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hi all

half moon pub on brighton road 5 min walk from stadium-

food served all day

selection of beers and ciders
spitfire real ale £2.50 pint  fosters £2.50 pint

large car park plenty of big screens showing sky/espn

why are you posting this again you fucking idiot ?

Seems as good a thread as any to post that if anyone's stuck in London and can't make the game, there are a few who cant make it going to the.

 http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/58/5845/Aldgate_Exchange/Aldgate

You dont have to have a hybrid accent or know the words to my old man to receive a welcome..

Those of us that are going from sunny London, the majority of us are gathering at the Snooty Fox outside 3 bridges station from around 4.30 onwards.  Wrap up warm ( or drink brandy chasers) as it's going to be a cold un.

How many miles is that from the ground Sutton? More than 1 and I'm making for the Half Moon.

Around 2 iirc, but it's on the bus route which is a 6 or 7 minute run.

Are you getting the train down Sutton?

Yes from East Croydon about 4.30 ish.

Can we pay on the day?

The bus is #20, with the stop just along from the station past the taxi rank on station side of the road.  It'll cost £1.70, unless you've got a PLUSBUS, and takes you right to the stadium.  The buses don't offer return tickets so it'll singles both ways.  The bus runs about every 20 minutes and would take about 10 minutes to get to the ground.

Cheers Peter, I'll stick that in my phone. Yes Adje you can pay on the day I will be as we wont sell all 1500.

How much did you pay?

see you there

Do you mean for the train ticket? I haven't yet but it's around £15 return for me I think.

Cheers.

Looks like the Half Moon for us then, seems a bit pointless to drive down, only to have to get a bus as well!

Yeah if you're driving no point. I might even pop in there after as I'm getting a lift back.

i'm defo going to this after tonight.....its moments like this that can make or break you as a football fan...its all about going to shit places, watching your team get knocked out of the cup so you can then moan for the next 20 years....I cannae fucking wait!

Anyone else tempted after tonight :D

I've booked my ticket. Looking forward to being able to "I was there when we lost to Crawley", seeing as I missed out on Histon!

No. Histon was enough for me. You should know, you were there.

exactly - How could i resist doing it again!

Anyone going to this needs their head examining, we're gonna get a whalloping from a non-league team (a decent one to be fair) live on TV.

I buckled and got ESPN for the month. Well 3 actually...they had a deal on ...

Fuck it, this it what supporting a lower league side is all about (And that's what we are boys and girls, despite our pretensions to the contrary).

We're not winning enough games so people stop going? Hardcore.

That and I have work on Friday which I can't get out of.

Stupid fucking day for a game of football.

I'd imagine there are a fair few that can't spare half a day off this close to years end.

I didn't go last night for the same reason Batch. It's those that are using a defeat as an excuse I'm having a pop at, not those that weren't going anyway.

Fair enough. Sorry.

Looking at the weather over the next few days.....do Crawley have under soil heating :) I think with it being a TV match that they'll bring in  pitch covers and that will probably work. But with -3 predicted Thursday night there has to be a small risk to the game...

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/se/crawley_forecast_weather.html

i couldnt give a fuck about the defeats, its the cold thats stopping me and im only 20 minutes away :) loyal supporters xxxx

If they are saying -3 where Crawleys ground is you can add another -3. Anyway we might be saved an immediate humiliation as they are predicting snow round here for Thursday and Friday at the moment.

Word to big bird

I now have a spare ticket for this, anyone who was thinking of paying on the day up for just buying it off me instead?

i'll take it Terry

Nice one mate, it's a £17 quid terrace ticket. How you travelling down?

car, will be heading to the half moon i think  - I'll PM you my number - just drop me a text with where your gonna be and we can sort from there

This is suddenley a big game for our season, lose and i dont think we really have anything else to play for.

I would guess many on here would say Lg 1 survival....

I was going to put that, but deicided to be slightly optimistic, although i dont see why!

Just been looking at weatheronline.co.uk ........

On Friday an area of sleet and snow showers pushes south through northern England, the Midlands, Wales and East Anglia in the morning. This area of snow develops significantly into the evening, and it may be that we find an area of significant snow across southeast and southern England by late afternoon and into the evening.

I reckon there is a good chance the game will be off.

If it snows friday it should be ok (unless it's a foot deep like earlier this year). If it's tomorrow as they are saying up here, coupled with large overnight below minus temepratures, then it probably will be off. Then again the weather forecasters  dont know their arse from their elobows 9 times out of 10, so I'll be getting my flip flops dusted down.

According to the met office, we shouldnt have any snow, if any, until saturday.

Flip flops and grass skirt it is then.

are we now relying on the weather rather then the defense?

Probably more effective!

I see on your official site only 400 advanced tickets have been sold.  I thought you might have managed more than that.  If it's not a sell-out it won't be down to the Crawley section being empty.

friday night round the m25, its a bit of a shit time to be fair...i know its not a great excuse but if its a saturday i would hope we would sell out... w e normal double what we sell in advance so expect 800 ish

Football League fans in not giving a shit about going to a non league team, shocker.

I was going until they moved the game. Unfortunately Swindon to Crawley in 1 hour 30 minutes seems a bit ambitious.

