
First round proper the ties are to take place on weekend of 7/8 November, The Gills have an all Division One clash with The Shrimpers. The Mangerless Mariners will not relish non-league opposition in Bath City while The Bees have a long trip to the North East to face Conference club Gateshead (who knocked Southport out 3-0) Saltergate will host League Two leaders Bournemouth and the Imps will have to travel to either Blyth or Telford. Gary Abletts first FA Cup as a manager sees non league opposition visiting Edgley Park in the guise of Tooting & Mitcham or Eastbourne Borough. Oxford City don’t get to play their counterparts across Morse’s patch as they travel to play The Brewers. An all non-league tie sees Barrow to play host to either Chester or Eastleigh while some hacks tie of the round has Oldham play Leeds in what is damm near a Yorkshire derby game. The Abbey Stadium is quite a hike from The New Manor Ground for Ilkeston while Dario takes his team to another railway emporium that is York. The Seagulls swap the open area of their athletics stadium to the compact Adams Park and no doubt Radfords goal will be shown again, again even though The Bulls are only playing another recent year giant killers in Sutton United. Nuneaton who play in the Zamaretto Premier, (they also sponsor Benedorm) will take on Exeter City. Improving Saints travel up to play The Pirates and a North West…..ish derby game sees Carlisle entertain The Shrimpers from down the coastline. Forest Green will have a few Stags running around their park and the United of Oxford take on the pride of Somerset from Huish Park. The lowest team league wise left in the FA Cup Paulton Rovers will have The Canaries fly into their Winterfield Road ground for the medi attention grabing game of the round. Swindon are at home to Woking while Port Vale have a tricky game at Vale Park against Stevenage Borough. In form Rochdale travel to Kennilworth Road to play the now non league Hatters, Blue Square South side Bromley have Colchester visit their Hayes Lane ground. Accrington Stanley (cue scouse kid) have either Farnborough or Salisbury coming up to East Lancashire while Millwall’s New Den have Crawley or AFC Wimbledon as visitors (MK Dons beware) Ex-Latics boss Chris Hutchings takes his Saddlers outfit down to the War Memorial Ground in Stourbridge, Salop at the Prostar Stadium have Staines coming while Wealdstone are at home to Rotherham. Helen Chamberlain will be happy as Plainmoor have Cheltenham going down for a day at the seaside while Darlington visit the Capital, more specifically Underhill to play Barnet. Moneybags of the lower leagues Svensmen will look to the Cup to keep raising their profile but Bradford even at home won’t be easy. High flying Terriers at the Galpharm host Dagenham & Redbridge while Womble impersonators MK Franchise have a home tie against Cheshire’s Silkmen. Leicestershire based Hincley travel over to Northamptonshire to play Rushden & Diamonds and victors over FC Utd, Northwich Vics have a glamour home game against not long ago Premiership team Charlton Athletic. Bury have a trek down to Aldershot and another all non-league match to be pairs Wrexham against Gloucester or Lowestoft. Hartlepool won’t really relish a match against Kettering or Redditch even though they are at home, Tranmere will try and ditch their atrocious league form as Leyton Orient arrive in Birkenhead. And Cobblers will have to wait to see if its Kidderminster Harriers or Fleetwood Town who drew 0-0.
The draw as they came out of the velvet bag, (well they should be)
Gillingham v Southend Grimsby v Bath City Gateshead v Brentford Chesterfield v Bournemouth Blyth or AFC Telford v Lincoln City Stockport v Tooting & Mitcham or Eastbourne Burton v Oxford City Barrow or Chester v Eastleigh Oldham v Leeds Cambridge Utd v Ilkeston York v Crewe Wycombe v Brighton Hereford v Sutton Nuneaton Town v Exeter Bristol R v Southampton Carlisle v Morecambe Forest Green v Mansfield Oxford Utd v Yeovil Paulton Rovers v Norwich Swindon v Woking Port Vale v Stevenage Luton v Rochdale Bromley v Colchester Accrington v Farnborough or Salisbury Millwall v Crawley or AFC Wimbledon Stourbridge v Walsall Shrewsbury v Staines Wealdstone v Rotherham Torquay v Cheltenham Barnet v Darlington Notts County v Bradford Huddersfield v Dagenham & Redbridge MK Dons v Macclesfield Rushden & D v Hinckley Utd Northwich Vic v Charlton Aldershot v Bury Wrexham v Gloucester or Lowestoft Hartlepool v Kettering or Redditch Tranmere v Leyton Orient Northampton v Kidderminster or Fleetwood
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