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Who does everyone want?

For me either: Oxford Away/Home

Or: A big Prem team Away

We will get a shit draw V Lincoln or Forest Green

Home draw, dont care who we get.

Or Crystal Palace Away as it's walking distance from my House!

West Ham home please,none of the big four because they will just play their bloody kids at this early stage.

The Pox please, or one of the big 10 Premier teams away for a good day out.

And whats wrong with Forest Green? a good local tie, very very close, chance of winning and managed by old Town favourite Hockaday.

It would be a winnable tie but wouldnt carry the excitement of the other possible ties


Would agree with that

When's the draw?

After Kettering V Leeds about 3.30ish

prem away

Somebody like Aston Villa away, or Bristol City

wouldnt mind a trip to the arsenal or any big london team

It will be v Southampton..away.

what the date for the 3rd round?

depending on who it is i'll need to get my holiday form into work pretty quick!!

3rd Round will be sat 9th January.

Man City home or away would be ace.

City away would be nice.....anyone fancy Carlisle away.....Norwich didnt!

Correction - FA Website says 3rd Round will be on Sat 2nd January .

bugger bugger bumchops

I've got me and my dad two tickets to see the rugby on 9th januray. Pleeeeeeeeeeaaassseeee get a shit draw


Edit - Alan you chode!! Had me going then

how comes we are playing on new years day then?

usually a full set of fixtures?

Apologies,never assume anything with the FA,that's my line and i'm sticking to it!

4th Round is when we're at Southampton 23rd January.

http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/FACompetitions/TheFACup/NewsAndFeatures/2009/FACupRoundDates0910.aspx

Third round proper saturday 2nd januray

Phew!!

We're down to play oldham on 2nd januray. They always schedule league one and two games for third round day though

Oxford, Reading or Bristol City away.

thats still not new years day though is it?

although the second is a saturday

oxford at home or reading away.

I'm not really sure what you mean.

We were never down to play on new years day

Reading, Bristol City or a Prem side.  Home or away, I don't mind.

I have a feeling we'll be getting Lincoln at home though.

Just as we're slowly becoming a team made up of ex leeds players, it seems like Kettering like the odd STFC reject too...

'Let Ashikodi be free, and instinctive'... and stabby.

patrick noubissie...now theres a blast from the past, hehe

If we get a Prem team it will be someone shit like Hull or Wolves.

haha, leeds are losing!

Come on Kettering!

Are Leeds going to get knocked in consecutive years against Conference teams?

Kettering are defending like Trojans at the moment.

beckford 1-1

Beckford really is a cunt.

5 mins ago leeds were 11/1 to win 2-1! Wish id had some of that

are we number 51?

Yes.

1 Arsenal
2 Aston Villa
3 Barnsley
4 Birmingham City
5 Blackburn Rovers
6 Blackpool
7 Bolton Wanderers
8 Bristol City
9 Burnley
10 Cardiff City
11 Chelsea
12 Coventry City
13 Crystal Palace
14 Derby County
15 Doncaster Rovers
16 Everton
17 Fulham
18 Hull City
19 Ipswich Town
20 Leicester City
21 Liverpool
22 Manchester City
23 Manchester United
24 Middlesbrough
25 Newcastle United
26 Nottingham Forest
27 Peterborough United
28 Plymouth Argyle
29 Portsmouth
30 Preston North End
31 Queens Park Rangers
32 Reading
33 Scunthorpe United
34 Sheffield United
35 Sheffield Wednesday
36 Stoke City
37 Sunderland
38 Swansea City
39 Tottenham Hotspur
40 Watford
41 West Bromwich Albion
42 West Ham United
43 Wigan Athletic
44 Wolverhampton Wanderers
45 Lincoln City
46 Southampton
47 Colchester United
48 Tranmere Rovers or Aldershot Town
49 Kettering Town or Leeds United
50 Gillingham
51 Swindon Town
52 Brighton & Hove Albion
53 Rotherham United or Luton Town
54 Franchise
55 Brentford
56 Carlisle United
57 Accrington Stanley or Barnet
58 Oxford United or Barrow
59 Notts County
60 Stockport County or Torquay United
61 York City
62 Forest Green Rovers
63 Huddersfield Town
64 Staines Town or Millwall

Lincoln away, please.

Glad i didnt

ian roper is a bit special.

The wife just said something very similar. :D

you just know we will get someone shit

Has the draw started yet. Stuck at kids party!

scum away to sunderland

away to fulham

Fulham away!

Fulham away

Fulham away

sweeeeeeeeeeeet

fulham away, happy with that

who have sheffield wednesday got?

FULHAM = TRAIN Journey - Fairly happy :)

Cool.

Happy with that.

SWEEET

George Best, Bobby Moore and Rodney Marsh played for Fulham the last time that happened.

3:3, replay 5:0 at the CG.

Count me in!!!

Not a bad draw IMO, we can do them if we are up for it.

Oi you useless cunts. Who have sheffield wednesday got?

Excellent draw compared to recent cup runs!

Paddington Station a sea of red and white, happy days.

Man u Vs Leeds/Kettering! Cracking tie

Good draw that. Nice little away trip.

C Palace.

didnt quite catch it, who did we get?

I've already told the wife to get the shed ready. I can catch a bus to Fulham, that's going to be one hell of a day.

Good games the last time, Moss and Eastoe took 'em to the cleaners.

It's up on the bbc site now. You lot were that slow.

Good draw,easy journey,even though their Premiership nothing to be scared of.

Was at both and can remember vividly

how much is that gonna cost for the train?

how many did Rovers take there a few years back? fair few if I remember correctly

This is totally true, George Best hit the bar at the County Ground before Swindon scored, no sick joke intended.

 Not quite a plum draw, but could have been a whole lot worse...we've never lost an FA Cup game at Craven Cottage in 3 previous visits.

£4.50 return for me!  If you pre book you should get train tickets for £25 or so.

Quote from a Fulham forum:

"i fear a motivated Michael Timlin pulling our midfield apart!"

7,000.

not sure of the numbers but there were more Rovers fans there than fulham

Can you get travelcards from swindon?

This will be the 3rd time i've seen Town play at Craven Cottage in the 3rd Round

1977 under Danny Williams,1987 under Macari and now 2010.

The 'away' end is in fact a neutral end

Nice day aaaught.

£1 each way on the bus for me :)

No need for a new away kit.

Would Wrexham had Huddersfield away if they had won?

Likewise. Like a home game for me. Should be a good day out and if were up for it we could stuff 'em.

Good draw imo

i make out our allocation should be around 3500 if they give what they are required to give. did they give rovers more or did rovers just sit in the home end and/or the gay 'neutral section' they have at fulham

its a fantastic draw-Craven Cottage is a great place to watch football

Chelsea have also been drawn at home to Watford,so one of the cupties will be switched
to another day.

can get there and back for less than £13 quid if you bought the tickets now with railcard!

Don't include tube though

About £20 plus travelcard.

Or different KO times.

shit draw, craven cottage is a shit place to watch football

Nice draw and should be a brill day out!

The pies are fabulous!

The Met boys won't allow that i'm afraid on the same day.

good point mr mayes, hold back on booking your train tickets could be a sunday kick off.

the pies are shit

ours moving to sunday would have me a days holiday.

All aboard to Putney Bridge!  :)

I reckon ours will be on TV

I think Rovers played at the Cottage with a sunday kick off.

More than likely that the Chelsea game would be moved in all fairness but we'll see.

i would have that chelsea would be a tv game as its london derby game ish so possibly sunday?

Ours won't be on TV

They do serve grolsh in the concorses though. NOM

i would love it to move to sunday, cant make a saturday game

No, Blackpool, or Lincoln or Tranmere or someone like that away would be a shit draw

Tickets better be on sale soon.

Ralphy wants to get the train.

We all know what happened last time he did :D

Might end up at Heathrow Terminal 5 this time... :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

yes, Blackpool, or Lincoln or Tranmere or someone like that away would be a great draw

Do hope not, dont fancy a massive monday hangover at work.

Thought you didn't eat pies

Me neither. Would much rather Saturday. Wouldn't quite be the same otherwise.

Nor me.

Fucking hell, I know you hang round with the youths but I had thought you were a bit older than an eight-year old.

I'll be going :D

I like it.

An ace day out in prospect (although like others I would prefer Saturday rather than Sunday).

Or Friday night would be good.

id prefer a monday morning 9am kick off

That'll be New Years Day though wouldn't it.

