The first round draw has been made and relegated Pompey face a trip to league newcomers Stevenage FC (formerly called Stevenage Borough) and like last season the teams that finished 18th and 19th in the premier league get byes to the 2nd round

CARLING CUP ROUND 1 DRAW
NORTH SECTION

Hartlepool United ........ v ........ Sheffield United
Leicester City ........ v ........ Macclesfield Town
Walsall ........ v ........ Tranmere Rovers
Carlisle United ........ v ........ Huddersfield Town
Stockport County ........ v ........ Preston North End
Barnsley ........ v ........ Rochdale
Morecambe ........ v ........ Coventry City
Doncaster Rovers ........ v ........ Accrington Stanley
Chesterfield ........ v ........ Middlesbrough
Peterborough United ........ v ........ Rotherham United
Bradford City ........ v ........ Nottingham Forest
Leeds United ........ v ........ Lincoln City
Sheffield Wednesday ........ v ........ Bury
Scunthorpe United ........ v ........ Oldham Athletic
Crewe Alexandra ........ v ........ Derby County

SOUTH SECTION

Exeter City ........ v ........ Ipswich Town
Southend United ........ v ........ Bristol City
Southampton ........ v ........ Bournemouth
Brentford ........ v ........ Cheltenham Town
QPR ......... v ........ Port Vale
Torquay United ........ v ........ Reading
Norwich City ........ v ........ Gillingham
Stevenage ........ v ........ Portsmouth
Shrewsbury Town ........ v ........ Charlton Athletic
Cardiff City ........ v ........ Burton Albion
Northampton Town ........ v ........ Brighton & Hove Albion
Swansea City ........ v ........ Barnet
Plymouth Argyle ........ v ........ Notts County
Wycombe Wanderers ........ v ........ Millwall
Oxford United ........ v ........ Bristol Rovers
Milton Keynes Dons ........ v ........ Dagenham & Redbridge
Hereford United ........ v ........ Colchester United
Yeovil Town ........ v ........ Crystal Palace
Aldershot Town ........ v ........ Watford
Swindon Town ........ v ........ Leyton Orient

BYES
To Round 2: Everton, Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Stoke City, Fulham, Sunderland, Bolton Wanderers, Wolves, Wigan Athletic, West Ham United, Burnley, Hull City, Newcastle United, West Bromwich Albion, Blackpool
To Round 3: Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City, Aston Villa, Liverpool

2010/11?

Big oopsie from me

Some shocks tonight, the biggest probably being Port Vale knocking out QPR, others include Accy Stanley's win at Doncaster and Shrewsbury's win over Charlton

Teams through to Round 2 so far

CHAMPIONSHIP: Portsmouth, Watford, Middlesbrough, Leeds, Leicester, Norwich, Scunthorpe, Preston, Swansea, Crystal Palace
LEAGUE 1: Rochdale, Brentford, Huddersfield, Colchester, MK Dons, Peterborough, Notts County, Sheff Wed, Southampton, Leyton Orient, Tranmere
LEAGUE 2: Bradford, Crewe Alexandra, Accrington Stanley, Morecambe, Northampton, Oxford, Port Vale, Shrewsbury

Gone to Extra Time
Exeter 2-2 Ipswich
Southend 2-2 Bristol City
Wycombe 1-1 Millwall

The Doncaster game went to extra time and is still going although Accies are winning 2-1 at the moment

Same with Bradford v Forest

Thats the BBC website for ya, bit difficult to tell FT from ET...

...either that or I really need to go to specsavers

Another bad night at the bookies

Yep! They must piss themselves at mugs like us who bet on league cup games, I wasn't going to bother but thought I'd stick a £1 acca on to keep me interested for the night, I got 1 out of 5 right!

Bradford, Accy Stanley, Ipswich, Southend and Millwall all win after extra time

Just 3 games left tomorrow night before the draw for Round 2 the same night, of which we'll be seeded amongst the 13 PL teams not in Europe, Burnley, Hull and the 10 best championship sides from last season that have made Round 2.

