FA Cup 5th round draw - Fulham (a)

[Verbal]

4 hours ago, Barton Saint said:

Well it is south of the A4 and nearer the South Circular than the North..

Except that Fulham is in west London and is north of the river. Also, Fulham isn't "virtually in Chelsea" but Chelsea FC is actually, rather than virtually, in Fulham.  Are you American by any chance?

[Barton Saint]

No! Hampshire born and bred who spent many years working in Greater London…anyway the original point was trying to draw some correlation with 1976 so if we end up playing Man City in the Final then it truly would be ironic 

[Saint Fan CaM]

We’d be coming up against a Prem team sooner or later, so may as well go out now. Fulham will be too much for even our best team I’m afraid - could even be quite a demoralising experience for some of our players. Having said that, an upset in our favour could be incredibly positive too, so hopefully our team will be right up for it.

[Chez]

They don't tend to lose to lower league teams in the fa cup very often. Oldham about 7 years ago stands out.

[Pamplemousse]

11 hours ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

We’d be coming up against a Prem team sooner or later, so may as well go out now. Fulham will be too much for even our best team I’m afraid - could even be quite a demoralising experience for some of our players. Having said that, an upset in our favour could be incredibly positive too, so hopefully our team will be right up for it.

We did pretty well against Liverpool earlier in the season, any they only just scraped past Stoke in the last round.

They should win but we have a chance.

[Kenilworthy1959]

If we get through we are set for a major fixture pile-up as the 6th round is at the Easter weekend. So Wrexham away and Ipswich home will need to be rearranged along with the Norwich game. Its almost as if it was assumed that Championship teams wouldn't make it that far.

[Maggie May]

Misread. 

Edited Wednesday at 15:10 by Maggie May

[Charlie Wayman]

Very winnable and a good test of our progress and where we are. 

[Football Special]

4 hours ago, Kenilworthy1959 said:

If we get through we are set for a major fixture pile-up as the 6th round is at the Easter weekend. So Wrexham away and Ipswich home will need to be rearranged along with the Norwich game. Its almost as if it was assumed that Championship teams wouldn't make it that far.

I'd go further and say Championship clubs are encouraged not to make it that far.

[warsash saint]

Another f**king lunchtime KO 😡

[SouSaint]

Sunday, live on TNT. Absolutely shite. 

[trousers]

12 minutes ago, warsash saint said:

Another f**king lunchtime KO 😡

It could've been worse... (Well,for me anyway )

 

Edited yesterday at 13:48 by trousers

[Chez]

9 minutes ago, warsash saint said:

Another f**king lunchtime KO 😡

bollocks. Was hoping for an evening game, maybe a beer or two beforehand. Always better under lights. 

[warsash saint]

Look at all all the various KO times & they wonder why the FA Cup has lost it's magic!

[Pamplemousse]

Engineering works in Winchester that weekend as well for anyone getting the train up.

I reckon we should still easily take 4000 plus.

[Jack]

5 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

Engineering works in Winchester that weekend as well for anyone getting the train up.

I reckon we should still easily take 4000 plus.

2 hours to Clapham junction via Fareham and Havant. Brilliant 

[suewhistle]

I'm over that way so would normally go up to Victoria except there are works on the Sunday (but not on the Saturday). Having to go via Waterloo they rush you another £10, or £17 if you get a travel card, due to the fragmented nature of our railway system, plus a potentially longer wait at Havant. Losing my enthusiasm now..

[Toussaint]

Another soul sucking Sunday noon kickoff, this would have been a fantastic Saturday afternoon. Now, not so much 

[Mboto Gorge]

So none of the 5th round ties are at 3pm on a Saturday. An absolute fucking joke. And TNT fucking sports can do one too, expensive enough paying for other sports channels. What a bunch of cunts 

[oldsarum]

5 hours ago, suewhistle said:

I'm over that way so would normally go up to Victoria except there are works on the Sunday (but not on the Saturday). Having to go via Waterloo they rush you another £10, or £17 if you get a travel card, due to the fragmented nature of our railway system, plus a potentially longer wait at Havant. Losing my enthusiasm now..

Change at Clapham and get overground train to Putney, works out cheaper than going into Waterloo

[Chris cooper]

Fucking lunchtime on a Sunday !! Fuck off

[Football Special]

13 hours ago, Pamplemousse said:

Engineering works in Winchester that weekend as well for anyone getting the train up.

I reckon we should still easily take 4000 plus.

We'll still take a lot but quite likely it will make members/ general sale I think, they seem to mess around with allocations at Fulham but I'm sure we had 5k+ in the 3rd round a few years ago 

[Football Special]

7 hours ago, oldsarum said:

Change at Clapham and get overground train to Putney, works out cheaper than going into Waterloo

Some nice pubs between Putney and the ground as well, just a shame not many will be open pre match, there is Wetherspoons by the river that usually opens early at least 

[Patrick Bateman]

14 hours ago, Chris cooper said:

Fucking lunchtime on a Sunday !! Fuck off

I echo this - we were going to go, but my son's football training won't finish in time. Annoying. TV it is.

[Turkish]

14 hours ago, Chris cooper said:

Fucking lunchtime on a Sunday !! Fuck off

Great time for a football match! Lazy sunday morning getting up around 10am, pop to the local for a full english, back in time to slip on my Saints shirt, turn on the TV and login into Saintsweb to spend 90 minutes moaning about how shit we are. Finished by 2pm to enable enough time to attend the Beer tasting afternoon at our local delicatessen. I applaud the FA for making this fixture at a time that suits the TV audience, the fans that matter.

[Chris cooper]

38 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Great time for a football match! Lazy sunday morning getting up around 10am, pop to the local for a full english, back in time to slip on my Saints shirt, turn on the TV and login into Saintsweb to spend 90 minutes moaning about how shit we are. Finished by 2pm to enable enough time to attend the Beer tasting afternoon at our local delicatessen. I applaud the FA for making this fixture at a time that suits the TV audience, the fans that matter.

Leeds not playing Sunday mush 

[LGTL]

Fuck me 12pm on a Sunday was bad enough for the Derby. They can fuck off. 

[Noodles34]

For those paying sky or tnt, have a head wobble, either cancel or don’t fucking moan. Better still, get an IPTV sub for about 60 quid a year. If anything fucks em, that is it. 

[TheAlehouseBrawlers]

£30 for home fans behind the goal so should be same for us. Putney End (Saints end) not on sale to home fans so looks like we've got all that stand if needed. Shame about the Sunday 12:00 KO.