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On BBC2

Jake humphrey has tweeted they have done a rehearsal

Wonderwall wrote:On BBC2

Jake humphrey has tweeted they have done a rehearsal

So if it all goes to shit like the League cup draw, is this one of those where they go to a pre recorded option?

WTF do they need to rehearse? There is a black bag. There are 64 balls with a number inside each one. The balls go in the bag and are swished around whilst two ex rags/dippers take turns at pulling a ball out. My two kids aged 9 and 6 could do it without much fuss

It's become such a sickening spectacle I might just look it up afterwards

nottsblue wrote:WTF do they need to rehearse? There is a black bag. There are 64 balls with a number inside each one. The balls go in the bag and are swished around whilst two ex rags/dippers take turns at pulling a ball out. My two kids aged 9 and 6 could do it without much fuss

They need to get the temperatures just right.

john@staustell wrote:It's become such a sickening spectacle I might just look it up afterwards

It's all so self-congratulatory and for as long as it's all mates pulling the balls out it will be regarded as fixed.

What do you reckon our chances of a home draw?

nottsblue wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:On BBC2

Jake humphrey has tweeted they have done a rehearsal

So if it all goes to shit like the League cup draw, is this one of those where they go to a pre recorded option?

WTF do they need to rehearse? There is a black bag. There are 64 balls with a number inside each one. The balls go in the bag and are swished around whilst two ex rags/dippers take turns at pulling a ball out. My two kids aged 9 and 6 could do it without much fuss

You forgot to mention that said Bags of Balls are chilled before the draw.And a select few Balls, are heated by immersion in boiling water and added to the Bags only the last few seconds before the draw. Never pick 2 hot Balls in the same time Only pick hot balls for a home draw. Only pick a Cold Ball to play away at a hot ball.I bet rehearsals are tricky.

gillie wrote:What do you reckon our chances of a home draw?

Or our chances of a draw against a team below the promotion race in the Championship?

Hoddle and Jenas. Don't rule out either of these retards fucking up the draw

A couple of spuds doing the draw.

gillie wrote:What do you reckon our chances of a home draw?

Since the takeover, we've been drawn at home 18 times and away 12 times in the FA Cup. That's compared to our being drawn at home 54.7% of the time for both domestic cup competitions overall in the same period. At one point, we were drawn at home for 16 out of 18 FA Cup games in a row, only for this to be followed by 8 away games on the trot.

Here we go!

Oh dear! They have nowhere for the empty bag. Amateurs...

Dipper Derby lol

Justified logic wrote:

gillie wrote:What do you reckon our chances of a home draw?

Or our chances of a draw against a team below the promotion race in the Championship?

Ah, that's a bit easier - There's 64 teams, 63 of whom we can be drawn against. 29 of those are Prem teams or in the top 10 in the Championship. So basically a 34/63 chance, or 54%.

Home to Burnley

nottsblue wrote:Home to Burnley

fix

Mustn't grumble.

Justified logic wrote:Oh dear! They have nowhere for the empty bag. Amateurs...

Hoddle could put it on his head. Or do Jesse Lingards missus a favour and given it to the scrawny rag

Apart from local pride, hopefully with their thin squad Burnley will not want to get too involved in the distraction of FA Cup games.