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Normally it drives me absolutely nuts when we throw away cup ties and don't play our strongest 11. On this occasion, and considering our 1st XI would almost certainly lose to Bournemouth's youth team anyway, I guess we've got no option but to play kids throughout. Not sure we have enough though?
I see on the ticketing site we've barely sold a ticket. Still £25 for safe standing seems like a missed opportunity not to virtually give the tickets away, but that ship has sailed.
So who will Marti play? Even if recovered, I am guessing it makes no sense to play Chair, Willock, Cook.
I know Archer is hopeless but a good opportunity to give Begovic more time on his more important interests - what a shame Mahoney is injured and Walsh off on loan.
Kolli injured too, maybe, so...
Archer Cannon (keep him going, I say) Fox Dunne Lakersche EDB Er Um Er Um Armstrong Kelman Er Um
Bournemouth's youth team will be shaking in their boots....
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Our approach to Bournemouth cup tie on 11:46 - Jan 2 with 2617 views
Our approach to Bournemouth cup tie on 11:25 - Jan 2 by TheChef
Any estimates on the attendance?
Definitely sub 10,000.
Got to play Taylor Richards and give him total 90 minutes
Very much last chance saloon.
I doubt he will do well but its a nothing game and he has to play, for me its likely be his last match for ourselves but then we have to cut our losses somehow.
If he performs ie one per cent chance I feel, then great but otherwise never near our squad on match day again.
Put out the strongest team. Winning a game will always help. Injuries "can do one".
"a diseased bunch of mofos if there ever was one, their beauty is so awesome that listening to them at their best is like being in some vast dream cathedral decorated with a thousand gleaming American pop culture icons."
- Lester Bangs on The Beach Boys
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Our approach to Bournemouth cup tie on 19:04 - Jan 2 with 2279 views
If, just for our pride alone, we must start taking cup ties seriously again. We are developing a deplorable reputation for being the worst cup side in English football, if not, British football. Yet another defeat at Loftus Rd, even if we avoid injuries, will be just that, yet another defeat at Loftus Rd. The cure to our woeful malaise at Loftus Rd, would be to try as hard as we can to develope a winning mentality at this bloody club, and pretending we can pick and choose which games we can have a real go at, just doesn’t do us any favours whatsoever. The last 20 odd years should be testimony to that. Our record in the cups is starting to make us look like the Mickey Mouse club, of all Mickey Mouse clubs, and I’m bloody ashamed and embarrassed by it.
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Our approach to Bournemouth cup tie on 22:50 - Jan 2 with 2122 views
I wonder if some of our players, who we least expect, may find some fitness, form and energy that we don’t see every other week, because it’s against a Premier League team. May be wrong and cynical, but wouldn’t be surprised.
Someone mentioned trying to win for the financial benefit, to fund a loan or similar, sadly only £105k for winning in the 3rd round, the reason clubs stopped caring.
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Our approach to Bournemouth cup tie on 22:57 - Jan 2 with 2107 views
We have to win on Saturday to avoid having to play Huddersfield on Sunday 28th January at 1.30.That is a must win game and it will help to have a better crowd and atmosphere than the one that normally happens in the graveyard slot on a Sunday. And it also means that I won’t have to choose between coming to hq or attending the two Sunday games involving my granddaughter and daughter for the 2nd time in a fortnight. F@ck off Sky.
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Our approach to Bournemouth cup tie on 07:11 - Jan 3 with 1915 views
It’s the one chance of a bit of enjoyment this season. Maybe a lucky draw and some sort of run, maybe a day out somewhere that’s not Blackburn. Maybe a day out somewhere that is Blackburn.
There’s a full week off after. Most importantly, I’m going so go for the bloody win.
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Our approach to Bournemouth cup tie on 07:39 - Jan 3 with 1893 views
Our approach to Bournemouth cup tie on 11:46 - Jan 2 by numptydumpty
Got to play Taylor Richards and give him total 90 minutes
Very much last chance saloon.
I doubt he will do well but its a nothing game and he has to play, for me its likely be his last match for ourselves but then we have to cut our losses somehow.
