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Ball 43, draw Monday 7pm on BBC 2.

Cant wait for another first round exit!

Hope its a close defeat against a league one team this time, to avoid being the laughing stock of the nation once again

Wouldn't mind a non league trip away somewhere where its decent to go on the piss. If I can get a ticket be a good chance to kick off when we inevitably lose.

1st round exit at a non league ground on TV.

Some very interesting local lower league teams left in at the moment, lets see at 5pm.

Aldershot are still in it, maybe we get them like we got Macclesfield two seasons running

Not even in jest.... :D

Away please  :pint:

Away to Scarborough Athletic with a resounding 3 - 0 defeat on't telleh.

Slough would be interesting, just to play the best team in Reading.#

Probably something uninspiring like away versus Kettering.

The runners and riders in the FA Cup 1st round proper.

1. Accrington Stanley 2. AFC Wimbledon 3. Barnsley 4. Barrow 5. Birmingham City
6. Blackpool 7. Bolton Wanderers 8. Bradford City 9. Bristol Rovers 10. Bromley
11. Burton Albion 12. Cambridge United 13. Carlisle United 14. Charlton Athletic 15. Cheltenham Town
16. Chesterfield 17. Colchester United 18. Crawley Town 19. Crewe Alexandra 20. Doncaster Rovers
21. Exeter City 22. Fleetwood Town 23. Gillingham 24. Grimsby Town 25. Harrogate Town
26. Huddersfield Town 27. Leyton Orient 28. Lincoln City 29. Mansfield Town  30. Franchise
31. Morecambe 32. Newport County 33. Northampton Town 34. Notts County 35. Peterborough United
36. Port Vale 37. Reading 38. Rotherham United 39. Salford City 40. Shrewsbury Town
41. Stevenage  42. Stockport County 43. Swindon Town 44. Tranmere Rovers 45. Walsall
46. Wigan Athletic 47. Wrexham 48. Wycombe Wanderers 49. Rushall Olympic or Peterborough Sports 50. Tamworth
51. Oldham Athletic 52. Hartlepool United or Brackley Town 53. Kettering Town 54. Altrincham or Solihull Moors 55. Rochdale
56. Scarborough Athletic 57. York City 58. Harborough Town 59. Curzon Ashton 60. Gainsborough Trinity or Boston United
61. Hednesford Town or Gateshead 62. Alfreton Town 63. Guiseley 64. Taunton Town or Maidenhead United 65. Horsham
66. Aldershot Town 67. Southend United 68. Sutton United 69. Boreham Wood 70. Weston Super Mare
71. Wealdstone 72. Dagenham & Redbridge 73. Barnet 74. Chesham United 75. Tonbridge Angels
76. Woking 77. Forest Green Rovers 78. Maidstone United 79. Worthing 80. Braintree Town

Maidstone Away please

Taunton or Weston away please.

Peterborough Sports away for me, assuming they get through their replay

Brackley away please

League side away please.

Histon
Woking
and that fucking disaster last season.....

Lincoln red imps away please

Weston away. If we slump back to poor form we can make endless 'we'll bring the donkeys' jokes

Aldershit away, payback time.

For selfish geographic reasons and for current form, Cambridge away please

Away to either:

Taunton Town/Maidenhead United (Ball 64)
or
Weston Super Mare (Ball 70)
 :hmmm:

Boston, Cambridge or either of the Peterborough sides would be good

We're going to lose regardless,  so something like Birmingham, Reading or Charlton away would be my preference

FGR h or a and an emphatic victory.

Solihull or Tamworth away please

Crook Town at home would have been fun but they went out in qualifying.

A welcome back to Aldershot would be ok.

Birmingham home or away would be a good earner.

Yeah,Charlton would be good. Memories 'n' all

All good away days.

Chesham (A) please!

And we are at home to Colchester. Ffs

What a bland tie

Home to Colchester.  :doh:

Load of bollocks that was.  

Not a very interesting draw, and with our recent experience in cup competitions fairly loseable

Col Utd. Well no Round Two for Town then...

Some great derby ties drawn though:

Rovers v Weston
MK v Wimbledon
Northampton v Kettering
Notts County v Alfreton

Burton v Scarborough is a decent tie for the neutral

record low attendance for some time will have thought.

Unless they do cheaper tickets?

Which is unlikely.  :hmmm:

Really think they should do the draw so you can't play someone in the same division first up. Dull.

They'll do ''cheap'' tickets but it'll be on a cashback scheme for a game somewhere in an unnamed future fixture. They'll then ask fans to defer claiming their cashback offer due to an unforeseen admin error with a Swiss Car Rental Company.

