TOPIC: Everton at home

Should we get through.

would be first full house for a good while and a few quid in bank.....

Guaranteed to lose replay now.

Given that we haven't had a home game for 6 weeks we could do with a full house&a; possible tv game for the club to get back on it's feet.

Got to be a TV game if we make it through hasn't it? Potential giant killing, small packed ground as well as the flooding stuff, classic TV tie.

Yeovil fans will be right behind their team at Huish Park. Think we've blown this.

Still think we'll make the playoffs though

We simply have to beat Yeovil away.

What better way to go back to Brunton park than Everton at home? (I know we'll have York first)

No dicking about with Hanford in goal. Play our strongest possible 11 and win the replay.

crunchblue wrote:
Absolutely has to play a full strength side. We need the cash, not to mention the potential coverage.

Poor game management might just have cost us £211,500. £144,000 last year for TV and £67500 for winning in round 3. Not to mention the ticket sales etc.

crunchblue wrote:
We simply had to beat them at "home". There was always the chance we were going to get a good draw in Round 4. For a club losing half a million pound a year.. and that sells it's best players for a few hundred thousand.. We had to beat Yeovil. It is madness to think we didn't play our strongest team.

We are still in it of course but I'm probably not the only one who thinks we've bollocksed this up.

Well good game management got us to Anfield already this season so I think we can let Curle off. Hopefully go up to Yeovil and play like we're able to, we played very badly yesterday and Yeovil played well and they still only drew so if we can muster up some sort of form it shouldn't be rocket science beating them.

ukblue wrote: If Yeovil can come up here and get a draw we can easily go there and win. Have a bit of faith, nothing anyone can do about yesterday so move on, win on Saturday and I'm sure everyone will be confident going into the replay.

If we beat Yeovil, then York has to be a Voucher game, cash in on the return to BP...

ukblue wrote:
Sorry to be pedantic but we didn't HAVE to beat them yesterday, because we didn't...and we're still in the FA Cup. But because we didn't, we now HAVE to win the replay. If we don't then there's no more replay, it's out.

Yeovil will make the replay a Voucher game if they've any sense...

daviejones wrote: Wasnt meaning to slag Curle off massively, was just simply saying that we should have been able to see that match out yesterday and both the players performances and subs have potentially cost us big time, just when we need the cash.

On the positive side, Yeovil only managed to draw when, as many have said, most of our players were below par and all the Midfield bar Grainger had their worst game in a Carlisle Shirt. If we play worse than yesterday we dont deserve to be in the fourth round and more worryingly our form will have taken a big nosedive.

Basically just go all out and try to smash Barnet this weekend, if we're drawing near the end pile everyone forward to go for the win to get the confidence back up before the replay. Maybe even stick Hanford on seeing as he was so intent on sacrificing the draw vs Yeovil to get his goal tally going...

Will be very interesting to see who he plays in goal in replay....very bad decision yesterday imo when a shitload of money is at stake for a club like us but we have had some excellent results away from home and sometimes I actually fancy our chances more away from BP

With prize money and gate receipts that equaliser yesterday could have cost us 2 or 3 hundred grand

Aye we are still in the cup you are right... and Curle has done superb in the cups this year... I just had a feeling we'd probably draw the first game with Yeovil and lose the second... and so we had to win the first.... Hope I'm wrong..

daviejones wrote:
AND if we`re winning near the end - pile everyone back, and pack the box to protect the win. Unlike bloody yesterday grrrrrrrrrr! could have been done and dusted instead we leave young Jeffers unmarked.................. even more grrrrrrrrrrrrr

seesaw50 wrote: Great finish to be fair, the defence was sort of doing their job in that they had got goal side but I doubt anyone expected him to turn and shoot like that.

yeah can`t dispute that

I reckon Curle's on a hiding to nothing re the keepers in the cup matches. Yes, Gillespie is much the better keeper, and he may have saved Zoko's goal... but, he's spent a lot of time injured in the last couple of seasons, so as the league is the priority the cup games are a chance to give him a rest and reduce the chance of him getting injured.

How many cup games we played so far? The replay will be our 8th cup game, yeah? What if Gillespie got injured in a cup game and was out for 2-3 months in the league? Lots of those shouting for him to have played on Sat would be slating Curle for risking him in the game!

That being said I think he should start in the replay!