Playoff dates

[wizadry]

I went by coach to the 2009 (Burnley) game. Never, ever again. Nothing wrong with the actual coaches (quite modern, four wheels, good driver etc.). It's the fucking morons you have to share space with that make it all bad.

Despite rooks specifically stating that we'd leave a 6 sharp from Bramall Lane, there's always one cunt (never their fault...) who was late. I'd have left the twat behind. On the road, and the first piss-a-bed wanted to stop. At Tibshelf Services. Honestly, you could piss from Bramall Lane to Tibshelf but, as usual, there's always one.

Arrived at Wembley at around 11.30. Kick-off at 3.00. Doors to stadium not open till 1.30. Fuck all to do around Wembley. Nightmare.

After the game and the nightmare that is getting out of the coach car park. But wait! The traffic opened up and we could have got straight out. But no. The same useless twat who was late turning up in Sheffield is the one who has failed to turn up again. After half an hour, he shows up (Naturally, not his fault). In Sheffield, I'd have left the twat behind. Now I wanted to punch his fucking lights out.

Numerous stops later we approached Sheffield at the end of a long and disappointing day. I say 'approached' because the usual suspects started sidling up to the driver. 'Can you drop me off at Waterthorpe/Southey Green/Brinsworth/any far-flung shithole. Me? I'm 'normal'. By the time we got back to BDTBL, I'll swear there was only me and the driver left on the coach. While the other selfish cunts were probably tucked up in bed, 'normal' me had arranged a lift back to civilisation. From Bramall Lane. Silly me!

That's not including the coach that was hijacked and ransacked on the way down.

So coach to Wembley? No thanks. But if you're reading this, rooks, make it a condition that the coaches will leave at the stated time - no ifs, no buts. The coaches' departure time will reflect the kick-off time (not leaving four hours to waste and no half-arsed excuses about 'in case of break down...') and the journey will terminate at - and only at - Bramall Lane. Imagine these cunts coming back on the train and asking the train driver if he could 'drop them off at Dronfield'. Fuck everybody else, awkward cunt wants to get home.

Grrr.

You have to get with the right crowd and get on the right coach obviously Like on Saturday, i ended up on a coach because i found out that if i went on the train i couldn't get a bevvie or two unless we went to the metrodome and i know how shit that is, we ended up in Wombwell about 9.30, got summat to eat and then participated in a bevvie, got a police escort to the ground (they were fuckin everywhere) with about 15 minutes until kick off, that's perfect for me.

Just remind me not to go on your coaches though You'll be pleased to know i normally take a piss just before we leave the boozer if that makes you change your mind in future

 

[Cyprus Blade]

Once upon a time they invented coaches and minibuses to travel to games

Sheffield United Tours - what a memory that brings back - I was deluded enough to think it was named for the club - sadly it wasn't
http://sheffieldunitedtourslimited.net/history.html

 

[grafikhaus]

You have to get with the right crowd and get on the right coach obviously Like on Saturday, i ended up on a coach because i found out that if i went on the train i couldn't get a bevvie or two unless we went to the metrodome and i know how shit that is, we ended up in Wombwell about 9.30, got summat to eat and then participated in a bevvie, got a police escort to the ground (they were fuckin everywhere) with about 15 minutes until kick off, that's perfect for me.

Just remind me not to go on your coaches though You'll be pleased to know i normally take a piss just before we leave the boozer if that makes you change your mind in future

I just went on one of the official coaches (so blame rooks ) 'Twas a wondrous sight, that sunny morn. About 300+ coaches triple-parked right from the ground up Arundel Gate. Quite moving.

Or not, as the 'late' cunt decided.

 

[grafikhaus]

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Sheffield United Tours - what a memory that brings back - I was deluded enough to think it was named for the club - sadly it wasn't
http://sheffieldunitedtourslimited.net/history.html

Yeah, me too! (And that was our coach going to Wembley in 2009. One of the empty seats you can see is reserved for the fucking moron who would be late for his own funeral...)

 

[Dkc]

Or maybe not. I did a perfunctory sniff around yesterday and found that:

Getting a train back after the game is not an option, even via Donny. The only feasible train back is Kings X to Donny leaving at 22.35 and arriving back (in Sheffield) at 06.08 - 7hrs. 33 mins and only £82.10 for the return journey.

Yesterday morning, I found a Travelodge at Wembley - £26 for the room. By early afternoon it was £56 and has now 'come down' to £50.

And all this is weeks before we know who will be at Wembley. All shaping up for a monumental fuck-up.

Hate to plan when we don't even know if we've made the Play Offs but...

