Is it just me or....

[A Rebel and a Saint]

...is the Rebels cup run finally starting to take its effect on our league form? As good as it is to be in the next round of a couple of cups, we have slipped way down the league because of it, i know we have games in hand, but that just adds more pressure to a crowded fixture list, im not sure if the teams fitness levels can cope with it, which is going to result in a worse league position.

[BFR]

In a word no. Our home record in the league remains strong and our away form remains irratic, bordering on poor. It has been the same all season, so this talk about us going downhill since beating Walsall is wrong

[Guest]

Thinking about the cup games I'm not sure we played much better in several of them than we are now. The Welling game was even but we took our chances, as was the Cheshunt game before we scored three late goals. Salisbury was backs to the wall before Wilko's late winner against the run of play and if you watch the DVD of the Walsall game, we were terrible, even accounting for much higher grade opposition.

 

The thing we're not doing at the moment in the league is showing the same resilience and will to win that got us through the cup games when we weren't necessarily playing much better than we are now.

 

There's been plenty of good cup sides over the years that have got relegated becauyse they couldn't reproduce that form in the league.

[Woody SUFC]

The players must be gutted recently whilst Yeading took the spot light. I reckon the full effect will be seen once you've played all your games in hand as you might find teams will have that extra bit of pace in the last 10.

[Martin]

Only in that we have not played as many league games as everyone else. Personally I don't think we should have bothered with the Bryco and I could not give a monkeys whether we win the Berks and Bucks but I remain confident that our home form will see us through.

[A Rebel and a Saint]

its not really the league form that worries me its the fitness levels of the players, slough have quite a small squad and with all these games crammed into the last 4 months of the season it will take its toll, and i think it may just be kicking in, as shown by our inconsistant league form.

I dont think Slough are going downhill, i think that they can establish themselves well in this league.

[A Rebel and a Saint]

A good example is having to play 3 cup games in the space of a week:

Wycombe on the 1st

Thurrock on the 6th

and Salisbury on the 8th

then another league game on the 12th.

I think that the league game could be a bit of a problem if the 3 cup games have a bad effect on fitness, which is pretty likely

[Matt]

I would expect the team for the Salisbury game to be dramatically different though, with the reserves being played along with anyone else we can get to play in it. Basically I would hope as few first-teamers as possible will play.

[Martin]

I would only put the first team out for one of those cup games. And I mean Thurrock despite our rivalry with Wycscum.

[A Rebel and a Saint]

yeh that makes sense, i think the FA trophy is the priority of the cups, but the Wycombe game is a big rivalry game which we must win so i would expect a decent team fielded for that one

[BFR]

A Berks and Bucks match with Scum reserves/youth really isn't all that important in the scheme of things. Yes we'd like to win the cup, but it falls behind the league and trophy in terms of priority.

[Matt]

I thought Gary had heard that Wycombe will play a strongish team. In any case yes, we'd like to win but the Trophy must take priority over it.

[Martin]

I have heard a rumour that Wycombe will be taking it seriously and that there will be a decent crowd there.

[Matt]

Hope so anyway. I'm quite looking forward to my first ever Slough-Wycombe encounter <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/pipe.gif" alt="" />

[GarySTFC]

More to the point, the more that are there, the more we'll get from our share of the gate receipts! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

 

It was Dom who'd told me that Wycombe were taking it seriously, so who knows.

[Matt]

What's the split like, out of interest? Straight 50/50 or does the Berks & Bucks FA take some?

[GarySTFC]

I would have thought it would be like the FA Cup. Income-Expenses is then split with the majority share 90/95% being split between the two clubs. Could be wrong though, but the more home fans that turn up for that one the better!

[Ian]

I'm really looking forward to the Wycombe game. We can't lose, really. If they win then that's only what they should do and we can just spend 90 minutes taking the p*ss out of them! If we win, though, they are likely to witness unprecedented celebrations!

[A Rebel and a Saint]

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Hope so anyway. I'm quite looking forward to my first ever Slough-Wycombe encounter <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/pipe.gif" alt="" />

Me too! It'll be even sweeter for me if we win, my bro is a chairboy so ill have the bragging rights!