Lucky buggers

[lucy6lucy]

If we had been in 3rd round, we would have drawn burnley away, Exeter , Liverpool at home. It's so depressing.

[MF68]

As if I could not be more depressed................Exeter have just been drawn at home to Liverpool in FA Cup.

[Dave]

Yep, you make your own luck, run a youth academy properly you develop players, win cup tie's sometimes you get lucky, we had our chance v Crawley and lost.

[MF68]

Im sorry. They should have gone skint years ago........then they drew Man Utd.

[Southampton Gull]

Yep, even more depressing seeing them crow about it on facebook.

[hector]

I don't begrudge Exeter anything now. Well-run club, with a good ethos and a good manager. Fair play to them.

We are now so far down the food-chain it is irrelevant to us - we are on our way to have the likes of Bideford and Tiverton as our derbies. Sooner we forget about ECFC/PAFC the better.

[Dave]

The point is in 2004-5 They beat a team who 2 leagues higher and drew Man.U, we lost to a team a division below and would have had the ultimate prize. As others have said, don't give a damn anymore, we've made our bed, now we lay in it.

[ferrarilover]

Yeah, well run club with a great manager, which is precisely why, despite having been gifted literally millions of pounds over the last dozen years or so, they're still **** about in the middle reaches of L2.

Imagine we'd brought in, say, £5m in free money, as well as getting 3-5000 a week through the gates. Even with our lot running the show, there's absolutely no way we'd be where they are. **** me, they're a division and a half below Burton **** Albion. To top it all off, they've got **** all to show for it in terms of their ground either, it still gets shown up by the likes of Buckland Athletic.

Well run? You're having a laugh.

Matt.

[cambgull]

Right, I've got to clear this one up as it annoys me every time someone whinges that we would have been playing Man Utd if we beat Crawley.

No, we wouldn't have. Crawley wouldn't have had the same number as us.

[oldpedant]

Right, I've got to clear this one up as it annoys me every time someone whinges that we would have been playing Man Utd if we beat Crawley.

No, we wouldn't have. Crawley wouldn't have had the same number as us.

Sorry but I think you're wrong.

For the next round the draw number is the same as the match number as it was drawn. So for example, Watford v. Newcastle was the first match drawn today, and next time whoever wins will be ball number 1.

[Dave]

Yes, absolutely 100% correct oldpendant , we would have had exactly the same ball number if we'd beaten Crawley, so would have drawn Man.U away.

Always pays to check before we shout.

[samuel]

Bloody Exeter. I feel sick. Hate that team.

[cambgull]

Sorry but I think you're wrong.

For the next round the draw number is the same as the match number as it was drawn. So for example, Watford v. Newcastle was the first match drawn today, and next time whoever wins will be ball number 1.

Yes, absolutely 100% correct oldpendant , we would have had exactly the same ball number if we'd beaten Crawley, so would have drawn Man.U away.

Always pays to check before we shout.

Ok, let's destroy your 'thinking' with plain fact.

2nd Round Draw - 9th November 2015
Hartlepool - ball 13
Salford - ball 14
Peterborough - ball 1
Sheffield United - ball 22
Exeter City - ball 27

3rd Round Draw - 7th December 2015
Salford/Hartlepool - ball 62
Peterborough - ball 47
Sheffield United - ball 61
Exeter City - ball 51

Shall I go on?

[Jerry]

Ok, let's destroy your 'thinking' with plain fact.

2nd Round Draw - 9th November 2015
Hartlepool - ball 13
Salford - ball 14
Peterborough - ball 1
Sheffield United - ball 22
Exeter City - ball 27

3rd Round Draw - 7th December 2015
Salford/Hartlepool - ball 62
Peterborough - ball 47
Sheffield United - ball 61
Exeter City - ball 51

Shall I go on?

Each tie is assigned a number alphabetically according to the home team. The winner of each tie keeps the match number for the next draw but when additional teams enter they take the first numbers on an alphabetical basis, with the other teams following on in order of their tie number (eg in the third round Nos1-44 are Premiership and Championship teams, then 45 is the team that carried over No1 from the last round and so on).

http://www.theguardian.com/football/200 ... 006.sport1

[oldpedant]

Ok, let's destroy your 'thinking' with plain fact.

2nd Round Draw - 9th November 2015
Hartlepool - ball 13
Salford - ball 14
Peterborough - ball 1
Sheffield United - ball 22
Exeter City - ball 27

3rd Round Draw - 7th December 2015
Salford/Hartlepool - ball 62
Peterborough - ball 47
Sheffield United - ball 61
Exeter City - ball 51

Shall I go on?

This proves my point. Only the top teams were listed alphabetically and were given numbers 1-44. Numbers 45-64 were the match numbers (+44) from the second round. So Bradford (v Chesham - match 1) was number 45 and Oxford (v. Forest Green - match 20) was number 64.

1 AFC Bournemouth
2 Arsenal
3 Aston Villa
4 Birmingham City
5 Blackburn Rovers
6 Bolton Wanderers
7 Brentford
8 Brighton & Hove Albion
9 Bristol City
10 Burnley
11 Cardiff City
12 Charlton Athletic
13 Chelsea
14 Crystal Palace
15 Derby County
16 Everton
17 Fulham
18 Huddersfield Town
19 Hull City
20 Ipswich Town
21 Leeds United
22 Leicester City
23 Liverpool
24 Manchester City
25 Manchester United
26 Middlesbrough
27 Milton Keynes Dons
28 Newcastle United
29 Norwich City
30 Nottingham Forest
31 Preston North End
32 Queens Park Rangers
33 Reading
34 Rotherham United
35 Sheffield Wednesday
36 Southampton
37 Stoke City
38 Sunderland
39 Swansea City
40 Tottenham Hotspur
41 Watford
42 West Bromwich Albion
43 West Ham United
44 Wolverhampton Wanderers
45 Bradford City
46 Newport County
47 Peterborough United
48 Portsmouth
49 Eastleigh
50 Northampton Town
51 Exeter City
52 Doncaster Rovers
53 Grimsby Town or Shrewsbury Town
54 Yeovil Town
55 Bury
56 Carlisle United
57 Leyton Orient or Scunthorpe United
58 Wycombe Wanderers
59 Colchester United
60 Chesterfield or Walsall
61 Sheffield United
62 Salford City or Hartlepool United
63 Dagenham & Redbridge or Whitehawk
64 Oxford United

Enough 'facts' for you?