Thread: Carling League Cup 08/09

Love it or hate it, The league cup has started again.

Many top teams rubbish this competition and field weakened sides, for lower league clubs it is an excellent way of gaining extra revenue in the hope of drawing one of the bigger Premiership teams and also via games shown live on TV.


Good night for TD fans last night with Marmite's Luton Town, NickA's Crewe Alexandra, Cardiff City's result pleasing myself and CMN, Even the Swansea Jacks managed a victory to Keep justwingit happy



FIRST ROUND TIES (TUE)


Bournemouth 1-2 Cardiff


Brighton 4-0 Barnet


Bristol City 2-1 Peterborough


Bury 0-2 Burnley


Chester 2-5 Leeds


Crewe 2-0 Barnsley


Exeter 1-3 Southampton


Gillingham 0-1 Colchester


Grimsby 2-0 Tranmere


Hartlepool 3-0 Scunthorpe


Huddersfield 4-0 Bradford


Leicester 1-0 Stockport


Millwall 0-1 Northampton


MK Dons 1-0 Norwich


Notts County 1-0 Doncaster (aet)


Preston 2-0 Chesterfield


Rochdale 0-0 Oldham


Shrewsbury 0-1 Carlisle


Southend 0-1 Cheltenham


Swansea 2-0 Brentford


Walsall 1-2 Darlington


Wolves 3-2 Accrington (aet)



Tonights Fixtures

Coventry v Aldershot


Nottm Forest v Morecambe


Sheff Utd v Port Vale


Wycombe v Birmingham



MrPot and CB79 will be hoping to avoid an embarrassing home defeat tonight at the hands of the not so mighty Aldershot.

Really enjoyed the Carling Cup last season from a Cov point of view. I was one of the 11,000 who made the journey up to Manchester (top all dayer) where we beat the mighty Man United reserves/youth team 2-0 and then had a great game against West Ham at home only losing to a last minute Carlton Cole goal!!

Although, we picked up a couple of injuries on Saturday (Tabb, Gray) we will still be putting out our strongest team and I don't think Coleman will be taking this one lightly.

However, a few Championship sides fell by the wayside last night and being a Cov fan I have seen us get beaten by the likes of Sutton, Northampton (when we were in the Prem) and Rochdale amongst others in cup competitions so won't be going into this one with 100% confidence.

I will however be one of the about 8000 mugs who will be up there to see it tonight!

^ I am one of those mugs too!!!

Whenever there was a game at Ninian Park I couldn't stop myself from going, I have been to watch Cardiff play against shite like Shamrock Rovers, Total Network Solutions and Margate!!


There are many teams hovering just above administration and all hoping for a nice cup run this season.


The second round draw takes place after tonight's ties and some of the premiership teams enter at the second round, only the teams involved in European Competition come in at the 3rd round

2-0 up inside 12 minutes and then we stalled.

apparently Bothroud missed an open goal from 2 yards out.


picked a strong team yesterday.

i feel jones needs to play Parry somewhere, whether on the wing or up front.

Parry along with Ledley was our outstanding player last season.
he is a winger but played alot upfront, he has had a few injuries but imagine he will be one of the first names on the sheet at left wing, also expecting a Welsh call up for the upcoming fixtures

Lokks very much like loovens is on the way out.

From what the guys are saying on the 606 boards, he's looking disinterested and they'd rather take the money now than wait for him to go on a free at the end of the season.

Celtic have made a bid, just to piss Rangers off.

No shocks tonight.

Coventry City 3-1 Aldershot Town

Nottingham Forest 4 - 0 Morecambe

Sheffield United 3 - 1 Port Vale

Wycombe Wanderers 0 - 4 Birmingham City

Carling Cup second round draw:


Ipswich v Colchester

Coventry v Newcastle

Hartlepool v West Brom

West Ham v Macclesfield

Huddersfield v Sheff Utd

Cardiff v MK Dons

Swansea v Hull

Rotherham v Wolverhampton

Brighton v Man City

Reading v Luton

Blackburn v Grimsby

Wigan v Notts County

Leeds v Crystal Palace

Crewe v Bristol City

Middlesbrough v Yeovil

Fulham v Leicester

QPR v Carlisle

Nottm Forest v Sunderland

Burnley v Oldham

Southampton v Birmingham

Bolton v Northampton

Watford v Darlington

Preston v Derby

Cheltenham v Stoke



The ties will be played on the week beginning 25 August.

Didn't go in the end as no fucker could be arsed and it was lashing it down but did listen to it on the radio and we sounded quite comfortable particularly in the second half.

A wins a win though and sets us up for a nice tie with the Geordies at home. Should get a decent crowd up there and although we will be massive underdogs the pressure will all be on the fat bar code wankers!

Just a shame that spotty little Welsh twat Bellamy has left them as that would have guaranteed them a warm welcome!!

As for the rest of the draw pretty shite really although Burnley/Oldham could be interesting!!

