OtD - I would guess, by looking at his build, that it is Ian Cooke with hair.

Round one winners get £47750. Losers get £15800. Oh well, that's nearly £16k in the pot. Our last decent and best run in the cup was in the great escape season. Beat West Ham in round four then bowed out meekly to Millwall in round 5.

TBK - [Link]

Only positive from today, Edge of Darkness on BBC4

Maybe if Sasu realised that we were playing in blue he could have tried to pass to one of our lads. Hackford needs to learn how to deal with physical defenders without falling over and maybe tackle back when he looses the ball. Seddon was the only player out there who had a claim on motm other than their goalkeeper who showed us how to do a number on a team two divisions above. Today was a return to our preseason form. Good job we are loaded and not relying on revenue from a cup run.

Sasu did threaten in the first half before they had worked out how to deal with him for the second half. A defender will rarely get MotM for being adequate, even though that singled Seddon out today.

Personally I thought McCoy-Splatt was MOTM, and he only came on in the 79th minute…. 🤔😬

Sparts- it's an in-joke that they didn't tell the rest of us about

Sasu is normally useless but he was ok today so perhaps they gave it to him to cheer him up

Seddon was the only player out there who seemed to give a fuck, and how Sasu even got close to the MotM award, let alone be given it, i'll never know.

Sasu, Maycock, Smith

*quite, not quiet (although it was very quiet today, except when it was supposed to be after The Last Post was played).

Well done to Brackley (and Gateshead) and good luck in the next round.

We've been off the boil at home for quiet a while so today was no surprise, especially as in 3 out of the last 5 seasons we have lost at home to non-league teams in the FA Cup. Today was the worst of the lot. Sasu can only beat a man if he has space to run into. Stop that and he is lost as he has no skill and is more likely to trip over his own feet than create anything. Seddon was the only player to come out of that with any credit. Hackford is a great impact sub but not a starter. Bugiel seemed disinterested. Orsi offers nothing and is worse than Kelly, who at least is quick. It was just another awful performance. I hope we can turn the tide away to rock-bottom Peterborough because we still need points to be safe and I am not lulled into our good start to think we could not go on a 2021-2022 style run like we did in Robbo's days. The despair I can cope with. It's the hope that kills you.

Now watch Brackley get Gateshead in the draw and the winner gets a huge tie in Rd3 🤪😂🤷🏻‍♂️

Well at least our game wasn't televised

Looks like County are exiting the cup.

Kelle Roos in goal for Notts County in FAC penalty shoot out on BBC2 now.

Bert-Colchester’s academy is a higher category than ours according to Papers so the Yoof cup defeat wasn’t a surprise

Women lose in the WFA Cup, Youth lose in the FAYC, Men lose in the FAC, all in the first round, all at home to teams from at least the division below. Luckily we don't need any cup runs to help make some dosh.

We can only drop 9 points in November ;-)

Rubbish game - no quality on either side - we gifted them both goals

The rest is the week after next we Silk - and for whoever asked why Omar was subbed - he wasn’t injured - he was strolling around like he was too good to be there - don’t recall him winning one header - only players that looked like they gave a shit were Ogs and Browne

Basically a continuation of the Burton game. Don't think we would have scored if the game went on for another 756 years. Really really annoying. As Surbiton says this habit we have of losing to non league teams in the FA Cup is starting to get ridiculous now and needs to stop.

I’ve been told that today was Gatehead’s first win against an EFL club for 25 years….. 😯