FA Trophy 2018/19

[The Terminator]

I'd have thought Ramsbottom would be more worthy of comment than us in the tinpot name stakes

You're right, but.....................I'd already heard of Ramsbottom before today:

In any case........Ramsbottom is the sort of thing you'd call your pet snake..........

 

[GuiseleySteve]

I'm looking forward to a trip to the Giant Axe, I've not been there since our Unibond days.

 

[Atavistic]

We drew 2-2 tonight, so it'll be our turn to make a long midweek journey next Tuesday for the replay. It's going to be very hard for us to get anything out of that if we couldn't do the job at home tonight. Still, I'll be optimistic and hope we can pull it off somehow.

Now just keeping an eye on the score at Pickering, to see who the winner will play on the 24th.

EDIT: Pickering won, so that'll be another long away journey if we win next Tuesday's replay

 

[Atavistic]

Our replay tonight at Ramsbottom is being covered on Live Sports FM, so I'll be listening in to see how we get on (and to see if there's any kind of reaction to our disastrous performance in the league on Saturday).

It's an 8pm kick-off, and I hear that our Supporters' Coach (with the players on board as well) already left as of 3:30pm. Absolutely crazy for a midweek game at this level, but it is what it is.

EDIT: As expected, our starting 11 is all over the place (even our manager is starting and our only sub is the assistant manager), so it's going to be an absolute miracle if we somehow win this game.

EDIT: Finished 5-1 to Ramsbottom. Disappointing, especially off the back of Saturday's 6-1 drubbing in the league, but no shame in losing tonight with such a makeshift squad and against a team in some ridiculously good form as of late.

 

[Darlo On Tour]

I'm looking forward to a trip to the Giant Axe, I've not been there since our Unibond days.

Check the pitch GS when you get to the ground, some strange reason they don't like cutting grass, wasn't in great condition when they knocked us out the FA Cup a couple of year's ago.

 

[GuiseleySteve]

Check the pitch GS when you get to the ground, some strange reason they don't like cutting grass, wasn't in great condition when they knocked us out the FA Cup a couple of year's ago.

Iirc it was a quagmire last time we were there and lucky to be played. The rain had hammered down for a few days and all day Saturday!

 

[Darlo On Tour]

Iirc it was a quagmire last time we were there and lucky to be played. The rain had hammered down for a few days and all day Saturday!

It's a good job they have some cover behind the goal for the downpour day's. It was a nice and sunny day when i was their at the cup game, but they couldn't be arsed to cut the grass, definitely could have done with a trim.

 

[DarkSithLord]

FA Trophy 3rd Qualifying Rd tomorrow. Cant anybody be bothered with this.

A rather uninspiring draw as well

Alfreton are at home to Farsley Celtic are going well in the Northern Premier League Premier who are going well and we are mostly certainly not Just as with last season I expect a tame 0-2 defeat.

 

[Swedes]

FA Trophy 3rd Qualifying Rd tomorrow. Cant anybody be bothered with this.

A rather uninspiring draw as well

Alfreton are at home to Farsley Celtic are going well in the Northern Premier League Premier who are going well and we are mostly certainly not Just as with last season I expect a tame 0-2 defeat.

Well we beat them in the FA Cup when we were as shit as shit can be (about 3 winless weeks after you lot smashed us), so you've got no excuses!

Home to Chester for us tomorrow. I won't be disappointed if we lose (even though it will wind some of our fans up who seem to hate Chester for no obvious reason), and I'll be indifferent if we get a win. If we get comfortable in the league I'd love a run in it, but I don't want it getting in the way of a relegation battle.

 

[Darlo On Tour]

Friday 23 November 2018 Buildbase FA Trophy Third Qualifying Round Result

Att. 770 - Darlington 0 AFC Telford United 2


As expected that's us out of the competition for another season, far too good for us.
I'm just pleased wasn't a league game, I'm not sure how much more time TW has after this woeful performance from a set of player's that looked clueless at times.

As for TW the noose is getting ever so tighter and the chair is beginning to wobble!

All i can say is Jonny Burn must be a really, really bad defender if he can't slot into this defence and replace the extremely bad Terry Galbraith. He's absolutely shocking, even 2 or 3 Telford supporters were laughing their socks off at our number 6. I said your lucky we have to watch him every week.

Another 5k in prize money down the swanny, and lets be honest it's not as if we need it. What a fuck up!

 

[Bluandwite]

Well we beat them in the FA Cup when we were as shit as shit can be (about 3 winless weeks after you lot smashed us), so you've got no excuses!

Home to Chester for us tomorrow. I won't be disappointed if we lose (even though it will wind some of our fans up who seem to hate Chester for no obvious reason), and I'll be indifferent if we get a win. If we get comfortable in the league I'd love a run in it, but I don't want it getting in the way of a relegation battle.

We’ve noticed, quite often the club will post something on social media and we randomly attract the odd Southport fan replying something a bit bizarre in reply. I’ve rolled up in Southport off the train ahead of a game before now to be greeted by some random abuse as well, weird.

Anyway, we’re a bit short in some areas tomorrow so expecting changes especially with Morley already hinting at it in the press. In the middle we have Burton injured and Roberts suspended, so wouldn’t mind seeing youth prospect Cain Noble given a go considering that.

Not overly bothered how tomorrow goes myself really.