Nice draw that ! Easy to get to (therefore hopefully a good following), decent pubs around the area and a premiership side that for us is beatable !  :)

Good day out...reminds me off QPR away....lots of good pubs and a good old fashioned ground,looking forward to it already.

Can't bloody wait for this!  Do you think they will restrict the number of tickets each person can buy?  I know already that I will require several!

Hopefully they'll give us a decent allocation!

I wouldn't say they were beatable. Depends how week a team they put out

Though they did have chris baird in central midfield yesterday, so anythings possible!

They have to give 25% I think so that's at least 5,000. As has been said Rovers took 6,000-7,000 a few years back.

its weak not week, thicko

Town will get as many as they want probably....wont be a full house.

:(

sorry mate, but u showed a weekness and i exploited it

I see what you did there

Will us season ticket holders be able to buy tickets for non-season ticket holders? :/

They had bloody better be

non season ticket holders have to buy for season ticket holders in cup games i think

I bloody hope so!

Its only Fulham.

Thousands of tickets will end up on general sale.

No doubt all the glory hunting fans will come out from their holes tho

Doubt it for Fulham. Man U, Liverpool or Chelsea and you'd be struggling

nice draw  :)

Guys,

Another thing everybody needs to make a note of; We're due to play Southampton away
on 23rd Jan.They've been drawn at home to Luton or Rotherham.If they win, it'll mean our
trip to St Mary's will have to be rearranged,to a midweek fixture.

Of course,should be win at Craven Cottage or a replay at the CG, it would become academic  :)

Of course Alan we could still be playing there....in the fourth round!

To qoute XTC-"I'd like that"

Leefer, i can remember playing Pompey at Fratton Park on New Year's Day and then a return trip
the following saturday in the Cup, in 1988/89.

Damn right...this'll struggle to get 10,000. In recent seasons Fulham average about 11-12,000 for a cup game against, anything other than another London side or ManUre.  I'd imagine the price might be fairly eye popping as well.

Still 1500 Town fans should make a bit of noise.

Nice draw......i sense a day on the piss looming!!

If Rovers can take 6,000 i'd be dissapointed with 1,500

We will definitely take more than 1500.

I'd have thought 1500 would be decent...you've got to remember for Rovers fans a chance to get out of Bristhole for the day, is probably their annual holiday.

Fulham also have Spurs on the 26th and Chelsea on the 28th so they will probably be looking to rest several players on the 2nd....

Depends what they do with pricing, but a bog standard Prem game is at least 30, rising to 45 for an interesting game.

Wolves in the League Cup slashed prices to a tenner so fingers crossed Fulham will follow suit and do the same!

Reg, come off it. Fulham haven't got any fans so you can get tickets there for £25 even for Premier League matches. For the FA Cup against tinpot Swindon I'm sure they'll be lower. And didn't we take 2500 to Palace a couple of years back? I'm sure we could replicate that and hopefully better it.

The tickets for their home game with Sunderland go from £30 to £42!!

Away end tickets being £35

Tickets for the replay against Swansea last season were £20 for home fans

5th round and they got about 12000..

I've watched Fulham this season-£5 v Hull C

You were robbed!

£20 return with groupsaver

 ;D Good draw. Sould be going to that.
How much tickets will they wil give us?

25% would work out around 6k.

2 singles are £7.50 each way at the moment.dunno how much the tube is tghough.
I assume you go to Paddington?

 
 When you say ''good draw'' are you referring to the match, or what you've just been smoking ?

I didn't like the look of the times it offered, but you're right.

By the rules of the FA Cup the minimum ticket price is set for £15 for a third round game.

People must be on drugs thinking tickets will be a problem for this one.

I should think you'll be able to pay on the day!

Fully agree Spencer, and the ticket price will probably be set for £20 as both sets of clubs have to agree the price.

Thats not to say Im not looking forward to it though.

Lets knock em out!

I got a ticket for £15 for fulham on saturday. Expect the same for this tbh

Isn't that because the Football League set prices for LC games, rather than the clubs themselves?

As has been said, I'd expect tickets to be £20ish

Will be going to this  :nod:

My 30th 2 weeks later thinking of maybe just having a early birthday piss up for this.

Here you go DRS, found this, should aid your liquid quest.

'The Crabtree on Rainville Road (10 minutes from the ground) welcomes all away supporters and as a Fulham season ticket holder I can tell you that as long as you don't watch your football at Loftus Road you can be assured of a warm welcome'. To find this pub go along Stevenage Road away from the Cottage and the away end. On reaching the home end of the ground, turn left along an alley which runs behind the stand. When you reach the River Thames turn right and walk along the riverside path. You will reach the Crabtree on your right. Andrew Johnson recommends; 'the Zulu Bar (formerly the Kings Head), on Fulham High Street, is one of the nearest to the ground and is always popular with away fans'. Otherwise near to the tube station is the 'Eight Bells' and just further along Fulham High Street is 'The Kings Arms' and O'Neills.

Cheers Sutton bit wary of the Zulu bar to be fair

Flaming hell.  I spent two years living in Putney not so long ago, and now we get a tie like this.  I'm due to be working on the morning of Jan 2nd, so this works rather well.  (Short hop on the tube from the office.)  Persuading the wife that I need to be there less than 2 weeks before baby #2 arrives could be tricky one though.

London is surprisingly easy by train from Newcastle... I'm tempted but I'll probably save my "please let me have this Saturday off" for Leeds and Hartlepool away.

Most of our fans will end up catching the tube to Putney Bridge (on the north/Fulham side of the river), but you also see a lot of people coming in via the overland service to Putney station.  If you do end up doing that, there are some good pubs along the Lower Richmond Road in Putney.  The Duke's Head is an old favourite of mine.

Sure an email will do the rounds shortly Ardiles! I'll go with the (liquid) flow.

You 30 DRS......i suddenly feel very old.

I would imagine that PJ is typing it as we speak er, type.

Just hope I get to go to this one.  I've only been to Craven Cottage once, and we lost it in the closing minutes.  I love that ground.  Everything a football ground should be.  (Shame it's wasted on Fulham.  'Neutral Stand' indeed.)

So you should do :)

not sure if i'm happy about this one or not.shit ground,will be half empty,and we'll lose.
good day out in the smoke though i suppose

...every cloud :)

You should call for reinforcements from scotland Ardiles! She'll never know it was collusion.

Thank you very much, This MUST be done by choo choo

Still a little ray of sunshine as usual, I see :)

balanced. ;)

I think the coldest I've ever been at a football game was standing on an open terrace at Fulham covered in snow with a gale blowing in off the Thames - that was early January and possibly 0-0 - we didn't score anyway - early/mid-80s. Was that Cup or league?

I think you're probably right FWIW, just bloody miserable. In a balanced way :)

A quick chorus of "Men Of Harlech" should do the trick D!

 What do you really expect from a bloke who already knows he will be the proud recipient of 37 pairs of socks at Christmas ?

I never knew he was a centipede

For me that has to be Chelsea away in December 1990 in a cup tie, stood on that large bank when it felt like it was minus 6C. Think I ate about 3 burgers and had about 5 cups of coffee to try and keep warm.

Agreed. It's a shit draw. I'll still go though.

Fantastic draw (but I live about half an hour away from the ground, so I would say that). My first ever away match was at Fulham in the third round of the cup in 1977 - Fulham (inc George Best, Bobby Moore and Rodney Marsh) 3, Town 3. And we tonked them 5-0 in the replay. Same again would be nice.

Possible magic draw and brings back great memories....especially with Ray McHale "smashing" Best, Marsh and ex pox Evanson.... :D Came back to the County ground for the full monty....and then came the memories of West Ham in 67...
The wonders of the FA Cup....why the fuck do I live in New Zealand...???  :cry:

they not worried about yinky-winky then?

This is a great draw, I only live a mile from the ground and I love Craven Cottage. Shame they have the worst support in London.

I'm there this Thursday for the Europa game, I'll report back with beer and refreshments situation.

I think that if Pox get through it is absolutely vital that we take more to Fulham than they take up to Sunderland.

Poor old Oldham Athletic will have to travel down on a Tuesday night now too. It's nice getting to the 3rd Round just so we don't get a Saturday without football!

