[Dancingwilldoit]

Sutton, Lincoln, Oxford, Milwall, Wolves and so very nearly Wycombe all punching above their weight and showing the top teams up for putting out weakened teams. Long may it continue. Its about time somebody outside of the top flight made it all the way.

[bluepooch]

The F A Cup is a disgrace and is being treated with contempt by all the bigger clubs and the competiton is being devalued more and more every season.I feel for the thousands of fans who travel to games only to see their reserves get a hammering .
The FA have to do something about it ,either impose some Checkatrade trophy type rule or give bigger incentives to teams to get through.
If I were a Leeds fan Id demand my money back ,apparently it was the youngest team they've ever fielded in a major competition and they deserved to get beaten and embarrassed .

[Lord Snooty]

Young team or not, it's always funny watching Leeds get beat by lower league opposition.

As for devaluing the competition, I think it's been the best round of the competition in years this weekend. Certainly big clubs fielding weakened teams has helped to provide a level playing field.

Can't understand clubs like Southampton doing it though. You're playing Arsenal at home for goodness sake.

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Huddersfield, by the way, made 8 changes and won 4-0 away.

[bluepooch]

But if the teams field their reserves or youth players it totally undermines the prestige of the trophy.Chesterfields achievement in 1997 would be a bigger achievement than a lower league team winning doing it nowadays.

[spireitematt]

Dev wrote a big thread about this on the FA Cup sub-forum.

[Devongone]

Snooty, you would settle for watching Leeds under 9s losing to Barcelona first team! Understandable though!

Thanks Matt for the publicity, you've earned your 10%, how much is 10% of zero?

The side Southampton selected should make them liable under Trade Descriptions to the fans who turned up.