How does everyone feel about another Cup Run? I would love one but I have to say the inevitabilty of Man United winning the double makes me want to avoid going too far - another losing Final would be too much to bear... Thoughts?

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

Answers

I'd love another cup run. More chances to see the lads if they play down south a bit more!! Swell the coffers a bit more and a chance of getting into Europe if the big clubs get knocked out.

Anguish will always be with us, we need a regular dose!

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

I like the confidence you show in uis Douggie....about as much as you had in yerselves prior to playing us in the Cup final......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1that'll be us fckued then :-(

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

Losing a cup final to the double winners and getting into euope works for me

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

Losing a cup final to the double winners and getting into europe works for me

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

Man United will have home advantage in Wales, too..

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

As I've said for the last 39 years, we will win it this year.

And if we don't - there's always next year...

That's something else I've been saying for the last 39 years - usually in January. :-)

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

Wales indeed.......hang on a mo!!!....on me way back from our game V's Leeds earlier Douggie I met a woman on the train from Wales....she had a daughter my age so I'd put her in her 60's probably. You know the type if you see them...old time scarves....badges that I've never seen before and stories I've never heard as well as one or two I have. Been coming for years she has....drives to Crewe then by train....on her own every week.

We talked about how she made the trip on the 'Petrol Night' and why she made the trip. She said that she was gonna knock it on the head as they had zero fuel and after all...it was on the telly but when she saw in the papers and in the news that the country was awaiting the crowd at OT with bitter excitement...assuming we'd be shown for what we are (?)...lol....(and we were ya know....we were) she said that she just had to come...the same as Sam and I and the same as everyone we spoke to that night...so...U carry on doggin' us...lol...and we'll carry on turning out :-)

Land of my Fathers...home of United's loyalist :-)

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

So what? Despite 16 hour train times, floods (and plagues of locusts, I shouldn't wonder), I haven't missed a home game all season.

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

So what?..SO WHAT?.....hahahaah you were expecting..as well as th erest of the country, about 35,000 that night.

BTW....R U talking home AND away Douggie? :-) ;-)

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

I have missed three league games all season, home and away.

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

PS. I wasn't expecting a particularly low gate that night. There are such things as trains, coaches, shared lifts ETC.

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

DB did you just say we will have more of a chance if the "big" clubs get knocked out. What are we then?

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

Coaches?...and what do they run on?...Point is Douggie that the whole bleedin' country came to a near halt...friggin' motorway was like Christmas morning...hardly a car on it and them from the likes of Wales :-) still made it.

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

I know a bunch of sad bar stewards (me plus 2) who went to Cambridge on the famous no petrol night to see a bunch of dead beat second division players get trashed. The same lot arrived home with considerably more petrol than they had left with - petrol shortages? They were a myth!

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

Jacko..yer joking about it being a Myth aren't ya?

The only way we did it was to cyphon fuel from various cars and lawn mowers and share a lift. You're 'avin' a larf!

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

Syme,

We have to be realistic and dampen our delusions every now and then. I am doing that. When was the last time we finished in the top five? We've got no cash to spend and the club is in big debt.

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

"Dampen our delusions", what a great turn of phrase. But hasn't following the Toon has always been "a triumph of hope over experience"? I hope we have a great cup run even if it does end in heartache.

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

On current form, 1 win would constitute a cup run wouldn't it?

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

Without a shadow of a doubt the cup's ours this year (just as long as we don't get drawn away in London), I'd even prefer a trip to OT, which afterall is our lucky cup ground.

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2000