[gets excuses in early]We are going to have two London away games in a week, though.  I am wondering whether that will reduce the following we take to Charlton or Fulham.[/gets excuses in early]

If we were playing Leyton Orient and Barnet I might agree, but I'm hoping that the novelty factor of each of these ties will still draw plenty of people along. Charlton is on Boxing Day, where nobody has anything better to do (unless they love their in-laws), plus its a ground we haven't visited for a while, and possibly one we won't go to again in the near future. As for Fulham, it's an easy day out for a 3rd round tie against a Premiership club, with a reasonable prospect of an upset given that they will probably put out a weakened side (just look at the fixtures they have after they play us!)

A potential trip to Sunderland will be a welcome and quite radical change of pace for the Non-Leaguers... If they feel doing well in Non-League and travelling up with a lot of fans to the North East makes them more superior, then good on them (statement accompanied with a slow clap).

Good draw, nice and easy to get to from where I live. Will be going up on the train (Paddington). If it is a Saturday kick-off at 3pm, what time will the majority be arriving at paddington and onto to which pub to drink.

I'd think people will arive at about 11am and head straight down towards Fulham

Despite being a little bit financially limited right now I' going to this one! Thanks tax payers!

I'll be going straight down towards the ground.

:nod:

Paddington > District Line > Putney Bridge > Pub

Not planning on going to the game then, Sam?

I can see the sense. In fact at Carlisle we were debating whether to let the game ruin a good days drinking!

My old Head office was right by Putney bridge..

I liked the Temperence Pub near the church where some of the Omen film was shot..

exactly right. just need to decide on the pub

Quite right Mr Flash.that would be St.Stephen's and it did indeed feature in the Omen.

On previous visits to Craven Cottage,i walk from Putney Bridge station through Bishops Park,
to the ground.

The park is usually closed after the game,so it's a case of walking up to and along the
Fulham Palace Rd,back to the station.Easy walk,no problems.

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but chelsea got drawn at home as well.

Whats the chances of our game getting moved to the sunday to (sort of) ruin 3000 town fans piss up?

Yeah, but I couldn't be bothered to type out Paddington > District Line > Putney Bridge > Pub > Game > Pub > Putney Bridge > District Line > Pub > Paddington > Pub

London away trip, beautiful. The fact it's a Premier League club is a bit of a bonus (although the chaps on the other side of the river would have been nice)....

Is Mohammed Al Fiyad still anything to do with Fulham - or did I dream that?

Yes, he owns them.

<Pedant> Who's that then? Palace, Millwall, Charlton? <Pedant>

ahhh good! thats funny I was in Harrods on Sat - maybe its a sign that I need to visit Harrods before attending the match?

When we beat Fulham ( :) ) we'll send you to Sports Soccer. Quite fancy Newcastle away, I'm sure Pullen will agree with that too.

Pullen agrees.

Batch I have a parcel arriving from sports soccer any day funnily enough oh and Pullen loving your avatar picture thing! When me and the gay looked at the Xmas catalog today we loved his face!!!

For me it will be:

Little drive to Train Station>Elmers End>Charing Cross>District Line>Putney Bridge>Game

Nice and quick - About 30 mins for me!

I'm taking mine with me to the game :)

Ha Ha so am I !

My lot have been to four Town games and we've won them all !!!(last one Southampton)............I therefore insisted !  :nod:

If your going to Elmers End, jump on the tram to Wimbledon, and then jump on the district line there, should be even quicker.

Drive to the train station?

Your insane, it only takes 30 mins and youre not having a day on the ale?

or its a 90 minute walk, although i could get the bus...

Never thought of that - there is a tram station 10 mins from my house - even closer than Elmers End -Thanks!

Anyone got any idea when tickets will go on sale?

When they know what day we are playing i suppose.

Yeah OK fair enough that makes sense. Hopefully that will be soon. I assume the FA and TV people will sit in a room together and work out how to make each other the maximum amount of money and then we will know.  :soapy tit wank:

I will put money on the live games being Man U v Leeds/Kettering and Chelsea v Watford.

Premier league lovers innit

Dont they usually show 3 live games from the third round onwards?

They would normally if they had two TV companies, but Setanta have gone bust, so what they've been doing is that 2 games gave been on ITV, with one live on the official FA website for free.

Train tickets cheap if you book now for Fulham.

Yes, but for which day?

i think it'll be on TV. be a better game than that Chelsea/Watford shite :)

No they won't.

They'll show Man U against Leeds and probably the Plastics against Scousepool.

Not forgetting the choice of West Ham v Arsenal and even Middlesbrough v Man City,plenty infront of Fulham v Swindon,we got no chance of being live.

If the West Ham vs Arsenal game DOESNT get chosen by TV and moved to the sunday then I am pretty sure someone in London is going to get moved by the Police.

I dont think the Met will cover West Ham, Arsenal, Spurs and Chelsea all on the same saturday 3pm KO.

Jills could be at Barnet if Barnet win their replay at Accrington.

You cant beat the cup. Pure random. The unseeded draws are anarchy and long may it continue.

Millwall or Staines are at home to Derby.The Met will look at a combination of games in London
on saturday and sunday.They don't like the possibility of travelling fans "meeting up".

Of course due it being a bank holiday weekend, they could play some games on New Years Day, a traditional footie day.

Yeah I would have thought we'd have a league game on the 1st Jan. Does that not happen anymore?

Jills wouldn't travel through any of our stations would they? Other side of London.

If the FA Cup 3rd round wasn't on the 2nd Jan, then there would've been a full league program. They no longer play 2 games in 2 days anymore.

When did New Years Day games stop tho? We were at home to Swansea on New Years Day only like 2 years ago. Or did that fall on a weekend?  ???

That was swansea on new years day.

OK fair enough. Didn't actually go myself. I'm not usually in much state to go to footie new years day.

And our reputation isn't very good with the Met or the transport police up here

I think it's purely because the 2nd is a Saturday. If it wasn't, they'd play on the 1st.

Really?

I presume suttonred is referring to our 'full and frank' discussion with Oxford last year near Paddington Station after the Gillingham game.

and Millwall if they beat stains. they'd be at home to Derby.

ummm I cant be arsed to read through all this is the date confirmed yet? :)

no

Nope.

Around 20-30 swindon got put on a bus with an escort of about 5/6 riot vans when we played millwall a couple seasons ago too. I was trying to find a photo taken out the back of the bus earlier it is funny. The ratio was like 1 riot van per 4 or 5 swindon.  :soapy tit wank:

Does anyone have any idea when they will let us know when the game will be played? Guess once the replays have happened they might have more of an idea about what they want to do?

I'd love to go but if its played on the Saturday i don't think i'll be able to get off work,so if it was played on the Sunday it would suit me a bit better.

i was on the bus and managed to get off before it left london bridge :)

really? I was too. how did you manage to get let off?

I just said to one of the coppers "do i look like a cunt?" I was with bushey boy and his mob and the police basically said go on fuck off the lot of you. To be fair wish i had stayed on it because the bloody bus got to the den before us.

I'm surprised that worked because I had one of the coppers call me a cunt. To which I called him one back. I don't think they're supposed to say that to people and I expect when people say that to them they might often get arrested. Haha stuff gets said in the heat of the moment.  :soapy tit wank:

I think we are talking about the same bus. A red london double decker, right?  :D I will see if I can find the photo at some point.

yes thats the one, parjed out the front of london bridge, we were on the bus and could hear you lot coming thats when we all jumped off :)

Date confirmed: Saturday 2nd January, KO 3pm

Sauce - http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10341~1894249,00.html

ooooh how exciting

Now the wait to see how much ticket prices will be

Any idea if they have moved man u vs leeds?

As ours is saturday I need leeds moved to sunday!!

Works out cheaper to buy Swindon to putney and avoid paddington doesn't it?

paddington = map bishop & bear :D

Just buying 4 now forgot to hit groupsave button! Paddington it is!!!

Only changes from Saturday 3pm kick offs are:

Saturday, 2 January 2010
Reading v Liverpool, R3, 17:15

Sunday, 3 January 2010
Chelsea v Watford, R3, 15:00
Notts County v Forest Green, R3, 15:00
Sheff Utd v QPR, R3, 15:00

Bar the Reading game they all appear to be due to clashes with other local teams. No announcements on TV coverage yet, have to wait and see what happens as the FA still haven't managed to sell the other package which I'm assuming ESPN or Sky will pick up within the next week or so.

i'd better find a group!

what time trains are people taking?

Think bennet is looking to, but that would mean spending the day with him...don't see that as apostive!

See the 'secret' section.

