Southport v Hyde United Northwich Victoria v Vauxhall Motors Hinckley United v Burton Albion Hereford United v Radcliffe Borough Brigg Town v Halesowen Town Carlisle United v York City Halifax Town v Leek Town or Stalybridge Celtic Tamworth v Burscough Stafford Rangers v Gateshead Morecambe v Altrincham or Hucknall Town Worksop Town v Alfreton Town Accrington Stanley v Leigh RMI Lancaster City v Scarborough Liversedge v Coalville Town Billericay Town v Flackwell Heath Barnet v Farnborough Town Weymouth or Thame United v Forest Green Rovers Canvey Island v Hallen Lymington & New Milton v Woking Dagenham & Redbridge v Crawley Town Hornchurch v Gravesend & Northfleet Exeter City v Braintree Town Slough Town v Salisbury City Bath City v Leatherhead Aldershot Town v Maidenhead United Hayes v Ashford Town (Middx) Thurrock v Spalding United Stevenage Borough v Leyton or Hendon Tiverton Town or Eastleigh v North Leigh or Newport County Wealdstone v Histon Sutton United or Bromley v Cambridge City Bognor Regis Town v Yeading At home at least, but on our day more than capable of losing to anyone. Haven't made the first round in either of the past two seasons. Before that we got a bye there.
sorry, i dont know how to send a private message... but i wanted to tell you that the american kid i wrote about who used to play in germany (chris cleary) made english football history the other day. i was just on the fa website and last game he had a hat-trick (his team won 3-2) in his FA CUP match and its the first time an american has ever done that in the cup's history. he was also nominated for FA CUP player of the round... some bloke is killing him though in the voting
Perhaps not too surprising. At this level most people won't have seen many of the games, so those players for clubs with a lot of support are likely to do a lot better in the poll. Worksop managed to draw less than 500 for the game, despite being within a reasonable drive of Droylsden. As I can't get on the FA site at the moment, who is leading the poll. I've noticed a couple of hatrick scorers for Hornchurch and Bath, but in the former case it is pretty meaningless, and the latter only needed the one.
It looks like a very bad year for the north east clubs - only Gateshead through this far (heaven help us).