A new thread for Sultan - FA Cup Draw

[ambersalamander]

Good Cup draw for Sutton - a league team at home. But there is an edge to this one. Our last five FA Cup draws against Football League opposition have been:

1994 3rd round Away v Notts County [we wuz robbed]
1995 2nd round Away v Hereford United
2008 1st round Home v Notts County
2009 1st round Away v Hereford United
2011 2nd round Home v Notts County

What are the chances of that I might be sad enough to work it out at some point.


As I said, good draw, and I don't want to bite the hand that feeds us. But it would be nice to get someone different for a change...

[davetscfc]

Home to Port Vale or Grimsby for us. Could have been better but could have been a lot worse! Not the big pay day, but we've been quite decent at home this season and you've got to think that if we play as well as we can and the others don't then we've got a chance.

My two ambtions left in football are to see us beat a League club (so I ought to be hoping for Port Vale for a chance of that one) and to reach the Third Round of the FA Cup. We've never done either (this will be our 3rd time in the 2nd Round, one of those was before I was born), could this be the year??

[samd]

Yeah well we've been drawn against Morpeth Town in the Northumberland Senior Cup about 10 times in the past five years.

Or maybe it's four times in the last seven seasons, that seems more likely. We were kind of drawn against them last season but North Shields ensured the repetitive tediousness didn't reach too epic of levels by beating them so we got them instead.

[Sultan of Cannock- SRFC]

A thread with my name on it! WOOT! WOOT!

Talking of deja vu draws, we had this nice little run.

1974/5 2nd round home v Halifax Town
1975/6 2nd round home v Halifax Town
1976/7 1st round home v Halifax Town
1977/8 1st round away v Carlisle
1978/9 1st round away v Hull City
Had we beaten Hull, (and we did come extremely close, outplaying the Tigers for most of the game and only losing 1-2,) Carlisle away would've been our 2nd round tie, Carlisle having beaten Halifax Town in the previous round.

In 1980-81, we went out in the 1st round at Walsall, with Carlisle again awaiting the winners in round 2.

Not forgetting of course,
1989/90 1st round home v Halifax Town
for the fourth bloody time!

[ambersalamander]

Nov 14, 2011 0:38:16 GMT samd said:

Yeah well we've been drawn against Morpeth Town in the Northumberland Senior Cup about 10 times in the past five years.

Or maybe it's four times in the last seven seasons, that seems more likely. We were kind of drawn against them last season but North Shields ensured the repetitive tediousness didn't reach too epic of levels by beating them so we got them instead.

Meh. Fair point, but county cups (and the early, tightly-regionalised rounds of the FA Cup) usually do throw up a number of repetitions due to the smaller number of possible opponents. With 52 teams in the FA Cup draw, we had a 1/51 chance of drawing County, but three times out of five?! Considering the fact that they might have already been knocked out by this stage, that's got to be fairly impressive odds...

[samd]

Nov 14, 2011 12:45:06 GMT ambersalamander said:

Nov 14, 2011 0:38:16 GMT samd said:

Yeah well we've been drawn against Morpeth Town in the Northumberland Senior Cup about 10 times in the past five years.

Or maybe it's four times in the last seven seasons, that seems more likely. We were kind of drawn against them last season but North Shields ensured the repetitive tediousness didn't reach too epic of levels by beating them so we got them instead.

Meh. Fair point, but county cups (and the early, tightly-regionalised rounds of the FA Cup) usually do throw up a number of repetitions due to the smaller number of possible opponents. With 52 teams in the FA Cup draw, we had a 1/51 chance of drawing County, but three times out of five?! Considering the fact that they might have already been knocked out by this stage, that's got to be fairly impressive odds...

There's only like 10 teams in the Senior Cup now. Because there aren't enough teams in the County who are at the sufficient level of crapness to take part.

I think we've been drawn against Stockport County in the FA Cup three times in our history.