Tube sign means tube travel included right?

me, bennett and randall are down, just checking on a 4th...

how much is it from swindon?

no idea... luci?

20 each!

22 including tube......

I just looked on first great western at was £6.75 e/w so £13.50 in total. Thats without tube.

I can't wait for this game!

I cant make the FGW site work ,keeps kicking me back,

Im never going on a train again as long as I live!!- had a V bad experience last weekend!
Plus I want to go to the Harrods sale first!

You should do the megabus then. Only a pound. Gets into london about half 10.

I give up,I dont seem to be able to buy train tickets.

Im struggling to find prices too

Surely that's still more expensive than everywhere else though?

On a Harrods related note, [here he goes again...] me and a some friends had to attend a psychology lecture in London back when i was doing A-Levels. Me and a mate (who incidentally went on to do a masters in said subject) decided it was boring. There were hundreds of people from schools all over the country in some massive lecture theatre and half the shit these professors were talking about was very dull, so we decided we were going to sneak out from under our teachers noses and go to Harrods all day instead.

We made it out unnoticed, sneaked to the nearest tube station and caught a tube to knightsbridge and made it to Harrods. We then spent all day browsing, walking around, and being teenage twats and even managed to buy a few Chirstmas presents. We then managed to get back to the location of the lectures, sneak in amongst the crowds, as everyone was leaving, then onto the bus with all our class mates back to Swindon.

It was a proper adventure, the only downside was our teacher was livid for ages because "we clearly hadn't listened to a word that was said all day and didn't even bother to take notes." We were also often on tenterhooks because our mates would often loudly ask questions about the lectures, or hint about Harrods, to try and drop us in it. Happy days.

I don't go to buy - just to look at nice things I can't afford!

I liked your story though!

the only thing i've ever purchased from harrods was a samosa.

it was okay

Harrods used to do these amazing cookies, fresh. They were full of chocolate chunks the size of squares of chocolate from a bar. They were warm and soft and the chocolate was closer to a liquid than a solid. They were boss - to quote a random bristolian.

I had a cupcake from Harrod's when I was in London to see Spinal Tap - Both the Tap and the cake were amazing.

I saw Terry Venables and the fat teacher lady off ladette to lady in Harrods on Sat!!! Beat that!!

I saw the Queen ther once

If I turns out you can watch swindon vs. fulham away in the FA cup for just £35 for the train + tube + ticket then that is just fucking awesome isn't it?  :D

i want to watch the football whilst in harrods :)

You could do a quiz at the same time...

Mr Al Fayed could pop up a big screen? Would be so much more warm and comfortable than a football ground we could go to the foodhall at half time!
This is possibly the best idea EVER!??

hey, you could marry dodi?

I don't think you can legally marry a dead person.

Think you can in some US states Sie.

oh, well that's JFW told again

I'm gonna buy myself a battery powered heated jacket. I know it's off topic, but i'm sick of being cold at football and decided to announce it here. Actually it's not a jacket (they're very expensive). I'm getting a battery powered vest thing for about £35. :D

I think that is unofficially the best, but yet most underutilised, football spectator clothing.

I'm sure JFW would have read about it seen the pictures in OK magazine

nope, it appears that bit of news slipped under her radar

Oh well, it's better she learns these things eventually. Gone are the days she used to email me for wisdom.

I knew - I just ........ forgot  :-[
Is this you treating mean to keep me keen again Mr Bennett?  ;)

so after all that they only move the Chelsea game and leave West Ham, Arsenal, Tottenham, Millwall and Fulham all playing at the same time.

oh it's gonna be a fun weekend :)

Tickets are £15 for adults. Our initial allocation is a mere 3,900.

To be fair we'd struggle to take more than that. That's over half our usual home attendance.

good prices for the tickets.

train tickets have doulbed in price and I cant have the day off unless I can talk someone who already has it booked off into coming in...

Pull a sickie, Dave.

I think we will take 3,000 - no more than that though

Agree 3k max, although i've got 2 others coming with me who dont normally already.

I think we may sell that out actually.

I know absolutely loads of people who want to go to this that are either non town fans or just not regular attendees.  

For example, of the three people that are coming along with me, 2 support United and 1 supports Brentford but fancy a day out in London and a trip to the Cottage!

My 3 housemates are coming, a Torquay fan, a filthy yid and non-football person respectively. Although physical attendance to the actual match cannot be a given.

after i've had the holiday request turned down.

My hope lies with Kettering or Manchester police!

There is a pub by Putney Bridge station, where they pile away fans into - its great straight of the train into the pub.
That said the walk along the main road is not great if you have had a few

I finally got a train ticket £19.15

Ill probably be on my own so if people could pretend to be my friend that'd be nice  :D

Me = Glory Hunter

Im assuming i'll get a ticket after the 16th,if not ill go in the home end I guess.

Got mine for £15 Swin - Padd return.

We've been allocated 3,900 initially

prices (advanced):

Adult £15
Concessions £10
Junior £5

season ticket holders can get them from wednesday 8th ... does that mean we can buy them for non-season ticket holders as well? :S

I'd imagine you can buy a few yeah

Season ticket holders can get as many as they like. Which is lucky for me

I think we will sell out our allocation and ask for more!

We won't sell all 3,900.

well rovers took 7500 to their place so if we don't sell 3900 it's a fucking sad day.

Bearing in mind it is against and at a Premier League club, its our New Years game, the cheap prices, its the FA Cup and its close'ish and easy to get to, we should be able to sell the 3,900 and then some. Even my dad wants to go and he hasn't been to an away Swindon game in years.

I think we should declare an amnesty on turn coat Premiership fans (who were Swindon) for this game.

But after that they can go FUCK THEMSELVES.

We will Onion oh we will...keep em peeled......why ...because we are getting results..today was a massvie result...lots of old time town fans are stirring...i can here em in the cloisters mumuring....come on you reeeeeeds.....come on you reeeeeeds....come on you reeeeeeeeds!!!!!!!!!!

Lots of my kids mates who only come to a couple of games a season want to come to this - good day out in the school holiday.

I hope so. Come back and lets see what we can do in the new year.

With the team that played yesterday weve got every chance of getting promoted.

Anyone booked train tickets for this yet? If so, how much are they? (I have an Oyster card so won't need tube travel if it's needed)

Group saver is £20.

i think we'll sell that allocation. my dad is going and he's only been to one away game in 40 years.

Its cheaped to get a group saver travel pass on your ticket than use an oyster card, I had a look as was thinking of using mine

I have at least 5 or 6 mates who go to the 1 or 2 home games and never away these days who are all going . We are all going up on the Train from Newbury has anybody organised a meeting point in the smoke ?

Don't know if this has been said, but it now says on the official site that tickets will be restricted to two per season ticket.

I saw that but in all fairness, they had to as otherwise they'd have requests for silly numbers!

Might get mine tomorrow.

Do you think they'll want one of the lettered tickets from the back of the season ticket book?

Nah. They never get used for anything.

Cool.  I didn't think so!

Tickets aren't on sale to ST holders until Thursday now.

Sorry for anyone who had planned to make the trip to the CG tomorrow.

yes.

Since when?

Nothing on the OS

Apparently Fulham didn't post the tickets in time for them to be available tomorrow?

Source?

Im just going to wait until they go on general sale.

The ticket office

To anyone that's Interested, tickets ARE already on sale today as planned.

I've been on hold for 15 minutes. Grrr.

I put money on it getting called off due to freezing weather. They dont have undersoil heating...

What kind of Premier League team doesnt have undersoil heating ;)

Tickets are there, I got 4 this morning.

just got 4 tickets for the game

only 3900 away fan are allocated for us

Only 3,900? It's a disgrace eh.

To be fair i think that'll be enough.

Plus there's always the home end if they sell out.

They'll give us as many as we want, as the home end won't even be half full. 3900 is just an initial allocation.

Im sure they will give us more (if we even manage to sell the initial allocation out).  Nothing to lose really, provided they don't want us to pay for each allocation in bundles like thieving Leeds did.

Has anyone managed to get more than 2 tickets per season ticket over the phone

I'm after 3

you can only get 2

Cheers Tans

That's a bit of a shit then, how am i going to get three people sat together.

Is it a sit anywhere away end or are the tickets seat specfic

Just wait until they go on general sale next week. There'll be plenty left i'm sure.

True

Yep, that's what we are doing. We need atleast 5 seats but only have 2 STs so are just going to wait.

so far 1,100 sold according to ticket office just bought mine!

