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Here's your 4th Qualifying Round tomorrow, as the draw isn't regionalised we could get any of the winners here or another League One or Two team.

FC Halifax Town VS Tranmere Rovers
Solihull Moors VS Ossett Town
South Shields VS Hartlepool United
Chorley VS Boston United
AFC Telford United VS FC United Of Manchester
Harrogate Town VS Gainsborough Trinity
Nantwich Town VS Kettering Town
Buxton VS Gateshead
Guiseley AFC VS Shildon
AFC Fylde VS Wrexham
Kidderminster Harriers VS Chester
Scarborough Athletic VS Hyde United
Stourbridge VS Macclesfield Town
Brackley Town VS Billericay Town
Dagenham & Redbridge VS Leyton Orient
Eastleigh VS Hereford
Aldershot Town VS Torquay United
Bath City VS Chelmsford City
Oxford City VS Bognor Regis Town
Shaw Lane Association VS Barrow AFC
Maidenhead United VS Havant & Waterlooville
Haringey Borough VS Heybridge Swifts
Woking VS Concord Rangers
Hampton & Richmond Borough VS Truro City
Dover Athletic VS Bromley
Slough Town VS Folkestone Invicta
Burgess Hill Town VS Dartford
Maidstone United VS Enfield Town
Margate VS Leatherhead
Paulton Rovers VS Sutton United
East Thurrock United VS Ebbsfleet United
St Albans City VS Boreham Wood

Quoted from Meza

Salford please at home.

You'll be lucky. They lost at home to York a couple of rounds back!

Shaw Lane Association please.

Billericay, Heybridge Swifts or Chelmsford away please

Failing that anyone except S Shields

Quoted from pizzzza

Shaw Lane Association please.

yeh i nice trip to Barnsley would be fine or Trinity/Harrogate.

it will be the shrews at home :)

A trip to the seaside to play Scarborough would be good!

Although thinking about it, I'm up in Scotland that weekend so will miss the First Round whoever we draw.

I'm going along to Ross County on 1st Round day to watch Ross v Motherwell (see how Richard Tait is getting on)

Scunts at home for me.

Dodnt know that but atleast were not going to see them smug terwats on tv lol.

Wrexham at home then.

Worst team left at home then the same in round 2 before something money-spinning.

Peterborough away 😜

Wimbledon away would be handy. Failing that Sutton.

Shrewsbury at home, 0-4 followed by much ear cupping
It is written

Quoted from sutton mariner

Sutton away ;)

Sutton?

Jack, you told me at the Lincoln game you were moving to Hollywood as you wanted to be the next Harvey Weinstein.......how’s that going?

Any non league team at home or the Wobblers away for me. One away game I can walk to then!

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

Worst team left at home then the same in round 2 before something money-spinning.

We are not allowed to play with ourselves

Quoted from golfer

We are not allowed to play with ourselves

Wrong forum :)

Sutton or leatherhead away please

Someone excrement at home

Afc Fylde away for me - great little new ground but I'd wave my box of Pringles each team Town score ;)

A tie that we can win or a tie we can make a load of money off. The same every year until we get to round three and then it’s one of the top six home or away every time. That said I was really disappointed to draw Huddersfield at home in R3 the other year but it turned out to be one of the better, more memorable cup games I’ve seen us play.

Quoted from Simariner

FA Cup 1st round draw is Monday.

Who would you want?

I'd like to avoid any league clubs. Harrogate play Gainsborough tomorrow so winner of that would be nice. Otherwise Bignots Chester? Boston, Scarborough? (that's if they progress tomorrow)

Any of those five would be a good call, every single one a good drinking town.

Quoted from LH

A tie that we can win or a tie we can make a load of money off. The same every year until we get to round three and then it’s one of the top six home or away every time. That said I was really disappointed to draw Huddersfield at home in R3 the other year but it turned out to be one of the better, more memorable cup games I’ve seen us play.

Good call. If it's a home game, because of our limited capacity, it makes no odds if it's Chelsea or Sheff Wed to the gate receipts.

Quoted from golfer

We are not allowed to play with ourselves

You'll go blind.(eek)

Either a very winnable game home or away or a home tie v a local rival to bring in a full house

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Good call. If it's a home game, because of our limited capacity, it makes no odds if it's Chelsea or Sheff Wed to the gate receipts.

Chelsea would (probably) mean TV money though.

South Shields VS Hartlepool United

Should be a good game on and off the pitch.
Pound to a pinch of excrement we will get the winner.

Away to a tiny non league team. Welling, although not so tiny would be great. We haven't won ANY cup game since we returned to the Football League!

