We gave the remaining 16 songs numbers based on their scores in the last round, and as balls were pulled out of the bag for the FA Cup 2nd Round in the real world, we filled up our own draw in order.
VOTING IS NOW CLOSED. Click here to see the results.
| Twenty Four Hour Garage People | v | All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit |
| Outbreak Of Vitas Gerulaitis | v | The Light at the End of the Tunnel |
| A Country Practice | v | The Trumpton Riots |
| Asparagus Next Left | v | National Shite Day |
| Everything’s AOR | v | Joy Division Oven Gloves |
| Bob Wilson – Anchorman | v | Fix It So She Dreams Of Me |
| Rock And Roll Is Full Of Bad Wools | v | Evening Of Swing (Has Been Cancelled) |
| Dead Men Don’t Need Season Tickets | v | For What Is Chatteris… |
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Schoon
So e.g. FA Cup draw
16 v 32
12 v 13
1 v 64…
Would mean 16 v 12 and 13 v 1, correct?
(Yep – CtSO)
8 November 2015
alan
are you using coefficients?
is Bert Kassies working on them?
9 November 2015
THIS LEADEN PAUL
Magical.
‘Chatteris’ unlikely to be troubled in the final tie, I’ll be bound.
9 November 2015
Mr galbraith
Wow, some massive ties there. Guess that’s what happens when you involve the BBC in the draw process.
9 November 2015
Two fat feet
ACP proved its mettle last time by coming through some tough ties unscathed, and is having to do so again. That’ll be the televised game, BT Sport will probably go for the more populist AOR V JDOG.
Think I might get at least four of my selections through but some tricky ones to call there, particularly in the bottom half of the draw.
9 November 2015
Stringy bob
ACP v Trumpton. Was the draw conducted by Bob Wilson?!
9 November 2015
Stringy bob
Meanwhile Chatteris gets a gimme. Frustration mounts.
9 November 2015
Beltane beard
Happy with ACP v Trumpton. Despite their enduring popularity, I am not keen on either and it means one will definitely go out. Didn’t want that to be the final.
AOR v JDOG is a bit vicious, a big name will fall there. Bob Wilson v Fix It is a fascinating one too.
9 November 2015
Two fat feet
And isn’t Garth Crooks carrying some timber these days.
9 November 2015
deen 3man
Seems to be too skewed towards newer biscuit material. Lots of new fans maybe?
In my eyes Urge For Offal should’ve at least reached the quarters. Getting as predictable as the champs league final stages.
9 November 2015
paul f
Three bouts of desperate soul-searching for me in that lot. Agonising stuff.
9 November 2015
GOK WAN ACOLYTE
With the likely exception of the last tie, I’d say most of those are too close to call. Vitas Gerulaitis v TLATEOTT and 24HGP v Dukla Prague are particularly horrible looking ones. Still, that’s the romance of the cup…
9 November 2015
Jeff dreadnought
The decapitation derby at the top of the draw looks tasty.
9 November 2015
peter mcornithologist
Crazy Razor v Christening Party Arsehole. Oh so soon,oh so wrong.
9 November 2015
Stringy bob
After due consideration, I predict:
Away
Away
Home
Away
Home
Home
Home
Away (sigh)
9 November 2015
Dickhead in quicksand
Eight songs I love lining up to kick the shit out of another eight songs I love. I may just have to get pissed and vote at random.
Can the underdogs who qualified at #27 and #30 pursue their hopes further, or are their dreams about to be shattered? Back to the studio for more platitudes and ill-informed speculation.
9 November 2015
Martin
6 is tough for me. One of the best EP offerings ever against one of the very best from the last few LPs. This will take some careful thought. Whilst the away ties in 4 and 7 get a relatively easy ride, the other match-ups are all challenging. After getting 13-3 in the last round, I think I will struggle to get better than 5-3 this round. Is it strange that I assume all HMHB fans vote like me? But (perhaps controversially) I am a fan of Chatteris…. ‘drive by shouting’ is hard to beat.
10 November 2015
Martin
I’ll nail my colours to the mast. 3 home followed by 5 away. Almost the opposite of Stringy Bob, so maybe HMHB fans do have different favourites. I really don’t like voting against Everything’s AOR though. And the performance of AIWFCIADPAK on some ancient BBC2 show still has the best ending ever.
Lots of all-Premiership ties with no.7 providing something for those outside of the top echelon. Even if some of my favourites don’t make it through, I am already looking forward to the quarter-finals!
