"Mango's Mouth"

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Well, I'd better keep this "short" otherwise I will never get up in the morning, but what can I say? IN 22 YEARS OF WATCHING MUFC, TONIGHT HAS BEEN ONE OF THE BEST NIGHTS EVER FOR ME!

Not only did Our Boyz give 200% for the 120 minutes of actual play, we matched the big money boys all the way - AND THEN WE GO AND WIN A PENALTY SHOOTOUT AS WELL, something that we have rarely done when the chance has arisen. Two Brucey bonuses in one night!! We also created more chances than Truro did, we went close so many times. Their keeper was far busier than Tony Court and I reckon if we had simply played on after the 120 minutes (if there was a Golden Goal rule or something instead of penalties) then we would have won it because we looked more like scoring than they did.

To be honest, on the night, I felt Truro were disappointing, but even so, they still contributed to a superb game of football from start to finish. When I think of the sheer thuggery that we had to put up with from the Gillingham Town morons in the last round, TONIGHT WE SAW A PROPER FOOTBALL MATCH BETWEEN TWO SIDES INTENT ON PLAYING FOOTBALL. Maybe it is the FA Cup that brings out the best in some teams, certainly us tonight, and while the Big Teams in the League only take the FA Cup seriously when it suits them, it still means something to the non-league world and tonight was a magnificent advert for non-league football and the FA Cup itself.

We battled well, we closed them down, we kept it to 0-0 for the first hour, although Tom Knighton missed the best chance of the lot in the first half when he put the ball wide when clean through, but keeping things all square as long as possible was half the battle for us. Then we concede a goal from a simple free kick routine and you think, well, we've made a great effort tonight, we've battled well, will that be our lot now? No, back we came, never giving up and Tom Knighton flicks home Jason Wood's cross around 80 minutes for 1-1. The ground (gate 529??) went wild - and that reminds me, despite all the Truro fans there tonight, I've never heard a visiting goal greeted so quietly by the away fans like when Barry McConnell headed their goal - hardly a cheer at all from the away fans! You'd have thought they had gone 1-0 down, not 1-0 up.

So at 90 minutes, it's 0-0. Well done you Mangos. Will Truro's supposedly higher fitness levels count in extra time? Perhaps it should have done, but it didn't! We kept running all the time and we matched them all the way. Some of their players began to look tired, in my opinion, ours were still running on adrenalin. We had more chances to have won the game in extra time, but every time, it went so, so close.

So at 120 minutes, it's been a performance to be absolutely proud of. Whatever happens now, in the farce of the penalty shoot-out situation, this has still been one of the best Mangotsfield performances I've seen for many years. We've had some years in the doldrums recently, but it's matches and performances like this one tonight that make everything worthwhile. Not often we sell out of programmes either & that's a good feeling too when you put in a lot of time & effort writing the programme and then struggle to sell even 50 copies.

And so to penalties. Courty's the hero, he stops the first 2. We're leading, but then we miss one too. It's getting nerve-wracking - we don't do penalty-shoot-outs very well! Then the linesman makes a very brave decision and makes Kyle Tooze re-take his penalty because the keeper moved. GOAL! Then it's suddenly 3-3 and Jason Wood is on hand to take our final kick. GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 4-3 and THE MANGOS ARE HOME AND DRY

What an amazing night. Man of the Match - ALL OF THEM! Phil Bater talked up the game well on Radio Bristol this morning and tonight, EVERY PLAYER, EVERY OFFICIAL AND EVERY SUPPORTER GAVE EVERYTHING!! Our home fans have never been so noisy. Come on United??? We've never chanted that before, but we did tonight.

THANKS TO BOTH SIDES FOR AN AMAZING GAME THIS EVENING, ONE OF MY MOST MEMORABLE NIGHTS EVER AS A MANGOTSFIELD UNITED SUPPORTER. Yes, I have a soft spot for Truro City as well, I was there when they won 8-5 at Radstock 2 years ago, they're a good side (but not so good tonight) and there have been other games up this way too, but tonight's been all about THE MANGOS. My No 1 side. We even kept Stewart Yetton quiet too!

Thanks also to my wife Kim & her mum and dad for their assistance in making sure I made it to this rare (for me) Tuesday game. I would have been absolutely gutted to have missed this one, and I would have said that even before the kick-off......

SO WELL DONE, PHIL AND THE BOYS. UTTERLY MAGNIFICENT!! And it's just as well that we now have no game this weekend. The lads deserve their rest! That's 7 cup games in a row now, isn't it? I begin to forget what a league game is. Now bring on Forest Green Rovers..............

