League Cup 1st Round - Colchester United (A)

[MorrisNielson]

Draw Friday 1pm in Bangkok.
Format same as last year (North/South split, seeds/non-seeds).
We are No 1 South seeds. (Walsall/Coventry North non-seeds. Wolves/Blues South seeds)
https://www.efl.com/news/2017/june/draw-round-one-ties-to-be-drawn-on-friday-16th-june/

We will face one of these:
South – Non-Seeds

19. AFC Wimbledon
20. Barnet
21. Cambridge United
22. Cheltenham Town
23. Colchester United
24. Crawley Town
25. Exeter City
26. Forest Green Rovers
27. Gillingham
28. Luton Town
29. Newport County
30. Northampton Town
31. Plymouth Argyle
32. Portsmouth
33. Stevenage
34. Swindon Town
35. Wycombe Wanderers
36. Yeovil Town

[PeterWithesShin]

Barnet at home. Or anyone else i've never seen us play before.

[cdbearsfan]

We aren't from the sodding South. If you're going to regionalise it, have a Midlands section you massive twats.

[Sexual Ealing]

South suits me. Barnet away please.

[Towser]

Forest Green Rovers Away

[Damo70]

Northampton home or away. I have relatives in Northampton. Maybe Mark Walters could come out of retirement for one game.

[Ad@m]

Do we really have to play the first round? I thought the top two divisions went straight in to the second round.

[Holte132]

Last time I looked at a map Coventry was south of Birmingham - how on earth are they in the north split for this?

[brian green]

Cambridge United away please. Failing that Exeter at home so we can run the rule over Watkins.

[Damo70]

Last time I looked at a map Coventry was south of Birmingham - how on earth are they in the north split for this?

Maybe they used to be South of Birmingham but as they promised us years ago they are now 'back'.

[darren woolley]

Barnet or AFC Wimbledon away please.

[SoccerHQ]

Do we really have to play the first round? I thought the top two divisions went straight in to the second round.

Luton was first round last year.

[UK Redsox]

We aren't from the sodding South.

Anywhere from Worcester up is The North as far as I'm concerned

[robbo1874]

Last time I looked at a map Coventry was south of Birmingham - how on earth are they in the north split for this?

Maybe they used to be South of Birmingham but as they promised us years ago they are now 'back'.

good to have you back too Damo!

[cdbearsfan]

Do we really have to play the first round? I thought the top two divisions went straight in to the second round.

Championship clubs enter in the First Round unless they've won one of the cups and find themselves in Europe, in which case they would enter at Round Three.

Because of the numbers, two Championship clubs have to enter in Round Two (usually). These are the two highest teams based on last year's placings... 18th and 19th in Premier League Hull and Middlesbrough.