Feels like there's a new optimism in the air after a somewhat gloomy start to the year. League takes preference but this game feels eminently winnable. COYB!
So, Shev aside, how’s everyone watching this evening?
In terms of what the bookies are saying, we’re favourites (evens), Pompey are 9/4, Sam Vokes is 7/4 anytime goalscorer (???) and Matt Bloomfield is 12/1 to be managing in Saudi Arabia next year.
I miss those days. When my girls are a little bit older, not only will I be able to say that I’ll be going to the game, but they’ll be coming with me. “Daddy, have we always been a top flight team playing champagne football?!” “No darling, just before you were born we were stinking out the Championship”
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Feels like there's a new optimism in the air after a somewhat gloomy start to the year. League takes preference but this game feels eminently winnable. COYB!
FA Cup third round
It's fucking freezing outside
Come on you chairboys
I'm not known for my poetry skills, sorry.
With pessimism spiking
Wycombe signed a viking
We can't pronounce his name yet
Let's go and cause an upset
Maybe we should make this
a poetry only thread.
Even while the match is on,
and you're ranting about Fred.
Can our Wycombe rhymes
Silence Pompey chimes?
This atmosphere is hell
Until someone silences that bell
I wonder if he'll be trying to take a whizz on our seats like he did v Southampton.
Might find it freezes up / snaps off if he does.
By the sounds of it, he's even more notorious and less popular among Pompey fans than Mr Drummer is among ours
There are subtle signs
We live in different times
Whilst Pompey chimes are waining
The Chairboys drum bangs on
And on
And on
And on
Not poetry, unfortunately
Lacking both metre and rhyme
Post these in the other thread
if you find the time.
We had a player named Morley
Who left and so we played poorly
We signed a Dane
To help our form regain
But we still miss him sorely
I'm excited to see
Our new signing from Molde
I just pray that this time
The coffee's not cold
Our best season in years
But all we currently hear is fears
Low to go, Kone to go
But Bloomy going would arguably be the biggest blow.
We've brought in some Danish fella
Loads of gasroom blaggers pretending they know he's stellar
I hope they're right
We really need his might
Otherwise the gasroom is gonna be an ugly sight
With glasshalf empty leading the "woe is us" tales
Even though at 2nd in the league the wind should be in our sails.
Midlander speaks with such authority on all things blue
But I can't really recall many situations he's called true
Frequent stander switches between high and low
He tells us his "group" all back his flow
@Shev , @micra and @Wendoverman give us a more grounded feeling
Personally in a sea of ranters, I find them healing.
So on we go to tonizzy
I fancy a Wycombe win. Let's get bizzy!
Will the big Dane play?
The Home Office in-tray
we hope will confirm it
by issue of a work permit
I've just realised too much extra time, possible extra time and pens might mean I get locked in at the school...three first half goals please boys!
They came from north south east and west
As all true blues know the Cup is best
Battling through ice and police ont M40
Put your foot down, even though it's naughty!
Pompey came by river, bells a ringing
But when pubs close it'll be chairboys singing
Cos in the year twenty twenty-five
It's Wycombe keeping Cup dreams alive.
We have fallen in love with loanees again
And it's mere days after them leaving
Potts rocks up to an FA Cup game
A reminder of past grieving
It's as cold as fu*k tonight,
But we're going to be alright.
If we score enough goals this evening
It'll end any talk of Matt leaving.
Looking back at 2025
The club was looking to evolve
Tensions were high with internal strife
But nothing an FA Cup trophy couldn't solve
Win tonight, all is well
Lose tonight, we're in hell
Inspired by @manchesterchairboy in the attendance threads, I thought I would ask Mr. ChatGPT to write one for us. Here is what he came up with:
Chairboys in the Cup
Through icy winds and winter's chill,
The Chairboys march with heart and will.
From Adams Park, where dreams take flight,
We brave the cold to cheer tonight.
A Viking now dons our famous blue,
A warrior’s spirit, bold and true.
With every tackle, every goal,
He fuels the fire in Wycombe's soul.
Pompey’s bells may chime and ring,
But tonight, it’s Chairboys who will sing.
Through grit and fight, we’ll stake our claim,
To keep alive the FA Cup flame.
So raise your voices, loud and proud,
For Wycombe’s faithful, the loyal crowd.
On Cup nights like this, under starry skies,
Legends are made, and hope never dies.
@Wendoverman committed high crime
To post in the thread without rhyme
He must hang his head low
and even should go
without crisps until the ref calls full time
Will the overseas broadcasts have commentary in the local languages tonight?
Would be amazing if someone can get the 'Goooooooooooaaaaaaaaal!' on Argentine TV when Rav scores the winner.
I have been told that the ESPN broadcast over here will indeed be in American.
I wonder what the guy who called JJ ‘Yakobsen,’ will make of Hagelskjær.
So, Shev aside, how’s everyone watching this evening?
In terms of what the bookies are saying, we’re favourites (evens), Pompey are 9/4, Sam Vokes is 7/4 anytime goalscorer (???) and Matt Bloomfield is 12/1 to be managing in Saudi Arabia next year.
Sam Vokes has been ruled out of a return tonight so think I’ll keep my money.
Old school... actually going to the game!!
Imagine.
I miss those days. When my girls are a little bit older, not only will I be able to say that I’ll be going to the game, but they’ll be coming with me. “Daddy, have we always been a top flight team playing champagne football?!” “No darling, just before you were born we were stinking out the Championship”