Unofficial Halesowen Town FC Forum

Not the draw just yet, that's around 1pm......

Here's the teams left in it split in to North and South (there's an odd number of each based on the draw and Conference Prem sides split 13/11 but it's fair to say if it's regionalised, we'll be in the north with some great potential games alongside some real rank journeys possible):-

3rd Qualifying Winners
North
AFC Fylde
Barwell / FC United of Manchester
Boston United
Bradford Park Avenue
Chorley / Stalybridge Celtic
Gainsborough Trinity
Guiseley / Rushall Olympic
Harrogate Town
Halesowen Town
Hyde
North Ferriby United
Ramsbottom United
Solihull Moors
Spennymoor Town
Stockport County
Worcester City

South
Basingstoke Town
Bedford Town/ Weston-Super-Mare
Bishop's Stortford
Burgess Hill Town
Concord Rangers
Ebbsfleet United
Farnborough
Gloucester City / Bath City
Gosport Borough
Hayes and Yeading United
Havant and Waterlooville
Hemel Hempstead Town
Leiston
Lowestoft Town
Maidenhead United
Merthyr Town / Didcot Town
Oxford City
St Albans City / Wealdstone
St Neots Town / AFC Sudbury
Staines Town / Poole Town
Sutton United
Tonbridge Angels / Bromley
Wimborne Town
Weymouth

Conference Premier sides
North
AFC Telford United
Alfreton Town
Altrincham
Chester
FC Halifax Town
Gateshead
Grimsby Town
Kidderminster Harriers
Lincoln City
Macclesfield Town
Nuneaton Town
Southport
Wrexham

South
Aldershot Town
Barnet
Braintree Town
Bristol Rovers
Dartford
Dover Athletic
Eastleigh
Forest Green Rovers
Torquay United
Welling United
Woking

(You're not singing) Spennymoor at home please.

Or Harrogate Town away - another one I could walk to.

Gateshead away

What a load of toss

A probable spanking but local-ish for me and Poll.

We could do this with Iyesden's shorts...

Completely underwhelmed. Especially having already traveled to Blyth in this competition.

Other than the divide of gate money,possibly just over 1,000 fans, (if Gateshead are interested) I'm very 'meh' about this draw.

Obviously a good draw for me, but also might be a good time to play Gateshead as they're still in the FA Cup - they've got Warrington at home so you'd fancy them to get through and maybe get a very distracting draw in the 3rd Round.

Not sure what it'll be like at their ground though, as even with a thousand there it's a very big athletics stadium - see http://www.gateshead-fc.com/gateshead-i ... al-stadium if you haven't seen it on the TV before.

Weekend in Newcastle on the lash- I will be having a bit of that!!

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RaidenYeltz wrote:Completely underwhelmed. Especially having already traveled to Blyth in this competition.
Other than the divide of gate money,possibly just over 1,000 fans, (if Gateshead are interested) I'm very 'meh' about this draw

Yes you're right. Maybe over 1,000, but probably unlikely as the Conference clubs typically record lower gates in the early rounds of the Trophy. They average around 1,300 in the league so are not the best supported at Conference level, although the crowds are up a lot from last season after missing out in the promotion play-off final; a very tough and disappointing draw.

Closer than Blyth.

S!!t running track around the outside.

Home league crowds (exc local derby and big away following) 1100 to 1200 although FA Cup only got 864.

Limo primed and ready to go.

Come on Yeltz lads lets be Medium killers (can't call em Giant's).