FA Cup Competition

Rules are simple, first come first served basis pick a team from the first round draw.

Post as follows;

brb - Dover

Once that team is taken, it is no longer available for selection.

If your team wins you go through to the next round and pick either another team on a first come first served basis, or be quick enough and keep your same team, but it does not have to be the same team.

Last player remaining wins.

You can only enter at round one. Entry is not allowed in the latter rounds. You can only select one team.

Good Luck All.

Teams;

Full draw


Accrington Stanley v YorkCity

AFC Wimbledon v Forest Green Rovers

AldershotTown v BradfordCity

Altrincham v Barnsley

Barnet v Blackpool

Barwell or AFC Rushden & Diamonds v Grays Athletic or Welling

BrackleyTown v Newport County AFC

BraintreeTown v Oxford United

Bristol Rovers v Chesham United

Burton Albion v Peterborough United

Bury v Wigan Athletic

Cambridge United v BasingstokeTown

CoventryCity v NorthamptonTown

CrawleyTown v LutonTown

Crewe Alexandra v Eastleigh

Dagenham & Redbridge v Morecambe

DidcotTown v ExeterCity

Doncaster Rovers v Stalybridge or North Ferriby United

Dover Athletic v Stourbridge

FC Halifax or Guiseley v Wycombe Wanderers

FC United of Manchester v Chesterfield

Gainsborough Trinity v ShrewsburyTown

GrimsbyTown v St AlbansCity

Hartlepool United v Havant and Waterlooville or CheltenhamTown

Leyton Orient v StainesTown

Maidstone United v YeovilTown

MansfieldTown v Oldham Athletic

Millwall v AFC Fylde

Northwich Victoria or Chorley v Boreham Wood

Plymouth Argyle v Carlisle United

Port Vale v Maidenhead United

Portsmouth v MacclesfieldTown

Rochdale AFC v SwindonTown

SalfordCity v NottsCounty

Scunthorpe United v Southend United

Sheffield United v WorcesterCity

Stevenage v Gillingham

Walsall v FleetwoodTown

Wealdstone v Colchester United

Whitehawk v Tranmere Rovers or LincolnCity

 

brb - Dover

 

Stevenage ( I don't mind if I lose )

 

Wigan Athletic

 

Sheffield United

 

Grimsby

 

Bristol Rovers

 

Plymouth Argyle

 

Notts county

 

Ricardo - Tranmere or Lincoln. (Yes, that's 1 team when it comes to the 1st Round draw)

 

Accepted. The winner of their tie enters the first round.

 

Plymborn choses Gillingham.

 

Leyton orient
Can you stick a reminder on mod board each round so I don't forget

 

Sod you Jack .. That'll teach me to go out to dinner

I'll have Port Vale then

 

Grumpygit - Forest Green Rovers

 

Hartlepool

"Monkey hanger" is a term by which Hartlepudlians are often known.[1]
According to local folklore, the term originates from an incident in which a monkey was hanged in Hartlepool, England. During the Napoleonic Wars, a French ship of the type chasse marée was wrecked off the coast of Hartlepool. The only survivor was a monkey, allegedly wearing a French uniform to provide amusement for the crew. On finding the monkey, some locals decided to hold an impromptu trial on the beach; since the monkey was unable to answer their questions and because they had seen neither a monkey nor a Frenchman before, they concluded that the monkey was in fact a French spy. [2] Being found guilty the animal was duly sentenced to death and hanged on the beach.
An alternative theory is put forward alongside the above on the "This Is Hartlepool" town guide.[3]
It states: "Then there are some who point to a much darker interpretation of the yarn. They say that the creature that was hanged might not have been a monkey at all; it could have been a young boy. After all, the term powder-monkey was commonly used in those times for the children employed on warships to prime the cannon with gunpowder."
However, the earliest mention of the hanging is from the popular song, written and performed by 19th century comic performer, Ned Corvan, "The Monkey Song". Given that "only after Corvan's appearances in Hartlepool is there strong evidence for the development of the Monkey story", the song seems the most plausible origin for the myth.[4]
An earlier and remarkably similar monkey-hanging legend with a similar associated song refers to the inhabitants of Boddam, Aberdeenshire.[5] With similar lyrics and scansion ("And the Boddamers hung the Monkey, O") it is plausible that Ned Corvan heard and adapted the song while travelling the Scottish Lowlands with Blind Willie Purvis.

 

Bradford.....?

 

Rochdale

 

Portsmouth of course.