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We are now taking bookings for the game at Southampton

Date: 26/02/2011

£11 Adults
£9 Junior

£1 Discount for Supporters Club Members on production of membership card

Departs County Ground at 11.45am

All seats must be paid for at time of booking
Please note that credit/debit card payment will be taken at time of booking
Proof of age may be required when booking Junior seats

I am going to this. Probably my last Town game this season.

This thread will do. Any one have any recommendations for pubs near the train station for the 26th?

I know you probably hate Yates'. But it is just at the top of the hill heading towards the ground, very near the station, and it is the away pub.

Back in the very early 70's, I used to drink in Yates' Wine Lodge in Nottingham...hard to believe, but it was a sophisticated sort of place for a good meal, a good wine, where you could take a lady.

They would have string quartets playing...that sort of thing....the one in town doesn't quite have the same ambience.

The one down town, someone vandalised a couple of urinals about 6 years ago and they still havnt fixed them (not since I last went in there 3 months ago).

And when you go in there you get texts from Wiltshire Police that are basically saying, don't go round raping any women tonight. They obviously know the customer base.

Its not even cheap most of the time.

Anyone who tries to make it sound posh by saying 'Im in the Wine Lodge' is usually a fool!

If I went in there, would I get a text from the police? 

Its from Bluetooth. So if you have your bluetooth on then yes.

Its indiscriminate. All male Yates' clientele are rapists.

Scary big brother shit....all men are potential rapists...

Well technically...

(FWIW I agree, like when some places started scanning your driving license to let you in)

What if you don't drive?

Or passport etc...

Really?  So if you just have cash on you, then they won't let you in?

Yates is a horrible place

Couldn't get into most clubs in Brighton if you didn't have your driving licence a few years back. Not sure if it's still the same.

Yeah a few places round me need some photo id to be scanned onto their database to let you in. Ostensibly to make sure you're not known troublemaker/been thrown out before etc but its a lot of information for them to have.

I went in there a couple of years back, it's clearly gone downhill, flea-pit, full of the dregs of the earth. I fitted in just perfectly.

No idea on what home or away pubs are. St Mary's is out of the way unfortunately.

If you walk an extra couple of minutes away from Yates' (and away from the ground) there are quite a few pubs/bars in Bedford Place.

But if you're just after a couple of pints as a pit stop before heading towards the ground to find somewhere to drink there is a pub next to the Mayflower Theatre (next to the station). Wouldn't 'recommend' it though but I expect a few people will start off there.

You need photo id to get in any club in brighton

A nudey one in your's I've heard..

and a sailors outfit

And "no-cheeks" leather pants

Got anything good going on in April, Mex? I'm down for the other half's graduation on the 16th or something...

'Ladies' night

Gimp masks are optional. Ish.

I remember the time they wouldn't let you into a certain Chippenham nightspot if you said you were from Calne  :(
So those weekends I lived in one of the surrounding villages  :)

Due to no impending births (that I'm aware of), I'm free to go to Southampton this year.

\:D/

will let you know nearer time :)

Did they count your fingers to verify place of birth?

I will be there without doubt. My last weekend in England before I move to Germany for the forseeable future. Looking forward to it.

Chapel Arms for me!  :pint:

are the tickets on sale yet?

Wetherspoons on the High Street where I met a couple of gypsies last season (by the way, what a fucking game that was)  and they were great fun, whisky's on tap!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqE2vkYYNB8

Yep, got mine today.

£17 for under-18's
£22 for adults.

Thanks Crispy

It appears I will be working, fuck

Looking forward to this as never been to St Mary's or to the Dell, bet I jinx it...

I'm looking forward to the beer annd the day out more than the football.

It appears I will not be working, but not in a good way. Fuck.

If I hadn't already got my train ticket I'd be swerving this one.

I'm sure there is more to do in Southampton than watch us receive a total dicking?

Good point, maybe I'll spend the day at the marina.

I arranged to stay down with a mate from uni and make a weekend of it. Tempting not to bother with the game or the weekend at all now, I could do with saving the money.

Shit, not again? If that means the way I think, really sorry to hear that. Offer still stands from last time

Derby Road.

In West Quay there's a smoothie stand called "Love Juice" - always makes me chuckle.

That should kill all of 10 mins.

i went southampton away last year and it was an awesome experience, which was helped via it being a night game and we were going for promotion. This year its on a saturday and we are fighting relegation, so will it be as good? either way im hopefully going again

Start my new, new job on Monday 14th, although it's permanent nights it doesn't involve weekends so that means I can go now. Don't know wether that's a good thing or bad thing at the mo.
Couple of questions, can we pay on the day or have we got to get tickets from STFC in advance? Where is everyone going to be meeting for a few beers? Leefer?

