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Post by frankiegth on Sept 12, 2009 10:05:26 GMT
Hucknall do, away to Blackstones from Stamford.
Good luck to all the "tinpotters".
COME ON YOU YELLOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Sept 12, 2009 17:54:23 GMT
I clocked this post around lunchtime; and that was that. Been to Blackstones before; found the place by accident then and struggled like heck to find it on purpose this time around. It's that type of ground... Got there. Was pondering. Would Frankie be there... Heard the drum. Saw the slightly built figure with the bellows for lungs who was holding it and was able to relax. Huckers scored as I was making my way around the ground to way hello; and conceded the equaliser just after I had SAID them. A beautifully warm afternoon, great game too. All square at the half. We were on the verge, for a while in the second, of having a Tinpot first on our hands with Huckers leading 1 - 2 and having technically scored none of them, would this be the first FA Cup game settled by just the one side? A well taken third ended the debate; but the sharing of a further two goals gave us a 2 - 4 final score. We even had some comedy keeping from the 'Stones stopper - who decided not to when given the option of simply picking the ball up. He let someone casually walk it into the net and got ever so cross with everyone (except himself) after the event. Thoroughly enjoyed the game - everything that the FA Cup should be AND I got to batter Frankie's drum! Great day mate - was lovely to see you again and, as I know you can't draw us as yet - give someone hell in the next round. I will still get to your clubhouse before the end of the season mind; because i want to! ;D
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Post by robotsmfc on Sept 12, 2009 19:27:58 GMT
Moors haven't started yet (thankfully; I'm hoping we pick up some form before we do) but I started my personal FA Cup campaign today in Bromsgrove as I watched their entertaining 1-1 draw against Stourbridge.
Really entertaining stuff, proper cup-tie action and there will be even more of it on Tuesday night in Stourbridge. I think I shall be making my way to that one too.
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Post by votp on Sept 12, 2009 19:44:26 GMT
Well, started and finished today. Lost 2-1 at Whitstable. Couldnt make it as had not-Mrs and son returning from in laws so had to be there (and managed to lock myself out of the house 30mins before they arrived but that is another story). Not that worried about any Cup though (including this one). Our so called Director of football though will be spitting feathers, new manager, free coach to the game and not a penny to show for it. Shame. Have only been to Whitstable once before, had some oysters as I recall. Spent a weekend on the Isle of Sheppey - now that is one weird place...
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Post by frankiegth on Sept 12, 2009 22:29:52 GMT
Great to see you today Steve and glad you enjoyed the game my owd. It was one of those "it's all about the result jobbies" Got to say our chairman was well impressed with your teams past cup achievements was indeed pleased to see one of your number at our game today. Glad you enjoyed beating the drum, unfortunately I couldn't shoulder my piano. ;D I look forward to seeing you at Watnall road in the not to distant future. By the way,the next time you meet Ambersal don't forget to tell her what she's missing not seeing me "in the flesh".
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Post by Meadow on Sept 12, 2009 23:04:16 GMT
1st qualifying round today, wasn't it? I remember that, and going through numerous pre-qualifying rounds. A sound thrashing at the hands of Thurrock or maybe even East Thurrock sticks in my mind from the second season after our reformation.
Anyway, we join at the 4th qualifying round, somewhere towards the end of October, and TBH, I miss the really early rounds.
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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on Sept 13, 2009 11:40:56 GMT
We come in at the next stage, drawn tomorrow at 1pm. I was really hoping that we would get drawn against Hednesford Town after they made so much fuss about beating us in some meaningless pre-season cup thing, so that we could show them who was boss when it came to a real tournement that actually means something. Unfortunately, Small Town in Cannock were thumped, 4-1, at home by Pegasus Juniors, a name i thought had disappeared along with the old FA Amateur Cup Oh well, looks like we'll have to wait a little bit longer to spank STIC... ;D
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Sept 13, 2009 15:03:30 GMT
By lunchtime tomorrow we'll be perusing Googly maps or bemoaning the fact that we have been drawn at home! Personally, at or near Wusster would be nice - I get to watch teh final fixture of the Pro40 season into the bargain that way. ;D
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Post by ambersalamander on Sept 13, 2009 21:37:57 GMT
We were daaan the Margit. Obviously a win would've been ideal ;D but to be honest the only possible result I was realy dreading was a draw as I'm being sent to Norwich on Tuesday evening (which is like being sent to Coventry but worse) and I'm booked on the 5pm train from Liverpool Street. We drew. Arsebiscuits
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Post by thevicar on Sept 14, 2009 8:06:06 GMT
Frankly, I'd have preferred a draw - I might have made amid week game.
Norwich is just a bizarre place - sang in the cathedral there for a week a few years ago and leaving the cathedral close was like going back in time 50 years. Can't imagine what arriving at night would be like. We need to know if the taxi at the station has an engine or if its more of a biological machine. Alternatively, they may have made it up to the sixties now so it could be swinging ;o)
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Post by ambersalamander on Sept 14, 2009 17:34:52 GMT
I know Norwich reasonably well because my brother's lived there since 2000 (I quite like the place actually), but I'm also being sent to Great Yarmouth, which is even worse. My brother's friends looked at me in horror and asked, "But why are they sending you there - what did you do wrong?"
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Post by robotsmfc on Sept 14, 2009 19:11:31 GMT
I think Norwich is quite nice. I was there for a week in July doing some voluntary work during the by-election and found it to be fairly pleasant, plus it's a city on a smaller scale than any other "city" I'd visited before (except Durham) so more or less everywhere is walkable from the city centre if you don't mind spending an hour on foot. I certainly prefer that to paying their exorbitant local bus prices. None of this has anything to do with the FA Cup, of course
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Post by J Esaj PRA on Sept 15, 2009 15:20:47 GMT
...I'm being sent to Norwich on Tuesday evening (which is like being sent to Coventry but worse)... Norwich is in the top 10 drinking towns in the UK, possibly top five. If you don't like Norwich, you don't like beer. ...it's a city on a smaller scale than any other "city" I'd visited before (except Durham)... You need to get out more... St Albans? Salford? Lichfield? I could go on. Norwich was refreshingly 'compact' though, although UEA was much too far out of town to be sociable.
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Post by frankiegth on Sept 16, 2009 15:12:02 GMT
We were daaan the Margit. Obviously a win would've been ideal ;D but to be honest the only possible result I was realy dreading was a draw as I'm being sent to Norwich on Tuesday evening (which is like being sent to Coventry but worse) and I'm booked on the 5pm train from Liverpool Street. We drew. Arsebiscuits All's well that ends well Ambersal, your lot squeezed through last night Well done.
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Post by bh on Sept 17, 2009 16:24:50 GMT
The lady concerned rearranged everything to watch the game. Unfortunately she had to leave before extra time to catch her train!! Good game despite some of the Leeds United (1970s) tactics used by the Terry Yorath managed Margate. We equalized with virtually the last kick (punch? ;D) of the second half, and won it in the second half of extra time!!
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