[Albion] FA Cup 5th Round draw - Newcastle away

[Deadly Danson]

Crap draw. That’s 2 tough ones in a row.

Easy to get to by train but I really don’t want to sit up in the gods - my eyesight won’t function from that distance!

Will probably give this one a miss.

Exactly. I could go but I HATED my visit last time - it's an absolute disgrace that the Saudi apologists somehow get special dispensation to put away fans at a cruising altitude of an airliner.

 

[um bongo molongo]

I'm predicting tea time on the Saturday evening.

This would be the dream for me. Got a mate who lives up there and fancy a weekend away. Which means it’s guaranteed Monday night

 

[oldboyroy]

I just wanted a home game

Yep, just anyone at home but alas, the longest and probably hardest out the lot.

 

[peterward]

Massively disappointing draw, we are going to have to do this the hard way aren’t we?

Load of shit teams still in, Only a couple of trickier teams above us and we get one away, that just so happens to be the longest away day possible.

Its a crap draw.

 

[portslade seagull]

Hops on Train website. How much from Coventry to Newcastle on 1st March?

140 f***ing quid

With Rail replacement bus thrown in.

Back in the good old BR days when we won 3-1 one ticket between us got us there and it was probably less than a fiver

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

Dreadful draw, compounded by Palace getting yet another easy tie

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Back in the good old BR days when we won 3-1 one ticket between us got us there and it was probably less than a fiver

This weekend I was planning on coming down for the Chelsea game from my Midlands base. Problem is, the M25 is shut as is the A46 near me on Saturday when I want to come home.

Train is 95 quid return.

Travel in this country is a piss take.

 

[1066familyman]

This weekend I was planning on coming down for the Chelsea game from my Midlands base. Problem is, the M25 is shut as is the A46 near me on Saturday when I want to come home.

Train is 95 quid return.

Travel in this country is a piss take.

I can quite literally do nearly a week away camping or youth hostelling for some of the Northern away games for the same price as some train tickets. That pretty much includes petrol there and back in my 1ltr car as well!

Bizarre state of affairs.

 

[osgood]

Sunday seems like a good bet

I went for 12.30 Sunday. Sounds like a good fit

MNF is a probable

 

[Mackenzie]

Just seen the draw. Couldn’t be much worse really, mind you they won’t be too happy about it either.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Dreadful draw, compounded by Palace getting yet another easy tie

Sets things up nicely for us to beat them in Quarter Final

 

[Mancgull]

Is that floating nightclub with the revolving dance floor still going?

No

 

[Guinness Boy]

Just seen the draw. Couldn’t be much worse really, mind you they won’t be too happy about it either.

Based on a sample size of one, my Geordie colleague, they are not.

Probably not a HWT approved sample size though.

 

[Mustafa II]

NSC is such a negative pit sometimes

It's not a terrible draw, it's just a draw. Half of the remaining teams would have been a 'terrible draw'.

We've downed Chelsea, now it's time to down Newcastle. Great draw, let's do this

 

[Durlston]

OK, so let's just say it had been Burnley at home.

The expectation level would have gone through the roof on here with Championship opposition and then you've got their measly BRICKWALL of a defence that has conceded just NINE league goals all season. It's an unmovable object. I have lost BLOOD through frustration on a couple of occasions on both teams to score accas that have punctured on just bloody Burnley refusing to play football and settle for one-nils or nil-nils at home!

It would have been a 0-1 with 82% possession or a penalty shoot-out after a goalless 120 minutes. They are utter bàstards.

 

[pigmanovich]

OK, so let's just say it had been Burnley at home.

The expectation level would have gone through the roof on here with Championship opposition and then you've got their measly BRICKWALL of a defence that has conceded just NINE league goals all season. It's an unmovable object. I have lost BLOOD through frustration on a couple of occasions on both teams to score accas that have punctured on just bloody Burnley refusing to play football and settle for one-nils or nil-nils at home!

It would have been a 0-1 with 82% possession or a penalty shoot-out after a goalless 120 minutes. They are utter bàstards.

Millwall would have been nice though!

 

[chaileyjem]

This is what it was like in the replay in the 1983 cup run. Peter Ward winner, 2 disallowed goals for the Geordie boys who included Keegan, McDermott and Waddle ! ITS A SIGN.

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Looks like it'll be a hell of a journey too. An amended timetable has been put in place for trains to and from Newcastle in March due to rail works on the East Coast Main Line. FFS.

 

[UnhingedSeagull94]

Is that floating nightclub with the revolving dance floor still going?

If it is I need to find it

 

[jackalbion]

POV: You are the bouncer who threw me out of Popworld in October