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Perhaps there will be a different FA Cup winner this year. The same 5 clubs have won in 31 of the last 36 years seasons (and ManC joined the party only recently).

In fact 9 of the last 10 finalists have featured the same 5 clubs.

So for all the talk of 'shocks', a true 'shock' only counts when one of those 5 (possibly 6 if you add Spurs) loses to ANY OTHER clubs. Arguably it's more of a shock if Arsenal were knocked out by Brentford than Nottingham Forest losing to Chesterfield.

Plymouth Argyle defeating Liverpool is obviously a monumental 'shock'. One for the ages.

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Any of these at home would be nice: Millwall, Ipswich, PNE, Cardiff, Plymouth. Doncaster and Exeter too if they get through. I only say home tie as we do enough bloody travelling, but if we're away to any of these then that's also decent. 

 

Would not like Bournemouth, Fulham or Man City. Would fancy our chances against Villa/Spurs, Brighton and potentially Forest. 

 

Kind of indifferent to Palace, Wolves and Burnley. 

 

We could have a memorable season in the making if we play to our strengths. Shoot me later if it all goes wrong. 

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Really need to see Man City out before Rhodri returns…

 

The dream draw is Man City to plan Villa away, and then to play the winner of that at home in the quarters, and for Man Utd to have to travel to Brighton 

 

Fulham and Bournemouth are good sides and will fancy it too, I’d really enjoy meeting sides like that in the latter stages 

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12 minutes ago, WilliamPS said:

Really need to see Man City out before Rhodri returns…

 

The dream draw is Man City to plan Villa away, and then to play the winner of that at home in the quarters, and for Man Utd to have to travel to Brighton 

 

Fulham and Bournemouth are good sides and will fancy it too, I’d really enjoy meeting sides like that in the latter stages 

Rodri won’t be back before the final at the earliest. And that would be pushing it.

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Is Tuesday's game as originally scheduled, or was it moved by the police etc? I really don't like when they do the draw before all the originally scheduled games have played. Do it before the first game or the round or wait until after the last.

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3 hours ago, Scoot said:

Can anyone find where I can put a cup double bet on. Sky and paddy power aren't listing outright winners on there websites.

Looks like most are listing now. 20’s looks about the best you can get.

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The fact that the top 3 favourites are Man City, Us and Man Utd is very promising. One is in the worst run of form in nearly 10 years and the other even longer. If we’d have had a better transfer window we could genuinely have done the double without too much hassle. Having said that, winning the double would be all the more sweeter because we aren’t allowed to.

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8 hours ago, brummie said:

Either you or us win this this year, nailed on.

As bad as Man City have been I still can’t see past them taking a final spot this year. One of us will meet these along the way to the final. Teams like Forest, Fulham and Bournemouth must also be fancying their chances.

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