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I've got a feeling this is gonna end up 2-2, with Dossevi and Austin the goalscorers.

Keep the faith. In Fola we trust.

Earliest matchday thread ever?

Hoping for 2-0, expecting 2-2, dreading a late 2-1 defeat.

holy fuck kid. You're brave. Why do you think DUNSWORTHY hasn't posted for a few days?

Crawley 0-8 Swindon Town. fuck it.

I'm feeling quite confident.  :)

Tongan rape squad caught up with me!!
We'll win 3nil. just to suprise everyone then get a shit draw - away at Scunthorpe!

If we lose I'm going looking for Coca Fola.

Looking forward to this, in a perverse, masochistic kind of way.

Have to say I'd take a draw and a CG replay.

I have no idea if we'll win 3-0, draw 3-3 or lose 3-0.

I really hope this is on ESPN throughout the World, and they don't have regional variations.  I've checked into a hotel with ESPN just for this.

COYR!

 Written this one off already....decided I don't care either, because don't want a Friday night ruined.

still cant decide wether to go, its freezing down here, M25 was chaos last night, if the game had been yesterday no one from swindon would have made kick off due to traffic.

warm sofa withchicken stir fry or freezing terrace with shit hot dog?

I'm going for a repeat of the 4-3 win a few years back. My main concern at  the moment is if there will be anything to grab for a half time piss.

Where are you?

Man up you bumder.

Big game tonight. Would settle for a draw.

Going to be freezing tonight!

Laos.  The other half is none too pleased that she'll be woken up at 2.45am for STFC.  Especially as we've just got back from two nights in the jungle, with very little sleep!  

nonsense it's character building!

I'm thinking about not watching this. I don't think I can be fucked with going down a pub and at least if I'm at home I can change the channel/switch it off for a few minutes if it's pissing me off.

I'll go 3-0 to us. I'll be at work for the start, so gonna miss most of it

Is there any chance that it may be called of due to the freezing weather, not sure if Crawley have pitch covers grounds are not thawing out at the moment

http://www.crawleytownfc.com/newsdetails.php?ID=1737

And they're not just plastic sheets, they are: MATCH PROTECTION COVERS!

"Crawley Town Football Club are pleased to confirm that the playing surface at The Broadfield Stadium is in superb condition and this afternoon, the entire pitch was covered with special match protection covers to ensure the pitch is perfect for the big match on Friday evening."

It honestly feels as if we're going in to this with the underdog tag...which is fine by me.  No prediction from me, but I'm hopeful.

1-0 defeat

5-4 loss, exactly the same as Peterborough including the last minute own goal

The more I hear about Crawley, the less I like them.  If Crawley were a person, he'd be a dick.

they have a proper bunch of chav yoof too :) about 3 years ago i actively encouraged them to throw coins at oxford fans :) true story.

Was going to pub it bit pubbed it last night instead. I'll listen to whoever is vic morgan this week

shit on the telly, we're always shit on the telly.

2-0 defeat.

I am going to 3-2 us with Crawley having led twice and given us a real fright.

And 'Project Promotion' is so fucking desperate as a marketing idea that it deserves to die a slow, painful and public death.  It makes me think of this.

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Id stab that cunt quite happily

Was this you Tans?

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/8689987.Girlfriend_stabbed_as_sex_game_goes_wrong/

Not me mate.

Ive not been caught yet

Really can't be optimistic about this, reckon a defeat by the odd goal.

Although wouldn't surprise me if it's a P-P draw.  ;)

Don't know, I could definitely see us getting P, but what worries me is we'll concede two soft Ps and give ourselves a mountain to climb

Can't see us both taking the P.

Exactly ardilles, real clubs like us don't fuck about with shit like promotion

Ace, Ardiles is owned!

The promotion bit I can handle.  It's the marketing thereof that brings me out in a rash.   ;)

Are you going tonight?

Am I bollocks.  I'm going to be stuck in a snowdrift somewhere on the M6 while you lot are at Crawley.

This for me too, but M1 instead of M6.

Im going to the Tawny owl to watch this. Hope it has ESPN!

4-0 the Town

Can't see us winning tonight, sorry but I truly can't.

They will be so up for this game, 2-0 defeat.

Hmmmm ... I wonder if the same company makes GOAL PROTECTION COVERS ... :hmmm:

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. It's gonna be tense, it's gonna be scrappy, it's gonna be nerve shredding.

i'm not sure if i'll bother trying to watch this. the prospect of a house party full of bath spa girls (half as smart, twice as likely to fellate) is tempting, and this is only football

This is a strange match, 2 attacking teams. Anything could happen, I wouldn't be surprised if either side won 3-0 or even if it ended up in a 2-2 draw! :S

I don't believe anyone on here that says they wont watch it one way or another. Anybody who spends half their day on here ( myself included) is fanatical enough not to let anything get in the way of vieiwing. And I include blow jobs and death in that.

I only come on here for the witty banter. I don't even like swindon

I'd never have guessed that one.

We're gonna spank this lot tonight I swear.

That said I haven't been to an away game this season (plastic fuck yes) so can't comment on our showings at notts county and rochdale but I'm sure we've got enough in our team to put a non league team to the sword.

They'll bring the game to us and we'll take them apart on the counter.

fancy a few goals but we're in the hat for round 3 at the end of it! I hope

I'm with you on that, I'm an eternal optimist, and so will go for 4-1 to Swindon. Rose free kick, Dossevi and a brace from Charlie. Tubbs to score for Crawley past Smith... :P

1 - 1

We will just squeak through 3-2.  I hope.

Although I have a massive sense of foreboding if I'm honest, not even slightly looking forward to watching it - the scene just seems to be set for a massive slip-up.  Here's hoping I'm being pessimistic and paranoid about nothing!

Good interview from Evans of Crawley, I like the bit after amount a minute on how they will stop Charlie Austin.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/crawley_town/9225782.stm

i usually look forward to seeing town away on tv, :hmmm: not that excited about tonight, will go for a 2.1 win, austin with both :nod:

Well, well i would like to say 1-0 but we can't keep a clean sheet the game is live as we are there for the taking it didn't help with Phil Smith on the radio stating if we lose it is not the end of the world
I would take a draw

That is quite good. Interesting that he say's he knows about several large 7 figure bids for him have been turned down.

Steve evans is a knob

Does that include the VAT?

If so they'd better buy him before January when VAT rises to 20%!  :D

I really cannot wait to take the terrible Friday evening drive along the A303, M3, M25 & M23 to stand on a freezing cold terrace to see Town dumped out of the FA Cup by a non-league team who will no doubt get drawn against Manchester United at Old Trafford in the 3rd Round.

You reds!

