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Post by jond on Dec 15, 2008 12:01:26 GMT
Yet another home tie, this time against Rusheden or Newport on 10th Jan
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Post by capitalgull on Dec 15, 2008 12:28:54 GMT
Unexciting but again winnable....if Newport get through this is rather mirroring all those draws from last season....maybe we'll get Yeovil next (And yes I am joking!!)
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Post by Dave on Dec 15, 2008 15:59:37 GMT
Well I have mixed feelings over this draw, on the one hand its a game that we can win and progress into the next round. This is the one cup that we really have a chance of winning, we should have done that last season.
A home draw can only be an advantage to make the next round, but I fear we will see another poor crowd for this game, we were screaming out for a Saturday home game, now its all we seem to be getting and in my view its too many and too close to each other.
the last four weeks must have made a big hole in home fans wage packets and with we another home game on Saturday as well. There was a time when you went to a game every other week, this was affordable to even those on lower wages, but every week as it has been of late, is just beyond many fans means.
I do think the powers that be, need to look more closely into this and you also have to ask, if all the different cups are really needed.I can think of three cups I would wish we did not need to be involved with. Cups that no one is really bothered if they watch the games or not and that is reflected in low gates.
You also have to ask just what effect it has being involved with all these cups and how having so many extra games may change the coarse of our season.Fine if we really use the whole squad, but that does not seem to be happening, Bucks views all these cup games as must try and win and therefore picks the strongest team to try and do so.
At the end of the day having the cup in the trophy cabinet would be nice, but the only thing that will make the season for us all, is winning promotion and not doing so, will make winning cups like this seem worthless in my view.
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Post by merse on Dec 15, 2008 17:07:32 GMT
Let's hope that R&D prevail in the replay as most of those who went up to Newport last season really wouldn't fancy a repeat encounter without Police protection from the uncouth, race obsessed element amongst their following that resulted in us being greeted like some sort of visitors to a war zone last season. Infantile racist abuse, a grown man hurling himself at the segregation fence in some sort of fury and a total lack of pre-match social hospitality rendered it one of the least pleasant experiences of recent seasons and an encounter with a small but significant percentage of their following that I certainly wouldn't want to see at Plainmoor. Remember how the Official Gulls Travel Club had to sit in a motorway lay by for ages due to the uncivilised nature of Welsh football? Compare that with the wonderful experience of visiting Forest Green just 40 minutes up the road and you ask yourself the question just why in 2008 we allow these neanderthals from another country entry into OUR football competitions when they have their own to play in. Unfortunately the followings of Swansea, Cardiff and Newport each contain more than the natural percentage of anti social and boorish fuckwits who appear to attach themselves to most clubs whenever they sense a "jolly" on the horizon but who disappear down the toilet like the turds they are once it's all over. Kiss good bye to the chances of a reduced admission price if police have to be paid for, and to a decent gate or the club making much financially out of a visit from Newport Sad County. Alternatively, don't expect even a three figure following from Northants if the Diamonds do get through and therefore a gate of little more or even less than last Saturday's.
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Post by chrish on Dec 15, 2008 17:29:38 GMT
Let's hope that R&D prevail in the replay as most of those who went up to Newport last season really wouldn't fancy a repeat encounter without Police protection from the uncouth, race obsessed element amongst their following that resulted in us being greeted like some sort of visitors to a war zone last season. Infantile racist abuse, a grown man hurling himself at the segregation fence in some sort of fury and a total lack of pre-match social hospitality rendered it one of the least pleasant experiences of recent seasons and an encounter with a small but significant percentage of their following that I certainly wouldn't want to see at Plainmoor. Remember how the Official Gulls Travel Club had to sit in a motorway lay by for ages due to the uncivilised nature of Welsh football? Compare that with the wonderful experience of visiting Forest Green just 40 minutes up the road and you ask yourself the question just why in 2008 we allow these neanderthals from another country entry into OUR football competitions when they have their own to play in. Unfortunately the followings of Swansea, Cardiff and Newport each contain more than the natural percentage of anti social and boorish fuckwits who appear to attach themselves to most clubs whenever they sense a "jolly" on the horizon but who disappear down the toilet like the turds they are once it's all over. Kiss good bye to the chances of a reduced admission price if police have to be paid for, and to a decent gate or the club making much financially out of a visit from Newport Sad County. Alternatively, don't expect even a three figure following from Northants if the Diamonds do get through and therefore a gate of little more or even less than last Saturday's. I've always been put off watching Torquay in Wales because of their reputation for idiocy. I have to say that I didn't find too much of an issue in Wrexham earlier in the season though, but I have heard from supporters of other clubs who've had bad experiences there. The league of Wales is a bit a joke really isn't it. Whats the point of it if the well supported (in numbers only) clubs don't actually participate. I wonder what would've happened if Celtic, Rangers, Hibs and Hearts had been a part of the English football league from its inseption and they found 100 years later that the Scottish FA then created a new league for their country. Lets face it the current Scottish system is set up so the bigger clubs don't have to play the smaller clubs that often. Its only in the Scottish cup when the likes of Gretna and Queen of the South have shocked some of the big clubs. Lets not forget that techinically Queen of the South lasted longer in European Competition than Rangers did!! The only thing that the "big" 4 Welsh clubs miss out on by not being in the League of Wales is going out in the Intertoto Cup to some part time Romanian outfit who chain smoke coal in the pre-match warm up! Hardly an incentive to join is it?
