last time I watched Town play was at the old Wembley in a FA final (Vase, Shield ??) ...about 10k watched and there was a running riot in the stands at halftime...couldn't believe it!

Good luck to them v Exeter..I will tune in!

wonder how many exeter fans will travel up for this

And afterwards. Our coach went without us because of it. Leaving me and my dad stranded in London with no money.

I was always told that West Ham turned up after getting a kicking in the Cheese when they stopped in there en route too a game in the North West.

There was also trouble at the semi finals as well. I'm sure someone got stabbed.

Reading all the stuff about Cantilever Park on here, I can't help but think that Town are going to be guilty of a huge PR disaster by playing the game at their ramshackle ground.

I mean, considering how the club are attempting to raise the profile of the club and entice some new supporters, how better to treat those potential new supporters than by getting them to stump up some decent, hard-earned cash, herd them into a glorified park ground and for most of those new supporters, get to spend most of the evening looking at the back of somebody's head?

Now, I'm all for the romance of the Cup, but Cantilever Park is no better than Rylands Rec - Actually, there is more chance of seeing the game at Rylands Rec.... While its a fantastic moment for the club, I think come the following Saturday morning, there will be an outpouring of complaints from people who will feel ripped off by the whole 'restricted view' experience and will probably be put off ever going to a Town game again, which will surely be the exact opposite of what they want to achieve.

I would have gone, had it been moved to the HJ, and I've never seen them play in my life.

I'll be going wherever they play it.
I'm a Warringtonian and they represent my town and me.

15 quid to look at the back of somebody's head, or sat at home watching it on the telly??.... Its a no brainer.

Like I say, I hate to be negative, but it will be a PR disaster - Also, after Hillsborough, I didn't think the potential for some serious crowding issues would ever be entertained ever again?

I appreciate the FA wanting to keep clubs playing in their own grounds, but this isn't a quaint village side with a single small ground, its a large town side, who have a 15,000 capacity stadium sat empty a mile up the road.

Not sure how true this is but was speaking to a work associate who works, shall we say, close to Media City. He was saying that the talk around MC is that the game being held at CP is part of a deal with the BBC. The FA Cup is now back on the BBC and the BBC has always sold the competition on history, fairytales, David V Goliath. Non-league team in their first ever FA cup, playing at their little small ground V League opposition fits the bill nicely.

OK so its all he said/she said/they said/heresay stuff but it might just explain why Town are not to bothered about playing the game infront of a potential bigger (money spinner) crowd.

Sold out although they will probably be getting some tickets returned by Exeter during the week. 2,500 tickets sold, it'll be a bit of a squeeze.

This.

I went to get tickets at 3:30 this afternoon, the earliest I could get there, and the "SOLD OUT" signs were up. I was hoping to get 3 tickets.

I was not the only one who turned up only to be disappointed and having to turn straight round to go home.

I went to the North Ferriby match and, albeit I'm a Watford fan, would have loved to support the local team against Exeter.

Disappointed!

Wtfc will have to consider an approach to the hj should we get through and another home tie

I find it very interesting that people are excited by the prospect of this club potentially playing a top flight side.

In rugby league, if Hemel reached the fifth round of the Cup and lost 84-6 to Warrington it would be deemed as an embarrassment to the sport and destroying the competition.

What's the difference?

Any spare tickets knocking about per chance? Got there at 12-15 and queued up only to be dissapointed! Went the bl00dy Ferriby game aswell!

You wouldn't get an equivalent score in football. Also, you do occasionally get upsets. I was reading last week that Altrincham have beaten league opposition around 16 times in the FA Cup. I know they are higher than Warrington but it just goes to show.

FC United did it a couple of years ago, beating Rochdale away before drawing away at Brighton.

Camera gantry rigging going up today

The difference is that Rugby League fans like a good moan and a whinge about anything.



An 84-6 scoreline in Rugby League, I'd consider to be a thrashing. What do you consider to be a thrashing in football? Is Southampton 8-0 Sunderland not high enough?

I agree it's hard to compare the two scorelines, given that they are completely different sports with very few, if any, similarities. But even with the most basic knowledge of either sport, you'd know if one side was beaten heavily by another team.

Who cares it's soccer after all

That wyrewire is the attitude I'd expect only from a pieater!
I care because I'm a Wire and I support whoever represents Warrington. They represent my town and me.
Cotw...yellows!

I'd say 84 - 6 was a lot more of a thrashing than 8-0. I'd also think that if Warrington played Hemel, it would be more than 84.

The original point was that a heavy defeat would be embarrassing for the sport and would destroy the competition, so why are people excited.

My point is there is a chance of an upset there, even though personally I think Warrington will get beat.

its called the romance of the cup..david and goliath..theres always been a shock in the fa cup..theres not that many in rugby league(cant think of the last one)maybe us at hull kr..it would be nice if town could pull out a performance and progress to the next round

Rubber Duckie I am not a pie I am an exiled warringtonian was raised on Latchford until left in 1970. I just don't want the football overshadowing rugby

I never called you a pie my friend.
That would be a horrid insult.
I wouldn't fear a FA overshadowment from Town over SL in our lifetime.
I would ask the question isnt SL already second fiddle to FA with a combination of Utd City Liv Eve and others?

I don't believe rugby would lose support to football, none that's worth worrying about anyway, perhaps if town became professional then they may take fans away from the main 4 football rivals in this area though.
They would certainly take my support over them, and 2 of them are avidly supported in my household.

If Town became professional, or put it this way, if Town got so far as drawing one of the 2 above we follow, I will be supporting Town without malice.

I'm a Wire fan in RL but I'm a Man Utd fan in football, I'll be honest I don't care if Warrington Town win or not.

Wigan losing at home in the cup for the first time in my lifetime this year? Leigh narrowly losing away at cup holders Leeds? Batley narrowly losing to Huddersfield the year before? Fev and Barrow both knocking Cas out in recent years? Tolouse reaching the semi final? Catalans reaching the final? Just off the top of my head.

Bob, I was more referring to if Warrington advance and reach top flight opposition.

Warrington is a football town.