Well I'm getting increasingly nervous about this one. Going to be heading down to Ashton-under-Lyne to meet my Dad and bro at their local and confuse a few idiot united fans by screaming at the telly for an hour and a half and what they will see as some inconsequential lower league game. It's a poor state of affairs when we're not confident of beating Crawley in the cup though.

I saved the game with a name change.2 nil win.

I think we will win 2-0

You're not in I'm a Celebrity are you??

2-2 with us losing badly at home in the replay.

I would like to point out to those who think we'll win, I'm taking my father in law. His record for live games is 0-1-8. And I think the only goal he's seen us score was a Blair Sturrock 10 incher at home v Barnet.

Can you go in the home end then please?

That tetchy about this one, I've started drinking now to get the beer jacket on.

Should be plenty of feeds online for this, I'll have a look around before kick off and post them up on here if anyone wants to watch it whos staying in and hasnt got ESPN

http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=96020&part=sports

All of a sudden really not looking forward to this. I can see us embarasing ourselves on tele.

We gotta put some positivity into the universe! We can do this!

A cold friday night away to the confrence table toppers who scored 7 in their last game against a struggling league one side who cant defend for shit. It's hand written for the FA cup. I'm not overly confident.

Don't worry.  I have a sneaking feeling that we might just cause an upset this evening.  It's the magic of the Cup!

I'm actually feeling a little less miserable now, I think we'll win this quite comfortably.

Yeh were underdogs to confence side! It really has got that bad.

I should probably start drinking soon.

The pub i'll probably go to watch it in has karaoke at 9. Something to take the mind off should things go pear shape

You have to do Elvis, Can't Help Falling in Love.

Our record in televised FA Cup games is p4 w0 d0 l4

I do think that has got to end sometime....just not tonight.

Every single odd and omen is stacked against us.

Just leaving. COYR (Please!)

:D

God this thread is depressing - I enjoyed that, thanks.

We can't control the result but we can make some noise

COYR!

Fuck knows what the score will be. A classic game for the cameras. What I do know is that this will make or break my weekend. I'm not very confident but I hope to be surprised as I was when we dicked Plymuff.

Anyone in London who is interested in coming along to the Aldgate Exchange tonight (nearest Tube: Aldgate East) with the London Reds and Swindon exiles, please join us for a few beers and a win! 

It's t-shirt weather down here, it will be like playing in Barbados!

Was thinking about that earlier. Our TV record in the FA Cup is indeed awful to say the least. Also our record against lower league or non league opposition away from home is dire as well. Really don't fancy us tonight tbh.

And you changed my password too you twat. Meaning I couldn't log in. Thanks.

Scorchio! Half Moon in 30 mins

Stuck at fucking any links for football

I could think of hundreds of things it would be worse stuck with!

You should probably change my name back, because every time I try and do it, it deactivates my account. Twat.

If you didn't want your name changed you shouldn't have made the thread

You lot are so superstitious. If we win it won't be because of tonga fola it will be because of coca fola.  ;)

Alright guys do you know where the games showing tonight? Are they showing it in the legeneds lounge? If not merlin?

Hi Ryan.

They are showing it in both those pubs

Right, off round my mates for this. Here we go then...

Narrow victory, or at the least a draw.

I put a fiver on crawley winning. I can't lose.

Unless it's a draw

Come on Town....down the Moonrakers now.....really would be a big boost us winning tonight.
Nice away day in January to look forward to.

I don't want to watch this. I'm not entirely sure why, but I'm gonna fuck this off me thinks.

  :beers: :beers:

Me too - and the clubs only 100yds away  :(

Beer is indeed the only answer.

Cant ever remember being less confident about a game against a non league team.

On the contrary, I've decided so many of the omens are against us that we're going to win by about eight goals.

After all, the signs pointed to win against Rochdale and Notts County.

Come on Town.

You know what, you saying something good like that is just what I need, because that's clearly half the trouble. There's so much pessimism on this forum of late, my eternal optimism is being dampened by a brute force attack of: "this is shit", "we're shit", "Wilson out", "Charlie's leaving", "[insert name] is shit." :D  :beers:

You can't change your name. You still login with your old name and what not. Nothing's changed apart from your appearance!

To be fair, [insert name] is anonymous whenever he plays, I can understand calling him shit.

No Douglas apparently, JPM to come in. Pericard seems to be back in as well, but not official yet. Ball not allowed to play still.

New commentator I think.

wow Fola took the name change well,i'll change it back after :)

twat

Feeling nervous.It being on tv is making it worse,at least its not ITV i suppose.

Come on lads,please!

although i just bought a 4 bottle wine box so I might be asleep by 9.

Smith, Caddis, Cuthbert, Morrison, Rose, McGovern, Ritchie, Timlin, Prutton, Pericard, Austin


Lucas, Lecs Sheehan, Amankwaah and Dossevi amongst the subs. Glad to see Caddis actually playing right back, if we're going to pay decent money for him he needs a run.

why the fuck is rose playing

Crawley manager looks like a fat Bobby Davro

Magic toes.

Hey yeovil I'm having pizza and wine too! We are food buddies.

Good quality link : http://www.veetle.com/index.php/channel/view#4cef754f1bfe3
it'l probably be turned off by the start of play.

hahahaha at john barnes looking freezing.

Not sure I like JPM in the middle! Which according to ESPN he is with Timlin on the right.

Me thinks that's wrong.

Good evening everybody.

Sounds like Crawley's Comet is about to strike earth, I hope we've all got a nice view for the 'end of the world'.

 ???

And it won't let me change the "my name how it appears to others" bit.

No cos changing peoples names wouldn't be fun if they could change it back

Someone change his name to flammablecunt please. Ta.

Can anyone else hear "It's the end if the world as we know it (and I feel fine)" playing in their heads? No, just me?

Call him a sodding crook you wusses, it's a fact.

i have new love for timlin and those dance moves

Timlin dancing  :D

Hopefully not the highlight of the night!

I soapy tit wank'ed a lot at this.

Classic dance moves from Timlin and Danny also seems to be taking part in Movember?

Lou Macari is just as worried as we are.

Or realistic.

fuck it, payday so I've subscribed just to watch us get dicked

Someone needs to tell Timlin that Hitler called and he wants his side parting back.

fucking adverts wills omeone shout when it actually swtarts?

Black kit, we'll be OK (I hope.....)

Now that's dedication!!

Richard Herring is bringing back the 'tache while Timlin is doing the side-parting... and about time I say.

The styles were innocent!

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its on HD :D

dodgy keeper

Is it over yet... I can't look.

I'm abandoning watching, I don't like it :)

Me too.

Who's commentating on RS? This answer will decide what I do next.

Yeay! I love long ball football(!)

Is it just me or do we not look very good?

Scrappy and morrisson looks shakier than
shakin Stevens!

Did you have a nice holiday under that rock Barnard?

We appear to have lost the ability to pass a ball along the ground.  They look far brighter than us, still the black kit will come good.

