Notts County (H) Tuesday 25.8.15 7.45pm KO Pre-Match Thread

[KevinGage]

A cup run is never a bad thing, but until we rack those points up in the league and look like a team who will have no worries about fighting the drop then I'm not too bothered about this.  The FA Cup is the one I would still like us to get given the choice.

We have never been too big for the League Cup, and we're certainly not now.

[nordenvillain]

I would have liked a trip to Coventry seeing as they lied and aren't coming back like they promised. So after last night by default I will take Rochdale as it would be a new ground to visit.

That was my choice on a previous page, seeing as I only live 2 miles from Spotland. Would really like to give them some money as it was due to them that my 2 lads and me got to see the Cup Final - I know, was that such a blessing !!! We'd get about 3200 tickets as well.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Good news, two of the last 3 teams to beat us in the League Cup are already out.

So it must be our year for the League Cup.

I wouldn't mind Rochdale home or away.

[PeterWithesShin]

Bury at home. I like to tick off a new team that i've never seen us play before.

[Clampy]

A home draw or an away ground that i haven't been to.

[cdbearsfan]

Seeds for the draw pretty much decided now with just Doncaster v Leeds to come.

SEEDS

The Villa
Swansea
Stoke
Crystal Palace
Everton
West Brom
Leicester
Newcastle
Sunderland
Bournemouth
Watford
Norwich
Hull
QPR
Middlesbrough
Ipswich
Wolves
Small Heath
Cardiff
Charlton
Sheffield Wednesday
Fulham
Reading
Leeds (if they beat Doncaster) or Brighton (if Doncaster beat Leeds)

NON-SEEDS
Doncaster (if they beat Leeds) or Brighton (if Leeds beat Doncaster)
Shrewsbury
Oxford
Carlisle
Hartlepool
Notts County
Luton
Barnet
MK Dons
Sheffield Utd
Northampton
Walsall
Peterborough
Gillingham
Port Vale
Rochdale
Rotherham
Barnsley
Exeter
Bury
York
Burton
Preston
Portsmouth

I'd like to avoid Sheffield United or any of the unseeded Championship clubs.

[silhillvilla]

The teams I've never seen us play
Carlisle
Hartlepool
Barnet
MK Dons
Peterborough
Gillingham
Rochdale
Rotherham
Bury
York
Burton
Preston

[cdbearsfan]

I've seen us play three of your list, you may have forgotten them seeing as you don't miss many.

I think Peterborough was the six-nil League Cup win when Draper either scored or set up a vaguely controversial flicked up free kick. Burton we played in a friendly might have been Lambert's first game. Preston we hammered five-nil, all five goals were screamers including a couple of typical Hitzlsperger smashes.

[olaftab]

West Brom seeded! How come?

[cdbearsfan]

Cos they'm the Pride of the Midlands, ay thay?

[silhillvilla]

I've seen us play three of your list, you may have forgotten them seeing as you don't miss many.

I think Peterborough was the six-nil League Cup win when Draper either scored or set up a vaguely controversial flicked up free kick. Burton we played in a friendly might have been Lambert's first game. Preston we hammered five-nil, all five goals were screamers including a couple of typical Hitzlsperger smashes.

Ah yes. Good to see my Alzheimer's is well under control .

[Dave]

I've seen us play three of your list, you may have forgotten them seeing as you don't miss many.

I think Peterborough was the six-nil League Cup win when Draper either scored or set up a vaguely controversial flicked up free kick. Burton we played in a friendly might have been Lambert's first game. Preston we hammered five-nil, all five goals were screamers including a couple of typical Hitzlsperger smashes.

We played Rotherham as recently as this time two years ago - that game when Delph scored a brilliant volley following one of the best moves I'd seen us put together in years.

[paul_e]

I've seen us play three of your list, you may have forgotten them seeing as you don't miss many.

I think Peterborough was the six-nil League Cup win when Draper either scored or set up a vaguely controversial flicked up free kick. Burton we played in a friendly might have been Lambert's first game. Preston we hammered five-nil, all five goals were screamers including a couple of typical Hitzlsperger smashes.

We played Rotherham as recently as this time two years ago - that game when Delph scored a brilliant volley following one of the best moves I'd seen us put together in years.

All 3 in that game were good goals from what I remember, Weimann and Benteke maybe?

[Dave]

Yup, Weimann's a curler from 25 yards and I can't really remember Benteke's.

I'll guess it was a header.

[paul_e]

Was indeed, towering header into the top corner from a gabby cross - http://www.soccer-blogger.com/2013/08/28/aston-villa-vs-rotherham-3-0-highlights-capital-one-cup-2013-weimann-benteke-delph-goals-video/

The Weimann goal was the one I remembered, absolute worldy of a strike, one of those that goes into row z 99 times in a 100.