F.A. Cup 5th Round - away to Man City or Notts County

[nick harper]

Sooner or later you have to play the top teams if you want to win it. For as long as I can remember the moment we have drawn a Liverpool, Utd, Arsenal etc, we've gone out and that's why I've never seen us win the thing.

One year we have to break that before I leave this mortal coil.

[AV82EC]

Not great to be honest as our record at Eastlands shows

Played 9
Won  1
Drawn 0
Lost 8 (7 league, 1 FA Cup)
For 6
Against 21

You'll forgive me if I'm ever so slightly pessimistic.

[cdbearsfan]

We won at Old Trafford last season so we've already had our win in Manchester for the next thirty years.

Replay, followed by a penalty shoot-out in which Gareth Barry misses the vital kick please.

[Simba]

Imagine the atmosphere at Crawley. One hand the excitement, something to tell the kids and on the other -a mauling. Fantastic I love the Cup.

As for us , well we would have preferred a home draw but I reckon we can do this lot even without Bent. That's of course if Man City win I don't fancy Meadow Lane. Fun in the seventies though.

As for Knuckle dusters. I couldn't give a flying Malawian fart. What exactly is lucky about them. They are cursed I tell you. Doomed.         Doomed.

[Ross]

That's a horrible draw. Bugger.

[TaxDodger]

For the three years I've been at Uni in Nottingham I've been desperate for us to draw either County or Forest away.. just not with an 'Or Manchester City' alongside it.

[dave.woodhall]

If we're going to win it we have to play a tie like this at some point.

[Dave P]

Despite it being just over a month ago, we are a million miles away from the shambles of a team at the COMS. I am strangely confident.

[cdbearsfan]

Well maybe, but I would like to only have to play one. If we get through we will probably have another game against someone horrible, and again in the semis and the final. I would rather have a Cardiff/Millwall run to the Final playing shit teams in every round.

[Holtenderinthesky]

Fulham 2-0 Spurs. Two pens for Murphy, and Dawson sent off

Would have been good for us if we hadn't just been given the worst possible draw.  Still good to Spurs out though.

Have you given consideration to the fact that Man City might be thinking - "fuck, we just drew Aston Villa?" A team that is improving rapidly, and just beat us? And those jammy bastards Man U just drew Crawley.

Having read the posts under the title "5th round draw" on a couple of Man City forums I can tell you that "fuck" we just drew Villa is not the response.  More like "yes Villa at home" and "Get in".  They are pissed off at Man U getting Crawley and we can all empathise with that.  I appreciate your optimism, I really do but our record aginst Premier League teams is AWFUL in this competition.  In fact, other than Blackburn, who have we beaten from the top flight in the last 10 years?

EDIT:  Never mind our record in Manchester.

[darren woolley]

We owe ManShitty at there place so let's go there and turn them over nothing would please me more if we did that presuming they overcome Notts County.

[hawkeye]

The reasons to be optomistic are that The Europa Cup starts by the time we play them, they dont allways play that well, we are gaining in confidence, Barry has turned into a bag of shit and Milner if picked will be on the wing-

[Ads]

I think Makoun and Bradley in the middle will allow us to get all Everton on them and do them.

[bones.]

The reasons to be optomistic are that The Europa Cup starts by the time we play them, they dont allways play that well, we are gaining in confidence, Barry has turned into a bag of shit and Milner if picked will be on the wing-

how can we lose, I cant wait.

[Simba]

I am with Hawkeye. Man City are actually not very good atm whatever their results. They look confused. They are a bit like Spuds, losing 4-0 at the moment to Fulham and anything can happen. Expectations are very high there. Not ours.

I am unopologetic at being a GH "sack him" and I and others had good reason.

However, there is a new spirit, our youngsters are impressive, our reserves are impressive and GH appears to have won over the core of the first team. I still give RL a lot of the credit mind but yes I am confident.

Barry can go to waste but by G we miss Milner. We will give them a good fight on current form.