Capital One Cup - 1st Round - Newport County - HOME

[Drumstick]

What a superb fixture for me to look forward to!

Soon as I saw it I thought of you. I'm looking forward to it a new team for me.

 

[ada4bha]

Newport County at home COC first round

'A mouth-watering' tie ... That's the official line from the 'Amber Army'

http://www.newport-county.co.uk/index.php?cat=news&post=capital_one_cup

 

[East Preston Gull]

Re: Newport County at home COC first round

I was already booking the isle of Wight ferry for the replay!! ( awaits the usual suspects abusive corrections)

 

[KJP]

Will non season ticket holders have to join a club, for a fee, and then hope us STH don't take up our seats?

Bore off

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Half and half scarves?

Or possibly just an amber shirt. I guess you'll dig out your blue and white one.

 

[worthingseagull123]

chance of being on TV

Huddersfield Town v Bradford City
Rotherham United v Sheffield Wednesday

The West and South York Derbies look bigger games.

 

[hitony]

Shame (for me) its not an away fixture!!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

County have a good start to their first year back in the big time. A friendly away at Carl Zeiss Jena, followed by a competitive game against the Albion. We get a friendly against Whitehawk, followed by a cup game against Newport.

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

Gus will be absolutely kicking himself if he misses this.

 

[Superphil]

Or possibly just an amber shirt. I guess you'll dig out your blue and white one.

Don't think that's allowed in the WSM

 

[Poyetry In Motion]

I quite like Newport ( the club, dunno about the town ).
It'll be a very interesting match for sure. League newboys vs the mighty flairmeisters and their new management team

 

[SweatyMexican]

Here is what the Newport fans seem to think, the majority think we're not a bad tie.

http://www.the-exiles.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=30533&start=30

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Unless the club make tickets cheap as chips this could be the lowest attendance since we moved to The Amex.

 

[TheMajor]

Does anyone know who we got

How come a team that finishes below us in the league gets a bye ? FIX!

 

[Seagulls1984]

It will be the first competitive game at the Amex with a new manager so we should get a decent crowd??

 

[AnotherArch]

The last time that we played Newport County (though a different entity then) was in 1966 at the start of the FA cup run that finished in the lock-out at Stamford Bridge. There was just about a coach load from Brighton. I can remember Eric Whitington scoring.
The major memory is of the ground - Somerton Park. There was no high terracing - it was all shallow, almost like watching in a park. Behind the goal, the terracing was railway sleepers with cinders to stand on, not concrete. These cinders had probably come from the local steelworks. The ground doubled as a speedway track, and so the corners of the pitch (and the corner flags) were on coconut matting which could be taken up afterwards to expose the curved speedway track underneath (more cinders!). I had never seen that before or since.

 

[Return of the Rev]

interesting fixture i suppose.

Can't remember the last time we played them?

IN THE LEAGUE sept 64

 

[8ace]

I'm in the auto cup scheme so I'll be going

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

The last time that we played Newport County (though a different entity then) was in 1966 at the start of the FA cup run that finished in the lock-out at Stamford Bridge. There was just about a coach load from Brighton. I can remember Eric Whitington scoring.
The major memory is of the ground - Somerton Park. There was no high terracing - it was all shallow, almost like watching in a park. Behind the goal, the terracing was railway sleepers with cinders to stand on, not concrete. These cinders had probably come from the local steelworks. The ground doubled as a speedway track, and so the corners of the pitch (and the corner flags) were on coconut matting which could be taken up afterwards to expose the curved speedway track underneath (more cinders!). I had never seen that before or since.

Respect. Very interesting post.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Be interesting how they price this one up, can't be more than £10 for adults and £5 for kids.

Can see this being our lowest attendance for a competitive match at The Amex if they get this wrong.

Can see it being our lowest attendance even if we get the price structure right.