FA Cup 1st Round Draw

[Campsall rover]

  Great to get a bit of coin coming in from TV though Paul, I was wondering why they might have picked us, lets hope for a Chorley at home score

What after a replay. No thanks let’s do it 1st time at their place. I assume you meant that Brian
Which player is going to get 4 goals. Maybe this one is set up for John-Jules.
Having said that 7 different goal scorers would do just fine.

A 1-0 win & i will be quite happy. Round 2 please.

[Lincoln Rover]

No replays I thought

[Campsall rover]

No replays I thought

Well spotted, you beat hound. 

Yes forgot about that. There are no replays.

[selby]

  No replays in the FA cup this season Paul, and if we do win 7-0 I would like the first five to be in the first 15 minutes just to calm the nerves.
  Deep down I would be thinking we are the only team in the world that can throw this game away now even if we did.

[Dutch Uncle]

  Not a game to be taken lightly and with our young side they are more than likely more used to cup football being knock out than ourselves.
  And they have drawn a team renowned for being poor in cup competitions.

The last sentence isn't really relevant to this game though Brian. Whilst I agree with you that we've a poor record in cup competitions, I can only ever remember us losing to one non-league team, Wigan Athletic.

I'm sure some stat experts on here will prove me wrong, but I believe our record against non-league teams is good.

We have lost in the FA cup to non-league terms on only 7 occasions in our 93 Football League and Conference seasons:

1904-05 Mexborough H 0-0, A 1-3
1927-28 Carlisle A 0-1
1965-66 Wigan H 2-2, A 1-3
1998-99 Rushden & Diamonds H 1-1, A 2-4
2000-01 Southport H 2-2, A 0-1
2003-04 Scarborough A 0-1
2004-05 Exeter A 1-2

A few comments:

In 1904-05 we were re-elected to the league (Division 2) late and were unprepared. We gained only 8 points all season and it was no great surprise when we lost to non-league opposition.

In 1998-99 and 2000-01 we were in the Conference ourselves and we played a team in the same Division.

In both 1965-66 (Div 4) and 2003-04 (the same but now called Div 3) we went on to win a League title.

In 2004-05, exactly 100 years after the first time, we lost to a non-league team when we were playing higher than Tier 4 in the league.

I am not counting our withdrawal against Fryston Colliery in 1923-24 in a preliminary round. Again we were re-elected very late to the Football League, in fact after the FA Cup preliminary round draw had been made. We withdrew partly because we felt as a league club we should be entering the competition later with all the other league teams, and partly because of the resulting fixture congestion.  Fryston were awarded a victory.



Over those 93 seasons our record against non-league teams is;

Home W19, D8, L0 F74 A18; Away: W14 D4 L7 F48 L31

Not as bad as many other lower league teams

[scawsby steve]

Thanks Dutch.

[selby]

I will take the TV money gladley, anything else is a bonus and until the result is known I will carry on rubbing my lucky rabbits foot every night before I go to sleep, which will be later and later as the game gets nearer because of worry.