These are the trains from Kings Cross to Donny I'm seeing. Tickets are under 20 quid at the moment

20.35 arriving 22.22 (with the last connection to Sheff at 22.40)
21.35 arriving 23.33 (no connection to Sheff)
22.00 arriving 23.41 (no connection to Sheff)
22.35 - 00.24 (no connection to Sheff)

There's a train leaves Wembley Stadium at 19.55, getting in to Marlylbone 20.08. If trains run on time that might just be do-able with a cab from Marylybone to King's Cross.

A cab from Donny would need to be booked in advance, I think. It wouldn't be too expensive with 4 sharing.

 

[grafikhaus]

Hate to plan when we don't even know if we've made the Play Offs but...

These are the trains from Kings Cross to Donny I'm seeing. Tickets are under 20 quid at the moment

20.35 arriving 22.22 (with the last connection to Sheff at 22.40)
21.35 arriving 23.33 (no connection to Sheff)
22.00 arriving 23.41 (no connection to Sheff)
22.35 - 00.24 (no connection to Sheff)

There's a train leaves Wembley Stadium at 19.55, getting in to Marlylbone 20.08. If trains run on time that might just be do-able with a cab from Marylybone to King's Cross.

A cab from Donny would need to be booked in advance, I think. It wouldn't be too expensive with 4 sharing.

Absolutely no chance of making the 20.35 - even with no ET, pens. etc. Kick off 17.30. Final whistle with a bit of ET around 19.25. From seat to Wembley Park, around 40 mins (seriously, with cops holding back, releasing Tube-sized groups etc.) When finally on Tube to Kings X (including being pushed onto Jubilee Line for inevitable 'engineering works') about 45 minutes.

 

[metalblade]

I would never ever travel to London on a coach (Btw don't they have toilets on board these days) train every time for me you can get up stretch your legs go for a piss relax and you are in the centre of London in just over two hours even on an old HST. After the Burnley POF we got on the 6:00 pm train which had it's first stop at Doncaster arriving at 7:25, walked across the platform onto a waiting Sheffield train and was in our house before some of the coaches had even got to the M1

 

[grafikhaus]

After the Burnley POF we got on the 6:00 pm train which had it's first stop at Doncaster arriving at 7:25, walked across the platform onto a waiting Sheffield train and was in our house before some of the coaches had even got to the M1

So it was you, you bastard! You should have been on the fucking coach!

 

[Dkc]

Absolutely no chance of making the 20.35 - even with no ET, pens. etc. Kick off 17.30. Final whistle with a bit of ET around 19.25. From seat to Wembley Park, around 40 mins (seriously, with cops holding back, releasing Tube-sized groups etc.) When finally on Tube to Kings X (including being pushed onto Jubilee Line for inevitable 'engineering works') about 45 minutes.

That 19.55 train is from Wembley Stadium, right outside the ground, gets into Marylybone station at 20.08 A cab down the Marylybone / Euston Rd and you might make it. Still, no chance if it goes to extra time.

 

[Canterbury Blade]

Hate to plan when we don't even know if we've made the Play Offs but...

These are the trains from Kings Cross to Donny I'm seeing. Tickets are under 20 quid

A cab from Donny would need to be booked in advance, I think. It wouldn't be too expensive with 4 sharing.

Lads... Answer is easy.

As we know, there are many tethered hosses littering the front gardens of Doncaster 'dwellings'. So watch a few lessons of 'Bonanza', pick up some tips, borrow one and then ride home over the Brinsworth Hill celebrating our famous play off victory. Three nil over Swindon, Murphy, Done and a Basham screamer...

Up the Blades

 

[DI36O]

As many people will have Monday off for the bank holiday, spending the night in London may be the best option.

Yes that famously economical option, hotel in London on a bank holiday.

I suppose coach will be the only realistic option but that means a choice between no beer on the way and another bladder rupturing.

Classic British third world infrastructure.

 

[Chezzy Blades]

We stayed over after the Hull game last time, paid around 75quid a room which wasn't bad between 2.

Just had another look and the prices seem the same at the moment provided you don't try and book Wembley Park. Will be doing the same this year if we get there. Drive, dump car at hotel and in the Green Man for 11.

 

[Dkc]

I agree it's ridiculous. I even checked trains via Manchester and Brum too, but there's nothing. The Donnie trains are the only option.

If we get to Wembley (big if) most Doncaster taxi firms have a fixed price (35-40 quid) to Sheffield, though it may be more with it being Bank Holiday. There are also quite a few cab companies in Doncaster due to the fact that public transport from the airport is crappy. They may even have larger vehicles that take 6. Worth checking if you want to do it that way.

Of course, if we do make the play offs and get through the semis, the train fare to Donnie will have gone up by then.