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08-01-2016, 22:11
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Cyrille Regis shoots for goal at Ice Station Hawthorns, Albion vs Bristol City, 1st January 1979
With our threadbare squad and the undignified way we managed to exit both this season's League Cup and last year's FA Cup (yes, and all the others before them), I can't be the only one wondering just how seriously we're going to be taking the grand old competition this time round. Will it be another case of going through the motions? Or is 2016 finally the year we'll get to see Victor Anichebe fire the winner into the top corner at Wembley and end nearly fifty years of hurt?
Bristol City is, as draws go, one of the more favourable we could have asked for; they've got a relegation battle to worry about, and have been prone to some real hammerings on their travels recently. The glimmer of hope for them is that they're likely to be facing a very makeshift Albion side, albeit one which might have a big gun or two on the bench for an emergency. The upset is possible, as always, but you feel it would take a particularly poor showing from Albion to make it happen.
What say we go traditional and freeze the pitch overnight just to make sure? 
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Really looking forward to this one. 5300 away fans will crank up the noise and just hope we put out a really strong team and take the competition bloody seriously !
Read a stat saying the last time we went out of the FA cup to lower league opponents was Woking.
Even the name just made me flinch !
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(08-01-2016, 22:18)Squirrel Regis Wrote: Read a stat saying the last time we went out of the FA cup to lower league opponents was Woking.
Even the name just made me flinch !
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That can't be right. Halifax, Crewe, Bournemouth, Burnley...? We've been done by a few down the years.
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Sorry, should have said gone out at home !
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Just read on WBA Official Twitter that tickets are already at over 20,000 sold so will be our largest FA Cup 3rd round attendance since 1993.
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09-01-2016, 06:38
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(08-01-2016, 22:18)Squirrel Regis Wrote: Really looking forward to this one. 5300 away fans will crank up the noise and just hope we put out a really strong team and take the competition bloody seriously !
Read a stat saying the last time we went out of the FA cup to lower league opponents was Woking.
Even the name just made me flinch !
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5,300! Does the Smethwick End even take that many? 
(08-01-2016, 22:46)Ska Wrote: (08-01-2016, 22:18)Squirrel Regis Wrote: Read a stat saying the last time we went out of the FA cup to lower league opponents was Woking.
Even the name just made me flinch !
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That can't be right. Halifax, Crewe, Bournemouth, Burnley...? We've been done by a few down the years.
I went to the Bournemouth tie. A freezing cold miserable afternoon as I remember it. Eddie Howe was probably in their team then. Was it 1-0 to Bournemouth?
(08-01-2016, 22:11)Ska Wrote:
Cyrille Regis shoots for goal at Ice Station Hawthorns, Albion vs Bristol City, 1st January 1979
What say we go traditional and freeze the pitch overnight just to make sure?
Went to this game as well, bloody freezing it was and a wonder it went ahead. Wasn't this the game Albion were wearing so-called 'moon boots' with nodule-like studs covering the whole of the soles? And was this one 1-0 as well?
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Aries,
Think all the Albion fans must have been hoofed out the Smethwick end for this one !
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Don't underestimate City.
Look at Exeter last night v Liverpool Youth Team. Klopp played the kids to keep his 1st team fresh, but they've still got to squeeze another game in for the replay. And I bet there was more disappointment in the Exeter changing-room.
(By the way, I thought the Ref was brilliant last night. If that was a Premier game there would have been 7 or 8 red and yellow cards, but the Ref was sensible.)
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(09-01-2016, 11:13)talkSAFT Wrote: (By the way, I thought the Ref was brilliant last night. If that was a Premier game there would have been 7 or 8 red and yellow cards, but the Ref was sensible.)
The ref was none other than Stuart Attwell, he of the countless horrendous mistakes in his early career when thrust prematurely in his 20s into the cauldron of the Premier League and Championship.
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Ska, I think the January 1979 game was 3-0 but I could be wrong. I was working at GKN in Darlaston at the time and I sneaked out to watch the game.
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