[BlackCountryPride68]

If (a hardly insubstantial if on yesterday's evidence) we do prevail against the Spireites, what do we want for R4?

Vile or Wolves at home for me. Failing that, either of the blighters away.

[KN22]

Would take a home draw, preferably against a side from a lower division. Unlike many, I would love a good cup run.

[leeiswba]

Fleetwood, Wrexham or Grimsby away for me from the teams who are definitely through.

[SmethDan]

Win the replay. Then an away day. 3pm kickoff. No train strikes and a reasonable distance. Beyond that I'm not too bothered so long as those on the pitch give a better account of themselves than they did for large tracts of yesterday's game. COYB  .

[silver surfer]

Definitely not Villa or Wolves home or away, could be embarrassing.
A rubbish team at home and hopefully a run into the later rounds

[gazberg]

If we win the replay then we have Bristol/Swansea away.

[hardtobeat]

If we win the replay then we have Bristol/Swansea away

Both winnable

[alex1]

Both winnable if we put a strong side out. The question is will we.

[Sted1990]

Terrible draw. I imagine it will be Swansea we face.

[KingKoren]

Villa have just lost at home to Stevenage 

[silver surfer]

Boos ringing around Seal park
Hilarious
Suddenly a last minute equaliser at Chesterfield don’t feel so bad

[Mikkyk]

A lot of premier league teams have gone out.

I still think we should rest our first teamers - but there is an opportunity to go far this year

[Baggies]

First thoughts - another dull draw. They always are whe  you play a side in your division.

Then again, most ties are dull really, other than drawing Walsall or a prem side.

[beechyboy90]

A lot of premier league teams have gone out.

I still think we should rest our first teamers - but there is an opportunity to go far this year

Its similar to 2008 under mowbray we faced charlton and cov from champ and peterborough from league one and bristol rovers from league 2- all away.

A lot of bigger sides crashed out that year. You just have to best whats in front of you and continue to hope for kind draws and you could suddenly find yourself in a quarter or semi final.

Arsenal to play city in next round. West ham and spurs both with championship sides away. You never know.

[Mikkyk]

Its similar to 2008 under mowbray we faced charlton and cov from champ and peterborough from league one and bristol rovers from league 2- all away.

A lot of bigger sides crashed out that year. You just have to best whats in front of you and continue to hope for kind draws and you could suddenly find yourself in a quarter or semi final.

Arsenal to play city in next round. West ham and spurs both with championship sides away. You never know.

In fact it's very similar. 7 PL teams out (already) and that's the most since the season you refer to.

[beechyboy90]

In fact it's very similar. 7 PL teams out (already) and that's the most since the season you refer to.

Leeds have a replay v cardiff
Dingles v scousers so that number will rise to 8 potentially 9 before 4th round kicks off.

Then in 4th you have brighton v dingles/scousers  and
Man city v arsenal. So without any up sets by conclusion of 4th its down to 10.

Leicester away at saddlers
Tottenham away at pne
Fulham hosting total football tonys sunderland even west ham going to derby. Some proper cup draws/potential banana skins. Its important we best Chesterfield and then try to get in the 5th round

[BaggieBirdRus]

I think we should take this seriously. I would rather us lose against Luton and Burnley and win our replay and the 4th round tie. Being in the hat for the 5th round means more money and also as others have bussed there's quite a few Prem teams out already.

[Hull Baggie]

I think we should take this seriously. I would rather us lose against Luton and Burnley and win our replay and the 4th round tie. Being in the hat for the 5th round means more money and also as others have bussed there's quite a few Prem teams out already.

If we lose to Burnley and Luton that may well put a massive dent in our play off aspirations. Even if we won the FA Cup we would get £3.9M, compared to the £100M + for getting promoted.
 If we got to the semis (and lost) we would have amassed £1.4M  if we won the semi we would have £1.9M.

As I've said in an earlier post I love a Cup run but, from a financial point of view, winning the FA Cup is very small beer compared to getting promoted.

[gerry m]

Me personally would forget about the FA Cup and concentrate on getting promoted. It's  a distraction which we have little chance of winning and chances players getting injured.

[smethwickw]

Me personally would forget about the FA Cup and concentrate on getting promoted. It's  a distraction which we have little chance of winning and chances players getting injured.

The League is definitely more important but I think back to the Mowbray season. Title winners and Cup Semi Final. Didn't do us any harm there and winning games breeds confidence.

[KN22]

The League is definitely more important but I think back to the Mowbray season. Title winners and Cup Semi Final. Didn't do us any harm there and winning games breeds confidence.

Of course it does. There is absolutely no reason a club cannot do well in both competitions.

[ex coseley kid]

The League is definitely more important but I think back to the Mowbray season. Title winners and Cup Semi Final. Didn't do us any harm there and winning games breeds confidence.

With this 100%.

[beechyboy90]

Seeing the final 4 of league cup. 3 of the sides i cannot recall winning a trophy in the last 25 years... further shows why you have to take the cup seriously. Even on promotion we should strive to be a cup team

[iwastherein68]

As well as being 5 times F.A Cup winners , we are 8th in the all-time list of semi-finalists (20 appearances).
This is our heritage, and yet many of our supporters are happy to abandon competing for it.

[Hull Baggie]

The League is definitely more important but I think back to the Mowbray season. Title winners and Cup Semi Final. Didn't do us any harm there and winning games breeds confidence.

The flaw in this argument is that we weren't making up a massive points difference in 2007/08 to just get into play offs.