They're not really checking the season tickets, let alone taking one of the vouchers - they just need to see the plastic wallet (as you wouldn't have one unless you had a season ticket). So you could always pop along to the ticket office and have a couple of different people go in with the same season tickets.

Or go in at different times and just ask them to swap the tickets over so they're all together.

they area checking post codes if you order by phone though...

No one will sit in their allocated seat anyway so you will all be sat togheter no doubt.

what difference would that make then?

Not Easy to visit from 60 miles away

You'll get one person come along and say 'you're sat in my seat...'

Get a life.

To see if you have a season ticket.

They took my ST number when I 'phoned, so they must be marking it on their records.

There will plenty left for when they go on general salenext week anayway, or if not we can just ask for more.

How much is postage is you order by phone?

I didn't pay postage at all, but there is a £1 booking fee.

What John said, they don't charge extra to post them out.

Got mine today. Didn't even take my ST with me to the ticket office just gave them the details. Wasn't really that busy so surprised we have sold over 1,000 already.

I hope they aren't really funny about seats, away days should just be first in gets pick of the seats! Easier thaan organising a load of drunken away fans!

Cool I will get mine Friday then.

Someone said you can pay on the day anyway but better off getting them early

You can but it's £5 cheaper in advance anyway.

See Hatts coaches are going...they do all the Fulham home matches anyway...£35 for ticket and travel...think they stop at a pub on the Thames as well...if you want a drink and no train hassle could be worth it...apologies to Sal if shes reading!

I called Hatts but its not them...I booked the whole package with Swindon Travel in Havelock Street. The girls in there seem to know their football stuff  :)

Are they fit though?

Have a look!

It's a bit out of my way. Can I have a clue? Is it worth the detour?

Is Fulham's away end undercover ?

Yeah, GoGo, perhaps you could pop back in and take some pictures of them? Nothing too risque, just mildly provocative poses would do for starters. Then if there's some interest, we could see where it goes from there

The whole ground is under cover PtP

That Hatts trip to watch games as a nuetral at Fulham is for fucking saddo's.

Yeah you wouldn't be sat with the other Town fans would you?

At Fulham Premiership games?

Got my ticket :D

My 4 arrived today, I reckon we'll be about 15 rows back (sounds ideal).

I have 7 :)

Ile name that Ticket in 6!....goin to be a great day out.

The tickets Swindon Travel sorted for me are right up next to the away block and undercover so not much difference in my eyes! The doris I dealt with said that we've got an optional pre-match visit to a riverside boozer...job done! :D

Yes, but if your sat at the front you may get wet

It's my work Christmas party tonight. To avoid a hangover (and for fun) I am going to continue drinking when I wake up tomorrow. When I get to the memorial ground I will have been pissed for some time.

Now you just be careful young man. I know what you can be like.

Not sure that is relevant to this thread however.

I think he's started drinking already.

I meant to post it in the Rovers away thread  :-[

and me


and Sussex

My mate went down and got our tickets today, he said guy in the ticket office expects initial allocation to sell out tomorrow.  Apparently we have sold over 3000 already and have around 800 left.

Got mine today. Yippie!

If that it is true its a bit of a joke! But hey, weve got half a chance of matching Rovers' away following there a couple of years ago.

Does he think we will get anymore?

Ahh I was thinking of waiting until Thursday to book, but now I'm not so sure. I'm sure we'd get given an extra allocation but I don't want to have to wait, or to rely on that hope! Better get it sorted and see how many of my friends want one!

hopefully grab mine tomorrow lunch

I only get a 20 minute lunch break. Going to have to sit in a queue on the phone I think!

Nearly 3000, Bloody bandwagon fans piss me off.

What all the season ticket holders? Whens general sale again

Probably only sold 2000 and the bloke's giving it his usual guff anyway.

Tomorrow morning isn't it?

Dunno that's why i fucking asked ;)

Pretty sure its tomorrow......is that right??

I dunno. I think it's tomorrow?

Bloke tells people what they want to hear I guess?

Spot on...if we need 6000 tiks we will get them......Torquay are 3 up at Stockport in the fa replay.

I was told 2900 about 4pm today, and that they expect to sell out tomorrow.  No mention of a further allocation, but surely that won't be an issue.

Got mine today.

This has taken some very delicate negotiations with Mrs Wiggy, as it is her mum's birthday and we always have the in-laws to stay. Still, the in-laws have decided that it will be culturally enriching for their grandsons to have a day in London and have agreed to delay their visit.

I love my mother-in-law (who is a WBA fan and very well disposed towards Swindon right now).

I have been waiting for 10 mins and then 15 I think the phones are off the hook

just got 3, took 35 mins on the phone. 97 left.

I have given up, I will go to the ticket office myself if they get some more

just perservere with it herman

This is all very exciting!!!

Bloody thing is engaged now, I expect when I do get through they will all be gone  :)

Same....grrr

Dachauer, if you get through, get me 4 please. Cheers :-)

I'm on hold too!

Been on hold for 10 mins!!

If it took Juddie 35 I'd get a cup of tea!

Oh my god just got through after 40 mins now only about 20 tickets left!! 

Just got through, they are turning people away who are in the ticket office because of the number of people on the phone, only 28 left when i got mine and they are all scattered about!

Seems I will have to wait til we get given more  :cry:

fuck all left really, all odd seats. tempted to just get em for the 4 of us but guarantee someone will pipe up with your in my seat

Just been on the phone to ticket office....only scattered ones left.

If you want tickets together, have to get them off of Fulhamfc.com, for the PUTNEY END, which is a neutral end, next to the away end. Either online or on the phone...

I am pretty sure we will get a further allocation to be honest

Guy in the ticket office said not...said that we need to contact Fulham directly to buy tickets for the putney end, neutral bit....?

The neutral stand and the away stand are the same thing

yeah, main point is, ticket guy doesnt expect any more tickets, have to go to fulham direct from now on (allegedly).

If we've been given 3,800 tickets i don't think that stand will hold much more regardless. Think we've either been given the whole stand or those without tickets should get a move on!

It would appear i'm chatting bollocks and the putney end holds almost 7000.

Carry on

What did the gas do then?

I'm sure it won't bea case of sit in allocated seats surely so buying scattered should be ok?!

Hope so the only tickets available on the Fulham website are seated right on the end

This is bollox, just spoke to fulham, they will be sending some more...

If a stand is half empty then fine, but how is sitting where you want going to work in a sold out stand?

2000 more coming tomorrow - question is shall I sit on the phone all day waiting for one or go to Swindon and get one

Guy in the ticket office said that they're getting another load of 1000 tickets at lunchtime tomorrow.

so is that 1000 or 2000 arriving?

Did they say how many more, I've just phoned Fullham and must have pressed the wrong option as I ended up talking to some woman who was at the training ground. Didn't tell me much but warned me not to sit in the home end! (also seemed to think that there would be no neutral end for cup games). She did say that the away fans are usually given P5,P6,P7 which is the opposite end of the stand to the ones available on the website.

Edit:  2000 available tomorow (on website now)

Been on fucking hold all day! No luck. Will ring first thing in the morning.

The neutral stand is right next to the away supporters.  Speaking to Swindon Travel in Havelock Street it would seem most of that has been filled by Swindon Fans also with a few Fulham fans in there.

I reckon there could be over 7,000 Swindon fans on the day including the ones in the Neutral stand

Having an away following larger than our average home crowd would be a touch embaressing.

it's going to be a fucking ace day out

Shit my pants! I know loads who haven't bought yet including me and my brothers, where have all these armchair dwellers come from?

Confirmed on Official Site another 2,000 available from tomorrow.

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10341~1906667,00.html

I would advise anyone wishing to go to get them ASAP because they'll get snapped up pretty quick too

We're in P4. I'd imagine with the extra 2k there won't be many home fans in 'our' stand.

For a person right in the middle of all this, this 'man in the ticket office' is a little ill informed to say the least

I was told yesterday we'll be getting an extra allocation for general sale. Oh, and if like me, you kindly agreed to buy tickets for someone else plus one who's now decided that he actually needs plus three, you can't swap seats once you've booked them due to Fulham's computerised turnstiles apparently. Quite why that makes a difference I don't know, but "Computer Says Nooo"

I'm in P1. Whilst booking, my cousin refreshed the page and the whole of P3 just booked up!!

