BARROW AFC v IPSWICH TOWN FAC 2nd Rd Replay

[Jonty]

I know we have some important league games coming up.....but I’m just getting this in early

BARROW AFC v IPSWICH TOWN FAC 2nd Rd Replay. DATE TBC

This one is definitely winnable and another great night match awaits. Let’s add this one to the list of great Holker Street memories.

Another 5000+ crowd. Bring yer flags ‘n’ rattles

COYBB!!

Build up in here- Ipswich fans- lets have your thoughts too. ....This is what the cup is all about! 3rd round awaits the victors.

[Jonty]

It got to me then...and it gets to me now.....it’s been no different all of my life.

I know we’ve all seen it!...

https://youtu.be/Yo1Px24Gi-Ig

And the game.....

https://youtu.be/UVqvpiwyM70

Another night like this will do!

[Jeeby]

UK weather: Storm Barra set to batter Britain as thousands of homes still without power nine days after Storm Arwen

Let's hope the real storm Barra strikes at Holker street a week later on the pitch, come on Barra

[April1972]

It got to me then...and it gets to me now.....it’s been no different all of my life.

I know we’ve all seen it!...

https://youtu.be/Yo1Px24Gi-Ig

And the game.....

https://youtu.be/UVqvpiwyM70

Another night like this will do!

I can still remember the Brentford keeper sliding out of his area and having to let the ball go.

[Desmond2-2]

I know we have some important league games coming up.....but I’m just getting this in early

BARROW AFC v IPSWICH TOWN FAC 2nd Rd Replay. DATE TBC

This one is definitely winnable and another great night match awaits. Let’s add this one to the list of great Holker Street memories.

Another 5000+ crowd. Bring yer flags ‘n’ rattles

COYBB!!

Build up in here- Ipswich fans- lets have your thoughts too. ....This is what the cup is all about! 3rd round awaits the victors.

Absolutely ridiculous post. We have 2 far more important games before that, both at home, that’s what you should be shouting about, shame!

[russell_anderson]

I'm afraid the days I got excited about the FA Cup are long gone. The vast majority of clubs these days have little interest.
Almost all Premier and Championship sides play a mostly reserve side and even EFL 1 clubs rarely play their best sides.
The highest crowd for Round 2 was just over 7,800 at Pompey which is well below their normal home attendances this season of between 14,000 and 17,000.
Certainly a long way from the time where we could and should have beaten a full strength Southampton team and Holker Street and an era where Norwich as a 3rd Division club reached a semi-final. No EFL 1, EFL 2 or non-league club will ever do that again.
The big hope for clubs like Barrow is to reach Round 3 and get a huge Premier club away which will make a dramatic improvement in the finances.

[Reginald]

I'm afraid the days I got excited about the FA Cup are long gone. The vast majority of clubs these days have little interest.
Almost all Premier and Championship sides play a mostly reserve side and even EFL 1 clubs rarely play their best sides.
The highest crowd for Round 2 was just over 7,800 at Pompey which is well below their normal home attendances this season of between 14,000 and 17,000.
Certainly a long way from the time where we could and should have beaten a full strength Southampton team and Holker Street and an era where Norwich as a 3rd Division club reached a semi-final. No EFL 1, EFL 2 or non-league club will ever do that again.
The big hope for clubs like Barrow is to reach Round 3 and get a huge Premier club away which will make a dramatic improvement in the finances.

Fair enough','They', don't play their best sides. But, thankfully the excitement is still in the name of who you might draw is it not.

[spirit of 1990]

I'm afraid the days I got excited about the FA Cup are long gone. The vast majority of clubs these days have little interest.
Almost all Premier and Championship sides play a mostly reserve side and even EFL 1 clubs rarely play their best sides.
The highest crowd for Round 2 was just over 7,800 at Pompey which is well below their normal home attendances this season of between 14,000 and 17,000.
Certainly a long way from the time where we could and should have beaten a full strength Southampton team and Holker Street and an era where Norwich as a 3rd Division club reached a semi-final. No EFL 1, EFL 2 or non-league club will ever do that again.
The big hope for clubs like Barrow is to reach Round 3 and get a huge Premier club away which will make a dramatic improvement in the finances.

I think that’s Jonty’s point Russell, there’s always the hope for a club like ours that we might get a draw against a big club…possibly a PL club. I remember how I felt when we came out of the hat and being drawn against Middlesbrough and Sunderland (don’t think the wife could understand my celebration though ) I always wanted to see my team up against a PL club at their ground, and I got to see it twice!!
Then aside from the romantic part, it’s potentially a draw that could set the club up for years and the chance for the owners to recoup some of their investment.

Shame 2-2 feels that Jonty isn’t allowed to get excited about this, I’m sure many of us are though….

[Matty]

Only watching paint dry excites our Des.

[John_Bucks]

I know we have some important league games coming up.....but I’m just getting this in early

BARROW AFC v IPSWICH TOWN FAC 2nd Rd Replay. DATE TBC

This one is definitely winnable and another great night match awaits. Let’s add this one to the list of great Holker Street memories.

Another 5000+ crowd. Bring yer flags ‘n’ rattles

COYBB!!

Build up in here- Ipswich fans- lets have your thoughts too. ....This is what the cup is all about! 3rd round awaits the victors.

Absolutely ridiculous post. We have 2 far more important games before that, both at home, that’s what you should be shouting about, shame!

You might want to read the first line again

[Jonty]

Now come on Des, never too early to get into the cup spirit! I will be looking out for you doing your best to get on tv with your giant sponge “Barrow for the cup”’ finger and waving a home made tin foil cup! …All after collecting 6 points in the next two league games!

[BarrowHarry]

I'm afraid the days I got excited about the FA Cup are long gone. The vast majority of clubs these days have little interest.
Almost all Premier and Championship sides play a mostly reserve side and even EFL 1 clubs rarely play their best sides.
The highest crowd for Round 2 was just over 7,800 at Pompey which is well below their normal home attendances this season of between 14,000 and 17,000.
Certainly a long way from the time where we could and should have beaten a full strength Southampton team and Holker Street and an era where Norwich as a 3rd Division club reached a semi-final. No EFL 1, EFL 2 or non-league club will ever do that again.
The big hope for clubs like Barrow is to reach Round 3 and get a huge Premier club away which will make a dramatic improvement in the finances.

Non-league Lincoln reached the quarter final a few years ago (2016-17 I think), so it can still happen.

[blue nige]

The Bluebirds played out a goalless draw in the original Second Round tie at Portman Road at the weekend and now the two sides will meet again in Cumbria next week.

It has been confirmed that the game has been selected by ITV for live television broadcast and therefore moved back 24 hours to the Wednesday evening.

The winners of the replay will play away at Barnsley in the Third Round over the weekend of Friday 7th January to Monday 10th January 2022.

Sponsorship and hospitality will be available for next week's replay - for more information contact Alisha on a.henry@barrowafc.com

[Alley_Cat]

How much is the live coverage worth to the club? £75k?

[blue nige]

£40,000