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The draw is, I believe, tomorrow at 1pm and live on TalkSport.
Not a particularly inspiring list of clubs from the lower steps into this round if I'm honest, but I'd like a trip to Whitehawk please.
Who do you want?
A couple I haven’t visited which I’d like to, Weymouth, Bath or Chichester
This was the teams in round 2 from last year:
| Zone 3 | |||||||||||||
| 28 | Walton & Hersham | 7 | S | PS | v | Farnborough | 6 | S | 2 | 1 | 836 | ||
| 29 | Horsham | 6 | S | v | Farnham Town | 7 | S | PS | 2 | 0 | 1020 | ||
| 30 | Dover Athletic | 6 | S | v | Dorchester Town | 7 | S | PS | 2 | 0 | 405 | ||
| 31 | Torquay United | 6 | S | v | Maidstone United | 6 | S | 0 | 2 | 1793 | |||
| 32 | Chippenham Town | 6 | S | v | Weston super Mare | 6 | S | 0 | 2 | 658 | |||
| 33 | Wimborne Town | 7 | S | PS | v | Chatham Town | 7 | I | P | 0 | 1 | 858 | |
| 34 | Plymouth Parkway | 7 | S | PS | v | Salisbury | 6 | S | 4 | 3 | 518 | ||
| 35 | Bath City | 6 | S | v | Bracknell Town | 7 | S | PS | 1 | 1 | 5-3p | 805 | |
| 36 | Ebbsfleet United | 6 | S | v | Sittingbourne | 8 | I | SE | 1 | 1 | 5-3p | 1047 | |
| 37 | Folkestone Invicta | 7 | I | P | v | A.F.C. Totton | 6 | S | 1 | 2 | 1053 | ||
| 38 | Dorking Wanderers | 6 | S | v | Eastbourne Borough | 6 | S | 3 | 2 | 700 | |||
| 39 | Tonbridge Angels | 6 | S | v | Worthing | 6 | S | 0 | 4 | 710 | |||
| 40 | Leatherhead | 8 | I | SC | v | Hampton & Richmond Borough | 6 | S | 2 | 0 | 868 |
So the teams we could get are mostly teams we are very familiar with
The geographic zone of clubs we could get did include the Kent clubs (Dover again?!!!) and all the way south-west to Torquay (so with Truro now in step 2 of non-league, they should be in our zone)
"Why would I leave to join a League Two club? We're going there anyway!" - Marc White
Hard to find any information on the draw for this years second round
Assuming nobody particularly wants to face a team from National League South, these (below) are the winning teams yesterday from our part of the world:
Uxbridge
Burgess Hill Town
Eastbourne Borough
Dartford
Whitehawk
Aveley
Enfield Town
Wingate & Finchley
Waltham Abbey
Cray Wanderers
Newmarket Town
Hashtag United
Chertsey Town
Weymouth
Didcot Town
Wimborne Town
Chichester City
Bath City
"Why would I leave to join a League Two club? We're going there anyway!" - Marc White
Game to be played 14 November, which is during the International Break (England play away at Spain in Madrid on the Sunday night) so there is potential to hook in a few fans of the Prem/EFL clubs who have no game to go to that weekend with the right marketing.
If we are being honest, the opportunity for the biggest attendance is going to be Horsham (groan!) or Torquay away I would have thought.
Anywhere I haven't been before would be nice, Newmarket Town would be probably the most unusual place of those - I can't imagine having a fixture there again for any other reason. Plastic pitch so it'd be safe from adverse weather postponement. Just very left field really!
"Why would I leave to join a League Two club? We're going there anyway!" - Marc White
