The draw for the first round proper is on ITV on Sunday.

FINAL SCORE GULLS 4 CHIPSTEAD 1

And that's that. The scoreline makes it look a little more comfortable than it was.
Chipstead are going down to the Babbacombe End to applaud their fans. They're also getting a warm reception from the Pop Side. They came and gave it a go, and Coleman goes home with the distinctions of having scored the best goal of the afternoon and having picked up the strangest booking of the season.

GOAL - 88 MINS - GULLS 4 CHIPSTEAD 1

RIGHT - two carbon copy goals in two minutes for Tim Sills. Both times Carayol broke down the right and sent in low crosses, both times Sills got a touch to them at the near post and steered them past Wastell.
That's the kind of finishing that makes the difference on days like these. The scoreline now looks a bit harsh on Chipstead.
Torquay make a double substitution, with Sills and Thompson going off for Benyon and Charran.
Young Jordan is a free-scoring trainee from Barnstaple, apparently.

GOAL - 87 MINS - GULLS 3 CHIPSTEAD 1

Now Bevan misses a punch on a deep cross from the Chipstead right. The ball bounces loose but Nicholson tidies up.
With seven minutes to go Fred Fleming diverts the ball across the face of his own goal and out for a Torquay corner. They deal with that one, but almost immediately Fleming knocks a Carayol cross behind for another.
And guess what. Hargreaves whips in a cross from the left and who gets there just ahead of Sills to put it behind for a corner? Fleming.

We can only assume that Coleman was booked for Impersonating An Officer In Her Majesty's Navy, which is probably still a hanging offence...

The attendance is exactly 1,800.
That really was some strike by Coleman, good enough to grace any match.
Chris Hargreaves goes down under a challenge by Wareing. our skipper is getting wound up here by some niggling tackles.
Meanwhile Fred Fleming has gone down with cramp from our sapping turf. After all, it's their cup final....

GOAL - 69MINS - GULLS 2 CHIPSTEAD 1

Another strong run down the right by Carayol earns another corner in the 65th minute.
And there are punches flying in the Torquay penalty area as the visitors prepare to take a free kick.
The ref is talking to Hargreaves and Delaney, but there are no cards as yet. Now the linesman calls the ref over and he marches back on to book Delaney.
The free kick is finally taken and Daryl Coleman drives it into the top corner of the net from all of 30 yards. That's a wonderful goal.
Coleman rushes over to the bench, grabs an admiral's hat from someone and puts it on to celebrate.
In a stirring display of Jobsworth-ness, Mr McLaughlin duly books him for his nautical shenanigans.

Nicholson goes into the referee's book in the 63rd minute for a foul out on our left.
Oakins can't get to the curled free kick from the right, and there are loud appeals for a penalty from the Chipstead players and fans.
Nothing doing.

Nicholson drives the free kick just over from 35 yards.
Andrew Wareing is on for Nathan Campbell for Chipstead.
Thompson crosses from the right in the 60th minute, finding Dsane at the far post, but Roscoe's 'shot' is........OK, let's move on.

Thompson races onto a flick by Sills in the 53rd minute and his shot from a narrow angle is scrambled behind by Wastell.
Then in the 54th O'Shea goes close with a header for Chipstead, angling his effort back across goal after a cross from the right.
Chipstead's Reis Aslan is in the book after 55 minutes for pulling back Carayol.

In the 48th minute it's Dsane again, cutting in from the left and shooting from 18 yards. This time Wastell is down smartly and holds the ball.
Torquay force a corner in the 50th minute after a good run down the right by Carayol. It falls to Woods four yards out at the back post but he's not expecting it and it goes high over the bar.

Under way again, and in the first 25 seconds of the half Roscoe Dsane fires in a right foot shot from the edge of the box which Wastell just tips round his post.
And moments later Oakins gets his head to a Smith cross at the other end but it's an easy gather for Bevan.
Lively start to the second half.

HALF TIME - GULLS 2 CHIPSTEAD 0

It was bound to happen! The minute we start doubting, the Gulls go and score.
A good half, but they are trying to tip-tap it in a bit, instead of grabbing the game by the scruff of the neck.
Chipstead are giving it a go, but they are not a great side and the second half, with Torquay playing towards the Ministand end, should see us ease away. Shouldn't it.....?

