FA Cup 2018/19

[AdamStag]

Let's be fair, if we take away the seond one you're on about, it would have still been 4-0 and would have made no difference so stfu

Good to know maths is strong in the ghettos of London

 

[Lamby]

Good to know maths is strong in the ghettos of London

Ghetto? I'm from a Royal Borough

 

[hellogregory]

Come on Shrewsbury. Knock the c**ts out!

 

[pontoonlew]

I remember losing to Exeter one year when they were non league and we were League 2, then them drawing Man Utd away, felt absolutely sick as fuck.
Exeter held them to 0-0 at Old Trafford too before losing the replay.
I can’t remrmber ever getting a plum tie in the FA Cup, all our games against the massive teams Liverpool twice, Spurs, Arsenal, Everton have all been in the League Cup.

And we won 3 of those!

 

[Chris FGR]

Get in.

 

[hellogregory]

Shrewsbury could be 3-0 up really. One sided so far but you get the feeling Salford will get a chance eventually.

 

[Vanni]

What's this nonsense about scrapping replays? I say we should revert back to the way it was back in 1990/91. Wiki says that 'Until 1990/91, further replays would be played until one team was victorious. Some ties took as many as six matches to settle'.

Now I bet that was fun!

 

[Si Robin]

I love this story of a cup tie between Alvechurch and Oxford City which went to a 5th replay:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2009/nov/21/oxford-city-alvechurch-longest-fa-cup

I've just learnt that former Cheltenham manager, Graham Allner played in all 6 games as well.

 

[Meadow]

I'm all for replays. We've gained from it - Scunthorpe, York x 2 and Bury - and we've lost from it - Sutton. One replay only though.

 

[Habbinalan]

What's this nonsense about scrapping replays? I say we should revert back to the way it was back in 1990/91. Wiki says that 'Until 1990/91, further replays would be played until one team was victorious. Some ties took as many as six matches to settle'.

Now I bet that was fun!

I'm not sure that plucky Alvechurch made a fortune in those 5 replays against Oxford - or in their tie 2 days later against Aldershot. Although, apparently, their "tonk & bottle" meant they were never going to surrender that prize.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2009/nov/21/oxford-city-alvechurch-longest-fa-cup

Alfreton v Barrow (1969) was a 4 game record at the time and the first match was one of my early awayday memories (Hadwin's Charabanc and under-age bottles of brown ale). That wasn't a moneyspinner either as the evening replays were hours by road for at least one set of supporters - Holker Street, then Chesterfield and Preston.

TV money has made all the difference.

 

[les.gtfc]

I remember losing to Exeter one year when they were non league and we were League 2, then them drawing Man Utd away, felt absolutely sick as fuck.
Exeter held them to 0-0 at Old Trafford too before losing the replay.
I can’t remrmber ever getting a plum tie in the FA Cup, all our games against the massive teams Liverpool twice, Spurs, Arsenal, Everton have all been in the League Cup.

It wasn't directly after them beating us though. They then beat Doncaster Rovers in their 2nd round game before they drew Man Utd. We'd have been even more gutted had we beaten Exeter and then lost to Donny.

We did draw Arsenal at home in the FA Cup in the 85/86 though, when we lost 4-3 but before that the last really big FA Cup match was when we lost 5-0 at Liverpool in 1980.

 

[Luke Imp]

Crawley 2-6 Southend - I'd like extra time in every Southend game from now on please.
Thought Crawley came out hungrier, wanted it more, but as the half wore on and we got 1 up we just took control.
Bunn and McLaughlin were the best players on the pitch, aided by two of the worst fullbacks i've seen play for a league side, they had an utter field day.

2nd half, what can I say, we made Ollie fucking Palmer look like a professional footballer. Abysmal. Crawley get 1 back and yet again we go into utter panic mode, even at 1-2 there looked to be only 1 winner, and it wasn't Southend.
We still managed to carve out chances though, such a shame Theo Robinson can't pretend just for a game to be a decent striker.

Then extra time, anybody who saw that coming is a liar. Literally everything we touched turned to goals.
Even John White, who's technique consists of hoofing it into corners or whacking into the nearest stand, scores a volley from a freekick Messi would have been proud of.

Thought the Crawley fans made decent noise and I loved the ironic oles they gave their team when they passed it around at 5-2 down.

Tbf to Palmer, he improved a lot here from around Xmas onwards. Never quite a starter, but his all round game and contribution was much better when he left than when he joined.

