End of season fixture backlog - 3 away games to be rearranged

Jags..class · March 15, 2016

Bad news.
We have to rest lukaku

maccavennie · March 15, 2016

Personally I can't see why we shouldn't be looking at it in a positive light. Let's say the semi is on a Sunday. Can you imagine confidence in the squad if we went to those scruffs and won.

Don't make them out to be anything special because they aren't.

2-1 win for us in my opinion and set up nicely for a Sunday semi

c28 · March 15, 2016

davek said:
That's not true mate.

Tell me how then!

Dario Terracotta · March 15, 2016

Khalekan said:
You're lucky you were 't around in a certain week in April 1970

Ask @Dario Terracotta and @BlockHead about that week

is it the following march 1971 you're on about khalekan mate?Panathinaikos then the reds in the semi at old Trafford?

Prevenger17 · March 15, 2016

Not even arsed if we lose to them if we go to the final. They're a non entity, and we have a chance of winning something for the first time in 21 years. No doubt in my mind how we should approach this.

davek · March 15, 2016

c28 said:
Tell me how then!

Are you telling me that United and West Ham both play on the 20th of April?

davek · March 15, 2016

BlueToff said:
they've also got to play as well though mate on the Wednesday.

It's not gonna help but I'd imagine our semi-final will be on the sunday.

Is this true? I looked on the BBC earlier and it didn't have that info.

davek · March 15, 2016

BoysInBlue said:
If Utd get past LFC on Thursday, they'll be playing the replay vs West Ham on this date (Wed Apr 20).

...and if they dont get past them?

joey_macmo · March 15, 2016

davek said:
Is this true? I looked on the BBC earlier and it didn't have that info.

It is true.

All 5 potential semi finalists all playing Wednesday night

davek · March 15, 2016

joey_macmo said:
It is true.

All 5 potential semi finalists all playing Wednesday night

....FFS I feel like a proper nobhead now.

If that's true then I'd play a decent team minus Lukaku

catcherintherye · March 15, 2016

davek said:
Are you telling me that United and West Ham both play on the 20th of April?

I can't see when else they would play their replay? Plus they have both missed a fixture this week, and they will both miss a fixture during semi finals week.

Next week is International break. The two weeks after that they have Europa league quarter finals. The next free week for their replay would be the same weekday as ours.

They could Schedule it for the Europa league week, but Uefa strongly object to that. Likewise there is still a chance United will go through and they are going to have to get something organised sharpish. I can't see them pencilling United in there only to have it cancelled if they pull off an unlikely win against Liverpoo.

Alternatively they could pencil it in later, but in all honesty I can't see the FA allowing them with the fixture backlog. United and West Ham are going to be 2 games behind (like us). We were in a very difficult situation too as a club. We should have probably tried to hardball and have had one of the other suspended fixtures in that week (ideally Palace away) as opposed to allowing the FA to once again award Liverpool their cup final victory against us. I couldn't see any way around not playing that weekend though.