We got to the same stage 2 years before (or was it later) as well. Didn't we get invited to play Barnsley for some cup begining with D or something in France?
Bit of a random topic.
Dubonnet Cup....it used to sit in the entrance to the CG in the Arkells...and in a manner which exemplified the decline of the club in the McMahon years disappeared.
I asked at a meeting, probably a fans forum, what had happened to it and was told it had got broken.