How's Robinson doing? He seemed to play most weeks?

Keep cup replays but scrap the fucking Checkatrade. Last night was our 7th consectivtive Tuesday night game and we have another next week and then another the following week.

Losing last night might be a blessing really as we have a free Saturday now a week Saturday, Hopefully we put our kids out in the Checkatrade trophy the Tuesday after that aswell and go out of that.

We had 10 consecutive midweek games in the second half of 2016/17. Every single day felt like game day by the end of it!

 

[Luke Imp]

R.e. replays, we hold the record for the most consecutive FA Cup ties going to replays, which is 14, I think.

I think the replays work ok and should stay. In any 'big' vs 'small' club tie, the latter will always want a replay for more money. At least they're Tuesday night games rather than taking priority over Saturday league games like the FA Trophy, although they have it right in one respect by allowing Club's to choose if they want to finish the game in 90 and penalties rather than a replay.

On the 3rd round ties, we got then PL side Bolton under Chris Sutton, missed out on Liverpool under Holdsworth to Mansfield but obviously made up for a it later on.

We've always been generally poor in the FA Cup, and cups generally, and one one of our legendary statto's said the other day that we're the worst performing FA Cup side currently in the EFL, or the worst performing side in the FA Cup whilst an EFL Club. One of the two.

 

[Davidimp]

R.e. replays, we hold the record for the most consecutive FA Cup ties going to replays, which is 14, I think.

I think the replays work ok and should stay. In any 'big' vs 'small' club tie, the latter will always want a replay for more money. At least they're Tuesday night games rather than taking priority over Saturday league games like the FA Trophy, although they have it right in one respect by allowing Club's to choose if they want to finish the game in 90 and penalties rather than a replay.

On the 3rd round ties, we got then PL side Bolton under Chris Sutton, missed out on Liverpool under Holdsworth to Mansfield but obviously made up for a it later on.

We've always been generally poor in the FA Cup, and cups generally, and one one of our legendary statto's said the other day that we're the worst performing FA Cup side currently in the EFL, or the worst performing side in the FA Cup whilst an EFL Club. One of the two.

Pretty certain it's we're the worst performing efl side in the history of the fa cup!

 

[Kim Mitten]

Tbf to Palmer, he improved a lot here from around Xmas onwards. Never quite a starter, but his all round game and contribution was much better when he left than when he joined.

How's Robinson doing? He seemed to play most weeks?

Palmer seems to be scoring for Crawley and our woeful defending gifted him two goals, but otherwise he was shocking. At least a foot taller than our centre backs he failed to win a header all game and basically was just 'a presence'. I'm pretty sure he has Drewe Broughton's agent, who is our course the best agent in football.

As for Robinson, yes he plays most weeks, but that's because we have no one else. Cox cannot play as a loan striker, Hopper out for the season, Powell for some reason won't start McCoulsky, who in the 10 minutes he had on the pitch was so much better than the 110 minutes from Theo. Other than that it's kids who have a combined first team experience of around 30 minutes.

I love Theo, he always has time for you, always chats, is great with my son, but christ a football league striker he is not.
He's getting worse as well, his first loan spell with us, I'd say he needed 6-10 chances to score. Now he needs 6-10 chances to get one on target. Yes, he's a confidence player but still, surely you can get a shot on target! Thanks to Phil Brown he is on a hideously long contract and we can't seem to get rid of him, even though we've tried hard in the last two transfer windows.
Till January he will play and we just have to hope he scores a few to get his confidence up and that we replace Hopper in the window. Seeing Theo back to a conference side would be good as well.

 

[GTFCfish]

It wasn't directly after them beating us though. They then beat Doncaster Rovers in their 2nd round game before they drew Man Utd. We'd have been even more gutted had we beaten Exeter and then lost to Donny.

We did draw Arsenal at home in the FA Cup in the 85/86 though, when we lost 4-3 but before that the last really big FA Cup match was when we lost 5-0 at Liverpool in 1980.

Ahh right I’d remembered it different, I am getting a bit old now though in my defence.

 

[les.gtfc]

Ahh right I’d remembered it different, I am getting a bit old now though in my defence.

Not as old as me though I bet and had 5 ops with someone poking about in your brain!

 

[BlackHaddock]

We Love a Cup run at Grimsby, or we used too, not had one for a while.

