FA Cup SF Draw | Sheffield United | Sat 22 Apr 16:45

[SSL2]

Last trains from Euston on a Saturday used to be 9pm.

do you not think I’d make that? presuming it’s a 5:15 kick off

 

[paulchapo]

Still is, actually 9.01. Last train to sheffield out of St Pancras half hour later. 5.15 is a joke time of a ko.

There's usually one to Leeds a bit later I think from Kings Cross but obviously it will probably be packed with Sheffield United fans.

 

[Corky]

5.30pm is the more recent standard slot not 5.15pm.

 

[M18CTID]

do you not think I’d make that? presuming it’s a 5:15 kick off

You should piss it if no extra time and/or pens. If there are then it becomes tricky as you're probably looking at the match finishing around 8pm. Would involve legging it down Wembley Way to get ahead of a lot of the crowd queuing up for the tube at Wembley Park station. We'd need to be allocated the East end of the stadium for that to be doable. If it's the West end then it's a train from Wembley Central back to Euston but my experience of that in the past is that the queues into the station move a lot slower than they do for Wembley Park tube. I certainly wouldn't want to be exiting the ground at 8pm and heading for Wembley Central station to get back to Euston for a 9pm train. The 3rd option is the train to Marylebone from Wembley Stadium station and either a taxi or a brisk walk to Euston depending on the time.

 

[kaz7]

Yes, I was watching the programme. Thanks for the advice but I’ll probably stick to commenting on whatever topics I fancy.

Not that you ever go anywhere but var and refs on the wum

 

[paulchapo]

Bollocks to it I say, the decision should be down to their current manager & the players themselves, and we should back that up with a quick statement to say we allow them to play, if they want to play and are selected then it should be out of our hands (shit rule if there is one) whatever the decision I hope we don’t intervene, if either scores a winner we are big enough to take it on the chin, what they’re doing or about to do should serve as an inspiration to all at our academy

I'm not sure what all the hand wringing and self flagellation is for on this one. The rules are they don't play against their parent club. Rightly or wrongly those are the rules and were known before the loan. Obviously nobody could have foreseen what would happen but it has. A shame for the two lads but if they beat us they can play in the final.

 

[Stephen230]

Not that you ever go anywhere but var and refs on the wum

That comment might have more merit if it wasn’t made on a thread about neither of those topics.

 

[Eds]

There’s no guarantee it’ll happen this time but in the past they have added an additional train with a similar departure time to the last one but with the flexibility to hang back a bit if there’s extra time.

They can barely run the trains that are timetabled let alone run extra these days...

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

The rule is there for a reason as per the FA. Probably to prevent corruption whereby a loanee could accidentally get themselves sent off or something like that. Imagine if it was a rag loanee playing for Brighton and he gives away a penalty, how would you feel about the competition then? It's too risky.

I get that, but they’re actually calling into question a players morality & professionalism. If players at a higher level in a much bigger competition can play against their parent club, and quite successfully in the past may I add (hope that changes with Joao) then why not the FA cup? They could at least make it a Prem to Prem team rule, these young lads need to play in games like this, let’s face it they’ve earned it

 

[SebastianBlue]

It is a shame they won’t be able to play.