It's not just you.

Pitch looks a bit slippery, you can see that causing problems for both teams

ooooh austin

That was a better bit of play. First chance for either team, just over by Sir Charles.

Thought you weren't watching?

Luckily Caddis is hoofing if to no one whenever he gets the ball.

Phew, what a relief.

Very dodgy keeper!

Cor, Kuipers is shit.

 keeper :hmmm: :hmmm: :eek:

Extremely

Very. How did he make so many league appearances?

That could be our only hope

Just dawned on me Cuthbert looks like Plug from the Bash Street Kids.

Danny Wilson's tache is delightfully dodgy.

Close

OOOH

Post!

Ritchie hits the post, Kuipers head and the post again!

Lucky keeper though

Twice!

Lucky twat.

FFS stupid post head post.

Bout sums up our recent luck.

Yet ref and lino missed the corner.

Looking a bit more controlled and exerting a bit of pressure.  Now just need a goal!

wtf no corner?

Caddis seriously hasnt played a pass along the floor yet, its really getting on my tits.

"Honesty from Steve Evans, wouldn't expect anything else."

Was this chap his defense lawyer?

You've referred to Caddis' form twice and likened Cuthbert to Plug from the Beano.

Me thinks you'll never holiday in Scotland ;)

does that steve evans and these commentators think he is the daddy of the conference managers :smugfu:

sexy football

You mean apart from the two up the line to JP & then Timlin in the build up for Ritchie's shot that hit the post

Fat cunt isn't he.

I want to see a Rose free kick against this keeper.

Or better still, around him.

wilson looks abit nervous

Is it me or do we look poor?

Peri's doing well.

Failure to progress will be significant.

They were scuffed long passes  :D

Finding it hard to get into a rhythm. We look the most likely, but 0-0 with our defence.....

Not really conditions for total football is it? Any goal will do. I actually think Caddis has done alright so far.

:D

Brodie is one ugly cunt.

richard brodie has the face of a five year old

Not sure the ref is going to give us much is he.

He's already missed the corner & now a foul on Ritchie on the edge of the box

For fucks sake. Charlie Austin is never giong to socre again

must be scottish

Fuckit. Unlucky Charlie.

Ritchie had lost control and was already going down.  Agree about the corner though.

That's it JP. Looked like his old self there.

More wine than pizza then.

I suffer from wine induced dyslexia sometimes.

Do we know if our chairman has bothered to attend?

H/T. We were the better team. Not much in it.

Is this in widescreen or do Crawley have some of the fatest, most atavistic looking bunch of knuckle dragging monobrows since Piltdown man stopped stalking the Earth.

HT. We've had the better chances. Not a very good game.

cracking first half :zzz:

Quite happy with that so far, unlucky not to be winning.

Frankly Crawley have created fuck all. We should be ahead. Lets not regret not taking some of those chances.

Crawley look an awful side - they are there for the taking.

Ooh get you.

That's my thinking too.

That bite sure looks tastey.

We are well on top. Have Crawley had a shot yet? Just gotta keep up the momentum in the 2nd half.

Agreed mate.

We've been pretty unlucky so a bit more pressure and we should be OK.  Black kit looks good

I especially like the red bit on the back. Looks very good, as did the black kit we had a few years ago.

so were daggenham,yeovil, shall i continue :D

How many Swindon there do you reckon? 500?

Im glad we've decided against the red socks this time out.

Yeh bout that, maybe a bit more.

Pitch looks hard.

jesus. crawley come out fighting

Save "PAul" Smith

Good work Paul.

"Paul Smith"  :doh:

 :eek:

"Excellent stop by Paul Smith"

Good commentary as usual.  ::)

Excellent stop by "Paul Smith"

We did have a Paul Smith once didn't we?

Wiltshire sound didn't make that mistake

Not liking the start of this half.

There was a keeper called Paul Smith at Notts Forest and Soton for a bit. Paul Evans was the guy you're thinking of I think.

Crawley looking much brighter.

Fuck sake Town, turn up in the second half please you bunch of fucking cunts.......

No I'm sure we had a midfielder called Paul Smith on loan once.

Lads, relax.  We have this in the bag.

You are right, short term deal not loan. Had to google, can't remember him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Smith_%28footballer_born_1971%29

in the mailbag?

I think we'll win.

Never prouder of our boys.

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Scored 4 in 5 games from midfield.

Was he the one that scored against Wrexham with a free kick?

Isn't he the big bald bloke who used to be Gillingham captain? I liked him.

No that was Paul Evans.

That was Paul Evans.

Any chance that our boys will start playing in the second half anytime soon?

McGovern needs to up his game as does Prutton as our midfield are away with the fucking fairies

I fucking hope so.....

Interesting match, about rime for a tactical substitution.

Christ on a bike! We're getting murdered!

Its looking a bit dangerous for us right now.

It's coming isn't it.

What a waste from McGovern.

JP doesn't seem to know his own strength when crossing into the box  :doh:

Yup

Yep, 29 days, and the Coca Cola advert has been on......

oh you better watch out
you better not cry
you better not pout
i am telling you why

Santa claus is comming to town,


Oh wait, you meant a goal didn't you?

Ferry on for Timlin, McGovern on the right Ferry and Prutts in the middle, Ritchie on the left.

Nice experience from Prutton there.

About to catch that lot on the break ...

Corrected for you.

Still time for that 8 0 win I called...

Does cold air make the ball travel further as we are overhitting everything

Is the pitch very narrow, it seems all our crosses are being over-hit

Not if we play corners like that it won't be...

Cock piss ref.

I think we're just shit.

Wha happened?

I ruddy knew it.

This isn't commentary on ESPN, its just describing and saying the odd name. Quite....slowly.

get in Austin!

Goal! Austin!

Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal

Charlie Charlie Austin.
Charlie Charlie Austin.

'Ave it!

Who else!

YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It had to be!

Have that.  :toocool:

Get in

oh yes!

I'm claiming that goal.

Charlie Charlie Austin

Terrific skill as well, turn and bottom corner volley, magic.

Could Charlie Austin be the NASA of our Armageddon?

Told you we were looking good!

Well done Charlie!!

Nice one Charlie, good finish

Could this be the start of a goal-fest?  ;)

Watch the fucking ref abandon the game for a frozen pitch now :(

we should definitely sit back and try and hold on now.

steve evans is a wanker is a wanker

Now that is a true goal scorers goal.  Get 'fookin' in lads!

Don't know who our fans are they but they don't know the mean of hubris do they?

I'll stop swearing. For now.

20 mins left. Sit back or go for another?

Ha ha you'll be lucky to get anyone biting.... :fishing:

We still need another one

Shot goes out for a throw on the other side- Eric Sabin as shooting coach?

Dosser on, Peri off,.

