Popular Post Lord Snooty Posted January 8, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 8, 2021 " This is it isn't it. This is what we need, ho! I good old fashioned FA Cup ding-dong. Yes, the January blues are edging their way in and we all need that little bit of rejuvenation. And here it is. You can smell it can't you Stubbs?" "Smell what ,Sir?" "The magic Stubbs! You can smell the magic! Ah yes. Third round day. Wireless on. The home service. Frosty morning. Air billowing out of the mouth. Remember as a child Stubbs you'd exhale and pretend you were smoking a cigar?" "Not really ,Sir" "Yes. We did. Ahh Cigars. That's something else. These early January games. Frost on the pitch, twinkling like a millions icy diamonds and all the stands filled with the rich aroma of Cigar smoke. Cigar smoke and Bovril" "Hmmm. You paint really romantic picture ,Sir" "Programmes held to forehead to block out that low winter sun glowing above the little stand on the other side of the ground of the lower division club. Match of the day, portable camera stands. Ahh yes, camera pans out, young boys sat up a tree on a hill watching the game though the gap between the two stands. Too many bowl Stadiums now, even at that level .But not today. The magic. Two teams giving it the full gun in this famous competition. Always great to see the bigger name players out there in these little grounds. It's the great leveller isn't it." "Ahem, I think Wednesday are set to ring the changes, Sir. There's been a Covid outbreak in the camp" "For Gods sake! I'm sick of this bloody Covid thing ruining everything!" "To be honest, they'd have probably made 8 or 9 changes anyway, Sir. Concentrate on the League and such" "No! Not and such. What's wrong with the world these days. Why ring the bloody changes! " "Priorities, Sir. They don't want to risk any injuries in a nothing game" "Nothing game! A nothing game, the bloody FA Cup third round! And why are they more likely to get injured in this anyway? They're not!" "They play a lot of games these days, Sir, it's.." "Bloody hell. They played a lot of games in the old days! Emlyn Hughes, 120 in the 1976 season" "120 games, really ,Sir? "Well, a slight exaggeration maybe. But bloody hell what's wrong with them these days" "The games played at a faster tempo ,Sir" "Faster tempo! I'll tell you what's wrong with them. They're not fat enough! They're too professional. That's what it is. You didn't get Puskas pulling a hamstring and being out for 16 weeks. No, because his top speed was a yard behind our paperboy! There's too much charging about today. They need a bit of blubber. You see two players collide today and they're both rolling about on the floor. One out for a year. Fat blokes whack each other and bounce off. Plenty of padding. They're too fit today, Stubbs, too fit" "Too fit, Sir? I mean really..." "Too finely tuned. Like formula one cars. Too much to go wrong. The game needs more fat players. More Jan Molbys and less Theo Walcotts. They're not fat enough and they're mentally weak. Half the time I think they're willing themselves to take a knock you know, gives them chance for a definite TV close up." "The Science says.." "To hell with following the Science. Get them out there after all, it's tradition, what could go wrong!?" ------------------------------------ EXETER CITY V's WEDNESDAY The FA Cup Third Round Saturday 9th January 2021 St James Park, Exeter Kick off : 3:00pm Exeter will be without Pierce Sweeney after he suffered a hamstring injury on Boxing day, while Rory McArdle looks set to miss out with a knee injury. Josh Key will be in contention for a starting berth after recovering from COVID-19. Exeter City possible: Maxsted Caprice Parkes Hartridge Sparkes Williams Taylor Collins Randall Jay Bowman ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday have has a well publicised outbreak of Covid at the club and as such there is no readily available team news. However, given the league battle and the way games have been coming thick and fast , it isn't beyond the realms that players would have been rested any eve, with no Covid . Sheffield Wednesday possible : Wildsmith Palmer Shaw Van Aken Odubajo Brown Dele-Bashiru Hunt Penney Kachunga Rhodes ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "So it's the reserves is it then Stubbs? The reserves. Well. It'll have to be them then. Out there in the cold. Basking in the magic of the Cup. Down there on a boggy lower league pitch." "Actually Sir, I gather Exeters pitch is really very good. They've had state of the art combination grass and microfibre.." "But why?! What's the bloody point! Why are people ruining football! For Heavens sake! There was nothing wrong with it!" 23 11 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherlyegg Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Nice one snoots.. Exeter 3 - 0 Wednesday Juniors. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KivoOwl Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Think the team will be a lot weaker than that. Jackson Dawodu Brennan Rice Galvin Aguas Thompson Waldock Grant Hughes Hagan Subs - Render, Cox, Reaney, Zottos, Adedoyin, Hall, Trueman, Farmer, Curtis 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
