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its going to be a great day out. something special about the FA vase. never forget Rushden Town making the quarter finals and losing to Hythe 1-0. all over them for 90 minutes but couldnt find a way past their keeper. If we get past this round who knows!

I think if we get over 100 fans travelling up then that is a terrific effort - we'll all just have to shout twice as loud as usual eh? :o

TheIncognitoKid wrote:I know its still over a week away, but there's severe flooding up there currently. Just hope its not a wasted journey for fans!

Well, the good news is that only 2 Northern League matches were affected by weather at the weekend while us southern softies were decimated by it ;)

Those two were abandoned at half time due to fog - Ashington's game being one of them (they were winnig 1-3 at the time).

Fingers crossed things will improve, the long range forecast while not great, should still see the conditions good enough for the match to be on, but wear your longjohns, it's gunna be ccccold !!!
http://www.accuweather.com/en/gb/ashing ... 050?day=11

Pigman wrote:I think if we get over 100 fans travelling up then that is a terrific effort - we'll all just have to shout twice as loud as usual eh? :o

Indeed, will be our first ever game where we haven't outnumbered the home support!

Anyone else getting excited yet?

http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/so ... gton&csz=1

Pigman wrote:Anyone else getting excited yet?

http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/so ... gton&csz=1

YELLOW ARMY!!!! :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P

Speaking of which, must start work on that yellow pages.

Shame Ashington don't have a covered end because I think this is one of those games where we could have an Aldershot-esque atmosphere. The one thing I do miss about Conference grounds is that segregation meant that we all had to be in the same area, which helped the atmosphere a lot.

Sara Pascoe wrote:Shame Ashington don't have a covered end because I think this is one of those games where we could have an Aldershot-esque atmosphere. The one thing I do miss about Conference grounds is that segregation meant that we all had to be in the same area, which helped the atmosphere a lot.

You can stand (quite literally) corrected Ms Pascoe. They do have a covered end:

http://www.ashingtonafc.com/info-9-woodhorn-lane.html

We have stalled right on the break even point for coach bookings, come peeps, time to sign up

Yep, come on people...........you know it makes sense 8-)

Really, really looking forward to this game 8-) 8-)
We want as many there as possible