"Crawley till I die"  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Oh bugger, Austin injured.

And Ritchie twatted,

But everyone is OK.

Cheating cunt.

Wow there really is a Row Z?

fuck

fuck fuck fuck

McGovern isn't at the races tonight, or is it just me?

Fuck fuck fucking cunt.

Gay

Cuntchops.

fuck

Cuntfuck

1-1?

;)

matt Fucking Tubbs. For fucks sake.]

Good finish mind.

good goal mind, fuckoff evans

Terrific shot, outside of his foot, but still, fucksticks.

Okay negative posters who lurk in the shadows.....

TYPE.

Fuck it

McGovern has been woeful tonight.

JP doing an AOB tribute show tonight?

Oh god are we going to do a swindon collapse?

Yes we are.

I'm starting to become a very depressed town fan

Sheehan on.

It's all Crawley now

Sheehan for Rose....

We're doomed!

TBF the whole midfield has been poor in the second half.

So let's bring on a left back :no:

The midfield are not performing at all so the defence is shipping too much pressure,  We should be passing around and showing a bit of class.  Before anyone else says it McGovern isn't Douglas and now we're up against it because they'll start shitting their pants in defence.  To let that ex-Salisbury twat score is a sickener

"That's great, it starts with an earthquake...."

Nipped out for a smoke and to get another beer and wtf happens

The Crawley striker Brodie looks like a frigging monkey.

Not sure what Ferry has done to let Timlin get ahead of him in the team.

Time to nick another goal at the death.

It's okay - they are doing the 1-nil and you fucked it up song! That is always a good move...

Oh dear JP

Only when Swindon sing it, I bet

Dossevi just might be the answer

What a mouthful their sub's name is

Neilson should have been left on.

And Steve Evans thinks they've loaned him from QPR.

Fucks sake JP

I know it's been said before, but I just have to add that Brodie is definitely ugly.

hahahahahahah Bell-Baggie

I can judge the gloomy mood without anybody posting much :(

shown a clean pair of heals then ::)

Bell-Baggie = bad McNamee

Ferry for McGovern.

Jedward on for JPM

More fascinated Ben. It's a great game.

Ladies and gentleman... the 90th minute beckons.

God speed.

2 mins left, is it time for us to let in the late goal yet?

Ferry on- about bloody time.

Oh FFS...Cmon!!!

In the hope of something happening I'm going to go buy some fags.

15 seconds....

Fuck all happening

Meh.

Hasn't Steve Evans got a massive arse?

Sucks to be STFC Dave.

Were in the 3rd round.

I am kind of relieved not to have slipped up on the banana skin. 3 games in a week ending in a tricky tie at a non-league ground was never going to be easy.

Not lets give 'em a slapping at the CG.

At least we're still in the cup.

I'm disappointed at how poor we looked for the entire game. Struggled to put 2 passes together. All a bit hoof ball. Little creativity, little threat up front and lots of hope that the ball would fall to Austin or Morrison from a set piece.

Fucking awful result... no positives at all from that. Let down yet again. Proper fed up...

Should have buried a couple in the first half, but considering it was a potential banana-skin i'm glad to get a replay.

Bit of a shitter that Crawley had 2 chances and scored with one of them, so I guess that was why Tubbs was MOTM.

1-1 is an ok result, even if the performance wasn't that great.

As said, at least we can watch the 3rd round draw with some interest

Not ideal but IT'S NOT A LOSS. Result wise, it could have been much, much worse.

no words can explain how i feel only these  :suicide:  :badmood:  :crash: :blowup:

Good point Batch.  Would be good to think we'll get a big crowd and get behind the team.

For once lets all look at the positives (if we dare).
We didn't get spanked! thats the main thing, potential banana skin avoided after a truly bad week
We should have our first choice rightback and captain available for the replay
We are in the hat!
If we get a good draw the replay will more than likely be shown on tv again so more cash there

Really though?

League is where it's at right? We're not going to win the F.A. Cup: This is a distraction.

Crawley aren't plumbers and postman - we should still be winning these but we're in a rut and we didn't lose.

Pretty dire game to be honest.  We should have been leading at half time (how many times have we heard that this season?), but after taking the lead failed to hold on to it (how many times have we heard that this season as well?)

Not enough football played and again we were short of ideas.  Glad not to have been beaten, but as Charlie mentioned the replay is an additional game we could do without.

Oh and final point, Steve Evans looks like a dodgy used car salesman!

The gaps between midfield and upfront were alarming.

Pericard and Austin played too far apart from eachother as well.

Defence did well, Crzawley didnt look like scoring and it took a super goal for them to get a goal

Unbeaten thread starter!  :)
Looks like I'm gonna be Tonga Fola for another week.  :suicide:

Let's all do the Tonga Fola, la la, la,la

People need to gain perspective. We played shit on Tuesday, and for the third time in a week had to travel away from home. Add to this that it was against a non-league side on a friday night, in front of the tv cameras on a freezing evening/pitch, I think 1-1 is a fair result.

We didn't play particularly well but I think we did enough to win it. But to be fair their goal was very well taken and it's a bit of a kick in the teeth.

We're still in the cup though, after Tuesday's performance, most were expecting to be knocked out and more doom and gloom. At least thats been put off for 10 days.

Fully agree.

Just got back. Well, what can you say.

Just got back thanks to the M23 being closed northbound, lovlely!

We were pretty poor and tbh i am pretty happy with a draw.

First half we were the better team and were unlucky not to go in ahead. The pitch was a difficult one to play on with players sliding all over the palce. We played far too much hoofball and never got our passing game going.

Second half, they came into a bit more and started to get behind us a bit. We still look shakey at the back but I thought it helped having Scotty back in the middle. Austin took his goal well after a long period of pressure but onece again we cannot hold out for the win.

Overall, we all knew it was going to be tricky, being the FA cup n'all. Im very happy with a draw, we rode our luck at time but went to a tricky place, played against a good team and got a good draw, also means we are in the draw and if its a big tie, it should motivate the players for the replay.

Also, not sure what happened but before the game (about 6:30) there was a sudden rush of people to dugouts where they started trying to resusitate someone (possibly a steward). Not sure what happened after that as they put up boards to cover the scene. Did they mention anything on tele?

It was also the coldest i have ever been. Anywhere. Also saw Jon Barnes and Lou Macari which was nice.

Seeing someone get chased across the road and rugby talked to the floor by the police after the game was also quite amusing.

So yeh, good result and we have every chance of beating them at the CG and hopefully getiing a good third round tie.

By christ that was cold....and shite.

I still cant feel my toes.