So theoretically we could end up with a trip to Morecambe or Accrington Stanley

To be fair i didnt lose much but was screwed as soon as QPR got dicked at home to Port Vale - what the fuck is that all about?

I forgot they do seedings for the 2nd round, so it looks like we will almost certainly face a league 1 or 2 club.

Another big shock, Hartlepool beat Sheffield Utd 2-0, Burton have also taken Cardiff to extra time away from home. Same goes for Torquay v Reading which has just finished 0-0

Draw coming up, and as we are seeded, at the moment, we could face any league 1 or league 2 side left in or one of 3 championship clubs (Leeds, Millwall, Scunthorpe), if either championship club tonight win in extra time, you can add Crystal Palace to that list, if Both win then you can also add Preston.

From the list I've just seen, if the 2 Championship teams lose it's only leeds or milwall we could face, if 1 loses add norwich or if they both win add palace. Either way athere is no draw to be concerned about, I just hope we don't have a long away trip like Southampton.

edit: should have added that obviously we can face L1 & L2 teams too before I'm corrected!!

I forgot about Norwich

Anyway, Cardiff now lead against Burton

Looking at the local(ish) games for me, I'd like an away game at either Notts County, Sheff Wed or Peterborough so I can try for a ticket, however if we are drawn at home I won't complain but also won't be going!

Scunthorpe could be a good-un for you too, or have they already been given an away draw?

Cardiff are all but through (4-1 up) but Torquay/Reading looks like its going to penalties.

Unseeded teams that we could draw:

Crystal Palace, Norwich, Leeds, Millwall, Sheff Wed, Peterborough, Huddersfield, Southampton, Colchester, Brentford, MK Dons, L.Orient, Tranmere, Hartlepool, Notts.Co, Rochdale, Southend, Morecambe, Port Vale, Northampton, Shrewsbury, Bradford, Accrington, Crewe, Oxford

Scunny will be seeded too, although I went there last year and we lost!

Reading have got a last minute winner, so you can add Palace

1st out the bag away at Accrington

FULL CARLING CUP ROUND 2 DRAW

1. Accrington Stanley ........ v ........ Newcastle United
2. Portsmouth ........ v ........ Crystal Palace
3. Leeds ........ v ........ Leicester
4. Wolves ........ v ........ Southend
5. Blackburn ........ v ........ Norwich
6. MK Dons ........ v ........ Blackpool
7. Tranmere ........ v ........ Swansea
8. Everton ........ v ........ Huddersfield
9. Peterborough ........ v ........ Cardiff
10. Reading ........ v ........ Northampton
11. Scunthorpe ........ v ........ Sheffield Wed
12. Brentford ........ v ........ Hull
13. The Mackems ........ v ........ Colchester
14. Leyton Orient ........ v ........ West Brom
15. Morecambe ........ v ........ Burnley
16. Birmingham ........ v ........ Rochdale
17. Crewe Alexandra ........ v ........ Ipswich
18. Watford ........ v ........ Notts County
19. West Ham ........ v ........ Oxford
20. Southampton ........ v ........ Bolton
21. Bradford ........ v ........ Preston
22. Fulham ........ v ........ Port Vale
23. Millwall ........ v ........ Middlesbrough
24. Stoke ........ v ........ Shrewsbury
25. Hartlepool ........ v ........ Wigan

A cert to be on the telly but overall, im quite happy with that.

"oo are thay??!!"



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pieK7b4KLL4

Im happy with that like. New ground, defo try to get to that game

Small, picturesque little ground, expect toon fans to get a little over 1'000 tickets

http://www.footballgroundguide.com/accrington_stanley/

Cheers Daz mate We should get about 1500 tickets going by that guide.

Reports are that they're setting up road blocks on Wednesday on the border between Blackburn and Accrington.
We certainly don't want any bloody Geordies disturbing the peace in our wonderful town.
But I suppose many of you will be using this opportunity to nip down the road to Burnley for some duelling banjos!

