Brighton Sky Blue
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I consider it justice for paying extortionate fares for tickets that never get checked. 3 months between Leamington and London was £3300, it’s been checked maybe twice in 20 journeys so far.
I consider it justice for paying extortionate fares for tickets that never get checked. 3 months between Leamington and London was £3300, it’s been checked maybe twice in 20 journeys so far.Oh you sly little rascal.
I assume you are rarely able to get on the first train back to Leamington after the game and therefore end up pissing about for an hour as I had to?I consider it justice for paying extortionate fares for tickets that never get checked. 3 months between Leamington and London was £3300, it’s been checked maybe twice in 20 journeys so far.
No point bothering with that, we normally just go halves on an Uber. We would actually take the matchday shuttle, but the club insist on you paying for it in both directions so you can’t just take it coming back. Pete raised it and was told ‘it isn’t logistically feasible’ which smells strongly of pure unrefined bollocks.I assume you are rarely able to get on the first train back to Leamington after the game and therefore end up pissing about for an hour as I had to?
I get that but England fans away are relatively well behaved where alcohol is permitted. Even if it was low alcohol options (or something).If fans weren't such bellends I'd be all for drinking in the stands, but the first person who thinks it's cool to chuck dark fruits Strongbow in the air within a 50 yard radius of me, just for a few likes on YouTube is getting sparked out!
Tbf I think she knows I'd trade her in for her ... and she'd gladly let me go - the tricky part would be getting Emma to agree!I hope Mrs Rob9872 isnt on this forum
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Now that would be a flight of fancy.We should try and become one of the main darts arenas in england , great location for it
They obviously can’t get the sham of a train service sorted, so I would like to see a Monorail from Cov Station to the ground.
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Take your point but it’s all forced anyway, I’ve been elbowed/hit in the head at least 2-3 times from a random when we’ve scored.absolute NO to this. I don't want some little scrote lobbing beer over me because we've scored a 90th minute winner against Burton Albion in the Carabao cup - and doing 'forced limbs'.
Look at european games after a goal. It's full of beers being lobbed in the air.. hard no
Where's that Turkey, where's the grass ffs
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Is the car park C hotel still an option?
Take your point but it’s all forced anyway, I’ve been elbowed/hit in the head at least 2-3 times from a random when we’ve scored.
Or WBA away, some randomer tried to pull me down when we scored…
I'm sure the civilised folk from the Leamington/Kenilworth end pay but you might be right on the ruffians coming from the Nuneaton/Bedworth side. 100% barrier jumpers!
Yeh after i typed i realised Bedworth was probably just a platform with nothing else, i thought Nuneaton would have barriers though.They don't have to jump the barriers, because there isn't any at Nuneaton, Bermuda Park and Bedworth.
For the train to get to Cov it has to start at Nuneaton.
Yeah it does now, never used to do that though, it used to start from Nottingham then Leicester then Nuneaton and then Cov without CHANGING TRAINS , love to know why it got changed, we have lots of Sky Blues fans at UNI in Nottingham they have to change stations TWICE.
I don't see why Cross Country rail can't have a service that links Nottingham to Leamington Spa and all stations in between.
We seem to have this conversation every year and as we are going further up the pyramid the urgency becomes more apparent.
History - When they built the Ricoh, as it was back in the day, the train line next to the stadium was used more for freight and the construction of the 'station' at the Arena was a token gesture. The line is controlled by network rail and they have constantly said that the line from Coventry station has to cross over the Coventry to Birmingham lines in both directions and as this line is the busiest in Europe it is impossible to add additional services to the timetable. It was made even more difficult when they reconstructed Kenilworth Station as this then extended the line that was previously Coventry to Nuneaton, to Leamingham Spa to Nuneaton calling at Coventry because this service can be used throughout the week and not only on match days. Also, the longer carriages they used to use cannot be used on the newer service.
I have been looking at the situation for many years and still cannot find a solution. The new tram system in the city could be upgraded and extended to the Arena, and/or they could use a tram/light rail system that can join the train line tracks further down the rail but that would cost millions and as football may be lucrative in the short term are the services worth the investment in the long term?
Even the rail bosses say they best way is to have shuttle buses from the main Coventry station to the Arena, because they cannot see another way.
Was there not supposed to be a new platform at Cov on the retail park side, hence building the underpass.So they upgraded the Station adding Bridges, barriers and car parks but didn't bother upgrading the platforms to accommodate train service to and from Nuneaton and Lamington Spa.
Was there not supposed to be a new platform at Cov on the retail park side, hence building the underpass.
Think the idea of that was that you then didn't need to cross the existing line to get to the stadium / Nuneaton.
Got scrapped after the tunnel had been build I seem to recall, think they might even have spent the money to build the underpass and then blocked off access.
You couldn't make it up could you.
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100% get it, I remember hugging a stranger when Bellingham scored v Slovakia - 3-4 of us hadn’t even exchanged words throughout the game.I dunno. That explosion of emotion does take hold of some people. Myself included and I'm mid 40s. I've bear hugged more strangers than ever this season. Nearly had my nose broke by a stranger at Middlesbrough he squeezed my head so tight, but that's ok as Simms had just banged it in the top binnage.
Forget the beer throwing though. Waste.
They should put a cage around that island to put in all the people that went to watch wasps.
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