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I'm happy with that.

Great.............................

Meh. Probably go though.

Fucking handy away day on the train!

mex will be rubbing his hands together with glee

Macclesfield got Chelski  :(

yes an easy london jolly for me.

i've been there before though and we're going to lose.

decent draw good away day!  Will our kits clash though?

We'll get the Mint Castrol kit out again.

I'm happy with the draw.

fucking magic draw, 40 minutes from my front door, 25 minutes on train from sussex, 15 minutes from walrus, brighton red 40 minutes on train, dexito just down the road south coast reds ideal draw.


fuck me i will be home by six :D

Arthur Wait Stand: £30/£25/£20

i hope our game is considered the cheapest category :?

Spot on, at least it isn't too far away.  :|

How many do they normally get at home games?

You have forgotten me mex, 50 minutes away.

thought you were in south wilts now?

they had 17,000 yesterday but that was for a london derby.

Well.. not the best we could have hoped for.. not the worst either.. at least it's only £14.50 return on the train..

i had a small outburst at work, listening to it on the radio, i was begging for my phone not to ring whilst listening, it does, the minute i ainswer it i hear No 61, at this point i am trying to concentrate on the draw and what the person on the phone was saying, i didn't hear crystal palace get drawn before swindon, and i heared bristol shitty after so i lept up in joy thinking me had drawn shitty at home, only to be told by bennett that i was a dumb polish boy and that we had palace away, i was pissed off.

We've won our last 3 games at Selhurst vs. Palace. Granted 1999 (x2) and 1996.

Palace get around 17,000-20,000. (4,000 vs. Notts County in the League Cup)

Don Rogers will be happy.

they had 20,000 for barnsley at home bizarrely.

muahahaha 20 mins from the mrs's house.

couldn't be happier, my old boss (who's palace) text me last night saying about how he hopes we play each other next round, i agree. palace are shit and taylor has got them playing wimbledon style football.

atleast we know something about the team we're playing, instead of tamworth or someone crap like that!

Looks like best route is Swindon > Paddington > Victoria > Selhurst

Departs Swindon 8.10 arrives 11:10. FGW website shows buses from Swindon to Reading that weekend.

It's one of the worst.

Not a side we can be confident of beating, probably go out.

Not a big side that will generate a large crowd, so not much money in it.

Bit of a pisser to be honest.

I'll still go though!!

looks like people getting the 'train' from swindon will have to get a bus to reading.
3hrs+ each way..

Middling draw.....as pointed out earlier, there are more shit draws than good in the third round.....you don't want anyone in your own league....best avoid the non league, and there are plenty of norvern no marks in L1 and CCC.....

   Palace are not exactly wonderful, its relatively near and they get decent crowds.

Can't we promise the Palace faithful that Don Rogers will turn up and do a bit of waving at Half-Time? They love him don't they?

 :D

Also, We didn't do to bad in the pre season friendly either. They had a strong team out. We more than matched them.

  For Palace fans of a certain age he has legend status.

Tis true but there are so many non-glamorous championship sides who would have met the same criteria and yet would have been an absolute fucker to get to..

Seems that cheapest train fare is two singles at £17 each.

agreed. for me the highlight of the draw was the tune at the end by camera obscura (which someone on here got me into quite recently).

still, it's better than a kick up the arse i guess.

Interestingly we've won at Selhurst on our 3 previous FA Cup visits.....last time was 1927 though.

The Palace game seems a long way away though

Mansfield Town, Walsall, Bristol Rovers, Macclesfield Town, Wycombe Wanderers, Notts County & Franchise all to come.

This tie also means our League game at Peterborough United becomes a tricky night game.

   Its a fair point....think its time to stop thinking about matches and get back onto the subject of Board ousting....

   I don't really believe in looking at fixtures ahead, as I'm not convinced it neccessarily means a great deal, but a cursory glance at the forthcoming games in my local on Friday got me thinking that December into Jan looks tough and it gets a bit easier after that.  Which of course is bollocks because it  doesn't always work that way.

If I could've picked ties I won't bother with, Palace away is up there.

Meh.

