The draw for the FA Cup 1st Round is on Sunday, we are ball 23.

Who do we fancy, although we'll probably get a crap draw like Wycombe or Oxford away.

Bracknell Town      VS      Dagenham & Redbridge      
Scarborough Athletic      VS      Oxford City           
Altrincham      VS      Oldham Athletic AFC           
FC Halifax Town      VS      Marine           
Worksop Town      VS      Boston United           
AFC Fylde      VS      Leek Town      
Hereford      VS      Rochdale AFC           
York City      VS      Needham Market           
Solihull Moors      VS      Biggleswade Town           
Chesterfield      VS      Kettering Town           
Alfreton Town      VS      Macclesfield           
Hartlepool United      VS      Chester           
Chelmsford City      VS      Whitby Town           
Curzon Ashton      VS      Tamworth           
Kidderminster Harriers      VS      Ashton United           
Stourbridge      VS      Gateshead           
Aldershot Town      VS      Lewes           
Torquay United      VS      Maidstone United           
AFC Totton      VS      Ramsgate           
Aveley      VS      Barnet
Hemel Hempstead Town      VS      Woking           
Horsham      VS      Dorking Wanderers           
Eastleigh      VS      Dover Athletic           
Yeovil Town      VS      Southend United           
Bromley      VS      Wealdstone           
Weston Super Mare      VS      Maidenhead United           
Braintree Town      VS      Chesham United           
Worthing      VS      Bath City           
Boreham Wood      VS      Welling United           
Cray Valley (PM)      VS      Enfield Town           
Ebbsfleet United      VS      Slough Town           
Billericay Town      VS      Sheppey United

Mansfield would make a nice change. Hopefully we could take them to a replay as well.

Boston aways a good day out  ;)

York away. New ground, pss easy on the train from Grantham, lots of good pubs

Whitby Town away.

Weirdly, it’s difficult to muster an opinion as to who I’d want. Last season we conspired to get virtually the worst conceivable draw on five consecutive occasions, and yet somehow managed to turn it into comfortably the most memorable and incredible FA cup campaign the club has had in living memory.

For all the talk of turgid football of late, much of it valid by the way, we haven’t half witnessed some incredible twists and turns of fate this past 18 months or so.

Funny old game, innit.

Can’t be any worse than our first round draw last year, or indeed the second, third, and fourth too.

Quoted from RonMariner

Can’t be any worse than our first round draw last year, or indeed the second, third, and fourth too.

The QF draw was about the worst possible in terms of opposition and cash receipts as well. Blackburn at home would have been the most winnable, the Mancs away for cash. The others similar for cash but definitely more winnable.

We’re due a home tie

Last 3 in the Fa Cup were away as was Mansfield in the League cup

Any of the following AWAY....

Bracknell Town      
Scarborough Athletic
Oxford City          
FC Halifax Town
Marine          
Worksop Town      
AFC Fylde
Leek Town      
York City
Needham Market          
Solihull Moors
Biggleswade Town          
Kettering Town          
Chelmsford City
Whitby Town          
Curzon Ashton        
Ashton United          
Stourbridge
Lewes          
Maidstone United          
AFC Totton
Ramsgate          
Aveley      
Hemel Hempstead Town              
Horsham
Dorking Wanderers          
Weston Super Mare
Chesham United          
Worthing
Bath City          
Cray Valley (PM)
Enfield Town          
Ebbsfleet United
Slough Town          
Billericay Town
Sheppey United
Harrogate Town
Sutton United
Charlton Athletic
Fleetwood Town
Wigan Athletic


....as they would be NEW GROUNDS for me.

Marine would be interesting. Mariners v Mariners.

The Waders away would be very convenient but I suspect Solihull Moors will put paid to that prospect

Weston super mere away would be good 👍
20 minutes up the motorway for me. Or yeovil  8)

Scarborough Athletic away, a couple of nights in Scarborough would be nice 😀😀

Leek away quickie for me.

Away at Altrincham or Oldham

Who do I want? Anyone at home that we can beat. Can’t buy a result away atm. Get through and use it as a confidence builder for the league games, would be nice to get through to at least 3rd round again, though the league is priority.

An early exit won’t go down well so just avoid anybody decent.

Whichever team is the lowest ranked team in the Round 1 draw please

We're really poor away so a localish lower ranked team at home please, Boston say.

I would make an exception for York away tho!

Whitby away, love it

Sheppy Utd for a good urine up in Medway . Quality.

I’m not sure it’s ever quite sunk in what we achieved last season. Whenever I meet someone new in industry and they ask me who my team is, their reaction purely revolves around the FA Cup last season.

I will admit to being one of the very few who sloped off at the end of the Brighton match as I cannot abide losing so heavily against anyone, but deep down I knew we’d probably never experience the likes again. It’s quite sad really.

Anyway, let’s see what we can do this season. A 3rd round draw against Man Utd away would possibly tick off one of my final to-do’s, so let’s see…..

Quoted from smokey111

Whitby Town away.

If it was played on the Saturday 3.00pm k.o. you might just about get the return train to Pickering on the North Yorkshire Moors railway but it would be a dash from the ground to get to the station for 5.15pm. Depends how much time a dopey ref might add on.

