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Currently just under 30 quid return on the train for groupsave 4.....

Tempting!!!!!!!

Anyone else going?  ???

Good luck getting from the train station to the ground!

2 miles and theres a shuttle bus....

I'm going,but will be driving.

Me-definitely

Balls, I'm not. Just found out I'm going the other way to a 40th party. A Reading fans too, so we'd better win.

That sounds like a begining of a good chant.

i'm on the train - or planning to be :)

i'm planning to go by train,but if it's a trek from the station i may change my mind.

It's not that far from the station..about 3 miles I would guess.

that's a trek.

im flying

Considering it...just over £30 for me at the moment.

I'm missing this one I'm afraid. Going to watch Newcastle vs Blackpool at St James with my toon mate. Then a night out in Newcastle.

Just got myself a ticket for this on Friday, been in my diary since fixtures were published.    Weird that.

I haven't decided how to get there yet, may drive but my Mum will want me to call her when I get there.   So train or SAS also an option.

Google directions says 2hrs 45min drive - anyone any idea how accurate that is?

about right. on a good run can be done a little quicker.m25 can make it a whole lot longer on a bad day too

Eugh it's so far

2hrs 45 doesn't seem so bad, not if you go home with three points in your pocket.   Got to be done now anyway, cos ticket is bought and the lads will need a good shout out that way - can't see many Town fans making it there (?).

Anyway, I'm particularly looking forward to the crap pitch.

I can't afford this one. I'm hoping to go to every other game for the rest of the year, and that's stretching the budget far enough!

no reason why we wont take 1000+ if we maintain our current form

I went last season. It rained, the ground's in the middle of nowhere, the car park was one giant puddle and there's no pub within easy walking distance. Oh and the queuing for a ticket was a joke too. Suffice to say I won't be going this season.

About 2 posts ago i was well up for it. I can now save myself the hellish journey. :)

Yep, going and staying for the weekend down the road at Jon's in Great Dunmow. So not only the match to look forward to but three points, a curry and a night out on the lash. Ace.

Same view...although i may go.

Oh yeah, you could buy a ticket for the outer 'wings' about £3 cheaper than the middle block then just move over  ???

How much are tickets ?

Never been to Colcester's ground - may be an experience ?

Oh yeah....the mascot is a prick....not a giant prick but you know what i mean..

not a good one Im afraid-soulless empty warehouse in the most depressingly desolate area of Essex

It reminded me of the Taj Mahal. Not the building, just that it was sat in the middle of a great big fucking lake.

And one of the wonders of the world.  "i wonder why anyone bothers to come here!"

I went last season too (what the fuck was Brezovan playing at?!). Its' situation, the puddles outside etc just don't come into it for me. It's all about once you're in there, making a noise, & roaring the Town onto (hopefully) another 3 points. Going there last year hasn't put me off going next week one bit.

For anyone that has been to Layer Road (surely THE worst view in the country), their new ground is luxury in comparison, if a little soulless. While it is basically 4 separate stands plonked in an open area of land, they are very steep therefore the view was ace. They've moved away fans to the other end this season but it looks like an identical stand. It's gonna feel totally different this year too because we were right in the shit when we played there last season, even more so after losing.

Probably going to this for the first time.

Not too encouraged from the other reports!

i've had a look for trains but comes up with nothing for the nearest station to the ground,colchester north.
anyone gone there by train previously?

Details for away fans travel by road and rail on the Colchester Utd website.

http://www.cu-fc.com/page/MatchdayTravel/0,,10424~1364037,00.html

thank you

It's stuck on a business park about 3 miles from station/town centre. I saw a few buses there last time which had come from the town centre but I don't know where exactly they go from or frequency. Like most new 'Lego' grounds, it's shit to get to by train.

I just noticed you alread got an answer. Oh well, that's my two pen'ath any way.

Theres a free bus which goes from behind the big yellow storage place which you can see from the station.  Takes you right to the ground.  About 3 pubs within 5 min walk of the station

Surely we'll take numbers to cul u now!cant bloody wait after missing out on today!

deffo going to this

me too! 

Feel a bit like I did couple of seasons ago when I had to choose between Northampton away on a Tuesday night and Yeovil away following Sat - that bloke who we sold to WBA scored a hat-trick at Northampton in 4-3 win then we lost
1-0 at Yeovil

Won't happen this time though, crap pitch or not at Col, we will dig in and hopefully get a good result

I think i'm going to go to this now. In fact i've semi-decided i will attend all games for the rest of the season. I'm mental me.

