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Originally Posted by MikeA
It's not just West Ham but Newport too who have permission to play their 2nd round tie away if they are drawn at home. So, to avoid a West Ham and Newport clash, the 2nd round is regionalised, with Newport in the north and West Ham in the south.
Numbers for the northern half of the draw are:
North seeds
1. Aston Villa
2. Burnley
3. Derby County / Grimsby Town
4. Huddersfield Town
5. Hull City
6. Leeds United
7. Leicester City
8. Middlesbrough
9. Newcastle United
10. Sheffield Wednesday
11. Stoke City
12. West Bromwich Albion
13. Sunderland / Barnsley *
North non-seeds
14. Bury / Barnsley*
15. Accrington Stanley
16. Blackburn Rovers
17. Bolton Wanderers
18. Carlisle United
19. Doncaster Rovers
20. Newport County
21. Nottingham Forest
22. Rochdale
23. Rotherham United
24. Scunthorpe United
25. Sheffield United
26. Wigan Athletic
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So there's going to be some lucky chuffers to get a day out at Newport's beach. We have a beach here in Nottingham city centre for those banned from Skegness and I swear there's more grass than at Newport then again there's always been a drug problem in Notts