If he performs ie one per cent chance I feel, then great but otherwise never near our squad on match day again.
How sad that fans like you write off the FA Cup as a 'nothing 'game'! Why not think about your contribution, with an attitude like that, to the club's defeatist and desolate culture of failure in throwing cup games for years - though I presume you don't care. I'm guessing you weren't there for our cup run to Wembley in 1981/82 at any rate.
Our approach to Bournemouth cup tie on 21:31 - Jan 2 by BushRanger82
If, just for our pride alone, we must start taking cup ties seriously again. We are developing a deplorable reputation for being the worst cup side in English football, if not, British football. Yet another defeat at Loftus Rd, even if we avoid injuries, will be just that, yet another defeat at Loftus Rd. The cure to our woeful malaise at Loftus Rd, would be to try as hard as we can to develope a winning mentality at this bloody club, and pretending we can pick and choose which games we can have a real go at, just doesn’t do us any favours whatsoever. The last 20 odd years should be testimony to that. Our record in the cups is starting to make us look like the Mickey Mouse club, of all Mickey Mouse clubs, and I’m bloody ashamed and embarrassed by it.
This with Xmas bells on! I wish your post could be enlarged to font size 1 million and pinned to our dressing room wall. Or, better yet, stapled to the players' heads!
Dont give 'two hoots' about the attendance.we need to get back on track, simple as that. If that means a full team then we should play the full team and not muck about trying unknown and fringe players, etc......that is what the training ground is for. Don't play unfit players or players that have knocks.
We need wins to get the confidence back and get us playing decent football again
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Our approach to Bournemouth cup tie on 08:51 - Jan 3 with 1836 views
Our approach to Bournemouth cup tie on 08:42 - Jan 3 by stainrods_elbow
How sad that fans like you write off the FA Cup as a 'nothing 'game'! Why not think about your contribution, with an attitude like that, to the club's defeatist and desolate culture of failure in throwing cup games for years - though I presume you don't care. I'm guessing you weren't there for our cup run to Wembley in 1981/82 at any rate.
I’m nearly 34. 30th anniversary of my first game coming up. Seen us in the fifth round once (Watford, was a tad too young for Dad to take me to Wimbledon). Even games like Pompey where we were dire and scraped a draw were exciting in the relative monotony of losing endless league games.
I totally get the argument of those who would sack this one off but fk me just once Rangers give those of us who missed the good times something, anything.
As for Taylor R, on top of all the other possible and probable issues I wonder if he has a hefty appearance bonus for doing his job. If it’s a choice of him or giving a kid a go for whom it would mean everything then chuck one of them in.
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Our approach to Bournemouth cup tie on 09:03 - Jan 3 with 1819 views
For the most part agree about playing your strongest team , try and gain momentum, ending this cup bollocks, stop the embarrassment of a football club we have become etc etc Makes sense completely ….until one or 2 pick up injuries that keeps them out of some of the most important games in our recent history and a couple of the usual suspects on here jump all over the manager for picking important players in a game that didn’t need to play in.
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Our approach to Bournemouth cup tie on 20:56 - Jan 3 with 1388 views
Bornemouth are 12th and 10 points clear of the bottom 3. They might fancy having a proper go at it this year.
"a diseased bunch of mofos if there ever was one, their beauty is so awesome that listening to them at their best is like being in some vast dream cathedral decorated with a thousand gleaming American pop culture icons."
- Lester Bangs on The Beach Boys
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Our approach to Bournemouth cup tie on 23:55 - Jan 3 with 1307 views
It’ll be Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb, although I have heard Barney McGrew has a bit of a hamstring niggle so Zebedee and Dougal have been called up to train with the first team this week.
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Our approach to Bournemouth cup tie on 15:25 - Jan 4 with 964 views
Will Solanke be playing because if he convinces the manager to let him it could be real ugly . 6 goals in December including a hatrick is serious form but I suspect he wont even travel up We need a huge win to get that bit of momentum back that Marti arrived with so lets go all out its the only way IMO
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