FA Trophy

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Should we have a serious tilt at winning the FA Trophy?

Yes
17
40%
No
10
23%
Start to take it seriously if we reach the quarter-finals
16
37%
 
Total votes: 43

Hog
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Post by Hog »

Am I really the only one going to the Pain Trophy match?
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Post by Snake »

&quotHog&quot wrote:Am I really the only one going to the Pain Trophy match?
This one is not as much of a pain(t) as the FA Trophy because we could possibly win it now that we’re allowed to enter, so you won’t be on your own! Well done in planning to go there and I’m sure the glory hunters (like me) will turn up later in much bigger numbers (i.e. 10-20k) if we get all the way to Wembley, though that depends on the opposition...

i.e. In my dreams we would have stuffed Luton at the play-off Final in front of eighty thousand fans instead of doing that to York City with just forty three thousand present (in the main due to their relatively pitiful away following on the day) so I’m not giving up on a decent day out in the JPT at any stage of the competition as unlike last year there are still some big teams I’d like to see Us play (and beat) and we do need a win right now.

In essence I think we should try to go for this one.
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&quotHog&quot wrote:Am I really the only one going to the Pain Trophy match?
I doubt it - some peopleseem to be predicting large numbers of Oxford fans turning up. I think they're wrong though.
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Post by Hog »

Well no-one I know is going as far as I know which means I'll have to have a pint on my own! Even my 14 year old daughter has chosen to go football training and miss her first game of the season!
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&quotHog&quot wrote:Well no-one I know is going as far as I know which means I'll have to have a pint on my own! Even my 14 year old daughter has chosen to go football training and miss her first game of the season!
I assume you enjoyed your pre-match refreshment more than the post-game beer?

I think that even if we’d had the distraction of going all the way to Wembley we’d have been pleased to have taken half as many fans to London as we did last time for what is after all a Poxy Competition by Oxford United standards.

Bring on the draw for the FA Cup...
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I know, I know, and I hold up my hands in error as in the past I’ve been one of the biggest deriders of this tin pot non-League competition, but over the last 15 years Wrexham have had even more disasters to deal with than Oxford United and so it was a privilege and a truly joyous occasion to be there at Wembley this afternoon, along with other members of my family who managed to dig themselves out of the snow just to get to there.
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Yippee, what a wonderful competition. Off to Wembley again on March 29th :-)
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Post by Hog »

You're very loyal Snake! ;-)
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Post by Eric Pollard »

Easy to glory hunt when you follow six teams. :lol:
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Post by Kernow Yellow »

Snake wrote:
Postby Snake » Thu Apr 03, 2008 10:25 pm
This is the last posting on this thread by me EVER (promise).
Ahem. Glad someone's still interested in the tinpot Trophy though 8)
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Kernow Yellow wrote: Ahem. Glad someone's still interested in the tinpot Trophy though 8)
The Premier League, apparently: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31702424
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What’s a “Premier League B team”, ffs? Do they mean the teams they trot out in the early rounds of the League Cup?
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What a final that was. Incredible. Gutted and drained now, but well done North Ferriby.
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Post by OUFC4eva »

How on earth did Wrexham manage to lose that
from being 2-0 up with ten minutes or so left?
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OUFC4eva wrote:How on earth did Wrexham manage to lose that
from being 2-0 up with ten minutes or so left?
God only knows. But at the end a lot of fans were chanting for the managers head. 24 hours later they got their wish. Funny old game is footie.
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