Andy Last will be able to stick it up us.

Fine with that draw. Bring it on.

"They've only won it once."

4th time playing Cas this season

5th draw in 9 years in the cup

While sometimes it is just luck we do seem to have played Cas and Catalan a lot in the cup. I think the SL teams now come in a round too late, makes for boring repeat fixtures.

an away cup tie and the annual farce at the stadium kicking in,5 away games on the trot.what a joke

agree, would like to see SL clubs enter at the same time as the championship teams, gone are the days of minnows getting a decent pay day!

about time pearson and the rl put their foot down against the scum at the stadium.they have got away with this for long enough

Isn't Wigan and Hudds pitch relayed annually?

its so cynical the way they do it,as soon as football finishes it starts.if for some reason city had to play fixtures late may or june it wouldnt happen.they are just taking the p--s out of fc

It also happens to be spring which I imagine is the best time to do this work so there is that....

Slight over reaction, if you don't mind me saying so.

The only joke is your post

I would assume that you own your post, if so you need to take one massive chill pill. It happens on nearly all shared grounds, think it’s a Football League thing.

Agree get cup back to how it was entering round 4 ?

Winning 3 games to get to a final is a bit of a farce

Happily scrap loop fixtures if it meant joining the cup earlier

IMG have suggested a group stage in the CC early on and I'd tentatively agree with that.

You could have say groups of 3 with an SL team, Championship team and League 1 team with 1 or 2 going through. This could replace a preseason friendly, and for lower league clubs it might be a good pay day if they have weeks to sell tickets for an SL team coming to town.

not for me, would make it even less appealing, could you imagine football tampering with the FA cup? CC is and should be random draw...reason why a lot of the amateur clubs wont take part anymore is because the chance of drawing the likes of wigan/saints/leeds in the early rounds have bee taken away from them and most made a loss once the new format came in

Agree should just put all clubs in the hat and draw that’s what it’s all about

our game v Cas on bbc2 2.35pm on the sunday, kick off 3pm

leeds v wigan on the saturday

Utter nonsense it's a knockout comp

You'd still very likely end up with the same teams going through, but the advantage is fixtures can be finalised well in advance which helps ticket sales. Id prefer that to loop games in SL, at least there would be some different matchups.

As is the champions league, think that does ok?

Should be straight knock out SL clubs should be in the draw earlier than this weeks draw . You'd still get the same attendance if Hull payed York regardless if it were in a group stage or knock out comp.

Well even that has got pointless until the knockout rounds

You pretty much know 90% of the teams who will qualify