FA Cup Quarter Final Week

Quoted from Hagrid

How incredible does that feel to be typing/reading that...

i know we have a game on Tuesday but i'm ridiculously excited for Sunday, not expecting a win, but i'm hoping for brilliant memories and a weekend of fun in a vibrant City with 4000other mariners.

We are travelling down on Saturday, hopefully meet a few town fans on the Saturday night for some drinks, and then get to the Amex around 1 on Sunday after some drinks in Lewes.

this is a week we'll probably never experience again, lets enjoy every single moment of it.

  

                                                                                                                                     PS: don't forget the other 621 Mariners!
  
                                                                                                                                        

Hurst won’t let the players get distracted by it and they’ll be concentrated entirely on Tuesday being the consummate professionals they are. We’re allowed to be excited for what is a more than likely once in a lifetime, novelty event.

Quoted from Chrisblor

Billy big balderdash stuff. Imagine the outrage on here if it was the other way round and another League Two club were all excitedly posting about some cup match they were playing in the weekend after they were scheduled to play us. There'd be hoards of posters on here insisting Hurst printed out the posts and stuck them up in the dressing room to show how arrogant and distracted the opposition were.

How dare we not be excited for an FA Cup Quarter final, the nerve of us

Absolutely bizarre to be trying to police people getting excited about a game of this magnitude. If Sutton want to pin this post to the dressing room wall then they can knock themselves out. I suspect that rather than be motivated by it they'd just worry about why their manager gave a intercourse what a few fans on an independent forum think.

I can think of few games less likely to distract me from an FA Cup quarter final away at a top half Premiership side than a dead rubber at archetypal non league boot it Sutton thanks.

Had plenty of these non league london suburb type away games during our years in actual non league.

Hope we play the Reserves.

Yeah, I'm not missing out on the opportunity to get excited about our impending FA Cup quarter final appearance on national telly next Sunday — we may never see the like again!

I think, also, that we can be both excited about the cup game and also not be dismissive of tomorrow's game at Sutton.

Granted, it's only natural that those playing tomorrow night will have the cup game on their mind, even if they don't admit it to the press (or themselves). They're human, like us. I can't blame them for that.

We are all worried about conceding an early goal.  Brighton are a big step up in class.

However, we have not conceded a goal in the first half of this cup run for just short of 6 matches,  (Plymouth after 5 minutes, We then scored 4 before HT).

The mighty Southampton have not conceded a goal in 3 of their last 4 matches. Their keeper named in team of the week today.

The only thing that matters against Sutton is that whoever plays has the right attitude. If anyone thinks that PH, staff and players are just going there to go through the motions then that’s just more than a tad disrespectful and questioning their professionalism.

Supporters on the other hand..I’d argue it’s pretty hard to get excited about Sutton v Grimsby at the best of times..and reaching an FA Cup QF May happen once in peoples lifetimes..and that’s this Sunday…so if you want to start looking forward too it now…crack on.

Still working on tickets here. Still have irons in the fire.

Going down on the Saturday & staying 2 nights (got to make the most of it!)

Going with no expectation but in hope of at least something to get excited about during the game, winning again would just be greedy, wouldn’t it?!

Could be a once in a lifetime for most of us