Tooting Gull
Well-known member
- Jul 5, 2003
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Very accurate description. Mill Rd P&R was an absolute sh!tshow on Thursday. The (widely forecast) torrential rain, and people standing up to an hour or more in it at the end. There just weren't enough buses waiting at 9.50pm. This should not be happening after 12 years to get it right at the Amex, and the train queue wasn't much better by all accounts. It spoiled a great occasion and evening, something the result didn't. Either strategically, or operationally, or both, there were big failures. And make no mistake, these failures continue to drive fans to leave early. They don't want to leave early. And the team need them to the end. But standing in torrential run esp with kids on a school night for that long is taking the p!ss. It is cheating the players, almost forcing fans to avoid the carnage. For a club that gets so much so right, the continued failure to get fans away in an efficient and reasonably timely manner stands out like a sore thumb. I guarantee that if the board had all been forced to suffer that, walk round from the West after the final whistle to the Mill Rd queue and stand in it for an hour in the rain...the problem would be fixed for good by the next home game.Blimey….absolute carnage in the Mill Hill P&R yesterday after the game…..I left on the whistle, queued in the pissing rain for 1 hour 10 minutes…..got on a coach finally and got home to mile oak after being dropped off at the top of mill hill at 10 past midnight! Conversely, got to the top of Mill Hill at 6 and queued an hour to get in the bus! Absolute shambles
the problem now with canning the bendy busses ( that by the way every European city we went to on our holidays last couple of weeks had hundreds of so they can’t be that badly inefficient) is that when a bus arrives, everyone piles on in threes and fours and it fills up really quickly and off it goes….now they have replaced these with coaches that you can only get one person a time on the steps into the coach so it takes ages to fill one coach.
last night at 11:30 there was 4 coaches standing waiting in the pissing rain, for 1 to be loaded and the stewards wouldn’t let the people in the queue go and wait by the loading area….it got really tense and a lot of naughty words were used aimed at the kids manning the area.
if this is now the norm for winter and I can’t get a car parking ticket, I will not be doing many games this season.