Concentrating on the cups...

[HoylandOwl]

That's the word from our skipper...

I'll be there on Friday night.. Maybe even in Southampton too, next week. I love cup competitions, but more than any other, the FA Cup.

[mkowlthesexynewversion]

Few interesting scores yesterday meaning we could potentially get a proper banana 🍌 game.

Good news is it would be on TV 

Fun watching a few of the highlights as they put on the local radio commentary

[Tylluan]

Buxton at home please, the father in law used to play for them, although Buxton away would have more chance of being on tv

Edited November 6, 2022 by Tylluan

[HoylandOwl]

20 minutes ago, mkowlthesexynewversion said:

Few interesting scores yesterday meaning we could potentially get a proper banana 🍌 game.

Good news is it would be on TV 

Fun watching a few of the highlights as they put on the local radio commentary

The potential banana skin could also be an easier route to round three. You negative bugger. 🤣

[mkowlthesexynewversion]

21 minutes ago, Tylluan said:

Buxton at home please, the father in law used to play for them, although Buxton away would have more chance of being on tv

Buxton play on artificial turf which would be a different challenge. New ways for our centre halves to get injured I guess 

[mkowlthesexynewversion]

17 minutes ago, HoylandOwl said:

The potential banana skin could also be an easier route to round three. You negative bugger. 🤣

True - and yes after 48 years of watching Wednesday that is my default position but looking at the empirical evidence the science would say those with a positive mindset are the deluded ones 😉

[HoylandOwl]

Still. Miserable bugger.

 

[mkowlthesexynewversion]

29 minutes ago, HoylandOwl said:

Still. Miserable bugger.

 

The purveyor of opinions that speak the brutal truth as opposed to living in a fantasy world with a chip on both shoulders where history counts for everything 

Sadly whilst we as a fan base live on borrowed memories and perception of grandeur we ain't going anywhere 

[HoylandOwl]

I don’t have a perception of grandeur. I just try to be optimistic 🤣

[Owling_Wolf]

48 minutes ago, mkowlthesexynewversion said:

The purveyor of opinions that speak the brutal truth as opposed to living in a fantasy world with a chip on both shoulders where history counts for everything 

Sadly whilst we as a fan base live on borrowed memories and perception of grandeur we ain't going anywhere 

They'd have shot you in the war!   😁

[mkowlthesexynewversion]

56 minutes ago, HoylandOwl said:

I don’t have a perception of grandeur. I just try to be optimistic 🤣

And my friend when it comes to SWFC that is where you are going wrong. 

Think the worst and be pleasantly surprised when it's not shit.

[mkowlthesexynewversion]

16 minutes ago, Owling_Wolf said:

They'd have shot you in the war!   😁

I would have survived if they had asked one of centre forwards to get the shot on target and there is a lot to aim at really 

[Andyben]

FA Cup hasn't started yet @HoylandOwl.

[Skamp]

FA CUP SECOND ROUND BALL NUMBERS

1. Forest Green Rovers

2. Barnsley

3. Boreham Wood

4. Curzon Ashton or Cambridge United

5. Dagenham & Redbridge

6. Accrington Stanley

7. Solihull Moors or Hartlepool United

8. AFC Fylde or Gillingham

9. Peterborough United or Salford City

10. Farnborough

11. Grimsby Town

12. Milton Keynes Dons

13. Ebbsfleet United

14. Carlisle United AFC

15. Bracknell Town or Ipswich Town

16. Chippenham Town

17. Sheffield Wednesday

18. Portsmouth

19. Shrewsbury Town

20. Buxton

21. Charlton Athletic

22. Weymouth or AFC Wimbledon

23. Newport County AFC

24. Stockport County

25. King’s Lynn Town

26. Stevenage

27. Fleetwood Town

28. Burton Albion

29. Harrogate Town

30. Exeter City

31. Torquay United or Derby County

32. Bristol Rovers

33. Walsall

34. Wrexham

35. Crewe Alexandra

36. Barnet or Chelmsford City

37. Woking or Oxford United

38. Chesterfield 

39. Alvechurch

40. Mansfield Town

 

[HoylandOwl]

For those who hadn’t seen….

This is why Cameron Dawson didn’t play on Friday night…..

