FINAL SCORE - GULLS 1 BLACKPOOL 0

Corner to Blackpool in the last seconds......it's cleared.
And that's it! Fantastic! Bring on the big guns in the next round.
That was a superb performance in all areas, with Hargreaves and Sills absolutely outstanding. Green's goal was a worthy match-winner, and he was named Man of the Match by the sponsors.

There were some boos at that. Where has he got four minutes from?
We're into the last minute of the added time now.
Thompson comes on for Dsane.

Benyon is on for Green, who takes his time coming off. It's gone past the 90 minutes now.
And there are four minutes added.

Barker makes his first mistake of the game, slicing the ball over his own bar to give us a corner.
Carlisle to take from the left.
We try to keep possession without success.
One to go.

Two minutes to go.....

We're inside the last five minutes.
It's 18 years since we got into the fourth round of the cup. That day we beat West Ham in the third round and then lost in the fourth....to Blackpool.
Ian Evatt has been booked for handball.

Sills isn't missing a thing up front. He's really keeping the Blackpool centre backs busy.
Now the visitors are turning the screw but we're holding on.
Ian Harte, who once played in a European Cup semi for Leeds, gets a booking for fouling Matt Green.
And Hodges hits a wonderful free kick around the wall and way out of Rachubka's reach, but it comes back off the post just as we were starting to celebrate.

The attendance is 3,654.
Wroe curls a free kick from 30 yards in the 81st minute but the Blackpool keeper saves. It's straight down to the other end and Nicko throws himself into the firing line to block a shot. Gripping stuff.

And from 60 yards out, Wroe spots Rachubka off his line and tries his luck, just as he did against Cambridge.
Rachubka scurries back to gather, but full marks to Nicky for having a go.

We're in the 73rd minute and a big throw by Nicko wins us a corner. Carlisle will take it from the left.
Sills forces another, this time for Nicko on the right, and a Carlisle header is cleared off the line by Barker.
Blackpool make another change, with Dominic Merella replacing Nardiello in the 76th minute.

Blackpool are beginning to look a bit ragged, and they're giving silly fouls away.
They are bringing on Claus Jorgensen for Stuart Green after 71 minutes.

More delays, I'm afraid, but we're back on line now.
You've missed a wild shot over the bar by Dsane, a heroic tackle to deny Ian Evatt by our man of the match by a clear margin, chris Hargreaves, and an effort glanced just wide by Sills.
Tim has got himself booked for dissent in the 65th minute, while Blackpool's best player Shaun Barker has gone into the book for a foul on Matt Green.

Technical problems continue, with the last two posts appearing the wrong way round....
We like to keep you on your toes.

And the second half begins with the Gulls playing towards the Ministand End. Can we really hang onto this and get a crack at a top team in the next round? We can dream.
Of course we might go out and score another.....
There are no changes on either side. This first 10 minutes is going to be interesting, and maybe busy for Scott Bevan.

We have a corner in the 48th minute.
Nicko swings it in from the right and it's a good 'un, the bleached blonde head of Barker clearing it away from trouble.
And at the other end Barker has a shot from wide on the right which Sills blocks. Nicky Wroe bursts clear but has the ball taken off him before he can feed the onrushing Carlisle.

HALF TIME - GULLS 1 BLACKPOOL 0

Deep in injury time Bevan is off his line quickly again to grab the ball at the feet of Nardiello.
And that's half time. No-one could say the Gulls don't deserve to lead at this stage. Blackpool look technically more accomplished, but the scores on the doors say 1-0 and Green's finish was as good as any you'll see in the FA Cup today anywhere in the country.

There are three minutes of added time.

There are three minutes of the half remaining and Blackpool are not making any headway against us at the moment.
Burgess still looks the business up front for them, but Woods and Hodges are working well against him and Daniel Nardiello, who we don't think is any relation of Gerry the ex-Gull.

That really was some goal, and maybe vindicates the manager's decision to stick with Matt Green.
It was a confident finish and gave Paul Rachubka absolutely no chance.

GOAL - GULLS 1 BLACKPOOL 0

And there's exactly what we wanted from Matt Green! In the 32nd minute Nicko lifts a pass over the Blackpool right back and Green sprints in to drive the ball across the keeper and into the far corner.
Great goal, Matt!

We're in the 27th minute here, and so far, so good.
Blackpool are clearly a very good side, but we're holding them so far and have created a chance or two ourselves. The long crosses to Sills at the far post are causing problems, and Roscoe is busy chasing and harrying.

Sorry for the delay - no signal to the modem or something like that.
There's still no score but plenty of action. In short....Woodsy working hard to contain Blackpool striker Ben Burgess....Evatt clears off the line as Tim Sills heads for goal...Nardiello almost punishes Mansell but shoots wide....Hargreaves tries his luck from distance....Burgess misses a great chance with a header across goal....Wayne Carlisle comes the closest yet in the 17th minute, volleying from a Hargreaves cross but Barker clears off the line....Southern misses a great chance for Blackpool, volleying wide from 15 yards and in the 20th minute Bevan is quickly off his line to deny Nardiello.
Hopefully Vodafone are back on line and we should be able to blog as normal.

Blackpool have come at us three times in the first minute - once being caught offside, once being thwarted by Steve Woods and once lofting a cross over the bar.
We can expect to be under some pressure in the early stages.
Steve Woods is having treatment for a knock on the head in the third minute, but he's OK.

And we're off, kicking the way we like it, towards the Babbacombe End in the first half.

The kits are enough to put some brightness into the afternoon, though.
We are, of course, in all yellow. Blackpool are in all black with orange trim and orange socks. Their numbers are white on black so we've got no excuses for mistaken identities.
Glove wearers today are......none at all. Hard men, these, all of them.

Today's match sponsor has a touch of the Carry On about it, too. Today's generous backer is Robin Cleverdon - Erection Services. Cue Sid James cackle....

The ground is filling up nicely with 10 minutes to go to kick-off. The Pop Side and Family Stand have some spaces left, but the Grandstand looks full.
The giant TUFC banner is being unfurled and carried along the length of the Pop Side. It's not exactly the San Siro, but the idea is right.

Blackpool have had a lot of changes forced on them with loan players being recalled by their clubs. There are also some big players injured including key defender and skipper Rob Edwards, who is fit to take a seat on the bench but not fit to start.
Blackpool are under temporary management after the departure of Simon Grayson to Leeds. Tony Parkes and Steve Thompson are in charge for the time being.

The inclusion of Green is the big talking point. He certainly owes the fans a performance after last week when he was anonymous at best. We know he's got it in him, so now's the time to turn it on.

Blackpool are Rachubka; Coid, Evatt, Barker, Harte; Fox, Southern, Green, Vaughan; Nardiello, Burgess. On their bench are Crainey, Brooms, Jorgensen, Martin, Gilks, Edwards and Merella.

Team news for us is that Matt Green keeps his place up front with Benyon on the bench. Dsane is in for Danny Stevens and loan signing Tristan Plummer from Bristol City starts on the bench.
So we are Bevan; Mansell, Woods, Hodges, Nicholson; Carlisle, Hargreaves, Wroe, Dsane; Sills, Green. On the seven-man cup-tastic bench are Robertson, Benyon, Thompson, Stevens, Adams, Ellis and Plummer.
Referee is Andy Penn from the West Midlands.

GULLS v BLACKPOOL (FA CUP 3rd ROUND)

JUST 22 miles up the road the Exeter game is off due to a frozen pitch, but here it's balmy and tropical and the game has never been in doubt.
Well, maybe not balmy and tropical. It's grey and cold again here. Haytor has disappeared in the grey and the Bevanator is the first one out training with Kenny Veysey.
The crowd is filtering in, but one super-fan won't be among them. Anna is stuck at home with a hefty cold which is bordering on man-flu, so it's hello from all in the press box to you!

FULL TIME - GULLS 0 KIDDY 1

Kiddy bring on Beardsley for Barnes-Homer in the 94th minute. The attendance is 2,749.
Nicko flings one last long throw into the box but Kiddy clear and that's it.

In the third minute of added time we have a pen. We think it was riley's hand.
Sills will take the kick and..............................................Bartlett dives low to his left and saves, pushing it away for a corner.

