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No flights to East Midlands from Jersey on the Tuesday but on Wednesday I can get a return for £60.
FFS play it Wednesday night.
TV games have not been announced yet. Could BBC Wales / S4C select our game or the jacks?
Wigan game is listed as Wednesday as Bournemouth are playing on the Sunday before. We can't get moved to the Thursday as we are a TV game the following Saturday.
I'm guessing mainstream channels will choose the Wigan game and either Chelsea or West Ham,
FA Website says
Tuesday 16 January 2018
19:45 Leicester City VS Fleetwood Town
19:45 Mansfield Town VS Cardiff City
19:45 West Ham United VS Shrewsbury Town
19:45 Swansea City VS Wolverhampton Wanderers
19:45 Chelsea VS Norwich City
19:45 Sheffield Wednesday VS Carlisle United
20:00 Reading VS Stevenage
Wednesday 17 January 2018
19:45 Wigan Athletic VS AFC Bournemouth
Fixture dates and times may change, subject to TV selections
Do we know which date the BBC have coverage? If they have a game on the Tuesday night; wouldn't be at all surprised for us to be shifted to the Wednesday still, if BBC Wales or S4C want to pick it up. They won't want to put 2 games up against each other on terrestrial TV.
Mansfield are selling tickets now and advertising the game as 7:45pm on the Tuesday so unless they televise it that night I can't see it changing.
BBC are televising Chelsea v Norwich on the Wednesday. BT Sport haven't announced a game yet
BT have chosen Leicester v Fleetwood. zzzzz
So the TV companies have picked the two highest placed Premier League sides with home draws against lower division clubs.
The two ‘magic of the cup’ ties were Mansfield v Cardiff (based on giant killing value and the reward for the winners) and Wigan v Bournemouth. But they’ve gone down the safe uninspiring route.