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Walsall Vs Brighton & Hove Albion ***Official Match Thread***
- Thread starter StonehamPark
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army ali
New member
Need to mention David Stockdale last night. A great gesture by him to come to us at the end and give his gloves and shirt to a young lad. Fantastic stuff.
jameswestport
New member
- Sep 7, 2011
- 927
I'm pleased we're out tbh! concentrate on promotion!
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
He also pointed to his black armband after he'd given his shirt & gloves to the boy, then clapping the fans. Good man.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Regardless of the penalty miss, O'Grady has consistently shown he is not good enough to be our 5th choice striker.
Ship him out in the next 6 days, and give that squad spot to ( the recovering ) Hambo.
Ship him out in the next 6 days, and give that squad spot to ( the recovering ) Hambo.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Ince-Holla-JFC in midfield NEVER works.
Let's not see it again in the FA Cup in January.
Let's not see it again in the FA Cup in January.
crodonilson
He/Him
Dissapointed for the Tumble Dryer but it looks like his time at the club is coming to an end. His confidence is shot, he needs a fresh start now but you can never accuse him of lack of effort.
Reinelt12
Sick Note
My 6 yr old said exactly the same to me, never wants to go to Walsall again... Most of the singing was banter to be fair, but some (on both sides) went too far... In hindsight I shouldn't have taken him, but as he loved his first game at the Amex on Sat I thought striking while the iron was hot was a good move...
It is a Mickey Mouse competition. Very few teams put out their strongest teams so it's little more than a cup competition for the second string. Does that make it interesting? Not in my opinion.
withdeanwombat
Well-known member
But you just KNOW we'll draw plucky little Plocklington -upon- Dross at home, which will be an opportunity to give some rarely used squad members a run out, and lose 1-0. We WOULD then have drawn Arsenal at the Emirates (win), Newcastle at home ( say no more), Everton at home (2-1), Manchester City in the semi final (win, obviously) and beaten Manchester United 5-0 in the final.
Damn !
In the good old days your best team played, and I'm fairly sure that in the early years of the League Cup teams were fined for NOT putting out their best team. I think Portsmouth suffered this fate when they sent a weakened team to beat us 5-1 in 1962. (though obviously a very good result against the best team in the world. Even their reserves.)
And I don't buy the guff about us not winning ( the cup ) so it's no big deal if we lose. And I don't believe building a winning habit in cups can damage league form ( and I know we got relegated in 1983, thanks).
Play your best players, as often as you can. Then if you lose you lose, and no what ifs.
A home tie with Chelsea's second X1 is hardly a "dream".
Some of their early chants were amusing and drew a few laughs. It did seem to go downhill quite quickly.
I live in Warwick and it is hard to get to Brighton for home matches so my son begged to go to a local game.
It is amusing that a poster on here has no issue with abuse but thinks stewards are out of order for making him walk an extra 80 yards to get home. Excellent.
La` Cucaracha¤
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- Jul 21, 2015
- 148
It would be for Mr Bloom. Bet he's not happy this morning.
Just because Walsall drew Chelsea, it doesn't mean that if we had beaten them the outcome of the draw would have been Brighton vs Chelsea. Surely it would have been an entirely different set of circumstances, a different draw ... it will probably take an expert mathematician to answer this one.
Quote Originally Posted by goldstone View Post
A home tie with Chelsea's second X1 is hardly a "dream".
It would have been a sell out and full prices tickets too. TB will not be a happy bunny this morning.
A home tie with Chelsea's second X1 is hardly a "dream".
It would have been a sell out and full prices tickets too. TB will not be a happy bunny this morning.
La` Cucaracha¤
Banned
- Jul 21, 2015
- 148
Didn't Bradford reach the final last year?. We've drawn Liverpool, Newcastle, Sunderland at home at the Amex and seem to draw big teams eventually. I bet Bloom was thinking like all other non prem teams that if we can make the 3rd round then it'll be a bumper pay day.
Isn't Mr Bloom an expert mathematician?
Numbers were pre done so yes we would of got Chelsea .
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Bwian
Kiss my (_!_)
- Jul 14, 2003
- 15,898
I prefer "Lets not see it again".
That combination is League 1 standard. None of them are good enough to take us where we want to be.
It is looking like we may have to be patient this season and accept that Burke's damage will take a bit longer than we hoped to put right.
Bwian
Kiss my (_!_)
- Jul 14, 2003
- 15,898
There are only a few clubs who can choose to ignore this competition. We are not one of them. We are far from being promotion contenders at the moment and losing that unbeaten momentum by fielding a massively weakened team is not going to help. Somebody dropped a bollock last night with the team selection and formation-let's hope he learned his lesson.
Albion fans (well, me at least) hate to see us lose any game, regardless of who it is we are playing. Tell those fans who schlepped up to Walsall on a Tuesday night that the competition doesn't matter.