FA Cup 25-26

[chaddyrovers]

Manchester United at Ewood please 

[simongarnerisgod]

plymouth away🙂

[JHRover]

An away tie. 

We've got a better chance of winning away from home.

Plus at Ewood the game might not start/finish and we can ill afford more postponements and embarrassment. 

[MarkBRFC]

11 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

plymouth away🙂

They are out thankfully.

[Bronzed A Donis]

2nd best football day of the year, Third Round draw day. I hope we get Everton away.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

14 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Manchester United at Ewood please 

No thank you.

[Mattyblue]

Everton or Tottenham away, as I doubt I’d ever see Rovers at those places otherwise.

[Hasta]

Everton away is a good shout. New ground. Relatively local.

[Mattyblue]

This is what those scumbags have reduced me to, hoping for a ‘big day out’ somewhere as it’s obviously totally unrealistic to expect to move up one whole division.

Edited December 8, 2025 by Mattyblue

[GHR]

Back before these bastards darkened our door we had guaranteed annual trips to Old Trafford, Anfield, Goodison, White Hart Lane, the Emirates and Eastlands.

 

[RevidgeBlue]

Call me old fashioned, I want a tie we can actually win, not a day trip out to a shiny new stadium or a home tie where we'll get battered!

[Mattyblue]

I’d rather have a Weston Super Mare, but if it is to be a PL away game, rather those two than a ground we saw regularly (you know from when we were a top football club pre November 2010)

[RevidgeBlue]

I think any tie against someone not in our Division has a bit of curiosity value, the easier ( on paper) the better for me.

I think the worst possible  ones are draws against other Championship Clubs we play routinely anyway.  Particularly if you'd expect them to beat us (away at Coventry/ Boro etc)

[RevidgeBlue]

1 hour ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

No thank you.

Not until the 6th round.

[TheKitGuy]

The worst team possible. Thump then and build confidence 

[Comfortably numb]

James Edmondson with a worldly 

 

[Hasta]

46 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Call me old fashioned, I want a tie we can actually win, not a day trip out to a shiny new stadium or a home tie where we'll get battered!

Yep. Just to clarify I would always prefer a lower league side at home and a better chance to progress.

I think I'm thinking more what would be an interesting tie.

If we got most premier league clubs away I'd just think FFS. But Everton do have a local, shiny new stadium that we haven't been to so, like Wrexham away this season, it comes with a lot of novelty value.

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19 minutes ago, Comfortably numb said:

James Edmondson with a worldly 

 

No one can stop those. Class finish

[Rogerb]

20 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Manchester United at Ewood please 

And it rains and the match is abandoned due to a waterlogged pitch in front of the world.

[Cherry Blue]

Hull City away.

[Elrovers]

Boring tie. Might as well give us points for the game. 

[rovers11]

Hoping for an away game, thats my only hope. We cannot afford for another game to be called off and given the weather in Jan, thats very likely if its at Ewood.

[StHelensRover]

This draw was probably on a small shortlist of "anyone but them" for fans of both clubs. Same as with Boro away last season. They'll have to make it a tenner all areas of the ground or no one will bother going. 

[bazza]

Glad it's away. Could have been worse. Could have been a banana skin. Hull are a good side and we've already beaten them away in the league.

Interesting.

[MarkBRFC]

Quite glad we didnt get a prem club away, couldn't be doing with the club crowing about us playing some giant when we used to play and beat them regularly before this ownership turned up.

Would have liked one of the non league ones away really.