York_Owl Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 What’s your take on Paul Cook @Lord Snooty if he is appointed Manager? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Snooty Posted January 8, 2021 Author Share Posted January 8, 2021 11 minutes ago, York_Owl said: What’s your take on Paul Cook @Lord Snooty if he is appointed Manager? Cook, like anyone walking in down there will have to know one thing. He's first team coach and not Football club manager! That will go for any of them. Seems to be something the younger , and especially the foreign coaches are used to. I do wonder if that's why we got Carlos the first time around and not the chap from Swindon. Manager from these shores seem to want a certain level of control. Certainly the older chaps anyway. The younger ones will largely put up with anything to keep their arm in the game! If he's ok with that (Cook) Then I'd be as happy with him than any of the other Enlgish/British coaches. Infact of those touted from that side of things, he's probably the most appealing. He's got a good record of promotions. Seems to be able to get a tune out of players in these divisions and seems to be able to work with the tools he's given. (Which will appeal to our Chairman and his advisors) By all accounts he has an attacking philosophy and people I know who have had him manage their clubs haven't really a bad word to say about him. If he gets it I'll be behind him 100%. As I try to with them all. I do think that if he tries to get us playing more attack minded football he'll buy himself more time with the fans than his two predecessors. 4 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Snooty Posted January 8, 2021 Author Share Posted January 8, 2021 24 minutes ago, KivoOwl said: Think the team will be a lot weaker than that. Jackson Dawodu Brennan Rice Galvin Aguas Thompson Waldock Grant Hughes Hagan Subs - Render, Cox, Reaney, Zottos, Adedoyin, Hall, Trueman, Farmer, Curtis 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkstar Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 39 minutes ago, KivoOwl said: Think the team will be a lot weaker than that. Jackson Dawodu Brennan Rice Galvin Aguas Thompson Waldock Grant Hughes Hagan Subs - Render, Cox, Reaney, Zottos, Adedoyin, Hall, Trueman, Farmer, Curtis It'll be even weaker than that seeing as Hagan and Adedoyin are injured. Might even have to play Rhodes. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neon Nick Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Thank you for that Lord Snooty ! I miss the old pitches, looked like the Somme, after the match, arguably even before the match...reminds me of Rooney saying that the Hillsborough pitch was not up to his standards... The nearest we have to a "fat Player" would be Paterson, but when he hit's, it hurts, and when you hit him, you get hurt again. Anyway, Cup game or not, who wants to lose? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horny owl Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Gutted we’re playing again I thought it was an international break 2-0 to the opposites 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doghouse Daz Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Exeter the exiters. Bring on the next round. 0 - 3 to THE MIGHTY OWLS COME ON YOU BLUE AND WHITE WIZARDS !!! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pazowl55 Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 1 hour ago, KivoOwl said: Think the team will be a lot weaker than that. Jackson Dawodu Brennan Rice Galvin Aguas Thompson Waldock Grant Hughes Hagan Subs - Render, Cox, Reaney, Zottos, Adedoyin, Hall, Trueman, Farmer, Curtis If we are aloud to play first team squad members then the fringe players will play. But I got a feeling we won't be able to so it will look a lot like this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offalyowl Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Brilliant as always snoots, as I literally nothing better to do as I'm in isolation because my best friend is been tested for covid, I may as well watch the match , just joking about watching it, I always watch every Wednesday match that live on tv, hope my friend comes back negative otherwise I'm confined to my house for 2 weeks, a Wednesday win would definitely lighten the mood, 2 nil win I predict, uto, wawaw, stay safe my fellow owls 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S36 OWL Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Exeter 3-0 Wednesday u12's. