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Not sure it could have got much harder than that!!! Currently 5th in National League North

Beating them would be great birthday prezzie for me.

Ah, it'll be just like old times. Although yeah, doesn't get much tougher than that.

Would be a class day out, hope we beat Lincoln!

Let's be serious for a minute here, us winning the FA Trophy, or even getting to the final would be like Accrington Stanley winning the FA Cup. Not going to happen, so let's not worry about hard draws.

This sort of tie is what teams like us are in the competition for, hopefully a 1500+ gate (they're averaging 1626 and we'll take a good number) of which we'll gate a good % of the gate receipts at higher prices than we're used to paying. This is an excellent draw as far as I'm concerned.

BUT - we've got to do the business tomorrow night which judging by Saturday is certainly not guaranteed. Massive incentive.

Also happens to be against the team that turned out to be the last ever home game at Nene Park for the original club.

A game that we won 2-1! A similar result would be nice! Unlikely, but we can dream!!!
https://rdfc1992.com/2011/04/25/rushden ... arriers-1/

But first we have to get past Lincoln!

diamondgeezer1 wrote:Also happens to be against the team that turned out to be the last ever home game at Nene Park for the original club.

A game that we won 2-1! A similar result would be nice! Unlikely, but we can dream!!!
https://rdfc1992.com/2011/04/25/rushden ... arriers-1/

But first we have to get past Lincoln!

The game where Michael Briscoe was hit in the face at point blank and the ref gave a penalty. You couldn't make it up!!!

Harriers9 wrote:

diamondgeezer1 wrote:Also happens to be against the team that turned out to be the last ever home game at Nene Park for the original club.

A game that we won 2-1! A similar result would be nice! Unlikely, but we can dream!!!
https://rdfc1992.com/2011/04/25/rushden ... arriers-1/

But first we have to get past Lincoln!

The game where Michael Briscoe was hit in the face at point blank and the ref gave a penalty. You couldn't make it up!!!

There will be no complaints from Diamonds fans if MOTM is the same!!!!l

Aggborough was never a happy hunting ground iirc. Bit too westerly for us. Fgr, cheltenham etc we never did well at any of those grounds.

therushden wrote:Aggborough was never a happy hunting ground iirc. Bit too westerly for us. Fgr, cheltenham etc we never did well at any of those grounds.

Well that's cheered us up no end!!

sussexdiamond wrote:

therushden wrote:Aggborough was never a happy hunting ground iirc. Bit too westerly for us. Fgr, cheltenham etc we never did well at any of those grounds.

Well that's cheered us up no end!!

Lets hope that logic prevails tomorrow evening then!