FA Cup Round 1 Draw

[Mick]

Solihull motors ,perhaps they will send some cars to pick the team and handful of supporters who will attend up.

Sorry to spoil your little jest, but it is Solihull Moors who are doing battle with Witton Albion for a place in the First Round.

A common mistake, understandable from Solihull's Land Rover/Jaguar connections, but Solihull Moors were formed as a result of a merger between the more senior club, Moor Green and neighbours Solihull Borough after the former's quite decent ground, Moorlands, was destroyed by an arson attack. The second manager of the merged club was, of course, a Mr Moore.

 

[tottenham541]

We need a southend v billericay or concord......end of

 

[Chris Powell's mate]

Exeter, Taunton and Weston-Super-Mare are close enough if you live in Cornwall.
I would add Yeovil, but yeah, last year's result sticks in the memory - but not as much as the burger in the gut.
I've eaten some ropey football fare over 55 years, but I was eating this one for the next month! Therefore, Forest Green and their vegan menu might also appeal.

 

[Highlands Blue]

Harrogate Town, would be nice, I used to live there and it's a great place for a weekend break.
Back in the 70's when I lived there Harrogate Town really was a minnow, I'm not sure that they even had a proper ground, I was still playing then, so never went to watch them, I remember scoring my one and only hat trick playing for Kirk Deighton Rovers, in some minor Yorkshire league. My playing career went downhill from there!

 

[Zeuss]

Exeter, Taunton and Weston-Super-Mare are close enough if you live in Cornwall.
I would add Yeovil, but yeah, last year's result sticks in the memory - but not as much as the burger in the gut.
I've eaten some ropey football fare over 55 years, but I was eating this one for the next month! Therefore, Forest Green and their vegan menu might also appeal.

Even from the very nearest part of Cornwall,it’s about 110 miles—further than Southend to Peterborough.

 

[Zeuss]

Even from the very nearest part of Cornwall,it’s about 110 miles—further than Southend to Peterborough.

To Weston-super mare.

 

[yogi bear up the cagire]

the teams still left in at this stage:

quite fancy a trip to York. Lot of teams here we've never played of course.

• Dunston
• Gateshead
• AFC Fylde
• Chesterfield
• Aldershot Town
• Kettering Town
• Alfreton Town
• St Neots Town
• Barnet
• Braintree Town
• Billericay Town
• Taunton Town
• Blyth Spartans
• York City
• Boreham Wood
• Dagenham & Redbridge
• Chippenham Town
• Maidenhead United
• Chorley
• Barrow
• Concord Rangers
• Dover Athletic
• Eastbourne Borough
• Slough Town
• Eastleigh
• Hampton & Richmond
• Ebbsfleet United
• Worthing
• Gloucester City
• Bromley
• Guiseley
• Stourbridge
• Haringey Borough
• Poole Town
• Harrogate Town
• Wrexham
• Hartlepool United
• Kidsgrove Athletic
• Hemel Hempstead Town
• Oxford City
• Hitchin Town
• Leatherhead
• Maidstone United
• Leyton Orient
• Marine
• Salford City
• Metropolitan Police
• Havant & Waterlooville
• Southport
• Ashton United
• Stockport County
• Altrincham
• Torquay United
• Winchester City
• Warrington Town
• FC Halifax Town
• Wealdstone
• Sutton United
• Weston-super-Mare
• Bath City
• Witton Albion
• Solihull Moors
• Woking
• Welling United

That's a pretty pointless waste of time.............you know very well we're going to be away to Sunderland, Peterborough or Barnsley!

 

[sm77]

Yeovil away please

I'm still getting over last year's trip down there

 

[Maldon Shrimper]

We need a southend v billericay or concord......end of

Billericay would be nice but at home just put Mr T in his place

 

[Jonny_Stokes]

Maidstone United, with Norman Wabo bagging the winner!

Not a fan of the idea of you playing Maidstone myself...

If that does happen then watch out for their death trap of an away end.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

What are the best non-league away days @Jonny_Stokes?

 

[Jim Levenstein]

Any non-league team away - Salford, Billericay, Concord or Orient especially.

 

[Jonny_Stokes]

What are the best non-league away days @Jonny_Stokes?

Harrogate was well received. Maidenhead is a lovely jaunt as well. Halifax and Wrexham for much-missed away days.

Solihull and Barrow particularly grim.

 

[Chris Powell's mate]

Even from the very nearest part of Cornwall,it’s about 110 miles—further than Southend to Peterborough.

You see what I'm up against. My starting point leaves me struggling even with so-called 'local' trips to teams from Devon and Somerset.

 

[Lambs Beret]

5 years since that win at Morecambe in round 1. After that Phil Brown appeared to literally not give a toss about the FA Cup, some of the worst team performances under Brown all came in the 1st round ties.
Because of this I'm more excited that Chris Powell might try and get us past this stage.
I'm one for a 'banana skin' so any great non-league away tie like Alfreton or St Neots would be good.
Don't want any other league one team or the likes of Bi$$ericay or Sal$ford, not because I don't want to see us lose to them but because they get enough exposure of their bull**** already and if we're still somewhere near the top end of league 1 by November 10th you know it'll be put on TV.

 

[Malcontent]

York away would be good for me. Visit daughter at Uni, take her to see the match and wander into city for beers and scoff afterwards

 

[Dubai]

5 years since that win at Morecambe in round 1. After that Phil Brown appeared to literally not give a toss about the FA Cup, some of the worst team performances under Brown all came in the 1st round ties.
Because of this I'm more excited that Chris Powell might try and get us past this stage.
I'm one for a 'banana skin' so any great non-league away tie like Alfreton or St Neots would be good.
Don't want any other league one team or the likes of Bi$$ericay or Sal$ford, not because I don't want to see us lose to them but because they get enough exposure of their bull**** already and if we're still somewhere near the top end of league 1 by November 10th you know it'll be put on TV.

I can’t see much wrong with salford, a local club bought by local boys that have done well for themselves...

 

[GrumpyBlue]

We don't want Torquay. Horrendous journey.

Not for me though

 

[Jonny_Stokes]

I can’t see much wrong with salford, a local club bought by local boys that have done well for themselves...

Ah yes, Peter Lim, that Salfordian billionaire done good helping his plucky little local club and their 2,500-strong loyal, long-standing supporter base compete with the big boys of the National League armed only with fawning BBC Documentaries, £350,000 strikers and League One regulars on £4,000+ a week. Such a fairytale.

 

[Ricky Otto]

Ah yes, Peter Lim, that Salfordian billionaire done good helping his plucky little local club and their 2,500-strong loyal, long-standing supporter base compete with the big boys of the National League armed only with fawning BBC Documentaries, £350,000 strikers and League One regulars on £4,000+ a week. Such a fairytale.

I agree with Dubai on this one.

You have 5 ex players who achieved an awful lot in the game. Scholes, a true football fan has watched Salford games for years and him and the rest of them brought the club. Then Gary Neville persuaded a contact/friend with big financial oomph to buy 50% of the club and bankroll them into the league. I can't see there would be many people who would be unhappy with that happening at their club! High profile owners like them would be stupid not to use their standing in the game to attract interest and money.

Billericay on the other hand is a Glen Tamplin vanity project, he is the rich version of a reality TV star. Instead of going on Big Brother he's brought a football club and wants as much of the limelight as he can get.

Nobody wants a Tamplin, but a lot of people would want the class of 92