Pre-season V's Crawley

[Spencer_White]

Sorry to be so fucking sad as to look up a pub on the internet. But is that it?

http://members.tripod.com/~jonrose/firkin.jpg

Only finnishing work at 12 but might be able to make it. Bit tight on time. Swift one. May be four of us, possibly more.

[Reg Smeeton]

This fixture v Crawley will provide a rare example of STFC playing a team who's name is also that of an England Test cricketer......the eponymous John Crawley....he of the getting beaten up in a bar in Cairns.

  In total there are 3 other instances namely I. D. G . Salisbury purveyor of leg break and googly.....we beat Salisbury in the FA Cup 4-0 in 67.

 Shrewsbury......Arthur Shrewsbury who played in the 1890's is a genuine legend of the English game.....he was an early sporting impresario, who took cricket teams to Oz and rugby to NZ.....he was also a very good player, he commited suicide in the Trent Bridge Inn.

 And the Hon CJ Coventry in 1888, who I know nothing about.

I knew about Crawley and Salisbury but how the hell can you remember about Arthur Shrewsbury.

 I've got Arthur Shrewsbury's biography......its a good read about the 19th century development of cricket into the game some of us know and love.

[Sussex]

Link doesn't work mate.

It's this pub:

http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/11/119/Railway/Crawley

You can do Swindon to Crawley in about 1 and a half hours.

A lot less if Asher's driving I'd have thought!

[walrus]

Hour and a half if you're motoring!  My record is only about 1 hr 20 I think, and that's doing the ton pretty much all the way.

One tip is to go via the M3 to skip all the roadworks on the M25, and shave 10 miles off your journey (but you do drive along slower dual carriageways, 40mph/50mph restrictions etc.).

[BrightonRed]

One tip is to go via the M3 to skip all the roadworks on the M25, and shave 10 miles off your journey (but you do drive along slower dual carriageways, 40mph/50mph restrictions etc.).

Using this route can make a huge difference to your journey time. Esp. because of the roadworks between J12 & J15 M25.
Get off the M4 at J10 and head through Bracknell to the M3, then rejoin the M25.

[sonicyouth]

anyone fancy giving me a lift? i have a strange urge to go after today and i'll probably get lost driving there myself  

[Whits]

you'll have to drive past my house sonic on the way, i'll let you know in the week

[Mexicano Rojo]

my mate the oxford fan is going to come, and he doesnt mind people taking the piss but if anyone twats him (not that i think any of you would) i promise to kick the living daylights out of you
yes thats the pub, defo take the m3, and we will nedd to take cabs to the ground as its on the outskirts of crawley unless there is a car park there? walrus?

[Bob's Orange]

my mate the oxford fan is going to come, and he doesnt mind people taking the piss but if anyone twats him (not that i think any of you would) i promise to kick the living daylights out of you
yes thats the pub, defo take the m3, and we will nedd to take cabs to the ground as its on the outskirts of crawley unless there is a car park there? walrus?

What if noone owns an M3?

[Asher]

Ha ha, think im in nottingham so cant make it.  Although debating selling my hotel room and tickets to the moto gp on ebay....

[walrus]

There's not a carpark I don't think (or if there is it isn't a big one) but on matchdays people tend to park along the grass verges of the dual carriageway strip between the M23 and Broadfield Stadium roundabout.  I'm sure we can find parking places, I'm an expert match-day car-parker.  I parked on someone's driveway for the Brentford away game, and in front of a police/fire/some kind of station for the Colchester game  

I got that day off, but the shifts manager moaned like a bitch.  But ahh well, Swindon always comes first!  

[Sussex]

There is a carpark round the back of the ground (I park there for work) and it's about the size of the CG carpark.

Plenty of other places to park around there also.