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Let's keep this about the draw this time

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Being drawn at Sutton united, we are ball 31

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Here we go!

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Away to BORO

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Middlesbrough away

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Never had great luck wi Cup Draws.

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Correct............... :(

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1 in 4 chance yet again of a Manchester club and we get Boro.... no disrespect meant...


:) :) :)

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Gutted,thought it was going to be city:(

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As it was coming down I thought either Fulham or city

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Defeat or what!! At least it's winnable we've beat them once at there place 1-2 and we can do it again :)

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City would've been good but quite happy to go to Middlesbrough - couldn't make it last time as was midweek, bring 'em on!

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There will be around 20000, maybe more there - not a bad pay day, hopefully they will field a weakened team and we can nick it

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When will we know the exact day of the match? I'd enjoy going to this one with the away fans tbh

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Should beat Boro.

Ps, it was a 1 in 3 chance, not 1 in 4.

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I was there that night, was a great night hope we can repeat it.:)

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Yes, I twigged that a short while after... :o :o

:) :) :)

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Next week I would have thought :)

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Should be Saturday 28th January, unless it's on TV (which is unlikely, methinks).

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Hope we're not the Monday night game, really want to go to this

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1 in 4 chance of a live match by my reckoning and there's not many stand out ties ..

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No chance of BBC or BT Sport I agree, but they put some games on Sunday anyway for the around the grounds thing the bbc does especially if one game is virtually over, and for showing highlights in play.

I think we will get £45 to £50k from the gate, 15,000k ish crowd.

Cup run over me thinks.

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I reckon we'll be on't telly. Good story...founder member looking to progress further in the cup than ever before. Smallest club left in it, Already killed some giants this year.

Maybe wishful thinking.

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Our game and Spurs v The Beast are the biggest potential "cupsets", so we might attract the cameras, assuming Sutton and Lincoln don't survive their replays.

Boro and Sunderland were the only possible Prem opponents where "away" means further for me to travel .... we'll see!

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Middlesbrough have a premiership game on the tuesday after the cup tie
I think they will play a second string line up
They got 23,000 last round charging non season tic holders £15
I think we have a chance here to bring them back to the Wham

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A crap draw. If we'd been the next ball out we'd have been playing Man City at home.:(

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It's a winnable tie they'll play their reserves due to league commitments we could really do this

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More chance of us being on TV than us being a founder member!

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Almost de-ja-vu from the last draw.
Down to 3 balls with City still in the drum!!!!!!!!!!!!
Still, better than someone like Brentford or Wycombe away.
We're going to play on a big stage against higher opposition & will raise our game. They've got bigger priorities & will field their reserves.
This is winnable, but the best result would be a draw to maximise revenue from a replay on TV.
If Burnley beat Sunderland in their replay, we may get some of their fans adding to our supporters.

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Hi and welcome again to the riverside.
Unfortunately for you guys we will not be playing a weaker team, maybe 1 or 2 players but it will almost be full strength.

I am pleased with the draw, hopefully Boro will get through this without any problems, I'd love to see us have a good cup run. It beats lingering around the bottom of the premier league scraping wins here and there.

Good luck guys anyway

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I don't think Boro will risk being overturned on their turf again. I think they will be a bit too strong for us on the day. The cup will be as important to them as it is to us. The next round will almost certainly have a big club drawn against one of us. Heads up we have done it before and we can do it again.

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Whatever happens looking forward to a good day out, didn't make it last time so brand new ground for me - & there's no reason we can't go all out & pull off another cup upset but if we don't it's no disgrace to go out away from home to a Premiership team - bring 'em on, can't wait :D

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ok we didn't draw one of the big ones but should be a great day out and even if we lose we still come away with 40% of the gate maybe around £80000

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Vote for your favourite goal of the FA Cup third round - Live - BBC Sport

Get voting

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Easy choice! :D

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a good chance of getting at least a draw up there as their home form is not great. a draw would be the best result for us financially as a replay back home could be a televised game. remember the league cup game us there when we had our first look at piero and a night to remember. pleased with the draw 90 mins up the a1 and a19, back home before 7 . it could so easily been norwich/southampton away.

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Voted he deserves to win it, fingers crossed.

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he,s in the lead. keep em coming.

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Super Sean already way out in front on the BBC vote.
His value is going through the roof!
(or should that be 'over the roof!)

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Done & dusted - :)

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Ive voted hope everyone votes for the best goal and not as the eurovision song contest saga

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Just found it it lets you vote more than once

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For once, credit where it's due. Cracking goal. So, that's my vote in.

