skybluecam
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Bit late now and would be chaos if we got drawn away
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Sky Blue Pete
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Few more I think
Alan Dugdales Moustache
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Didn't we beat someone in an earlier round about 11-0 at Highfield Road and Darren Huckerby scored 14 of them ?
Alan Dugdales Moustache
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But then again they have a very big hard core support. They are one of the best supported clubs in the land. Only restricted by a ground capacity of around 29k. They probably could have sold 35k and more for many of their matches this season.
shmmeee
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Based on date you bought your Maidstone ticket.
skybluecam
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4,800
skybluecam
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Maidstone with the commemorative scarves- we’re fucking massive!
Well we certainly beat Macclesfield 7-0 in the third round, can’t remember us having any bigger scores than that in the cup.
Frank Sidebottom
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8-0 vs Rushden and Diamonds?
pusbccfc
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So just under 20,000 tickets sold. They genuinely think only 4000 will be sold between now and Monday? Surely not. Will be a lot more than that, especially if we win Friday.
There's no rush to get tickets yet.
jimmyhillsfanclub
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My love for the club/cup eclipsed by my hatred for the M6.....
I'll be watching on ITV4.....& I feel dirty.
I'll be watching on ITV4.....& I feel dirty.
San Francisco
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Yeah essentially this. People point and say stuff about losing to Hereford and Worcester years ago despite us being in L1 and having an absolutely dross team, manager and owners and on the decline.
Where we are now is so much different.
As I've said before, I fully expect us to win at least 7-0.
bigfatronssba
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I’m only expecting a rout if we decide to go all out to thrash them with a full-strength side and tbh there’s no reason why we need to do that.
The last two times there was a four-tier gap between teams in this round of the FA Cup, the bigger teams made a load of changes, took it easy and won 2 or 3-0
The last two times there was a four-tier gap between teams in this round of the FA Cup, the bigger teams made a load of changes, took it easy and won 2 or 3-0
San Francisco
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Using a second string side against a non-league team that got promoted at a canter and are now 3rd in League 2. How are they remotely comparable to Maidstone?
Robins won't be making the same mistakes.
Otis
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Exactly how I see itI’m only expecting a rout if we decide to go all out to thrash them with a full-strength side and tbh there’s no reason why we need to do that.
The last two times there was a four-tier gap between teams in this round of the FA Cup, the bigger teams made a load of changes, took it easy and won 2 or 3-0
2 or 3 nil would do just fine. Job done and hopefully no injuries.
That’s not the proper cup though ;-)
skybluecam
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And the 3rd last time?I’m only expecting a rout if we decide to go all out to thrash them with a full-strength side and tbh there’s no reason why we need to do that.
The last two times there was a four-tier gap between teams in this round of the FA Cup, the bigger teams made a load of changes, took it easy and won 2 or 3-0
Premier League Burnley made changes and lost 1-0 to Lincoln.
We lost to Sutton when we were third in the top division. Also Maidstone beat a better team than us in the last round.
I mean, fine, but that was literally the first time in 100 years a non-league team has made it that far. They had one shot on target the whole game and it went in, another total fluke. Not the kind of risk we need to be throwing huge resources at, especially when we have WBA four days later.
Jesse Carver
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He was the cover star on Pro Evolution Soccer that year.
mark82
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Confident we'll beat that.Ok I was way out.
In 1881 Darwin beat Romford 15-0 which is the record for the FA Cup 5th round.
FA Cup - Statistics » Most goals in a game
Football FA Cup » Statistics » Most goals in a gamewww.worldfootball.net
David O'Day
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first half mateConfident we'll beat that.
skybluericoh
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Looking at the scores on the WKI page the best (Highest score) was Arsenal v Lincoln City when they were national league in 2016/17 and that was 5-0. most are 1/2 nils so think the 6/7/ nils will be a tad disappointed. As long as we go through and don't pick up any injuries, will do me.
COVKIDSNEVERQUIT
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and try to catch us on the break. 
Brylowes
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One of the best supported clubs in the land, I’m not sure what makes you say that.
Their attendances this season have been decent & 21,000 last season isn’t bad either, but before that you have to go back to 2010 to find the last time they hit 20,000.
They have managed an average in excess of 20,000 in 24 seasons in their history and have never had a season average in excess of 30,000, this despite winning the League Championship, the FA Cup & the Cup Winners Cup and numerous seasons qualifying for and competing in European competition.
We on the other hand have managed an average in excess of 20,000 in 27 seasons including 3 of over 30,000.
HadjiChippo
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I’d be interested to see where you're seeing these numbers, even during the 90s we only had 3 seasons where we averaged over 20,000. And in our post premier league years we’ve only averaged over 20,000 three times (including this season)
Ipswich averaged 26,000 in league one last season and 21000+ the season before that. Since 2000 their average attendances have definitely been better than ours. In fact between 2000 and 2010 they didn’t dip below 20,000 avg attendance once, whilst we were struggling to get above 18000 regularly and went as low as 14,000 a few times.
you also have to take into account Coventrys population is around twice the size of Ipswich’s.
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bigfatronssba
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Not this thing about population sizes again. We know that it’s not comparable.
Has people believing that Coventry is bigger than Leicester & Nottingham
Be easy to get out the car I guess
Our record win in the FA Cup 5th round is whatever we do on MondayOk I was way out.
In 1881 Darwin beat Romford 15-0 which is the record for the FA Cup 5th round.
FA Cup - Statistics » Most goals in a game
Football FA Cup » Statistics » Most goals in a game
bloody hell mate how far are you going back?
bigfatronssba
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Ipswich’s post 2010 attendances weren’t great in the championship. They weren’t getting anything that we wouldn’t have got if we’d been in that position at the time.
Like us, going down and then rebuilding seems to have grown their support
Like us, going down and then rebuilding seems to have grown their support
