the other way round? Or am I talking ****... That's where we are at the moment! We never gave it a second thought until this season because we were one of the "big boys." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonjoe Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 It was Leeds United away in my flash-forward. So you can take that as gospel. i bloody hope not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonjoe Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 Looking at it, it is a bit naff that 40 teams are left in at round 2, meaning 20 left in for round 3 when the "big boys" enter the fray. That makes the likelihood of one of our gruesome bunch making it to the 1/4 finals basically nil. Hardly a fair competition is it. Maybe it should be the other way round? Or am I talking ****... i was thinking exactly the same. perhaps everybody should come in for round 2. everybody likes to see big teams against little teams anyway; that's where the excitement lies in this competition and what sets it apart from the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 Any League 2 away ground that I've not yet been to will do nicely, or Stockport as I missed it earlier in the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 i was thinking exactly the same. perhaps everybody should come in for round 2. everybody likes to see big teams against little teams anyway; that's where the excitement lies in this competition and what sets it apart from the others. But it does increase the chances that a 'little team' can make it through to a tie at one of the 'big boys'. Like most other people, I suspect, I never used to think much about the FA Cup rounds 1 & 2 and all the mattered was who we got in the third round. It does feel strange, though, not having to worry about getting a match at Old Trafford just because we desperately needed the money. Let some other desperate team get that - like Pompey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 Wouldnt mind Leeds. Some early scouting.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonjoe Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 But it does increase the chances that a 'little team' can make it through to a tie at one of the 'big boys'. Like most other people, I suspect, I never used to think much about the FA Cup rounds 1 & 2 and all the mattered was who we got in the third round. It does feel strange, though, not having to worry about getting a match at Old Trafford just because we desperately needed the money. Let some other desperate team get that - like Pompey. Bringing the 'big boys' in at the 2nd round would give more little teams the opportunity of getting a match against one of the 'big boys', not decrease them. The main argument against would come from the the big teams who would claim that they already play too many fixtures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crab Lungs Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 3.35 this afternoon on ITV. We will draw Bournemouth at St Marys. Oh great, last thing we want is an influx of 2,000 gobby dribblers rattling their buckets at us, pleading 'save the cherries' bournemouth = portsmouth's little sister Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krissyboy31 Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 (edited) Oh great, last thing we want is an influx of 2,000 gobby dribblers rattling their buckets at us, pleading 'save the cherries' Don't think the gobby ones would come anywhere near St Marys TBH! bournemouth = portsmouth's little sister Not sure I agree with that either. Bournemouth = decent place to live; P*mpey = sh!thole!! Edited 8 November, 2009 by krissyboy31 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 Bringing the 'big boys' in at the 2nd round would give more little teams the opportunity of getting a match against one of the 'big boys', not decrease them. The main argument against would come from the the big teams who would claim that they already play too many fixtures. Now you've got me thinking.... At present 20 teams go through from round 2 to join 44 big-boys in round 3 where they will have a probability of 19 in 63 of meeting one of them, so about 70%. If those 44 were to appear in round 2 there would be a total of 128 teams so 84 would be 'little' ones each having a probability of 83 in 127 of meeting a big-boy, i.e. about 35%. But there would be more little-boys in the draw. My head hurts now so I will leave it as an exercise to the reader to calculate the most-likely number of little-boy/big-boy matches in each scenario. I'm off to Argos before they close. (I think you must be right, though. A 2nd round draw with 84:44 little:big teams must mean a greater number of big on little meetings) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastleighSoulBoy Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 Oh great, last thing we want is an influx of 2,000 gobby dribblers rattling their buckets at us, pleading 'save the cherries' bournemouth = portsmouth's little sister Known as 'Bompey' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crab Lungs Posted 8 November, 2009 Share Posted 8 November, 2009 Don't think the gobby ones would come anywhere near St Marys TBH! Not sure I agree with that either. Bournemouth = decent place to live; P*mpey = sh!thole!! Not so much a social, commercial, residential or economical reference I have to add - I guess what I'm trying to say is the little sister keeps herself a bit cleaner than the bigger, older fish-smelling one but is equally dislikeable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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