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9.29 train from Swindon.

Get on it.

will do.

Do you know, i may go from Paddington down at 8.30 just to get on it. Eieieio.

As I said in the match day thread, I've booked my tickets already before the ticket prices get ridiculous. £30 each for an open return with travelcard.

get on it, electroniccccccc

Do we do tubey bits included or what? I haven't been to London much in ages.

For the cheapest ticket:

9.29 from Swindon > Didcot

9.47 from Didcot > Paddington with Travelcard

No Group Savers available on this journey though.

I don't even know the date :(

rather get on the 9:13 from Banbury

£40.40p group saver return

29th may

the Mrs is off on holiday to Wales without me soapy tit wank

will people be going through didcot? if so, i'll get the train there... need a good away day this season, wembley sounds like a decent option.

It will be my first game of the season :)

i'll be driving from Bedford and tubing in, 12 days to go, i just cannot wait. 17 years since Leicester, it's going to be one fantastic day.

plastic

it'll be my third.

HELLO BANDWAGON! YEAH

Yes. It's the 9.47 from Didcot.

29th yeah? Three days after my birthday. I'm thinking a few bottles of (cheap) champagne for the thrain journey might be in order.

Too fucking right.

Although I think I've suffered being a regular during enough shit seasons that I deserve my time melting like a discarded biro in the wemberly sunshine.

It's the day before my wife's birthday too.

my girlfriend has an exam on the monday, she's another plastic bandwagon jumping town fan

On a bank holiday? That's hardly fair.

how many do we think we'll take?

i'll start. 39000

good point, must be the tuesday then.

anyway, bandwagon etc blah blah

I just remembered I'm off work next week too. Result.

score, £38.20 for two off peak returns with travelcard. how much will wembley tickets be?

i can't afford this whatsoever, so if anyone feels like donating some money to me please do

We won't get that many tickets, probably only about 30,000. The middle tier will be empty.

It'll still be fucking brilliant though!

37k is the standard allocation isnt it?

Is it? That's good then. I was only guessing :-)

I have an exam that morning, i've only just bothered to look for train times...impossible for me to get there. i'll be in a quiet student pub with a scarf, shirt and flag singing to myself, unless i KoT it. Does anybody know how i go about booking a flight from Sheffield to #wherever is near Wembley#?


The exam will probably be the worst exam ever.

Yar. Could of sworn that's the number I keep seeing teams being given.

Wahay. Dust off the credit cards.

Probably park near Ealing Common and tube the rest of the way.

the standard allocation is 37000

the dearest adult ticket 98 and it ranges down to the cheapest adult ticket which is 36

fucking brilliant.
i'm sat in my truck about a mile from wembley and can see it clearly right now.the place is quite well lit up tonight, so i think they have the lamps on to try to get the grass growing.
can't believe we will be in there in less than a fortnight.

I'll probably stay over in London after the test at Lord's and meet some of you fellas in Laaaahndaaaahn

Good on you.  Toot that horn all night.

didn't watch the game, but 5 lives coverage had me going through every emotion.
so chuffed we are getting that day out

Not as many as Oxford

What a great day it will be. Fuck the result, i'm sure we'll all be gutted if we lose but at the end of the day the fact we have made it this far is an amazing feat in iteself. Never been to Wembley so looking forward to it. Hats off to the board, Wilson and the players for turning this club around.

Just got back from charlton, CANT WAITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

I hate you all

How many did the yellow scum take???????

I concur.

I am fucking totally gutted I can't get to this or even watch it, but I may be home in time to catch the 2nd half.

i think they took 33k

We'll take a few more than that.  I know loads of people already who haven't been for ages and are up for this.

(Cue another 15 years of whinging about bandwagon jumpers and 'Where were you when we were at Grimsby on that cold Tuesday night in February...?')

Couldn't agree more.  I'll be trying to find a bar in Beijing that's showing it.  

Yup, me too.  I'll be ignoring the speeches at a wedding and glued to my iPhone. Totally sucks.  If wedding was earlier/kick-off later I'd have been able to make it!