Yep, not much I can add to that. Great performance and I just wish we could play like that every game - we would be top of the league. Football is not like that however, and that's why it is such an interesting game. I was proud of all the lads tonight, and it is never easy to pick out players individually. We all realise that Courty made two special saves tonight and there were some superb displays all around the pitch. Our defending, by everyone, was spot on , but one player tonight had one of his best games for quite a while and battled hard for little personal reward, but made a telling contribution and that was MITCHELL PAGE

WELL DONE EVERYONE

One of the best matches that I can recall in my time watching Mangotsfield United. The lads were superb, they all worked tirelessly and once again looked well organised and played with a belief. The football on offer was great to watch.

The lads all did themselves and the club proud last night and will earn the club plenty of positive coverage over the next eleven days.

The vocal support was the probably the best I've heard at the ground, the 'dugout side' were in fine voice throughout.

Roll on Saturday 24th October when Forest Green Rovers come to Cossham Street, what a day in store!

Not sure where to begin here! Well firstly this was up there with the rest of the great FA cup days and nights at Cossham Street. Once again we have reached the 4th Qualifying round,the fourth time this decade I think which is superb for a club at the level we have been playing at.
I think deep down most of us Mango fans were gutted at the sledgehammer blow of the late equaliser from Truro last saturday and thought we had blown our chance of beating them. The fear was they would use the get out of jail card and make us pay last night and kill off our dream tie against FGR. Until we levelled the game with ten minutes to go it was on the cards they were going to do this.
In my opinion Truro were just shading an enthralling tussle and were ahead 3 2 on missed golden chances and it was no surprise when they struck to break the deadlock. Game over I thought,then quite soon after the normally sleepy Cossham Street erupted as we conjured up a goal to level! Heartbreak started looming as we then spurned three dream chances in the last ten minutes and the visitors were off the hook again. You just knew it was heading for the dreaded shoot out as two tired teams struggled to find a winner in extra time.
It has been a major source of annoyance that in nearly twenty five years of following Mangotsfield I have seen about half a dozen penalty shoot outs and we have lost the bloody lot! I think this is why I was so calm in this penalty drama as I was resigned to defeat before it even started even when Truro missed their first two. I only went a tad ballistic when our winning last kick went in and I knew the jinx was well and truly ended. We can all now look forward to our cup run carrying on into the next round. Fair play to Truro last night for contributing to a cracking game and good luck to them in their rise up the pyramid. All the Mango players were superb last night but James Pilling stood out for me and looks a good prospect.

Yes your right Stella, this is the fourth time we've made the fourth qualifying round in a decade, the previous opponents were Lewes, Canvey Island and Leatherhead. The fixtures against Lewes and Leatherhead both being decided after a replay.

One correction, it wasn't Leatherhead, it was Gravesend & Northfleet on 28 October 2000 on an absolute rice pudding of a pitch, but apart from that, I'll be reminiscing about that game & the Lewes & Canvey games games in the programme v FGR............

Let's hope it's 4th time lucky this time!!

Dave, we did play Leatherhead in the 4th qualifying round, I went to the replay at Leatherhead when I think we lost 4 - 0 or 4 - 1. Leatherhead played Torquay in the 1st round proper.

Our game against Leatherhead on the 17th October 2006, was a 3rd Qualifying Round replay after a 1-1 draw at home. We did lose 1-4. Leatherhead beat AFC Sudbury 2-1 in the 4th QR and lost to Torquay in the First Round Proper

You're right!!

It would be great to play on Sunday and get the floating City and Rovers fans in as they could not fail to have been impressed by Tuesday's performance.
I told two club notables before the game that we'd send them packing with their tails between their legs and that we did. I also predicted a crowd of 400+ and they scoffed and said we'd be lucky to get half that.
I couldn't predict I'd be watching the game with Carling and Stella and that Stella, despite what he's written here, would go to pieces in the pen shootout and with others need Carling and myself to provide the state of play like sort of commentators.
It was a great performance, one of the best nights ever spent at the Cossham Stadium. Only the 4-1 Merthyr cup tie eclipsed it. Oh to have a strike force of Seal and Edwards again and great that in that BANES publication Darren says he'd like to end his playing days back here.
It was a jihad of a performance on Tues night. Brilliant. Credit to all the players and staff. For once I felt the club were short changed by only charging 8 quid.
We need another jihad to dispense with FGR but it will be delivered and first round glory will be ours with live vtv at the Cossham Stadium.

No need to get that excited as it is only the Third Qualifying round. Frank Gregan would have taken you to the Third round proper if your club would have kept the faith.

Not sure you can cope with big games after the shambles of the other night. I arrived in good time travelling from Stroud but had to park in a road opposite the Rugby ground. The queue at the turnstile reached the main gate as there was only one bloke on.

