Cup run expectations?

[Ginger Ninja]

What would constitute a good run in the FA cup this season?
Personally I think 5th round would be decent. It would be the furthest we have gone in donkeys years.
Obviously staying in the Premier league is the priority, I was just wondering what people thought a good cup run would be.

[Mattyqpr]

It depends who you play doesn't it. The 5th round wouldn't be successful if we played Sheffield United, Chesterfield then lost to Cambridge or someone.

Personally I want us out of it asap. We'll draw against Sheffield United and face a replay, which will be played in between Burnley and United, something we don't need.

Consolidate ourselves as a Premier League club for the next few years before we can treat cup competitions seriously would be my approach.

Wigan approached the cup the last two years by giving it a go. It cost them relegation and then playing an obscene amount of games the following season which in my opinion seriously damaged their promotion hopes from the Championship. Now, they're heading for League One.

We need to be in the position of teams like Swansea and Stoke before having a good go.

[dsqpr]

Sigh. Sheffield United have been going great guns in the Cups. My expectation is another 3rd round exit.

I guess as one of 20 Premier League teams you'd have to say that breaking-even is making the last 16 (5th Round) and success is making the Quarters or better.

Of course matty is right in saying that in the end it really depends on who you play.

[Yousef]

Winning today is an achievement imo.

[vanhoop]

We should wipe the floor with Sheffield United today!!! Is the reason I'm going,to see rangers bag a good few goals.not very often I know ,but always look forward to a next round draw .2 or 3 cup games at least draws a bit of excitement

[Factamondo]

winning the whole thing is my aim!

[1QPRDK]

winning the whole thing is my aim!

Exactamondo

[1QPRDK]

When you enter a competition you should always aim for winning. Itīs the only way to play.

[jmelanie]

When you enter a competition you should always aim for winning. Itīs the only way to play.

Unfortunately a lot of premiership teams don't really think like this.

At one time if a club did not play it's first team, they risked getting fined (not that that would matter to most teams these days).

The only way the FA Cup could become more interesting is if somehow all premiership teams play their first team. One way to do this would be for the FA to insist that all of the players who play in the FA Cup play in the premiership game the following week or something like that. Not sure how this would work in practice.

[Abseits]

If we were to win the cup and qualify for next year's Europa league and win that and thus qualify for following season's Champions League which we win by beating scum in Nou Camp I'd possibly concede that the FA Cup run had some merit........ anything less than the above and I'd regard the FA Cup as a total waste of time and irrelevant.

[vanhoop]

Useless cannts!!!!!!!!