Pay on the day Dave......expect we will be able to buy before hand but pay on the day as well i should imagine.
Hope to be in Southampton around 11............not many pubs by the ground so maybe try and find an old boozer in some backstreet.....let you know.

All the best with the job :D

Planned on going to this reguardless so can someone narrow down the meeting pubs down to 1 or 2 - there wont be that many of us ........ looking forward to it - dont know why !

11? Guess I'll have to rethink my train times then. Don't suppose you have a mobile yet? Guess I'll probably have to have Boo's number to co-ordinate things

Thanks for the best wishes

Will give you a call Dave when i have sorted the times etc...........no probs what time you get there...we will meet up anyway....we will stay close to the station untill nearer kickoff.
If its all ticket for Town fans i will get you one when i get mine...but i think we will pay on the day.

Look forward to buying you a beer.

Not going this season, went last year when we won 1-0...I want to keep that memory as my last visit to their gaff.

One hell of a night and pre-match piss up! I connect with your sentiments re: we're likely to get mauled this time around, but i'll be there hoping for a miracle .  :pint:

 At least this time, the possibility of me savagely bruising my arms by flinging myself in celebration onto that canvassing spread across the seats seperating the two sets of fans, is very remote

I'm going to this. Not looking forward to travelling back to Salisbury with all the saints fans having lost for the first time at st mary's.

Unless pericard scored again!

On the plus side with my town scarf tucked in right I look like a saints fan so I can go in my favourite Southampton pub with no bother.

 :clap: Know what you mean! I go home through Salisbury to Market Lavington, also always drive up with my counsins who are both saints fan, all the way up to the last two games up there (3-0 in JPT, 1-0 in the League) They've been giving it how good they are and they are going to smash us... Very different tone on the way home!!  ;D

Anyone got any idea what the Park and Ride's like on a Saturday for Southampton? Went to the midweek game last season but:

a) it was midweek
b) went with a mate who's a Saints fan who found us parking in a tiny side street somewhere which I don't rate my chances of finding again

I need to be back in Swindon for 7 so don't fancy buggering around for ages after the game getting back to the car

Hi Paul.....bottom of link...looks promising but not sure when this was posted....i will look into it for you.

Bear in mind even if it takes 45 mins to get back to your car on the bus it may be worth it as its only an hour....maybe an hour and a quarter.
Where ever you park near the ground its a nightmare after....

http://www.footballgroundguide.com/southampton/#How%20To%20Get%20There%20And%20Where%20To%20Park

Sorry....hear is the link.

Cheers leefer.

Appears that the return trip to the car by bus will take around half an hour.....must be lots of bus lanes!......should know but can't remember.

The park and ride was pretty good last year, if I remember correctley. Wasn't waiting too long after the game.

The Park & Ride did work very well last season but bear in mind that there were only (!) 20,752 fans there, with about 1,100 from Swindon, it was a Tuesday game and Southampton weren't doing very well.

This season it will be a similar amount of Town fans there but it will be a Saturday with vastly more traffic, Saints are flying high in the table and they had 25,000 for the last home game with Carlisle.

Expect it to be a fair bit longer to get away than last season.

So any consensus on the best pub to go to yet?

Going into The Chappel Arms to have one or two with a few Saints lads I know, then popping down to King Alfreds to meet up with my usual away games lot..

Theres 2 to avoid  :)

I'm going!!!! that is all.

Seems to be undecided as yet sutton

Me and STFC in Bournemouth are likely to be getting the train across from Dorset (I mean to give him a call in the next few days). Look forward to seeing you TEF's down there  :beers:

I'll be going for my second away game of the season. The other was Walsall so heres' hoping. Is the park and ride any good and if using it would it be realistic to be back in Swindon for 7.

Working nights this week, so totally undecided on train times. Might even do some O/T Friday night so your best sorting yourself out

Call in ill, this is going to be a great day out if it's only a fraction as good as last time.

It's my second week, don't be so fucking stupid

Loving the Swindon Town facebook page and the one my lot made about going to King Alfreds to play pool, some kids come on saying if we go to the pub he will cut us all  :D

I've wound him up and he's threatened to 'slit' me

http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10150107087182268&id=100002088725955

Defiantly the best thing ever..

It really isnt. He'll be back giving it large come Saturday evening when they've dicked us 4-0.

Yup, very defiant.

 Are you in there grooming school kids VD?  Could have at least made it girls...