I cant feel anything and I'm dying for a piss.

so you can feel something then  8)

First of all well done on the Town fans who went tonight,,brilliant and a credit to the club..wish i was there.
Sorry chaps there is a lot of negative comments regarding the match....now i have had a few beers but i was pleased in the main.
Cuthbert and Morrison were outstanding..Pericard and Austin look good also.
For me though the midfield let us down....JPM,Prutton and Timlin just didn't get going though they did work hard,
Good result for me and i for one is looking forward to the draw on Sunday.

Yeh first half we were ok. 2nd half wasn't so good, but you wouldn't believe how cold it was, can't have been easy to play out there, the pitch was freezing over before our eyes. Good turnout from our fans. Dont believe the official figures, there were guys selling comps for a tenner in the half moon that would have counted as home tickets. Not a bad ground at alloverall , and the bogs were lovely and warm. Stewards let us out for a half time fag so top marks there also. minus marks for letting their little chavvy boys to one end, they'll need to learn a lesson there if they go up, and the catering although the effort was there 2 people in what was really an indoor hot dog stand won't cut it either. All in all though pretty good, been to far worse grounds certainly at league teams.

No and that's the problem!

I put a fiver on crawley winning, as a safey net. this was the worst result

the 4 in midfield were wank, as were morrison and rose. we deserved to win over the full 90, but we just cannot defend. tubbs figured out morrison and rose are awful - play inbetween them and pick up all the lovely free space of grass

oh well. we SHOULD win the replay. whether we will or not is a different matter.

Finally, wtf has ferry done to piss wilson off. Timlin seems like a lovelly fella, and I can't faul his effort. But he is frankly not good enough. Ferry gives a billion% everytime he plays, yet isd on th bench because of the cockney mick. sort it out danny

Has your hamster died recently Dave? I'm only asking because you seem to have turned into a right miserable cunt recently.

Enjoyed the first half, good atmosphere and a good laugh. Second half was more nervy and I was relieved in all honesty to come away with a draw.

Those that are suicidal because we drew with non league opposition: remember Histon?

Its a good result. It was all set up for a Crawley win and we didn't oblige. I thuoght we were the better team over 90 mniutes and created more chances. I don't think either team played well but its a Cup tie on a freezing cold Friday night in front of the cameras.
I thuoght Prutton played well and was my MOM. He was about the only player who was challenging on the edge of their box and his header led to our goal. Ritchie had a good first half.
Now the negatives. JPM didn't turn up last night - a couple of decent crosses and a couple of crap crosses. It was a bad day at the office for him and he has not looked very good this season. Now for the 2 chances they had - where was Rose? Do his free kicks and occasional class cross outweigh that defensively he really is bad?
I'm happy to be in the draw and hopefully we can finish the job off at the CG.
Oh and Steve Evans really is a cunt. 

Timlin's been doing well in the last few games. A lot of fans have been saying play the players who are performing and rightly so.

If they slip up on form, give other players a chance.

as somebody said earlier  - fat bobby davro, he's just a fat bobby davro

I have a headache

I have also noticed that he has become a bit of a badass on TEF in the last month or so :)

Well like many i watched the game on the TV i thought we dominated the first half and should have been in front, second half they where always going to come at us
Overall a good result lets all remember Friday Night live, away to 2nd top in their league ,we all would have taken the draw before the game
When is the reply

^^ as said i watched it on TV and thought we played ok.

It was all set up for a cup upset but we stuck too it and got through what was a tough tie.
Crawley are no mugs and are doing well in the conference.

only two players for me who were poor was Prutton and Rose.

My team for next week would either have Duggie in for Prutton or Play Ferry instead with Timlin as the holding player. then obviously Sheehan at left back.

I'm a realist (TM DV85 circa 2006).

Tbf, the reason the midfield looked so lost was because both sides seemed intent to miss out on them for the majority of the game. Our delivery into the box was woefull though - Mcgovern needs a long hard look at himself. Fair enough if Timlins been playing well, I've not been to the recent away games so can't comment, then yeah he deserves his place to start. But when you have a player of ferrys quality, and you aren't exactly blowing the opposition away as we were last night, then why give him 3 minutes? Whats he got to do to get a place.

Morrisons started believing his own hype, and Rose only plays for his set pieces.

Like has been said though, a draw isn't the worst result in the world and on another day we would have won that by a couple. At least we're in the hat, and we should do 'em on our turf

He's only recently returned to fitness though Dave. It's pretty fucking obvious why he's being eased into the team.

I'm far from his biggest fan, but I thought he did OK last night - though I only watched the game on TV. There was a lack of communication between him an Rose for the goal though.

Hold my hands up, thought he was fully fit (or near it) by now  :-[

Spot on. We had a lot of things going against us last night and it could have gone a lot worse and could have been a lot more embarrassing. A draw is a good result.

That was ok. Awful surface to try and play football on and it only got worse as the night wore on.

Thought Vince did really well, alot was sticking to him and he laid it off to a player in black more often than not. Charlie took his goal well and our CBs were pretty solid throughout. Couldn't get anything going in midfield and JPM looked to have one of his poorest games for a while.

Great finish from Tubbs.

Thought Tubbs looked a useful striker, forced one excellent save from Smith and his finish was top class. Worth a punt perhaps?

Almost no football played last night, conditions weren't really suited for flowing football and we were dragged into a scrap. Thought Pericard held the ball up well but more often than not had bugger all to give it to and was forced to play it back a lot. Thought Austin looked sharp and took his chance well. Nobody else 'shone' for me.

Still, we still have a chance to progress and we'll be in the draw tomorrow.

I swear some people don't understand football. Some right tards over on the facebook page saying that Vince shouldn't have started and he offered nothing. I truly despair. I know everyone is entitled to an opinion. But that right should be revoked for some.

Well there's a surprise

To be fair there are some decent posters on there. But true enough... it is facebook after all...

It's like the Adver site, too many dickheads to make it worth bothering IMO

Mmm. They really hate Pericard on there. Despite the fact that without him last night we'd have been alot worse off. I thought he played really well. Funny what some people see...

Dissapointed with the performance but not so much with the result. I think in some ways we set our stall out to try and play for a draw at times and that really restricted them. We didn't really let them play which was a positive thing I guess. If we had done that we'd have been hammered or at least lost the game.

I thought the front 2 were OK. Didn't do much wrong. Charlie took his goal well. We had chances to score in the first half that really should have been taken to be honest. Charlie with that one that Kuipers saved from the cross and the Ritchie shot that hit the post then hit the back of the keeper and then the post again before going out and wasn't even given as a corner. Couldn't believe that decision.

Other than that though it was pretty poor from us. Can someone tell Caddis that everytime he gets the ball at RB he doesn't have to hoof it? For me there was too much hoof from the full backs and centre backs and the midfield was never in the game. We didn't see any runs from Prutton because he barely had the ball. I think there was only really 1 or 2 good moves that we showed when we got the ball down and passed across the midfield. We need to do it more. Other than being pleased we avoided the banana skin (for now at least anyway) I didn't really see much from us that would warrant getting my hopes up that we will pick up anytime soon. A better side than Crawley would have probably taken the initiative a bit more in a game like that. Maybe they were a little nervous to have a proper go at us?