Blackpool already 1 down at the MK Dons and hooray for Wigan, they've got their first goal of the season, they lead at Hartlepool thanks to an own goal

Mackems 1-0 up, Darren Bent

bent with another goal, 2-0

Glad to see the boro doing poor and Hull 1-1 away to Brentford

Mackems win 2-0, Smogmonsters are out and hartlepool lost 3-0 to Wigan

Games going to extra time

Bradford 1-1 Preston
Crewe 0-0 Ipswich
Portsmouth 1-1 Crystal Palace
Wolves 1-1 Southend
Reading 2-2 Northampton

How strong a team have Wolves put out? Would be good if it was close to their first team and going into extra time

Their lineup, McCarthy made 10 changes of which Elokobi is the only survivor from their draw at Everton

Hennessey
Zubar - Batth - Stearman - Elokobi
Halford - Guedloura - Edwards - Milijas
Winnall - Hemmings

They've made all 3 subs of which Ebanks-Blake, Doyle and Foley are on, 3 of their first choice forward men

Ah well, we'll beat any team they put out

No penalties for Wolves, they won 2-1

3rd round draw is today at 12pm on SSN

DRAW NUMBERS TO LOOK OUT FOR

1. Arsenal
2. Aston Villa
4. Blackburn Rovers
8. Chelsea
9. Everton
13. Liverpool
14. Man City
15. Man Utd
18. Newcastle
19. Northampton*
26. Sunderland
28. Tottenham

* Lowest ranked team left in

Here we go, heres hoping for a good home draw

Fucking Chelsea away

FULL DRAW, at least it looks like our expected thumping wont be broadcast live to the nation, Tottenham/Arsenal by far the tie of the round

1. Brentford ...... v ...... Everton
2. Portsmouth ...... v ...... Leicester
3. Stoke City ...... v ...... Fulham
4. Chelsea ...... v ...... Newcastle
5. Aston Villa ...... v ...... Blackburn
6. Tottenham ...... v ...... Arsenal
7. Millwall ...... v ...... Ipswich
8. Wolves ...... v ...... Notts County
9. Burnley ...... v ...... Bolton
10. Birmingham ...... v ...... MK Dons
11. Liverpool ...... v ...... Northampton
12. Scunthorpe ...... v ...... Man Utd
13. West Brom ...... v ...... Man City
14. Mackems ...... v ...... West Ham
15. Peterborough ...... v ...... Swansea
16. Wigan ...... v ...... Preston

every fucking time we think we have a decent chance of going far in this competition, we get Chelsea or Arsenal etc. We've gotten Chelsea more than once in the FA Cup too in recent years.

You never know Chelski might field their reserves............

Blackburn knocked them out last year at their place because they played all the kids. I'm sure if we went with a strong team we could win. However, I doubt Hughton will take his strongest team.

Maybe, cos they only tend to field a stronger team when they play lower league opposition.

They didnt field their reserves last year until that quarter-final at Blackburn

He would surely have to field a stronger team than he did the other night no matter who Chelsea play.

Im all for giving the kids a chance but I dont think them taking an absolute spanking at Chelsea would benefit them in any way which is what would likely happen if we played a similar line up.

I'm sure he would do a lot stronger than the other night, but still a lot of reserves in there. If you would say the line up against Villa is pretty much our strongest, I would imagine against Chelsea we would still see the likes of Shola, Xisco, Guthrie, Tiote, Campbell, (Ben Arfa & Keane?) along with some of the youngsters like Kadar and Ranger, but not so much Donaldosn, Ferguson, Tavernier.

A few suprises tonite so far. Bolton losing at Burnley, Wolves being held at home at the moment by notts County and Everton's woes are continuing as they've just been pegged back by Brentford.

Tottenham v Arsenal's been a decent match so far, Robbie Keane's jsut equalized for the hosts.

Notts County now beating Wolves at Molineux but more importantly, the Mackems now losing to West Ham

Thats it, Sunderland , suprisingly, are out



GAMES GONE TO EXTRA TIME
Brentford 1-1 Everton
Tottenham 1-1 Arsenal
Wolves 1-1 Notts County