Originally Posted by Red dragon

Good night for TD fans last night with Marmite's Luton Town

So where's the score?

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

So where's the score?

you won 2-0

Against who?

^
quite the fan aren't you marmite.


Plymouth.

footy fox is a very handy add on, if you are too lazy to check the beeb.

4-0 to the mighty reds....bring on the mackem's

Originally Posted by Sputnik

4-0 to the mighty reds....bring on the mackem's

Keano to get a warm reception?

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

quite the fan aren't you marmite.

I'll be going off poofball completely next season.

Carling Cup 2nd Round Results


Hartlepool 3-1 West Brom (aet)



Swansea 2-1 Hull (aet)





Crewe 2-1 Bristol City



Rotherham 0-0 Wolves (4-3 pens)



Coventry 2-3 Newcastle (aet)



Middlesbrough 5-1 Yeovil



Cheltenham 2-3 Stoke



Wigan 4-0 Notts County



Leeds 4-0 Crystal Palace



Burnley 3-0 Oldham


Cardiff 2-1 MK Dons


Ipswich 2-1 Colchester


Preston 0-1 Derby


QPR 4-0 Carlisle


Reading 5-1 Luton


Southampton 2-0 Birmingham


Watford 2-1 Darlington (aet)




Coventry On Thai TV last night, should have gone to Penalties where it Could have been anyones game but a defensive messup allowed Michael Owen through to score the winner.


Tonights Fixtures

Blackburn v Grimsby

Fulham v Leicester

Huddersfield v Sheffield Utd

Nott'm Forest v Sunderland

West Ham v Macclesfield


I wouldn't mind NickA's Crewe Alexandra in the next round


also just click on the games for match reports

Originally Posted by Red dragon

Coventry On Thai TV last night, should have gone to Penalties where it Could have been anyones game but a defensive messup allowed Michael Owen through to score the winner.

What channel was the game you watched on? The Disney Channel? Should have gone to penalties? Shouldn't have even gone to extra time. The 4th official said 2 mins injury time and they scored in the 4th!! They were totally outplayed anyway for nigh on the whole game and they certainly did not deserve to get anything out of the game.

nice to see the welsh teams getting a win

Originally Posted by Gallowspole

Originally Posted by Red dragon

Coventry On Thai TV last night, should have gone to Penalties where it Could have been anyones game but a defensive messup allowed Michael Owen through to score the winner.

What channel was the game you watched on? The Disney Channel? Should have gone to penalties? Shouldn't have even gone to extra time. The 4th official said 2 mins injury time and they scored in the 4th!! They were totally outplayed anyway for nigh on the whole game and they certainly did not deserve to get anything out of the game.

Conveniently forgot Given's superb save from Simpson and Ward hitting the cross bar from 6 yards out there I see?

The fact there was 4 minutes injury time was because your time wasting c unt of a goalie. The ref signalled to him after the 4th time of dragging his feet over his goal kicks that he would be adding the time on and he did. The 4th offiical announces a minimum of X amount of minutes and then it is down to the refs discretion how much is played. Fair fucks I say.

Have to say that James Milner was a class above last night and was superb. Shame he's handed in a transfer request hey?

Can I just add that your fans lived up to being the biggest bunch of fucking dribbling fat spastics known to man.

Bit of a sore loser, eh? Ah diddums!

Originally Posted by CB79

Originally Posted by Sputnik

4-0 to the mighty reds....bring on the mackem's

Keano to get a warm reception?

Guaranteed a genuine warm reception for a true Forest legend !!

Though a bit cheesed off we let them score an 86th minute equaliser, then lost in ET.

Originally Posted by Gallowspole

Originally Posted by Red dragon

Coventry On Thai TV last night, should have gone to Penalties where it Could have been anyones game but a defensive messup allowed Michael Owen through to score the winner.

What channel was the game you watched on? The Disney Channel? Should have gone to penalties? Shouldn't have even gone to extra time. The 4th official said 2 mins injury time and they scored in the 4th!! They were totally outplayed anyway for nigh on the whole game and they certainly did not deserve to get anything out of the game.

FOK SAKE! I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS ON TELE!!!! BLADDY MISSED IT; THAT ONLY HAPPENS ONCE IN A BLUE MOOON! TO FOKING LATE

Originally Posted by Gallowspole

Bit of a sore loser, eh? Ah diddums!

You couldn't be further from the truth if you tried!! We are a shit Championship side and you are a middle table Premiership side. I fully expected us to lose but was proud of the fighting spirit we showed and we were unlucky in extra time.

You're just upset because you know that most Geordies are complete and utter fuckwits and deep down that hurts a little!

Sorry I forgot they're the greatest fans in the world!

Originally Posted by CB79

You're just upset

Errr.....we won!

Originally Posted by CB79

Sorry I forgot they're the greatest fans in the world!

It's nice of you to say that, but It's a bit embarrassing in all honesty. We really don't need the media and people like you sucking up, licking our arses by telling us we're great. We really don't care what you think.