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If I had a choice of winning this game or winning a league game, then it'd be a league game every time.The pressure is off, IMO, as a win, draw or defeat won't effect anything to do with our ultimate aim of consolidating our position in League One.It'd be nice to win, but I won't lose an awful lot of sleep if we don't progress.The best part of the next couple of weeks is it gives injured players a chance to get closer to a return, first team players the chance to recharge their batteries after playing 15/16 league games, and fringe players a chance to stake a claim for a place in the team.
We might have to field a changed side if the four loanees are refused permission to play unless that's already been sorted of course but not seen anything confirmed.
I love the FA cup, and always want us to have a decent cup run and get to the third round so I'd love to see a full strength team out at Ebbsfleet on Saturday.You can pretty much guarantee that this will be the season that we have a storming cup run and draw a massive Prem team in the third round away from home - mainly because it is something I have been waiting for all my life and this is the one season where I wouldn't be able to go to the game!
Much more important than the Scunthorpe cup tie.The F.A.cup holds many memories for me as a youngster,the Mathews final was the first game I saw on our own T.V. as a seven year old,the T.V.being bought to watch the coronation of the queen. The Tottenham tie at Belle View a few years later was the first game I was allowed to go to on my own from Askern,mum and dad would probably do time now for letting a youngster go to a match with over 20000 people there.Being taken to Hillsborough to watch one of the famous replays against Aston Villa,the Liverpool replay when the Doncaster area galvanised despite the political scene of the time. The depths of despair of Frickley,Wigan,and other non league sides beating us. And that is the reason I had an "OH NOOOOOOOOOOO" moment when I heard we had drawn EBBSFLEET AWAY. They are a team that won promotion to the National league last season and are used to doing well, having lost only 13 games out of the last 101 games under their present manager. They have a rich benefactor who has started to redevelop their ground, and have just signed Fabian Brandy, a guy who has given us a hard time in the past. Will we take it seriously?will we play our strongest side?I do not want to come out of the ground, as I did at Oldham last season, thinking why did Fergie pick that team?and we could have done better. Could we be the team the cameras are following because we are the giant killers this season?I do not want to hear Fergie say "I picked a team I thought was good enough to win the game BUT". I want to be a supporter of a club that has had a great cup run,not one that the Barnsley,Rotherham,and Sheffield supporters can gloat and laugh at Saturday evening,or that Jeff can tell the world there has been a cup shock at Ebbsfleet. What do you think?
Definitely Scarborough, I was there!
Quote from: les@donr on October 30, 2017, 03:07:47 pmDefinitely Scarborough, I was there! It was Baltic freezing that day, then came the announcement for home supporters about the mini bus for the next away match had some places left,warmed me up laughing for a few mins.
Quote from: darren61 on October 30, 2017, 03:38:49 pmQuote from: les@donr on October 30, 2017, 03:07:47 pmDefinitely Scarborough, I was there! It was Baltic freezing that day, then came the announcement for home supporters about the mini bus for the next away match had some places left,warmed me up laughing for a few mins. That was a different match - that was when we beat them 5-2 I think.