Call me a cynic of course...but then I imagine the irony of the very real world, where Mr Plumber {no not Christopher but Clem} fucks up the installing of the new bogs that are supposedly incoming...oh sorry I meant County Ground renovation  :soapy tit wank:

"Payneful" draw, have to "Hunt" around for a win, "Iandolo" how it will turn out.  Don't know how many will "Egbo".

Another sell out at the County Ground. 

 :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

On the upside, at least the scrapping of replays saves us a pointless trip to Colchester if it's level after 90

All square at full time results in extra time and possibly penalties, so presumably better to get a home draw.

I can’t think of a more boring tie we could have possibly had.
Colchester probably saying the same thing ‘n all…

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

We go through this every year. Everyone's disappointed with our draw but there is next to no chance of getting an interesting draw in the first two rounds of the Cup unless you're a non league side...

We now play Colchester on

1-4 November
3rd December
1st January

Pinch and a punch for Colchester of the month

FA Cup prize money.
Upped to compensate for loss of replays I guess.

£15k just for turning up and £45k for getting through.

https://www.thefa.com/competitions/thefacup/prize-fund

There's a chance...

Could have been a bigger draw for sure, but price it right, get some momentum and who knows, Round 2 could be more than a pipe dream.

*Subject to weather

About as "meh" a draw as we could have got, the only more "meh" would have been if we were away at Colchester.

I'm just happy we won't be on the end of an upset!

True story, although I guess us winning could be classed as an "upset"!

The first round tie at Stockport was priced at £10 adult, £5 conc two years ago.

Hopefully a similar, sensible pricing structure can be put in place for this one.

I'd willingly pay £5 to watch history unfold!

Non league avoided....result.

Meh tie...heart skipped when Reading came out.

Might go, see what prices they come up with.

  But we never turn up in the FAC.

As bad as we have been in the FA Cup, we have at least won in the last 10 years, unlike the league cup :)

Neither do Colchester. Out in first round 9 of of the last 12 years.

Just like us

FA Cup Memories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0yfPCv5XLg

I remember this. :hmmm:

John Ward the then Colchester manager said in an interview "I've never been booed for winning a football game"  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

That Supermarine team were more enjoyable to watch than Kennedy’s flops🤣

There are some real juicy plum local League vs Non League games.

Rovers vs Weston 20 miles.
Notts County vs Alfreton 15 miles.
Boreham Wood vs Leyton Orient 18 miles.
Northampton vs Kettering 14 miles.

 ;)

Venks predicted it a year before you bambi  ;)

FRIDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2024

Tamworth v Huddersfield Town at 19:45 GMT on BBC Two

SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2024

Northampton Town v Kettering Town at 17:30 GMT on BBC Two

SUNDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2024

Sutton United v Birmingham City at 12:30 GMT on ITV1

Harrogate Town v Wrexham at 15:30 GMT on ITVX

MONDAY 4 NOVEMBER 2024

Chesham United v Lincoln City at 19:15 GMT on ITV4


Shit tv selection, surprise surprise both Wrexham and Birmingham are on tv. Birmingham vs Sutton i can sort of understand, but fucking hell, Wrexham vs Harrogate??

Stop this poxy media love in now, its fucking pathetic

Wrexham would get three times the audience of anyone else, it's hardly a surprise. Same as Man Utd getting picked every year.

The Wrexham story has really weird cut through - my grandmother-in-law, who lived her whole life in South Africa and has no interest in any sport other than bowls was asking me about it last Christmas. Mad.

Yes I have had similar from female friends who have zero interest in football but 100% interest in Ryan Reynolds.

TBF I couldnt be bothered to read back like most posters on here :)

Harsh :)

But fair  ;D



**Only kidding Kev  :-[

Its not about interesting ties. Its about number of viewers.

I won't be watching anything with Wrexham in it  :)

I'll be switching off Wrexham in my droves

 :clap:

Very good. I always knew he had many more talents than just that of chasing ghosts  :)

Forgiven buddy x

Adults £12
Concession (65+)   £10
Under 18   £8
Under 11   £2

Confirmed 3pm November second

Too expensive expect a crowd under 5000

Didn't think it was that bad myself

Excellent pricing.

I would have thought £10 was fair

£10. Have some of that

Its 50% of a league ticket price (for my age category match day) so personally I think it's good.

£10 seems more appealing considering the opposition😁

Often I know I knock the club but fair play I think thats a fair price by the club.

But conversely, if by some streak of luck we get to the 3rd round and get Man Utd or Man City etc at home we then can't really complain about them raising the ticket price by a similar percentage (if it happens of course).