The Buckland faithfull are making a day out trip to the seaside on the train, and many others are making their way up in cars.
Let the train take the strain as they say and I wonder how many coaches we are going to need for the final? But as there were 535 entrants accepted, this season with two qualifying rounds preceding the six proper rounds, semi-finals (played over two legs) and final to be played at Wembley Stadium, its not going to be easy, but it is possible.
I’m sure Buckland would be more than happy with a good run in this cup competition as it would help earn the club some money if they could progress to the latter stages at least.
Yes more was expected from James Mudge last season and it was clear watching him he is a good player and I do not really know why he was unable to produce for Buckland. You can bet he will play out of his skin in this match and hope to score against a club where he never made the grade. Maybe you are right and he was not up to the standard required in the Western League, but he will need to be kept an eye on and marked tightly.
Would love to go myself but have to go out on Saturday evening so will cover a more local game so I will have time to write a match report. at the moment Stoke at home to Liverton looks the most likely, should be a game with plenty of goals in it.
This is what Wiki has to say about the FA Vase.The 2013 winners were Spennymoor Town, who beat Tunbridge Wells 2–1 on 4 May at Wembley Stadium.
History Until 1974, football players were either professionals or amateurs. Professionals were paid to play by their clubs, and the only cup competitions such clubs were allowed to enter were the FA Cup and after 1969, for clubs outside The Football League, the FA Trophy. Amateurs, on the other hand, did not get paid (at least not officially) by their clubs, and such clubs had their own cup competition, the FA Amateur Cup.
In 1974, with many of the top amateur players receiving payment for playing, The Football Association abolished the distinction, scrapped the Amateur Cup and introduced the FA Vase for the majority of clubs who had previously played in the competition. Well over 200 clubs entered in the first season, 1974–75 and Hoddesdon Town of the Spartan League beat Epsom & Ewell of the Surrey Senior League 2–1 in the final at Wembley Stadium before a crowd of 9,000.
Eligibility In recent years, entry to the FA Vase has been restricted to clubs in the ninth and lower tiers of the English football league system, (those in the four levels above qualified for the FA Trophy). Reorganization of theNational League System for 2004 onwards moved the dividing line down to the new "Step 5" (ninth tier overall). Clubs from the Channel Islands (First Tower United, St. Martins and Vale Recreation) and the Isle of Man (Douglas HSOB) also entered the Vase in the past. Recently-formed (2011) club Guernsey F.C., who play in the "Step 5" Combined Counties League, gained entry for the 2012–13 season and reached the semi-finals.
Exemption Eligible teams who played in the FA Vase the previous season and finished in the top 4 of a Step 5 league are exempt from qualifying and start play in the First round Proper of the Vase, unless they were promoted to a Step 4 league. (If they were promoted, they would play for the FA Trophy instead.)
Eligible teams who played in the FA Trophy the previous season and were relegated from a Step 4 league are exempt from qualifying and start play in the First round Proper of the Vase as well.
Clubs that played in the 4th round or later of the previous season's FA Vase are exempt from qualifying and the first round and begin play in the Second round Proper.
Venues The record attendance for an FA Vase match was set on Sunday 13 May 2007, when 36,232 spectators watched Truro City come from behind to beat A.F.C. Totton 3–1 at Wembley in the final.
FA Vase winners and finalists Only five teams have managed to win the FA Vase more than once. Whitley Bay are the first team to win the FA Vase three times in successive seasons. Two FA Vase winners, Forest Green Rovers and Tamworth, have gone on to play in the Football Conference at the top level of the non-league pyramid. No FA Vase winner has yet reached the Football League, although 2008–09 finalists Glossop North End had briefly competed in the old First Division over a hundred years earlier, and 1985 finalists Fleetwood Town will be participating in the Football League for 2012-13 season after winning the Conference, though they were reformed in 1997