10 November 2015
counterblast to Agnosticism
I prefer this to the last round!
Even split, H-A-H-A-H-A-A-H
10 November 2015
Irish DAVE
For me its
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
What are the chances?
10 November 2015
Schoon
Hhaahhhh
10 November 2015
Nagasaki shinpads
Are we completely certain that the dope test results are clear and without any Russian love?
10 November 2015
gipton teenager
I suppose the good thing about only getting 6 through to the last 16 is that I’ve only got one clash to sort out (ANL v. NSD). I’m afraid this one is going to go to the golden point.
10 November 2015
Stringy bob
My predictions do not reflect my actual voting intentions. Those would be HAHAAHAH
As long as my 2 faves march on, I am happy. It’d be nice to see my complete top 3 all through safely, whilst a certain song goes out in tie 8 in a shocker to the (2nd lowest?) ranked tune left.
10 November 2015
eric olthwaite
I’m happy that there are no dilemmas there for me, for every tie I made my decision instantly. And I’m pleased that Chatteris hasn’t been drawn against one of the big guns and stands a chance of progressing.
10 November 2015
Two fat feet
Only a couple there that needed more than half a second to decide between, and as close as they were it didn’t take much longer because I knew that however long I thought about it I’d still make the same decision. As for predicting them though … there are probably two that I could predict with any confidence. The others really could go either way.
10 November 2015
Chris The Siteowner
Just realised that the 7 remaining songs from my (fairly long) list of “preferred” songs all got drawn in different matches. Quite a long shot, that. So they’ll probably all go out.
10 November 2015
MAN IN BLACK
Without wishing to sound like Alan Partridge my prediction is:
AAHAAAAA.
10 November 2015
GOK WAN ACOLYTE
Why is there such a dislike of Chatteris on here? I mean, when I frequented Belle and Sebastian sites I could understand the dislike of Beyond The Sunrise but this seems a bit extreme
11 November 2015
Two fat feet
It seems odd that the most popular songs (on the evidence of the voting) get so many negative comments, making it look like they’re not so popular after all. I think it’s just that the ones who don’t get it shout loudest. The ones who like the most popular songs just vote and don’t say anything.
11 November 2015
Chris The Siteowner
It’s always baffled me. The song contains some of the band’s best and most accessible lyrics (IMHO of course), and the tune may be simple but it’s perfectly executed. They play it almost every gig, without fail, to a good reception …and its runner-up position last time confirms its widespread (and IMHO again, deserved) popularity. But for some reason, the few – and it is only a few – people who don’t like it, get particularly miffed at the majority of fans enjoying it so much. It’s noticeable that the two or three people who voted an absurd number of times in the Baguette Dilemma Round all voted against it 100% of the time, suggesting to me that the main reason they spent so many hours voting was in the hope that FWIC would come up and they could cast votes against it. Why this song? I don’t know. Maybe it doesn’t fit their template of what an HMHB song should be. Maybe they don’t like the fact that it reaches beyond the normal fanbase. If I didn’t like the song so much anyway, I’d probably vote for it just to even things up. But I don’t think it needs my help, fortunately.
11 November 2015
Chris The Siteowner
OK… voting is now open on Match 1 (see above). Agonise…
11 November 2015
Stringy bob
It dislike Chatteris because it is not very good. No other reason and no hidden agenda.
It is towards the bottom of my pile of hmhb songs because it is bland musically and despite one or two exceptional lyrics (we all know which), it pales compared to most of the catalogue.
Perhaps I am overly harsh because I don’t understand how it can be popular. I am not a particular fan of AOR … but I get why it is … Chatteris I just don’t !
11 November 2015
EXXO
Chris, I’m sorry to get tetchy here but can you please shut the f*ck up about the number of times we voted.
You said have as many goes as we liked so we did. It was a bit addictive. We’d have probably stopped anyway, after a few days, if you hadn’t started humiliating us in public, moving the goalposts and generally re-writing the rules as you went along.
You didn’t say you were going to go on and on, to all and sundry, about how many times we voted and what we voted for either. Why don’t you just go the whole hog and publish every IP and every vote.
11 November 2015
EXXO
How many votes is ‘absurd’? How many is just ‘keen’? Ridiculous judgemental crap.
11 November 2015
Schoon
Blimey it’s just a bit of fun. I voted against Chatteris often because I don’t like it much, but I might vote for it this round.