Mansell slices wide in the 43rd minute after being put in thanks to some tidy play by Thompson and Wroe, and in the 44th Wroe brings a good save from Wastell with a low drive from the edge of the box.
This is more like it, Torquay.

GOAL - 40MINS - GULLS 2 CHIPSTEAD 0

That's more like it!
Thompson scores again from close range, firing through Wastell's legs after Woods had headed a Carayol cross back across goal.
Really poor defending from Chipstead.

Hargreaves meets a Carayol corner at the far post in the 32nd minute but can't direct it towards goal.
And in the 36th Carayol heads over from a Nicholson cross from the left.
We are very subdued here, and in danger of letting Chipstead back into the game. People who saw us give Ebbsfleet a hiding last weekend are saying this performance is the exact opposite. More urgency required, a message they will probably get in no uncertain terms from Messrs Buckle and North in a few minutes...

In the 28th minute Hodges is down with a bang on the head after an aerial clash, but he's back on his feet again after a bit of attention from Damien Davey.
Chipstead nearly equalise in the 30th minute, with Smith floating in a cross from the right, Aslan heading back across goal and only a brave block from Bevan denying O'Shea on the line.

Smith has just made a strong run through the midfield as well. Chipstead have definitely come to have a go, and Torquay are trying to do everything with clever flicks and touches. At the moment it's not really working.
What we need is a good old-fashioned slog.

In the 19th minute Chris Head gets a yellow card for a foul on Carayol.

Chipstead force a corner on the right and it's a good one, an inswinger taken by Head. Bevan catches well.
In the 15th minute Carayol cuts in from the right and his shot is deflected wide.

GOAL - 9MINS - GULLS 1 CHIPSTEAD 0

Tyrone Thompson puts Torquay a goal up after nine minutes, shooting home from six yards at the near post after a clever run and cross from the right by Carayol.
Moments later Thompson misses a great chance right in front of goal, too.

Chipstead have started brightly and will clearly be using their wide men Aslan and Josh Smith

Aslan slips past Mansell in the first minute but his curling cross from the left is an easy take for Bevan.
There are about 60 Chipstead fans behind Wastell's goal. A couple of the better-refreshed ones appear to have taken their shirts off. Brave boys.

And we're off - Torquay in all yellow playing towards the Babbacombe End and Chipstead in green and white hoops, black shorts and black socks er...playing the other way.

And the referee is Matthew McLaughlin of Bedfordshire. I have asked around about him and am told 'he looks like Shaun North and is shorter than Danny Stevens'. So there you go.
Best moment so far? Mr McLaughlin jogging past six-foot-six Scott Bevan during the warm-up, and Scott looking round to see where the voice was coming from before looking down to see the ref.

OK, Chipstead have warehouseman James Wastell in goal. He's their skipper.
Right back is Ashley Reid, centre backs Fred Fleming and university student Jake Delaney and left back Chris Head, who is a bank manager. Reis Aslan plays on the right with Daryl Coleman and Nathan Campbell in central midfield and Josh Smith on the left. Up front they have student Dominic O'Shea and scaffolder Danny Oakins, whose hat-trick against Atherstone got Chipstead to this game.
On the bench are Andrew Wareing, Liam Shirley, Mark Wardell, Neil John, Joe Gant, Lee Sidwell and Alec Brown.
Sidwell is the brother of Aston Villa's Steve Sidwell, who came through the youth ranks at Chipstead.

So, with Chris Robertson picking up an ankle injury in training and Wayne Carlisle not figuring today, we have Scott Bevan in goal; Lee Mansell, Steve Woods, Lee Hodges and Kevin Nicholson across the back; Roscoe Dsane, Nicky Wroe, Chris Hargreaves and Mustapha Carayol across the middle and Tim Sills and Tyrone Thompson up front.
The FA Cup allows seven subs on the bench, so we have youth team players Richard Westcott and Jordan Charran joining Michael Brough, Elliot Benyon, Danny Stevens, Steve Adams and Mark Ellis.

Autumnal, that's the word this afternoon.
Plainmoor is a grey and chilly place with 40 minutes to go to kick-off, but the magic of the FA Cup should light things up a bit.
Chipstead are out warming up in front of the Pop Side. Teams coming soon.

FA Cup - Gulls v Chipstead

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