Super Posted September 9, 2014 Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 Can't believe some of our fans openly want us to lose a match, any game breeds confidence.. and losing to a lower league team on sky will be a complete embarrasement Not sure many want us to lose but not many will lose sleep if we do. Would be good for the squad players to get some game time etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hartcliffe red Posted September 9, 2014 Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 Hope we pack the away end,sky or not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearded_red Posted September 9, 2014 Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 was that the season we played harogate railway Bradford park avenue and lost to liecester? Heybridge Swifts, Harrogate Railway and then Leicester? Pretty sure we played BPA the year after.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted September 9, 2014 Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 Heybridge Swifts, Harrogate Railway and then Leicester? Pretty sure we played BPA the year after.. aye thats why i was close but no cigar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearded_red Posted September 9, 2014 Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 As for the JPT, like everyone else I wish we were too good to play in it, but the fact is we're not so therefore, as with any other game, I firstly hope we go and beat Cheltenham and we then go through the competition and end up winning at Wembley. It won't mean as much as if we won the league this season, and of course it wouldn't be in the same ballpark as if we, by some miracle, win the League Cup or FA Cup in my lifetime, but frankly I don't think we're quite successful enough to turn our noses up at the prospect of a final at Wembley and a trophy, no matter how small.. As a few other people have alluded to, I would rather win the JPT then have what realistically would be the best outcome possible in the FA Cup which is a couple of wins and then getting knocked out by a Championship or Premier League reserve team. Admittedly I was only 9 and 12 at the time, but the Stoke and Carlisle finals will always stay with me and I would like for us to have another experience like that this season, only with the Carlisle result rather than the Stoke one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Peacock Posted September 9, 2014 Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 Admittedly I was only 9 and 12 at the time, but the Stoke and Carlisle finals will always stay with me and I would like for us to have another experience like that this season, only with the Carlisle result rather than the Stoke one! I can understand that and I suspect there is an age split between the "cares" and "don't cares". When we won it in 1986 it was quite special for several reasons. Trips to Wembley were rare, in fact almost impossible for a club like us; the play offs hadn't been invented and when they were, it wasn't until 1990 that the final was played at Wembley. It was a relatively new competition, we were only the third winners of it. But perhaps most important of all, it was confirmation for us that we were climbing back from the dark days of 1982. The Stoke game was one of the last games played at the old Wembley and so a bit special for that. The Carlisle games was dead easy to get to. It is now all a bit "been there, done that", but maybe I will feel different should we get there, but I doubt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cider-manc Posted September 9, 2014 Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 We need to get to Wembley as many times as possible in the future.. as I enjoyed it far too much when we had played at the new Wembley more times than Liverpool and didn't my then Liverpool supporting house mate know about that!. However since 2012 I haven't been able to throw that at him and have only "tinman in front of the kop" to wind him up with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted September 9, 2014 Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 As for the JPT, like everyone else I wish we were too good to play in it, but the fact is we're not so therefore, as with any other game, I firstly hope we go and beat Cheltenham and we then go through the competition and end up winning at Wembley. It won't mean as much as if we won the league this season, and of course it wouldn't be in the same ballpark as if we, by some miracle, win the League Cup or FA Cup in my lifetime, but frankly I don't think we're quite successful enough to turn our noses up at the prospect of a final at Wembley and a trophy, no matter how small.. As a few other people have alluded to, I would rather win the JPT then have what realistically would be the best outcome possible in the FA Cup which is a couple of wins and then getting knocked out by a Championship or Premier League reserve team. Admittedly I was only 9 and 12 at the time, but the Stoke and Carlisle finals will always stay with me and I would like for us to have another experience like that this season, only with the Carlisle result rather than the Stoke one! Trust me, the Bolton final was the one for atmosphere! Two well-supported teams and a cracking game to boot. Sadly, Beardy, you'll have to trust me on that, as you must've been an unfertilised egg at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodEmperor Palpatine Posted September 9, 2014 Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 Disagree with SC I'm afraid! I'd much rather get to R5 of the FA Cup, we'd get more exposure and games against top teams than we will do by getting to Wembley in the JPT. Can anyone honestly say that Carlisle in 2003 was a "great day out" or a "great moment for the club that will go down in history"?? I still remember the empty feeling I had when Tommy Doc lifted the trophy...it was nothing compared to many league or cup wins we've had let alone play off semi final victories. The prospect of 40,000 of us turning up at Wembley to face Rochdale who've brought 10,000 just does not appeal. It's a day out on the piss in London but as for the game I would not care if we won or lost. I just wish the League Cup would actually be the LEAGUE Cup ie the 72 LEAGUE clubs and kick the Prem teams out. Now that WOULD be a trophy worth trying to win. I'd rather we do both, as a cup team we are a complete joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS13 Robin Posted September 9, 2014 Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 I will be going to Cheltenham to watch and recording it on v+ after all it is a city game COYR (and it is closer for me than ashton gate as well) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
22A Posted September 9, 2014 Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 In the Southern Area Final, City have played Hereford, Cambridge, Exeter and the gas. All dropped into the Conference in subsequent years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glynriley Posted September 9, 2014 Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 In the Southern Area Final, City have played Hereford, Cambridge, Exeter and the gas. All dropped into the Conference in subsequent years. And Aldershot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whites Posted September 9, 2014 Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 I'll be going with a few mates. Don't get to as many away games as I'd like to so, a 40 minute train journey for less than a tenner on a Tuesday night sounds good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EstoniaTallinnRed Posted September 10, 2014 Report Share Posted September 10, 2014 Heybridge Swifts, Harrogate Railway and then Leicester? Pretty sure we played BPA the year after.. Yes and they changed in a garden shed I think at Heybridge Swifts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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