Should the Palace game be postponed?

[WATFORD zero]

Probably too late now, but given the travel issues around the Gillingham game, should the Palace fixture be postponed and rearranged for a Saturday or Sunday?

I hope I'm wrong, but I think a midweek date for the Palace game is crazy.

No Because i am excited and looking forward to it









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[mwrpoole]

This problem will arise for every club with a large following because of he fact that everybody has to go through Brighton another question is how will the police etc cope with the numbers of Pompey fans or Palace. Millwall West Ham Cardiff etc. There is no rail alternative to Falmer other than the routes used by Brighton fans.

Very much this. Based on today's experience getting to the station after the match and assuming most people will be leaving at the same time on evening matches, the police will be needed in much larger numbers just to control the train queues at Amex let alone being on the trains & at Brighton station.

 

[HastingsSeagull]

No, they should just sort it out and provide more single deckers to serve Mill Road so empty double deckers aren't sat around and taking 3 people at a time to Racecourse or Mithras House.

 

[clippedgull]

This problem will arise for every club with a large following because of he fact that everybody has to go through Brighton

No they don't. They can also go via Lewes back to London. It's only Portsmouth/Southampton that need to go back through Brighton.

 

[TottonSeagull]

No, they should just sort it out and provide more single deckers to serve Mill Road so empty double deckers aren't sat around and taking 3 people at a time to Racecourse or Mithras House.

Or people could start using the others the, Racecourse or Mithras House................just a thought!

 

[BensGrandad]

No they don't. They can also go via Lewes back to London. It's only Portsmouth/Southampton that need to go back through Brighton.

I use that line as do many supporters, but I would suggest that the vast majority use Brighton and everybody has to use Falmer station and how will the police segregate fans there.

 

[Discodoktor]

I think it was a mistake to put this game on midweek.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Why do people assume just because we have a lovely new stadium that they have a right to teleported straight from the ground to their armchair within 5 minutes?
Any event,football,concert,pride that have large amounts of people attending will inevitably take a long time to clear,fact of life I'm afraid.

Indeed!! I hope Bloom is investing in some sort Star Trek teleport. Beam me up Tanno.

 

[Silent Bob]

this is the conventional/offical train of thought. i've always thought that those likly to cause trouble dont have jobs. a noon kick off would be btter and is usual option for difficult matches.

Aside from being a fairly silly thing to think, it's not the point. The more people who are drunk the more likely there are to be random acts of violence, rather than trouble from 'those likely' to cause it.