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I posted this on the loud and Proud site.

For anyone who is interested

FLIGHTS: Bristol to  Newcastle £41.98 return

TRAINS: Newcastle to Carlisle £14.50 return.

TOTAL: £56.48 (excluding hotels etc)

Hell of a lot quicker than driving plus you can drink along the way!

Think you've messed up there Stanley... :mrgreen:

Just slightly.......not only do I not particularly see the point in a flight AND train from Newcastle to Carlisle.....but I dont think it is much better if you got it right...considering the effort flights involve with having to be early for security etc etc blah blah blah.....just drive or get the train all the way.....it really isnt such a bad journey

Oops didnt notice my slight error  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I guess if you can drive fair enough. i dont ahve a car, dont fancy the coach for 5-6 hours or paying £102.00 for the train. I guess its not the best way but pretty good financially if you dont have a car!

I'll be driving, oh joy.

I went to watch England at St James Park a couple years back. We drove to Bristol airport and flew to Newcastle. It was very quick an easy and far better than driving. And you can all drink. I dont mind a little train journey on top as well. If i go i will be flying up thats for sure.

can you give me a lift on your plane?

I've costed out my journey:

Full tank of diesel - £45
McDonalds break en-route to Carlisle - £5
1 Night B&B - £15
Beer money - £40
McDonalds break en-route home - £5

Total - £110

Fuck it, I'm going to spend the money on ketamin and pretend I'm there.

i can get to Carlisle in just under 3hours from Birmingham.
cost = £67.50 return

edit that.
two singles are £12 each.

return trip = £24

Is that all it takes Magic, I shall be resident there byt th tiem this match comes and have some morbif fascination with trying to go.

As for sat/sun its a midweeker so you'll need to look at tues/weds, unless you fancy a nice trip to Carlisle?

just spotted my mistake.

midweek should be cheaper still. i'll do a recheck.

the furthest forward i can go is to Sept so i chose 4th Sept.

and the cost is still £24 return

not bad at all

midweek trains are normally more expensive i think

guess not then!

So who is going to do Carlisle Away then?

I want to do this for the purpose of my stadium list.................

My dad is, it's his birthday that day.  I'l be in France already by then so I'll not be there.

I'm going  8)

I'm going  8)

I'm not.

Despite what you say, Lady

Nope

I'm not giving up on you.  Not just yet.  8)

Carlisles on my list of places that ive no intention what so ever of visiting.I think i'll call it the "fuck that!" list.Not even if it was the last game of the season and we needed a point for promotion and it was free beer and Pies for Swindon fans.No,never not a chance.

hahahahaha totally agree with you.

I may go. I do want to be able to say ive done Carlisle away on a Tuesday night in December.

Knowing my luck we will get up there and then it gets abandoned!

Now that would be funny.  :mrgreen:

I'll be there  8)  but it's only 70 miles for me  :D

And we better win, otherwise I'm off to brick in the Father-in-law's windows (Orton Road, Carlisle if anyone wants to join me  :twisted: )

I might do, maybe if my arm can be twisted and I can get time off work  :D

By arm being twisted do you mean you want someone to drive you there in a car full of booze  :wink:

 :soapy tit wank:  not quite lady mentioned an over night stay and maybe a piss up  :D

I want to go to this

haha well theres noway Im doing it in one day!

Flying all the way hopefully.

I want to go to this

Gonna share wiv me and lady?

Good for you Macca  :thumbs:

I better not birdy, That lady cant control herself around me

Tis true :(  

Goosebumps and all  :wink:

The same happens to me when I am near Chubbs  :oops:

Im going up the train and staying over, why oh why we do these things I never know!

I'll be staying over, I booked the two days off work as soon as the fixtures came out  :D

Don't know how I'm getting up there yet.

you lot are going out on the piss ................... in carlisle?   Are you mad?  :shrug:

It's not the location, it's the company you keep.

second thoughts... you're right, they're mental. :D

Hmm... I wonder what the Carlisle night life is like on a Tuesday night?

They might have a bingo  :D

I don't do Bingo  :x

But you're got all the equipment!



Bingo wings!  :D

no wonder nobody lets you take em up the arse, you are so smooooooth

i can be smooth thank you.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

How you doin'?

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  you wish  :wink:

jesus, good luck. carlisle is a fucking shit hole where nothing happens.  theres more life in hartlepool.

I've always thought they should replace footballers with midgets riding zoo animals. And instead of team sport it should be a big death match. And instead of being called Carlisle Away it should be called Zoo Animal Riding Midgets Mega Arena Death!!!!!

