leemark Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Can Derby win the FA Cup? Can Bradford City win 4-2 at Chelsea? Anything really is possible in Football on any given day as long as we all believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tombo Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Certainly our best chance in a long time but I wouldn't put your money on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrivateDerby Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 What's all this might, maybe, if, B4? Not good enough, you need to have a good hard long look at yourself mate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B4ev6is Posted January 24, 2015 Author Share Posted January 24, 2015 I am aware of teams still in it but i just we can win it but the new lad did well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peakram Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Being as I have backed Derby for everything except the FA Cup we will probably win it, though Steve has already said we won't! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rammieib Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 I am aware of teams still in it but i just we can win it but the new lad did well. You probably think we can still win the League Cup this season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B4ev6is Posted January 24, 2015 Author Share Posted January 24, 2015 If we had beaten chelsea it was ours for the taking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEL Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Sagan Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Well, we're joint favourites with Boro to progress the furthest of a non-Prem team, and level in the outright betting with Villa (clearly Bent made a good choice as we pass them on the way up). Some bookies rank us above Sunderland too. Whatever, two more wins and it's another day at Wembley. That's a much more likely target and well worth going for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bris Vegas Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 I'd say it's possible. Get home ties, avoid Premier League opposiiton until the semi-final. Win said semi-final, and then go the final as underdogs but pull off a win. If given the choice and only one can happen - FA Cup win or promotion - What would you choose? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertRam Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 I'd say it's possible. Get home ties, avoid Premier League opposiiton until the semi-final. Win said semi-final, and then go the final as underdogs but pull off a win. If given the choice and only one can happen - FA Cup win or promotion - What would you choose? Got to be Promotion, I am still waiting for a similar performance to Boro's, against an in form Prem team, as confirmation that we can stay up without spending 20/30 mil thou. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bris Vegas Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Got to be Promotion, I am still waiting for a similar performance to Boro's, against an in form Prem team, as confirmation that we can stay up without spending 20/30 mil thou. It would never work like that. Nobody can ever judge how well a team could compete over the long run based on one single match, let alone a cup match where the mentality and mindset of the players is so different. I remember a woeful Derby team beating an established Premier League team in Stoke City at the Britannia to make the League Cup semi-final. We had a woeful team, but if you watched us that night or the ensuing home leg of the semi-final you'd think that team would be good enough to be comofrtbale in the Premier League. Reality is it was barely good enough to stay up in the Championship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froggg Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 I'd say it's possible. Get home ties, avoid Premier League opposiiton until the semi-final. Win said semi-final, and then go the final as underdogs but pull off a win. If given the choice and only one can happen - FA Cup win or promotion - What would you choose? Win the cup....... promotions come and go, winning the FA Cup doesn't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLACML Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Promotion is so much more important for the club, so it has to be that for me. I don't mind further cup progress though, as long as we don't get a big team. Far too much of a distraction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 I'd say it's possible. I think you've had a touch of the sun Bris. B4s enthusiasm is clearly infectious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r4derby Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 The only way I choose the FA Cup is if we were guaranteed playoff spot, and even then I think I would prefer automatics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jourdan Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Winning the FA Cup and qualifying for Europe would be a dream. When you see shocks like Bradford winning at Chelsea and Middlesbrough winning at Manchester City in the same round, you start to believe that anything is possible. Teams like Bradford and Sheffield United have forged reputations as cup upset specialists. Swansea, Wigan and Birmingham have all won domestic cup competitions in the last five years. Bradford, Cardiff, Stoke, Sunderland, Hull and Aston Villa have all played in a domestic cup final in the same period too. Even Rochdale conquered two-time European Cup winners Nottingham Forest in the previous round. When these things happen, you dare to dream. The competition is certainly opening up for such a possibility but we can only take it one cup tie at a time. After all, let's not forget that there could be as many as ten Premier League sides in the next round, so we can't get too carried away. That said, none of the top sides left in the competition are playing with the kind of fluency or confidence that is fear-inducing. Of course, you would expect the likes of Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool to prove too good for us even on a bad day. But results like yesterday's show you can never say never. In a one-off game, I'd give us a fair chance against any of the teams left in the competition if we are at our best. Trouble is that we haven't been at our best for a while now. Let's see what the draw brings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Of course we can win it - worse teams than Derby have won it, and given a fair wind, a couple more home draws, the right balls coming out and no sleet, it's not too much of a stretch of the imagination to see us make at least the semi-finals. Until I see Nixon tweet it's possible I'm not going to believe it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Gonzo Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 liverpool or arsenal will be desperate to win something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 To win it we are going to have to beat at least one really top class team, probably 2....away...so far we have scraped past the worst team in it and a lower league team....both at home....so as stevie says no, of course we aren't going to win the FA Cup. (I would take it over promotion every single day...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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