Our round 2 game at Chesterfield at 14:00 on Sunday seems to have got the old hearts racing and our season ticket holders have already snapped up 750 tickets on the first day of sales. I got two this afternoon after waiting ages on the phone (people in the office get served before the phones are answered) and only because I am a Trust member. They go on general sale tomorrow, fully expect around 1500 to travel. No sales on the day under any circumstances apparently.

 

[shoddycollins]

FA Cup thread

you wot?

 

[immariner]

We Love a Cup run at Grimsby, or we used too, not had one for a while.

Our round 2 game at Chesterfield at 14:00 on Sunday seems to have got the old hearts racing and our season ticket holders have already snapped up 750 tickets on the first day of sales. I got two this afternoon after waiting ages on the phone (people in the office get served before the phones are answered) and only because I am a Trust member. They go on general sale tomorrow, fully expect around 1500 to travel. No sales on the day under any circumstances apparently.

I'm on the fence about this one. Might wait to see if we sell a load tomorrow if they might open up the side stand overflow thingy, where I was for the game last year. Been turned off away games within 2 hours of Gy by some of the "characters" that often show up, and fully expect them to show up for this one. Do love a good cup game though.

 

[BlackHaddock]

I'm on the fence about this one. Might wait to see if we sell a load tomorrow if they might open up the side stand overflow thingy, where I was for the game last year. Been turned off away games within 2 hours of Gy by some of the "characters" that often show up, and fully expect them to show up for this one. Do love a good cup game though.

Some drunken idiots at Northampton on Saturday but most of 'the usual low life types' were not there. I am sure however they will be at Chesterfield just to confirm we sadly still have a large element of people I do not wish to be associated with.

 

[Indian Dan]

We’re home to Woking on Sunday. Surely we’ll reach the 3rd round this time.

I’m going into hospital on Friday so I won’t have to suffer any embarrassment by actually being there.

 

[BlackHaddock]

We’re home to Woking on Sunday. Surely we’ll reach the 3rd round this time.

I’m going into hospital on Friday so I won’t have to suffer any embarrassment by actually being there.

Hope it's something serious!


















No, not really mate.

 

[Indian Dan]

Ginormous kidney stone - golf ball sized apparently. Should be enough for me to be off Xmas on full pay!

 

[immariner]

Some drunken idiots at Northampton on Saturday but most of 'the usual low life types' were not there. I am sure however they will be at Chesterfield just to confirm we sadly still have a large element of people I do not wish to be associated with.

Be surprised if we don't sell out our initial allocation early tomorrow after tonight's performance. Wonder if we'll get more? Think the initial allocation is the maximum Chesterfield are obliged to give us (15% of capacity).

 

[Agombar stool]

We’re home to Woking on Sunday. Surely we’ll reach the 3rd round this time.

I’m going into hospital on Friday so I won’t have to suffer any embarrassment by actually being there.

I'm flying to Chicago on Sunday for work. Shame as we look to have turned a bit of a corner after the last 2 games.

For once I go into an FA Cup round quietly confident that our ball will be in the bag for round 3.

Good luck with your hospital appt mate.

 

[BlackHaddock]

Be surprised if we don't sell out our initial allocation early tomorrow after tonight's performance. Wonder if we'll get more? Think the initial allocation is the maximum Chesterfield are obliged to give us (15% of capacity).

Yip, sold out and the club have contacted Chesterfield with a request for more!

 

[valefan16]

Yip, sold out and the club have contacted Chesterfield with a request for more!

Be a draw that!

Chesterfield are on their longest winless league run of 18 games but unbeaten in 12 or 13 in all competitions... strange situation where they are on their longest winless run but the best unbeaten run in decades! Drew yet again last night but sadly at risk of a third successive relegation.

 

[darren gregory]

Be a draw that!

Chesterfield are on their longest winless league run of 18 games but unbeaten in 12 or 13 in all competitions... strange situation where they are on their longest winless run but the best unbeaten run in decades! Drew yet again last night but sadly at risk of a third successive relegation.

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The curious case of Chesterfield (continued): Now 18 League matches without a win, equalling the club record. Now drawn 8 consecutive League matches, equalling the club record. Unbeaten in last 11 matches in all comps, best run for 12 years.

That was before the other night, which was also a draw.

 

[BlackHaddock]

Sounds like Chesterfield are due a defeat then.

They have sent us another 224 tickets, we've sold 1560, so will hopefully shift the extra ones too.