Is there still tickets left? Thinking of booking mine tommorrow or tuesday :]

i hope so.
would be great to see a packed out away end at their little lego ground.

Definitely going. They sent us an initial 500 tickets so I'm gonna grab ours before tomorrow's game.

I'd decided the same but after yesterday I'm not feeling it anymore. I got home at 9.30pm (having left at 7.30am) and felt like shit as a hangover had started kicking in from all the alcohol I'd drunk earlier in the day. My throat was killing me from 90 minutes of non stop cheering, screaming and taunting with the jumping around like a mad man leaving me knackered.

I'm getting too old for all this shit. I reckon promotion would finish me off for good. Good way to go though.

I'm sure they'll send more if we want them. They only get about 3,000 in the home end!

But you are only in your 40's aren't you? Fucking pussy  :D

He should take a tip and invest in the rejuvenating power of denim :)

or extreme right wing views?

How very dare you!

Libertarianism is definitley not right wing.

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I bet that's also TT's favourite aftershave!  ;D

So is this one all ticket?

I am now more nervous than I have been as a town fan in a long time.  It's ours to fuck up, yes Colchester is going to be a tough game but hopefully we are going there at the right time of the season when their form has dropped and we seem to be on top of our game.

Considering how strong this league has been this season we have been doing fantastically well.  I don't think anyone (realistically) would have thought we would be in the position we are in now with six games left to play having beaten both Leeds and Saints home and away.

Colchester are more scared of us than we are of them.

Oh, wait, maybe that was spiders.

No, you can pay on the day if you don't mind standing in a queue for an hour or so.

Ticket from the CG before hand recommended.

the way I look at it: there's nothing to be scared of. If we don;t go up automatic, it's no real loss, as no-one expected it. So lets just enjoy this...

I was in suffolk yesterday and came back past the colchester stadium. chatting to a millwall fan at the service station about the game and he said Colchester were nervous. the first goal will win this game...

Sold 450 so far, 50 left. Should be loads more though.

The end holds 1900, so im sure they'll fedex us some more down, or just pay on the day like someone else said

The queue starts in Chelmsford!

Nothing is ever going to be worse than when Bodin ran up to take that penalty against Leicester. Never seen so many people in one place all praying at the same time, it was like the Vatican. The previous game against Tranmere was pretty much a full 90 minutes of changing your underwear as well.

But having said that, its strange as it feels a lot bigger getting promotion this year.

I was behind that goal, with my back turned.  One of the most excruciating experiences of my life.  (It didn't help that the ref then went on to play 3½ weeks of extra time after Zippy scored.)

I never looked either.

500 tickets sold. 200 more being posted today.  pay on the day available.  (they did have 3 tickets left at 11.45, but they were scattered numbers.

I'm the proud owner of a ticket to Colchester. I am also the owner of a car without an MOT (an annual occurrence) so my friend is driving. Sweet.

From Col U OS:


No shit!

Millwall fans were boasting yesterday, that there were more of them than the Colchester fans.

The pitch looked as if it had dried out,but pretty bare and bumpy, looking at the FL Show last night.

Complete fluke of an own goal won the match.

I looked at the pitch....maybe better than what it has been.  I don't think we could complain about luck after Tranny's OG and pen..

Just booked my "train" cunting bus replacement service between brighton and three bridges.

how much did it cost you mate?

£37

Just thought I would post summary of parking info from the Football Fans Guide website:
There 600 car parking spaces at the stadium which cost ?5. Most of the streets nearby have residents parking.
Alternatives are parking factories in the business park that leads to the ground and parking north of the bridge over the A12.

I don't like the idea of parking in the Town centre, then getting bus to the train station then shuttle to the ground, but parking at the ground sounds like a way to sit for an hour in the car afterwards - what does everyone else recommend?

walking

Thanks for that. I'm not in Swindon so I'll aim to get to the ground in plenty of time, then.

Won't be able to book ticket in advance, so pay on the day it is for me

I'm going to Wembley Saturday  :(

One place in my car up for grabs.

Bassett - Swindon - Oxford all possible stop off points.

Message me if interested.

Sounds like we should have around 1500 there, as i know a fair few paying on the day. FWIW i was a bit bored so i worked out our average following away this season in the league has been 775. With ColU Wycombe and Millwall that should be near 1k by the end, not too bad really.