We now have 3 games coming up that are very tricky. Wednesday at home who are one of the best sides in this league IMO and in good form as well. Then there's this replay which won't be easy and then Oldham away which is never a good game for us and a team going well too. Not looking forward to this month if i'm being honest.

Was'nt bad and i enjoyed my piss up style viewing at Victor Mildews pad.

We were shocked at the total lack of of midfield....it was just not there. I cannot even have my usual pop at Prutton as they were all woeful.   JPM's terrible cross in the second half summed it up.

Ritchies shot off the post and keepers head is really why it isnt happening for us....last season that would of gone in.  The Lino needs fucking for not giving a corner, made himself look a right cunt on telly for that.

Both goals were good, scored by players that were mostly missing during the game.

I would of left on Vince and taken off Austin. With no midfield as soon as he went off we had zero outlet.

Hopefully turn em over at our place and we're in the hat!!

Was going to take in a game today....but fuck it....too cold.

Interestingly (or not, depending on how you like this sort of thing), this is the first time we've drawn an away FA cup tie since 1991, when we drew with leyton orient. We won the replay 1-0

1 ARSENAL
2 ASTON VILLA
3 BARNSLEY
4 BIRMINGHAM CITY
5 BLACKBURN ROVERS
6 BLACKPOOL
7 BOLTON WANDERERS
8 BRISTOL CITY
9 BURNLEY
10 CARDIFF CITY
11 CHELSEA
12 COVENTRY CITY
13 CRYSTAL PALACE
14 DERBY COUNTY
15 DONCASTER ROVERS
16 EVERTON
17 FULHAM
18 HULL CITY
19 IPSWICH TOWN
20 LEEDS UNITED
21 LEICESTER CITY
22 LIVERPOOL
23 MANCHESTER CITY
24 MANCHESTER UNITED
25 MIDDLESBROUGH
26 MILLWALL
27 NEWCASTLE UNITED
28 NORWICH CITY
29 NOTTINGHAM FOREST
30 PORTSMOUTH
31 PRESTON NORTH END
32 QUEENS PARK RANGERS
33 READING
34 SCUNTHORPE UNITED
35 SHEFFIELD UNITED
36 STOKE CITY
37 SUNDERLAND
38 SWANSEA CITY
39 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
40 WATFORD
41 WEST BROMWICH ALBION
42 WEST HAM UNITED
43 WIGAN ATHLETIC
44 WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS
45 SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY OR NORTHAMPTON TOWN
46 BURTON ALBION OR CHESTERFIELD
47 HUDDERSFIELD TOWN OR MACCLESFIELD TOWN
48 AFC WIMBLEDON OR STEVENAGE
49 HARTLEPOOL UNITED OR YEOVIL TOWN
50 BURY OR PETERBOROUGH UNITED
51 NOTTS COUNTY OR AFC BOURNEMOUTH
52 DROYLSDEN OR LEYTON ORIENT
53 CRAWLEY TOWN OR SWINDON TOWN
54 BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION OR FC UNITED OF MANCHESTER
55 SOUTHAMPTON OR CHELTENHAM TOWN
56 TORQUAY UNITED OR WALSALL
57 CHARLTON ATHLETIC OR LUTON TOWN
58 COLCHESTER UNITED OR SWINDON SUPERMARINE
59 HEREFORD UNITED OR LINCOLN CITY
60 PORT VALE OR ACCRINGTON STANLEY
61 WYCOMBE WANDERERS OR CHELMSFORD CITY
62 CARLISLE UNITED OR TAMWORTH
63 DOVER ATHLETIC OR ALDERSHOT TOWN
64 DARLINGTON OR YORK CITY

my views;driving through Crawley is worse than driving through London(took the wrong junction!)I dont have high expectations of football ground fare,but that was truly the worst food/drink I have ever tasted-dried up sausage rolls that were inedible,chips overdone to within an inch of their potato lives and hot chocolate that looked and tasted like an abattoirs effluent (probably).The game weren't that bad considering my expectations were pretty much zero.Ritchie looked dangerous,Pericard's touch and hold up play was really good-the way he took down some of the long balls that were played to him was top class,totally do not understand his substitution after going 1-0 up.christ-some fans were moaning at him for not attempting to go for a shit cross from JPM that was out of play ffs!JPM was poor apart from 1 brilliant cross in the first half.Prutton I thought was anonymous-dont think he touched the ball for the first 20 mins of the second half.Timlin was busy and worked his arse off-no complaints about him.Austin missed a sitter but took his goal brilliantly-great celebration right by us.Smith brought off a blinding save from Tubbs and did nothing wrong.Scott Cuthbert was almost back to his best at CH-he must never play right back again surely?However I have to say Morrison needs to be rested-he is a liability at the moment Im afraid.He looks totally out of form,partly at fault for the goal and horrendously almost cost us another by being caught dithering on the edge of our box.
  My first game since Plymouth at home and I was a little bit shocked by the hostility toward Wilson and Pericard-some bloke said"this is the worst side we've ever had"and he was older than me!Tails' duck head was brilliant-what an improvement.

23 is my number so man city away it is...****if**** we get through

Just got back, pretty gutted I spent 100 odd quid for that last night, it was pretty wank all round, although if it wasn't on TV I'm convinced it would have been off.

Opinions Opinions. I thought Pericard was shit and lazy, but I always think Pericard is shit and lazy and I also bum Dossevi so I'm probably wrong.

Morrison can only head a football. Cuthbert was immense, and showed exactly why it's a really good idea to play your best CB at CB. Thought Caddis done more than enough to get the nod and a run in the team. JPM and Rose were absolute dogshit, and I expect Sheehan to start next week.

Their fans were hilariously chavvy and it looks like the Old Bill have a bit of an ongoing issue from what I've heard.

Overall, it was great to head to London, meet up with some old mates and have a few beers, but if I hadn't had a ticket I would have been happy sitting in the pub because it was a dreadful game thanks to the surface, our complete lack of confidence and strange selection and their direct manner.

Still, would have taken a draw, but any kind of enjoyment or entertainment would have been good.

And Watford away please.

The adver MOM Prutton?.......idiots,did ok but MOM.

To be fair i thought Perricard played well last night.

The abuse Pericard got last night was shocking. Some fans abuse him for everything that went wrong. It affects him, as he kept his head down while attacking the Town fans. If he scored, I bet the hypocrites would've charged the front. dicks.

Well i thought he was our best player in the first half....his style of play looks lazy which dosn't help his cause.

His touch and ball control was brilliant considering the conditions and we were a lot worse of when he was subbed,thats for sure.

