There are some that would say that we have the best team in the competition, they might be right, but this is the best draw.

An old adage about cup football is that you have to eventually face the best teams in the competition or at least teams that have beaten them, out of the other three teams in the Southern Draw it could be said that Norwich by dint of their climb up the table and position are the best of that trio aand therefore the one to avoid.

Personally I dont go with that, if we had drawn say hereford at home it would have been the easiest task on paper, but it would have made for a harder semi, sorry area final.

What i mean by this is that having a slightly easier task in this round would have made it harder in the area family, Norwich is the most difficult opposition, so lets face them now in one leg and at home, over two legs its a more even contest, but now the canaries have only one bite and thats at SMS.

If we can beat Norwich then we have got to fancy our chances against either of the other two over two legs.   

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