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Mid Cheshire Cup draw

Travor that was one individual who abused the referee,not quite the same thing and no amount of stewarding would stop that.
 
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Witton entered our Reserves into this competition at the beginning of the season hence why Paul Jones was the Manager and why Sully was watching from the stand, Paul and Sully agreed to let a few first teamers play against Barnton in the last round as confidence was low and it was felt it would be good for morale to get a win under their belts.
I would imagine this would also be the case for this game with Paul Jones in charge again.
I do hope you come into the Social Club before the game and not decide to boycott the bar and tea hut, yes we can be enemy's for 90 minutes during the game but we can be friends before and after. Come and say hi, im the bloke playing the music and reading out the teams in the Social Club and if your really generous mines a pint of Carling
 
Travor that was one individual who abused the referee,not quite the same thing and no amount of stewarding would stop that.
Sorry m8 just was some lighthearted banter, I know the details maybe not a funny joke as it was meant
 
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It means nothing to Witton were playing a new team from Winsford (you may as well be 2012 Over ! ) In the smallest cup going ! It will be a nothing game even if you do manage to beat our Ressies ! Still it's at WP so it will at least be on.
Lets see how much it means to witton when out number you, out sing you and most of all out play you! Coyg army army :)
TE="C.J, post: 10758, member: 1475"]It means nothing to Witton were playing a new team from Winsford (you may as well be 2012 Over ! ) In the smallest cup going ! It will be a nothing game even if you do manage to beat our Ressies ! Still it's at WP so it will at least be on.[/QUOTE]
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I for one hope we (WAFC) treat this tie with respect, play a full first team squad and lets have a full on derby. Its been missing for too long. Both clubs may be languishing in lower leagues than we would wish, but we need to stop talking down the game and lets get a few folks into the ground for a good night of local football. That way both clubs will benefit financially.

Can we also stop slagging off each others supporters and creating an issue where there isn't one. Yes there will be banter and ribbing as there has been for ever, but there is no need to believe that the occasion will be anything other than supporters from both sides stood side by side cheering for their own favourites. There is also nothing to suggest that WAFC will be anything other than good hosts for the visit of 1874. I am sure there will be other occasions when WAFC will be drawn at 1874 and we would expect the hosting to be reciprocated, so why should this be any different?
 
I for one hope we (WAFC) treat this tie with respect, play a full first team squad and lets have a full on derby. Its been missing for too long. Both clubs may be languishing in lower leagues than we would wish, but we need to stop talking down the game and lets get a few folks into the ground for a good night of local football. That way both clubs will benefit financially.

Can we also stop slagging off each others supporters and creating an issue where there isn't one. Yes there will be banter and ribbing as there has been for ever, but there is no need to believe that the occasion will be anything other than supporters from both sides stood side by side cheering for their own favourites. There is also nothing to suggest that WAFC will be anything other than good hosts for the visit of 1874. I am sure there will be other occasions when WAFC will be drawn at 1874 and we would expect the hosting to be reciprocated, so why should this be any different?
Well said Knutsfordian.
This is a new era of local football. Opposing supporters will and should be very passionate about their own team. Its time to move on and put mid Cheshire football back where it belongs, at the top of the tree.
Off the field, no reason not to respect each other's veiws, we are all football fans.
Banter has always been part of local football, lets keep it passionate,partisan, but friendly.
 
"Keep it passionate, partisan BUT FRIENDLY"
Let's just have a Christmas truce and then get back to shooting each other in the new year!;)
 
I agree all the banter should be friendly and usually is,but calling us green slime is not.but if you want to be treated with respect you have to give respect.I have not seen on this forum any disrespectful comment about Albion(if there has been I stand corrected).And making disrespectful remarks about another club's ground does not help,we at 1874 are very grateful to Winsford for the use of their facilities.So lets keep the the banter to that banter not insults.
 
I think there is a slightly more serious side to some of the comments.
As I've said before Witton have had the town to themselves for 3 years with no obvious positive results. They are beginning to see us as the main long term rivals and are a bit threatened.
It would be nice to think both teams and local football could benefit from a healthy rivalry and an element of cooperation. The days are long gone when two teams in a small town can both survive and flourish. Our history of rivalry has always been destructive and, looking back, hasn't seen anything but a long term decline in the standard of local football.
Now back to serious banter - I'm planning to register on their site and wish them 'Happy Christmas' - that will increase their suspicions and paranoia.
 
Going to be a bit surreal this one.

After all, if you look it logically, there is no rivalry between us. How can there be as we've never played one another before?

But when has football ever been logical?

I'm with Steve R and Knutsfordian on this one - lets encourage as many people from the Northwich area to go as possible (being a 'split' gate, maybe both clubs could consider running a promotion via the Guardian or their respective web-sites with discounted prices?) and let them experience first hand what local, non-league football is at first hand, how skillful and exciting it can be and the atmosphere that a game like this can generate.
 
Maybe the two sets of fans should appreciate this is the first meeting ever between the two clubs and will never happen again.So it's not the competition but the occasion that's important.
 
As a matter of interest can anyone say when the first game ever between Witton and Vics was?(NO I was not there).
 
ATFAS says we played 2 friendlies in 1895 (do friendlies count? ;) ) and then beat them 2-0 in the Cheshire Amateur Cup Final in March 1898.
Were you not well that day, then? ;)
 
Alan you are correct,but Vics did play a team called Witton Novelty in the Cheshire Senior Cup Final in 1882 winning 4-2.I don't think they had anything to do with Witton Albion,maybe the Witton fans can confirm this.
 
My knowledge doesn't stretch that far back but I've always found it fascinating that a town the size the Northwich always had two reasonably sized football clubs (isn't it the only town in the country to have had two teams in the conference league at the same time, or something like that?). I do miss the big derbies they were happy days.
 
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