Scottish Cup 4th Round

Draw made tomorrow at 2pm, who does everyone want? Anyone a league below us would be good, preferably away if I haven't been there before.

Aberdeen
Celtic
Dundee
Dundee Utd
Hamilton
Hearts
Inverness
Kilmarnock
Motherwell
Partick Thistle
Ross County
St Johnstone
Falkirk
Hibs
Livingston
Morton
Queen of the South
raif
Rangers
St Mirren
Airdrie
Dunfermline Ath
Stranraer

Still to play and replays:
Dumbarton / Alloa
Stirling Albion / Cumbernauld Colts
Arbroath / Cowdenbeath
Forfar / Queens Park
Annan Athletic / Inverurie Locos
East Kilbride / Stenhousemuir
Cove Rangers / Formartine Utd
Wick Academy / Linlithgow Rose
Lothian Thistle HV / Huntly

Guessing it's not seeded?

The winner of Cove Rangers / Formartine Utd at home would be nice. Would take any easy tie that's left to get us as far as pos before having to deal with a Premiership team. Failing that then anyone except Celtic or St Johnstone.

Linlithgow home or away would be brilliant.

EdinburghLivi wrote:Linlithgow home or away would be brilliant.

Oh aye, def, that would be ideal. Knowing our luck it'll be Wick away in a midweek game.

If not Linlithgow away then LTHV.

We will Get the huns at home

Actually LTHV away has some serious boozing potential, I'll revise my vote.

Would be nice to see us go to Linlithgow on a Saturday afternoon and take 600 odd fans and just take their town over. Decent pre-match bar selection and a big win for the Amber Machine. Best of all it'd no doubt annoy the locals.

We'll probably get Annan away.

EK away

We'll get St Johnstone away. Only because we can't get Berwick away.

Anybody non-league away, preferably Linlithgow or LTHV. Failing that, Dundee United at home.

Knowing our luck it'll be St Johnstone away, or Morton at home.

Home to Morton. Pish draw.

Pish draw indeed, but very winnable. Both clubs should strike a deal to try and aim for at least 2,000 attendees.

Yeah definitely winnable, but someone we'll already play 4 times anyway.

Wonder what the prices will be, probably being optimistic hoping for something like £5/£10...

lol at Afro's prediction.

Tough draw but winnable. As has been said, effort should be made to increase attendance.

Afro wrote:Anybody non-league away, preferably Linlithgow or LTHV. Failing that, Dundee United at home.

Knowing our luck it'll be St Johnstone away, or Morton at home.

Yayyyyy we have a winner.

At least it's at home and my legs wont be squashed up. Please let us gub them in this game and not be a draw and a replay at their ground.

Pish, was hoping for a good away day.

On the plus side, very winnable tie and the chance to get a bit of a cup run on the go.

Afro wrote:Morton at home.

Absolutely pish draw. But, a winnable one as others have said. The league game against them was unlucky in the sense that we dominated play and by and large contained their counter-attacking play, but lacked the ruthlessness to break through. Hopefully Burchill will come up with something come the start of January.

Also agree that the two clubs should try and up the attendance here. Just after Christmas and New Year, the crowd would be shite anyway, one can but live in hope that we try something innovative that could be used in the future.

Shite draw. Hoping for a win but I think we've found our bogey team this season, and they are absolutely pish too.

Troy wrote:Wandered on to Mortons fans forum earlier and like us they mostly feel its a pish draw for them as well.Some even have the audacity to think their already in the next round already.Being at home im more than opptomistic that w,ell send wee Bobby and his Greenock pals back along the M8 with their tails between their legs.Absolutely nothing to fear Livi w,ere due them one.Nuff said.

I can see why they'd be optimistic about beating us, they've done it twice already this season and their away win was pretty comfortable, although the sending off fairly contributed to that, but they may not see it like that.

2nd game we dominated them but they defended comfortably against our attack and once they got in front with the penalty they held on without us threatening their goal much.

I'd hope Burchill has figured out how to break them down for our next game though, maybe Hippo will help too if he's on his game. I'm quite optimistic we'll do it this time, 3rd time lucky.

With Hopkin in charge: 3-0 Morton.

Anyone else: 2-0 Morton.

FG 34 mins.

I read Bobby Barr wasn't going to be playing, that's a relief, he absolutely rips us down the wing with his pace.

Meant to be close to announcing a manager, let us hope it isn't Hopkin, really annoyed with the stuff he came out with after the QoS game, questioning our players fitness to play 3 games in a week, moaning about them playing as individuals. These are things he should be on top of, he's the coach training them isn't he, they're FT, so pretty poor admission saying they aren't fit. Should also be having them prepared for each game, knowing exactly what they're doing and how to play against each team.

I can forgive him for the latter as he isn't a manager, but the fitness side of things is absolutely his department.

Anyway, hopefully we get a manager in soon and he has the team well prepared going into this game.

Liviforever wrote:I read Bobby Barr wasn't going to be playing, that's a relief, he absolutely rips us down the wing with his pace.

Meant to be close to announcing a manager, let us hope it isn't Hopkin, really annoyed with the stuff he came out with after the QoS game, questioning our players fitness to play 3 games in a week, moaning about them playing as individuals. These are things he should be on top of, he's the coach training them isn't he, they're FT, so pretty poor admission saying they aren't fit. Should also be having them prepared for each game, knowing exactly what they're doing and how to play against each team.

I can forgive him for the latter as he isn't a manager, but the fitness side of things is absolutely his department.

Anyway, hopefully we get a manager in soon and he has the team well prepared going into this game.

I disagree actually - if he was interim manager then ALL of those areas are his responsibility; even before Burchill was put on gardening leave Hopkins job title was Assistant Head Coach which means he should have been fully involved in all these things