FA Cup 2023/24

[Fox92]

On 03/12/2023 at 15:58, The Bear said:

We've had an frankly unbelievable run of 3rd Round draws. 8 out of the last 9 have been Premier League teams and the other one was a team just relegated. 

 

2016: West Ham (PL)
2017: Stoke (PL)
2018: Swansea (PL)
2019: Liverpool (PL)
2020: Man Utd (PL)
2021: Crystal Palace (PL)
2022: Sheff Utd
2023: Liverpool (PL)
2024: Brentford (PL)

 

The odds on that would be staggering. 

I saw Millwall fans moaning about our draw because their last tie outside of London was in 17/18.

 

In that time they've either lost at home or played away in London

[David Hankey]

Forest Green get to replay their game whereas Barnsley got kicked out of the competition for exactly the same reason, why is that?

[Fox92]

TV Picks

Palace v Everton - Thursday 4h

Spurs v Burnley - Friday 5th

Sunderland v Newcastle - Saturday 6th

Middlesbrough v Villa - Saturday 6th

Arsenal v Liverpool - Sunday 7th

Wigan v Man Utd - Monday 8th

[Mike the Metal Ed]

30 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

TV Picks

Palace v Everton - Thursday 4h

Spurs v Burnley - Friday 5th

Sunderland v Newcastle - Saturday 6th

Middlesbrough v Villa - Saturday 6th

Arsenal v Liverpool - Sunday 7th

Wigan v Man Utd - Monday 8th

Thrilling stuff for the neutral, there.

[Super_horns]

3 minutes ago, Mike the Metal Ed said:

Thrilling stuff for the neutral, there.

Surely more attractive games than watching 4 reserve sides.

Like POSH v Leeds as an example.

[purpleronnie]

33 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

TV Picks

Palace v Everton - Thursday 4h

Spurs v Burnley - Friday 5th

Sunderland v Newcastle - Saturday 6th

Middlesbrough v Villa - Saturday 6th

Arsenal v Liverpool - Sunday 7th

Wigan v Man Utd - Monday 8th

Can't wait for Spurs v Burnley, spine tingling.

[Leicester_Loyal]

58 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

TV Picks

Palace v Everton - Thursday 4h

Spurs v Burnley - Friday 5th

Sunderland v Newcastle - Saturday 6th

Middlesbrough v Villa - Saturday 6th

Arsenal v Liverpool - Sunday 7th

Wigan v Man Utd - Monday 8th

They are horrendous

[goody2028]

They’re never great but that has to be the worst tv pick in history  

[Fox92]

1 hour ago, Super_horns said:

Surely more attractive games than watching 4 reserve sides.

Like POSH v Leeds as an example.

And I wanted to see my local team beating your lot!

[Fox92]

1 hour ago, Mike the Metal Ed said:

Thrilling stuff for the neutral, there.

 

1 hour ago, purpleronnie said:

Can't wait for Spurs v Burnley, spine tingling.

 

58 minutes ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

They are horrendous

Sunderland v Newcastle was always going to be the best one. Proper derby.

 

Middlesbrough v Villa might be a decent game too but rest are boring. Spurs v Burnley Who picked that.

Edited 7 December 2023 by Fox92

[RowlattsFox]

Never been more obvious that they don't care about anything other than viewing figures. Some shit there but Palace v Everton 

[The Bear]

Current run for televised games for Man Utd in the FA Cup is 86 out of 87 games and counting. 

[Super_horns]

33 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

And I wanted to see my local team beating your lot!

Knowing us against lower league sides they will !

[Thefox81]

Shocking tv picks 🙈

[UniFox21]

Barnsley fielded an ineligible player; Barnsley kicked out the cup

 

Forest green had an ineligible player on the bench; game to be replayed. 

 

Same admin error however

 

 

 

[Super_horns]

1 hour ago, Thefox81 said:

Shocking tv picks 🙈

Didn’t realise the Spurs Burnley game was on ITV 1.

 

Hardly feels like a ratings winning prime time on a Friday to me.

[Corky]

Two of those all Premier League matches would probably not be shown on TV in the league yet we get them in this. Magic.

[Tuna]

4 hours ago, RowlattsFox said:

Never been more obvious that they don't care about anything other than viewing figures. Some shit there but Palace v Everton 

This absolutely 

[deep blue]

Just now, The Bear said:

Current run for televised games for Man Utd in the FA Cup is 86 out of 87 games and counting. 

Blimey, where did you forage to get that statistic from?  You're dead right,  though, it's obscene how Man U are seen as an entity apart from any other team, no matter how crap is their play.

[Leicesterpool]

Spuds v Burnley... itv one friday night🤔 why?  As much as wrexham are getting tad too much coverage id rather see their match on tele against Shrewsbury, than watch spuds walk over Burnley.

Edited 8 December 2023 by Leicesterpool

[Fox92]

43 minutes ago, Leicesterpool said:

Spuds v Burnley... itv one friday night🤔 why?  As much as wrexham are getting tad too much coverage id rather see their match on tele against Shrewsbury, than watch spuds walk over Burnley.

Probably because most London teams are at home. It's a shocking TV pick but they've got to be spaced out somehow. Remember Arsenal got drawn at home too.

[Super_horns]

I see a whole load more games have moved around now for various reasons .

[Langston]

On 07/12/2023 at 18:01, The Bear said:

Current run for televised games for Man Utd in the FA Cup is 86 out of 87 games and counting. 

The biggest side in the country being clamoured after by broadcasters - who’d have thought! Does anyone really care?

[CosbehFox]

The difficulty is that ITV and BBC have to substantiate their expenditure with audience. Harsh reality is those non PL games don’t get the audience numbers. 
 

Which in turn means they might pay less for the coverage in future and when a lower league team does get a decent draw, they get a lower amount. 
 

Also fans of the National League aides, certainly the big ones, have said it puts the games on at awkward kick off times which actually hurts them when it comes everything else including policing bills 

[whoareyaaa]

Strange day to play a FA Cup tie Everton v Palace tonight on ITV 4 or X