 

[Lucky Bobble]

FA Trophy 3rd Qualifying Rd tomorrow. Cant anybody be bothered with this.

A rather uninspiring draw as well

Alfreton are at home to Farsley Celtic are going well in the Northern Premier League Premier who are going well and we are mostly certainly not Just as with last season I expect a tame 0-2 defeat.

You called it

 

[Aberstone]

DarkSithLord meltdown in 3,2,1...

Stones scrape through with a 3-2 win at Concord despite being 3 up with 25 minutes to go. Eagerly awaiting further ties with Wingate & Finchley and Brackley.

 

[Swedes]

Southport 0-0 Chester.

If I said it was an enjoyable match I'd be lying. I think there was only one decent effort from each side in the whole match.

 

[Alty Pieman]

Alty 4 League leaders 0 It could have been a lot more, played BPA off
the park

 

[DarkSithLord]

DarkSithLord meltdown in 3,2,1...

Stones scrape through with a 3-2 win at Concord despite being 3 up with 25 minutes to go. Eagerly awaiting further ties with Wingate & Finchley and Brackley.

Haha.

So So pissed off I just cant be arsed!!!

The club is in a state and deep in the mire.

Hereford won today but next weekend is an absolutely massive game. Two teams woefully short of confidence. Have to say not looking forward to it.

That is of course if Billy isnt shown the door in the meantime because its clear the players dont buy in to his methods.

I can only hope

 

[GuiseleySteve]

We scraped a replay with a 90th minute equaliser.
We failed to work hard enough and were sloppy with our final ball/finishing, starting in the third minute when Liburd was through 1 on 1, slotted it past the keeper but not enough on it and the defender got back to clear off the line.

I hope Fleetwood came to watch, they'll probably play their under twelves after seeing that!

 

[DarkSithLord]

FA Trophy Third Qualifying Results

Alfreton 0-2 Farsley
Altrincham 4-0 Bradford PA
Ashton United 0-5 Boston United
Basford 2-1 Curzon Ashton
Basingstoke Town 1-1 Torquay United (Torquay win 5-3 on pens)
Beaconsfield 3-1 Leiston
Bedford 2-1 Worthing
Blyth 4-1 Marske
Brackley 3-0 Nuneaton
Carshalton 3-0 Walton Casuals
Chippenham 1-1 Wingate and Finchley
Concord 2-3 Wealdstone
Dorchester 1-0 Hungerford
Eastbourne Borough1-1 Dartford
Hampton and Richmond 0-1 Billericay
Hayes and Yeading 0-0 Brightlinsea
Hereford 3-1 FC United
Kidderminster 1-3 York
Lancaster 2-2 Guiseley
Leamington 2-1 Witton
Lewes 2-2 Hemei Hempstead
Oxford City 4-0 Chelmsford
Pickering 0-0 Ramsbottom
Poole 2-3 Dorking
Royston 1-1 Needham Market
Salisbury 2-1 East Thurrock
Slough 2-3 Weston S Mare
Southport 0-0 Chester
Spennymoor 8-2 Halesowen
Stalybridge 1-2 Workington
Stamford 1-1 Barwell
Truro 3-0 Greenwich Borough
Welling 1-1 Dulwich
Weymouth 1-1 St Albans
Woking 2-0 Folkestone

 

[DarkSithLord]

The FA Trophy draw is live on Talksport 2 Radio from 2pm on Monday afternoon

 

[doveranddover]

is the 1st round regional?

 

[DarkSithLord]

is the 1st round regional?

I believe so yes. The 2nd Rd is National

 

[sadgull]

Torquay through after a penalty shoot out at Basingstoke. Not a good performance apparently and Basingstoke were quite good.

 

[DarkSithLord]

Attendance at Truro v Greenwich Borough yesterday was 39 (THIRTY-NINE) What the hell has happened there?

 

[Inactive]

Highlights from the Leamington vs Witton Albion match. Witton very unfortunate to have lost!

 

[AndyPark]

Didn't want a cup run anyways.

All I can say about that Telford game is - Abysmal.

Chester will absolutely hammer us on Saturday. Only thing getting me through being there, is knowing I'll be hammered.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Another dreadful performance, probably the most spineless of the season so far, as we lost 3-1 at "home" to Biggleswade. Chris Todd's record so far is played 10 - W1 - D1 - L8. The one win was against Cirencester in the Glos' Senior Cup. Not impressed at all and the "Todd out" posts have already started. Bit unfair because the team left is crap but it's the same excuses every game at the moment.

Haven't won a league game since September 1st v Hungerford. Shocking

 

[Seventyseven]

Attendance at Truro v Greenwich Borough yesterday was 39 (THIRTY-NINE) What the hell has happened there?

Well, I'd guess that playing approx 90 miles from your home town against a side that are hardly a big draw had something to do with that.

 

[rudebwoyben]

Well, I'd guess that playing approx 90 miles from your home town against a side that are hardly a big draw had something to do with that.

And I bet Greenwich Borough took fewer than 11 fans to support them too!

 

[East Bank Shot]

At least East Thurrock are out so we can’t lose to them for the third year in a row.

 

[Son of Cod]

Over 600 sold for the match at Chesterfield on Sunday, we're obviously not gonna get anywhere near the amount we took to you on the opening day of last season but we should easily get into 4 figures, I'd have thought.