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FA Cup Round 1 draw

Bromley_GFC said:
No chance unfortunately mate, that usually goes to non league teams at home to a league side with a shock on the cards. Even if we were at home doubt it would be on TV let alone at Sunderland who will be favourites.
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I wouldn't say that - i.e. "no chance" as the Beeb/BT quite often include an all League game amongst the live matches - in the past, I've expected our possible/likely defeat to a non-league team to receive live coverage, but it hasn't in favour of a largely uninteresting all league match-up. TV companies may also consider that Sunderland are well supported and their fans alone (especially BT) may bump up the viewing figures - we've seen this for year with Man Utd. Pretty much every FA Cup draw they have is a live match due to the perceived armchair fanbase. They have included some really uninteresting Man Utd FA Cups matches for live coverage, such as Man Utd v Reading, over far more likely and interesting upset prospects for that reason. I am not saying that Sunderland have anything like the armchair fanbase, but compared to others in the draw at this stage, they possibly do.

I am presuming the BBC will have the usual half a dozen or so matches they cover live (i.e. goals and actions as it happens) on the Sunday? Could well be a contender for that.

If I were a neutral, I'd have no interest at all in the match - as with the other all league draws - but I wouldn't be surprised if we get some sort of coverage.

However, I concur that it was an awful draw - could not have been a lot worse. Probably on a par with the terrible Swansea draw in Round 4 last season.
 
NathanH_GFC said:
So Chichester, the lowest-ranked team in the competition, got the bye, and have pledged to make a donation to Bury out of the “prize” money. It may only be a small gesture (don’t think the amount has been revealed yet), but how many other clubs would have done that? Fair play to them, hope they get a good draw in round 2, someone massive like Sunderland...

Surely any money given to Bury will end up with the taxman.
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I'm going as I'm dreaming that this will be the game where our strike force suddenly click and we pull off the shock of the round!
 
So Haringey Borough FC v Yeovil will be replayed next Tuesday to determine who will host Darlington in the next round. Tickets for the abandoned game at Haringey will not be valid for next week`s replay game. Think original game was abandoned around the Hour mark - should fans that went to that game and held on to their ticket have to pay again ? Perhaps it`s an FA rule ?
 
BT Sport will show (live) three first round games:

Dover v Southend Utd (Sunday 10th 1130am)
Hayes & Yeading v Oxford Utd (Sunday 10th 2pm)
Harrogate Town v Portsmouth (Monday 11th 7pm)

Good news for Dover £££
Await BBC Decisions....
 
So Lancs, what I predicted on two threads turns out to be correct, smug bar steward that I am?
 
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