FA Cup Third Round Draw

I think those anticipating a postponement of the New Years' Day fixture are on thin ice because in their "wisdom" the BSP do not consider the liklihood of the Third round of the FA Cup as a major disruptive factor of their fixture list.................hence, we would have been at Burton had we not been involved in the FA Cup.

There is no way a postponement of that fixture would have been entertained (apart from the obvious Setanta coverage that should have happened but didn't), so why will the Blackpool one?

Why should Blackpool agree to even a 24hour postponement just to help their opponents in what is already a hiding to nothing for them...........................turkeys don't vote for Christmas, even the naive red necks in America didn't vote for Palin for God's sake!

If we progress in the two cup competitions we would want to be in (Cup & Trophy), we face playing only two BSP games in January - home to Wrexham and away to Lewes - and even those two could fall foul to perfectly feasible replay requirements.

In fact the Wrexham date of Jan 15th has TWO chances of being lost as the 13th is the designated time for replays in both cup and trophy, so the idea of a New Years Day postponement is even more unlikely! Indeed, there is every chance of Wrexham at home returning to it's original Saturday 17th slot.

We need the income, we welcome the cup" glory" but it all adds up to a huge demand on the squad, management and supporters' pockets!

Bring it on! Back for only two weeks at Christmas and get to see 5 games. Four at home and the one away game is only two hours up the road. Can we not squeeze a game in between Histon on the 20th and Weymouth on Boxing Day!

Well, my putting "wisdom" in inverted commas wasn't an error as you must realise.

Last year the idiot chief Executive "forgot" to factor the play offs into the fixture list, causing the last Saturday of the season to become a midweek date for ALL clubs; got the bullet and subsequently metamorphosed as the Chairman of Ebbsfleet...............yes, the "Ongar Lino" one Mr John Moules.
The same Mr Moules of whom I'm stillwaiting for a reply to my email enquiring just why I was lied to by his stewards and denied being able to sit in one of several hundred empty seats when we played his team off the park at their scrapyard "stadium" (thought I'd better use inverted commas again )

I'll be generous to him here and assume he's probably waiting for the monthly "bored" meeting to authorise the expense of a second class stamp so that he can "email" me back!

Although the product on the park is little different to League 2, and as the cup results show produce cutting edge teams every bit as good if not better than them. The reality is that being non league immediately exposes clubs to the vagaries of "blazers" who think nothing of demanding that players turn out far more often than is sensible in a condensed period and far too often for the poor old fan to afford without sacrificing the odd game to financial necessity.

The BSP spend years lobbying for that extra promotion spot, yet habitually insist on making things as nigh impossible as it is for clubs to achieve that place!

All to do with being poster of the week - well done, thoroughly deserved

You're lucky. Dave R has changed mine to Pink, and I don't bat for the other side. ;D

I think this draw could be turned into something if the club 'market' it well. Something along the lines of battle of the seaside resorts, get the HE involved and drum up some support. I see that we are the team considered to go furthest in the cup out of the non league teams, even after the draw.