[quote user="sig"]Never heard of seeding before in football. However I''m sure that the competition is split into North and South sections for the first round, hence we drew Barnet. Beyond that I think it''s open and we can play anyone? Premiership teams not involved in Europe thrown into the mix too if memory serves me correctly.[/quote] No, its definately seeded. The list of seeds are as follows: Reading Portsmouth Aston Villa Middlesbrough Newcastle United Manchester City West Ham United Fulham Wigan Athletic Sheffield United Charlton Athletic Watford Sunderland Birmingham City Derby County West Brom Plymouth Argyle Cardiff City Burnley Norwich City Coventry City Leicester City Barnsley Southend United