THE CITIZENS POST WCFC V Frome Town FC Tuesday 11Th September 2018 the FA Challenge Cup First Qualifying Round - Replay
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THE CITIZENS POST WCFC v Frome Town FC Tuesday 11th September 2018 The FA Challenge Cup First Qualifying Round - Replay Winchester City Football Club is a committee run members club and as such is an unincorporated association. THE CITIZENS POST FROM THE BOARDROOM Good Evening All and welcome to tonight’s game in the FA Cup First Qualifying Round, as Frome Town are the visitors to the Simplyhealth City Ground. We drew 1-1 in Somerset on Saturday and Frome now come to Hampshire for the replay. The club are still unbeaten in 90 minutes in all competitions this season so far, for the First Team, Reserves and Under-18s, and we are hoping that run continues tonight. After tonight, we welcome Paulton Rovers to the Simplyhealth City Ground on Saturday 15th September before Hartley Wintney come to Winchester in the Hampshire Senior Cup on Tuesday 18th September. Then Moneyfields visit us just 48 hours later, as The Citizens then take to the field in the FA Youth Cup. We are delighted to welcome George Short back to the Simplyhealth City Ground. George re-joins the Citizens from Bracknell Town. We have seen youngster Brett Cunningham recently join the club from Farnborough whilst Kieran Winman is the latest youngster to leave City, dual-registering with Bemerton Heath Harlequins. Thank-you all for your support at Frome on Saturday. A trip to Merthyr Town is at stake for the winners this evening. Please make some noise for the boys tonight as we aim for a place in the Second Qualifying Round of this famous competition! #youcitizens THE CITIZENS POST nd FA Cup 2 Qualifying Round Draw Ties to be played on Saturday 22nd September Chester v City of Liverpool Ashton United v Trafford Radcliffe v Curzon Ashton Farsley Celtic v Southport Mossley v Kidsgrove Athletic Staveley MW v Guiseley South Shields v Stockport County Knaresborough Town v Newcastle Benfield OR Workington Cleethorpes Town v Bamber Bridge York City v Ashton Athletic OR Morpeth Town Marine OR Scarborough Athletic v Frickley Athletic Dunston UTS v Irlam FC United of Manchester v Colne Nantwich Town v Blyth Spartans Darlington v Bradford Park Avenue Chorley v Parkgate OR Leek Town Witton Albion v Spennymoor Town Altrincham v Whitley Bay Consett v Warrington Town Sutton Coldfield Town OR Rushall Olympic v Alfreton Town Boston United v Peterborough Sports Saffron Walden Town OR St Ives Town v Grantham Town Kidderminster Harriers v Atherstone Town Stourbridge v Leamington Rugby Town v Hednesford St Neots Town v Romulus Nuneaton Borough v Brackley Town Alvechurch v Corby Town Kettering Town v AFC Mansfield Anstey Nomads v Mickleover Sports Halesowen Town v Chasetown OR Gainsborough Trinity Kings Lynn Town OR Histon v Stafford Rangers AFC Telford United v Bedford Town Buxton v Coalville Town Hampton & Richmond Borough v Burgess Hill Town Northwood OR Kings Langley v Farnborough OR Lewes Wealdstone v Great Wakering Rovers Welling United v Chesham United Hendon OR Harlow Town v Phoenix Sports OR Lancing Woking v Tooting & Mitcham United Hanwell Town v Lowestoft Town Egham Town v Brightlingsea Regent Chelmsford City v Worthing THE CITIZENS POST nd FA Cup 2 Qualifying Round Draw nd Ties to be played on Saturday 22 September Concord Rangers v Margate Leverstock Green OR Hadley v Dorking Wanderers Haringey Borough v Erith Town Cheshunt OR Leiston v Hastings United Coggleshall Town OR Berkhamsted v Beckenham Town OR Walton Casuals St Albans City v Corinthian Casuals OR Whyteleafe Bowers & Pitsea v Hemel Hempstead Town Billericay Town v Burnham Chalfont St Peter OR Kempston Rovers v Aylesbury United OR Marlow Hitchin Town v Didcot Town Bognor Regis Town v AFC Sudbury Haverhill Rovers OR Long Melford v Leatherhead East Thurrock United v Whitehawk Brantham Athletic v Eastbourne Borough Oxford City v Merstham OR Cray Valley (PM) Gosport Borough v Ramsgate OR Sevenoaks Town AFC Hornchurch v East Grinstead Town AFC Uckfield Town v Dartford Hayes & Yeading United v Moneyfields FC Romania v Beaconsfield Town Corinthian OR Horsham v Heybridge Swifts Dulwich Hamlet v Tonbridge Angels Metropolitan Police v Needham Market Merthyr Town v WCFC or Frome Town Lymington Town OR Lydney Town v Torquay United Chippenham Town v Swindon Supermarine Bristol Manor Farm v Paulton Rovers OR Basingstoke Town Gloucester City v Plymouth Parkway OR Street Weston Super Marine v Salisbury OR Yate Town Tiverton Town v Wimborne Town OR Dorchester Town Hereford v Truro City Poole Town v Cinderford Town Taunton Town v Bitton Weymouth OR Banbury United v Bath City Hungerford Town v Wantage Town Binfield v Cirencester Town Slough Town v