The first round draw takes place on Monday 16 October, following the conclusion of the weekend’s fourth round qualifying ties.

The draw will take place live at 7pm on BT Sport and BBC2, with the first round ties taking place over the weekend of 3-6 November 2017.

Full list of draw numbers:

1 ACCRINGTON STANLEY
2 AFC WIMBLEDON
3 BARNET
4 BLACKBURN ROVERS
5 BLACKPOOL
6 BRADFORD CITY
7 BRISTOL ROVERS
8 BURY
9 CAMBRIDGE UNITED
10 CARLISLE UNITED
11 CHARLTON ATHLETIC
12 CHELTENHAM TOWN
13 CHESTERFIELD
14 COLCHESTER UNITED
15 COVENTRY CITY
16 CRAWLEY TOWN
17 CREWE ALEXANDRA
18 DONCASTER ROVERS
19 EXETER CITY
20 FLEETWOOD TOWN
21 FOREST GREEN ROVERS
22 GILLINGHAM
23 GRIMSBY TOWN
24 LINCOLN CITY
25 LUTON TOWN
26 MANSFIELD TOWN
27 MILTON KEYNES DONS
28 MORECAMBE
29 NEWPORT COUNTY
30 NORTHAMPTON TOWN
31 NOTTS COUNTY
32 OLDHAM ATHLETIC
33 OXFORD UNITED
34 PETERBOROUGH UNITED
35 PLYMOUTH ARGYLE
36 PORT VALE
37 PORTSMOUTH
38 ROCHDALE
39 ROTHERHAM UNITED
40 SCUNTHORPE UNITED
41 SHREWSBURY TOWN
42 SOUTHEND UNITED
43 STEVENAGE
44 SWINDON TOWN
45 WALSALL
46 WIGAN ATHLETIC
47 WYCOMBE WANDERERS
48 YEOVIL TOWN
49 FC HALIFAX TOWN OR TRANMERE ROVERS
50 SOLIHULL MOORS OR OSSETT TOWN
51 SOUTH SHIELDS OR HARTLEPOOL UNITED
52 SHAW LANE ASSOCIATION OR BARROW
53 CHORLEY OR BOSTON UNITED
54 AFC TELFORD UNITED OR FC UNITED OF MANCHESTER
55 HARROGATE TOWN OR GAINSBOROUGH TRINITY
56 NANTWICH TOWN OR KETTERING TOWN
57 BUXTON OR GATESHEAD
58 GUISELEY OR SHILDON
59 AFC FYLDE OR WREXHAM
60 KIDDERMINSTER HARRIERS OR CHESTER
61 SCARBOROUGH ATHLETIC OR HYDE UNITED
62 STOURBRIDGE OR MACCLESFIELD TOWN
63 BRACKLEY TOWN OR BILLERICAY TOWN
64 DAGENHAM & REDBRIDGE OR LEYTON ORIENT
65 EASTLEIGH OR HEREFORD
66 ALDERSHOT TOWN OR TORQUAY UNITED
67 BATH CITY OR CHELMSFORD CITY
68 OXFORD CITY OR BOGNOR REGIS TOWN
69 MAIDENHEAD UNITED OR HAVANT & WATERLOOVILLE
70 HARINGEY BOROUGH OR HEYBRIDGE SWIFTS
71 WOKING OR CONCORD RANGERS
72 HAMPTON & RICHMOND BOROUGH OR TRURO CITY
73 DOVER ATHLETIC OR BROMLEY
74 SLOUGH TOWN OR FOLKESTONE INVICTA
75 BURGESS HILL TOWN OR DARTFORD
76 ST ALBANS CITY OR BOREHAM WOOD
77 MAIDSTONE UNITED OR ENFIELD TOWN
78 MARGATE OR LEATHERHEAD
79 PAULTON ROVERS OR SUTTON UNITED
80 EAST THURROCK UNITED OR EBBSFLEET UNITED

Paulton Rovers at home....for no other reason than they sound a bit Roy of the Rovers ish.

I wonder if their star striker is called Paul Pace ?

Folkestone, home or away. Knocked the mighty ducks out in the last round. Home would be fine coz they are pretty Shiite, away coz it's a nice little town, good number of decent boozers and a decent little ground. They also have the 'noisy boyz ' ( I kid you not) who are boys, but are definitely not very noisy!

Kettering away their 10 year old hooligans should be old enough to give a smack now ;D

Quoted from moosey_club

Paulton Rovers at home....for no other reason than they sound a bit Roy of the Rovers ish.

I wonder if their star striker is called Paul Pace ?