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bulgaria Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Love the cup, want us to play our strongest 11. A scrappy draw, that goes to pens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post nevthelodgemoorowl Posted January 9, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 9, 2021 (edited) if there were two dates in the calendar I Used to love they were the Boxing Day and 3rd round FA Cup Day played at Hillsborough. Why ? Well it just dripped nostalgia. Seldom less than 40,000 in the ground and often over 50,000. It was a total change of the normal agenda. The smell of cigarette smoke Oxo and Fothergills famous pies was replaced with...A very different mix indeed. A rare mix of Brandy, Whisky and Rum; Accompanied by the smells of Kamp Coffee with the famous chicory essence. Our pies had been replaced with sandwiches of turkey and Mothers own made preserves. I was always responsible for protecting the two mince pies each stuffed into my tiny Gabardine raincoat. Of course the mince pies were exhausted by cup day, but the Cigar smoke still would rise into the air along with a whiff off the top shelf. Sometimes the trimmings at home were down, sometimes they were not. But the excitement of those two fixtures made me tingle. The dreaded words I used to hate from my Dad ...Boxing day "Well we'll have to see what the Cup brings" Cup Day "Well we can concentrate on the League now" How times and manners have changed; Were he here now I'd say "Dad just shut the F up" but days were different then. Yes those two days in the calendar had a totally different meaning. It smelled and tasted different to any other fixture. Of course there was a third fixture at Christmas up to about 1962 on Christmas Day. I can't recall ever having attended one. There was though a reverse fixture I recall about 60/61 where Fulham got thrashed by Ipswich and on Boxing day Ipswich suffered a similar fate at Craven Cottage. 10-1 and 8-1 were the scores I believe. There are lot saying we could do with going out of the cup, we have to see the bigger picture. I simply can't agree. You play to enjoy fan or player and there is no greater joy than winning. SO COME ON WEDNESDAY 'UP F'T CUP' AND ALL THAT ! UTO & DTB WAWAW. Edited January 9, 2021 by nevthelodgemoorowl 14 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trumbullowl Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Oh for a rousing chorus of Who ate all the pies? Who ate all the pies? You fat bast'rd, you fat bastr'd You ate all the pies. I like Paterson. C'm on Wednesday! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roscoe P. Coltrane Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 THE WEDNESDAY Ronnie Radford what a goal. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incognito Owl Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 8 hours ago, Lord Snooty said: " This is it isn't it. This is what we need, ho! I good old fashioned FA Cup ding-dong. Yes, the January blues are edging their way in and we all need that little bit of rejuvenation. And here it is. You can smell it can't you Stubbs?" "Smell what ,Sir?" "The magic Stubbs! You can smell the magic! Ah yes. Third round day. Wireless on. The home service. Frosty morning. Air billowing out of the mouth. Remember as a child Stubbs you'd exhale and pretend you were smoking a cigar?" "Not really ,Sir" "Yes. We did. Ahh Cigars. That's something else. These early January games. Frost on the pitch, twinkling like a millions icy diamonds and all the stands filled with the rich aroma of Cigar smoke. Cigar smoke and Bovril" "Hmmm. You paint really romantic picture ,Sir" "Programmes held to forehead to block out that low winter sun glowing above the little stand on the other side of the ground of the lower division club. Match of the day, portable camera stands. Ahh yes, camera pans out, young boys sat up a tree on a hill watching the game though the gap between the two stands. Too many bowl Stadiums now, even at that level .But not today. The magic. Two teams giving it the full gun in this famous competition. Always great to see the bigger name players out there in these little grounds. It's the great leveller isn't it." "Ahem, I think Wednesday are set to ring the changes, Sir. There's been a Covid outbreak in the camp" "For Gods sake! I'm sick of this bloody