[Albion] The annual waiting for the upper tiers to open thread.

[Taybha]

Try picking the team for this one

Button
Balogun
Webster
Duffy
Bernardo
Alzate
Stephens
Bissouma
Jahanbakhsh
Gross
Murray

Subs Connolly Steele Tolaj Dunk Richards Cochrane Bong

 

[RandyWanger]

Seems like there will be a few streams available for this game.

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Who's showing the game?

 

[BNthree]

Curious to know how much the U18s, playing as the first team, losing to Villa in the Carabao Cup has dented the sales of tickets to this.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Curious to know how much the U18s, playing as the first team, losing to Villa in the Carabao Cup has dented the sales of tickets to this.

Good question.

Surely he won't do it again? . . . will he?

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Good question.

Surely he won't do it again? . . . will he?

He won't.

This time there is no injury crisis and no PL game 3 days later.

 

[swindonseagull]

Who's showing the game?

https://liveonsat.com/uk-cup-competitions-all.php

Its on 14 Channels including Bein Sports, Supersports SA, Eurosport Denmark, DAZN and Eleven Sports poland these will be the easiest to find streams for....

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Curious to know how much the U18s, playing as the first team, losing to Villa in the Carabao Cup has dented the sales of tickets to this.

Good question.

Surely he won't do it again? . . . will he?

He won't.

This time there is no injury crisis and no PL game 3 days later.

I agree, that he PROBABLY won't, but it is a very decent point raised by [MENTION=34787]BNthree[/MENTION]

If Potter isn't intending the throw the game, and the club are interested in actually getting a crowd, then some sort of reassuring club statement about taking it seriously, would probably be worthwhile.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

FWIW, given that Wednesday are 6th in the Championship, in just about the most important season in their history (in that they are absolutely Fcked if they don't go up this year), with THE MOST MASSIVE GAME IN ALL OF FOOTBALL HISTORY against THE Leeds, next up, they won't be anything like full strength.

Which means that I'm fine with seeing a mixture of Button, Balogun, Schellotto, March, Alireza, Murray, etc and a COUPLE of youth (Hayden Roberts and Teddy Jenks were fantastic in the Villa game). A repeat of the wholesale weakening, we saw against Villa, would be a disgrace.

 

[Ernest]

Who's showing the game?

Any online betting site will be showing it. No need to find any streams

 

[Simster]

One other thing - this is th FA Cup (the premier domestic club cup competition), not the league cup (which should probably be binned completely).

He should therefore take it more seriously IMO

 

[Wozza]

I agree, that he PROBABLY won't, but it is a very decent point raised by [MENTION=34787]BNthree[/MENTION]

If Potter isn't intending the throw the game, and the club are interested in actually getting a crowd, then some sort of reassuring club statement about taking it seriously, would probably be worthwhile.

This. The club needs to appreciate how peeved many of us were/are about the Villa debacle - and not take our custom for granted.

 

[dazzer6666]

I agree, that he PROBABLY won't, but it is a very decent point raised by [MENTION=34787]BNthree[/MENTION]

If Potter isn't intending the throw the game, and the club are interested in actually getting a crowd, then some sort of reassuring club statement about taking it seriously, would probably be worthwhile.

Might get a clue in his press conference (Thursday ?)

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Confuse the early early leavers.......

You talkin 'bout me? I in't confused, no sir. Fact.

 

[timbha]

Might get a clue in his press conference (Thursday ?)

Won’t be able to say anything until Wednesday’s match is over and injuries and fitness have been assessed. I think we’ll see Glenn, balogan, Bernardo, steele or button, bong, schellotto, plus Ali, Connolly, Stephens, gross and Alzate if they don’t play against Chelsea, plus a few U23s.

 

[crodonilson]

What sort of an audience are we looking at 20,000ish??

I’ve not yet made my mind up but having only attended one home game this calendar year I might make the effort to start 2020 on a positive note, especially given the generous pricing.

 

[Driver8]

Might get a clue in his press conference (Thursday ?)

Will be the standard “We’ll put out a team capable of winning the game”

 

[Bozza]

Curious to know how much the U18s, playing as the first team, losing to Villa in the Carabao Cup has dented the sales of tickets to this.

The current indication is the crowd will be a fair bit smaller than recent similar ties...

2018 5th Round v Coventry 26,966
2019.4th Round v West Brom: 27,001

 

[crodonilson]

The current indication is the crowd will be a fair bit smaller than recent similar ties...

2018 5th Round v Coventry 26,966
2019.4th Round v West Brom: 27,001

They were both swollen by massive travelling audiences, although I understand there will be a 4,000+ audience from Sheffield.

 

[dazzer6666]

Will be the standard “We’ll put out a team capable of winning the game”

‘These are a good team’

Oh.

 

[*Gullsworth*]

They were both swollen by massive travelling audiences, although I understand there will be a 4,000+ audience from Sheffield.

About 20k then