FA Trophy Home to Bognor Regis Town 17th December

[ianb]

Home Draw vs Step 3 side Bognor Regis Town!

[spiritof86]

Very big incentive to win tomorrow night , chesterfield or Coalville at home .

[didier]

"If" we're successful and "if" Chesterfield win, then the game will again demonstrate why fans need to buy a season ticket or minimum spend £10 on club membership to secure a match ticket - the Police will be all over this game like a rash as certain Chesterfield 'fans' aren't the friendliest bunch (understatement) !!!

[Sparky]

Dec 20, 2022 10:58:26 GMT 1 didier said:

"If" we're successful and "if" Chesterfield win, then the game will again demonstrate why fans need to buy a season ticket or minimum spend £10 on club membership to secure a match ticket - the Police will be all over this game like a rash as certain Chesterfield 'fans' aren't the friendliest bunch (understatement) !!!

Sadly a downside of higher level football☹️☹️☹️

[spiritof86]

This game if it comes off will give the club and TVP a major headache but this is what happens when your successful as the above poster as said get online , fill the membership form out , pay your £10 , guarantee your spot in the ground and ultimately help Banbury United become stronger

[farpostpuritan]

Any chance of tonight’s fixture being called off due to rain over last couple of days

[Sparky]

Dec 20, 2022 13:13:28 GMT 1 farpostpuritan said:

Any chance of tonight’s fixture being called off due to rain over last couple of days

Ground is looking in good nick, was being tended to only a couple of hours ago.

[didier]

"It's a funny ol' game" as Greavesie once said ! As we score our fourth, Coalville are scuppering a big payday for us by leading 3-1 at Chesterfield !!

Anyway, it did highlight yet again that it makes total sense to buy a membership or a season ticket !!

[Steve T]

Into the last 32 for only the third time – previously 70-71 and 73-74.

[Sparky]

Well what a strange game that was to watch, neither side doing much in the first half until we took the lead with a deflected shot, second half Bognor levelled which prompted a triple substitution that for ten minutes changed the game with a Rasulo double but credit to Bognor who kept pushing and pulled one back,Ben made it 4-2 on 89 only to let Bognor come back to make the final score 4-3 and a home tie against Coalville who no doubt have a point to prove.At 3-1 we should have sown the game up but we seemed to back off a bit which allowed them back in the game,frustrating to say the least.

[ianb]

Can we sign their No 8, looked a very good player.
Ben looked off it in goal, not surprising as only his 2nd game this season!

The three substitutes changed the game for Banbury.
Lovely step over the ball by Connor! For the second goal!

Also thought the ref had a good game (better than some of those at the World Cup).

[redduke64]

I thought they were decent,some cracking balls played into our box.
Just shows how Gio is totally the glue that holds us together.
Last 32,I like that.

[Steve T]

Dec 21, 2022 18:03:07 GMT 1 redduke64 said:

Last 32, I like that.

Just a quick reminder of Banbury's last appearances at this stage of the competition (when it was the Second Round proper).

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1970-71

Sat 6 Feb – Hastings United H D 0-0 (1,300)
Wed 10 Feb – A W 3-0 Foster, Hellyer 2

Next round: Hereford Utd...

Shadders featured this match during lockdown: www.banburyunitedfc.co.uk/news/on-this-day--50-years-ago-2598455.html

Here's a first-hand account from an exiled Banbury supporter, lifted from Non-League Matters:

Wednesday 10th February 1971
FA Trophy 2nd Round Replay Kick off 1930

Hastings United 0 Banbury Utd 3 half time 0-0 at Elphinstone Rd

As I anticipated no problem getting the afternoon off school and the team coach set off from Banbury at around 1330 collecting several of the side and the manager at Oxford on the way. Unfortunately it was a horrendous coach journey and the driver decided he would drive through Central London as a result we did not arrive at the ground until around 1910 and the players got changed on the coach. Suspect kick off was delayed until 1945 but memory not sure on that.

Hastings pressed forward in the first half but Banbury goal keeper Rennie who had a fine game saved everything thrown at him. Banbury came into the game more in the second half and Tony Foster opened the scoring after 58 minutes with a lobbed goal. Ten minutes later Foster broke down the left and his cross found Alan Hellyer who smashed in Banbury's second. The small group of Banbury fans who had made the trip were euphoric and things got even better six minutes from time when Hellyer scored his second goal to put the icing on the cake for Banbury. Banbury's reward for this win was a home tie against Hereford.

After the game we went with the players to a cafe on Hastings seafront and most had a fry-up, whether the cafe was open especially for us I don't know maybe cafes opened later in those days ? Then it was back on the coach and a long trip back once again via Central London, by the time I had walked back from being dropped off it was around 0345 when I finally got indoors. However, my alarm went off at 0630 and I then went out do my paper round before double history at school the following morning.

One of my most memorable days ever at football.

www.nonleaguematters.co.uk/forums/index.php?threads/february-10.3734/page-3#post-74384

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1973-74

Sat 2 Feb – Guildford City H D 0-0 (805)
Sat 9 Feb – A W 2-1 Matthews, Jacques (813)

The replay took place the following Saturday because the emergency floodlight ban of the doomed Heath government was still in force.
Next round: Dartford, that season's SL champions who went on to lose in the final to Morecambe. They needed three matches to get past Banbury.

Guildford were a Premier Division club at the time but were struggling – their Joseph's Road ground had been sold for development and they were in their last season there. When they became homeless, they hooked up with Dorking before folding in 1976. There is a Guildford City today, established in 1996 as AFC Guildford and competing in the Combined Counties League.

Anyone who has seen footage of the 1970 FA Cup final replay between Chelsea and Leeds will know what the game at Banbury was like. It may have been a cynical age, when centre-halves were often employed more for their brute strength than their footballing ability, but Guildford's tactics were as crude as any I have ever seen and most of the team took part.

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There were some near-misses for Banbury in the First Round (as it was):

74-75, took the then mighty Enfield to a second replay. Paul Duester had a late goal disallowed in the first replay at Enfield for a dubious offside. What a scalp that would have been for a team adjusting to Life After Foster. Enfield beat Dover in the next round then lost at Scarborough.

77-78, lost at home to Leatherhead, the last time 1,000 saw a Trophy match at Banbury. Leatherhead beat Dartford 5-1 in the next round and went on to lose in the final to Altrincham.

87-88, lost a replay at Wealdstone, a late goal that went in off the post. The first match at Banbury, played on the Saturday before Christmas, was a lively affair, on and off the pitch! Wealdstone lost at Telford in the Second Round.