Agreed.

You guys saw it too?!!?

I thought I must've been imagining it the amount of shite spewing forth from some quarters.

I thought this as well.

You're not wrong.

With the conditions i thought the players showed a good application.

I felt sorry for Pericard,because he and Charlie were often isolated and he had to deal with a real
lack of quality service.

With Prutton playing so deep,Pericard often had no runnner or support player from midfield who he
could try and bring into the game.

What's the point of abusing players when they are trying? Give some of them some support and
encouragement please!

I thought he was rubbish.




(not really)

I wholeheartedly agree.

I thought it took Pericard about 20 mins to get into the game, but he got and held the ball up well. I just wish he could use his height a bit more and win a few more headers.

And, I forgot to mention, that Steve Evans is a fat cunt.

I'm not a Pericard fan, but I thought he did okay last night.  He was using his strength more than I've seen in other games and seemed to be holding the ball up better as well.

Unfortunately due to the fact that he generally hasn't performed that well for Swindon, he'll always tend to get singled out by the boo boys when we're not doing so well.  On the other side of the coin however, you may have thought that would spur him on to do better to silence them?

JPM was the biggest disappointment, I don't think his name was even mentioned until just before half time?  It's a real shame after being one of our consistent players last season. 

Rose was shocking and got caught out a couple of times. Morrison was poor and kept giving the ball away, sometimes in dangerous positions. JPM had a bad game. Prutton and Timlin got bypassed for too often. Ritchie was ok but not at his best. Austin and Pericard suffered from a lack of good service.

I spent the train journey back to London wondering why I'd bothered. I suppose it was worth it for the banter with the Crawley fans.

"You lost at Wembley, you lost at Wembley"
"We lost at Wembley, you lost at Newport..."

We got through a difficult cup tie. The pitch looked to be getting harder and slippier all night and we came away with no injuries.

Austin goal/celebration looked brilliant on Tv, and I wish I could have been there.

We are still in the Cup, looking forward to the draw.

I just couldn't understand why "Juve Juve number 9" didn't take off?

morrison is overated.if someone is offering money then sell.use the money for an experienced centre back

Agree with that ribs.

JPM & Pericard were very disappointing IMO. The rest did ok in difficult circumstances in difficult conditions, happy to get them back to the County Ground. Douglas would have won that game for us.

Somebody tell me what the fuck has happened to JP since last season? Worst player on the pitch by a country mile and should be ashamed when watching his performance back against players that should be struggling to deal with him but instead made him look like an overweight unfit pub player, with the first touch and delivery of a rapist!  If I were him I would be embarrassed and if I were Wilson he would be in the reserves for a while!

I thought VP did more than ok!

He held the ball up pretty well and brought the midfield into the game.  I felt when he got taken off and Dossevi came on we struggled to get hold of the ball and that in no small part contributed the equiliser!

I expect us to win at a canter at the CG though!

Thought your chant (That was picked up by loads around us) was better. When they sang 'Crawley Till I Die, I'm Crawley Till I Die....', we responded with 'Crawley Till Half Nine, You're Crawley till Half Nine....'

My offering, 'They're Here, They're There, They're Every Fucking Where, Plastic Fans, Plastic Fans'
was also well received (If I say so myself, which I do).

Really nice to see Birdy again too. Sussex came with her but I wasn't that bothered about him.

I get that a lot.

Just saw that fat tax dodger interviewed saying that we'd scored against the run of play! Cholesterol level so high they are obscuring your eyes you gutbucket!

Did you notice the commentator of the highlights on ITV said that "He had made a name for himself at Boston"?

Yeah, as a fat crook and a cunt.

Bollox......everyone on here dont rate him except me....so how is he over rated.
Good player now....will get better in time...........always been the trend to slag our young players.
Cant say i have seen many better 19 year olds at the club.

Thats very true, once crooked always crooked!

Did the Crawley fans do a chant about Austin a couple of times as well after he'd had chances.  Couldn't catch what they were saying though?

i think his level is league 1. touch and distribution will not improve,neither will his pace(or lack of)
i'm not slagging him off at all.i just think if there are clubs after him we should sell.

arriba........we cant keep selling!...may not be the finished article but we will go no ware by keep selling..

sell to buy.like i said in the first post

Another great quote by the fat crook from The Football League Paper :

'I think Tubbs is better than Austin, but the difference is Austin is 21,Tubbs is 26. If Tubbs was 21 he'd be long gone to the Championship.'

What a load of bollox !!! Someone's been on the whisky.

If Tubbs could score 30 goals in 12 months at League One level, then he would have played more than 8 games of league football by the age of 26. Does Evans get some weird pleasure out of making everybody thinks he's a tard?

Tubbs has always been flitting around that level and there must be a reason why the Football League has had little interest?

I imagine this season will see Tubbs earn a Football League move if Crawley don't go up.

Better than Charlie though? Tubbs would have to prove himself in the Football League (L1 level) before you can make such comments.

If he was better than Charlie, he wouldn't be playing for Crawley, whether he was 21 or 31

I accept that footballers slip the net but Tubbs has been at that level for a good while now.

Austin is proven at this level. Evans is being ridiculous :)

I didn't get to watch the match in the end after it took us 7 [SEVEN] hours to get to Scarborough. Sounds like I didn't miss much.

Austin is 10 times better than Tubbs.

Fully agree. Tubbs has been at Conference level for about 4 years, but no FL club has thought he was good enough for the next level.

And with the one chance he did get in the Football League, he scored 1 goals in 8 appearances on loan at Bournemouth in 2008 in league 2, still no where near being better than Austin!

Big mouth Evans always will talk total shite.

One of the biggest wankers ever to blight football.

Now lets wipe that smile off his face.

http://www.twohundredpercent.net/?p=8698

Didn't realise his history was that much tainted.

He's the story how Evans helped cover up the illegal payments :

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/league-two/3040461/Seedy-truth-that-lies-behind-the-shaming-of-a-football-club.html

How the hell did Boston get such  light punishment from all that?

Dont see what the problem is.

They only forgot to put an extra 0 on the form to the FA. :D

No idea. 4 points punishment is fuck all compared to our demotion in 1990.

The question is how the hell did Evans and Malkinson not get banned for life, as they deliberately tried to cover it all up through threats and more backhanders.

who cares,its history,get over it

I like the bit about how a heavy turned up to the meeting and the player had to say he was his brother

I was funny how ESPN decided not to mention it at all on Friday, even though they kept on about how well he did at Boston.

I suppose with Lou there as well, it might have been a bit of a touchy subject.

No one cares.....we are discusing Yeo......look up forum under wiki,think its an old Roman word for debating in open ;)

Wonder if our program for the replay will print much of Evans history?

why isn't the don rodgers stand open it will give more attmosphere to the game

I for one am not paying those prices and have to move to the cemetery side - Mr Fitton take note!!