I’d be disappointed if it wins but the cup is great fun, and if it’s the most popular good luck to it.
11 November 2015
EXXO
Personally I find this whole thing, as I did in 2011, to be a few months of non-stop torment, because I do care about and love all the songs, and I hate the way from the very beginning it turns unnecessarily into criticism of some songs where it should just be different degrees of praise.
Chatteris is not unpopular – but the proportion of votes it received in the 2011 event was unpopular with some people because it kept beating much, much better songs, and it kept showing thereby that a lot of people don’t get what’s so brilliant about some songs, they only fully seem to get the lowest common denominator stuff about bonces drive& -by shoutings.
Which is very depressing. I do look round at a HMHB crowd in a different way these days, no longer thinking that most people get most of it.
I should just take sabbaticals when this is happening but it’s the usual thing about addiction and car-crash telly.
11 November 2015
Chris The Siteowner
Exxo – I don’t think I called you out, thereby humiliating you, and I certainly didn’t move the goalposts. You’re jumping to a conclusion that you were the person who voted the most. As it happens (even accounting for the different IP addresses), you weren’t.
And it was a problem in 2011 that FWIC “kept beating much, much better songs”, was it? Clearly they weren’t, in the opinion of the majority of people.
11 November 2015
Two fat feet
For what it’s worth, I love Chatteris but think JDOG is way over-rated. I’m clearly in a minority on that one, but I can live with that.
As long as it doesn’t win.
11 November 2015
EXXO
I was using ‘we’ Chris.
I’m a ‘we’ sort of person.
You made fun of a group of us for doing exactly what you asked us to do and you were bang out of order.
11 November 2015
Chris The Siteowner
Sorry.
11 November 2015
EXXO
That’s what I’m saying Chris – what people think is ‘better’ can be very depressing when it’s based on the lowest common denominator and when they don’t understand the alternatives. ‘People’ think The Sun is the best newspaper,… (and the rest of that Super Hans quote I can’t remember it…)
Some of us would have liked to think HMHB fans, on a HMHB fan site, would have thought the vastly superior National Shite Day, one of the greatest songs ever penned about the world we live in, was a better song than Chatteris – but like you say, they didn’t, they don’t, Which the sort of thing that depresses some of of us, because we care about the songs and because we’d have preferred to believe there was a better understanding of them … I think that round of voting in 2011 for me was the real smack in the teeth for the illusion that when you look at a HMHB audience most of them actually get the band or are approaching them from a similar angle.
11 November 2015
MR GALBRAITH
Ummm, it is too simplistic to suggest that as it’s Chris’ website, he can pretty much say and do what he likes…?
11 November 2015
EXXO
And it’s the critics dilemna isn’t it – claiming to know what’s better but I do know, and I can prove, that Hamlet is better than A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and I do know, and I can prove that Dancing Queen is better than Waterloo, etc, etc,
But anyway, now I’ll apologise. Make an excuse, even: picture a ‘Hornbeam’ type funeral with a hint of ‘Coroner’s Footnote’, Then try to make it not morose in any way, while setting it in Manchester. That’s where I’ve been today. Hence the tetchiness, probably.
11 November 2015
Schoon
But just because NSD might have some subtler or cleverer references, it does not mean it is better than Chatteris. Better is surely almost entirely subjective.
12 November 2015
counterblast to Agnosticism
Someone get Exxo a Bridgedale for his fist and we’ll be all sorted.
I think we all have at least one song in every round that we can’t for the life of us understand why it’s there. Personally I’m not a huge fan of Chatteris *or* JDOG, which is probably heresy to many. But I still don’t skip either of them when they come up on the iPod.
12 November 2015
Stringy bob
Well that escalated quickly.
As long as we can all agree that popularity is no guarantee of quality then we can all be friends.
Or in other words, when Chatteris wins, those that like it can celebrate and those that don’t can smugly claim it to be the equivalent of One Direction.
12 November 2015
Featureless tv producer steve
While I was probably one of Exxo’s “we” who were publicly humiliated about our excessive Baguette Dilemma round voting, I’m relieved to learn that I wasn’t one of the absurd ones – I’m sure I voted both for and against Chatteris, as it’s a nice song I like well enough, but it’s nowhere near the top of my list.
For me personally, there are four songs in the Last 16 that I utterly cannot fathom how my fellow fans considered superior to so many gems left in the dust. But I think I’ll keep that list to myself.