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You have voted once it says to me, so how?:confused:

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The post from 'Uptheboro' persuaded me to wander over to their forum(s) to see what the general consensus was to their 'plum' 4th round draw.
Funny how your priorities change when you reach the top. While we were all willing fate to match us with Chelsea, they were absolutely bricking it!
OMG! We nearly got Chelsea, they cried in unison. Oh what a relief to draw little Stanley.
Apart from the umpteen links to the (yes, you've guessed it!) Milk advert, most feel they've already reached round 5.
HA! Don't they know we've already disposed of one premiership team this season & taken another to the 91st minute in another cup game, where it took a player employed purely for his free-kick prowess to overcome us.
Let them laugh. He who laughs last etc. And I know who will be laughing the longest when the final whistle blows at the Riverside.
Can't wait to hear Karanka's post match mangling of the English language as he attempts to say Accrington Stanley were 'erm, the erm, team better us than'
:D:D:D

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Results are in ? yet it says vote closes at 17.00 but who gives a stuff he won easy, well deserved imho.

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I voted and he was on26% at the time, I think he will get it. Well deserved.

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Knowing the BBC Sean will win the vote but it will still be a premiership player that wins it

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Good lad Sean, well deserved (another just like it at Boro now please) :)

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Hope a good few can make the trip over the tops to Boro.
I will stick some details of pubs, parking etc on here once dates confirmed.
Transpennine trains from Manchester,Leeds or York run into Boro every hour.

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Just checked with trainline & the cheapest return fare is £37.70 and that's with a 30% railcard discount.
9.03 dep. Acc - arr. Boro 12.12, with 1 change at York. Or,
10.03 dep. Acc - arr. Boro 13.12
Return
18.27 dep. Boro - arr. Acc 21.20 (fastest journey time 2hr 53min)
Looks like the coach will be the cheapest option.
Wonder if we'll get subsidised coach travel, a la Wycombe?

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Just discovered if you book separate tickets from Acc - York return + York- Boro return, it reduces the cost to around £32

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That's usually how it works with trains once you get beyond a day return ticket.

Sometimes it's more obscure for example my tickets would be Dumfries to Seaham then Seaham to Middlesbrough.

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Any match details yet?
Confirmed date and time?

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Osc coach is £20 - not bad at all

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Nothing can be confirmed until the 5 live TV games are picked. FA are expecting this to be "this week"

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Interesting article in the Telegraph about which games will/should be televised:
The five FA Cup fourth-round ties that should be on TV, and the five we think will be picked

It seems there are five altogether. Despite, possibly, being the lowest placed side left, we don't even get a mention!

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The local press give us the minimum publicity they can and usually none.

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The article's from the Daily Telegraph! But still none.

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True, in particular the LT - although they did go with a 'story' about the team's toaster being nicked from the changing rooms last week. Way to reinforce the tinpot label!
Shame they don't print our match reports as quick :rolleyes:

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I ceased buying that paper years ago, its utter crap these days, used to buy it 5 days a week when it was half decent.

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remember as kids we,d have said we,ve beaten burnley, burnley have beaten middlesbrough so therefore we,re better than middlesbrough. hope it works as it never did for me as a kid.

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wish i could remember that far back.:D

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not many can cashy. the world was black and white those days.

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Sepia old boy! Sepia

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Etched! :D

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Any half decent paper would surely have run the toaster story with a "George Oghani" angle.
Former Dingles forward was a well known domestic appliance thief who (if memory serves) stole an ironing board (and used it to clobber the shop assistant when making good his escape).

Surely it could have been built up into some sort of major crime story? All the ingredients are there...football, revenge, a potential serial thief suspect, a small town with residents scared to leave their kitchen.

No wonder we've got no fans when opportunities like this are missed.

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No wonder we're short of fans when the local rag thinks that sort of 'story' is worth printing :rolleyes:

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if you are on train and its a normal 3 pm Saturday ko then you should get back to station for the 5-26 transpen to Leeds,. I normally get back to the station for 5-15 and I never leave ground till after players come off pitch. In the gods at top of NW Corner.
Your seats will be towards south east corner so straight out onto Windward way and all way down to the station.

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Slate and Chisel ;)

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I believe the televised matches are normally announced within 48 hours but were delayed yesterday due to the FA looking into rescheduling of league games.

(that was via Twitter - so possibly complete balderdash)

There's a load of PL matches on the Tuesday after the cup weekend (inc Boro).

