So here it is, the evening that many view as the biggest night in the non league calendar. The FA Cup 1st Round Proper draw. For the second year in a row Chippenham players, management and fans alike will be glued to the BBC's coverage of the draw, with one absolutely beautiful addition this season. We are already there and no tricky replay to navigate tomorrow night in order to get there. 

So with £35,000 of prize money already nestling in the account of Chippenham Town Football Club, tonight we find out who we will face for the chance to double that pot and for the first time in the history of Chippenham Town, make the 2nd Round of the worlds oldest cup competition. Every team from League One, League Two and a large portion of the National League will be in the hat with us with every one of us having our own fantasy of who we want to play either at Hardenhuish Park or one of the more glamorous stadium's around the lower tiers of English Football. 

Some very different names to look out for this time around starting with 4 time winners Bolton Wanderers, a club that recently have found themselves in financial difficulty and are rooted to the bottom of League One with -8 points, this would be a dream draw for us with the almost guaranteed lure of the cameras to watch a national league south side take on the might of the one of the greatest clubs in the history of British football. 2 time winners Sunderland and Portsmouth will also be joining us in the draw with the latter winning the competition as recently as 2008 and making the final in 2010 before finding themselves falling through the Premier League trapdoor and down the leagues. In addition these three, former premier league sides on offer to Chippenham such as Ipswich, Coventry, Blackpool, Bradford, Swindon and Oldham will be an attractive game for the lure of the media to either Hardenhuish Park or the opponents slightly larger venues. Not to mention the chance of "The Class of 92's" media darlings Salford City and a chance to bump into the Neville's over a cider at Moor Lane. 

Of course there is always the chance that we could end up with Dulwich or Oxford etc. But to even be here at this stage has taken a tremendous amount of endeavour from our team with games against Cirencester and Slough both going to replays meaning the instead of the 3 games some would have played to be here, our ironmen have so far played 5 one of which going to extra time. They have shown a brilliant character to this point to keep delivering us our dream of a big 1st Round tie after last years disappointment and I think anyone at Whyteleafe would agree that the biggest smiles in the ground belonged to those lads at full time and I hope for them more than anything they get the dream draws they are after. 

BBC Two, 7pm for Live Coverage of the Draw and is being shown live in the Chippenham club house "The Blues Bar" and will be open from 6pm to enjoy a beverage with the draw and to hopefully celebrate the big tie surrounded by Chippenham's incredible support. Keep those fingers crossed. The boys have done there bit, now it's up to the gods! 

COYMB