12 November 2015
Martin
Chris’ comments about FWIC hit the spot. Like many here I have followed HMHB for 30 years, have all their records and been round the country to see them. Does that make my opinion any more valuable than someone who hasn’t? No. Just because many of my favourites are more commercial sounding, don’t mistake me a ‘Sun’-worshipping, X-factor fan. Most of my mates have never heard of the little-known bands I like. But it is nice when a band I love has a song they also enjoy. Some have even ventured along with me to the odd gig. Surely that can’t be bad? The last thing I want to do is escalate an argument so tolerance and respect to all.
12 November 2015
Eric olthwaite
I’m a fan of Chatteris, and don’t feel it’s lowest common denominator. I think it’s a charming love song, which is a rarity in the catalogue, and rather than the shouting/bounce lines I’m drawn to it by couplets like the park/linnet and timetable/journey’s infinite lines. Like many HMHB songs, it’s too easily dismissed and has more depth to it than meets the eye.
12 November 2015
EXXO
That’s the thing though Schoon, ‘favourite’ is always subjective but ‘better’ doesn’t have to be anything like that subjective, and you can separate the two if you really try and if you want to really examine the worth of something from a load of different points of view. Music criticism, film criticism, literary criticism cannot exist if enough people don’t try. Many voters on here don’t seem to want to do that, and that’s their prerogative, nobody’s telling them how to vote – we are all merely trying to enlighten those who have asked puzzled questions, those who don’t get it, and that phrase has been used a lot, and to say why – as in any field of art or publication – the lower-brow choices do inevitably irk a fair number of purists.
If you study and appreciate texts seriously in any way you have to at least be able to justify why they are worth studying, and (usually, but not always) this leads to some sort of criteria of what in general is worth studying about that genre, and therefore what is best within that genre – surely we all have our criteria by now for why we think these lyrics are worthy of our time? We wasted our time at uni if that is not the case (well OK, I wasted my time at uni).
I’m obviously not saying that you can have an objective order for the 192 songs, that will always be subjective, and I would never ever give a toss what wins a competition like this amongst the songs which really are poetic, raw, breathtakingly original conceits where you think “wow, where the f*** did that come from?”…. as opposed to the few which are just easy ‘verse’, and you think, well I know where that came from. But even some of the easy verse romps have cleverer conceits than ‘Chatteris’, which as meself at least one other poster pointed out 4 years ago, ironically lacks almost all the factors to make it a quintessentialBiscuit song.
I do fear – and this is just personal and subjective speculation – that consciously or unconsciously a lot of punters prefer Chatteris ‘cos they don’t really identify with a lot of the other factors that were identified (by someone else better than me back then) as the ‘quintessence’ of biscuit: the anger and the alienation, the crapness of everything and the daring to exist outside of the mainstream because hell is other people’s more popular choices and because rock ‘n’ roll is full of bad wools. And being bloody hilarious about it all the time, and doing it in a way you wouldn’t have thought of yourself all the time, from the viewpoints of characters we wouldn’t have thought of looking through. As opposed to just trying to be hilarious for the sake of it like brand new Live at the Apollo or Richard Stilgoe.
So yes, those who have studied (or composed) verse seriously for any length of time will be able to say fairly objectively that (to paraphrase something posted on here either recently or 4 years ago, I don’t recall) someone is wrong if they describe ‘Chatteris’ as the height of NB10’s poetic talent; but of course we can’t say they are wrong if they say it appeals to them best, that it means the most to them, that it makes them laugh out loud every time, that it’s their favourite song, favourite line, etc. I’m always happier when Chris phrases his polls as ‘favourite’ rather than ‘best’, and when the two are not confused. My own very ‘favourite’ HMHB songs are not necessarily the best either.
And someone who has studied Blackwell’s verse seriously for any length of time will be able to conclude fairly easily and objectively that Chatteris didn’t exactly pose the author a very high ‘degree of difficulty’, just as it does not do so for an audience either. The simplest rhymes appear to appeal most to audiences who don’t really like difficult stuff – that’s obvious to anyone who follows feedback on any populist verse, or has ever written any populist verse themselves and got feedback from the general public. Nothing wrong with that, but can be very depressing to some of us in this context, that is all.
12 November 2015
EXXO
Well I think it’s a parody of a charming love song Eric, so there’s more depth for you already.
12 November 2015
The Silent Majority
Exxo, might I suggest that if you want to start your own game entitled Half Man Half Lit-crit, you get your own ball?
