Free Coaches To Rochdale

Operation New York!

Bugger. I've just booked my holiday to Rochdale with Thomas Cook.

RedPanda said:

HandG said:

Good work from the club but a 6:55am start on a Saturday is truly brutal. You would need to pay me to travel that far by coach.....

Well they're calling it free coaches but have only bothered with one coach...

Indeed - 6.55am at Bexleyheath is completely unnecessary and geared for a trip to Bromley. As usual the timings show no grasp of the real world at all. You start at Bromley and Larkfield unless you are seriously intending to run only one coach, which cannot be the case. Can it?

I'm not even leaving Ramsgate until 9am.

bbob said:

Airman Brown said:

RedPanda said:

HandG said:

Good work from the club but a 6:55am start on a Saturday is truly brutal. You would need to pay me to travel that far by coach.....

Well they're calling it free coaches but have only bothered with one coach...

Indeed - 6.55am at Bexleyheath is completely unnecessary and geared for a trip to Bromley. As usual the timings show no grasp of the real world at all. You start at Bromley and Maidstone unless you are seriously intending to run only one coach, which cannot be the case. Can it?

Will you be laying on an alternative free coach that leaves at a time you approve of?

Do you not think it would make sense to plan for more than one coach?

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Just put the ground's postcode in google maps and it says its 240 miles from my part of town (no doubt taking me around the M25) and will take 4 hours and 10 mins if I leave now. Probably not going to be any quicker on a Saturday morning, or evening coming back.

That's not the issue. It's the fact that the club routinely sets times that send people on (up to) a two-hour pick-up trip before they even leave Charlton, which in turn has helped kill the demand for people to use the coach at all.

sorry mobile phone thing and fat fingers !

Airman Brown said:

bbob said:

Airman Brown said:

RedPanda said:

HandG said:

Good work from the club but a 6:55am start on a Saturday is truly brutal. You would need to pay me to travel that far by coach.....

Well they're calling it free coaches but have only bothered with one coach...

Indeed - 6.55am at Bexleyheath is completely unnecessary and geared for a trip to Bromley. As usual the timings show no grasp of the real world at all. You start at Bromley and Maidstone unless you are seriously intending to run only one coach, which cannot be the case. Can it?

Will you be laying on an alternative free coach that leaves at a time you approve of?

Do you not think it would make sense to plan for more than one coach?

I would imagine the club will lay on more than one coach should the demand be there.

It's a free coach and a good gesture by the club. No one is forcing you to take them up on it, much like life in general - if you don't like it don't do it.

All seats have been taken on the 2 free coaches supplied by the football club.

Covered End said:

bbob said:

Airman Brown said:

bbob said:

Airman Brown said:

RedPanda said:

HandG said:

Good work from the club but a 6:55am start on a Saturday is truly brutal. You would need to pay me to travel that far by coach.....

Well they're calling it free coaches but have only bothered with one coach...

Indeed - 6.55am at Bexleyheath is completely unnecessary and geared for a trip to Bromley. As usual the timings show no grasp of the real world at all. You start at Bromley and Maidstone unless you are seriously intending to run only one coach, which cannot be the case. Can it?

Will you be laying on an alternative free coach that leaves at a time you approve of?

Do you not think it would make sense to plan for more than one coach?

Airman Brown said:

bbob said:

Airman Brown said:

RedPanda said:

HandG said:

Good work from the club but a 6:55am start on a Saturday is truly brutal. You would need to pay me to travel that far by coach.....

Well they're calling it free coaches but have only bothered with one coach...

Indeed - 6.55am at Bexleyheath is completely unnecessary and geared for a trip to Bromley. As usual the timings show no grasp of the real world at all. You start at Bromley and Maidstone unless you are seriously intending to run only one coach, which cannot be the case. Can it?

Will you be laying on an alternative free coach that leaves at a time you approve of?

Do you not think it would make sense to plan for more than one coach?