Strange because they say they took 33000 and York 10500 but attendance is down as 38957!  :hmmm:

Same as that....I normally go with 2, 3 others. Will be going with about 7 or 8 to wembley. If that is repeated by others, it soon adds up.

Cant wait. Will be an amazing day out.

what are the best boozers around Wembley

I'll be drinking in the worlds end, baker street. OS says its a 36,700 allocation in ticket news.

36,700 tickets then. Should sell out tomorrow.

To sell out would be immense!

Also, I know its stating the obvious but this is fantastic for the club, think of the extra revenue made from shirts sales etc etc.

I recall 17years ago the whole town really got behind the club, with messages in shop windows etc etc...I wonder if that will happen again?

ticket details announced at 3pm today

Sweet. Will want to get a decent seat if I can.

the middle tier looks a nice view. Think they're wembley club seats aren't they?!

A possible seating arrangement with simlar prices?

http://www.seetickets.com/blackpool/

Anyone think they sell briefs at student prices?

Normaly yes but the company i work for has 4 for all games but not for any of the playoffs, so i guess they are on general sale (i asked to see if i could blag some free ones, worth a go) :-[

Ive just rang our ticket provider at work - hes just can do me those seats for £75 a pop!!! bit of wee just came out!

http://www.wembleystadium.com/NR/exeres/B0BA5178-8E45-414B-91F5-65B38B38FD29.htm

bargain :)

meh - nots as if its something Im gonna do very often so I dont mind paying a bit extra to have a good seat!!

my thoughts exactly. would rather have a good seat than not.

will be an expensive day but i'm well up for it

my poxford mate said the club wembley seats for their match were £40 each. Lets hope ours are similar

We've been allocated 36,700

go back a page Phil

Um. This is going to be a 3pm kick-off right?

It's just that I've already booked my eurostar tickets...   :unsure:

i imagine so. depends what time Sky want to show it tbh

anyone wanna get me a ticket and i'll pay them on the day? (assuming my plan of going works)

so you want someone to buy you a ticket for a game you're not sure of going to yet?!

hmmmmmmmmm i'll pass thanks

I'm allowed to spend up to £50 for a ticket so hopefully I can get a Club seat.

Already have 2 first-timers booked on the wemberley bandwagon

haha, i would't make them buy me a ticket if i wasnt 100% sure i was going, just planning in advance, im not that much of a cunt.

Queue like the rest

im phoning up, fuck queing.

i'm sending in the gimp aka Ralphy

Apparently we're using ticketmaster for the tickets?

cant fucking wait.

Good people queing for hours round the block seems a tad old hat!!!

[url width=469 height=287]http://media.ticketmaster.co.uk/en-gb/tmimages/venue/maps/uk4/12761s_a.jpg[/url]

I booked a mini bus last night.

Can't wait! Getting a coach up there!

Ticket also booked! Block 140, 7 rows from front! YOU REEEDSSS

BLOCK 136 ROW 9

Block 134 row 24

3 ticket Block 133 row 20.

That cold tuedsay night at Grimbsby- great wasn't it :D

A reliable source (Chelsea bloke who does Wemberley at least once a season) recommends The Green man on Dagmar Avenue as a good watering hole/ feed station. Food and Beer cheaper than at the stadium and food a lot better. Gets rammed solid but they have been doing this for years and the system works (aledgedly) :beers:

The Green Man (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=wembley+stadium&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=12.240319,27.817383&ie=UTF8&hq=Wembley+Stadium&hnear=Wembley+Stadium,+Brent,+HA9+6,+UK&ll=51.556996,-0.289915&spn=0,0.021715&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.556973,-0.289786&panoid=OxvAZ-LCNPyexHyWgMMj-g&cbp=12,344.79,,0,14.24)

That's what i think me and some mates are gonna do. Did you get it with a driver and what's the damage like please?

I concur, been there a couple of times before gigs. I'm not sure we'll be able to take it over before Millwall do though.

it's on our end of the stadium so hopefully a lot of town will go there first

It is at our end of the ground so that will give us a head start.