My most sincere apologies.

I thought we would have sold more with it being local, not on the tv and such an attractive setting and all.

Working + Saving my bear tokens for Oldham on the 11th.

I would have gone if it was on Saturday or Sunday, Friday games away just aren't possible for a lot of people.

Grizzly?

How many tokens do you need for a grizzly?

Sorry to ruin your big day against one of the worst teams in League One xx

Take a look at your website............lots of tickets unsold...in both sections.

The ticket prices don't help. More expensive than a League One game at the CG.

I know it's the biggest game in your club's history, but the prices are taking the piss.

It's on the telly, we're on a bad run (and if honest well worth placing a few quid against), it's on a friday night and it's really fucking cold,

The Friday rearrangement is going to kill the idea for a lot of people

As someone else said, it's going to be fucking freezing, its expensive for a shit ground, four weeks before xmas, on tv on a friday night around the 25 and we're in shocking form. I'm surprised we've even sold 400.

I wouldn't be going If I hadn't bought my tickets two weeks ago and the match wasn't an excuse to head to London and meet up with some friends I havent seen for a while.

was it me?

Yes, yes it was.

Always wondered what that up arrow on the side of the screen was for.

Think you might find this game's a bit more of an exciting prospect for you lot than it for us. I know you may find this hard to believe, but many of us don't regard Crawley as the proverbial "mouthwatering fixture" (God, I hate that expression). Plus, as copious others have pointed out, for me personally and I suspect many others the umming and aaahing about whether or not to go was finally resolved by moving it to a Friday night so making it extremely difficult for me and impossible to take my kids.

Sorry. I'm sure if we draw you again in a few years, we'll all be in a proper frenzy about it. Assuming your convicted fraudster hasn't driven you bust by then of course

Don't be silly paul. Whilst it's nice to pretend that we are the big boys and don't really care, there are a lot of fans out there who will relish the chance to cross Crawley off their ground list before they get into the league.

The truth is that it's cold and it's friday. and we might lose.

I'm sure there are. They should get out more. There's also plenty who don't think like that but would turn out if (say) it was Wolves or even someone like Burnley. I'm probably one of them. That's not pretending we're big boys, just that I'd struggle to think of a less likable place or potential opponent than Crawley (well, apart from MK obviously)

Swindon would have had a say in the ticket prices.  

Biggest game in our history?   :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Crawley on a Friday night = 1/2 day off work and a shit journey. Not going to enthuse too many when its on TV, even if it isn't the same.

Personally I like going to non-league grounds. The type where you can get a beer, stand next to the pitch and swap ends at half time. Looks like yours is a bit bigger than that though. But the Friday night killed any chance of going.

Lastly "project promotion", really, "project promotion". Is your 'marketing'  department a bit special, filled with the type of person who regularly is in casualty having crayons removed from their nose?

Good luck in the league, but obviously I hope you die on your asses tonight. Unfortunately I'm not confident of that.

More than I thought we'd pre sell. Most people I know who are going haven't pre bought. We'll still have a decent following 800+.

PS it didn't snow overnight. Very cold though.

hey peter im a swindon season ticket holder and i live in west sussex and i dont know if i can be arsed, let alone travel from wilts. its fucking nippy out there, took 15 minutes to clear a good 2 inches of ice off car this morning and im only 50m from sea front so fuck knows what its like in land.

If its not their biggest game in their history, then why have they made limited edition t-shirts for this fixture?!!

The club made t-shirts for our first tv game a few years back, that wasn't the biggest game in our history either.  You seem to think we've never made round 2 or further before, or is it because it's "Swindon" you think it's the biggest?

We are sleeping giants.

Premiership club in disguise.

Haha, how tinpot

Strangely most of us aren't very familiar with your history, recent or otherwise, because we don't know or care much about you. Personally I could give a fuck if you had Franklin Mint run out special commemorative plates for every league fixture, I'm still not going to your poxy ground on a Friday night.

Ever had a former Premier League/Anglo Italian champions at your ground before? No? Respect our authorita.

Don't bite with the crawley fans bait it will just be more embarrassing when they beat us.

The ironic thing is we could end up playing you twice in the league next season.   :nod:

Yes they have, we had a pre-season game with them in the wise era!

Even pook scored that day.
I think he had 2!

You could indeed. And if you do, assuming the away fixture is on a Saturday, I'll look forward to picking up my special hand-crafted commemorative tea-towel in presentation case to mark the occasion.

Now doubt we'd have a brass band playing on the pitch as well.  I'm sure a home game against Swindon in League 2 would be the highlight of our season.  :D

Not to mention the Red Arrow flypast, the mayor doing a naked jig in the centre circle and all Town fans given the right to drive their pigs through the town centre on market day. Should we have any.

Haha did we? That one passed me by.

It was kingy era too

i went - was quite funny, sort of friendly where you could have a chat to the players just before he took a corner...i don't think it will be quite the same tonight

And it was warm, in fact I think I moaned a bit about being sweaty, how i'll regret that tonight.

If we are really lucky the Mayor might even call for a local public holiday to mark the occasion.  :clap:

How was your highlight?  :D

lower than Steve Evans ability to refuse the last pie in the shop