And won’t against Southampton. 

[HoylandOwl]

And…. The club will receive £41,000 for progressing to round two of the FA Cup. 

[mkowlthesexynewversion]

Mansfield then, no history there then 

[owl4ever1867]

Wanted someone like Ebbsfleet at S6, give them a payday.

But I suppose them twats will have to do.

[mkowlthesexynewversion]

And it's a warm welcome back to Hillsborough to do the HT draw to Fernando Forestieri

[Reesh]

18 minutes ago, owl4ever1867 said:

Wanted someone like Ebbsfleet at S6, give them a payday.

But I suppose them twats will have to do.

Why Ebbsfleet? 

[owl4ever1867]

2 minutes ago, Reesh said:

Why Ebbsfleet? 

Lower league team, good day out for their fans and a nice financial boost to go with it.

[Reesh]

Random stat

This will be the 15th meeting between the teams competitively 

5 wins

5 draws

4 losses

All our wins have been in the cups, they are unbeaten in the league against us.

 

 

[Reesh]

3 minutes ago, owl4ever1867 said:

Lower league team, good day out for their fans and a nice financial boost to go with it.

Buxton, Alvechurch, Chippenham, Kings Lynn etc for me.

I can't ever take Ebbsfleet seriously after they did that Myclub experiment. 

[HoylandOwl]

https://www.swfc.co.uk/news/2022/november/owls-to-host-mansfield-in-round-two/

[Reesh]

Looking at the draw in full, not many ties that stand out.

[Reesh]

You assume it won't be scheduled for the Friday with England playing that night.

[M42Owl]

First season I started going to a few away games (mid 70s) I saw us at Chesterfield, Halifax, Mansfield. 
Lost the lot. But 3-0 at Mansfield was by far the worst. Night match: cold, wet and seemed a long way back to Stocksbridge. Depressing.

[Reesh]

9 minutes ago, M42Owl said:

First season I started going to a few away games (mid 70s) I saw us at Chesterfield, Halifax, Mansfield. 
Lost the lot. But 3-0 at Mansfield was by far the worst. Night match: cold, wet and seemed a long way back to Stocksbridge. Depressing.

Poor bugger.

[Skamp]

Went to the 1-1 at theirs in 1980. Fuck me, what a shit hole. That many Wednesday fans crammed into a shitty part of thd ground, we hardly saw any of the game as the pitch was impossible to see from our angle.

 

Vowed never to go back and see no reason to think otherwise today. 

[Reesh]

3 minutes ago, Skamp said:

Went to the 1-1 at theirs in 1980. Fuck me, what a shit hole. That many Wednesday fans crammed into a shitty part of thd ground, we hardly saw any of the game as the pitch was impossible to see from our angle.

 

Vowed never to go back and see no reason to think otherwise today. 

Went to a Friendly in 05 I think it was and thought same about never returning 

Edited November 7, 2022 by Reesh

[Billysboy]

29 minutes ago, Skamp said:

Went to the 1-1 at theirs in 1980. Fuck me, what a shit hole. That many Wednesday fans crammed into a shitty part of thd ground, we hardly saw any of the game as the pitch was impossible to see from our angle.

 

Vowed never to go back and see no reason to think otherwise today. 

Was that the game Andy McCulloch got his 100th goal.

[Reesh]

19 minutes ago, Billysboy said:

Was that the game Andy McCulloch got his 100th goal.

Andy Mac did score 

[HarrySpeakup]

He chested a corner in at the near post 

[Billysboy]

Just remember the next home game was a picture of him with his arms aloft in the match day programme with the words “100 goals” or words to that effect.

[Tylluan]

2 hours ago, Reesh said:

Buxton, Alvechurch, Chippenham, Kings Lynn etc for me.

I can't ever take Ebbsfleet seriously after they did that Myclub experiment. 

Hawksbee and Jacobs had a player on from Alvechurch and he said he wanted us at Hillsborough. Pity they got Forest Green instead. 

[Reesh]

1 hour ago, holmesfield_owl said:

We played shit, I felt shit, they probably felt hungover as players having just returned from Copa Ibiza. Can understand why the state some of the players and us were in!

States weren't it?