It went badly, after submitting the online booking the e-mailed us last night to say they didn't have any.  Tried all the local and not so local companies and everything has gone.  Only ones left are driven mini coaches but you are looking at £300+ minimum for a 12 seater.  I wouldn't minf betting that the club has already sourced every available seat in Swindon!

Just got my tickets!

does the online thing show what tickets are sold? If so, is it filling up nicely?

You can only log in once. It just displays a few blocks of seats in the various price brackets at a time, so there's no way of knowing how many we've sold.

Oh... Sounds a bit of a fucker. Who did you get yours with and where did you find the one you mention above please?

The price seems alright as will still be cheaper than a train, but if availablity is low, i can't imagine finding anything at all when my mates get their arses in gear which will probably be the 28th. :)

We tried to book a limo yesterday they had loads but today only a pink one left! All the lads Im going with refused!!!

A question for those in the know....if you are in the second or third tiers at the front, are there hoardings in front of you to hang flags on?

yes

Surely you mean ''all the lads I'm travelling with''??

There are, but the stewards can be a bit (read as a lot) arsey about it - especially if it is a flag of a sufficient size to be worth taking in the first place. Worth a go though, you'll get it back at the end if they take it off you and you can still hang it up in the pub before/after.

are the rear rows in the stadium under a low roof?

Anyone travelling down from up north? Can't afford to go but if i could hitch a lift from someone to Swindon that would be fantastic.

Does someone remember the old Wembley? Back row, see fuck all.

My Dad is coming down on the Saturday from near Harrogate straight to Wembley, not sure if he would be prepared to give you a lift but I can ask.

Much appreciated even if he did happen to say no, I'm very grateful that you would ask, Cheers.

i'm mainly on about the bottom tier really.alot of the modern grounds have the rear rows under the above stand.if that's the case at wembley i'd rather sit elsewhere.

I know what you mean, then roof blocks out half the stadium, but this isn't the case at Wembley. You'll be fine.

Oh right, I think it's a more of a problem at Arsenal rather than Wembley, but I've not yet been to Wembley so can't categorically confirm.

thanks.

Block 140, row 44.  Counting down the hours. 

I wonder what the mood will be on here this time next week?

Either way I'll either be sulking and avoiding all things Swindon Town or down town celebrating all things Swindon Town!

Hopefully no-one will be on here at all this time next week

EDIT: Except for Sippo

I seriously can't wait for this.  I'm leaving home at five in the morning to get to my old man's for eight.  Bite to eat, off to get the coach in Swindon leaving at half nine.  Coach back to Swindon after the game, then back to the old man's - then a three hour drive home.  After seeing the character we showed at Charlton, I really do believe we are going to win this.

I can't wait either. If we win it will be awesome.

However if we lose I won't be gutted. Pretty meh actually.

I love League One, it's our natural home. Much better that the CGH is half dead on match days rather than rammed with glory hunters. Selfish, me.  :D

Surely going on the forum is a bit rude baring in mind his relatives have travelled 200 miles and he won't see them again for a few months? :)

That's an extremely good point Barry. In fact, as a mod, could you lock his account for the day so as to avoid the risk of any temptation to breach good etiquette in such a flagrant manner?

His misses is one step ahead of you. She requested i remove this potential distraction "because he hasn't seen my family for a few weeks and won't see them again until mid-June."

Mid-June? I hadn't realised this was such a serious case of estrangement. That's almost a lifetime in "not seeing missus' relatives who've come quite a way" terms

you can't blame him for missing wembley, I see that now. travelling such great distances to see him could take quite some time, best part of three whole hours. lets be honest, who can afford to waste half a morning in this day and age. oh well, in seventeen years time sippo may get another shot at it, as long as its not the day to pay the paper bill or something equally unmissable

i bet sippo wears a pinny when he's doing the housework.

Exactly. As batch has also realised, i don't think you truly understand the gravity of the situation until you see the bigger picture. It's easy for us to sit in excitement grasping our Wembley tickets with nervous, sweaty palms, but if you just imagine sippo's perspective for a moment, you really begin to see how we take going to Wembley every 17 years for granted.

Sippo, get your arse down to Wembley. Can't imagine anything other than a funeral getting in the way of this date with destiny. Do it!