FA Cup Thread

[Boletus Edulis]

Someone on the Cambridge board said £30k. Not a lot but it’ll fund part of a player (or a loan for the second half of the season).

I’m not unhappy about it being 5.30, should be a cracking atmosphere and a couple more hours drinking time to prepare!

Think we got £32k for the overseas rights for the Brum game. We are also on BBC red button, and while that is helpful extra cash, the big win for us is the 45% of the ticket receipts. Which given the tickets will be, I think, £30 for adults and £15 for kids, with presumably a sell out 41,000 will be a useful deposit in the club piggy bank. Though I suspect most will go into infrastructure mostly as the club announced this week it was starting a series of repair and upgrade work. If any goes to players the logic would be to pay for Broom and possibly Garrick, or maybe upgrade a couple of existing players contracts, rather than bring in anyone new.

 

[SMH]

I've been moping over drawing Stoke away, but credit to both clubs for the pricing, £12 for STHs. I was undecided on going, but can't turn down an away game that costs less than £20 for ticket and travel.

 

[Boletus Edulis]

Assume that we’ll get a shellacking at Stamford Bridge, but nice if we get a goal. Early start for us, leaving Home Park around 4.15 am on one of the 16 coaches going up. We have 6,000 going, the away end is all Safe Standing. Green Army.

 

[SMH]

A team of kids and a defeat at the Brittania please.

 

[Boletus Edulis]

I've been moping over drawing Stoke away, but credit to both clubs for the pricing, £12 for STHs. I was undecided on going, but can't turn down an away game that costs less than £20 for ticket and travel.

Whereas Chelsea are charging £30.

 

[SMH]

Whereas Chelsea are charging £30.

To be fair mate, £18 extra quid to visit shiny West London as opposed to Stoke, that's a bargain!

 

[Bobbin']

Whereas Chelsea are charging £30.

That would have been agreed by Plymouth, don’t blame them as they know the stadium will be full regardless and they get half of it.

 

[Boletus Edulis]

That would have been agreed by Plymouth, don’t blame them as they know the stadium will be full regardless and they get half of it.

My comment was neutral, and I am not blaming anyone . I am aware it means the club get more money. But as SMH pointed out what they were charging, it did not seem unreasonable to point out what Chelsea are charging.

 

[Bartonyellow]

A team of kids and a defeat at the Brittania please.

Think they dropped that name about 6 years ago. It’s now - “insert betting company name here” stadium.

 

[Super_horns]

Yes BET 365 - I guess due to the owners links to it .

 

[That Fat Centre Half]

Going to be interesting on what sort of teams us and Cambridge play. Think we’ve both been playing a lot of football recently and both had big away trips in the week. Think a fair few our side will be knackered and I imagine same goes for Cambridge.

We’ve used the squad already a fair but I can see a significant number of changes from the usual. Certainly think Bree who basically plays every game and is arguably our best player at the moment will be rested for Kioso. I’d imagine Berry will be very keen to play for obvious reasons but not played as much as others lately through injury. Can see Hylton and Cornick playing up top, not sure we would risk Adebayo for this.

Looking forward to it, we are quite a different sort of side since we last played I think. Much much more direct and in your face physically now which will make it very tasty

 

[coronakopite]

Going to be interesting on what sort of teams us and Cambridge play. Think we’ve both been playing a lot of football recently and both had big away trips in the week. Think a fair few our side will be knackered and I imagine same goes for Cambridge.

We’ve used the squad already a fair but I can see a significant number of changes from the usual. Certainly think Bree who basically plays every game and is arguably our best player at the moment will be rested for Kioso. I’d imagine Berry will be very keen to play for obvious reasons but not played as much as others lately through injury. Can see Hylton and Cornick playing up top, not sure we would risk Adebayo for this.

Looking forward to it, we are quite a different sort of side since we last played I think. Much much more direct and in your face physically now which will make it very tasty

With our small squad and multiple injuries, especially at CB (1st 3 choices out) but also missing Ironside and Tracey up top, selecting our side will be very straightforward. There'll be a few kids on the bench who are unlikely to feature or we may only name 7 subs.

