The FA Cup

[Elite_Pie]

I know Luke Williams hasn't bothered with cups so far, but I hope we take this one seriously. Only just realised that the first round draw will take place on Sunday at 2.30pm and you can watch it on ITV1 from 2.30pm or stream it online on ITVX.

The numbers next to each club will be the ball numbers in the draw:

1. Accrington Stanley
2. AFC Wimbledon
3. Barnsley
4. Barrow
5. Blackpool
6. Bolton Wanderers
7. Bradford City
8. Bristol Rovers
9. Burton Albion
10. Cambridge United
11. Carlisle United
12. Charlton Athletic
13. Cheltenham Town
14. Colchester United
15. Crawley Town
16. Crewe Alexandra
17. Derby County
18. Doncaster Rovers
19. Exeter City
20. Fleetwood Town
21. Forest Green Rovers
22. Gillingham
23. Grimsby Town
24. Harrogate Town
25. Leyton Orient
26. Lincoln City
27. Mansfield Town
28. Milton Keynes Dons
29. Morecambe
30. Newport County
31. Northampton Town
32. Notts County
33. Oxford United
34. Peterborough United
35. Port Vale
36. Portsmouth
37. Reading
38. Salford City
39. Shrewsbury Town
40. Stevenage
41. Stockport County
42. Sutton United
43. Swindon Town
44. Tranmere Rovers
45. Walsall
46. Wigan Athletic
47. Wrexham
48. Wycombe Wanderers
49. Scarborough Athletic or Oxford City
50. Altrincham or Oldham Athletic
51. FC Halifax Town or Marine
52. Worksop Town or Boston United
53. AFC Fylde or Leek Town
54. Hereford or Rochdale
55. York City or Needham Market
56. Solihull Moors or Biggleswade Town
57. Chesterfield or Kettering Town
58. Alfreton Town or Macclesfield
59. Hartlepool United or Chester
60. Chelmsford City or Whitby Town
61. Curzon Ashton or Tamworth
62. Kidderminster Harriers or Ashton United
63. Stourbridge or Gateshead
64. Aldershot Town or Lewes
65. Torquay United or Maidstone United
66. AFC Totton or Ramsgate
67. Aveley or Barnet
68. Hemel Hempstead Town or Woking
69. Horsham or Dorking Wanderers
70. Eastleigh or Dover Athletic
71. Yeovil Town or Southend United
72. Bromley or Wealdstone
73. Weston Super Mare or Maidenhead United
74. Braintree Town or Chesham United
75. Bracknell Town or Dagenham & Redbridge
76. Worthing or Bath City
77. Boreham Wood or Welling United
78. Cray Valley (PM) or Enfield Town
79. Ebbsfleet United or Slough Town
80. Billericay Town or Sheppey United

The final qualifying round is tomorrow, it will be interesting who we might get.

[marky]

It's about time we got to round 3, it's truly embarassing that we've only done it once since 2012. Hope Luke Williams will take it seriously.

[matt_magpie]

I’m pretty sure the club will take it seriously as the financial rewards of a good run would be extremely beneficial to us.
That said we better swap out LW for the game though with him not being a very good cup manager ……..

[queenslandpie]

Jeez how long did it take you to type that out

[kill_the_drum]

I’m predicting Chesterfield

[uysapie]

I’m predicting Chesterfield

Stags away

[Elite_Pie]

Ebbsfleet away.

[tied_up_in_notts]

Gateshead at home, so we can give Archie a standing ovation for his Wembley heroics

[Jampie]

I personally hope he ditches this one too with B teams etc. The benefit of getting into L1, which is, shockingly, wonderfully, looking plausible right now, vastly outweighs an ephemeral and dice-fraught cup run.

That said, if he goes all out for it I won't be upset or anything.

[Notts78]

No reason not to go strong. It’s not as though fixtures are cancelled.
We also don’t have a meaningful midweek game - Lincoln away in that Trophy thing that we are out of contention in.
I suspect it depends on who we get.