Talk:2012–13 FA Cup

Replay ties when?

The lead paragraphs for First and Second round confuse me. They seem to give the date of the draw for matchups, and the date for replaying any ties, but do not give the date of the actual matches. Then, the results below show the games being played in that week, and the ties played more than a week later. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NitPicker769 (talk • contribs) 21:31, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

League tier in brackets?

What's with this new convention, this is the first year for which this has started and in fact I do not see this anywhere else at all, in any cup competitions around the world. It also looks confusing (for a newcomer), what with the score right next to it, and it is usually used (on TV, internet, etc.) to indicate a first leg score. I will remove it unless anyone has any objections here. Feudonym (talk) 12:09, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

No reason has been given in almost 2 months for this daft new format so I am deleting the league tiers in brackets. Feudonym (talk) 05:42, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

It's useful to allow readers, who may have only a passing grasp of English football, to know in which of the various levels of clubs entering the competition a given club is. Plus it signposts to readers from those countries where cup football is less prominent and where clubs in different levels rarely if ever play each other that this is the case here. - Chrism would like to hear from you 20:54, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

But who decided this? Where is the discussion before it reached consensus? Why has it only been done for 2 years if this so useful? Did anyone bring up any objections to the previous format? Which other cup competition article in the whole of wikipedia, on any sport whatsoever, follows this convention? And, this is the kicker, it is actually more confusing, seeing as there is no explanantion whatsoever about what these numbers in brackets mean, and nowhere else in the whole world is this format followed. Finally, I'd like to repeat that in most places it actually denotes a first-leg score, so these people "who may have only a passing grasp of English football" will most likely assume it's that instead. Feudonym (talk) 04:02, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

I don't know who decided it, but I find it very useful, as an American who does, in fact, not follow English football all that closely except for the FA Cup. I was never confused by it, possibly because I first looked at the qualifying rounds page, where it has headers denoting "Home team (Tier)" and "Away team (Tier)". Perhaps this should be copied over to the pages for the main draw so as to disambiguate the meaning of the numbers in brackets.PsyMar (talk) 05:47, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

My point is unless this "Home team (Tier)" and "Away team (Tier)" header is introduced, the league tiers should be removed. It is otherwise just numbers in brackets, and hence uninformative and unencyclopedic. Feudonym (talk) 07:54, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

I should add as an example that just the other day I got confused and thought we were guaranteed a non-Premiership finalist in 2013-14 (as of the semifinals being set), until I looked at that page and saw the (1) by Hull City. I'd completely forgotten they were in the Prem.PsyMar (talk) 05:58, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Well at least it helped one person! Maybe we should put (1) next to every mention of Hull FC on Wikipedia so people who mistakedly think they are in another lower league will immediately find out they are in the Premiership, instead of actually having to click to find out.Feudonym (talk) 07:54, 27 April 2014 (UTC)