12 November 2015
Jeff Dreadnought
That’s a good point (among many) about “best” versus “favourite”, Exxo. If you’re looking for the best song, nostalgia (hearing it on the radio for the first time before any of their other songs, or at a gig you particularly enjoyed) shouldn’t be a criterion, particularly with a band that, like no other, has just carried on getting better over the years. But I suppose it could be reason to vote for one song over another as your favourite – just as Spurs’ 2-0 win over Bolton in October 1978 was not the best game ever witnessed at the Lane but means as much to me as any played there. Then again, I’m not sure my love for Spurs would have endured, or I would look back so fondly, if that had been their best-ever performance, or if I’d subsequently been content just to watch all their matches on Ceefax.
12 November 2015
Jeff Dreadnought
Also, it’s interesting now to look back at the NSD vs Chatteris thread from four years ago. The pro-Chatteris posts (of which there we fewer) were a very different kind of post from the pro-NSD ones.
12 November 2015
Jeff Dreadnought
And, I meant to add, that all the posts were either pro one song or another, and not anti.
12 November 2015
Bobby SVARC
I found watching the Peter Taylor era via Ceefax far easier on the eye.
12 November 2015
Two fat feet
I don’t think there’s really been much ‘anti’ anything towards particular songs – certain aspects of some songs have been questioned but it’s been more that people don’t understand why certain songs are so much more popular than others, and it’s made them dislike the song simply because it’s not a particular favourite of theirs. HMHB songs cover a broad range – I’m glad they’re not all genre parodies or political/social rants or non-sequitur fests etc, they’re all welcome but it’s a strength that they don’t specialise in anything other than well-played music shot through with humour (as opposed to being a comedy band). Not every song is my cup of tea but I can ignore that; there are only a few which are wildly popular that I’m not too keen on myself. I dare say that with such a broad range of songs, there is also a broad range of fans who all have their own preferences, maybe even a new generation of fans who weren’t in the trenches in the 80s and for whom the early works are just a historical curiosity, and any more recent songs which contain similar themes of social commentary might not strike the same chord as for older fans.
There was a particular point to this post but I’ve forgotten it now.
12 November 2015
Richard k
Website Bickering Fair.
12 November 2015
paul f
@Exxo – I do see your point, but I think it’s time to get a little perspective here. Not everybody analyses music the way you do – most of us largely just let it wash over us and base our opinion of what is good on the way it makes us feel. I don’t think Chatteris is the best HMHB song, nor is it my favourite, but I do think it ranks quite highly whichever measure I am using.
In the words of Jock Tarbrush, let’s all “agree to disagree”. But please keep your comments coming as they always enliven the site.
12 November 2015
GOK WAN ACOLYTE
I’m beginning to wish I’d never asked now!
12 November 2015
Alan
ctso v Exxo is new blatter v platini
It’s a power struggle that could lead to a breakaway organisation only available on subscription tv
It’s the darts all over again
Mark my words
12 November 2015
Alan
Furthermore ctso what happened to San Antonio foam party?
(48th – not bad – CtSO)
12 November 2015
Schoon
@richard Song Order Squabble Fest
12 November 2015
lois common-denominator
In 1974 I attended a print-making evening class in Chatteris, so it will definitely get my vote!
12 November 2015
BrumbiscUit
I’ve just revisited the lyrics to NSD and it really is staggeringly good. It is also pitch black in its mood. It is a game of two halves though, and the segue to the Stringy Bob verses brings home the darkness and despair of the protagonist’s life and that of his incarcerated mate. Neither bloke has anything going for them and the ‘no bog roll’ line just sums up the sheer hopelessness of it all. The point? Ah, I don’t really have one, but the Mugabe/Primark verse is achingly sad. Belting it out in Leicester the day before the parasites’ wedding after NB10 had, in a roundabout way, dedicated the song to the debacle was one of my best ever HMHB moments.
12 November 2015
Bobby SVARC
@Brum. Couldn’t get into that rat infested shite hole that night, At least the rastas trashed the gaff even more when John Holt played there.
12 November 2015
BrumbiscUit
@Bobby. It was truly a shithole, but a brilliant night nevertheless.
12 November 2015
Martin
Just had a think about some of my favourite songs not to make the cut for the last 32 and realise there might be a few people voting who don’t know all 192 songs. I confess that I only know 191 myself so will be checking out the one that finished at 188!