Anyone  at home would be nice for a change

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Sheppy Utd for a good urine up in Medway . Quality.

HHmmm i could do thst one too a cheeky run out .
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A winnable home game or Derby away

Think the draw is live on ITV 1 tomorrow, Sunday, at 2.30 pm.

Quoted from arryarryarry

If it was played on the Saturday 3.00pm k.o. you might just about get the return train to Pickering on the North Yorkshire Moors railway but it would be a dash from the ground to get to the station for 5.15pm. Depends how much time a dopey ref might add on.

Ronnie f***king Pickering?


You know it’s gonna be someone like Wrexham/Peterborough/Wigan away

Quoted from The Caterham Mariner

HHmmm i could do thst one too a cheeky run out .
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After today's  performance  and  "Hurst Out" building up ..Save my petrol money is coming to mind to a FA Cup match with in a 2Hr to 2 and half hour drive or train ride ticket.
Ummmm morale  abit low .

Quoted from 1mickylyons

A winnable home game or Derby away

Derby away it is then..

If we were drawn against Ragarse Rovers of the Beano we would have a job to get to the next round

Anyone but Mansfield,lower non league at home would be good as there would be a chance of tv money and a good day out for the opposition fans (it comes over arrogant but it’s not meant to)

Horrendous long trips again

Glamour tie this one lads n lasses....about as exciting as our current playing style tbh...

Lose there and it could be curtains for Hurst.

Awful draw miles away which ever it is

Quoted from grimsby pete

Lose there and it could be curtains for Hurst.

Please no! That’s three weeks away.

If it's Ebbsfleet we should get 2400 standing (Open Terrace) + a few seats.
If it's Slough we would only get 700 standing (Covered) + a few seats.

If it’s Slough, sup up your beer and collect your fags, there will be a big ruck if we lose…

Quoted from Grantham_Mariner

If it's Ebbsfleet we should get 2400 standing (Open Terrace) + a few seats.
If it's Slough we would only get 700 standing (Covered) + a few seats.

If it's Ebbsfleet  FYI then its Carpark C for £3 , and a 5 mins walk to the ground .
Slough not sure about, so we wait and see Course i will go ignore my last post about form / petrol / Hurst out moan it's Town.
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As we’re on 5he get rid off Hurst theme then be prepared for his pre match interview, which ever it is he’ll make them sound like Man City, that in my opinion had always been his problem, he big talks up every opposition to the point where he starts to believe it himself so decides the best option is to play defensively.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Please no! That’s three weeks away.

Curtains for the caretaker would be better

Replay is tomorrow night!

Ouch that's a bad draw potential banana skin either way 😕

Quoted from Les Brechin

Replay is tomorrow night!

Thought it was to be Tuesday 17th.

Critical few games

Stockport….lose
Colchester …win
Doncaster….who knows but want at least a point
FA cup …..win or bust
Morecambe …win
Forest green…draw
Sutton…win

Anything less and Hurst out

Quoted from Grantham_Mariner

Thought it was to be Tuesday 17th.

i assume it's tomorrow to not clash with the England game.

Quoted from Les Brechin

i assume it's tomorrow to not clash with the England game.

I would have thought so to, but both club web sites say Tuesday ?

Quoted from Grantham_Mariner

I would have thought so to, but both club web sites say Tuesday ?

I was just going off the BBC site.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/scores-fixtures

Quoted from Les Brechin

I was just going off the BBC site.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/scores-fixtures

It's changed or there now to the Tuesday!

Quoted from Poojah

Weirdly, it’s difficult to muster an opinion as to who I’d want. Last season we conspired to get virtually the worst conceivable draw on five consecutive occasions, and yet somehow managed to turn it into comfortably the most memorable and incredible FA cup campaign the club has had in living memory.

It is extremely unlikely we will be able to repeat last season's heroics, so thank goodness we weren't drawn against the League One leaders this year.

Ebbsfleet or Slough should be beatable, if our players have the right attitude.

I agree with Jockstrap: I'd prefer the lowest ranked team until the third round, and then hope for a trip to Old Trafford.

Slough go 1 up in the replay

Slough now 2-0 up

A glamour tie though this looks set to be, do we perhaps have an outside chance of making the TV for this one?

From a very quick glance, Slough look to be the third lowest ranked team (21st in the NLS) to be playing a league side at home (Billericay and Marine the other two). Ordinarily I’d still think no chance, but does our status as last season’s quarter finalists give us an edge? The TV broadcasters will have plenty of relevant stock footage for ads etc.

I was thinking the same Poojah.

I think Slough (a) has the potential to be absolutely excellent

Quoted from Jammin242

I was thinking the same Poojah.

I’ve jumped the gun slightly actually, in assuming Billericay would despatch Sheppey United (who I’d genuinely never heard of until this moment), but they’re currently 1-0 down.

Sheppey United v Walsall will be the first pick, if that result plays out.

Slough 2-0 up with 30 left

Chesterfield Portsmouth will be picked

Anybody been to Slough?

I have once….