I'm in P1 as well-when I phoned at lunchtime the guy in ticket office said we weren't getting anymore allocated but said I could go on Fulhams website to buy em which I did.......so where are these additional seats then??

My sister's boyfriend bought nine tickets for all his mates, but if they can't find cheap(ish) train tickets then he may well have a few spare tickets. I'll let you know if they do.

Still not got mine yet. Plastic's taken a hammering over the last few weeks so I'll just have to hope there's some on sale on Saturday.

I just did the same as you by phoning Fulham's Ticket Office and booked in Block P1.

I'd suggest any out of town fans,to get a move on.

this is gonna be mint. let's fill the whole ground!

well the question is, get tickets for P1 now from the fulham website, or wait until theextra ticekts go on sale tomorrow from STFC, which I guess are from P2 and P3, e.g. about 1000 in each...

I face a similar dilema

All the tickets are in the same end aren't they? So it shouldn't make too much difference whether you buy them from Fulham or Swindon. Either way, I'd make sure you get a ticket soon as the ticket office will probably be mental on Saturday.

the fulham away end holds 6500.

if we've sold 3800 + 2000 (arriving tomorrow) leaves 700 spare in the away/natural end.

if i was you i'd get tickets now whichever way you can as like others have said these tickets will sell quickly and before Saturday i reckon.

All aboard the :bandwagon:

If I find any plastic fucking shirters have got a tale seat on the choo choo ahead of me I will turf em out I tell thee

Went with the safe option and booked from Fulham site, me + 3 will be joining JimBob and Alan Mayes in P1

 :D

Have we decided on a pub yet?

One that sells beer.

I said meet at the Mad Bishop and Bear

what time you getting in to paddington frederico?

i think we are at 1130

about 10.15 mate

Is that south side bruv?

as for seating we're in block P7 row I.

where is this Pub at Fred?
Edit: Found it
http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub1544.php

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Got mine today! No idea where I'm sat as a mate booked for me, somewhere near the front apparantly. You just know they're going to enforce allocated seating too what with it (almost certainly) being a sell out

They should've made tickets for people buying a ticket for Saturday before general release. Bloody bandwagons supporters.

Not a bad idea that, although you have to get around the fact some will have already bought tickets for the Brighton game a couple of weeks ago, and some genuine supporters might not be able to make the Brighton game, which would be a bit harsh on them!

Or put them on sale to season ticket holders, then to people who are on record as have buying a ticket for league game recently and then general sale.

The thing what annoys me the most for some reason, is travelling on the tube for a League one game would be easy, no problems. Now with 3000 odd going, it's going to be carnage travelling home. Especially bandwagon fans.

We should have a protest about these bandwagon scum!

I don't think I've been this excited about an away game for ages!  Should be awesome but train home is going to be messy!

What will amuse me is anyone planning on going to London for the January sales on that day will have an interesting suprise when they see a train full of town fans!

I am going to die.

Straight off a 14hr night shift with an hours kip onto the train :)

Dont be a miser. Stay for a pint.

Besides underground trains are massive. The crowd is going to be around 15,000 and there are going to be a lot bigger crowds in London that day. Your comment makes us sound a bit small time to be honest, Fulham have this every game, they give away supporters big allocations.

Just hoping Town can make us proud. It could be worth a lot of casual fans for the rest of the season.

p6 row z, 5 of us.

Agree with that Spencer.

It doesnt take that long to get out of wembley with 70,000 other fans on the tube does it?

I think it was prob 30 mins at the most

Got mine today! Going to be a cracking day.

Indeed, football fans on the train on a Saturday, that will come as quite a shock, especially London-bound. Do London even have a team?

Enjoy your day out folks. Really wish I could join you, but no chance of that. Bring me back a pint of Tribute from the MB&B please Fred......

dry your eyes you moaning fecker.

Should go back in time and put a Special train on...those were the days.

London games that day.

Fulham v Swindon
Spurs v Posh
Brentford v Doncaster
Millwall v Derby

Look's like I will be travelling back up the A1 with a load of Posh fans then :)

I didn't think I'd have to specify "from Swindon" in my post but clearly for you Dave I do...*yawn*

Tbh i'm surprised it's sold out so fast. Wasn't expecting us to sell so many. Thought we would sell 3,000 though.

Didn't fancy queing in the cold and wet to possibly be dissapointed so decided to go in neutral bit to be on the safe side, how many on here doing same? Do people think there be any neutrals/Fullham in there (looking on the Fullham tickets site there are loads sold in that section and I couldn't imagine many Fullham fans rushing to get ticket this long before the game)

THe 'neutral' bit is just the last block, P1, of the putney end behind the goal, swindon are gradually filling up all the other blocks, P2 to P7 or 8. I dont think there is even any partition between them.... I will be in there, along with plenty of others. There wont be any fulham in there, the whole end behind the goal will be swindons...whether or not we fill it is a different matter.

Some of my fammily are from Surrey and they use the nuetral end at Fulham quite a bit. The boys like Chelsea, but Fulham is great value and they do go in there quite a bit.

Anyway, they are going in the nuetral side for the Swindon game (mainly in the hope of goading me  ;D). And obviously it is school hollidays, ideal to time take the boys to football.

So thats the sort of people you will probably get in there, local Dads and kids. And a few Japanese tourists, but probably mainly Swindon fans!

Good because I'm not very good at being quiet! Although I don't swear quite as much since I've started taking the lmy 6 year old. Do you reckon we'll be ok in our shirts (in terms of getting through the turnstyles as apposed to being beaten up!)

Shit the bed. Best get my arse in gear, no good having cheap train tickets if I've not got a match ticket.

Yeah, it will be fine.

In general I think they are keen to relax segregation rules at football across the country now where they can.

The lady in that shop that do the Fulham game said they got a handful of tickets left and that it will be just swindon fans because they have done away with it being a neutral end.

According to her we will take over 7000

I read fulham get special dispensation for having 'friendly fans'.

Its crazy behind the putney end, fulham fans have to walk under that stand to get to the riverside stand, meaning fans of both teams being able to mingle in the concourses

I'm really looking forward to this as it seems like one of those old school grounds that's a bit different. Should be a cracking day out.

Its one of the best grounds I've been to. The cottage in the corner, one stand practically over hanging the Thames and a park just behind the away end. Be a pity if they ever move to a new ground.

Me and my group will be sat in P6, roughly where the bridge of the "A" is in FULHAM.

you mean where the M is?
The F is P1, U is P2 etc

Your probably right, but where is P7?  ???

it's the small section on the right near the building.

Where are we Sam ?

Does anyone know anything about the parking facilities at Fulham???

It's not good round that area, most of it is permit parking, if you can park further out and tube to the ground, it would be easier.

hmmm OK thanks - My other half is not a great fan of public transport! we had a very bad expereince a few weeks ago!

Tube is normally fine.

I don't like the term (and perhaps concept) of a "neutral side".

What is it supposed to be full of people who don't give a fuck who wins and just want to see a good game or what?  ::)

You could park up at Hammersmith (couple of decent sized NCP public car parks near Hammersmith tube) then 10 minute walk to a pub called the Crabtree by the river and in the direction of Craven cottage (Fulham Palace Rd direction). Then a further 10 minute walk along the river from pub to the ground.

Block 1 I think.

did you get yours through Fulham FC?

Block P1 i thought was left as the neutral zone

Much as I dont like public transport Im not a huge fan of walking either!  :D
But parking there is a good idea!

P3 for us bit of queue on the go

I don't know then. Bought from STFC ticket office. Haven't got the tickets with me to check. All I know is we're definitely in the away end :)

is anybody else actually fancying us to do something in this game? Now they're in the UEFA Cup last 32, I reckon this game will be the least of their priorities...

I've been trying on the phone for an hour, cant even get into the queue to wait!

Can Sheehan and Ward play? Without them, I'd say we're fucked or it will be the upset of the century.

Sheehan playe at Wrexham, so yes. Can't see Bolton using Ward in the later stages.

I'm assuming this extra 2000 are selling well then!

seems that way. good news though as 6k town fans cheering the lads on will be fucking ace and will make loads of noise

There must be more available if this 2k goes as 3800+2000  doesn't equal the 7k rovers had.

Didn't someone say the away / neutral end holds 6,500? Which would be 5,800 to us and Fulham selling 700.

yeah i did. said somewhere on tinternet that the Putney End holds 6500

Wonky maths there methinks

Plan b might be called for shortly, I.e getting my Fulham mates to get me tickets!

just phone them yourself. others did yesterday

i went down about an hour ago and heard someone saying they are having problems with the phone lines...