In other news, the ticket seller at the train station in Manchester this morning (who saw my Stanley bobble hat) was excitedly telling me how much he was hoping City had drawn Accy.
Everyone loves us.

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I bet they weren't the only ones willing this draw to happen.
Considering the monetary gulf between lowly Stanley & megabucks City, this would have been the FA Cup draw the whole of Britain, nay the world, would have been eager to see.
Every footie fan in the world would have been rooting for Stanley
Imagine the advertising revenues Sky sport would have made if only fate had intervened.
As Sky now control football, perhaps they should lobby the FA to ensure that, in future, premier league teams can only be drawn against league 2/non-league teams in rounds 3 & 4.
This would ensure a bumper payday for lower league clubs, who need it the most. After all, football is in the entertainment business.
Where's the FA Cup magic in watching premier league teams battle out scoreless draws in round 3?

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The article is in the Lancashire evening telgraph sports page.

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Is the local papers worth bothering with anymore? I read plenty about Blackburn and Burnley. If we got through to the semi final do you think the telegraph would give us more than two lines? The Observer is now only published once per week and is Manchester-centric. Is it relevant anymore? They do give us a bit more space but it is usually a week behind. What other real alternatives are there.

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Have they stooped to nicking stuff off the nationals?

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Probably, I have noticed the quality of reporting in the local rags is abysmal. I would have thought that Stanley certainly deserves a lot more coverage even if it is painful at times than we get. This simply reinforces how as a football club playing league football we are not taken seriously. I would contend that if we were to get better coverage by the L.E.T it would help our cause.

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It certainly wouldn't do any harm at all, but not holding me breath wi that crap rag.I honestly dont think the L.E.T. give a stuff about Stanley, those who govern sport yon more than likely favour Blackburn @ Burnley,:rolleyes:

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3pm Saturday. B******s

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3 o'clock Saturday suits me fine - it's when football should be played :) now to book on the coach

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don't panic, we could get them in the next round, if CITY get through.

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i agree, but another time n day suits telly n that woulda suited stanley i imagine? coach n ticket info would be handy posted on here i reckon.:)

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So 3 pm Saturday for the game at the Boro. No TV Coverage so reduced income, maybe a few bob for the minimal highlights. If we get through to the next round and get a home draw, I hope the board will up the price to the TV companies or refuse the camera's entry to the ground. Put the fans first. I wonder if it will be the feature of radio lancs or will we reduced to the goal commentary only? perhaps if Stanley instituted a media ban more people would actually come to the game. Now there is a thought. Perhaps if every club outside the premier did the same then the FA would have to share the money more evenly on the lower leagues. Without us there would be no premier league. Revolution I say.

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Leeds tried the media ban, all they got was a court case

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Ticket prices on Middlesbrough's website - £15 adult, £10 over 65's & £5 for under 18's. Presume they'll be same for us?
Osc coach is £18 for members, £20 if not - booked my seat this afternoon in market shop :)

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as i mentioned on another thread, we gave Sheff Wed ST holders our option of a tenner, 5 and 2. so maybe same for you.

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That'd be even better, proper neighbourly - bet City wouldn't have done that :D

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It's a poor show when we get more info from a helpful Boro fan about ticket sales, prices & when available, than our own club.
Still nothing on Fishy about the now confirmed game.
Do we buy tickets from Stanley, or order direct from Boro?????????

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Premier club Boro, £15-£10-£5 Stanley v Luton remember the prices. Stupidity.

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Any news on if you can buy tickets on match day for those that don't live near accy

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Proabably depends on how many Accrington ask for.
The design on the stadium lends itself to changing the segregation and the access in the concourse. From away end in East stand its possible that you get offered seats in blocks round the corner to SE corner and South stand. If they only ask fo say 2000 then this would only be East Stand then we would try and sell the South and SE seats.
Normally will be a small amount of tickets sold on the day if any left. Can you not buy online? through AS.

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If only we knew?????

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I tried the Middlesbrough website and it only had home tickets on sale

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:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

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If the prices are agreed between the clubs, what's the 'strategy' other IF SOMEONE WANTS A TICKET, SELL THEM ONE?

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Well seems summat simple like that "Must" be a board decision.:hehetable

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They aren't agreed between the clubs anymore, not for a couple of years now, but I agree sell to whoever wants one as the stadium will be half empty.

Last round they got a decent crown but it was a Yorkshire derby.

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Just sell what we can ain,t going to sell our allocation that's for sure.

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