FA Cup - Are we bothered?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Personally I think we should concentrate on finishing the season in the Top Two in the Championship and forget all about the FA Cup.

Let's do a Dyche and bin it.

[sinkov]

Totally opposite for me, if we do go up it will be an omnishambles as we get spanked week after week and come straight back down. Bugger that for a game of soldiers, let's have a good run in the Cup, get to Wembley and lift that jug.

Mr Pace wants the money though, so Scott will be playing the stiffs on Saturday.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Totally opposite for me, if we do go up it will be an omnishambles as we get spanked week after week and come straight back down. Bugger that for a game of soldiers, let's have a good run in the Cup, get to Wembley and lift that jug.

Mr Pace wants the money though, so Scott will be playing the stiffs on Saturday.

What an odd post!

If we are going to get "spanked" week in week out in the EPL, how on earth will we make Wembley? I watched Newcastle last night we would have zero chance of progressing against that lot.

I have more chance of banging the lovely Ms Lopez than we have of lifting the jug.

Our best bet is to go up with Leeds and hope for the best.

Referring to our second choice team as "stiffs" is bloody bad form too#

[kritichris]

I think it's a good chance to give some of the new and recovering players an outing as I said in another post. Who knows they may still progress with Trafford in the nets.

[mnrht]

Very tricky, you don't want key players to get injured and you don't want to get whacked. I would start with a weaker(experimental) team and have the better players as substitutes. Getting promotion has to have priority.

[army88]

Well Nick a goal and play possession football for 80 mins and defend for our lives BT - it?s obvious

One off games are different really to playing that level weekly - Millwall did it ( luck of fixture draw I suppose ).

He is right though about the premiership I know you and Ballcock think otherwise but we couldn?t play how we do know if we went up it would be embarrassing

[sinkov]

Referring to our second choice team as "stiffs" is bloody bad form too#

Of course they are the 'stiffs', they're not second choice for nothing. 'Second choice' my arse, don't be so mard, they're the bloody stiffs.

[kritichris]

Back in the day when we had a reserve team I used to go to all the home games as they were included with your season ticket. It was handy for seeing players coming back to fitness being given a run out and the young kids being given a chance. You also got the "stiffs" being the backbone of the team. One match I remember was when West Brom came to the turf and their stiff, Simon Garner, scored for them and did an aeroplane impression in front of the booing Burnley fans in the Bob Lord. I think he had a fag at half time but I might have imagined that.

[ballcock]

Well Nick a goal and play possession football for 80 mins and defend for our lives BT - it?s obvious

One off games are different really to playing that level weekly - Millwall did it ( luck of fixture draw I suppose ).

He is right though about the premiership I know you and Ballcock think otherwise but we couldn?t play how we do know if we went up it would be embarrassing

It might be embarrassing to you but not me. I like the way we play it produces results.

Would you like us to play like we did last season, rolling over after 15 minutes and getting battered?

Parker is shaping into an excellent manager who needs looking after. Bayern aren't happy with Kompany (conceding to many goals) we don't want them poaching Parker

[kritichris]

Man U and Leicester on ITV tonight.