[spireitematt]

The winner and runner up should be the only two teams who get byes to the 3rd round. The rest should in my opinion all start in the first round. Sad thing is domestic cups to the Premier League teams aren't important anymore its all about the Premier League and getting into Europe. There was a time that the FA Cup used to be the most important trophy in English football because it meant the winners were the best team in the whole of English football now whoever wins the Premier League is classed as the best team in the whole of English football and partly the media are the problem because they've built up this monster.

I also think foreign managers/owners and players they don't seem to grasp what the FA Cup is about. The only one who seemed to understand it was Mancini when he was at City.

Also interestingly the BBC wanted to televise Lincoln City vs Brighton but the FA said no and told them to televise Manchester United vs Wigan. I know which match I would have wanted to watch and a lot of other football fans would want to watch as well.