Airman Brown said:

bbob said:

Airman Brown said:

RedPanda said:

HandG said:

Good work from the club but a 6:55am start on a Saturday is truly brutal. You would need to pay me to travel that far by coach.....

Well they're calling it free coaches but have only bothered with one coach...

Indeed - 6.55am at Bexleyheath is completely unnecessary and geared for a trip to Bromley. As usual the timings show no grasp of the real world at all. You start at Bromley and Maidstone unless you are seriously intending to run only one coach, which cannot be the case. Can it?

Will you be laying on an alternative free coach that leaves at a time you approve of?

Do you not think it would make sense to plan for more than one coach?

Airman Brown said:

bbob said:

Airman Brown said:

RedPanda said:

HandG said:

Good work from the club but a 6:55am start on a Saturday is truly brutal. You would need to pay me to travel that far by coach.....

Well they're calling it free coaches but have only bothered with one coach...

Indeed - 6.55am at Bexleyheath is completely unnecessary and geared for a trip to Bromley. As usual the timings show no grasp of the real world at all. You start at Bromley and Maidstone unless you are seriously intending to run only one coach, which cannot be the case. Can it?

Will you be laying on an alternative free coach that leaves at a time you approve of?

Do you not think it would make sense to plan for more than one coach?

Well do you ?

No offence to anyone but I just had a vision of Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry standing over the bad guy saying 'Well do you punk'

RedChaser said:

Covered End said:

bbob said:

Airman Brown said:

bbob said:

Airman Brown said:

RedPanda said:

HandG said:

Good work from the club but a 6:55am start on a Saturday is truly brutal. You would need to pay me to travel that far by coach.....

Well they're calling it free coaches but have only bothered with one coach...

Indeed - 6.55am at Bexleyheath is completely unnecessary and geared for a trip to Bromley. As usual the timings show no grasp of the real world at all. You start at Bromley and Maidstone unless you are seriously intending to run only one coach, which cannot be the case. Can it?

Will you be laying on an alternative free coach that leaves at a time you approve of?

Do you not think it would make sense to plan for more than one coach?

Airman Brown said:

bbob said:

Airman Brown said:

RedPanda said:

HandG said:

Good work from the club but a 6:55am start on a Saturday is truly brutal. You would need to pay me to travel that far by coach.....

Well they're calling it free coaches but have only bothered with one coach...

Indeed - 6.55am at Bexleyheath is completely unnecessary and geared for a trip to Bromley. As usual the timings show no grasp of the real world at all. You start at Bromley and Maidstone unless you are seriously intending to run only one coach, which cannot be the case. Can it?

Will you be laying on an alternative free coach that leaves at a time you approve of?

Do you not think it would make sense to plan for more than one coach?

Airman Brown said:

bbob said:

Airman Brown said:

RedPanda said:

HandG said:

Good work from the club but a 6:55am start on a Saturday is truly brutal. You would need to pay me to travel that far by coach.....

Well they're calling it free coaches but have only bothered with one coach...

Indeed - 6.55am at Bexleyheath is completely unnecessary and geared for a trip to Bromley. As usual the timings show no grasp of the real world at all. You start at Bromley and Maidstone unless you are seriously intending to run only one coach, which cannot be the case. Can it?

Will you be laying on an alternative free coach that leaves at a time you approve of?

Do you not think it would make sense to plan for more than one coach?

Airman Brown said:

bbob said:

Airman Brown said:

RedPanda said:

HandG said:

Good work from the club but a 6:55am start on a Saturday is truly brutal. You would need to pay me to travel that far by coach.....

Well they're calling it free coaches but have only bothered with one coach...

Indeed - 6.55am at Bexleyheath is completely unnecessary and geared for a trip to Bromley. As usual the timings show no grasp of the real world at all. You start at Bromley and Maidstone unless you are seriously intending to run only one coach, which cannot be the case. Can it?

Will you be laying on an alternative free coach that leaves at a time you approve of?

Do you not think it would make sense to plan for more than one coach?

Well do you ?

No offence to anyone but I just had a vision of Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry standing over the bad guy saying 'