THE incentive is absolutely massive to progress to the second round of the FA Cup.
Huddersfield Town are one of the biggest clubs available in the competition and you could not ask for anything more than being drawn at home.
It's going to be huge financially for ourselves or Chippenham Town. Of course, there may be a bit more pressure to win the replay, but there was plenty of pressure anyway.
Both clubs should not feel too much pressure because it has been an achievement to get to this stage of the competition. Whoever misses out on the £16,000 prize money will make it up through gate receipts. It's a win-win situation for both clubs.
But I don't want to think about Huddersfield. At the moment, they mean absolutely nothing. We have to concentrate on our league position and then there is the replay to contend with.
It was very tough at Chippenham and I think we will see the same sort of game at St George's Lane next Monday. They are not going to give us any time or space. Our pitch is a touch bigger than theirs at Hardenhuish Park, so I expect they will sit back a bit more and play a little more defensively.
I believe 1-1 was a fair result on Saturday. We dominated the first-half, they were better in the second-half and, chances-wise, we shaded it.
However, we did not play well. We can perform a lot better than that and we must if we are to get through.
We went at it hard from the start and got the goal. It was a good quality finish from Adam Webster, but we needed another to kill the tie off.
Chippenham love going down the pitch's slope and when they scored so early after half-time, it was the worst possible thing to happen.
I thought the longer we held on to our lead, the more chance we had of hitting them on the break. It was disappointing to concede.
The lads defended well after that, but I think it was just one game too many for the lads in midfield.
They deserved to play, but on their own admission, they perhaps froze a little bit.
That is understandable because it was such a big occasion, made more so because of the atmosphere which was fantastic.
We just missed out a little bit on second balls and Chippenham were quicker to it. Graham Hyde came off the bench and he helped calm things down a lot as the game wore on.
We kept the ball better and we had chances to score again. Leon Kelly had an effort cleared off the line, Webby hit the bar and Rob Warner struck a good chance wide.
They had opportunities too and Danny McDonnell made a couple of terrific saves. Danny is having a great run in the FA Cup and it's nothing more than I expect from him, because he is a top, top goalkeeper.
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