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FA Cup 1st round draw 17/18 (Truro at Home - SUNDAY 5th Nov 2pm)

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  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,812
    crowd will be about 6k and irrespective of the owners/situation etc, wouldn't have been much different anyway
  • I’m going. I suspect it will turn out to be along the lines of the Ipswich friendly where you turn up just to watch a match and not expecting too much and the performance just clicks and the opposition is totally outclassed.

    Winning is always the most important thing but I find it's always a good bonus when a fringe player steps up and takes their opportunity.

    Hoping over the next 3 matches, someone like Aribo will show Robinson that he deserves an opportunity to start in the league.

  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,740

    I’m going. I suspect it will turn out to be along the lines of the Ipswich friendly where you turn up just to watch a match and not expecting too much and the performance just clicks and the opposition is totally outclassed.

    Winning is always the most important thing but I find it's always a good bonus when a fringe player steps up and takes their opportunity.

    Hoping over the next 3 matches, someone like Aribo will show Robinson that he deserves an opportunity to start in the league.

    In place of who ? Nobody at the monent deserves to be dropped .
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,503

    I really hope we can give the Truro fans a good day out.....it means a hell of a lot to them and I can’t help but feel a bit sorry for them that what might otherwise have been a pretty decent crowd, is affected by our current plight and boycotts.
    I hope they understand the situation and don’t see it as a slight in any way.

    A lot of people haven't been going to FA Cup matches now for years. Noticed something yesterday that surprised me; in 2001 we were getting 26,000 every Premier home game. We played Tottenham at home in the FA Cup and the crowd dipped to 18,097. Even though that was a Wednesday night, it's curious that 8,000 regular Charlton fans didn't want to attend a 4th Round game v Spurs.
  • Simonsen said:

    I really hope we can give the Truro fans a good day out.....it means a hell of a lot to them and I can’t help but feel a bit sorry for them that what might otherwise have been a pretty decent crowd, is affected by our current plight and boycotts.
    I hope they understand the situation and don’t see it as a slight in any way.

    A lot of people haven't been going to FA Cup matches now for years. Noticed something yesterday that surprised me; in 2001 we were getting 26,000 every Premier home game. We played Tottenham at home in the FA Cup and the crowd dipped to 18,097. Even though that was a Wednesday night, it's curious that 8,000 regular Charlton fans didn't want to attend a 4th Round game v Spurs.
    Night games are a different issue anyway because getting to matches and getting home afterwards these days tends to put a dampener on going for a lot of people. Cup matches tend to be inferior to PL games because there is less at stake and managers also tend to rest their best players and weaken the side they put out.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600

    sam3110 said:

    I really hope we can give the Truro fans a good day out.....it means a hell of a lot to them and I can’t help but feel a bit sorry for them that what might otherwise have been a pretty decent crowd, is affected by our current plight and boycotts.
    I hope they understand the situation and don’t see it as a slight in any way.

    Current regime or not, this isn't a glamorous tie for us, and we've never had amazing turnouts for the cup games anyway
    This, even with the best owners in the world we would struggle to put 8k in The Valley against Truro.
    With the best owners in the world, we wouldn’t be playing Truro at home in the FA Cup......not at least until the 3rd round anyway.
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,503
    Anybody know how many tickets Truro have sold?
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Is Kat tax payable on the day anyone know?
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,037
    Great fact coming up.

    The River Allen flows through Truro, and is a tributary to the Truro River.

    Coincidentally, Truro City have a player on loan from Plymouth at the moment, whose name is... River Allen.

    MAGIC OF THE CUP
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  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    So?
    We once had a player called Quaggy Ravensbourne.
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,037
    seth plum said:

    So?
    We once had a player called Quaggy Ravensbourne.

    ... I'm sorry old man old pal but that is some stinky, stinky chat.

    Btw might not be home for dinner, will give you a ring in a bit and let you know
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,037
    Btw it's absolutely criminal that @LouisMend 's quote of my tweet is getting more traction than my original tweet.

    Pays to be famous, I guess :tongue:
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,734
    LenGlover said:

    Is Kat tax payable on the day anyone know?

