Woking 0-2 Watford Fc - 06/01/2019 - Fa Cup Third Round

Think I mentioned earlier in this thread, but have seen them play Slough Town (they were both formerly great rivals), and follow the National League South closely and Woking are no mugs. This probably won't be very easy at all.

 

I am actually terrified about Sunday.

I remember the humiliation of losing to Northwich Victoria in 1977. Deep, personal humiliation for every Watford fan.

And that was when we were in Division Four playing a team from a tier below. This time we're Premier League - at a team five tiers below.

Imagine the humiliation this time - in the media and on social media. Imagine your feeds; the visitors on here. We'd be an instant, global laughing stock.

We've lost to lower league teams in the League Cup in 8 of the last 11 seasons and no-one has much cared. But a defeat on Sunday would become folklore that's used to prove "the magic of the FA Cup".

Literally no-one would shut up about it. Ever.

In recent years, for all kinds of reasons, we may have come to care about the FA Cup a lot less than before. But if we lose on Sunday we'll care about it - almost as much as if we won the bloody thing - for the very worst reason.

There's little to gain from victory: we're on "a hiding to nothing". (If Woking beat us, I know I will be hiding from family, friends and social media for months.)

Did I mention that I'm terrified?

 

Qu1 Pass.
Qu2 Blackpool, only a few years ago: (Tamas Priskin scored). I think they had two stands down so they could improve the ground, so it was a temporary set-up. I've no idea if they completed the improvements, what with them being back-to-crap now, but somebody on here will know.

 

Yaay! We've cracked it. A) He's remorseful for all the stuff he's said in the past, and B) It's a certainty now, then.

 

If you look at the highlights clip someone posted a few pages back, you will see Torquay are a pretty useful side. They were, imo, definitely unlucky to lose their match against Wonking, or whatever they're called.

 

How about Brentford? late winner from Ighalo, scenes from everyone still wearing socks.

 

1. Brentford away, scumlord Andre Gray's opener canceled out by Ighalo-oh's late double.
2. Brentford away

 

I remember standing on an open terrace away at Macclesfield about this time of year 16 years ago in the 3rd round of the Cup.

We won 2-0 with Heidar Helguson and Jermaine Pennant scoring the goals.

 

Picture it: Muddy, bumpy pitch; Wonking kicking lumps out of expensive, delicate players who definitely don't want to end their careers this way; ref doing nothing about it, fans pounding their feet on the wooden floorboards and banging the nearest sheet of corrugated iron* in their excitement; lucky deflection - 1 - 0. Their players hurling themselves into every tackle, eyeballs practically popping out of their heads. Desperate Dahlberg goes up for a last-minute corner, mayhem, long punt downfield 2 - 0.
Won't happen 'though.
Will it?

*Lots of corrugated iron in these places.

 

Yes, I was there.

 

These days, he’d be smashed by the Deliveroo rider who has just replaced the self employed IT consultant who has worked exclusively for the same client for 4 years & is, de facto, an employee of theirs.

 

Yep, my last time too. And the first time for one of my adult kids

 

Beautifully - terrifyingly - vivid, Mr Forzainglese.

No help at all.

 

Pre-match kidology. He will magically recover throwing Gracia's week of tactical planning out of the window.

 

Come on Stevehorn wash your mouth out what do you mean " big clubs " we are 8th in the Premier League haha!
no offence intended!

 

I enjoyed Macclesfield away, as I parked outside the pub next to the ground.

3rd Round trip to Scarborough was another one - absolutely freezing though.

I can still picture some Northwich player running into the back of Keith Pritchett, flinging himself to the floor in best Eddie Howe style, and the referee (probably some forerunner of Michael Oliver) pointing to the spot with a 'look at me flourish'. No half'n'halfs but I regret not buying a yellow and black favour for The Brewers that was on sale.

 

Ok.. clubs with big stadiums.

I kinda worded the whole thing wrong and i'm going back to bed having destroyed my reputation for being accurate about stuff

 

2009.
Bloomfield Road is finished on 3 sides at least.. and they have a temporary covered stand on the 4th side which was built by the same company that built the SEJ stand at the Vic.
The previous open stand.. that you were in.. did actually have seats, though you were no doubt stood up. This one.. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...d_Road_Temp_East_stand_1-geograph-1840366.jpg

 

Peterborough, the return of Troy from the Big House was terraces i think.

 

2. Brentford away as recently as 2014/15.

1. Probably as above.

 

Corrugated iron was a big feature at the Vic in the "old days" In the corner between Vic Rd end and what was the Shrodells Stand (now the GT) there was iron on the edge of greyhound track that fans could kick. That was the sound of Watford attacking at that end.

 

An ideal replacement for William Pitt or whatever his name was that she used to attend matches with?
'Paul n Jen' on the windscreen?

 

I think it would be good for the youngsters to experience what a game against a real rival feels like and then people might forget about the pathetic Bournemouth stuff.

 

It'll happen one day.

Or will it?

Maybe one for DMS (with no graphing requirements this week) or similar maths whizzes: what are the chances we play THEM again in my lifetime?

I am 57 & live as dissolute a lifestyle as I can get away with.

 

I think William Pitt the Younger was her toyboy

 

I'm sure he's still operating outside IR35 as he brings his own chair. Or something.

Last terrace/non-league standard ground was Aldershot. Would have been rude not to go as I only live 3 miles away. Must have been a league cup game when Danny Graham was playing and scored iirc, and a nice young lady gave me a free ticket outside the turnstile. Turns out she was McGinn's girlfriend and had a spare...

 

Like that line up, but wouldn't bother with Okaka, Success instead for me. See if he can get some confidence in front of goal.

Surely we have to give Wilmot some time at CB unless we are about to buy a new player there. That Varane is OK.

 

Come on Lincoln! You can do it. Silva will go defensive for the last 5mins. Get an equalizer.

 

Is Okaka not already in Italy anyhow or is he still with us?

 

I remember it well.
And, of course, the smell of pipe tobacco.

 

The 3rd round of the FA cup always brings horrific flashbacks of Shrewsbury

I still have regular therapy

 

So realistically, and with absolutely no disrespect to Woking, you have to expect we win tomorrow, even with our Keystone Kops defending from the other night/season so far

I'd be happy to win one nil to be honest, but if we do get the cricket score their manager is predicting, at what point do you stop scoring?

Spuds whacked in seven last night, and I think that's just a bit arrogant. What extra do they gain from that?

Are we happy just to win, or have we become so entitled, that we think we should smash Woking?

 

They just hung on in the end, but were terrible by all accounts. The Silva Out shouts are getting louder and louder from their fans.

 

Got some of them right.

Everton were extremely lucky to go through.