Bolton vs York City

[Danny_York_City]

That'll do us, got to be happy with a Premiership club

We'll bring about 5,000, but I'm guessing you lot won't be interested unless they reduce the ticket prices? We had the same situation away at Stoke City in the third round last year, took 4,500 and the total attendance was only about 12,000.

[KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab]

All I'll say is, watch out for our stewards. They hate away fans. I can only shudder at what they will do to a group of fans that has their own self-named Ultras. Even when said Ultras haven't threatened violence at a ground....wel, ever, have they? Even the stuff at Luton was because every notright in Bedfordshire turned out for it.

[Danny_York_City]

Duly noted, thanks. They wouldn't let us bring in our big flags and flares into the ground at Stoke (yet they did at Wembley), so we'd expect Bolton wouldn't welcome it either.

Quick question. How close is the stadium to the train station?

[KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab]

About a Jussi goal kick from Horwich Parkway, which is but a 10 minute train ride from Bolton.

[Verbal]

Duly noted, thanks. They wouldn't let us bring in our big flags and flares into the ground at Stoke (yet they did at Wembley), so we'd expect Bolton wouldn't welcome it either.

Quick question. How close is the stadium to the train station?

The station you want is Horwich Parkway, which is adjacent to the stadium. If you need directions from there, you want your eyes testing

Looking forward to the game.

[Danny_York_City]

Excellent, thanks lads

[Mar]

I think this will be a good tie. We should see this one off fairly easily but i'd image we'd be using a mixture of first teamers and reserves (Gardner, Cohen, Eaves, Ward, etc.) which will know doubt throw our team into somewhat of a disarray. I'm sure we can see this out with a professional performance.

[Eire_Trotter]

Good draw. I believe we should see them off handy enough depending on the team thats put out.

OC might give Bogdan, Gardner, Cohen, Klasnic, Mavies and Sean Davies all starts.

[William the White]

No 'reserves' please. First team. All firing. Let's have an FA cup run for the first time in years.

Coyle has some memories of those.

Let's win it!

[Eire_Trotter]

No 'reserves' please. First team. All firing. Let's have an FA cup run for the first time in years.

Coyle has some memories of those.

Let's win it!

Do you think Coyle will do this or would he be too worried about fatigue and injuries stretching our squad, thus our beloved whites dropping down the table .

[P.O.S.]

Would have preferred York away I love going there, but it saves me some money at least! When was last time we had a non league side at Reebok? Yeovil? I seem to remember a 40-odd year old striker scoring against us and we ran out 2-1 winners

Hope the York ultras bring the flares and smoke bombs they take to some of their games, Ill bring my camera!

[KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab]

Just looked at what they're doing at the moment - new manager come in six weeks ago. Result - unbeaten in six, not conceded in four. If November can be repeated in December, it'll be a good game between two teams on a roll, regardless of what team we put out.

[thebish]

No 'reserves' please. First team. All firing. Let's have an FA cup run for the first time in years.

Coyle has some memories of those.

Let's win it!

there won't be reserves - but you can bet your safety curtain there will be first-team fringe-players...

Blake, Moreno, Cohen, Klas will get a start, Ricky?

[TKIZ!]

I hopes we put out a good side for this, would welcome a cup run. Can't see Owen fore going his footballing principles

[officer_dibble]

Shame it's not at the kit kat stadium or whatever bootham crescent goes by now. Would of been a class trip that. Could have worked a trip to the brewery in!

Good game for some squad players to stake a claim, but leave enough first teamers in to win it...that's the dream anyway. Should be cheap tickets so I'll probably get my arse there!

[Danny_York_City]

Just looked at what they're doing at the moment - new manager come in six weeks ago. Result - unbeaten in six, not conceded in four. If November can be repeated in December, it'll be a good game between two teams on a roll, regardless of what team we put out.

Yeah, Wembley hangover. Beat Luton home and away and then messed up against Oxford in the playoff final (50,000 crowd) in an attempt to return to the league, which we've been for 95 percent of our history until we got scammed by two chairmen in a row, resulting in us going down.

Started this season with that hangover, and Martin Foyle ran out of ideas. We got Gary Mills in (played under Brian Clough) and we're back to epic. Four wins in a row, scored 11 conceeded none, so we're back on form (at our level, obviously).

Bootham Crescent is the name, after the stupid three year deal to rename it that Kit Kat bollocks expired.

[General Mannerheim]

That'll do us, got to be happy with a Premiership club

We'll bring about 5,000, but I'm guessing you lot won't be interested unless they reduce the ticket prices? We had the same situation away at Stoke City in the third round last year, took 4,500 and the total attendance was only about 12,000.

they could give em out for free and it wouldn't be full!

nah, seriously - its a saturday and they'll do a deal with the tickets; tenner, plus a quid a kid probably - should be enough to get a few in.

[RobbieSavagesLeg]

Second the comments about loving this to be in York!


Gotta love away day cup ties.

[KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab]

Bootham Crescent is the name, after the stupid three year deal to rename it that Kit Kat bollocks expired.

Without wishing to sound rude, or arrogant, how much did that "stupid" deal bring to the club at a time when you'd just been shafted by chancers?

By the way, I've never known a fan of another club made to feel so welcome here in all my life. Shows what happens when people are 1) civil, and 2) willing to talk football.

[Danny_York_City]

Bootham Crescent is the name, after the stupid three year deal to rename it that Kit Kat bollocks expired.

Without wishing to sound rude, or arrogant, how much did that "stupid" deal bring to the club at a time when you'd just been shafted by chancers?

Ah yes, my fault for not explaining. Basically, we got nothing out of it as "dodgy chairman 1" sold the ground to his own company for next to nothing, and tried to evict us when he left the club (and setting up a 4.5m deal with a house builder to boot!). We put pressure on the house builder and they relented, ending up with us rented the ground back off "dodgy chairman 1", as he sold the club for one pence to "dodgy chairman 2" (John Batchelor, now dead, was the fella who wanted to rename Mansfield Town "Harchester United") came in. Because the club and the ground were separate entities, and the deal had already been done, the money from the naming rights went to "dodgy chairman 1". So we had three years of the ground being called that without any money for it.

Dodgy chairman 2 walks out of the club, admits to the York Press that he asset stripped us and we're all fools for allowing it, and we go to within 30 minutes of going bust. The supporters raise several hundred thousand and save the club, but by then half the team had walked out due to being unpaid, so we went from top of Div 2 with four wins from four at the start of the season, to 22 games without a win, and slipped out of the league into tinpot conference hell.

BC is now back in the hands of the club.