Until these changes are made they will not be receiving my custom.

Zoo Animal Riding Midgets Mega Arena Death!!!!! away

Theres quite a bit of life in Hartlepool. Very lively on the binge Britain front.

Spencer you coming on a 2 dayer to carlisle?

From the website:

Carlisle 'What's On'  
In Carlisle, there is always a variety of things to do, and places to visit, but they're sometimes hard to find even for those who live in the area.
 :soapy tit wank:

Where you lot are looking to go drinking is Botchergate.

Stay at the top end of Botchergate near the train station around Walkabout/Weatherspoons/Littin Tree end of things.
Don't walk further down Botchergate and end up on London Rd - if you do, take a stab proof vest.
Botchergate used  to be hell on earth - a marine was stabbed to death there for "sounding southern" (I quote from the court transcripts!). But with the addition of the chain pubs, things have got better. *Although the odd wankers are inevitable.
There's a club on Botchergate called Mood, possibly the biggest and best club in Carlisle, buts its wank and overpriced, and if there's any fighting it's outside there at about 2-3am.

For staying there's a new Ibis (3 years old) on Botchergate near the train station - not sure where you lot are staying. The hotel at the station can be noisy due to the fact its next to a fecking trian station. The Swallow on lOndon road seems good, but don't walk back down that road into town on the night and vice versa. Take a taxi, save your spleen.

Hooligan elements are kept alive by 16 years old who don't even go to the game. They stand outside and try to taunt the visitors into a fight and then run away when it starts. They tried it with Millwall. Millwall arrests = 0, Carlisle arrests = 28 or something and not one was found to have gone to the match!

But you're mostly right - Carlisle is a bit of a shithole, where the objective of most people is the drink their way to an early grave on the weekend.

Tuesday night sound be okay, as the dole doesn't pay out until the end of the week.

And take your lead lined condoms. Apart from the obvious itching, for the majority of Carlisle women, Kids = Cash on the government.

"Who's your daddy" really does mean something up there :yokel:

Yuk!

Well nightclubbing on a Tuesday night in Carlisle wasn't what I had in mind anyway thank god!

There used to be a dingey club called the Page which I liked - not sure if its there anymore...

Woohoo I cant wait to go now!

Isn't this a tuesday night?

Don't think i'll bother with having to work at 6am on the wednesday morning!

2 days off ralph, has to be done

** Bump **

I'm driving to this, I must be mad.

So if anyone else is also mad and wants to split petrol costs, I've got two spaces.

Its all about a 2 day 12 hour train trip.

If there was a chnace we could get promoted I would be there. The beer and pies would of course be a nice bonus!

I might do it one day when I've stopped tax dodging

TWENTY-ONE people were arrested as trouble flared before and after Carlisle United’s huge sellout match against Leeds at the weekend.

Hooligans wreaked havoc in three city centre pubs two hours before Saturday’s kick-off.

And trouble continued after the game following a dramatic match in which Carlisle defeated the Yorkshire giants 3–1 in front of a crowd of nearly 17,000.

Police had 130 officers on duty in an operation described as the largest of its kind in the city in more than 30 years.

Arrests were made in the city centre and at the ground before and after the match.

Of those arrested, 13 were Leeds fans, aged between 16 and 52, and eight were Carlisle men, aged between 21 to 47.

Some pubs and bars at the top of Botchergate closed their doors while Brunton Park emptied of its supporters, which included 3,400 travelling Leeds fans.

Police in riot gear lined Warwick Road as match-goers poured into town towards the station.

Locked inside pubs, drinkers peered wide-eyed out of windows as crowds congregated. They stared d as chanting and scuffles began in a street taken over by flashing blue lights.

Fearful passers-by quickened their pace as opposing fans were separated and contained by police with batons, vans and dogs, as well as horses drafted in from Cleveland Constabulary.

Officers were on high alert after trouble in three pubs in Botchergate earlier in the afternoon.

Scores of Leeds fans arrived at Carlisle Station at 1pm and were frisked by police for any hidden weapons before being allowed to leave the station.

Violence soon followed, with officers arriving within seconds of disorder breaking out inside and outside Walkabout, the Border Rambler and Woodrow Wilson.

Shards of glass were left scattered over pavements outside the Rambler and Woodrow Wilson, as thugs suspected of smashing windows were taken away in police vans.

A doorman at the Border Rambler said: “It was worse than the Millwall match.