Handball. Penalty to Torquay

Benyon shoots inside the box after being found by Sills, but the ball bounces comfortably through to Bartlett.

There are two minutes left now, and Torquay are really pushing forward.
Bevan hits a giant clearance forward but it bounces through harmlessly for a goal kick.
Kiddy bring on Luke Jones for Justin Richards.
Torquay force a corner in the last minute but it's headed clear. The fourth official is showing three minutes added time.

Bartlett makes another great save, diving at Wroe's feet to deny Torquay again. The Kiddy keeper has to be a contender for Man of the Match today.
Wroe gets a booking for dissent. He wanted a corner then.
Now we have one after a deep throw from Nicko, and Wroe heads over the bar.

We're into the last 10 minutes of a game we really can't afford to lose.
Hargreaves appears to be playing on the left wing now, with Thompson in the centre of midfield.
We have another corner which Nicko again whips in. The visiting defence scrambles it clear. We are throwing everything at it now.

That was certainly against the run of play, as they say, but we haven't half missed some chances today.
Now we'll see how we measure up.
Brian Smikle is coming on for the visitors, replacing Brittain.
And we are making another change, with Tyrone Thompson replacing Danny Stevens after 79 minutes.

GOAL - GULLS 0 KIDDY 1

And from the corner the visitors take the lead. The ball breaks to Martin Riley 10 yards out and his shot flies high into the top corner of the net.

With 20 minutes to go Hargreaves has just produced a great shot on the turn after a ball in over his shoulder by Nicko.
Bartlett flings himself to his left and palms it away for a corner.
But at the other end Kiddy are still a threat and Barnes-Homer has just broken away down the left. His cross is headed behind for their first corner.

In the 66th it's the same free-kick move again, with Wroe curling the ball into the box. This time it's Danny Stevens who gets the flick header to it, but again it's straight at Bartlett.
At the other end Justin Richards curls a shot in from the right but Bevan plucks it out of the air at the far post.

In the 63rd minute Wroe cuts in from the right and shoots left-footed. Bartlett gathers again.
And in the 64th Sills glances a header just wide from a Wroe free kick.
Benyon is getting stripped now down by the dug-out, and in the 65th he comes on to replace Green.

In the 59th minute Creighton sees a yellow card for a clumsy tackle on Sills. It was a foul all right, but the card was a bit harsh.
And on the hour we have a real scare. Barnes-Homer chases a long ball down the right for Kiddy. Bevans races out but doesn't get there. The cross finds Ferrell on the edge of the box but he can't get his shot away quickly enough and Hodges snuffs out the danger.

In the 53rd minute Sills glances a header from eight yards after a Mansell cross but it's another comfortable save for Bartlett.
At the other end Bevan reaches high into the sky to grab a cross from Brittain at the far post.
We're into the 56th minute. still making chances. And Bartlett throws himself bravely at Carlisle's feet to block a shot after clever work between Sills and Green to get it rhough to him.
Great goalkeeping, that.

Five minutes gone and we have a corner on the right, to be taken by Nicko.
And it flicks off Carlisle's head and hits Woods at the far post, bouncing harmlessly behind.
Now Nicko hits a great crossfield ball which Sills steers into the box only for Creighton to get there just ahead of Carlisle.

In the first minute Danny Stevens has a shot blocked, and Wroe drives one just wide from the edge of the box.
It's a bright start and a good move to set up the chance.

We're under way at the start of the second half. There are no changes on either side.

So, the words 'Elliot' and 'Benyon' are automatically on everyone's lips this half-time, but the man himself is still out in the middle kicking a ball around with the rest of the bench.
But if we keep creating chances and chucking them away, he's got to come on, surely?

HALF TIME - GULLS 0 KIDDY 0

With five minutes of the half remaining, there's a steady stream of fans making their way off the Pop Side for a little liquid refreshment.
Wayne Carlisle has just blocked Andy Ferrell out of sight of the ref. Ferrell is raging but to no avail.
There will be just one minute of added time to play. And that's it. Not a classic by any means, but an absorbing contest. My 1-0 still looks a decent bet.

In the 37th minute Carlisle meets a Nicholson cross from the left with a firm header from about penalty spot range, but it's over the bar.
We are making plenty of chances but haven't managed to hit the target often enough. Apart from the one acrobatic stop from Sills, all Bartlett's saves have been pretty straightforward.

