What makes a "great" away day ?

[wolfie]

Criteria:-
1. Result
2. Performance
3. Context of the Match (Cup Tie/Promotion decider/top of table etc)
4. Environment (Stadium/ Terraces etc)
5. How much you want to get one over on opposition supporters/ manager etc
6. Weather ?
7. Other activities before & after the game ?
8. Others (suggest your own)?

For me, yesterday ticked most of the boxes (particularly 1-4). Only surpassed by Highbury & Wembley in 1983.
Comparable to Molyneux in 1979 (Wardy Hat Trick) and Anfield in 1983 (even though I was on the Kop !)

 

[Shoreham Beach Seagull]

Another criteria for me would be how many away fans we take/how vocal those fans are that go. For me, only being 17, that was the best away game that i've been to so far.

 

[Beach Hut]

Mrhairy

 

[patchamalbion]

all my mates,a fair amount of decent beer.a good,noisy bha turnout and a win. usually helps when coupled with some funny incidents and a good night out!

 

[poidy]

1 and 2 are imperative. A win and a good performance automatically have a positive affect on the atmosphere (no 4).

Other activities before the game is also quite important. A prime example being at Yates in Southampton last year. For me its all about the build up and pre match atmosphere just as much as the match itself.

 

[Skills]

Result

 

[FalmerforAll!**]

Would certainly rate activities before and after the match much higher - plenty of good awaydays have been ruined by the football itself!

 

[getofftheropes]

i had 9 years of away games without seeing the Albion win (45 games) Beers are a must

 

[LABHA]

A chance to go to the Flying Scotsman on way home

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Performance, performance, performance.

 

[jordanseagull]

When I get home, and say: ''What a great away day.''

Not quite sure WHAT makes it, you just 'know'...

 

[Paxton Dazo]

The pubs. The train journey. 3000 + Spurs singing "Oh When The Spurs.." .

Etc.

 

[Tooting Gull]

Result, opposition, performance, context, turnout, pre and post match beers.

Result and performance are central. That Sussex cricket final at Lord's against Hamphire was in theory 'a great day out', but knowing from about midday you were going to lose did spoil it a bit.

 

[Return of the Rev]

great support in voice and in numbers and best of all both

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

being with like minded people

 

[Uncle Buck]

One of our travelling party turning up with no hair and another not turning up at all.

Oh and the drinking before and after and the result is always a bonus...

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

The pubs. The train journey. 3000 + Spurs singing "Oh When The Spurs.." .

Etc.

beggars belief

 

[Notters]

The pubs. The train journey. 3000 + Spurs singing "Oh When The Spurs.." .

Etc.

You missed a great game whilst watching your tin pot team lose to some northern minnows on Saturday.

 

[surrey jim]

Would certainly rate activities before and after the match much higher - plenty of good awaydays have been ruined by the football itself!

This!

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

A chance to go to the Flying Scotsman on way home

chesterfield away ring any bells ?