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You sound like an under 10s team manager :)

I think live TV has made the situation worse. Hughton may be thinking that West Brom played Saturday so they have an advantage. I remain to be convinced that five days rest is worse than seven days but I suspect that would be in his mind. Also lack of reserve team football dictates that it's a...

I'd play Ryan (no goalkeeper needs a rest and he is our best) Schellotto, Goldson, Hunemeier, Bong; Knockaert, Kayal, Stephens, Izquierdo; Brown; Hemed. If level at 60 minutes I'd bring on March, Murray and Baldock and properly go for it.

Plus Merch. Remember the foam hands from 1983!

They lost six days later away to Blackpool 1-0.

My issue with not playing the best team is if not now when will we ever take the FA Cup seriously? We are sat mid table in the Premier League, how much higher can we go? So are we actually saying we will never again take the FA Cup seriously? That is pretty sad if that is the case.

As I recall we put out a decent team but lost 3-2 to Arsenal. ps) in front of crowd of 30,278 (clearly cared about the cup more when Arsenal were in town!)

Just did a quick review of the last few seasons to see what our result was immediately after a cup exit after we rested players to see if it helped resting those players: 17th Feb 2014 Hull (H) which we drew 1-1 - Then lost at home on 22nd Feb 2-1 24th Feb 2014 Hull (A) replay lost 2-1 - Then...

Agreed. If we were playing Wednesday or Thursday then Saturday then I could understand a break but a five day break is more than sufficient to recover. We will probably lose at West Brom anyway. The irony is the players that really need a break, Stephens and Propper, probably won't get one...

Regardless of whether you are going or not should we put out our best team tonight? or as is likely a mixture of first teamers and reserves?