In the 32nd minute there's another great chance spurned by Green. Stevens puts him in in the inside left slot, with Sills running alongside him. Green turns his defender and then shoots weakly straight at Bartlett when a ball to Sills or, frankly, a decent shot, would have been the right option.

It's another corner over on our left, our fourth. Carlisle goes for the near post this time but again Kiddy deal with it comfortably. Sills lashes the loose ball high and wide, probably now bouncing down Cary Park just behind Wroe's effort.
The Gulls have no players on the glove-wearing List of Shame today, by the way. Kidderminster, which is up north, boast three - Barnes-Homer, Richards and Brittain.
And guess what, Wroe has just celebrated the arrival of the 30-minute mark with another shot way out into the road.

We're a quarter of the way through the match and it's very, very tight.
Wroe takes the prize for the most off-target shot of the day with one that may still, at the time of writing, be heading for Babbacombe Downs.

Lee Baker tries a shot from 30 yards for Kiddy but it's high and wide, getting higher and wider until it hits someone in the Family Stand.
Danny Stevens has a shot deflected behind for another corner to be taken by Wayne Carlisle. But again Kidderminster defend it well.

Kiddy are building patiently through midfield and beginning to fashion a few chances.
Bevan is quick to get off his line and grasp a through ball from Brittain.
A free kick from Brittain is cleared and Kiddy give away possession with a foul on Lee Hodges.
17 minutes gone and it's quiet, as they used to say in the Westerns........too quiet.......

Nicky Wroe tries his luck from 20 yards and the shot is deflected wide for a corner.
There are 10 minutes on the clock and we have another corner. Danny Stevens swings it in but it comes to nothing.

There are a couple of hefty tackles flying in here. Nicky Wroe perpetrates the latest one and Russell Penn goes flying. Brittain has a shot from the free-kick but it curls well wide.

Now Danny Stevens has a go in the fifth minute from similar distance. this one is on target but it's an easy gather for Adam Bartlett in the Kiddy goal.
In the sixth minute Sills hits a tremendous volley right-footed from the right of the Kiddy goal but Bartlett pulls off a great reflex save.

And after 14 seconds Matt Green is released through the centre by Hargreaves with just the keeper to beat. But he shoots early, from 20 yards, and screws the ball weakly wide. Shocker.

The teams are out, and the mascot looks as if he is about to keel over with frostbite.
Kidderminster are in red and white halved shirts with one red sleeve and one white. They have white shorts and red socks.
And we're off, kicking the way we like it, towards the Babbacombe End in the first half.

Banners in the away end include 'Forza Kiddy' and 'Championi'. There are more than 50of their fans in there shielding their eyes from the low sun as the players kick around in the middle.
DT has just reminded us that the Bevanator had a loan spell at Kidderminster, so that'll add another little edge to the game today.
And, he says: "There will be bookings today".
Game on...

Press box sweepstake predictions range from the conservative (my 1-0) to the extravagant (a 5-0 from Darryl Haggan), but we're all going for a Torquay win.
For the second home game running we start the day in second place and line up against the team in fourth. Histon were the last fourth-placed team the Gulls put to the sword, so let's hope for some more of the same.
A win and we close the gap to Burton. Anything else, and we slip into the mess of the play-off places. This would be a really good game to win.

GULLS V KIDDERMINSTER

WELCOME to a chilly Plainmoor, where the sun is shining down from a blue sky but the temperature is down in the low numbers.
There is one change in our side, with Danny Stevens in for the injured Mustapha Carayol. So we are Bevan; Mansell, Woods, Hodges, Nicholson; Carlisle, Hargreaves, Wroe, Stevens; Sills, Green. On the bench are Brough, Robertson, Benyon, Thompson and Adams.
Kidderminster also line up 4-4-2. They are Bartlett; Lowe, Creighton, Riley, Baker; Brittain, Bennett, Penn, Ferrell; Richards, Barnes-Homer. on the bench are Jones, Moore, Coleman, Smikle and Beardsley. The Moore is Stefan Moore, brother of West Brom's Luke.
Referee is Simon Beck from Essex.