    Unlikely.
  • LouisMend
    LouisMend Posts: 5,446
    PaddyP17 said:

    Btw it's absolutely criminal that @LouisMend 's quote of my tweet is getting more traction than my original tweet.

    Pays to be famous, I guess :tongue:

    I’m getting that fact on air on Sunday without fail.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    PaddyP17 said:

    Btw it's absolutely criminal that @LouisMend 's quote of my tweet is getting more traction than my original tweet.

    Pays to be famous, I guess :tongue:

    Crystal Palace celebrity fan, explains it all.
  • LouisMend
    LouisMend Posts: 5,446
    Think you’ve confused me with Eddie Izzard
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,126
    LouisMend said:

    Think you’ve confused me with Eddie Izzard

    Nobody has ever seen Izzard bedecked in American Eagles finest...
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Anyone ever seen @LouisMend and Eddie Izzard in the same room?
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    Here are the players - and their jobs - who have made history by becoming the first Cornish club to play in the FA Cup first-round since 1969:

    Goalkeeper

    Thomas McHale - He works three-times-a-week making fishing nets

    Defenders

    Austen Booth - Sports coach at South Devon College

    Benjamin Gerring - Window fitter

    Alex Hartridge - Professional footballer, on loan from Exeter City

    Edward Palmer - Hairdresser at House of Homme, Devon

    Connor Riley-Lowe - Occupation unknown, former Exeter City player

    Jamie Richards - Sports coach at South Devon College

    Midfielders

    River Allen - Employee at Princess Yachts, Plymouth

    Jordan Copp - Employee at Princess Yachts, Plymouth

    Benjamin Harding - Sports coach at South Devon College

    Noah Keats - Occupation unknown, Bath University graduate with an Msc in sports management

    Aaron Lamont - Builder/painter and decorator

    William Palfrey - Makes fishing nets

    Fletcher Williams - Carpenter apprentice

    Cody Cooke - Lecturer at Exeter University

    Attackers

    Tyler Harvey - Occupation unknown but was released by Wrexham earlier this year

    Andrew Neal - Occupation unknown

    Niall Thompson - Sports coach at South Devon College

    Stewart Yetton - Occupation unknown, former Weymouth player
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  • Stewart
    Stewart Posts: 2,451
    edited November 2017
    How many sport coaches do South Devon College need?
  • redman
    redman Posts: 5,285
    Interesting - but how on earth did you discover all that!
  • Simonsen said:

    I really hope we can give the Truro fans a good day out.....it means a hell of a lot to them and I can’t help but feel a bit sorry for them that what might otherwise have been a pretty decent crowd, is affected by our current plight and boycotts.
    I hope they understand the situation and don’t see it as a slight in any way.

    A lot of people haven't been going to FA Cup matches now for years. Noticed something yesterday that surprised me; in 2001 we were getting 26,000 every Premier home game. We played Tottenham at home in the FA Cup and the crowd dipped to 18,097. Even though that was a Wednesday night, it's curious that 8,000 regular Charlton fans didn't want to attend a 4th Round game v Spurs.
    There was hardly a attendance drop at all for the Spurs cup game. In 2001, the upper north development had not yet taken place and just about every home league match attracted a capacity crowd of 20,043.
  • Valley27000
    Valley27000 Posts: 3,417
    Tickets sold?
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,679

    Tickets sold?

    17 5545
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,628

    Tickets sold?

    Yes
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,765

    Tickets sold?

    Some tickets.
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    redman said:

    Interesting - but how on earth did you discover all that!

    I could say that I am ITK, or I am diligent and keep an eye on everything Charlton, but basically, I read it on another site
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,037
    edited November 2017
    LouisMend said:

    PaddyP17 said:

    Btw it's absolutely criminal that @LouisMend 's quote of my tweet is getting more traction than my original tweet.

    Pays to be famous, I guess :tongue:

    I’m getting that fact on air on Sunday without fail.
    Credit for that discovery would be lovely! (surname is pronounced similar to Hammond btw)