boxing day home games at the Amex

[Pretty pink fairy]

Good question. I think I might try wearing Solo by Loewe for the first few home games and see how that goes. What about you?

you really are enhancing your persona

 

[Buzzer]

Which came first, the fans or the coaches? The club didn't just stick a pin a map and say "let's run a coach from this town here and see if anyone gets on it"

More or less, yes they did. You looked at where you could expand your fanbase and set out to poach fans from the Gillingham and Brighton catchment areas. Are you trying to tell us that there was always a sizeable Charlton fanbase in Worthing?

 

[Falmer Flutter ©]

Hmmm. I agree with here but it does seem to form part of a transport plan for getting people to/from the Valley and this is more than our Stadium Project Team have come up with to date. Having to bring in transport consultants at this late stage in order to advise on meeting the requirements of the planning consent and undertaking transport "surveys" at ST presentations indicates to me that this could be a cock-up. Notwithstanding the limited train capacity on the Brighton-Lewes line, how is the Mill Road P&R (it's full every game now) going to cope with x3 the number of away fans as well all the additional Brighton supporters from West Sussex and Surrey where for many, as now, public transport will not be a viable proposition.

You do know that we're going to be doing exactly the same, with coaches coming from all over Sussex, Surrey and Kent? Apparently if demand is high, there are even proposals for coaches to start from as far as Essex and Reading.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

there are even proposals for coaches to start from as far as Essex and Reading.

Now that is silly.

Sussex yes and maybe even the sussex/surrey border (should I be Palace, should I be Brighton) etc etc . But Essex and Reading? They have their own teams.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

More or less, yes they did. You looked at where you could expand your fanbase and set out to poach fans from the Gillingham and Brighton catchment areas. Are you trying to tell us that there was always a sizeable Charlton fanbase in Worthing?

I don't know about Worthing, but - back in the nineties - I used to work in Lewes with the Secretary of the Bexhill branch of the CAFC Supporters' Club.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

you really are enhancing your persona

He had to wash off the Brut 33 that I accidentally splashed him with the other week.

 

[The Spanish]

I don't know about Worthing, but - back in the nineties - I used to work in Lewes with the Secretary of the Bexhill branch of the CAFC Supporters' Club.

i expect he probably held every other single position in the branch as well as just secretary.

 

[fataddick]

More or less, yes they did. You looked at where you could expand your fanbase and set out to poach fans from the Gillingham and Brighton catchment areas. Are you trying to tell us that there was always a sizeable Charlton fanbase in Worthing?

Not huge but we had fans there yes. Our pitchside announcer in the PL years lived in Worthing, which was one of the reasons our Sussex supporters club coach started from there (he drove it!). Similarly, North Kent (so-called "Gillingham catchment area") was always our biggest supporters club branch. Imagining that we're only supposed to have fans in Greenwich and Bexley is like saying that Albion only have fans in the City of Brighton & Hove. That's ridiculous. People move about. The population of London has been dropping for years as people move out, often when they have young children as they want them to go to a better school somewhere with a countryside. Kent and East Sussex are the nearest counties to South East London, so it's only natural that we have a sizeable fanbase there, the same way there are lots of Albion fans in Greater London.

I really don't get the issue with the coaches, they were just designed to make life easier for Charlton fans living further away from The Valley (and more environmentally friendly than them all driving in separately). I do think it was out of order when Charlton put up adverts for season tickets at Brighton station, at the time you were playing at Priestfield, and I made my objections known to the club. The coaches I really don't understand the problem with, and I expect you wouldn't even know we ran them if not for that pillock Scally gobbing off about it in the press.

 

[Buzzer]

I think we'll have to agree to disagree on that

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

when the red red robin goes bob bob bobbing along ................... shoot the bastard , shoot the bastard

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

You do know that we're going to be doing exactly the same, with coaches coming from all over Sussex, Surrey and Kent? Apparently if demand is high, there are even proposals for coaches to start from as far as Essex and Reading.

I'm not aware of any Transport Plan other than that which the club are mean't to be providing in order to discharge two on the planning conditions.
I spoke with a guy about coach travel after I'd bought our ST's at the presentation in January (Southern Coaches/Travel?). I have some notes, he has my location and contact details but I've heard nothing since. From memory, our nearest pick-up will be Horsham, probably the Hop-Oast P&R at £10-12 each return; this will be a 25 minute drive in the car but the P&R closes at 10pm so it's no good for evening matches. Mill Road P&R takes me 50 minutes
If a coach were running from Guildford/Cranleigh down through Alfold and Loxwood to Billinghurst and then on to Falmer then probably yes, pick-up at Alfold Barn on the A281 would also be fine.

 

[Falmer Flutter ©]

I'm not aware of any Transport Plan other than that which the club are mean't to be providing in order to discharge two on the planning conditions.
I spoke with a guy about coach travel after I'd bought our ST's at the presentation in January (Southern Coaches/Travel?). I have some notes, he has my location and contact details but I've heard nothing since. From memory, our nearest pick-up will be Horsham, probably the Hop-Oast P&R at £10-12 each return; this will be a 25 minute drive in the car but the P&R closes at 10pm so it's no good for evening matches. Mill Road P&R takes me 50 minutes
If a coach were running from Guildford/Cranleigh down through Alfold and Loxwood to Billinghurst and then on to Falmer then probably yes, pick-up at Alfold Barn on the A281 would also be fine.

Can't remember the full details, but it seems to have moved on a bit since then to something more definite. Was mentioned at my presentation last Friday. There was a sheet with loads of pick-ups on it all across Sussex, Surrey and Kent. Coaches will arrive one hour before KO and leave, under police escort, half an hour after.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Can't remember the full details, but it seems to have moved on a bit since then to something more definite. Was mentioned at my presentation last Friday. There was a sheet with loads of pick-ups on it all across Sussex, Surrey and Kent. Coaches will arrive one hour before KO and leave, under police escort, half an hour after.

you couldn't make it up , home fans being given a police escort , whats it all coming to

 

[Falmer Flutter ©]

you couldn't make it up , home fans being given a police escort , whats it all coming to

 

[CHAPPERS]

Charlton (pre coaches) had 1000 season ticket holders from Sussex?

REALLY?

 

[Garage_Doors]

That is complete bollocks. Are you seriously saying 90% of people are going to drive (with nowhere to park) or walk from central Brighton? When there's train station next door to the stadium?

What i am saying is 90% will have to use Park & Ride, taxi's, cycle, walk or use one of the 30 coaches ( 60 coaches by xmas) laid on by the club because the Falmer station is incapable of handling more than 10% of the gate.
Just because its their does no mean it can cope.
All this has been discussed many time before.