Darlo Uncovered

As above

that will do

they will bring a few, getting ahead of myself I know

Yep few games to go first

Good draw. Winnable. Now the hard work to get there. Howay lads

Yep winnable

Glad to be at home, not sure its that winnable!, they are one of the strongest teams in the draw, 4th in League 1 and in QF of the League cup. Would probably be a live game too.

Good draw that. If we get through it's a big home game. If we don't get through the replay, it's not going to be devestating like missing out on Sunderland would have been!

al_quaker wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 11, 2019 7:31 pm

Good draw that. If we get through it's a big home game. If we don't get through the replay, it's not going to be devestating like missing out on Sunderland would have been!

Not as devastating as thinking you've got Sunderland away, actually winning our replay for once - then the realisation that we're away to Gillingham.

Ghost_Of_1883 wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 11, 2019 7:35 pm

al_quaker wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 11, 2019 7:31 pm

Good draw that. If we get through it's a big home game. If we don't get through the replay, it's not going to be devestating like missing out on Sunderland would have been!

Not as devastating as thinking you've got Sunderland away, actually winning our replay for once - then the realisation that we're away to Gillingham.

Yes good point

tezza wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 11, 2019 7:24 pm

Good draw. Winnable. Now the hard work to get there. Howay lads

There's 3 leagues between us!

That's like if we were mid table in L2, drawing Man U at home and thinking it is winnable.

Rather have this than Sunderland away

Oxford are a much stronger team than you give them credit for, will be extremely difficult to win

al_quaker wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 11, 2019 7:31 pm

Good draw that. If we get through it's a big home game. If we don't get through the replay, it's not going to be devestating like missing out on Sunderland would have been!

Most frustrating replay was the homw to peterbrough game when we had Newcastle in the next round. 2 missed penalties by Conlon if I remember correctly.

Darlo_lad wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 11, 2019 8:51 pm

al_quaker wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 11, 2019 7:31 pm

Good draw that. If we get through it's a big home game. If we don't get through the replay, it's not going to be devestating like missing out on Sunderland would have been!

Most frustrating replay was the homw to peterbrough game when we had Newcastle in the next round. 2 missed penalties by Conlon if I remember correctly.

An upsetting night out.

Darlo_lad wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 11, 2019 8:51 pm

al_quaker wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 11, 2019 7:31 pm

Good draw that. If we get through it's a big home game. If we don't get through the replay, it's not going to be devestating like missing out on Sunderland would have been!

Most frustrating replay was the homw to peterbrough game when we had Newcastle in the next round. 2 missed penalties by Conlon if I remember correctly.

Was it two? Only one sticks in my mind, and it's the one that is presumably still in orbit.

Darlo_lad wrote:

al_quaker wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 11, 2019 7:31 pm

Good draw that. If we get through it's a big home game. If we don't get through the replay, it's not going to be devestating like missing out on Sunderland would have been!

Most frustrating replay was the homw to peterbrough game when we had Newcastle in the next round. 2 missed penalties by Conlon if I remember correctly.

That wasn’t the replay, it was the original tie. Drew 2-2 in the home game. Lost 2-0 away in the replay.

IF we beat Walsall and IF the game is televised, it could possibly be on a Friday evening for a change.

To be fair I think we also threw away the opportunity to play Arsenal twice at Feethams suppose difference being the draw hadn't been made at that point.

Sure that was who Sheffield United ended up facing after we were undone by Dean Saunders in extra time after doing so I well to get them back even on aggregate.

I also think did Farnborough end up drawing them also after we lost at home to them having got to the third round.

Something suspicious going on here. Two home draws in half a day. The FA have slipped up drastically or they're planning to sabotage us.

joejaques wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 12, 2019 8:04 am

Something suspicious going on here. Two home draws in half a day. The FA have slipped up drastically or they're planning to sabotage us.

Absolutely right, probably end up playing in June due to fixture backlog. Nice problem to have though, Martin Gray would never have got us into this position!