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Post by merse on Dec 15, 2008 17:47:21 GMT
The only thing that the "big" 4 Welsh clubs miss out on by not being in the League of Wales is going out in the Intertoto Cup to some part time Romanian outfit who chain smoke coal in the pre-match warm up! Hardly an incentive to join is it? That's why they love it.....................makes them all nostalgic for the old days when they lived like Troglodytes!
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Post by bbcgull on Dec 15, 2008 19:11:34 GMT
Indeed the Newport fans were shocking, the police were shocking.
Although myself and SCHCGull were the only 2 Gulls fans lets in the social club it would seem.
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Post by bbcgull on Dec 15, 2008 19:15:51 GMT
..my very first Gulls away game in 87/88 in the Littlewoods Cup away at Swansea saw a brick go through one of the other coaches. Does anyone else remember this?
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Post by jamie on Dec 15, 2008 20:38:51 GMT
..my very first Gulls away game in 87/88 in the Littlewoods Cup away at Swansea saw a brick go through one of the other coaches. Does anyone else remember this? We had a brick thrown through the window of the door of the coach when parked outside of the swansea jack pub. I think it was after the play off final and not the littlewoods game though.
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Post by stuartB on Dec 15, 2008 21:43:11 GMT
Indeed the Newport fans were shocking, the police were shocking. Although myself and SCHCGull were the only 2 Gulls fans lets in the social club it would seem. not strictly correct as Mr Bastard spent the weekend lock in their toilets
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Post by bbcgull on Dec 15, 2008 22:39:17 GMT
...lol ah yeah that was damn funny too.... Another funny was when me and SCHCGull arrived way to early we asked the police if there was anything to do in Newport to which one of the coppers said..
"Nah nothing, Newports shit"
I kid you not.
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Post by jj on Dec 16, 2008 13:51:23 GMT
Merse don't worry to much about those Welsh idiots from Newport coming to Plainmoor I think R & D will win the replay and it'll be them we play at home in the next round.Some of these Welsh teams seem to dislike the English but they hate each other even more.But when it comes to anything who will they fight for you guested it us the English (the Crown) they are a bunch of mercinaries & hyprocryties. ;DHappy day.
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Post by dazgull on Dec 16, 2008 15:46:43 GMT
I was on that supporters coach that had to stay in a small services for a couple of hours rather than come into Newport. Not even allowed to come in to a pub on the outskirts and had to wait for a police escort. That just about summed the coppers up when you think there were about 20-30 on the coach and included a couple of babies, a few pensioners so not exactly a load of thugs on a jolly. Oddly enough a minibus turned up whilst we were waiting heading for Swansea later in the day and out they all trooped and filled the bins with cans/bottles. Didn't think it could get worse but the sight of nearly 100 coppers at the ground just summed the place up. We did the right thing in knocking them out and I hope that Rushden beat them tonight.
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Post by evertoned on Dec 16, 2008 19:24:05 GMT
I was on that coach as well and if I had had my brother in laws number we would have been of and in a pub.
I actually want newport as my wife comes from there and I want her to come to the game when we win 5 0
Eddy
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Post by tufc01 on Dec 16, 2008 20:59:39 GMT
Rushden V Newport is 0-0 at HT.
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