FA Cup 1st round

Cardiff of course don't enter until round 3 but there was some local interest in the first round.

On Friday night Merthyr went out after losing to Walsall, a shame as I'd have liked to have seen them do well.

Maybe not such sadness to hear that Swansea and Bristol City both fell at the first hurdle against Stockport and Notts County respectively. Both lost to opposition a league below them. One of Stockport's goals was scored by Jermaine Easter. His brother Jamal plays for Cardiff City. Burscough and Tamworth provided the two biggest upsets with wins over Gillingham and Bournemouth respectively. Former City striker Paul Brayson scored a hat trick as his side Northwich Victoria won away at Morecambe.

Also well done to Weymouth who went to the City Ground and earned a replay against Nottingham Forest and Chasetown (who?, exactly) from Staffordshire who held Oldham to a 1 - 1 draw. Chasetown are the lowest ranked club still in the competition.

FA Cup 1st round results.

Sunday  6  November
First Round
Bradford	2	Tranmere	1
Crooks 56 Windass pen 59		Greenacre 6
Attend: 6116		Half-time: 0-1
Chasetown	1	Oldham	1
Day og 23		Eyres 31
Attend: 1997		Half-time: 1-1
Doncaster	4	Blackpool	1
Heffernan 18 , 72 McIndoe pen 53 , pen 56		Clarke pen 90
Attend: 4332		Half-time: 1-0
Halifax	1	Rushden & D'monds	1
Senior 45		Armstrong 2
Attend: 2303		Half-time: 1-1
Huddersfield	4	Welling	1
Booth 27 , 69 Schofield pen 50 Holdsworth 81		Moore 83
Attend: 5518		Half-time: 1-0
Saturday  5  November
First Round
Barnet	0	Southend	1
		Eastwood 2
Attend: 3545		Half-time: 0-1
Barnsley	1	Darlington	0
Hayes 5
Attend: 6059		Half-time: 1-0
Bournemouth	1	Tamworth	2
Stock 45		Ward 29 Storer 82
Attend: 4550		Half-time: 1-1
Bristol City	0	Notts County	2
		Tann 45 Baudet 68
Attend: 4221		Half-time: 0-1
Burnham	1	Aldershot	3
Miller 88		Brough 54 Heald 71 Deen 85
Attend: 1623		Half-time: 0-0
Burscough	3	Gillingham	2
Bell 10 Cox og 89 Rowan 90		Jarvis 58 Saunders 77
Attend: 1927		Half-time: 1-0
Bury	2	Scunthorpe	2
Kennedy pen 52 Scott 70		Keogh 6 Baraclough 41
Attend: 2940		Half-time: 0-2
Cheltenham	1	Carlisle	0
McCann 64
Attend: 2405		Half-time: 0-0
Chester	2	Folkestone Invicta	1
Branch pen 55 Lowe 71		Flanagan 10
Attend: 2503		Half-time: 0-1
Chippenham	1	Worcester	1
Harvey 47		Webster 6
Attend: 2815		Half-time: 0-1
Colchester	9	Leamington	1
Halford 39 Brown 44 Iwelumo 48 Cureton 60 , 70 Watson 63 Yeates 67 Danns 89 , 90		Adams 72
Attend: 3513		Half-time: 2-0
Eastbourne Borough	1	Oxford Utd	1
Rowland pen 90		Basham 70
Attend: 3770		Half-time: 0-0
Grimsby	1	Bristol Rovers	2
Jones 49		Agogo 28 , 87
Attend: 2680		Half-time: 0-1
Hartlepool	2	Dag & Red	1
Nelson 34 Butler 83		Kandol 32
Attend: 3655		Half-time: 1-1
Histon	4	Hednesford	0
Jackman 10 , 58 Cambridge 50 Nightingale 84
Attend: 1080		Half-time: 1-0
Kettering	1	Stevenage	3
Midgley 14		Stamp 8 Boyd 43 Elding 69
Attend: 4548		Half-time: 1-2
Leyton Orient	0	Chesterfield	0
Attend: 3554		Half-time: 0-0
Lincoln City	1	Milton Keynes Dons	1
Robinson 29		Edds 45
Attend: 3508		Half-time: 1-1
Macclesfield	1	Yeovil	1
Wijnhard 48		Jevons 81
Attend: 1943		Half-time: 0-0
Morecambe	1	Northwich	3
Carlton 84		Brayson 19 , 41 , 67
Attend: 2166		Half-time: 0-2
Nottm Forest	1	Weymouth	1
Holt 39		Harris 56
Attend: 10305		Half-time: 1-0
Nuneaton	2	Ramsgate	0
Oddy 15 Staff 34
Attend: 2153		Half-time: 2-0
Peterborough	0	Burton Albion	0
Attend: 3856		Half-time: 0-0
Rochdale	0	Brentford	1
		O'Connor pen 45
Attend: 2928		Half-time: 0-1
Rotherham	3	Mansfield	4
McLaren 30 , 38 Burton 54		Brown 28 Coke 37 Barker 75 , 90
Attend: 4089		Half-time: 2-2
Shrewsbury	4	Braintree Town	1
McMenamin pen 2 Tolley 5 Hope 44 Edwards 55		Quinton 78
Attend: 2969		Half-time: 3-0
Southport	1	Woking	1
Leadbetter 64		Evans 32
Attend: 1417		Half-time: 0-1
Stockport	2	Swansea	0
Easter 41 Briggs 53
Attend: 2978		Half-time: 1-0
Swindon	2	Boston Utd	2
Gurney 32 Comyn-Platt 87		Rusk 25 Talbot 42
Attend: 3814		Half-time: 1-2
Torquay	1	Harrogate Town	1
Stonebridge 80		Holland 20
Attend: 2079		Half-time: 0-1
Wycombe	1	Northampton	3
Burnell 90		Doig 56 Smith 61 McGleish 80
Attend: 3974		Half-time: 0-0
York	0	Grays Athletic	3
		Bishop og 15 Slabber 58 Poole 87
Attend: 3586		Half-time: 0-1
Friday  4  November
First Round
Cambridge City	0	Hereford	1
		Brady 78
Attend: 1116		Half-time: 0-0
Merthyr	1	Walsall	2
Williams 29		Fryatt pen 17 Kinsella 25
Attend: 3046		Half-time: 1-2
Port Vale	2	Wrexham	1
Husbands 20 Constantine 65		McEvilly 63
Attend: 5046		Half-time: 1-0

2nd round draw

Walsall	v	Macclesfield Town or Yeovil Town
Southport or Woking	v	Northwich Victoria
Peterborough United or Burton Albion	v	Burscough
Aldershot Town	v	Bury or Scunthorpe United
Shrewsbury Town	v	Colchester United
Hartlepool United	v	Tamworth
Cheltenham Town	v	Eastborne Borough or Oxford United
Mansfield Town	v	Grays Athletic
Hereford United	v	Stockport County
Stevenage Borough	v	Northampton Town
Port Vale	v	Bristol Rovers
Swindon or Boston United	v	Doncaster Rovers
Halifax Town or Rushden & Diamionds	v	Leyton Orient or Chesterfield
Nuneaton Borough	v	Histon
Chasetown or Oldham Athletic	v	Brentford
Southend United	v	Lincoln City or MK Dons
Chippenham Town or Worcester City	v	Huddersfield Town
Torquay United or Harrogate Town	v	Notts County
Barnsley	v	Bradford City
Chester City	v	Nottingham Forest or Weymouth