Someone should print that out, frame it, keep it safe for a decade and then send it to him.

With any luck it'd shame him into killing himself

Apparently people are dumb enough to post things on a public website, which clearly the coppers will read.

...and boast about it, genius!

Its ok ive just asked whether he has aids

All aboard the banter bus

Anyone going by train?......going to find a little back street pub by the station maybe.

There isn't much around there, you'll have to head in to town

http://southampton-pubs.co.uk/redlion/index.htm

Cheers Sie.....this looks my cuppa tea.

Just under a mile from the Station.

This is clearly the place.  I reckon I could spend the afternoon in there!

Well i will be heading there....around 11ish :pint:

I don't think we've met, so (at the risk of sounding a little presumtious and a tad gay) how will I recognise you?

He'll be the one with the red handkerchief.

Leefer usually wears a leather waistcoat and hot pants...

Cool, my feather boa will fit in well.

soapy tit wank :girlgiggle:

Look for a skinhead with a swastika on his forehead..... :D

God that saints kid on that facebook page is a mong

I bite far too easily

Got my tickets late today - about 800 sold, expect to sell 1,000 before Saturday.

I've stupidly decided to go to this, the optimistic fan in me is thinking it's going to be like last season!

Just realised we played in the black kit with red socks in the jpt. At least the boys will look natty when they crumble to the inevitable defeat.

We will win this..............Obika double.

We will lose this - leefer must have had plenty of doubles

:)

Third town game this season. Seen a defeat and a draw. We'll win this so I can complete the set!!

Sold out at the ticket office...just been down,so pay on the day....£24 if anyone is deciding late.

That's a fantastic effort considering how poor we've been

If I could go to this I would. Goodness knows why. Must be the memories of last season - the only person I met before the game who thought we'd win was herthab's mate... a Yeovil fan.

Yeah you are right, he did think we would win and he really enjoyed the game too.

my mate just told me that when he went down the box office an hour ago they had one ticket left from the 800 that Southampton gave us. The guy at the box office said that there will be over 1000 tickets avaliable on the day.

Out of 25-30 games I went to last season Charlie scoring the winner in that game was my moment of the season.  Don’t live far from the place, hate the team, most of my mates are Saints fans and basically doing a smash and grab on their patch was fucking beautiful for me, I thought my heart was going pack in as Charlie rounded Kelvin Davis.

A point on Saturday might feel just as good.

 :eek:

Anybody driving near Calne?   I have no car for Saturday and i cannot face a whacky race style adventure travelling from Chippenham to Reading etc etc...
Will pay up no probs..

Picked up my tickets for this, this morning. Really looking forward to going St Marys again, and hoping to see a Swindon win.

Swindon's League Record VS Southampton

P    W    D    L    SR%
27    10    4    13    44%

Lets hope that becomes 11 wins on Saturday

Yates is closest to the station, I would suggest heading to the Bedford Place area of town, there is a bar called Varsity there, and its next to weatherspoons for your breakfast!

Varsity has a number of big screens, and good cheap booze! its about a 10min walk from the ground.
Nearer the ground you have the King Alfred which is usually home fans only.

Apart from Yates in town, there is only realy que pasa or walkabouts further down the high street

 The Red Lion it is then :D

Benyon, O'Brien, Misun, Pericard all out for saturday. 

I don't think we'll see Misun until next season... just a hunch

I think i've discovered why our form is so bad. I have just realised that I have the 2 match tickets in my wallet from the games I have been to this season. (the last one was Peterborough at home) I will now remove these tickets and we'll have a superb end to the season, hopefully starting on Saturday.

Mark my words

Think I'm going to head to the South Western by St. Denys station. Went there on a non football day and said I'd go back there.

Word of warning to you all.

A 15 year old wannabe hooligan called aaron is going to be after you all. Especially DV and Crispy.

So watch your backs

Just get a group of you in the pub chanting "AAAAAAAAAAARON, AAAAAAAAAARON!"
See if he reacts :D

Hahaha, Okay!

Driving all the way from Licolnshire to watch this, i hope we contiue being there bogey side. COYR

I'll be safe in the pub, he wont get in!!

Are you actually going DV?

Probably going to head for 'The Encore', instead of Yates' when we get out of the station.

Give yourself a round of applause ;)

will do.

The pub Yates makes me feel sick.

Thats the idea!

Prefer a more traditional pub myself if possible.

Apparently there's a pool competition in the King Alfred, if anyone's up for it.

CBA reading the whole thread again. Where's recommended for real ale drinkers?

King Alfred

I nearly got run over by a copper on a push bike outside that one last season.