I doubt the potential Oxford game will be on TV - from memory the tv companies make decisions before the replays are done, and they won't risk Walsall v Oxford! If it happens (if if if) then it might get moved to the Sunday for 'extended coverage' or whatever the bbc call it

I am very happy for the TV to look at Darlo v Oxford and say no it's not worth it.

Main reason is that this means we have actually managed to get through to the 2nd round of the FA Cup, which I don't expect us to and will just enjoy the night v Walsall for what it is.

super_les_mcjannet wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:33 am

Main reason is that this means we have actually managed to get through to the 2nd round of the FA Cup, which I don't expect us to and will just enjoy the night v Walsall for what it is.

Yes - we are massive underdogs for the replay, probably more so than the first game in my eyes. Even if we don't manage to pull off a shock, we've cleared probably getting on towards 100k (?) this season from the FA cup and we've had some national coverage for the first time in ages, let alone the physical enjoyment of our run. Nothing to lose from here

Jjljks Please let the Martin Grey obsession go . Enjoy things now for what they are without harking back to the past. Grey did a great job at the time steering us to 3 promotions and we should all remember that instead of sniping at him.Of course he let himself down with the manner of his leaving but time to move on.

Old Git wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:06 am

Jjljks Please let the Martin Grey obsession go . Enjoy things now for what they are without harking back to the past. Grey did a great job at the time steering us to 3 promotions and we should all remember that instead of sniping at him.Of course he let himself down with the manner of his leaving but time to move on.

He let himself down mainly by trying to bring Raj Singh back in as an owner of the football club. He had to leave after that as he had removed all credit and it started going wrong on the pitch whilst financially we were losing money (that part isn't totally down to Gray but he played a decent part).

Imagine Alun Armstrong on BBC match of the day explaining that one on Sunday.

"Well wor fans took over the club and ploughed in loads of money and then took back the one person who had sent them all the way down to the Northern League. The chairman doesn't like the club enough to lose money every week as he said that on TV when it all went down the pan but he still wanted to come back though because erm....."

However I agree on one thing, let's leave Gray out of this. It's Alun Armstongs team now and he is doing a very good job currently.

Nicely put super-les, however at the risk of repeating myself, this good run of form has been achieved without the input of dirty money. We were led to believe this wasn't possible.

It just shows what a good manager can do.

theoriginalfatcat wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:25 am

Nicely put super-les, however at the risk of repeating myself, this good run of form has been achieved without the input of dirty money. We were led to believe this wasn't possible.

It just shows what a good manager can do.

No, we were told that NLN was our level if we didn't get an input of money, not that it wasn't possible to have a good run of form!

theoriginalfatcat wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:25 am

Nicely put super-les, however at the risk of repeating myself, this good run of form has been achieved without the input of dirty money. We were led to believe this wasn't possible.

It just shows what a good manager can do.

It's a good discussion point but for a separate thread I would say.

Personally, I believe we could always compete at this level and be in with a shout for promotion especially once we had our finances sorted/500 club dropping off etc.

However, the big stumbling point is what we do if promoted, we could probably try and make the ground conference minimum, but we would struggle to compete on the pitch and costs off it would rise.

The decision on the ground and how we move forward as we all know is the biggest decision coming, for me I am happy taking time building the club rather than this insatiable need for football league which some have. We all would love that and it should be a long term target that we are working towards but a quick fix of someone throwing money at it is unlikely to happen or bring what is wanted.

Yarblockos wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:41 am

theoriginalfatcat wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:25 am

Nicely put super-les, however at the risk of repeating myself, this good run of form has been achieved without the input of dirty money. We were led to believe this wasn't possible.

It just shows what a good manager can do.

No, we were told that NLN was our level if we didn't get an input of money, not that it wasn't possible to have a good run of form!

To be fair some said we would stagnate slowly and drop to the Evo Prem, which isn't true in any way as long as the board are forward thinking.