IMHO I suggest anyone who doesn’t know all 192 should check out 171 Nove On The Sly, 179 Mr Cave’s A Window Cleaner Now and 186 Carry On Cremating. Very different, perhaps controversial, but I think representative of the many brilliant songs that HMHB have produced over the last 30 years. xxx
13 November 2015
GOK WAN ACOLYTE
This whole contest has made me realise the gaps in my HMHB knowledge – but 188 (David Wainwright’s Feet for those who can’t be bothered to check) is one I did know, love, and was shocked at how low it came. Some brilliant NB57 lines within a children’s song, particularly the reference to the chiropodist stinking of gin
13 November 2015
GOK WAN ACOLYTE
(I shall gloss over the suggestion that we “check out” the songs you mention Martin…I don’t have time to go through catalogue numbers and running times)
13 November 2015
SERA69
Chatteris all the way for me. Not my favorite but its’ the height of NB10s poetic talent and the Biscuit’s best song by a mile. . .
13 November 2015
EXXO
@ Paul – yes of course it’s all in perspective – I was just answering somebody’s question about the origin of the “A.B.C.” brigade’s bitter blueness & trying to pose a satan’s-duty-solicitor sort of alternative to the “it’s all subjective” brigade.
@ Sera69 – I see what you did there 😉
13 November 2015
Paul f
Perhaps too much fucking perspective Exco? 😉
13 November 2015
Paul f
*Exxo even!
13 November 2015
Two fat feet
“Every teatime.”
How British.
14 November 2015
Poolio
I hope we’re not trying to quantify quality… That famously immeasurable objective impression of a thing… egocentric perspectives abound in the convince-a-rama that ensues…
14 November 2015
Dave COOPER
How about those of us who appreciate that HMHB, as well as being lyrical geniuses, can also do a ( yes) quintessential English folk song like Chatteris quite brilliantly.
I love them for this which is why I rate the likes of FWIC and Lord Herefords Knob just as highly as the likes of the more complex Fix It, Bane of Constance or NSD.
14 November 2015
Beltane beard
It’s all subjective. I love “Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not” so you’d think I’d also love “A Country Practice” but I don’t.
“Time Flies By” I think is wonderful but I don’t get the appeal of “Trumpton Riots”.
Same with “For What is Chatteris”, which is another brilliant song but most of the time I don’t go for many of the other folksier ones in the HMHB canon.
I have tried to analyse these apparent anomalies but I can’t make sense of them; some songs just register and some don’t.
15 November 2015
Loop
And this thread, gentlemen, is why I suggested it should not be a tournament but a one person, one vote, highest total wins sketch. Or if people really can’t decide, how about top three faces ranked and top gets 3 points. Democrates is turning in his barrel!
Ok a bit of fun it can be but I doubt you could claim the victor as biscuit fans’ favourite song!
I’m taking part but begrudgingly I might add!
16 November 2015
Jeff Dreadnought
@Loop, I agree with some of your post. ACP won last time, but I suspect it wouldn’t have come out on top in the kind of poll you describe. And the same probably applies this time round, whoever wins
But on the other hand, when the tournament’s over won’t you miss the sense of excitement every “teatime” when Chris releases a new tie for voting? It’s pretty much the highlight of my day at the moment.
16 November 2015
Chris The Siteowner
The big question is… in this round, we’ve been releasing one tie each day, but have said we’d leave the voting open for 7 days for each tie. So should I then reveal a result every day, or save them all up and announce all the results in one go?
16 November 2015
Hazelsound
Well I put the wrong things in the wrong bin again.
Apparently.
16 November 2015
Hazelsound
I’d save them all up.
I have a feeling that releasing those results will raise pressure to a point that could be dangerous…and the remaining draws could get caught in the fall out.
16 November 2015
EXXO
Go the whole FA Cup style hog and have the draw for the next round just before the last tie of this one (which ironically will be as one-sided as the one at dancing-on-the-streets-of-effcee was).
16 November 2015
Jeff Dreadnought
Hmm. I fear Exxo’s idea would create a 7-day near-vacuum, prolonging the agony and leaving us wondering how we can possibly fill the rest of our time once we have cast our final vote. A bit like those rest days in the later stages of World Cup tournaments, but worse.
I would say release all the results at once after voting has closed in a Final Score-type event with The Theme From Sparta F.C. Playing in the background.
