AV 25 coaches

[Official Old Man]

Villa are bringing 25 coaches (the ones the fans sit in, not managerial kind). Why so many?
Match tickets are £34, coach is £23 and there's 3202 coming.
Friday night, no trains I guess.

 

[Prince Monolulu]

What with the Sky trucks and all those coaches, that is one packed car park.

 

[catfish]

It's also the first time they've played here so a new ground for the fans.

 

[Notters]

25 coaches is only about 30% of their fans? Seems about right?

 

[Munkfish]

Just a proper support. Trains are going to be a bitch friday night.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

I know it's sad,but when i was 14 and first started going to the Albion,i used to love counting the coaches,Leeds united had the most i can remember 22 coaches,although i am led to believe Manchester Utd once had 58 at the Goldstone..

 

[Return of the Rev]

I know it's sad,but when i was 14 and first started going to the Albion,i used to love counting the coaches,Leeds united had the most i can remember 22 coaches,although i am led to believe Manchester Utd once had 58 at the Goldstone..

We took more than that to forest!

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

We took more than that to forest!

Was that the game where the train broke down?

 

[Return of the Rev]

Was that the game where the train broke down?

two out of three trains didn't make it!

Around 70 coaches if i recall right!

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

two out of three trains didn't make it!

I always though it was one,it looked really packed regardless..

 

[swindonseagull]

two out of three trains didn't make it!

I din't make it!!! stuck on the train

 

[pasty]

I remember being on coach twenty-something when we went to Liverpool in '91. FA Cup 2-2 match

 

[clippedgull]

I din't make it!!! stuck on the train

At least you got a refund and a free train ticket to a game of your choice!

 

[Spencer Vignes]

28 coaches and one train (possibly even two) for our FA Cup fifth round tie at Peterborough in 1985/86. That's one of my favourite Albion memories, all of us chugging across the frozen wastes of Bedfordshire heading for a game that should never have been played due to the 16 feet of snow lying across the pitch. Slight exaggeration, but only slight.

 

[Return of the Rev]

At least you got a refund and a free train ticket to a game of your choice!

And a free showing of the game at hove town hall plus free prog crisps and coke! Went by coach but still snuck into hove town hall!

 

[swindonseagull]

At least you got a refund and a free train ticket to a game of your choice!

I think we also got a screening of a game .....may have been the Forest game, I cant remember it was long long ago...
I cant remember the free train ticket, I think it was a free home game ticket....but as I said was long long ago

 

[carlzeiss]

I think we also got a screening of a game .....may have been the Forest game, I cant remember it was long long ago...
I cant remember the free train ticket, I think it was a free home game ticket....but as I said was long long ago

Seem to recall the free trip was Charlton at the valley 3-0

 

[drew]

At least you got a refund and a free train ticket to a game of your choice!

Don't remember it being a game of your choice. Think it was Charlton away for everyone. Did also get a refund plus the match was shown on a big screen at Hove Town Hall with a free programme (albeit black and white, not the original colour one sold on the night).

 

[swindonseagull]

Seem to recall the free trip was Charlton at the valley 3-0

I think u are right.....waking the grey matter

 

[Jack Straw]

Villa are bringing 25 coaches (the ones the fans sit in, not managerial kind). Why so many?
Match tickets are £34, coach is £23 and there's 3202 coming.
Friday night, no trains I guess.

1 coach for supporters, the other 24 are for transporting Steve Bruce's dinner.