The draw for the first round of the FA Cup will take place 1pm on SUNDAY, back live on ITV would you believe !

http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/TheFACup/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2008/10/First_Round_beckons.htm

Now the ultimate question: Who would you like in the First Round ?

I would say any team like Maidstone United, but only because it would be a doddle for me. Not so easy for the rest of us, of course, or quite possibly somewhere in the South East where the team plays in a small village with the most romantically small ground possible, or Oxford United or Oxford City somewhere like that to visit family.

FOURTH QUALIFYING ROUND:

No Date KO Home Away
1 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Hinckley United v Curzon Ashton
2 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Kettering Town v Burton Albion
3 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Tamworth v Barrow
4 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Kings Lynn v Kidderminster Harriers
5 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Boston United v Cambridge United
7 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Droylsden v Belper Town
9 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Retford United v Alfreton Town
10 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Northwich Victoria v AFC Telford United
11 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Blyth Spartans AFC v Sheffield
12 25 Oct 2008 15:00 York City v Mansfield Town
13 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Fleetwood Town v Nantwich Town
14 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Wrexham v Eastwood Town
15 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Stevenage Borough v Horsham
16 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Woking v Ebbsfleet United
17 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Hampton & Richmond Borough v Brackley Town
18 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Oxford United v Hayes & Yeading United
19 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Maidstone United v AFC Wimbledon
20 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Team Bath v Salisbury City
21 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Dorchester Town v Bishop's Stortford
22 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Oxford City v Eastbourne Borough
23 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Ashford Town (Middx) v Forest Green Rovers
24 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Evesham United v Rushden & Diamonds
25 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Bury Town v Basingstoke Town
26 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Burgess Hill Town v Harlow Town
27 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Grays Athletic v AFC Totton
28 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Aylesbury United v Sutton United
29 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Torquay United v Chipstead
30 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Leiston v Lewes
31 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Crawley Town v Havant & Waterlooville
32 25 Oct 2008 15:00 Weymouth v AFC Hornchurch
8 25 Oct 2008 16:00 Durham City v Histon
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6 26 Oct 2008 15:00 Newcastle Blue Star v Altrincham

We don't want riff-raff down here POK . But Crawley , Eastbourne boro And Lewes Have good chances of making the first round ...Lewes play at the Dripping Pan..

Eastbourne Borough all the way.

Do you want Hornchurch again, Sussex ?

Do you know of this fine town donkey ?

I do.
Been to see them play a few times when down there visiting family

Tamworth at home and hopefully a bit of revenge.

I hope Hornchurch fail to qualify as they are playing my old home town team Weymouth, Weymouth would be a good away tie for the Loids a nice long trek just to get beat by a decent non league side.

Noooo
I cant go through that again

I know in terms of the best possible draw for our progression in this competition that we'd like a home draw, but having Tamworth's a bit boring isn't, considering why we love the FA CUp, it's romance etc.

Besides if you want revenge Mark Cooper's at Kettering now. Let's have them at home and kick his arse.

Are you scared we'll get knocked out again by a minnow ? Is anyone scared ?

Also the possibility of The City of Dreaming Spires Derby: Oxford United Vs. Oxford City in Round One.

My uncle's a United fan. Dad was best friends at school with a City fan.

Darlo home or away would do just fine, an easy passage to the 2nd round, decent crowd 6,000 Poolies and 700 Loids, bragging rights for another few seasons and the chance to see how good that San Marino international is

Fürstentum Liechtenstein









But still funny anyway !

Is it really worth the bother of 900 loids coming through for us to cruise through the first round?

It would be absolutely amazing for you to fill that 6700 capacity

It would be amazing for you if you filled your 25,000 capacity !

Fürstentum Liechtenstein

PoK I know what country he is from but had a toss up between San Marino and Andorra, as Iceland are of a much better quality than Liechtenstein.

No, true, you're right there.

Liechtenstein are ranked 135th round, worse than

Bermuda
New Caledonia
Thailand
North Korea
Armenia
New Zealand
Cuba
China
Cyprus
Iraq
Bosnia
Wales
South Korea
Belgium
Iran
Switzerland

I thought you meant Darlo's San Siro stadium

Isn't it Pools who have the San Giro and you have the Stad de schite?

At least people pay to go to the San Siro, sometimes it's like a ghost town in that stadium of yours.

as always torquay or exeter away please.
afc wimbledon would be interesting given danny wilson's MK connections

AFC Wimbledon is my nearest team (well actually it's Corinthian Casuals!) and they are pulling 3,000 for home matches at the moment.

Personally, I've always fancied Barrow away but not sure Mrs Chessington would let me go all that way

I'd love us to play Durham, they've got a tough game today though against Histon, saying that, they thrashed Stalybridge Celtic 6-1 away in the last round.

Pools ball 21 , darlo ball 17 Leeds 24 Leicester 25

Darlo Away. Then it will clarify once and for all that we are a MUCH better team than them, oh and i can rub it in MSNQuakers face at work