Everton face Saints in next round of Carabao Cup

The ridiculous thing was the H balls were red and the A balls white, so you could easily see what colour ball was being pulled out. The first four balls were all red, and the last two white.

The main draw later on will then have those six teams in their own pot, so I guess they will all be drawn first, eg, Arsenal come out first, then a ball from the other pot will be the away team. This will go on for the first four games, until games five and six, when teams from the main pot will be drawn at home against either of the remaining two teams in Europe.

The draw will then continue as normal.

Absolute disgrace of a draw, bias and preferential treatment given to ensure certain teams have a far better chance of progress than any other teams.

Bias to European teams is now built-in, denying lesser teams home draws thereby destroying the spirit of a cup competition. On top of all that, it's already split into North and South draws, officially rigged.

Also, why are Man Utd and Spurs included in this farce? They're not even in the Champions League.

Apart from the income from a home draw, it's barely worth entering the competition for everyone else.

It's not a sport anymore really. It's just about helping the top teams make more money. Just sod off to your European Super League, please.

I don't enjoy football anywhere near as much as I did when I started watching in the early '80s.

Are teams like Wimbledon and Fleetwood complaining??

Forgive me but the League Cup shouldn't care at all about the teams in the bottom of the Premier League or the Championship.

Better the devil you know!

Could have been worse.

Sorry if it's already been covered.

Whatever the reason, it's total shite. Just put all the fucking balls in a bowl, for fuck's sake.

It's all to with the extra games in the Champions League and Europa League. They didn't want any clubs clashing in the Carabao Cup in the same week as the European games take place, so the next round of the Carabao Cup is over two weeks.

I don't know a lot about Southampton these days but they have started better than us in the Premier League.

Hoping we can be looking forward to the next draw!

Saints have won exactly the same number of games as us and scored exactly the same number of goals as us, they just maybe have a better defence than us!

I can't wait for the penalties!

Never a given, but I'd back us to go through.

If we lose this then we don't deserve to win Cups.

Massive game on Saturday v Bournemouth.

UTFTs!

You can't ask for much more than a home draw against a tram likely to be in the Bottom 5 at the end of the season. If we lose this then we don't deserve to win Cups.

I very much suspect that Saints fans are saying exactly the same about us away Jim.

If we’re serious about the comp we should be looking to beat Saints at home - I predict them to finish bottom this year, along with Ipswich. Saw Saints in the Championship last year and they looked miles off a Premiership outfit.

Yes, I too would love to be the young naive boy I was when I started watching the Blues. I loved Everton and was in love with everything to do with football.

Very different now, nothing really to like about a corrupt business where everything is about winning no matter how it is achieved.

Everton are in a bad state but they are honestly about the only reason I continue to go and watch the game.

Corrupt as anything.

Wonder no more. We can just rig it.

Just another mini-evolution. All heading in the same direction.

Save the rest of us living in hope.

I can't see that on the official website, and besides, I don't think what weeks the games will be played will be decided until after the European draws, which I think are being made today.

Could not fit Chelsea with the 6 but made damn sure they got a home draw against the mighty Barrow, also the 2 drawn away happen to be Villa and Spurs, what were the chances of that.

What amazes me – not only do the 4 get a home draw, but those in the Champions League who do not finish bottom get two cracks, they either progress to next round of the Champions League or enter another comp, the Europa League.

The sooner those 6 go to the European Super League, the better, let the Premier League reform without the six and get our two major cup competitions back; otherwise, football is finished, ruined by the greed of the few, and those sat at the table within the Premier League.

The most farcical thing about that home or away draw, was that it took place using different coloured balls, Red for Home and White for Away.

Ten balls, five of each colour were placed in a goldfish bowl, meaning Michael Dawson and Les Ferdinand could see what colour they were picking out. The first four just happened to be red! The draw was rigged!

If the aim was to give the RS their traditional home tie it worked!