The F.A Cup 3rd Round (Home v Ipswich Town)

[dave.woodhall]

Crawley or Brighton away.

Are you Frank in disguise??

A non-league team would be nice, but we never seem to draw one.

Have we had a non-league team at home since Gravesend & Northfleet ?

No, and I bet you can't name the last one before then.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Crawley or Brighton away.

Are you Frank in disguise??

A non-league team would be nice, but we never seem to draw one.

Have we had a non-league team at home since Gravesend & Northfleet ?

No, and I bet you can't name the last one before then.

10th Jan 1920... Villa 2 QPR 1 in Round One. (They entered the newly formed Div 3 South the following season)
Billy Walker made his debut and scored the first two of his 244 goals and we went on to win the cup for the 6th time against Huddersfield.
Next !

[dave.woodhall]

Crawley or Brighton away.

Are you Frank in disguise??

A non-league team would be nice, but we never seem to draw one.

Have we had a non-league team at home since Gravesend & Northfleet ?

No, and I bet you can't name the last one before then.

1st Jan 1920... Villa 2 QPR 1 in Round One. (They entered the newly formed Div 3 South the following season)
Billy Walker made his debut and scored the first two of his 244 goals and we went on to win the cup for the 6th time against Huddersfield.
Next !

Not necessarily.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Not necessarily

Crawley or Brighton away.

Are you Frank in disguise??

A non-league team would be nice, but we never seem to draw one.

Have we had a non-league team at home since Gravesend & Northfleet ?

No, and I bet you can't name the last one before then.

10th Jan 1920... Villa 2 QPR 1 in Round One. (They entered the newly formed Div 3 South the following season)
Billy Walker made his debut and scored the first two of his 244 goals and we went on to win the cup for the 6th time against Huddersfield.
Next !

Not necessarily.

Not necessarily? That's not a no? War Cup ?

[dave.woodhall]

I wonder if technically every club in the 1945-46 competition was non-league what with there not being a proper league that year.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

I wonder if technically every club in the 1945-46 competition was non-league what with there not being a proper league that year.

I like it. Which would then make it the 6th round 1st leg game at home to Derby County.
The all time record attendance at Villa Park was against a non league club !

[danlanza]

Lets have Coventry City away. At least they would have more than 9,000 in the ground, and that would just be the Villa fans.

[ChrissyPrice]

If Aldershot ever came good and made it into the 3rd round automatically, would it now be "Number 3 Aston Villa?" I'm not sure I cope with such changes at my age.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

If Aldershot ever came good and made it into the 3rd round automatically, would it now be "Number 3 Aston Villa?" I'm not sure I cope with such changes at my age.

I believe when the draw was made on a Monday lunchtime following 2nd round games on a Saturday the numbers would be allocated alphabetically according to the 64 qualifiers. Therefore, when Aldershot or for that matter certain non league sides such as Altrincham made it to round three we would have been number three.
Also the point you raise about Aldershot can be equally applied to Accrington Stanley. Then of coures we can get into a real minefield about AFC Bournemouth.

[preston28]

To take our minds off the Bent saga, who would everyone like or think we'll get in the draw this Sunday? I'll say Blackburn away, we're due to draw them again.

I'll take that. Local game for me!!

[exiled on the wirral!]

Tranmere at prenton park for me, i can be home for Sports Report for a change!

[hawkeye]

I wonder if technically every club in the 1945-46 competition was non-league what with there not being a proper league that year.

I like it. Which would then make it the 6th round 1st leg game at home to Derby County.
The all time record attendance at Villa Park was against a non league club !

my Dad used to mention being at that game.

[dave.woodhall]

I wonder if technically every club in the 1945-46 competition was non-league what with there not being a proper league that year.

I like it. Which would then make it the 6th round 1st leg game at home to Derby County.
The all time record attendance at Villa Park was against a non league club !

my Dad used to mention being at that game.

The entire population of Birmingham was at that game. Some of them paid.

[cdbearsfan]

If Aldershot ever came good and made it into the 3rd round automatically, would it now be "Number 3 Aston Villa?" I'm not sure I cope with such changes at my age.

I believe when the draw was made on a Monday lunchtime following 2nd round games on a Saturday the numbers would be allocated alphabetically according to the 64 qualifiers. Therefore, when Aldershot or for that matter certain non league sides such as Altrincham made it to round three we would have been number three.
Also the point you raise about Aldershot can be equally applied to Accrington Stanley. Then of coures we can get into a real minefield about AFC Bournemouth.

That's not quite right. The balls 1-44 are all the automatic qualifiers (ie the Premier League and Championship teams) arranged in alphabetical order. The balls 45-64 are the winners of the Round Two ties in the order the matches were drawn out.

So the only way for us to get rid of the cursed number two ball would be for a team starting with A to end up in the top two divisions or, my preference, for Arsenal to get relegated at least twice.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

If Aldershot ever came good and made it into the 3rd round automatically, would it now be "Number 3 Aston Villa?" I'm not sure I cope with such changes at my age.

I believe when the draw was made on a Monday lunchtime following 2nd round games on a Saturday the numbers would be allocated alphabetically according to the 64 qualifiers. Therefore, when Aldershot or for that matter certain non league sides such as Altrincham made it to round three we would have been number three.
Also the point you raise about Aldershot can be equally applied to Accrington Stanley. Then of coures we can get into a real minefield about AFC Bournemouth.

That's not quite right. The balls 1-44 are all the automatic qualifiers (ie the Premier League and Championship teams) arranged in alphabetical order. The balls 45-64 are the winners of the Round Two ties in the order the matches were drawn out.

So the only way for us to get rid of the cursed number two ball would be for a team starting with A to end up in the top two divisions or, my preference, for Arsenal to get relegated at least twice.

I was talking about how it used to be in "the good old days". The draw was made at FA headquarters on Monday lunchtime, you usually found out the draw by buying a Birmingham Evening Mail at teatime. There were no penalty shootouts, teams may have to replay 3 or 4 times, semi finals were played on neutral grounds, crowds were much bigger than for league games, everybody always played their strongest teams, the only other game on Cup Final day was in Scotland, Yoevil had a sloping pitch, Ronnie Radford had a full head of hair while Motty wore his sheepskin, you watched Cup Final `Its a knockout` at 10am and then waited to see the team coaches leaving from their hotel. The shops were all deserted on Saturday afternoon.......oh yes, and Aston Villa were winners Seven times, more than any other club.