FA Cup 1st Round Draw.

ryan_w_kirkby2 · October 14

Takes place tonight from 7pm on BBC2. Personally i'd like Tranmere or Accrington away. If we draw a non league team then I'd like Curzon Ashton.

The ball numbers are as follows:

1. Accrington Stanley

2. AFC Wimbledon

3. Barnsley

4. Barrow

5. Birmingham City

6. Blackpool

7. Bolton Wanderers

8. Bradford City

9. Bristol Rovers

10. Bromley

11. Burton Albion

12. Cambridge United

13. Carlisle United

14. Charlton Athletic

15. Cheltenham Town

16. Chesterfield

17. Colchester United

18. Crawley Town

19. Crewe Alexandra

20. Doncaster Rovers

21. Exeter City

22. Fleetwood Town

23. Gillingham

24. Grimsby Town

25. Harrogate Town

26. Huddersfield Town

27. Leyton Orient

28. Lincoln City

29. Mansfield Town

30. Milton Keynes Dons

31. Morecambe

32. Newport County

33. Northampton Town

34. Notts County

35. Peterborough United

36. Port Vale

37. Reading

38. Rotherham United

39. Salford City

40. Shrewsbury Town

41. Stevenage

42. Stockport County

43. Swindon Town

44. Tranmere Rovers

45. Walsall

46. Wigan Athletic

47. Wrexham

48. Wycombe Wanderers

49. Rushall Olympic or Peterborough Sports

50. Tamworth

51. Oldham Athletic

52. Hartlepool United or Brackley Town

53. Kettering Town

54. Altrincham or Solihull Moors

55. Rochdale

56. Scarborough Athletic

57. York City

58. Harborough Town

59. Curzon Ashton

60. Gainsborough Trinity or Boston United

61. Hednesford Town or Gateshead

62. Alfreton Town

63. Guiseley

64. Taunton Town or Maidenhead United

65. Horsham

66. Aldershot Town

67. Southend United

68. Sutton United

69. Boreham Wood

70. Weston Super Mare

71. Wealdstone

72. Dagenham & Redbridge

73. Barnet

74. Chesham United

75. Tonbridge Angels

76. Woking

77. Forest Green Rovers

78. Maidstone United

79. Worthing

80. Braintree Town

Midlander · October 14

Chesham away please.

Failing that, Harborough, Taunton or Maidenhead or Weston-super-Mare away will do!

our_frank · October 14

Kettering would be a nostalgia trip.

Ed_ · October 14

Looking forward to the draw but I really hate this policy of watering the competition down in order to spread it over a wider and wider weekend. The first few rounds used to be a rich feast of football that were more interesting than what was going on in the top flight, but now it is 4 days of thin gruel competing with a top flight that has also spread its banquet wider - it hardly gets a look in. The sooner they get this back to all fixtures being at 3pm Saturday (bar maybe one, two max) with the draw at 5pm so folk have time to get from the match to the nearest pub - the better.

How many local pubs close to the grounds would have been busy had this been so last Saturday? How many attendees would have vowed at that moment to make the next fixture regardless of the practicalities? How many adolescent fans doing their first season in the company of a family member or with a couple of keen friends haven't been sucked in for good off the back of a roaring game followed by a dash to the local to find out instantly where the recently won reward would take them? Last week's discussion on getting the club back into the community is affected by things like this; the cost of the constant chopping and changing from up high in an attempt to sell the whole spectacle to the armchair fan is counted here.

eric_plant · October 14

agree with a lot of that but as we all know the draw should be at lunchtime on the monday and on the radio only

As for this business of publishing the draw numbers in advance.....don't get me started

HolmerBlue · October 14

I agree, I don't like knowing the numbers

HolmerBlue · October 14

I agree, I don't like knowing the numbers

wwfcblue · October 14

Barrow away!

92 ✅

Mandown · October 14

Any non league team would be great

Ed_ · October 14

Maidenhead would be a right treat, imagine they would sell out our away stand.

prufrock_91 · October 14

A non-league away would be perfect. I feel we'd slip up at Chesham, so would like Woking or Tonbridge.

NewburyWanderer · October 14

Harrogate or Salford away, to help with the 92, or any non-League TTOs.

ryan_w_kirkby2 · October 14

https://gasroom.org/discussion/comment/361721#Comment_361721

I need to do them 2 plus Bromley, Gillingham and Swindon for the 92.

ReadingMarginalista · October 14

Away somewhere in the West Midlands as I'll be at my in-laws that weekend. Walsall away is almost as dull as Northampton but do-able by bus (sorry, "buz" as Wassall folk call it). Rushall Olympic or Tamworth would be interesting away ties.