OMT *** Tottenham Hotspur v Newport County A.F.C *** FA Cup 4th round

[90291Spur]

Seems a few players are still out

no Winks, Lamela, Aurier, Rose
seeming Toby not going to be risked
Hugo & Eriksen still to be assessed

Bare bones. Must.. Win...

 

[milo]

Seems a few players are still out

no Winks, Lamela, Aurier, Rose
seeming Toby not going to be risked
Hugo & Eriksen still to be assessed

We'd be mad to risk anyone on that pitch.

 

[awesome dawson]

We'd be mad to risk anyone on that pitch.

I'd be tempted to play Sissoko instead of Wanyama on that basis alone.

 

[OleBoot]

I don't know whether we should get too paranoid about the pitch. The picture I posted was the worst I found, and sort of tongue in cheek. If you google their ground, most of the pics do not look too bad. Sure, it's not gong to be a bowling green, but maybe not a ploughed field.

 

[milo]

I don't know whether we should get too paranoid about the pitch. The picture I posted was the worst I found, and sort of tongue in cheek. If you google their ground, most of the pics do not look too bad. Sure, it's not gong to be a bowling green, but maybe not a ploughed field.

It didn't look great in the last round

 

[Robbo]

Have we ever played these guys before?

 

[mephitis]

Looks like the groundsman put out a few rows of onions to supplement his income, he'll have a nice show come springtime

 

[ShipOfTheseus]

Have we ever played these guys before?

Presumably not the same guys, even if we've played the club. I've never quite understood the FA Cup tradition of referring back to matches played twenty or a hundred years back as guidance on form.

 

[FatBloke]

Presumably not the same guys, even if we've played the club. I've never quite understood the FA Cup tradition of referring back to matches played twenty or a hundred years back as guidance on form.

Heresy! #magicofthecup and all that.

 

[Heda SPURSCZ]

Have we ever played these guys before?

http://www.myfootballfacts.com/SpursvNewportCounty.html

 

[jaysea67]

From Newport's game v Morecambe on Tuesday. Pitch looks reasonable to me (apart from the rugby markings).

 

[milo]

From Newport's game v Morecambe on Tuesday. Pitch looks reasonable to me (apart from the rugby markings).
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It certainly doesn't look any worse than Southampton's pitch last weekend

 

[K.D.D.D.D.Soc]

Presumably not the same guys, even if we've played the club. I've never quite understood the FA Cup tradition of referring back to matches played twenty or a hundred years back as guidance on form.

Yeah we played them twice in the Cup, late 50's, think it was in following years, home one was first cup game I saw!

 

[paxtonwolf]

I don't know whether we should get too paranoid about the pitch. The picture I posted was the worst I found, and sort of tongue in cheek. If you google their ground, most of the pics do not look too bad. Sure, it's not gong to be a bowling green, but maybe not a ploughed field.

You haven't seen some of the bowling greens I have played on...

 

[a spur from swansea]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42826348

Justin Edinburgh has his say,ex Newport manager as well...

 

[Daisuk]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42826348

Justin Edinburgh has his say,ex Newport manager as well...

"It (Rodney Parade) is a throwback, the pitch is a lot better than when I managed there, but the surroundings, it is still an old, terraced stadium and it will be hostile," Edinburgh said.

Right. All 7000 of them are going to really scare our players, I'm sure.

 

[Charlie]

We are fecked. They wrote a new poem for us.

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/ne...y_versus_Spurs_poem_____A_Cup_Run_For_All___/

 

[ShipOfTheseus]

We are fecked. They wrote a new poem for us.

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/ne...y_versus_Spurs_poem_____A_Cup_Run_For_All___/

The scansion is rougher than their pitch. He's the McGonagall of the valleys.

 

[Daisuk]

We are fecked. They wrote a new poem for us.

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/ne...y_versus_Spurs_poem_____A_Cup_Run_For_All___/

Is that a poem?! Sounds like the equivalent of someone on here rambling on about something when they've come home drunk.

 

[We are Tottenham]

set the sandcastles up along the goal line...just in case of onslaught!