Not enough will show up....

Pointless.


The only thing we should do is make the Crawley lot sit on the Bank....

Unfortunately it is out of our control - FA Cup rules state that ticket prices cannot be adjusted (either up or down) to ensure that clubs don't cash in on the major ties... not AF's or the club's fault...

Adjusted up or down from where? I mean where did the £20 match day price come from.

I believe you that the clubs hands are tied, just mystified at how the pricing came about.

£20 .... bloody hell. In this weather I'll definitely give that a miss. With the Brentford JPT game and now this I'll have missed as many home games this season as I have in the previous 15 seasons.

Well, erm, no.
The clubs have to agree ticket prices, but so long as they agree on something they can charge what they like above a minimum price - which for the Second Round Proper is £10.

I think AF and co have got this wrong. Call me a pessimist, but I can't see too many people being enthralled at paying the usual price to watch Crawley Town.

Well quite. I might have been prepared to pay 20 quid (unlikely I'll grant you) to watch an unattractive replay against a deeply unattractive non-League side who are blatantly cashing in OR I might have been prepared to move from my usual seat to Colostomy Central. But not both. I'm highly unlikely to pay well over the odds to be messed about and watch a shit replay. And I don't think I'm alone in that. Which could lead to a very flat JPT-like atmosphere, and could well count against us. This could backfire badly.

I'll still go but the price is a little dissapointing I have to say.

I probably will as well, on reflection, just purely because I won't want to miss it. Although having missed the Brentford game in the JPT, it was surprisingly easy to do. And the feeling of being pissed about/overcharged to fund Crawley's "project" is proving a massive disincentive.

This is my only free evening out of 4 due to school christmas concert, works do etc.  I was planning on going, but not likely to now at that price.  Ridiculous decision to charge that much especially approaching Christmas!

The price means I will not be going

I understand why people are peeved...but why should this match be priced differently?
If we had been drawn at home its what we would have had to pay....as has been explained the club are not allowed to change it.............its unfair on the away team.
Fact is if there was a lge match on that tuesday...thats what you would have paid anyway.
Lets be honest the club are getting enough flak about on field matters(rightly so)but they have been tremendous this season on pricing...lots of deals and the season ticket offer...........unfortuanatly this decision is out of there hands.

Change it from what?

The normal match day prices.....think its because Crawley get a cut.

I heard that clubs aren't allowed to change prices, or charge less than their normal match day prices.

But I had a good read through the rules for the FA Cup and couldn't see anything that says that. It does set a minimum price for tickets dependent upon the round but otherwise it appears to be up to the two clubs involved to reach an agreement and if they can't the FA arbitrates.

Exactly. Which is what happened between Southampton and Shrewsbury in the 1st round, if you remember, the FA had to arbitrate as they couldn't agree a price and came down on Southampton's side in favour of the lower price. Don't know where people have got this idea clubs have to charge normal matchday prices from, it might be the default, but I think it's always been the case that clubs negotiate the price between themselves. Seem to remember that's what happened with our game against Forest Green a few years back, that we set a lower price with FGR's agreement, although I may be misremembering that.

Fact is Crawley charged full whack...so we are....can't complain on this in my opinion.
I know it is hard....i have to pick and choose my matches now(cup and away)....but the club have made a real effort on prices in general.

Yet if the potential fixture in the 3rd round was one of the big 4 premiership teams, nobody would be complaining.

I expected the ticket prices to be more or less the same as normal. Plus you can hardly blame the club - they drop the prices for the JPT games and the crowd is still crap (silly kick off time or not).

In fact the club have dropped prices for league games also.

Eh? What's that got to do with it? I'm one of those who's pleased with the Derby draw and assuming we get that far will be looking forward to it. But I don't see why that makes paying full whack to watch a midweek second round replay against Crawley at a time when I'm strapped for cash because of Christmas/car servicing/etc any more attractive

Of course Crawley charged full price, their fans were watching a (supposed) HIGHER standard of football than normal. But why does that mean people should pay the same price for Swindon vs Crawley as they do for Swindon vs Huddersfield/Charlton/Brighton?

The fact that so many people say the price has put them off shows exactly why the board have got it wrong. Yes they may make slightly more money this way, but if that's coupled with only 3500 turning up to watch it then it's not right.

The fact only 2 stands are opening show how unattractive it is.

Ill still go if I can mind, in the Town End. I am slightly disappointed at the pricing given its been a lot cheaper for this kind of tie in the past.

Problem is that lower cup prices have hardly led to bumper crowds in the past.

£12 for me in the Town End is alright, it'll be nice to move from my seat for once. Now where's hat half full glass...

When you pay £8.60p per match like i do...Town End season ticket then i for one am not going to grumble.....but understand peoples reactions.

As others and I have said, our cup attendances are pretty crap compared to our league attendances - even with reduced prices. Add the hype surrounding a potentially big tie the next round though and people would forget about paying a fiver more.

I guess the club have made a commercial decision, Crawley fans will be all over this fixture even at these prices. I am sure the same usual core number of town fans would attend even with a reduced price. Ok, maybe we'd get a few hundred more but at reduced prices, but less money when you think about the additional numbers achieved.

Perhaps I would understand more if the club were charging extra but they're not. It's disappointing yes, but it's not really a complete cunt of a decision.

My parents will pay for me, I'm not fussed either way. I see them as an indispensable source of money.

Don't disagree with any of that tbh. I think "disappointing" sums it up - I was just a bit taken aback. I guess I'd expected it to be more around the 15 quid mark and not to have to move. In which case, I probably wouldn't have thought twice about it, I'd have just gone, out of reflex as much as anything. As it is, I've been made to think about whether I want to break my neck getting back from work, rearrange a conference call and pay 20 quid for a game that now that I have to stopped to think about it doesn't really stir my blood too much.

And yes on reflection I agree that reduced prices wouldn't make that much difference to the gate and it does seem a bit off to complain about this one when overall the pricing this season has been fantastic. Meh. I'll probably have to go now, you've made me feel guilty. If it's a shit game, I'll hold you responsible.

It's ok Paul, I cancelled half an afternoon of work and rushed back from Enfield to watch the Brentford JPT game and didn't feel any less pissed off for doing so afterward (despite the cheap price).

I guess the quality of football or lack of will really determine the value for money element.

Not that we will be going anyway, as we struggle to get down for midweek games.

But FWIW, I would have been majorly pissed off to move from a seat with a decent view in the DRS, to a seat in the Arkels with a crap view.

That in itself would put me off, and will probably be the same for some others

But if enough fans turned up they'd open the DRS. It's a bit of a double edged sword unfortunately.

I might go to this because I have a chance to go in the TE (my season ticket is in the DRS....and I can get home quicker if we lose  :) )