Thought they may have taken off the hook, will try in an hour or so again, cheers for that.

playing in the blue kit too

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10341~1898033,00.html

also we've been demoted a round

Sutton, you can get tickets for block P1 yourself, go direct to Fulhams site and do it online or on t'phone.

Cheers JO i'll do that.

I noticed that too. Was Woking a preliminary round game?

got 3 in the not so neutral bit!

I hear there are 1000 more coming tomorow aswell.

Why? We play in Red.

Joke board decision to sell shirts.

They blatantly didn't have enough people manning the phones or the phone system is crap or something. My dad said he's been trying all afternoon to get through and a lot of the time he couldn't even get in the queue. He queued for for 27mins and didn't get through.

Blatantly much easier to just go down to the CG in person.

Not if you live a long way away.

as much as i like the blue kit i do agree we should be wearing red

We should wear Red our kits wont clash!

I am row P6 row WW fuckin hell at the back! :)

Don't you still have family in Swindon tho. You could ask them to go.

No

P6, Row H :)

P6 Row G for my 4. Bet I'm in front of you sods!

We're 124 and 125 I think.

I think I'm 145 +3 but not sure which way!

P7 Row I for us but no idea where.

Ralphy where are we sat

This is going to be a great day...Fulham aint going to know whats hit them....looks like we will have a good 6000 there...some of the Town players will get a glimpse of our potential fan wise...looking forward to it.

It'll be loud that's for sure, my fulham mates at work are already resigned to being in the minority.

It's our lucky FA cup kit  :)

P6 is where it's at.........I'll be a few rows directly behind you

What's all this about ticket swapping?? Because I originally got two adult tickets but then me and my mates got 4 young adults (didn't realise at first!) and i gave the two adult ones to my mates brothers... Surely that wouldn't be a problem? How the hell would they know anyway?

Got a feeling it won't be that noisy, because all the singers will be separated in different areas of the stand... it'll be a quality day out though.

If we can't make noise with 6500 people in one stand it'll be a tragedy!

A lot of people who are shy about singing will join in once the volume increases.

Dont worry, the beer will prevail, i very rarely sing, but i think me and donkey were the main vocalists at Carlisle thanks to 3 hours in the pub beforehand.

I've been to Chelsea many times and there is metered street parking about between the bridge and the cottage.

Plastic!!

Not at all R4E  :)

A mate of mine has been going there for about 30 years, I go along a few times a season with him (including last Saturday).

I was quite concerned about not getting a ticket, but had to start work at 2 today. So I roped in my poor old mother to phone up for me :D On hold for 30 minutes only to be cut off, she had to go and pick my brother up from school after that! Got through just after 4, thankfully. Seeing what others have said maybe there was an issue with the phones.

Is there any update on how many have been sold now, I guess that won't include the neutral sales?

Got a feeling it won't be that noisy, because all the singers will be separated in different areas of the stand... it'll be a quality day out though.
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surround sound!

Just hope it's not called off, not sure what fulham facilities are for keeping pitch from freezing

I don't think it'll be that noisy either.

just got mine - over 6000 at the minute.

Cant be yet, the last 1000 tickets aren't arriving til monday.

Im only going by Jockanory in the ticket office...nice chap!!

He is actually always friendly on the phone....doesn't know shit though ;)

I like to think the ticket office guys just like to have a bit of a competition and tell people total bollocks then see who posts it on here first.

Seeing as our cup performances where the final nail in the coffin for Malpas last season and Fitton always telling us how important they are financially, it would be interesting to see how much we've made from the cups this season compared to last.

Maybe £200k more than last season?

After the fulham game, i reckon that wouldn't be too far from the mark.

If we can learn to win penalty shoot outs it would be big bucks.

Haha mint, my housemate got me a ticket for my Christmas present! Fuckin amazing, 4 of us going, gonna get absolutely schamozzled.

Phoned the ticket office this afternoon and they've reserved me two to collect tomorrow.

Going by Ambulance Herthab?

Only kidding of course...you going by train

Cheaper than the train! Can't get a return though..

I can arrange the return

Harsh.

If you don't want a lift back the fuck ya.With that attitude someones going to give you a right slapping one day

Herthab...was down in Crewkerne on tuesday...was there a murder in Martock?
Was grabbing a coffee and i heard the locals on about it.

Yeah. Some bloke only just released from prison torched a garage. The owner and his mates beat him up and left him in a ditch just outside Martock. Think he died of his injuries, together with exposure.

Blimey...Murder in Martock most foul.

There's justice for ya, don't let arriba see this he'll fuckin ejaculate.

http://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/page/TicketNews/0,,10328~1185060,00.html

it would appear rovers were allocated 7,000 tickets. why do we only get 5,800?

Because theyve got better away support than us?

Nah, clearly they need more home tickets available because we are a bigger draw than Rovers.

These away ticket allocations are pointless anyway coz I'm goin in the home end with my 'Dodi killed Di' banner.

If I am reading the OS correctly we have sold 4600 so far.

I take it to mean they expect all 5,800 to be gone by today.

The way I read it is we sold the initial 3800. Then we were going to get another 2000, but it looks like 1000 at a time. So we have received 1000 with 200 left to sell, the other 1000 (other half of the 2000) we will receive next week. Confusing  :nod:

Tickets just arrived in post  :)

Block P3 Row E. Ace.

The official site now says that there are only 800 tickets left. Hopefully they'll go early next week and we'll pack the away end!

Plus the ones town fans have bought from fulham site for the 'neutral' end, few hundred in there I reckon...

SAS apparently got 18 coaches booked, best turn out for a few years.

I havent got my ticket yet, anyone got a spare? Cannot get to the CG before the match.

Give the club a call, they have 800 left.

I think we will make a god atmosphere, not that Fulham fans ae great at all but if 1,200 at Brentford can make god noise all game then im sure 6,000 will at Fulham

My thinking too!

We will make less noise than Brentford, different type of stadium, and people will sit.

We will still make noise though. Sadly, this is probably the biggest game we will play all year.

Is it going to be a L&P day?  :)

No idea

everyday is a loud and proud day!

You've got me thinking...but nah.

It's too late and too big a crowd to organise much. We could surf the 12th man shirt and stick some flags out but personally I can't be stuffed to do anything.

I think the away following willl be L&P enough in its own way to be honest. Don't need us for this one.

What are the chances of everybody standing at the game, rather than sitting?

I'm going with my dad who has problems standing and walking for short periods let alone an entire football game.

So if people are going to be standing we're going to have a problem and best I know now so I can hopefully sort something out. Maybe see if they can move us to another section where people will be sitting.

Or does anyone know what Fulham are like with people standing, do they allow it or force everyone to sit?

On match of teh day it looked like people were stood up behind one of the goals, as an indication of Fulham's attitude. But to be honest I can see a lot of people moaning if everybody is stood up. It's unfortunate that we can't have an area for standing and an area for seating in the modern game really.

I've been to Fulham a few times and it's been mostly a sitting away crowd, rather than standing.

Very chilled out ground, in my experience.

If everyone sits down then it'll be a piss poor atmosphere. I'll probably end up falling asleep due to too much alcohol consumption.

My tickets restricted view apperently,im not arsed I'll probably leave early if were losing anyway.

Restricted view? Think it's a fairly new stand with no pillars so god knows what that'll mean?!

It has got pillars

There are a few small pillars. You'll probably get a much better view than the town end anyway

I saw that but then it was Man Utd and they have (or had) major problems with standing at Old Trafford. Though I think you could be right that most people will expect to sit as they aren't the hardcore away fans. Probably a lot of families and part timers just going as its a big cup away game.

You're forgetting the play-off final when we beat the filth from Milton Keynes. :)

Does anyone know whether they will expect people to sit in their ticketed seats?  My seats are right at the back (so should be okay for standing), but my mates are all scattered around the stand. 

And I agree that the "less experienced" away fans making this trip might not be thinking the same way that we on here do (stand, sing, shout abuse etc), but I'd expect enough of us to be there that we can get a good atmosphere going.

Probably

have we sold our allocation yet?

i know we've sold the initial 3800 but how many of the extra 2000 have we sold?

with the away end holding 6500 i reckon we'll fill the whole stand considering people have been buying tickets straight from Fulham

anybody else watch the highlights against United with a slight degree of apprehension?!