16 November 2015
Two fat feet
I’d say it’s better to announce the result of each match as the poll closes; it won’t bring the next round any sooner but gives us something to talk about once the last match has been open for a couple of days. The triumphalism or anguish can be vented and got out of the way before the discussion turns to the quarter-final draw. Otherwise if they’re all announced together it’s a bit famine then feast.
16 November 2015
featureless tv producer steve
I’m with @JD and @TFF. I’d prefer to feel a little pang of disappointment every day for a week, than to be crushed with all that disappointment at once at the end.
16 November 2015
SCHOON
Anyone notice that CtSO’s favourite got the longest rest period between rounds?
16 November 2015
SCHOON
Actually it might not have; I’m too lazy to look at the round of 32.
16 November 2015
Stringy bob
I can’t wait another 10 days before finding out any results! And a steady stream of disappointing results is better than the abject horror of realising that my favourite 3 were all knocked out in the space of a 30 second glance.
Also, am I the only one mildly annoyed that this comment section is set to American English, resulting in spelling warnings for perfectly acceptable words such as ‘favourite’ above?
16 November 2015
EXXO
There’s a bigger picture that The Siteowner has to juggle though isn’t there Schoon? He has to make sure what happened to Brazil last year doesn’t happen to the host song here, Or else the way the people of Cambridgeshire kick off will make everything that happened in Brazil look like the Trumpton Riots.The Lux Familiar Cup just hasn’t delivered the improvements in infrastructure that were promised. In the favelas of Cherry Hinton the drug gangs still hold sway and the privilege of the Backs seems a world away. Down there on a dark night it won’t just be your punt that gets smashed up with an axe.Hills Road cycle lane is still one of the most dangerous in town; the buses now take even longer to get past station road at peak times. Ofsted plaudits can only paper over the cracks when Addenbrookes is in special measures, and Cambridge United ain’t likely to provide the bread and circuses any time soon. Yes, there’s a lot more riding on this than you may realise.
16 November 2015
Chris The Siteowner
Schoon: My favourite didn’t even get as far as the last 32, unlike 2011 when it did, just.
Bob et al: Looks like a diet of one-a-day results may be the preferred option. Expect a result on Wednesday evening then!
Exxo: No love for the rural hamlets around here, thanks to their bloody Tory and UKIP councillors getting to decide what goes on around here, however far we in the city vote the other way (can you tell which bit of the map the city is?).
16 November 2015
schoon
Should I mention, or just keep quiet, that I didn’t know Chatteris is in Cambridgeshire?
16 November 2015
Two fat feet
Point of order; it’s teatime in my house and the next match hasn’t been released yet.
16 November 2015
paul f
Is your house Downton Abbey?
16 November 2015
Horatio
As are Ely and St. Ives. Not too far from Godmanchester which I find an insult as everybody knows God’s Manchester is the one in The North, and was made on the 8th day! Fairly pleasant places however I’d rather be in Pembroke Or Tenby (not on the fens).
16 November 2015
Hazelsound
Should I be getting a message saying my vote’s already been counted every time I vote in this round? Doesn’t seem right somehow (the ‘already’ worries me). Suspect other half has stolen my votes. If we’re using different phones, but same Wi-Fi, will that register as same vote? He can’t recall what came up when he voted, so can’t be sure what’s up. I see that other people tried voting again and were blocked… I tried this once, just to see, and got same message as first time I voted. Hence this message. Apologies if I’m worrying over nothing.
16 November 2015
TWO FAT FEET
I suspect if you’re getting your signal from the same router, it’s the same IP address therefore it thinks you’ve already voted. Either you need to go somewhere else to cast your vote, or have a serious conversation if you think you may be of different minds.
16 November 2015
Hazelsound
Thanks TFF. We’ve been having serious conversations about all this for weeks! Ok, looks as though I’ll have to vote from work. (Hmm – wonder whether some votes in previous round were discounted. Not all voting happened here, but still. Those lost votes could have made all the difference…).
16 November 2015
lois common-denominator
Thank heavens this round ends tomorrow. On Thursday, I’m off for five days to a village near Chatteris, where despite dependable bus services etc, the broadband is patchy.
18 November 2015
EXXO
Blimey, Two Fat Feet or the Eight Oracular Feet of a Mighty Octopus?
Glad that one of my most favouritest songs avoided a bigger drubbing on a night of memorable drubbings by some of the greatest entitities in football and music.
21 November 2015
EXXO
Oops wrong Fred
21 November 2015