You still haven't enlightened me to better arenas for transport links.
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[Albion] Leaving early
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You still haven't enlightened me to better arenas for transport links.
THIS. Stayed till the end, had a pint, straight on a train and home. I reckon if I had not had a pint and straight to train queues I would have got home about 10 mins earlier. It really is worth waiting 20/25 mins to not have to queue up in the cold.
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Thank you grasshopper. You'll have to find your enlightenment elsewhere. I have what I need on what this subject. It's scope is more than just transport links and stadia.
The West Upper concourse was lovely and warm yesterday with the sun coming through the windows.
Having been to many of our stadiums in the UK including all the top ones of all events and none stand out as any better than the Amex. In fact many are much much worse and leave it totally to those attending to sort their transport requirements out. Few stadiums have their own bus station, coach parking area, railway station, car parking and even pay those attending to use them.
Honestly not sure what you're on about, but happy to leave (early) it.
Return of the Rev
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My last year of having a season ticket we would leave on 76 minutes to beat the 80 minute leavers.
Green Cross Code Man
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What you talking about Willis?
Creaky
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Blimey! - Wish I knew your secret - I’m in ESL - don’t hang about after the final whistle and apart from the Palace Cup game have had at least a 45 minute wait and quite often over an hour wait. Yesterday got to Mill Rd at 18:10.
Cheeky Monkey
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When still living in Brighton I always cycled to the Amex, cycle lanes pretty much the whole way, flat roads, and best of all you're your own boss, the bicycle arriving and departing the Amex based on your own chosen timetable, no queueing required and home a lot earlier than by train, bus or car. There 'should' be thousands more fans cycling to the Amex than there currently are.
Subsidised so to be sustainable within the local transport structure.
Hampster Gull
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- Dec 22, 2010
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I think he means that the club cross subsidises those who travel by train / coach from those who walk, cycle or drive. Not a fan of cross subsidy but I think it was a requirement for the stadium so it is what it is.
Green Cross Code Man
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Neville's Breakfast
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It’s ironic because when there is a large crowd in any stadium it will take a while to get home. When we played at Gillingham and Withdean we did not have these ‘problems’ so it’s the price of success. In my view there is no issue. You have to queue for a bit to get on a train, that’s all. Just a matter of being patient.
swindonseagull
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Nope ........because those vehicles ( if on the road ) will have to default to humans...therefore humans just walk in front of the unmanned vehicle and they must stop.
Weststander
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At Wembley, empty seats appeariing in the Arsenal areas after 68 minutes.
It must be due to long journeys ahead for Rupert's and Tarquin’s, back to Islington and Brighton.
It must be due to long journeys ahead for Rupert's and Tarquin’s, back to Islington and Brighton.
Fancy missing a Cup Final like that. Or are they running away from the Spurs fans in the home end?
I haven't read the whole thread but here's a thing. For a Saturday game, 3pm kick off I tell my wife that my son and I will be leaving the house about 1-ish and we will not be home till at least 6,30 and she knows that's the deal. Unless there's a MASSIVE cock up that leaves enough time to get there, buy a programme, visit the club shop, have a pint or two and get in our seats for 2.50. Then stay till the final whistle, clap the players off, have a pint or two and get the train home, Son knows we'll queue for the train and him and his mates have found other kids to play football with after the game while the adults have a quick drink.
I know there are a minority of fans who live far away. I know that sometimes an early or late kick off will stitch up those who are as close as London or the further reaches of East or West Sussex. But this desertion of the team? This RUNNING? In the majority of cases it's to think that you're very cleverly jumping the queue or it's to give you a full twenty minutes back at home with Doris or whatever she's called when half the point of the visit to the Amex has been to get away from her.
I just don't get it.
I know there are a minority of fans who live far away. I know that sometimes an early or late kick off will stitch up those who are as close as London or the further reaches of East or West Sussex. But this desertion of the team? This RUNNING? In the majority of cases it's to think that you're very cleverly jumping the queue or it's to give you a full twenty minutes back at home with Doris or whatever she's called when half the point of the visit to the Amex has been to get away from her.
I just don't get it.
Weststander
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Must catch the 18:46 Victoria to Hove, after a failed glory-hunting sortie to the capital.
Not Andy Naylor
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But you can also avoid spending ages stuck in a queue by leaving much later, when most of the queues have gone. It's not for everyone, I admit.
Peter Grummit
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Re: League Cup Final. Probably my most painful football memory is watching Bryan Robson lift the cup in 83. But I'm glad I (and just about all BHA fans) stayed to see it in person. There's a lot of nonsense talked about 'respect' in football, but the trend now is to bugger off at the first opportunity if you lose. Poor.