I and many others tripped on the poorly lit and poorly painted step after getting through the turnstile. The chap selling golden goal tickets gave me a look as if to say it was my fault for not looking where I was going.

Then to cap it all there were no programmes left and were sold out ages ago. I apologise now to the programme seller for moaning at him as it is not his fault not enough were printed. Maybe the programme contents could be put on the club website for those that did not get a copy.

Apart from that it was an enjoyable game and it would have been even better if the home side had not resorted to the predictable route one style. Good luck against Frank Gregan Rovers as you are going to need it.

You can have my prog for a tenner. I was talking to the proggie editor and he said that those who come to a match with only five minutes before kick-off should not moan if they've sold out.
I'm sure enough will be printed come the next round. As for the step, it is only a problem for us Mango fans because we are so used to looking in the air instead of at the ground due to all the route-one football. I'm surprised you 'fell' for it too Greganite. Typical of you to blow everything out of proportion a case of one small step for a Mango, but one giant leap for Frankind.

Greganite said about "the chap selling the Golden Goal tickets". Who was that then? I thought Tracey usually sold the tickets!

Dave S wrote:Greganite said about "the chap selling the Golden Goal tickets". Who was that then? I thought Tracey usually sold the tickets!

Well there was a bloke who looked like Ronnie Corbett selling tickets from a jar,I am very broad minded and if he wants to call himself Tracey that is fine by me.

Handsofclay,you must be the local Del Boy wanting to charge me five times the price of the programme and you can stick that where the sun don't shine,pal. That is also a bit rich you saying I should get to games earlier as I have read on here you do not get to games until after half time. Practise what you preach fella.

A Ronnie Corbett lookalike? No, I can't think who that is then.

Then again, we do have Handsofclay who resembles everyone from time to time. Why, he even looks a bit like you sometimes, Greganite.......... Perhaps you were looking in the mirror when you spoke to him just now?

All the games I have watched this season I have watched from the first minute. I also watched every game under Frank Gregan from 1st min to last. This explains why I now have psychological problems. I have watched about 150 Mango games and on only two occasions have I turned up after half-time. In those 150 times I have never tripped over a step upon entering or failed to get a prog.
Why don't you watch matches closer to your Stroud home. Then you won't need to bellyache about the travel or getting to the ground with just seconds befopre kick-off and then not getting a programme. Obviously you stop off somewhere on route as you are Brahms and Liszt when you enter hence the unexpected tumble.
BTW, I'm glad Dave S wasn't a spot kick taker on Tuesday, wide of the mark as usual.

As proof Dave, look at ALL my past posts and you will see I don't ever paste a quote from anyone else's posts in my responses...I don't know how to do it and can't be arsed to find out. But Greganite does this.

"Wide of the mark as usual", HOC? i DON'T THINK SO - YOU'VE BEEN RUMBLED (AGAIN)!!

In those 150 times I have never tripped over a step upon entering "

I suppose it does help not having twelve toes!

I watched a documentary the other week in which the great British public could vote on who they thought Jack the Ripper was. Joseph Maybrick got 1,097,854 votes, Francis Tumblety 1,075,319 votes, the Queen's surgeon Gull got 957,428 votes and HOC got 1 vote. I wonder where that vote came from?
I'm only glad Dave that you aren't a film maker as you'd have me linked to both the Kennedy assassinations, Robin Hood, King Alfred's burnt cakes and the cover up over the Martian landings in New Mexico in 1946.
Once again, I am not Greganite or for that matter Veracocha. The real culprits must be laughing their hats off.
As for me getting in at a couple of games at half-time as you mention elsewhere, on one occasion it was to retrieve a prog

your brother borrowed at a pre-season friendly v St George which helped compile the prog for that game. The second occasion was because I could not make it in time to see the start of the match but still wanted to come along to see my mates, of which you are one!!!
The only other time I turned up for a match at half-time was St George v Bitton....and that was because I did not realiseit was a 2pm kick-off and turned up at 3pm. OK, I didn't pay....but I thought I'd got away with it. How many of us when checking the shopping bill and finding an error in our favour draw it to the attention of the great superstore....none.

Ah, the predicable, and always amusing reply from HOC. I do like the Jack The Ripper link! But as ever, a strong message of denial. I would expect nothing less!

In your earlier post, you went on about me checking all your past posts (to look for clues or whatever), but then again, I haven't got time for that - but others might. You leave a trail of clues as it is, probably on purpose and some of them are meant to make us think it's someone else again (eg pal, fella, for instance??). You always disappear off here for a while and then suddenly re-emerge, just as one or two other "characters" re-emerge as well. Quelle coincidence!