Typical wishy washy neither one thing nor the other type draw for STFC. F****** Palace away. Rubbish.

Palace at home would have been ok but away is complete crap and bollocks.

We've played them so many times in recent years that there's not even any novelty value.

Oh well, I won't be complaining if we sneak a 1-0 win in the last minute.

Awesome draw I'm going to get absolutely smashed!   :D

Then down to the Arc for afterwards!   8)

crap draw! was looking forward to going to a premiership ground but obviously not. fuck going to this one

crap draw but nice one for me as my aunt lives there - so dinner and a nice cuppa just 5 mins after the game  :mrgreen:

fuck me your gonna be the life and soul of any piss up that night

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  poor fatters

Last year palace had northampton in the cup.the attendance was 10900 with 2500 of them being northampton fans

it was £15 a ticket aswell probably looking at 8000 attendance for this

crap draw!
i wont be going.we will lose and the club will make little!
could have been so much better

Not the best, but at least its quite local.  The alst thing you want is a championship team, no galmour, and a pretty tough task to get anything out of the game,  even worse is it's a ground I've been to before, TBH would've preferred to visit a new gorund, but hey ho, that's the 'magic' of the cup. :?

although i do think we could have a chance of nicking a result in this one

The more I think about it the more I can't be arsed to go.

Here's to hoping we get a draw and a replay at the CG.

There's never pleasing some fuckers is there!

No  :D

I think it's a great draw, just the right distance for a piss-up on the train :beers:

I'm not doubting that, but it's a bit hard on the wallett only a week after the Dongs match.

a bit pissed off about this. i want to go, because i think we might win, but i work untill 12 on saturdays, so doubt ill be able to get there :(

Take the day off, or call in sick whilst you're on the train  :D

for some gay reason, you have to book a day off six weeks in advance. looks like i might have to be "ill"

Was a bit disappointed with the draw when we first came out the hat..

But on reflection I think it could've been so much worse..

We've been starved of any decent away games in recent years, even Palace away seems quite attractive these days, I think we'll take 2,500 down there.

Plus it's 20 minutes from my front door..

Was hoping for chelsea at home or away! But this is quite a good draw and I think I should be going so I'm really looking forward to it as I've never been to a big clubs ground away watching swindon yet  :D

the ground is a dump.the stand town fans will be in has crappy old seats and posts in the way.dont get your hopes up to much

I've got a feeling you'll be massively dissapointed.

Think I'll drive to Reading and get the train from there. Cheap day return is £13.30.

Anyone know what the parking's like at Reading?

I'm pleased with the draw. I've done my positive twisting of reality and it now seems good. My reasoning is this.

Any teams below us will play out of their skins and we will be complacent. No proof required. Glad we didn't get one of them.

Weak Prem teams, whether they are complacent or play reserves, still would be a significant hurdle for us. This would neither inspire us as fans, nor inspire the players.

Teams in the same league and league 1 will just be cunt.

Championship teams are good because they will be complacent yet, hopefully, not have the skills to kill us or out play us at every turn. The players within our team would be up for it and coupled with a loud away following and a quiet home following, victory is a definate posibility.

I feel we have one of the more playable teams in the Championship and i think we can beat them and get ourselves into the forth round.

I agree with Barry Scott to some extent.

On a good day, we could go there, outsing them, they could have a bad game and we could nick a win or get a replay at least. They are 16th which shows they are nothing special in the Championship, and having watched Clinton Morrison's lame excuse for a performance in the pre-season game there is definitely some hope!

If I can get the day off work I might well go. Driving to Reading sounds like a good plan!

Ticket prices for the Palace game http://www.cpfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/NewsDetail/0,,10323~938820,00.html

Good prices i think.

Don't mention it Palace  :wink:

[I choose to ignore the notion that Palace invited Rogers on their own and without the assistance of myself]

Looking forward to this now. We have sold 1700 tickets so far and there will be pay on the gate to push it up further.

Let's hope we don't get trounced!

I'm not doing the train thing! Too many engineering works.

Going by car, and staying in paddington overnight

will palace be playing in there away kit considering our first kit is red and our away is blue?? where as there home kit is red & blue?