Sholing OR Hamworthy United THE CITIZENS POST DAVO’S DIARY Good evening and a warm welcome to tonight’s exciting game cup reply against Frome Town! We wish their players, management and supporters a pleasant evening and a safe journey home. Saturday was a tough battle for us against a good side from the league above in Frome. It was a rollercoaster of a game; Frome started better, we dominated the middle and they finished stronger. We went ahead with a nice finish by Tyrell Mitford only to be pegged back by an equalizer and then having to withstand the last 10 minutes or so with them pushing for a winner. I have no doubt tonight’s game will be any less keenly contested and we are going to need to be at our very best in order to get through against a higher league opposition. In player news; we were without Danny King on Saturday due to illness but will hopefully be welcoming him back tonight. We also see the return of our Talismanic striker Oli Bailey following his three game suspension. Gilbert, Carr and Rawkins are all still missing but we have this week signed the midfield player George Short, who returns to the club following a spell at Winchester City a couple of years ago and is a player that I have personally rated for a long time and am delighted to have signed him but unfortunately, he is a few weeks away from full fitness so will have to wait a little longer for his debut. Let’s hope we can go one step further than Saturday and progress through to the next round with another monumental performance which we know we are capable of producing but we will need our twelfth man in full voice in order to achieve this! I hope you all enjoy the game. Up the Citizens! Davo THE CITIZENS POST TODAY’S VISITORS – FROME TOWN FC CLUB HISTORY Frome Town, known at the Robins, was formed in 1904 and played in the Wiltshire Premier League. 1904-1950 • Early success came in the form of three Somerset Senior League Championships in between 1906 and 1911, whilst in between the Wiltshire League Championship was won in 1909-10. • The Club reached the Fifth Qualifying Round of the FA Cup in 1911-12 under the old format of the competition, which was today’s equivalent of the Third Round proper losing 4-1 at Southport Central, in front of a crowd of 3,366. • Frome entered the Western League in 1919 and immediately became Division 2 Champions while the Somerset FA Senior Cup was won in successive seasons 1932-22 & 1933-34 & for a third time in 1950-51. 1950-1999 • Frome have always played at Badgers Hill and the ground held its biggest gate in 1954 when 8,000 spectators saw Leyton Orient win 3-0 in the FA Cup First Round Proper. In the same season promotion was won to Division One of the Western League & was beaten finalists in the inaugural Western League Cup. • Promotion was gained back into the Western League after a spell in the Wiltshire League again in 1962-63 where the club remained until last season. Success was gained in the Somerset Premier Cup in 1966-67 with victory over Yeovil Town in the final and the cup was shared by the same two teams in 1968-69. • Frome’s greatest triumph came in 1978-79 when the club won the Western League. The Championship was secured by losing only once in the last 32 matches. The League Cup followed in 1979-80. • Another vintage year followed in 1982-83 with victories in both the Somerset FA Premier Cup and the Western League Cup, plus runners-up in the league. • Following those heady days, Frome flirted all too often with relegation from the Premier Division, and were relegated in 1995-96 and the Club spent several years in the lower reaches of the First Division. 1999-2010 • The Club was re-structured off the field in 1999-00 but despite the ground being upgraded unfortunately success on the field did not follow with a re-structure of the league saving the Club from relegation into County football. • Frome improved rapidly and after finishing third continued upwards as they won promotion back to the Western League Premier Division after a six year absence the following year & also reached the final of the league cup. • With Frome struggling to win at home during the 2003/04 season the Club turned to the help of a local “White Witch”, Titania Hardie. This move brought huge media interest from all over the World. It worked immediately and they went on a magnificent run that saw them go on to finish 3rd in the league. • The 2004-05 season saw the Club celebrate their centenary & events on the field saw the Robins reach the Quarter-Finals of the FA Vase before eventually losing 3-0 at Jarrow Roofing. • A seventh, third and fourth placed finish saw the club continually improving and then runners-up spot in 2008-09 secured promotion into the Southern League for the first time in the Clubs history.