Quoted from Hagrid

Chesterfield Portsmouth will be picked

Pah, when did Chesterfield make it to an FA Cup quarter-final?

Quoted from Poojah

Pah, when did Chesterfield make it to an FA Cup quarter-final?

Semi final wasn’t it? Late 1990s I think.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Semi final wasn’t it? Late 1990s I think.

Yeah, 2-0 up against a Boro side featuring the likes of Ravanelli and Juninho, ended up 3-2 down, equalised in the last minute and then lost the replay 3-0. Could have been a different story had it gone straight to pens, as it would today.

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!

2 nil full time. Bring on the rebels on their plastic pitch!

Chesterfield would have got to the FA Final if they had VAR goal line technology.  David Ellery was the referee who overruled the linesman who gave a goal.  It is accepted that Chesterfield had the ball over the line.  

When did we last play in a 2000 capacity ground?

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

Anybody been to Slough?

I have once….

Stayed at Premier Inn Slough a few years ago  and there was lots of broken glass in the car park ( small fragments) so assumed car window glass.
Windsor only 4 miles away - totally different environment

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

Anybody been to Slough?

I have once….

Yes..unfortunately..spent about 5 years living in Cippenham.

Surprise Surprise we arent on Tele


Somehow Crewe V Derby has been picked....

No surprise, Derby one of the biggest teams in the draw and drawn away from home.

Genuinely shocked that Wrexham at Mansfield wasn't picked up.

Derby at Crewe is proper lazy from the TV companies.  

Oh, yeah.  We've heard of them. Put them on.  Rooney's there still isn't he? No?  Ok.  Still, stick with them.

Quoted from diehardmariner

Genuinely shocked that Wrexham at Mansfield wasn't picked up.

Derby at Crewe is proper lazy from the TV companies.  

Oh, yeah.  We've heard of them. Put them on. Rooney's there still isn't he? No?  Ok.  Still, stick with them.

But I guarantee they will mention him though

Quoted from Teestogreen

Stayed at Premier Inn Slough a few years ago  and there was lots of broken glass in the car park ( small fragments) so assumed car window glass.
Windsor only 4 miles away - totally different environment

Thsat's me going by train then if i get a ticket
You've sold it to me not by car
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2pm Sunday 5th, confirmed.

500 tickets at £15 or tenner concessions.

On sale to ST holders Tuesday morning.

Quoted from ska face

2pm Sunday 5th, confirmed.

500 tickets at £15 or tenner concessions.

On sale to ST holders Tuesday morning.

500....Good luck there then.
Raise a glass of " Guardsman" from Windsor brewery
You chosen Few.

Ron Rafferty was born in Slough.

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

Anybody been to Slough?

I have once….

It’s not the nicest of places. Though, saying that it’s the same as anywhere in the commuter belt where city folk have moved into the soybeans and made sure that normal folk are priced out.

Did all the training and opening for the Nando’s there though can’t remember what the town centre pubs were like for some reason. In fact, it was the first time I’d ever tried ‘halal’ meat.

Just incase you are wondering though, wernham Hogg don’t have a premises there since moving over to America

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

It’s not the nicest of places. Though, saying that it’s the same as anywhere in the commuter belt where city folk have moved into the soybeans and made sure that normal folk are priced out.

Did all the training and opening for the Nando’s there though can’t remember what the town centre pubs were like for some reason. In fact, it was the first time I’d ever tried ‘halal’ meat.

Just incase you are wondering though, wernham Hogg don’t have a premises there since moving over to America

It's not the worst place in the world, it's just incredibly dull. It's one of too many non-descript towns within the western part of London's commuter belt in which I've spent ay too much time, and by that I mean any time at all. Slough, Basingstoke, Swindon, Woking, Staines, Didcot, High Wycombe - probably extending as far as Milton Keynes and Northampton. All places home to grey skies, grey buildings, grey businesses and grey people.

You don't have to try too hard to find issues with the geography or socioeconomics of Grimsby / Cleethorpes, but it does have a meaningful history, an identity, and soul. Something the above places don't. The north / south divide exists, but you have to be careful what you wish for.

Does that mean we're one of the BBC Red button games then?

Just seen, so answering my own question, selected for Overseas Broadcast and Extended Highlights.

Never fails to amaze me that anyone in Cambodia or Belize would want to watch it.

Quoted from diehardmariner

Just seen, so answering my own question, selected for Overseas Broadcast and Extended Highlights.

Never fails to amaze me that anyone in Cambodia or Belize would want to watch it.

Guessing due to last year's cup exploits.

Anyway there must be a fee in it for us!? - this year's cup money!

Quoted from diehardmariner

Just seen, so answering my own question, selected for Overseas Broadcast and Extended Highlights.

Never fails to amaze me that anyone in Cambodia or Belize would want to watch it.

Brother you have brought back some good memories
of times gone by =  Belize  Central America 2 x 6 month
Tours . Major Football / Rugby matches were seen
watched on VHS cassette sent by family and friends  No Sky/ WiFi etc what we take for granted today
Only "Bluey's" = Air mail letters , the Grimsby football paper came to me a week later in a toilet paper tube
So all the best to any one taking an interest / Supporting
Grimsby Town from afar.
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