Pardon my ignorance Lord P but what way does the next round draw work ?
Pot 1 - Crusaders - Linfield
Pot 2 - Bala Town - The New Saints
Pot 3 - St Mirren - Alloa - Dunfermline - Dundee Untd - Falkirk - Forfar
Pot 4 - QOS - Livingston - Queens Park - Hibs - Stranraer - Ayr
Pardon my ignorance Lord P but what way does the next round draw work ?
All I can find on the net is the 4th round, quarter finals and semi finals will be regionalised to keep the Irish and Welsh teams apart !
I thought that 1 Welsh team will be drawn at home & 1 away with the same for Irish teams and all 4 will be kept apart.
So I guess that would mean 1 Welsh & 1 Irish getting drawn in the north section with the others getting drawn in the south with the other 4 Scottish teams in each section staying regionalised making 2 matches in each section.
The draw is getting made tomorrow anyway at noon so we will see what happens when its drawn to see if thats even the way they did it.
I guess that 3 games will be on the TV as BBC Alba, Premier Sports & now S4C have rights to show live games.
Have looked at the SPFL website today it has not mentioned that it would be regionalised as it just says it would be unseeded with the teams from Northern Ireland and Wales kept apart.
Have also found this showing only 3 pots with Crusaders already down for a home match & Linfield down for a away match and that may be because Northern Ireland have a home match that day but Scotland also have a home match that day which could cause problems if Queen`s Park got a home match.
Anyway it`s less than an hour to the draw so not long to find out now.
Four pots, three pots, regionalised, not regionalised - total confusion all round - thank f --- we will know in the next 10 minutes what the score is !
Belfast here we come I am told to meet the Rangers of Northern Ireland - Linfield
We're at home to Linfield
Sorry watched it on the irnbru app but couldn't get the sound -would have been nice trip to Belfast but a home draw is always the best - come on Queens