This has been raised a few times magic! no-one knows, I thought us in blue with them in their home shirts but with red shorts and socks should give a contrast.  Although epople are taling about the white shirt of three years ago, or last seasons white/blue effort.

I'm making it a weekender, down to London friday and a weekend in vauxhall and clapham.

I don't think the kit clash will be too bad tbh...

http://www.colours-of-football.com/colours03/eng/new/eng_c_palace_1_0607.gif
http://www.colours-of-football.com/colours03/eng/new/eng_swindon_2_0607.gif

You can easily tell the difference.

Another thing I was thinking of is when we play Lincoln... Looks like we could be wearing away top and socks with home shorts!

http://www.colours-of-football.com/colours03/eng/new/eng_lincoln_1_0607.gif

http://www.colours-of-football.com/colours03/eng/new/eng_swindon_1_0607.gif

http://www.colours-of-football.com/colours03/eng/new/eng_swindon_2_0607.gif

Those Red X's look the same to me!

And to me.

It's not my fault your browsers are shit now is it!   :mrgreen:

No, it's not our fault you can't post pictures properly.

The biggest nightmare which has put me off going is getting there. Having been unable to get there with the SAS i was forced to look at train travel, that means a coach to Reading, train to Victoria, the tube to Paddington and then a train from Paddington to Selhurst Station. Then actually fining the ground :disapprove:  So all in all really couldn't find the effort to do it. Would have loved to have gone, but over three hours of travelling and 6 journeys to get there alone, it was all a tad too much! Its's only to London for pete's sake! Sorry to moan on me first post.  :oops:  Come on you reds and get in the 4th Round at home!

we'll play in last seasons white away kit

There are some trains that go direct to paddington. I can't be fucked now though.

they should produce a white kit for this match only and not release any replicas for public sale. They could then sale the players worn shirts on qxl/ebay - nice little money making excerise for the club

The thing is, i've heard so many people say they are gutted they can't go because they can't get onto the buses. When i asked about the SAS they sais due to a lack of intrest ...... I mean i had 8 people who were going to come with me to the palace game, but they wanted to go on the coach. Shame we're going to miss it! However sad little me will be sat next to th radio soapy tit wank!

For me the trains that are between bristol and pad are diverted at bath onto the berks and hants line (until reading) this adds about 35 mins to my journey. I am not sure what the service is like between Swindon and Pad?

I don't see there being a huge demand for it to be honest, but a nice idea all the same

You may be right, other clubs have done it and they have sold well.

hmm instead of using last seasons white kit....we're using our white kit from 3 season ago!?

Apparently we had more spares of that white kit but none of last years ! :-))(

Someone on the L&P forum just posted that there will be someone from Swindon with a drum tomorrow. Ace.  :D

Hope I'm sitting well away from him......

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!  :evil:

I'm not going so he can bang it as loud as he wants  :D

I would like to completely disassociate this individual from L&P immediately.

If he brings it then he will be wearing it.

I'll pay him money to take it  :D

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Have fun those of you who are going.

I changed my mind and fancied it this morning but had already got a tee time at North Wilts so I shall be golfing.

You want updates Davey Boy ????

I do Fred, I'll be house hunting all day tomorrow.

Moby ?

Can't you do that on Sundays, Sam? You'll be missed tomorrow.

I have shedloads of DIY lined up for me when I wake up on Sunday morning  :(

PM'd

Same here mate

Going to start it at 6 am so me and Jenna can get to the New Inn by 2 pm

Nope, cunting estate agents don't work Sundays.

Nice to hear you'll miss me though Alan  :wink:

sam dont buy before emailing, seriously dont pay market price.

Thats a wise move Sam (see what I done there ?  :wink: )

elliot you drinking again?

NOPE

Just got back from taking Jenna to Dolphins

Going to have a bottle of red in a minute

How was the swimming.

oh dear, im off to bed, early start tomoz! enjoy the game lads

like watching Franchise in the penalty area!

Plenty off diving. Nice one DV.

Yes

She is going to be put forward for comps this spring

Well good luck to Jenna. Will you be in the new inn on sunday.

Yes mate

nice one. See you sunday.