FA Cup 2006-07

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The beauty of clubs like Wimbledon SHOULD be in the togetherness of the fanbase, the single voice striving for the good of the team within the community. In practise, we have just as many petty/Macchiavellian/self-interested/ignorant fans as any other team and no matter how the club is run, people CHOOSE to create strife - that's human nature.

actually Sunshine, there'll be another twenty-odd non-league clubs (pretty much anyone except the winner of Oxford/Dag & Red) i think we'd rather face than league oppo ;)

Clearly you haven't seen our cup "exploits" in recent years...

There was a WSC piece a little while back about something of a divide opening up among the previously united Womble masses, with disagreements about what the club should do next. Someone I know who was vaguely important in Wisa (who shall remain nameless) got all huffy about it and said none of it was true, so it's interesting to hear another side of the story.

Last time I went to an AFC game (Folkestone this season) the only arguements I heard were about whether AFC were actually shit or not, the kind of thing you get at any club.

Ryman League Premier Division, AFCW position in terms of:
No. of wins: 7th=
No. of defeats: 2nd
Goals scored: 13th=
Goals conceded: 1st
Goal difference: 3rd
Points: 6th

Cup games: played 6, won 6 (all but one against lower level opposition)

The prospect of players becoming full-time is probably the biggest single issue; the problem of falling gates will bite increasingly hard unless it can be reversed (500 more people used to come to watch us in the Combined Counties League, ffs).

The whole (non-)issue of owning Kingsmeadow vs finding a new home in Wimbledon won't go away, despite it being a ridiculous, unattainable pipe dream, because idealistic fans are too dumb or too lazy to understand the virtual impossibility of making it work.

We also will have to face a period at some point where are progress either halts or even reverses (the thought of finishing LOWER than the previous season is one said fans above can't even begin to contemplate). We will have to deal with bigger clubs poaching our best players; increasing costs may necessitate further borrowing, another horribly divisive issue.

So, it's far from all rosy down the meadow (Dave may disagree with some of the above, of course), but it's all a result of success - so far - rather than failure.

Exeter have got another supporter-run club in Stockport County in the first round proper, tie of the round probably Nottingham Forest vs Yeading, although i notice it's not one of the televised matches...

that second challinor goal. he *totally* meant it as well.

Or, as the Great British Sporting Media took all of 30 seconds to dub it, "Two-time European Cup winners Nottingham Forest vs Yeading."

Honestly, Forest fans always get stick for living in the past, but it's the papers (and Sky, in particular) who go on about the events of the late Seventies and early Eighties more than anyone.

Forest were pretty dire last season (even when they had Ian McParland/Frank Barlow in charge they were dull). However, this season, Forest have been 1000% better. They've been playing like a team challenging for promotion to the premier league at times.

I saw Forest against Yeading. Right...so here's a summary.
Yeading came, like most conference sides, with a speciality in being physical. A few times you might speculate that they had aspirations to kick Forest off the park and maybe sneak a goal and acquire a huge scalp. That's partially honourable - although the style of play from Yeading infuriated me. 5-0 might be considered a little harsh on Yeading; who I must say played as well as some of the teams in the 3rd division (no jokes on Notts County necessary).

I love the fact that conference sides can participate against league sides - it's a great experience and there isn't much gulf in talent really - unless you count Forest being on a ridiculously amazing roll and are pretty much certain for promotion. All credit to Yeading who tried hard.

In response to this board - we as Forest fans don't tend to live in the past. Well, the realistic ones at least. The media loves to build us up for a big fall, and they usually get their way (see Accrington Stanley embarassment) but most of us just want to see the good, exciting football that this team has always been famous for.

The conference should be given more credit, the teams are worthy of League status in most cases. I suspect Yeading would handle themselves to some extent in "Coca Cola League 2", as would many others.

Couldn't get up to Nottingham on Saturday so went to Brisbane Road to watch County play Orient instead. Midway through the first half, a pint-sized Os fan behind me turned to his dad and said "this is why I normally support Chelsea". Cue half the west stand collapsing into fits of laughter.

Hello Sunshine - any reason you go to Dons games? Are you local?

And I drive past Plough Lane every day when I'm taking the dog to the common, so I have soft spot for the Wombles.

as the FA Cup seems to have stopped existing after the first round this year, funny that...

Meanwhile, as if to prove my point above about the Meeja, here's the first paragraph of the BBC's online write-up of the second-round draw:

"Conference South side Salisbury City have been handed a home tie against former European champions Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup second round."

"Accrington Stanley have put European Cup winners Nottingham Forest out of the League Cup in the 1st round!"

Salisbury...bloody hell. My dad's not as sharp as he once was. He though it was Sainsburys. Not disrespect to Salisbury, intended. My girlfriends a Notts County girl. She's seen more Forest matches though (such as the 7-1 demolition of Swindon and the 5-0 recent fun of Yeading). They were blabbing on about dumping Middlesborough, Southampton and Palace out the cup and how they wish they'd of got Man Utd. Wycombe deserved to beat them, completely underestimated the tie. Jermaine Easter looked allright. Give him a few years and who knows.

In the meantime could I tempt any supporters to pressure their club into buying one Neil Harris?

Welsh too

I ran the rule over him in FM2007 but decided against it in the end.

Apart from Berwick Rangers, obv

Hmm, yeah, Neil Harris is somewhat useless. He gets stuck in. But then again, so do the grounds keepers, and one of them got a job at the new wembley.

Presumably Dave B is better placed to answer this.

Actually, don't. They're both shitholes.

Ahem. Anyway, I knew it. We'll beat them at White Hart Lane so that's something I suppose.

great comeback by Fulham - seems a pity tho

Everyone played well for Spurs tonight, but Cardiff had nothing to give really. I've never been at a match with that many police though.

How many goals has Rooney scored against Pompey for Everton and Man Ure? TOO MANY !

I think the first one was karma for Mendes's Spurs 'goal' a couple of years. The second was just silly. Still, great (second) goal by Rooney in the end.

Couple of great Cup goals over the weekend. Forget Rooney, it's all about NUGENT.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQRusUJBiUA

And Theo who?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb1H6p7yn30

They had a half chance in the second half.

Mourinho said: "I found it funny because the left-back was kicking people and ready to fight everybody. I told Steve Clarke 'he will kill him' and before I'd finished he did. Yes, funny."

divorce proceedings?

Chelsea v Blackpool or Norwich
Watford v Ipswich
Preston v Man City
Plymouth v Derby County
Man Utd v Reading
Arsenal or Bolton v Blackburn
Bristol City or Middlesbrough v West Bromwich Albion
Fulham v Tottenham

(I think this is why Celtic bought Jan VENNEGOOR OF HESSELINK after the move for Jimmy FLOYD HASSELBAINK fell through)

More of the same for Chelsea. More of the same for Man Utd. More of the same for Arsenal (if they get there).

Wish Chelsea and Man United would have some real competition.

Even if we beat Arsenal, we'd lose to Blackburn anyway, simply because we really shouldn't.

omg i was going to put a few quid on Muntari to score first 5 mins ago :/