“There were about 50 Leeds fans in here. The police ordered us to lock the doors to try to contain them and, when they couldn’t get out they just started chucking anything they could get hold of – tables, chairs, there were bottles flying past my head.”

Seven arrests were made before the match started and 13 afterwards, with people being held on suspicion of affray, criminal damage, being drunk and disorderly and public disorder.

A 22-year-old Carlisle man was arrested during the game following a pitch invasion.

A total of 18 people were later charged and will now appear before a court.

Chief Superintendent Andy Davidson, area commander for north Cumbria, said: “This was the largest operation of its kind in maybe 30 years.

“I think we have to accept that if Carlisle are promoted to the Championship, operations on this scale could become the norm, rather than the exception.

“In overall terms, the policing of this event was a success, not withstanding a small minority who spoiled the enjoyment for others.

“It was particularly disappointing to see large numbers of young boys from the Carlisle area loitering in the city centre, and again I would appeal to parents to know where their children are on match days.

“Our focus, as always, was to ensure the safety of the fans, both home and away, and of the local community.

“Thank you to stewards in the grounds for their support during the operation.”

Reg Watson, chair of Cumbria Police Authority, was at the station before the match to watch the police operation.

He said: “It’s important that the police authority are involved in operations like this. Our aim is to try to stop the trouble makers.”

Officers met each train that arrived from Leeds and also stopped buses at Southwaite Services on the M6 before allowing them to travel on to Carlisle.



http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/

:D This is going to be mayhem!

Carlisle have always had a firm according to the dodgy reading I've been doing lately.  Mind you, this story makes me more wary of the Leeds game :shock:

Not much of a suprise that this kind of stuff is happening.Leeds fans are going to take over every place they go to this season,they have always had good away support.I would guess amongst the normal fans there are a fair few idiots :-))(

Can't imagine the Carlise 'firm' will be out and about for the Swindon game though.Might be some waiting around the station for Bushey i guess,he is almost as notorious a face as Paul Dodd after all  :wink:

Don't you mean Ken Dodd ?

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  What a beautiful day for shoving a copper rod up Andre Previn's trouser leg and saying "how's that for a lightning conductor"

I love the way you have a dig Larwood, I am not a lad but a fair dgroup of us going up on a train drinking all day will have to be careful.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:
Shouldn't laugh,i expect he could do some damage with his feather duster :)

I wasn't having a dig at you BB :( it was suppose to be a joke,i'd be the first to admit it wasn't very funny.
I remember Paul Dodds at the time,he was a 90's version of Michael Carroll,minus the money  :D

The Border City Firm - I know one of them...

Surprising they now organise charity events ( :mrgreen: ) and the hooliganism appears to be a thing of the past
But I still wouldn't get on the wrong side of them...

I cant even remember him, anything except work and I forget everything!  :D

Carlisle are abit of a naughty club.

When they play Preston it's mad.

Is anyone in need of a lift?

I have the two days booked off work, all set and raring to go... and everybody's dropped out.

dont tempt me sam, im the sort of mug who will go and I fucking hate STFC and football right now.

Go on Daniel-san  8)

I'm excited now as rather surprisingly it's gonna be my first game of the season  :shock:

Is anyone being stupid enough to drive there and back after the game?

Me  :mrgreen:

Two of us from Stroud !

Coincidentally, I still have space in the car if anyone's also mad enough.

Can you pick me up near Brighton? It'll chuck a couple of hundred miles on the journey.

Fucking loon!

Fair play though  8)

Im sort of excited but also worried I have no life - Fucking loons the lot fo us

If it gets called off.......

......you owe me a pint?

Pah, why the hell not!

(Joke)

what time you leaving?

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  Go on Dan, you know you want too  :wink:

when you factor in the amount of petrol, the cost of ticket, the time off work which I wont get paid for....it'll cost me well over £100.

12.30.

If you come it'll be £20 each for fuel.

Plus £20 for match ticket.

So £40, not £100.

Go on Dan.

I think Dan needs to do this. £162 for a flight from Gatwick and a hefty taxi fare when you land!

Sam's offering you a bargain fella...

 :D

if it was £1,000 he could still fucking afford it  :wink:

no work, no pay....

thats where it stings....it will cost £40 in expenses....but I'll miss half a day of work which means I'll effectivly cost me more money

Fuck the money Dan, this is Swindon Town we're talking about.

I'm not using two days of my holiday allowance for nothing you know!

Spot on, dans a lightweight