You should have been at Falmer station after tonight's match defending them, I'm sure you would have made some new friends
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- Thread starter Notters
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You should have been at Falmer station after tonight's match defending them, I'm sure you would have made some new friends
Iggle Piggle
Well-known member
- Sep 3, 2010
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I long for the day we get driverless trains.
banjo
GOSBTS
Still trying to get back to Worthing. At Hove actually ATM.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Exactly. They must have known what staff were sick, or not in today, long before kick off. They have a Twitter account, & know Brighton have a Transport Manager.
There wasn't a peep out of them. Fans were just left stranded with no news or announcements.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
As posted on the other thread ...
I don't normally post e-mails that the Club send out to transport providers, but I'll make an exception for this one:-
Sent on Monday:-
Ed,
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Just to keep you informed regarding Fridays match v Villa, where we are expecting to sell all 30,000 tickets including 3,000 from Aston Villa.
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All car parks are being close to being full, and Southern have confirmed we are to receive a full match day rail service, therefore a busy night all round.
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Regards,
If Southern had any foresight, they would have seen that there might be problems tonight providing a "full match day rail service". If they had admitted as much, the Club might have prepared the contingency plans that have applied on strike days and laid on the extra park & ride facilities and the shuttle buses from Lewes. But no.
I find it difficult to avoid putting the blame for this omnishambles on anyone other than the management of Southern Rail.
yxee
Well-known member
They're useless, cost cutting morons given a risk-free paycheck by a useless department for transport.
Couldn't agree more.
@deadly damson: if you have seen that Southern knew they could not run those services tonight, you could do us all a favour and speak to the club, in confidence, about it.
I can put you in touch.
I can put you in touch.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 72,373
This wretched company has now gone way beyond incompetent and are becoming increasingly malicious, now that they know they're more or less immune from any political intervention. Presumably they're turning the screw hoping to turn more of the travelling public against their own hard-working frontline employees to soften them up for whatever profit-motivated shit they care to throw at them. Just say no, folks.
Brian Fantana
Well-known member
Anyone who works for Southern should be ****ing ashamed of working for such an inept bunch of *****.
100% this. Absolutely shameful.
Jameson
Active member
Can I just say well done BHA who I presume reacted by organising buses back to Lewes for those of us lucky enough to hear the chap in the BHA jacket with megaphone announce the plans at Falmer. Well done too stewards and both Brighton and Villa fans who waited patiently until the buses arrived. Thank you also to the helpful bus driver. I'm constantly amazed how patient and accepting people are; old people, youngsters, grumpy gits like me. Got back to Bexhill 23:50 and feeling massive love for our club who really do make a huge effort despite the challenges they face from problems outside their control.
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It's really not my place to do that. Whilst I suspected that this was going to happen (as I intimated on the other thread yesterday) I have no idea what happened behind the scenes to try and get staff in on overtime or second managers in to work trains or move duties around to cover additional services. I imagine they thought they would be able to sort something out as they sometimes do but failed miserably.
Like others, waited for a bit in Lewes train queue, gave up, waited in no:25 queue, gave up, walked to Coledean, got a rip off cab to station.. now at east Croydon, with last train to Clapham Junction and a bus ride home to go.. 1.30am anyone?
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
You are a ****ing Mick Cash puppet beyond total belief.
As soon as you are challenged to actually put some facts behind your rhetoric a total cop out.
Owned, big time
SUA Seagull
Well-known member
Blimey - my sympathies to all of you who got clobbered by SASTA tonight. I never thought there would come a day when I would arrive home in Stratford-upon-Avon before some of you got home in Sussex, but it's happened tonight, given that I got back in record time, just after midnight. For the first time in nearly 50 years following the Albion I have now abandoned train travel to Sussex altogether, as it's so unreliable. No sign of any improvement in the foreseeable future either, so it would seem. Hope you all get home safely and enjoy the weekend. A point gained tonight I think, not two lost!
Very harsh IMHO. As a commuter, I appreciate [MENTION=1332]Deadly Danson[/MENTION] and his informative posts on here whilst all this utter shit is going on across the franchise. Very difficult to see how he could speak to the club directly without putting himself at risk of disciplinary action.