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JTG

Angry about not being able to be an astronaut.
I am pleased as punch to announce that we have made it through to the quarter final of the Gloucestershire FA Senior Cup tonight, teaching Gloucester City a footballing lesson they won't forget (erm, 2-1)

Next up: Cinderford Town. The other contenders are Yate Town, Forest Green Rovers, Bishops Cleeve, Shortwood United, the winners of Mangotsfield United v Cirencester Town and some other chancers from the Somerset side of the river who shouldn't even be allowed into this prestigious competition :hmm:

Only ourselves, Cheltenham and aforementioned chancers are fielding reserve sides, all the others are first teams (Cheltenham are already out, haha, losers)

We have yet to win this particular competition, but we won its predecessor, the Gloucestershire FA Cup, 32 times (count em!) between 1888 and 1995. Never mind that for most of that time it was just an annual game between us and the other lot :hmm:

Does your team enter anything equally pointless? Ever won? Did you go?
 
Monkeygrinder's Organ is no doubt still recovering from the horror of Lincoln City's recent defeat to Grimsby Town in the Lincs Senior Cup final, not least because it means Grimsby are now ahead of the Imps with 39 wins to 38 :eek:

Scunthorpe incidentally maintain a reasonably aloof disdain for the competition with a mere 18 wins
 
Comrade JimW reports that one of the big guns in the GFA Senior Cup has fallen by the wayside: Forest Green Rovers capitulated to Yate Town on penalties tonight after leading up to the last minute of normal time :eek:

We get the chance to take advantage of this county-wide seismic shock when we face Cinderford Town tomorrow night. I may go actually, reports suggest that Angelo Balanta, our perma-injured fancy new signing may actually get his first few minutes under his belt in the famous Quarters.
 
Darkness descends on fair Cotswold and the whole county is in a state o' chassis.Woe, woe!
 
JimW said:
Darkness descends on fair Cotswold and the whole county is in a state o' chassis.Woe, woe!
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Apart from Yate. They're dancing in the streets of Yate. Maybe Chipping Sodbury & Rangeworthy as well
 
2-1 to the Super Gas on a chilly night in Horfield. About 200 there, Cinderford brought a few. We had all the quality and fitness, they had all the enthusiasm... we had to come from behind. Balanta strolled through the game but looked like he'll be decent when match fit. He should be, he's played for QPR.

Forward into the semis! :cool:
 
If you wander over to the Dulwich Hamlet forum you might find some discussion about the Hamlet's progress (or lack of it) in the London Senior Cup.
 
el-ahrairah said:
If you wander over to the Dulwich Hamlet forum you might find some discussion about the Hamlet's progress (or lack of it) in the London Senior Cup.
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West Ham's third choice goalie - the one you've just loaned to Barnet - he's rubbish. You need to know.
 
Don't see it as pointless but clearly not the most major of tournaments, anyway FGR through in Trophy after Jon Parkin (!) bagged a hat-trick in the replay at Didcot.
 
Just read Barnet lost 6-2 to Concord Rangers of the Conference South! Played youth side apparently.
 
Knew I shouldn't have rubbed it in to JTG, FGR dumped out the Trophy at Ebbsfleet after Dale Bennett got himself sent off.
 
Was all geared up to follow the Alex against Northwich Vics in the Cheshire Senior Cup and a lunchtime pitch inspection had the game on, but the ref got cold feet in every sense before kick-off. Glory will have to wait.
 
c*ty have been knocked out of the Glos Cup so we play Cirencester Town in the semi final :hmm:
 
Montrose compete in the Forfarshire Cup, a competition featuring the four Angus clubs plus the youth teams of Dundee, Dundee United and St. Johnstone.

It has become so pointless (the Premier League sides stopped taking it seriously about 40 years ago) that it is now in a weird limbo between pre-season training match- some rounds take place in pre-season- and barely tolerated reserve games.

even funnier in these local county cup affairs is the few seething roasters who turn up and shout abuse for 90 minutes as though it is a winner-takes-all play-off final at the end of the season, or a cup tie that actually anyone cares about.
 
steeplejack said:
even funnier in these local county cup affairs is the few seething roasters who turn up and shout abuse for 90 minutes as though it is a winner-takes-all play-off final at the end of the season, or a cup tie that actually anyone cares about.
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The contrast between the attitudes of the handful of noisy Cinderford fans at our place and the hundred or so Rovers fans who were quietly assessing Angelo Balanta's first bit of Gas action was dead funny :D
 
So we can add Cinderford to the long list of proper supporters who have shown your lot up.
 
I shall ensure we bring full pyro to all future reserve matches in order to satisfy you Onky
 
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