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Missed out on drawing Man Utd, still yet to meet them but we have drawn Newcastle instead. A decent tie likely to be televised along with MK Dons v Man Utd.

Rob, bet you're itching to get this tie underway!

I bet all those lifetime MK Dons fans will be out in force!
Hold breath and wait!

Excellent - my brother - in - law's team. Have wanted to play them for years but I hope we do OK; I want to be the one laughing after the game!!

A very good draw for us.We nearly got Man Utd,but Newcastle were the next best Team in the draw.Tuesday`s win over Yeovil has rewarded The Club with a big money making match.I just hope I can get a Ticket .

Why are we all getting so exciting, were happy to be in Division One, the football Gods should have given us Orient or M K Dons, we don't deserve Newcastle, we don't deserve the chance of putting 10,000 people in Priestfield. Our average gate when we were in the Championship was 8,000 butts in the seats ,anyone who can not produce at least 5 ticket stubs or five programs from our time in the Championship Division, should not be allowed to buy a ticket for the game against Newcastle.
Of course I am joking, I bet we get a full house for the game, and I hope we do, and not only that I think we will win it, GO GILLINGHAM, beat the Zebras,THEN draw M.U.

Newcastle United at home is a unbelievable cup tie and one I will be looking forward too, Gillingham's performances in the cup competitions last season were dreadful so it is nice to see Gillingham getting a money spinning second round tie, which I am sure will be a sell out and Gillingham V Newcastle United might be a live televised game as well.

I said to KFG A week a go that our First Round Cup Tie against Yeovil Town is probably slightly more important then our league game against them - and while I do want to win both matches - the cup win against Yeovil has given Gillingham a fantastic second round tie against Newcastle United, there might be more funds available for Peter Taylor to strengthen the squad in key area's of the pitch, and I also think that Peter Taylor's team talk for the next three league games sorts itself out "if you want to start against Newcastle United you have got to put in decent performances in the league".

Looking around the net this morning, and the home draw against Newcastle United has given every Gillingham Supporter a lift and hopefully that enthusiasm can lift the team in the next three league games.

Really really looking forward to the game.

I will try to get a ticket in the RE to watch the game to cheer the gill's on, but if not I will use my newcastle supporters club badge to get a ticket in the away end (and still cheer the gill's on)

I for one will be sad whoever loses, and happy whoever wins.


Sorry Elg I dont get all the anti MK Dons shite. So what, they are newly formed, so what the way they went about it wasnt the best way, but the fans who have chosen to support them are no less fans of their team than any gillingham fans.

I saw on FB loads of gills fans talking about all the plastic fans who will be at the gills v newcastle games. SO FIRKING WHAT

I remember rubbish little crowds of about 2k at gillingham when I was younger. We had a rubbish ground, rubbish fans, no reputation, no nothing. It is because of cup games when plastic fans turn up that the kids think "hey I like this" and turn into long term fans.

Sometimes I think people only want to see negatives no matter what is going on.

After Arsenal, Chelsea and maybe Villa this is the biggest cup draw we have had at the gills for years.

I agree, nobody can classify what a "plastic" fan is? You bought me a ticket a few years back for the big game against Southampton which I will always appreciate. At that time, I previously couldn't attend games due to work commitments and then subsequently because I couldn't afford them due to redundancy. I would be classified as "plastic" through the inability to be able to attend despite my desire to being quite different. However I doubt there are many season ticket holders out there that go to the lengths I do in terms of getting to know my team - a hobby that led to a free ticket every match!!!

Same goes to those who live away from home. Nobody expects these people to make every match so they also would probably be classified as "plastic". Neither are accurate or correct. As an ordinary match would hit late 5,000s tops, anything over that would be made up with non-regulars and therefore potentially our plastic fans. At big games those that attend a few matches each season just all turn up together. Give them a good game and maybe they will try and come more often.

What is wrong is those who come purely because they want to see a Premier League club and have both no interest in the Gills or in coming again especially if they occupy a seat which another Gills fan couldn't get. They are the plastic fans, the ones who claim they are our biggest supporter yet cannot name a single player. I know that there is very little support from residents close to the ground when they are offered tickets and yet for this game I'm sure many would make an exception. There are plastic fans out there, ones who have no interest in our club despite what they say, but telling those from ordinary Gills fans would be impossible. In my book if you say you are Gills fans, you ARE A GILLS FAN!

I probably would nowadays be considered a plastic as I can't stand the lack of atmosphere and have chosen to move away from a declining UK. The difference is when I go to a game I will know some people, know some songs and have a history. As for MK; sorry Rob, but I despise everything about how they were created, the way the rules were side stepped and the fact that all those fans obviously had no interest in football previous to the duplicitous actions of that lovely Mr Winkleman.