But it's all good fun as far as I'm concerned and if there is seriously a real Greganite out there (which I doubt very much) - and I wonder how long will it take for HIS message of denial to follow this one - then it's still good fun. Isn't it?

Vera Kosha is not HOC, not the same style, Greganite however....same style and similar posting times. Not saying they are one and the same, but some things are too similar to be a coinsidence. Having said that, I have fallen hook, line etc on here before, so who am I to judge the WUMs?

EdP wrote:Vera Kosha is not HOC, not the same style, Greganite however....same style and similar posting times. Not saying they are one and the same, but some things are too similar to be a coinsidence. Having said that, I have fallen hook, line etc on here before, so who am I to judge the WUMs?

I have not returned from MP due to there being no game for the Might Mangos, but I am watching from afar. They were guided to success by my thoughts this week. You are correct EDP that I (Viracocha) am most certainly NOT the man they call HOC, but he APPEARS to be many things.

Reading all this I'm beginning to wonder if I am wrong and I am Greganite!
I think it is high time that Greganite comes out of the woodwork and presents himself at a forthcoming match.
Dave, you say that Greganite appears when I do. Have you ever thought he might be lying in wait to do so. Also there are far more times when Greganite has posted and I haven't posted at all.
I'm not that fussed about it as Greganite and Veracocha by not revealing who they are keep my presence going on the forum when I am absent. I used to get a 'Welcome back HOC' when I returned, but not now. None of you seem to think I've been away, when indeed I have. That actually makes me laugh.

handsofclay wrote:Reading all this I'm beginning to wonder if I am wrong and I am Greganite!
I think it is high time that Greganite comes out of the woodwork and presents himself at a forthcoming match.
Dave, you say that Greganite appears when I do. Have you ever thought he might be lying in wait to do so. Also there are far more times when Greganite has posted and I haven't posted at all.
I'm not that fussed about it as Greganite and Veracocha by not revealing who they are keep my presence going on the forum when I am absent. I used to get a 'Welcome back HOC' when I returned, but not now. None of you seem to think I've been away, when indeed I have. That actually makes me laugh.

Perhaps it's time for you all to come clean Perhaps Vera Koshi, or whatever the diety calls himself, should get off his mountain in Machu Puchu and also come out of the woodwork. Then you can all have a reunion in front of the club shop. Perhaps we can get Count Pollen to come as well, together with Daveyboy and Mango Man. Now that would be something to behold

Davey Boy and Mango Man meeting each other? There's another "pair" who'll be looking at each other in the mirror then! Certainly, Mango Man only used to appear about a zillion times a day for a while just to get the website numbers up. It's not rocket science to work out who that is then

HOC, Count Pollen & Greganite all together as well in front of the club shop? An interesting trio. Better have Stella in there as well then! Should be able to get "them all" together for a group photo then!

But good fun as ever. Right, I'm off to Brizz v Bideford in a minute. Anyone else coming? Maybe Bideford will bring "Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all" up with them from Devon. (Now there's a new bunch of characters there for you, HOC - you could be all of them, UTC, Bill Brewer, Peter Gurney etc....... )

Mango Man was certainly not me Dave, unlike a few on here I've NEVER posted under anything other than my own name and I don't much like the inference that I have!!!!

I've just noticed, Danny, that's your 800th posting. Congratulations! It's a milestone. A bit unfortunate that it was marked with a when it could so easily have been a or even a .

Bottom line is with all these wind-ups, no one ever admits to anything anyway and they never will. No one can ever prove anything either. All a bit pointless really!

handsofclay wrote:Reading all this I'm beginning to wonder if I am wrong and I am Greganite!
I think it is high time that Greganite comes out of the woodwork and presents himself at a forthcoming match.
Dave, you say that Greganite appears when I do. Have you ever thought he might be lying in wait to do so. Also there are far more times when Greganite has posted and I haven't posted at all.
I'm not that fussed about it as Greganite and Veracocha by not revealing who they are keep my presence going on the forum when I am absent. I used to get a 'Welcome back HOC' when I returned, but not now. None of you seem to think I've been away, when indeed I have. That actually makes me laugh.

Strewth!
I've been away too long.
Does this mean what I think it means then?
HOC - the man I've always wanted to meet, is also Greganite? The man who wants to meet me?
I am hoping to be at the home of the Bear Killers on November 7th when the Rovers are there.
Paulton are on the up and it looks like the bear killers couldn't kill a cat at the moment. Should be another away win for the Winterfield Road Maroon Army.
Look out for the hat

Dave, I suppose you've two choices really, either take what I say as being the truth or disregard it and class me as a liar, its up to you, either way I won't lose sleep over your opinions.