I watched Salisbury v Paulton last weekend and Paulton scored a cracker to win the game. skip to 3:25.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3mSNLMgQug

Someone utterly excrement at home

Shildon, the lowest rank side left.

Quoted from GrimRob

Someone utterly excrement at home

I take it you don't mean us Rob?! You'd like to watch two utterly excrement teams at BP ;D

Kidderminster or Nantwich away, if not biggest supported team (away following) at home

Quoted from Abdul19

Chelsea would (probably) mean TV money though.

That's why I said get receipts. Knowing the BBC they'd ignore it in favour of an all-Premier League fixture like Stoke v Bournemouth.

Quoted from forza ivano

Folkestone, home or away. Knocked the mighty ducks out in the last round. Home would be fine coz they are pretty Shiite, away coz it's a nice little town, good number of decent boozers and a decent little ground. They also have the 'noisy boyz ' ( I kid you not) who are boys, but are definitely not very noisy!

Folkestone would be nice. Used to live down there in the mid-80s. There used to be some good boozers as you say - there was one run by what must have been the inspiration for Al Murray's Pub Landlord, right down to the blazer.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

That's why I said get receipts. Knowing the BBC they'd ignore it in favour of an all-Premier League fixture like Stoke v Bournemouth.

Oh yes I know, I only mentioned that because LH talked about making money. I believe the correct term for a draw like that is "football fortune" ;)

Quoted from Abdul19

Oh yes I know, I only mentioned that because LH talked about making money. I believe the correct term for a draw like that is "football fortune" ;)

It's part of the master plan

Quoted from arryarryarry

You'll go blind.(eek)

If I have to sit looking at that garbage on show today I wish I did it more often

Vale away, easy one for me to get to as I'm certainly not going out of my way to get to a match when this is the quality

Quoted from kevikov

I take it you don't mean us Rob?! You'd like to watch two utterly excrement teams at BP ;D

As far as the FA Cup is concerned I only have one dream and that is to draw Man Utd away. So my one desire is to get easy draws until both our balls are nestling in the bag and I have memorised both numbers. I have sat in front of the TV numerous times and prayed to every god I can think of for this eventuality to happen and it never has, even Man Utd or YYYYYY v XXXXX or Grimsby Town would do me, but I don't think I have even experienced that partial conditional joy. Obviously winning the tournament without playing at OT would be an even greater experience, I have set myself a more modest life goal or just witnessing GTFC run out onto the Old Trafford pitch.

Well we won't be getting Scarborough or Harrogate.

http://www.thefa.com/competitions/thefacup/results

intercourse the money. Can we just draw someone who’ll entertain us please, football gods? We aren’t going to do it ourselves are we?

The fa cup run for the gimps last year, proved to be a catalyst for their season. Let's just hope it does something similar if we were to be as fortunate.

wonder if we would be on tv, should we draw the Shrews again.

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

The fa cup run for the gimps last year, proved to be a catalyst for their season. Let's just hope it does something similar if we were to be as fortunate.

wonder if we would be on tv, should we draw the Shrews again.

The only way we would get chosen for TV would be if we got drawn against one of the lowest ranked teams left in the competition.

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

The fa cup run for the gimps last year, proved to be a catalyst for their season. Let's just hope it does something similar if we were to be as fortunate.

wonder if we would be on tv, should we draw the Shrews again.

The only way a Grimsby/Shrewsbury game would be shown on TV in the FA Cup would be if it was the semi or the final!

Quoted from GrimRob

The only way a Grimsby/Shrewsbury game would be shown on TV in the FA Cup would be if it was the semi or the final!

I bet even then they'd show a mid-table premiership game.

Quoted from forza ivano

Folkestone, home or away. Knocked the mighty ducks out in the last round. Home would be fine coz they are pretty Shiite, away coz it's a nice little town, good number of decent boozers and a decent little ground. They also have the 'noisy boyz ' ( I kid you not) who are boys, but are definitely not very noisy!

This! I'd prefer away. Folkestone is on the up...honest! It's a town that has a wealthy benefactor (Saga) and is doing a huge amount of work developing its "culture" and it's a case study for Grimsby Councillors and their new grand regeneration project. It has a high speed link to London (I admit Grimsby will struggle to get one of those), the channel tunnel (and one of those) and a lot going for it now. It's been a real dump for a long time but things are changing. Like you say, some good pubs and anywhere with a Martello Tower is worth a trip.

