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Post by markn on Oct 21, 2015 13:57:18 GMT
Can't agree more with davef about the FA Cup and its importance. As somebody who grew up supporting what is now a premier league super club, the FA Cup always was and still should be the most exciting trophy. They probably now have it down the pecking order but I don't.
Discovering what I consider to be 'real' football the first time I wandered into GGL, the excitement on qualifying FA cup rounds is great and the chance of getting into the next round and drawing a league is what football is all about. AB literally shakes walking through the turnstile on cup days.
Let's give it our best shot on Saturday and then welcome Millwall to GGL in the next round. I will then consider stewarding Hemel fans as a mere pre season friendly!!
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Post by markn on Oct 21, 2015 14:10:27 GMT
Just seen that the draw will be on the TV on Monday evening (7pm). Let's hope we are in the hat, or the velvet bag, or the big spinning plastic thing!!
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Post by Andy K on Oct 21, 2015 16:44:06 GMT
There's a possibility then that we are watching the draw together at the club if it goes to a replay!! Something nice about us all watching it together.
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Post by Del on Oct 21, 2015 20:26:13 GMT
I got a feeling it will go to a replay.
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Post by os on Oct 21, 2015 20:36:38 GMT
Not the best quality but here is a reminder of 87/88
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Post by cliveo7 on Oct 21, 2015 20:58:14 GMT
The 1987 footage is a great find !!!! Top drawer stuff !!!
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Post by Del on Oct 21, 2015 21:14:12 GMT
Not sure why they feel it necessary to segregate !
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Post by sallycat on Oct 21, 2015 21:22:06 GMT
They always have when I've seen us play there.
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Post by billzeebub on Oct 21, 2015 21:52:18 GMT
Thanks for the reminders of the late 80s OS. .proper pitches & non-luminous boots
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Post by Amber Aleman on Oct 22, 2015 11:35:53 GMT
Some may think this a pedantic point, but the League club that Sutton knocked out of the Cup in November 1987 is not the same club that we're facing on Saturday. The original Aldershot FC folded in 1992 and Aldershot Town was formed to succeed it, starting off in the Isthmian League. The new club worked its way up through the divisions and won promotion to the Football League in 2008 only to be relegated back to the Conference five years later. So Aldershot Town FC has been a non-League club for most of its history.
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Post by amberchoc on Oct 22, 2015 13:07:18 GMT
Some may think this a pedantic point, but the League club that Sutton knocked out of the Cup in November 1987 is not the same club that we're facing on Saturday. The original Aldershot FC folded in 1992 and Aldershot Town was formed to succeed it, starting off in the Isthmian League. The new club worked its way up through the divisions and won promotion to the Football League in 2008 only to be relegated back to the Conference five years later. So Aldershot Town FC has been a non-League club for most of its history. I thought about mentioning that very point, but figured it was too pedantic to bother!
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Post by Amber Aleman on Oct 22, 2015 13:54:44 GMT
We can still legitimately remind Saturday's opposition of that 5-0 trouncing we handed out to them in April 1999.
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Post by Del on Oct 22, 2015 15:19:31 GMT
They always have when I've seen us play there. Never did in the league as i remember walking around the back of the stand to the big terrace at the top & back around to the bottom second half. They must be big time Charlies now ! Segregation spoils non league football.
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Post by sallycat on Oct 22, 2015 15:29:32 GMT
They did. I distinctly remember a league game there in the late 90s where my friends and I arrived early, before anyone was on the gates, and accidentally wandering into the ground itself. A steward doing some sort of pre-match safety checks saw our Sutton colours and kindly told us "this is the home end, I'll take you to the away part of the ground" and led us across the corner of the pitch to save us going all the way out of the ground and back in. We repaid his kindness by "forgetting" to pay our admission... Later I bought some chips and the guy forgot to take my money for those too!
That was probably, but possibly not, the same league game where the home fans spent half the game chucking conkers at us through and over the fence that segregated us.
So yeah, they've definitely segregated us for league games there.
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Post by Andy K on Oct 22, 2015 15:37:56 GMT
I think the person who put the Thames News clip up is great. Oh yeah....it was me.
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