Mitov
Williamson, Okedina, Sherring, Dunk
Digby, May
Smith/Knibbs, Hoolahan, Brophy
Tolaj/Smith

Subs: Mannion (GK), Bennett (20), Worman (20), O'Neil, Lankester, one of Knibbs/Smith/Tolaj and <3 from youth team.

 

[SVH]

Yeah we're pretty depleted this weekend with our best players missing in Iredale and Ironside.

No matter what team Luton pick it will be a really tough game but one thing you can bet on from us, we'll roll our sleeves up and have a go no matter who plays.

A sold out Abbey Stadium under the lights. Bring it on.

 

[Super_horns]

Bad luck Plymouth!

Excellent peformance.

 

[That Fat Centre Half]

We’ve gone quite a bit weaker than I thought we would do. Midfield especially I can’t quite make out what we are trying to do, only 1 “midfield” player in the 11. Bit of a headscratcher to be honest. Good opportunity for Cambridge I reckon

 

[Laker]

We’ve gone quite a bit weaker than I thought we would do. Midfield especially I can’t quite make out what we are trying to do, only 1 “midfield” player in the 11. Bit of a headscratcher to be honest. Good opportunity for Cambridge I reckon

Luton by far the better side - you had too much for us and we didn’t really turn up/were too depleted ourselves/too tired etc. I think if we’d had Ironside and Iredale playing we’d have made more of a game of it but it wasn’t to be.

The two early goals were soft from our point of view but they knocked the stuffing out of us and we never recovered. *shrug*

Nevermind, can’t fault the effort.

 

[Boletus Edulis]

Well that was fun. Utterly surprised when we went ahead. I believe the modern lingo is scenes and limbs, There were plenty of them. First time I have seen Lukaku in the flesh, I was expecting a lot better, to be honest he reminded me a bit of John Akimbe though a bit more mobile. I was amazed at how many times they were offside, it was as it they did not understand the rule.

I know a lot of the home fans would be seeing Chelsea for the first time of the year, but they were very anonymous and quiet.
Great day, hello Crewe on Tuesday.

PS Mike Cooper is beginning to prove what we already knew that he will be a very good keeper.

 

[WhiteRussian]

Well that was fun. Utterly surprised when we went ahead. I believe the modern lingo is scenes and limbs, There were plenty of them. First time I have seen Lukaku in the flesh, I was expecting a lot better, to be honest he reminded me a bit of John Akimbe though a bit more mobile. I was amazed at how many times they were offside, it was as it they did not understand the rule.

I know a lot of the home fans would be seeing Chelsea for the first time of the year, but they were very anonymous and quiet.
Great day, hello Crewe on Tuesday.

PS Mike Cooper is beginning to prove what we already knew that he will be a very good keeper.

Excellent game from Plymouth. Real pity you couldn't beat Chelsea.

 

[That Fat Centre Half]

Luton by far the better side - you had too much for us and we didn’t really turn up/were too depleted ourselves/too tired etc. I think if we’d had Ironside and Iredale playing we’d have made more of a game of it but it wasn’t to be.

The two early goals were soft from our point of view but they knocked the stuffing out of us and we never recovered. *shrug*

Nevermind, can’t fault the effort.

Spot on with this. You started very lively but the goal really took the wind out and the second just killed it, especially with how poor it was from a nothing throw in. Both disappointing from your point of view, but for us great to see Thorpe look decent and get an assist on debut and Mendes Gomes finally produce something for the first time since arriving.

Game became a non event after that it felt to me, and I always felt we had control of it with no danger of us doing something silly and chucking it away.

We weren’t amazing or anything but controlled what could have been a difficult test and 2 players who needed a confidence boost got one with goals plus a few other fringe players got minutes. Pretty much perfect day for us really. You are clearly building something there with Bonner though, keep hold of him and you are definitely on an upward trajectory