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[bluesmum]

must be fit again, him and rory fallon and swansea are playing now on bbc wales in a semi final, extra time aswell

 

[Crabby Shrimper]

and he scored. 3-2 Swansea at the mo, another nice little distraction for them!

 

[jokercomedyclub]

semi final of what ? the sheep shaggers cup !

 

[SUBBlue]

Quote[/b] (jokercomedyclub @ Feb. 08 2006,20:31)]semi final of what ? the sheep shaggers cup !

Close, it's the Welsh Cup.

The winners get a magnum of sheep-dip & the cup presented by HRH Dolly.

 

[EastStandBlue]

This is the thing thats got me, They seem to think they have a divine right to enter the English FA Cup, then for the same reasons i want to Enter the Welsh Cup...

 

[Guest]

But then again they also want to play in an English FA governed league yet only play by the Welsh FA's rules....

It's high time they were told to affiliate to one country and only one country. If they want to be Welsh they can play in the league of wales...

 

[Firestorm]

Didn't Hereford used to play in the welsh cup in the days before the welsh FA was less autononomous ?
IIRC when the Welsh FA "went alone" and formed the league of Wales, special dispensations were given to the teams in the pyramid , so they would back the Welsh FA (Cardiff, Wrexham and Swansea at the time) . I seem to recall Newport County having to play in England for a couple of years so they could stay in the Southern league. I guess its something to do with affiliation to both FA's with the National FA being the controlling body....

Didn't Queens Park (at the time the biggest team in Scotland) play in the FA cup in the early years ?

 

[RobM.]

What about Chester? Half the ground is in England, the other Wales!!

 

[C C Csiders]

Quote[/b] (Firestorm @ Feb. 09 2006,08:49)]Didn't Hereford used to play in the welsh cup in the days before the welsh FA was less autononomous ?
IIRC when the Welsh FA "went alone" and formed the league of Wales, special dispensations were given to the teams in the pyramid , so they would back the Welsh FA (Cardiff, Wrexham and Swansea at the time) . I seem to recall Newport County having to play in England for a couple of years so they could stay in the Southern league. I guess its something to do with affiliation to both FA's with the National FA being the controlling body....

Didn't Queens Park (at the time the biggest team in Scotland) play in the FA cup in the early years ?

Shrewsbury Town have won the Welsh FA Cup 6 times.

Other English winners:

Chester (3 times)
Crewe Alexandra (2 times)
Oswestry United (2 times)
Hereford United (once)
Tranmere Rovers (once)
Bristol City (once)
South Liverpool (once)

17 English winners.

The Welsh, of course, have only won the English FA Cup once (Cardiff City in 1927).

17-1 to the Eng-er-land.

Queen's Park actually got to the English FA Cup Final twice in successive years in the 1880's - they lost on both occasions to Blackburn Rovers. Simon Garner scoring the winning goals on both occasions IIRC.

 

[number11]

The League of Wales only formed about 10-12 years ago (I cant be a""" to look it up!)....before that there was a few Welsh teams knocking about in the English Pyramid system....as well as the Swanseas, Cardiffs and Wrecks'ems, I think Merthyr Tydfyl used to play in the conference, and Newport used to play in some lower league. When the League of Wales formed these clubs has a choice of where to play, and the non-league ones favoured the League of Wales, I guess as it reduced travel and also enabled possible entry to Europe.

If Celtic or Rangers ever wanted to compete in The English League they would probably try to point to the Swanseas etc as a precedent....though if they did Id make 'em start in the Conference

 

[HUTTON]

Merthyr Tydfyl still play in the English pyramid

 

[Guest]

As do Newport County (Conference South)

 

[shrimptank]

All good posts, but IMHO Trundle has not right foot, well, maybe just for standing on. If the bloke was right footed and not left, he'd be like any other striker. He is also a w%&ker so i will take up no more of your reading time with him!