They're out of form, form wise we should win, hope the lads at the back have been practicing their headers, all Boothroyd's team's play hoof ball!

0-1 Austin? :D

3 tickets bought and paid for. See you there :)

Ditto.

Yeh of course fella, that's why I said an initial 500. From memory I reckon that stand is about the same size as the Town End (2000-odd). Plus, as you say, they have no fan-base so if a freakish number of Town were to turn up, they could shift some of them out the way (a la Brentford in days-gone-by).

4 tickets bought and paid for. see you there

What time are you train travelling people leaving? We've not booked ours yet, or even looked into it for that matter.

I know most of the london lot are getting the 11.30 out of Liverpool st. I'm really pissed off i cant make this one.

Cheers Sutton.

I just looked into the price and its come up with £38 each return. Is it possible to blag it using another friends railcard to get it cheaper? Or are they wise to these things?

Given that railcards usually have photos, you might struggle with that

Ahhh, so they are wise then  >:(

Does anyone know when the Wycombe tickets go on sale....get in early for them.

Bring your 40 year old mate-he'll enjoy it much more than a boring old birthday party!

Think someone said in another thread this Friday they go on sale to season ticket holders, think we have 2000 allocation or something like that.

Have to keep an eye on that...thanks.

Yeh, will definitely have to get in early for that one. I remember a similar game against them in the play-off season. We were going for the top 6, they were going down. We packed out the away end, out-sang them from 2pm-5pm, and IIRC we won 3-0.

I can tell you they definitely were not on sale today.

My info was that they were sent to the wrong part of the country, and were being couriered to Swindon "as we speak". They'll go on sale to season ticket holders first, as soon as they arrive.

How many parts of the country do Wycombe think Swindon is?

 Swinton apparently.

Migz SSP Gurney (pen)-and the police were filming us all afternoon!

Well, we were pretty incredible.

I phoned today to get mine and like you say, they'd sent them to Manchester. Apparently they won't be here until Friday.  ::)

There's a Swindon in Cheltenham, a Swindon in Dudley, a Swinton in Mexborough amd of course Swinton in Manchester, which used to get its scores read out on Grandstand years ago.

Enough to confuse any postie...

I've already got an allocated space in the shed, for going as much as i have, as it's my other halfs best mate and she's booked a £200 a night hotel, i definately would be looking for a sofa for a few weeks at best if i go. Hadn't thought about Wycombe selling out, i'll be well pissed off if most of the tickets go to armchairs.

Agreed. I'll be the loser over the last two games as I couldnt afford my season ticket all at once at the start of the season, so have paid to go to every home game individually along with 11 away games. Ill be devestated not to get a Wycombe or Millwall ticket! Got my Colchester today though :)

Armchairs don't tend to have season tickets or go to away games at places like Wycombe, don't worry.

Well, not sofa anyway.

does anyone know if there is a fish and chip shop near the ground

anyone going to let the train take the strain?

Anyone from up north (Yorkshire) area going to this? Wouldn't mind going with someone and paying some petrol money.

There's one on Nayland Road, not too far from the ground

is anyone else going to train tomorrow? cheaper fares if there are more of us ...

I am. Not with you though.

well you will be if im on the train

 :bye:

I'm travelling first class

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As they are expecting a fair few Town fans to pay on the day, Colchester are saying that it's advisable to ring them direct and book your tickets today, & collect at their ground tomorrow. You'll find that you'll spend a lot less time queueing this way, than if you buy on the day.

I've done this at various grounds in the past, and because only a small amount of people have thought of it, it's a piece of piss.

Yep, worked a treat at Walsall for me.

Anyone know if there is an away supporter's pub that isnt a billion miles from the ground?

Going to this now. Bloody Paynter! 8)

Anyone know if there is anything in particular occurring on the M25, to make it even worse than usual?

Nothing i've heard of. Saturday Mornings isn't normally as bad as anywhen else.

Got some 50 mph roadworks somewhere roughly near Heathrow.  I just hope a crane doesn't fall on a lorry causing it to explode.  Certainly made my drive to Surrey a long one yesterday...but hey, it could have been a whole lot worse!

Cheers fellas, appreciate that. I know Saturdays aren't as bad as the working week but it can still get a bit snarly on occasion eh.

The fat cat was very nice!!