It had me reaching for the record books to see what our heaviest FA Cup defeat is.

I can see records being broken and not in a good way.

No, as Man Yoo had no recognisable defenders playing, and they played an unusual 3 at the back.

Fulham will make some changes, and we've got nothing to lose (except a spot in round 4).

Anything less than a 3-0 defeat means we are officially better than Man Utd.

My tickets are for P3, row JJ. Anyone close?

Im in GG 50ish

Qq 127. Rah Rah

seems like we're all scattered around which hopefully should be good. pockets of town fans wanting to sing should (hopefully) generate the rest into a singing frenzy :)

did anyone see the Blackpool/Preston game a few weeks ago on sky?
The Preston fans were housed on the side in a temp stand and started singing "if you all hate blackpool jump around". the stand was jumping around which caused the cameras to go funny and had to switch to the otherside of the ground. it looked ace.

would be good if we could do a "if you all love swindon jump around" and then go fucking mental :)

That stand at blackpool is well scary...If I remember rightly someone actually fell through it. Was the week before our game up there.

the old one at MK (behind the goal) was scary too. fuck knows how it passes health and saftey

We lost 10-1 in a 4th round replay at Maine Road in 1930....shame we couldn't have finished the job in the home leg which ended 1-1.

We'd won 2-0 at Old Trafford in the 3rd round.

Our last away game against top flight opposition was Leeds away 2004 and the whole end stood up that night (2500 fans).

I think the fans who went up for a Tuesday night in Leeds might have been a bit more hardcore than those heading to Fulham for a Saturday afternoon kick off though, unfortunately. I really hope I'm wrong.

I bet Johnny72 wasnt there, so that in itself makes it a much more hardcore following.

YY 128

Block P6 apparently

i hope we do stand up. nothing like standing and generating a good atmosphere.

Leeds 2004 was ace.

we're going up
you're going down

Great night that one. Town fans were as noisy and mental as I'd seen them at an away game for ages.....half that effort at Fulham will scare the shit out of them !

Well weve got to be louder than this.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RDSDP6sVT0

i know thats thegas but fuck me that looks ace, we will have more than that too :)

Have to say...impressive

I dont expect a win, but a goal, or at least something to get excited about would be nice....

I actually seem to incur a feeling of new found optimism for these kinds of games and worry more when we play league games against opposition at the bottom of our league!

Never say never but as long as they give their all and it's a great away day, that to me is the main thing.

Is everyone pre booking their train tickets? Surely we are going to fill them, making trying to get one on the day.

Looks to me like Rovers were sat down in that video too

That is mint, I hope to fuck we get a goal at our end whilst the gane is still alive.

Have we sold 'em all yet?  ???

weve sold 5100 according to the OS. 800 left.

5100 plus whatever the neautral section is. Also, the 800 figure was from Saturday night so doesn't include any that were sold today.

no, most of them were stood up

Should be a good laugh then. As has been said before, i hope we get a goal in at our end.

There is a good section on the Fulham OS that gives a view from the stand we'll be in; it's under the restricted view seats section (interactive page). Plenty of legroom.

I'm actually getting quite excited about this now

Bloody hope Eurostar's working again by then as I'm coming over specially on a day-trip for this one! Any TEFers in P2 for me to talk to?

Can't wait till this game, should be a very good day out.

@ Red Frog - I'm sat in P2 - BB - 36

Hopefully decent seats.

At the left hand edge of P1, so you can shout over from P2 i reckon.

I'm P2 - AA - 31 so you should be able to spill bovril on me.

You won't be able to hear me over the wall of sound.  ;)

I'll try my hardest not spill anything   :D

Hopefully get a good atmosphere there, although alot of people are split up should sound good if there is singing all round :D

Having sat in the stand we are in the other week for the Fulham CSKA Sofia game, there is plenty of room with a good view pretty much the whole stand. The stewards don't make you sit down, but it annoyed me when Fulham fans stood up every time the ball went towards the Putney end. Up and down, up and down. One or the other please.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuMbrQ5oxJ8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuMbrQ5oxJ8)

or louder than this

Yep, that clapping thing we do and they do is crap.

i think we're sat near where that kid with the yellow t-shirt is on the right. fucking hope people sing inthere and it's a good view. right in the corner :/

There's lots of yellow shirts

3 seconds in

I have a feeling that someone is overly excited about this game...

Yeah... you!

Who me....?!

Yeah, you are getting a tad excited about it.

How has the little trip to Soho planned out?

 :fishing:

I don't get to go to London very much on the beer bus.

This would be on the year I am spending New Year in Scotland! Might be going to see Dunfermline v Raith which is apparently a derby match. Have to save up for the 4th round trip to Old Trafford I suppose!

For those of you who already have tickets for Fulham...........................which stand are your tickets for??

Is it the Putney End and is anybody in P1?

Putney end P2

Also putney end p2

yes, myself any many others

They have released 600 tickets to us in the upper tier, I have brought one of those.

We have sold 5928 tickets excluding those in the "neutral area" - no more available from Swindon, just restricted view available on the day

I'm sure it has already been posted somewhere on this thread but pubbage before the game??

I asked the same Q in another thread apparently it is in this lot somewhere but is The Eight Bells I think it's called, by Putney Bridge station.

I've been advised to stay clear of The Eight Bells...

 Have to admit to getting this one wrong in terms of travelling fans...proper old school Swindon having a massive turn out for a cup game. I'd imagine Hodgson will put out his reserves for this, thing is though Fulham have a tidy squad. Might Wilson be tempted to do the same....

there is not a chance reg that wilson will not put out his strongest squad.

we have 6000 fans going and there is a buzz about the game that swindon has needed for about 5 seasons. good performance and our home attendance could regularly tip 8-9000 as we chase a play off place.

Agreed Tonga!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why? Are you hiding from Ash?

Reg, seeing as our last manager was sacked by Fitton for poor Cup showings their is not a chance in hell of Wilson putting out a weakened team.

I think you are on a bit of a wind up sometimes.

Its a good old fashioned pub...but small and if you get there late prepare for a long wait getting served.

I'm heading for Earl's Court. Loads of pubs and just a few stops before Putney Bridge.

I'm going to this lovely little bistro for a glass of wine before the game as apparently the trains will be 'dry' on Saturday.

We are planning on the mad bishop at paddington and then play it by ear. If the 8 bells is going to be rammed with queues at the bar, we may not bother. Just going to decide on the day!

4 cans from the shop it is then.

That's the norm for Train journeys anyway.

Only 4?

Im taking a crate!  :D





Im not really, id be dead

I have to drive to slough on sunday so not much drinking for me :(

Gutting.

Why would you be advised to stay away from the traditional away pub?!

I thought about Earls Court, but the pubs are a bit of a walk from the station.

Obviously the one to avoid is Fulham Broadway because it will be full of Chelsea.

LETS FUCKIN DO EM

Cos he wasn't actually advised that but thought he's say something to stir it up?

Some people have mentioned it Dmr but it's most likely bollocks.

Yeah, fair play, but heard on another forum that 8 bells was no longer an 'away' pub.

Few beers at Paddington and then see where everyone is meeting / going to. 8)

Im not scared so you shouldnt be :)

Scared no, just don't fancy 8 deep at the bar  ;)

Brizzle - Cardeff on the telly at noon ain't it? Not sure who to abuse most?!  ;)

I've got some fulham mates who said it isn't an away pub anymore, the london boys are still heading there though. The only issue will be if the police are there and move us all on, but hey that's what mobiles are for.

They're not playing until Sunday. There are a few good pubs a few yards from Fulham Broadway. If you want a good fry up then turn right out of FB, walk to the junction, cross over, follow the road for about quarter of a mile and you will see a cafe on the left (right next to a roundabout).  :I'm a complete mofleakin Deak

why dont you just drive later in the afternoon daffyd?
were you in the legends lounge at the yeovil game? If it was you, You look a bit like one of the blokes in trainspotting - tommy

Fulham have had hardly any arrests for years, they are an aggro free club.

The Fulham supporters club base themselves at the Golden Lion. To be honest, if you are in small groups Im sure they would fancy a chat though.

There are 4 or 5 other pubs around Putney Bridge (other than the 8 bells or the Golden Lion).

In terms of drinkers, Swindon will outnumber Fulham 4 to 1 around the ground.

Yes i was and no i don't.

I'm not a good driver at the best of times, I need to be in peak physical condition.