I know a lot of people who went to Wembley when we won promotion in the 2008 / 2009 season who wouldn't of normally turned up for a league game on a Saturday Afternoon and I queued up at Priestfield Stadium for six hours to get my tickets for that game, it's the same when we played Stoke City and Aston Villa at Priestfield Stadium for The FA Cup, I get asked by people who want tickets for these games because these are the glamour games and the games you want to see.

A lack of parking facilities and the ticket prices for a normal league at Priestfield Stadium are defiantly deciding factors in what puts them off coming to Priestfield, but then My Dad, Stewart and his mates all support Gillingham as "There Local Team or There Second Team" and normally it is Manchester United, Tottenham, Newcastle United, Chelsea and Arsenal who are supported first, with a SKY Subscription package you can watch any number of live football matches for a premium price, and I am sure that price over the whole month is cheaper then watching Gillingham at home to Yeovil Town and Swindon Town.

Because I got so many incentive in My Season Ticket which are useless for me, I tend to use those around Christmas as My Dad and Brother normally go to at least one home game a season, I already used one of My Friends For A Fiver Vouchers to get KFG a ticket for The Yeovil Town Game tomorrow, but none of these incentive help me at all - I would of loved to have seen vouchers that get you money off away tickets but that just did not happen and I accept that it is probably not possible financially to do so either.

I just hope that the regular's who you see at home to Yeovil Town and come and watch Gillingham on a regular basis are able to get tickets, Season Ticket Holders won't miss out but it is those who don't have a Season Ticket but come and watch The Gills on a regular basis who could miss out watching Gillingham V Newcastle United.

Maybe The Club could offer an incentive, if you buy a half Season Ticket then you get preferable treatment over those who are non Season Ticket Holders, it be great if The Gills have a kick back effect where our attendances grow, rather then a full house for Newcastle and back to 5,000 for Crewe Alexandra.

Think the reason people don't go is who the hell wants to see Gillingham play Port Vale or Colchester for the 3000 time, and pay 20+ quid to do it, when they can stay home and watch footie 24 hours a day on TV ??
NO ONE at the FA H.O. in Wembley gives a hoot about anything outside the Premier and the top half of the Championship, the rest of the teams outside the eleite 30 or so are just a pain in the butt, more work for them to do, getting the fixtures organised each year, and they don't like work, gets in the way of lunch and the afternoon cocktail party's.

ElG your posts on this are incomprehensible; you complain that fans didn't go when we were in the Championship but deride those who go when there IS a big game.

So far as MK Dons are concerned I don't see how you can possibly know what football fans were interested in before there was a league club here, particularly as you don't,apparently, even live in the UK.

The only people to blame for the Dons 'house move' are the Wimbledon 'fans' who couldn't be bothered to watch their side even when it was in the top flight of English football. I live in Buckinghamshire, work in MK and I have nothing but admiration for the job Winkelman has done here. I'll never be a Dons fan but I would swap Scally for Winkelman without a second thought . Only one of those two chairman doesn't have a family with a string of criminal convictions, a series of lost court cases and FA tribunals and the shame of a failed Racial discrimination case on his CV.

Thanks for not letting me down Rimshot!

Oh and surely at the age of 11 - 12 you are watching football and have chosen a team; so when a club turns up on your doorstep you really wouldn't just change who you support? As for Wimbledon they seem to get a few watching them even if they are a division below the fake team. Just a thought; surely there was a non-league team in the Milton Keynes area that, by putting money, time and effort into it could have achieved League Status.
As for me no longer living in the UK; no choice I am afraid; forced out by a decision made by Brown and Blair which means I cannot afford to live in my own country!

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Jake Hessenthaler believes that the home tie against Newcastle United in The Capital One Cup has given everyone a lift.

We have had some big cup ties in The FA Cup and League Cup in recent years, Blackburn Rovers and now Newcastle United in The League Cup and Aston Villa and Stoke City in The FA Cup.

Aston Villa is probably the biggest tie we have had as they were pushing for Champions League Football under Martin O'Neill and had Ashley Young and James Milner in there side, plus that match was live on ITV 1 and we did ourselves proud on National TV, Stoke City was nice as Tony Pulis came back to his Former Club and was applauded by supporters in all four stands and Jason Brown was in goal for Blackburn Rovers.

I think Newcastle United could be as big as The Aston Villa game as it has been a few years since we have hosted a Premier League Side on our own patch, and Newcastle might name there strongest team if they lose to Aston Villa in the league next week, two league defeats and a defeat to Gillingham would see the pressure build on Alan Pardew so they will want a good result and they might target trying to win The Capital One Cup as well.