Three of Diamonds wrote:Good luck to Starms & the team today. Can I just ask the fans to watch out for the Cuckoos playing not to far away? I hope the wind is an Westerly one :lol:
Yeah I noticed they were playing only a few miles down the road, 2 places neither team could have imagined they'd be going a few years ago, but still nice that we're going to have a lot of new grounds to visit at this level.
Olly wrote:So pleased this game is finally here, had been looking forward to it long before the draw was made and looking forward to visiting a new ground of a team that I had barely heard of before the draw! If we manage to get through a few rounds it would be an achievement. Having said that, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't hoping we make the 1st round proper, to get to play a team we used to play as RDFC would be great, though 6 rounds to get through is a hell of a task and we'd have to hope for a few favourable draws.
PNS beat Yaxley 3-0 tonight in the cup as well, 292 there, very good crowd for them.
I think talk of the 1st Round is going a bit too far, IMO we'll have done extremely well to make the 1st Qualifying Round.
Olly wrote:So pleased this game is finally here, had been looking forward to it long before the draw was made and looking forward to visiting a new ground of a team that I had barely heard of before the draw! If we manage to get through a few rounds it would be an achievement. Having said that, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't hoping we make the 1st round proper, to get to play a team we used to play as RDFC would be great, though 6 rounds to get through is a hell of a task and we'd have to hope for a few favourable draws.
PNS beat Yaxley 3-0 tonight in the cup as well, 292 there, very good crowd for them.
I think talk of the 1st Round is going a bit too far, IMO we'll have done extremely well to make the 1st Qualifying Round.
There's nothing wrong with a bit of ambition. But to put it in context, I can only remember 2 UCL sides reaching the competition proper and I'm getting on a bit! Buckingham and Holbeach, both in the 1980s, in todays terms the UCL was a step higher then too!
Olly wrote:So pleased this game is finally here, had been looking forward to it long before the draw was made and looking forward to visiting a new ground of a team that I had barely heard of before the draw! If we manage to get through a few rounds it would be an achievement. Having said that, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't hoping we make the 1st round proper, to get to play a team we used to play as RDFC would be great, though 6 rounds to get through is a hell of a task and we'd have to hope for a few favourable draws.
PNS beat Yaxley 3-0 tonight in the cup as well, 292 there, very good crowd for them.
I think talk of the 1st Round is going a bit too far, IMO we'll have done extremely well to make the 1st Qualifying Round.
Yeah I know, I agree, though nothing wrong with dreaming imo especially with the FA Cup, I've no doubt we'd at least give anyone from a level or 2 above a good game, getting to through every qualifying round of the cup is rarely done, but it must have been done before surely?
Don't know what it sounded like on the radio but we're lucky to still be in the cup. Extremely disappointing performance and 4 or 5 players had absolute stinkers. We MUST act now re: our defence.
We've been given a lifeline by Merrill who scored an absolute cracker.
They say we've lost our money we're not famous anymore.....
Wellingborough drew 3-3, so maybe they'll play Tuesday and we'll play Wednesday?
BartonRaz wrote:Don't know what it sounded like on the radio but we're lucky to still be in the cup. Extremely disappointing performance and 4 or 5 players had absolute stinkers. We MUST act now re: our defence.<br style="text-shadow: none;"><br style="text-shadow: none;">We've been given a lifeline by Merrill who scored an absolute cracker.
Radio said that we were resorting to the long ball a lot, which isn't surprising considering it was McBride and Harris in the centre of midfield. They do the same kind of thing so I think we'd only need one of them in a team at any given time.
Hopefully Liburd can give us an injection of something good in the replay.
