stonerblue said:charliebigspuds said:jrb said:I appreciate people like a scoop on the train or coach when they travel away. However, would you go without for 2 hours on the train, or 4 hours on the coach, if you where given the opportunity to travel for £10 via the club?
no, and not just because of the lack of beer. I don't particularly like what football has become, whiter than white, non atmospheric diluted crowds, plastic bag carrying twerps, people who watch the game with their camera phone permanently in their hand so I'd rather stick with the same people that are like me which is lads brought up in the nasty old 70's and 80's world of football. I really don't want to be sat on a coach with a load of twerps that complain when you sing a song that has a swear word in it and I don't think they want to be on the same coach as me and mine either.
You should come with me on the pub mini-bus. Smoke, drink, whatever else and sing all the way. All for £4 return.
+1. First idea to introduce some form of player accountability even though our more experienced stars would hardly miss chartering a train each!Impeccable One said:Simple solution = if we go to the spuds and do them 5-1, everyone is happy and doesn't care what it cost to get to and watch the game.
City should implement an 'away day rebate' scheme. The amount of rebate would depend on the score, the league position of who we play and the distance from Manchester.
A 3-1 loss at Southampton gets 50 quid back, while a 2-1 loss at the Scum gets 10 quid back.
And, the costs of this come from the players who played in the game, not the club.
Now that's what I call a radical plan that would get global media recognition :D
Let's offer away fans free travel to boost falling attendances, Premier League chief Scudamore urges clubs
More Premier League clubs are poised to follow Chelsea and Stoke in offering free and subsidised travel to their away fans, according to Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore.
Scudamore says that the clubs have agreed to put aside £4million a season specifically to help fans travel away from home because the Premier League fears that declining away support is jeopardising the unique atmosphere that makes the competition so attractive.
Scudamore said: ‘In the past five years we’ve seen a 10 per cent decline in away attendance. Even though attendances are up to record highs and the occupancy rates of stadia are up to 95.3 per cent, away attendances are down. In the past six months we’ve put a lot of effort into what can be done for away attendance.
‘One of our unique selling points is the away attendance because it creates the tension, the passion, the show. The clubs are investing £4million a season, £12million over the next three seasons, in initiatives to make the away fan experience better and that’s either helping their own fans travel away or doing something to encourage opponents’ away fans to come to them.’
Stoke have already announced that they will offer free coach travel to all fans travelling to away games while Chelsea have announced they will subsidise fares for at least ten away games this season, starting with Manchester United next weekend with train and coach return tickets will be available for £10.
Scudamore said: ‘For Stoke’s game at Liverpool, all 3000 tickets were taken. It’s the first time ever that Stoke has ever taken more than 1500 people to that fixture. By the end of September we’ll have a list of what all 20 clubs are doing.
‘I’m absolutely sure that among the twenty there will be others who go with the same initiative. Cardiff City already work very hard for away fans visiting them. They have people dressed in the away strip serving in the bars, they have away stewards, they put local beers in from where the clubs come from.’
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charliebigspuds said:stonerblue said:charliebigspuds said:no, and not just because of the lack of beer. I don't particularly like what football has become, whiter than white, non atmospheric diluted crowds, plastic bag carrying twerps, people who watch the game with their camera phone permanently in their hand so I'd rather stick with the same people that are like me which is lads brought up in the nasty old 70's and 80's world of football. I really don't want to be sat on a coach with a load of twerps that complain when you sing a song that has a swear word in it and I don't think they want to be on the same coach as me and mine either.
You should come with me on the pub mini-bus. Smoke, drink, whatever else and sing all the way. All for £4 return.
That sounds like my kind of coach.
Mayo31 off here runs our coach to every home game, we go from the Albion in Middleton. I've pretty much packed in the domestic aways now, too much time away from the family also miss two London away trips and you have enough for a two night stay in Madrid for a CL game.
stonerblue said:charliebigspuds said:stonerblue said:You should come with me on the pub mini-bus. Smoke, drink, whatever else and sing all the way. All for £4 return.
That sounds like my kind of coach.
Mayo31 off here runs our coach to every home game, we go from the Albion in Middleton. I've pretty much packed in the domestic aways now, too much time away from the family also miss two London away trips and you have enough for a two night stay in Madrid for a CL game.
Yeah, i reserve my awaydays for Europe now as well. And i won't be rushing back to wembley either if we get there again. The best thing about that day was the party on the coach there and back.