collins91
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i won't be doing leeds again on a tuesday. well worth it for the win but i don't think id have come home alive if we lost. its way to far on a cramped mini bus for 6 hours !!! maybe go as far as midlands.
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Away supporters. How do you fit games into your lives?
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champion7
fast and furious
As I work at the Amex on home games I have no choice but to do away days if I want to follow the Albion,my wife and kids Don't mind and junior comes with me to selective games.I have my own business it's easy taking time off.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Retired so time isn't a consideration, but cost is, so I pick & choose which games I go to.
Tickets are cheaper due to concessions which helps. £24 for Leeds.
Tickets are cheaper due to concessions which helps. £24 for Leeds.
Charlies Shinpad
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Got a two together rail card with my son and it costs £20.00 return (as long as you book it 8 weeks on advance)
As already mentioned, there are quite a number of northern sides in the Championship at present and living up here makes it relatively easy to get to 10 or so away games per season. I certainly find the atmosphere to be fantastic and Leeds on Tuesday was the perfect example. For me, home games are the problem; it's a 500 mile round trip so I only do one per season.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Do around 15 odd away games with Mini and we are lucky to be in the free travel brigade as well.
Also good brownie points having a 15 year old with you for the day so Mum can do what she wants.
Also good brownie points having a 15 year old with you for the day so Mum can do what she wants.
CorgiRegisteredFriend
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Interesting to read comments from those who get free train travel. It's that very cost that prevents me from going to more than about 6 away matches per year. Ridiculous charges for a day return in many instances and I can't see any point in going by car as not then able to drink.
Retired people I know seem to have a Senior Rail Card which they say saves a lot on rail fares to away games, if booked in advance.
Pretty pink fairy
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Sleaford Seagull
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Very close to me, and in an identical position for games. I usually do 7 or 8 away games and try to do 2 or 3 home games, so the Midlands games are ideal for me. You also get the satisfaction like I did at the Hull replay last year when the home fans ask you how long it took you to get there and you reply 45mins to their shock
I didn't do Leeds this year due to lack of funds but I am planning away trips for: Forest, Huddersfield, Norwich, Derby, Bolton, Rotherham, Middlesbrough. Birmingham is the only home game I have planned so far so definitely more Away focused.
Free travel ...........really
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DR
They like to think they are super fans but in reality if they had to pay then they probably wouldn't travel to away games.
I simply can't afford to go to many away games as a student. The cost of an away day can be up to £100 if it's a northern one (ticket, train, food, beer). Train prices are an absolute joke nowadays as well. Yes you can buy in advance but rarely do things get organised three months in advance, for me anyway. Think it will be the odd London away day for me this season. Up the albion!
Pretty pink fairy
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i've forked out a fair bit over the years going to some grim outposts following this club , YOU'RE PROBABLY RIGHT
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DR
Other than Norwich I'm hoping to get to all of them; I expect there won't be many of us at some of them!
MissGull
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I've not been further north than Derby, but would go to an away game if it was a biggie. I tend just to go to London and south coast aways because of my job i'd never get the time off to go further, and also i like to preserve some of my hard earned weekends off.
- Jul 7, 2003
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Working shifts means I get a fair few days off during the weeks. Effectively, that becomes my weekend, so if I've got the Tuesday & Wednesday off & the Albion are playing somewhere, I'll tend to go.
I've always rather liked the more distant midweek away trips. There's a curious sort of camaraderie amongst those who would travel 200 miles and back in a single day just to watch the Albion lose in a cruddy part of Lancashire or Teesside. Off the top of my head, in recent years I've spent Tuesday evenings in Barnsley, Blackburn, Huddersfield, Plymouth, Yeovil, Sheffield, Cardiff and the like- and even when we've lost, most of these outings have had something to recommend them. Friends who don't get football are always staggered when you tell them you're going to drive to (say) Blackburn for a game.
I remember watching us get smashed 7-1 at Huddersfield. At 5-1 with a while still to play, I I remember a few guys getting up to leave. So we all went and blocked the exits: no way were we going to allow them to escape. No sir: if we have to put up with that shit, then so do you.
They ended up grinning & sitting back down again, & joining in with the subsequent piss-taking songs people were coming out with. Sometimes, all you can do is laugh, and that's what makes trips like that.
I've always rather liked the more distant midweek away trips. There's a curious sort of camaraderie amongst those who would travel 200 miles and back in a single day just to watch the Albion lose in a cruddy part of Lancashire or Teesside. Off the top of my head, in recent years I've spent Tuesday evenings in Barnsley, Blackburn, Huddersfield, Plymouth, Yeovil, Sheffield, Cardiff and the like- and even when we've lost, most of these outings have had something to recommend them. Friends who don't get football are always staggered when you tell them you're going to drive to (say) Blackburn for a game.
I remember watching us get smashed 7-1 at Huddersfield. At 5-1 with a while still to play, I I remember a few guys getting up to leave. So we all went and blocked the exits: no way were we going to allow them to escape. No sir: if we have to put up with that shit, then so do you.
They ended up grinning & sitting back down again, & joining in with the subsequent piss-taking songs people were coming out with. Sometimes, all you can do is laugh, and that's what makes trips like that.
Same +50 from PlyMuff... If any other WestCountry seagulls fancy sharing the miles with 2 or 3+ others? You'd be most welcome... up & down on the day or stopover... UTA
Goring Gull
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That dreadful 7-1 tonking at Huddersfield I was hosting some clients in the companies corporate box and had the dubious pleasure of watching each Huddersfield goal fly in one after another needless to say i made the most of company expense account that evening to drown my sorrows and put up with the inevitable piss taking. I felt for anyone who'd travelled from Sussex that night.
BrianWade4
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Married but no children.
BrianWade4
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I did Darlington away when we both in the bottom division. The old Feethams ground. Inevitable it would be 0-0!