Blue Square South Guide

   I DO like Mondays. Cup draw Mondays.

Due to a family wedding in Italy and a lack of appropriate funds subsequently, I have been a bit slack in the 'watching dem 'Awks' stakes in the past fortnight or so. However in the meantime we have managed two 1-1 draws in the league.

The first came away at St Albans, which I was actually at, but forgot to write anything about - it not being a classic advert for Conf South fitba by any stretch of the 'magination.

Then we played at home to Hampton & Richmond Doggers which was a royal mullering by all accounts, only spoilt by the fact we only managed to get the ball in the net once, as did they. The Hampton keeper was reportedly in form so fine, he was auctioned off later as a Ming vase.

Yesterday we began our Road to Wembley once again and this year, who knows, we may actually make it. Or we'll lose in the 3rd qualy to Dartford (or whoever) but whatever happens, I still get that excitement about finding out who we'll be playing come the Monday morning.

We tend to make like the Village People and 'go west' in the second qualifying round regionalisation, so I would have found the money to go yesterday had it been somewhere new and exotic like Truro, or a it's-been-too-long return to Penydarren Park, home of Merthyr Tydfil.

However, we got lumped in with Weston-super-Mare, managed by former Hawk Andy Gurney, and as I'm planning to jog down there for our league game in March, I kept the powder dry and the wallet on it's diet.

The texts from my man Sir Barry Gamlin at the Woodspring Stadium were few yesterday though as we finished the job as early as the 4th minute, Steven Walker's free-kick deflecting in, and Weston having nothing much to offer by way of retort.

Of course, the slight downside to any cup-run is that I can't plan any nights out on Saturdays or early midweeks in certain weeks well into 2010 as past experience has taught me that you never know where you might need to be at short notice in mid-January!

That's as still-swelled-with-pride as I'm going to get though as there's a lot of tough names we could draw tomorrow. For the 3rd qualifying round we tend to be shifted into a more south central/south east section of the draw, so we could easily find ourselves up against the bang-in-form Dartford, or tricky derbies against Eastleigh or AFC Totton.

Walton Casuals away would do me nicely!

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