Quoted from Southwark Mariner

This! I'd prefer away. Folkestone is on the up...honest! It's a town that has a wealthy benefactor (Saga) and is doing a huge amount of work developing its "culture" and it's a case study for Grimsby Councillors and their new grand regeneration project. It has a high speed link to London (I admit Grimsby will struggle to get one of those), the channel tunnel (and one of those) and a lot going for it now. It's been a real dump for a long time but things are changing. Like you say, some good pubs and anywhere with a Martello Tower is worth a trip.

Fill your boots:

http://kentpoi.co.uk/historic/martello/index.html

Don't recall seeing the one in Hythe that had been converted into a house. Do they still have that carnival parade on the military canal at Hythe?

Providing they win their replay on Tuesday against Brackley.

BILLERICAY away please.

Got some mad millionaire backing them and is the football version on the only way is Essex!

Have Paul Kochensky, Jamie o Hara and Jermaine Pennant playing for them!

Plus it’s 1.6 miles from my house :)

Ball number 23 tonight...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41624112

Donny or Rotherham away

We will beat them UTM

excrement draw😟

Always like a trip to Plymouth. Got friends there and it’s a great place to spend the weekend. It’s a long way but it’s worth it. Barbican is a great area for a few drinks.

Talking of Man Utd, they are the only team we have never played in my lifetime, and I was born in 1953.

Law of averages must mean that we must draw them soon.

Quoted from mimma

Talking of Man Utd, they are the only team we have never played in my lifetime, and I was born in 1953.

Law of averages must mean that we must draw them soon.

I bet Rob's got a mathematical model (and I don't mean her off of Countdown) to prove otherwise.

Live games announced.

Hyde United v MK Dons. Friday 3rd Nov BBC2 19:55ko
Shaw Lane Association v Mansfield. Sat 4th Nov BT Sport 1 12:30ko
Chorley v Fleetwood Town Mon 6th Nov BT Sport 1 19:45ko

I assume they will announce the games switched to Sunday very soon.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

I bet Rob's got a mathematical model (and I don't mean her off of Countdown) to prove otherwise.

There is no such thing as the law of averages! What happened in the past has no influence on the future.

I'd say we have about a 1 in 4 change of beating Plymouth, and maybe a 1 in 4 chance of making in through to Round 3 should we get to Round 2. There are 32 matches in the 3rd round so the chances of drawing Man Utd (home or away) in the third round are 4 x 4 x 32 = 512. 1024 if you specifically want to be at OT. Obviously there is also the chance of making it through the third round and drawing them in the 4th or subsequent rounds. But I'd say it's at least 400/1 that we play Man Utd this year! As for Old Trafford itself that's going to be more like 800/1!

Like Les says the 2pm Sunday games are out soon with 2 already confirmed.

Cambridge v Sutton
Exeter v Heybridge Swifts

Quoted from GrimRob

There is no such thing as the law of averages! What happened in the past has no influence on the future.

I'd say we have about a 1 in 4 change of beating Plymouth, and maybe a 1 in 4 chance of making in through to Round 3 should we get to Round 2. There are 32 matches in the 3rd round so the chances of drawing Man Utd (home or away) in the third round are 4 x 4 x 32 = 512. 1024 if you specifically want to be at OT. Obviously there is also the chance of making it through the third round and drawing them in the 4th or subsequent rounds. But I'd say it's at least 400/1 that we play Man Utd this year! As for Old Trafford itself that's going to be more like 800/1!

Heh heh! I was right.

I win my bet.

Quoted from GrimRob

There is no such thing as the law of averages! What happened in the past has no influence on the future.

I'd say we have about a 1 in 4 change of beating Plymouth, and maybe a 1 in 4 chance of making in through to Round 3 should we get to Round 2. There are 32 matches in the 3rd round so the chances of drawing Man Utd (home or away) in the third round are 4 x 4 x 32 = 512. 1024 if you specifically want to be at OT. Obviously there is also the chance of making it through the third round and drawing them in the 4th or subsequent rounds. But I'd say it's at least 400/1 that we play Man Utd this year! As for Old Trafford itself that's going to be more like 800/1!

xc2 +ghtx2=ui + cur==800/2=400 You are spot on again Rob

Games now on the Sunday 2pm.

Cambridge United v Sutton United
Guiseley AFC v Accrington Stanley
Leatherhead v Billericay Town
Dartford v Swindon Town
Woking v Bury
Solihull Moors v Wycombe Wanderers
Charlton Athletic v Truro City
Exeter City v Heybridge Swifts

As well as these the games....

...Port Vale v Oxford and Notts County v Bristol Rovers have been switch to the Friday evening and Newport v Walsall with be shown live on S4C on the Saturday, kick off 5:15pm.