Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play 18:46 - Jun 12 with 1188 views | durham_exile | The super U's will find out their opponents in the Carabao cup on Friday. Matches to be played week of 7th August. Up the U's | |
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Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 20:54 - Jun 12 with 1180 views | Leadbelly | Is this the latest name of the League Cup? And what or whom is Carabao? | |
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Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 21:13 - Jun 12 with 1177 views | durham_exile |
Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 20:54 - Jun 12 by Leadbelly | Is this the latest name of the League Cup? And what or whom is Carabao? |
LB apparently it is an energy drink first produced in 2002 in Thailand and is now their second most popular drink. And yes it is the new name for the league cup. Chelsea and Reading are both sponsored by Carabao as well. Up the U's | |
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Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 21:28 - Jun 12 with 1173 views | Leadbelly | Never heard of it until last week. I live and learn! | |
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Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 22:12 - Jun 12 with 1168 views | Fruitbat | Amazing what you can find out on Wikipedia. Its basically Thai red bull and even translates as "red buffalo". A Carabao is a water buffalo native to the Philipines but no idea if its carabao flavour. They used to be shirt sponsors of Reading (the drink, not the bovines). In the interests of science I suggest we draw straws to see who gets to taste it and report back. | | | |
Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 22:25 - Jun 12 with 1166 views | bwildered | Is it served in a hoff like container ? | |
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Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 23:08 - Jun 12 with 1159 views | Leadbelly |
Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 22:12 - Jun 12 by Fruitbat | Amazing what you can find out on Wikipedia. Its basically Thai red bull and even translates as "red buffalo". A Carabao is a water buffalo native to the Philipines but no idea if its carabao flavour. They used to be shirt sponsors of Reading (the drink, not the bovines). In the interests of science I suggest we draw straws to see who gets to taste it and report back. |
Tasting like water buffalo must be preferable to tasting like Red Bull. | |
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Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 13:56 - Jun 16 with 1027 views | Leadbelly | Home to Aston Villa. Not the glamour tie against Leeds Utd that say may have preferred but it will do for the start of our cup run. | |
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Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 15:46 - Jun 16 with 1008 views | Fruitbat | Had a look down the list of teams we could play just before the draw and though "I quite fancy Villa". Spooky. | | | | Login to get fewer ads
Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 17:25 - Jun 16 with 1002 views | bwildered | No Leeds Lead due to the north south divide . | |
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Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 19:05 - Jun 16 with 993 views | durham_exile | Very pleased with the Cup Draw. I have just looked up the last time that I saw the U's play Villa in the then League Cup. Layer Road 3 Dec 1974 Quarter Final in front of 11,812. Ray Graydon scored a 35 yarder which turned out to be the winning goal. Bring it on. Up the U's | |
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Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 23:28 - Jun 16 with 958 views | bwildered | Must have played them later than that- has remember Gary Shaw scoring two at a Layer Rd in a first leg tie . | |
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Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 08:22 - Jun 17 with 941 views | durham_exile |
Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 23:28 - Jun 16 by bwildered | Must have played them later than that- has remember Gary Shaw scoring two at a Layer Rd in a first leg tie . |
Bwildered we have played Villa since in 1979, but I didn't watch those games. The reason I remember the quarter final is that Villa then played Chester in a two leg semi final (games that Colchester were capable of winning) and went on to defeat Norwich City in the final. Perhaps the closest that we have ever come to glory in the League Cup. Up the U's | |
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Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 17:25 - Jun 19 with 868 views | noah4x4 | My grandson's first footie kit was a U's little dribbler babygro. His father, my son, a Holte Ender, then bought him Aston Villa kit. I threatened to report such child abuse to Childline. The response was the same photograph soon appeared in a Villa programme. Now we draw Villa in the cup! It's winner takes all....the right to buy his next footie kit at the loser's expense. Odds are against me, but is my son a gambler? | | | |
Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 18:56 - Jun 20 with 814 views | Leadbelly |
Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 17:25 - Jun 19 by noah4x4 | My grandson's first footie kit was a U's little dribbler babygro. His father, my son, a Holte Ender, then bought him Aston Villa kit. I threatened to report such child abuse to Childline. The response was the same photograph soon appeared in a Villa programme. Now we draw Villa in the cup! It's winner takes all....the right to buy his next footie kit at the loser's expense. Odds are against me, but is my son a gambler? |
In view of your grandson's future wellbeing this is now a must win game! | |
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Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 23:34 - Jun 20 with 796 views | wessex_exile |
Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 08:22 - Jun 17 by durham_exile | Bwildered we have played Villa since in 1979, but I didn't watch those games. The reason I remember the quarter final is that Villa then played Chester in a two leg semi final (games that Colchester were capable of winning) and went on to defeat Norwich City in the final. Perhaps the closest that we have ever come to glory in the League Cup. Up the U's |
Yep, that was the furthest we've been in the League Cup, quarter-final at Layer Rd in '74 against Villa. I was at that game as well, and the 0-0 4th round home draw against Southampton before that (too young for Dominey's 1-0 replay winner at The Dell though). Apart from the fact that Walker, Cook, Packer, Svarc, Froggatt etc. played brilliantly, my lasting memory of the Villa game (from the front of the barside) was the Layer Rd end being evicted over the wall before kick-off by stewards/ police because of the huge numbers of Villa fans in there, and a very elderly and friendly pair of Villa supporters who were alongside me at the front of the barside. | |
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Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 10:57 - Jun 21 with 777 views | Fruitbat | Confirmed on the telly and will be played on the Wednesday. Must be years since we had a home game on a Wednesday that wasn't Boxing Day. | | | |
Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 11:27 - Jun 22 with 733 views | durham_exile |
Number 23 Southern non seeded group will play on 10:57 - Jun 21 by Fruitbat | Confirmed on the telly and will be played on the Wednesday. Must be years since we had a home game on a Wednesday that wasn't Boxing Day. |
Additionally the £75K TV fee will come in very handy for the U's coffers. Have a sneak feeling that we will shade the game. Up the U's | |
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