Covid thing ruining everything!" "To be honest, they'd have probably made 8 or 9 changes anyway, Sir. Concentrate on the League and such" "No! Not and such. What's wrong with the world these days. Why ring the bloody changes! " "Priorities, Sir. They don't want to risk any injuries in a nothing game" "Nothing game! A nothing game, the bloody FA Cup third round! And why are they more likely to get injured in this anyway? They're not!" "They play a lot of games these days, Sir, it's.." "Bloody hell. They played a lot of games in the old days! Emlyn Hughes, 120 in the 1976 season" "120 games, really ,Sir? "Well, a slight exaggeration maybe. But bloody hell what's wrong with them these days" "The games played at a faster tempo ,Sir" "Faster tempo! I'll tell you what's wrong with them. They're not fat enough! They're too professional. That's what it is. You didn't get Puskas pulling a hamstring and being out for 16 weeks. No, because his top speed was a yard behind our paperboy! There's too much charging about today. They need a bit of blubber. You see two players collide today and they're both rolling about on the floor. One out for a year. Fat blokes whack each other and bounce off. Plenty of padding. They're too fit today, Stubbs, too fit" "Too fit, Sir? I mean really..." "Too finely tuned. Like formula one cars. Too much to go wrong. The game needs more fat players. More Jan Molbys and less Theo Walcotts. They're not fat enough and they're mentally weak. Half the time I think they're willing themselves to take a knock you know, gives them chance for a definite TV close up." "The Science says.." "To hell with following the Science. Get them out there after all, it's tradition, what could go wrong!?" ------------------------------------ EXETER CITY V's WEDNESDAY The FA Cup Third Round Saturday 9th January 2021 St James Park, Exeter Kick off : 3:00pm Exeter will be without Pierce Sweeney after he suffered a hamstring injury on Boxing day, while Rory McArdle looks set to miss out with a knee injury. Josh Key will be in contention for a starting berth after recovering from COVID-19. Exeter City possible: Maxsted Caprice Parkes Hartridge Sparkes Williams Taylor Collins Randall Jay Bowman ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday have has a well publicised outbreak of Covid at the club and as such there is no readily available team news. However, given the league battle and the way games have been coming thick and fast , it isn't beyond the realms that players would have been rested any eve, with no Covid . Sheffield Wednesday possible : Wildsmith Palmer Shaw Van Aken Odubajo Brown Dele-Bashiru Hunt Penney Kachunga Rhodes ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "So it's the reserves is it then Stubbs? The reserves. Well. It'll have to be them then. Out there in the cold. Basking in the magic of the Cup. Down there on a boggy lower league pitch." "Actually Sir, I gather Exeters pitch is really very good. They've had state of the art combination grass and microfibre.." "But why?! What's the bloody point! Why are people ruining football! For Heavens sake! There was nothing wrong with it!" Thanks Snoots, I wouldn't play the strongest side, but do want us to win/progress. Also brilliant video clip. Maybe I could try out for us haha. 4 hours ago, trumbullowl said: Oh for a rousing chorus of Who ate all the pies? Who ate all the pies? You fat bast'rd, you fat bastr'd You ate all the pies. I like Paterson. C'm on Wednesday! Proper keeper, non of this de Dea ect. acrobatic crap haha. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBoyBeevers Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Went down to Exeter in 2010 to see us get pumped 5-1. Given the circumstances, wouldn’t be surprised if we see a similar score line this time round. Only lad/s still involved from that original demolition job on us are Weavs and Liam Palmer. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo Bonvin Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Excellent post Milord as usual. I too long for the days when the 3rd round was a day which gave me a fizzing sensation down there, as James May would say. But traditions are dying away. I mean, in the old days you’d never have found someone called Pierce Sweeney playing football. Sounds like a 1980s US TV special agent. And I recall Rory McArdle being another of those promising youngsters we let go. He’s probably about 40 now. Time flies when you’re having fun. Actually come to think of it I’m not really having fun..... Come on Wednesday Juniors. Good luck today. Let’s cause a cupset. Up the Owls. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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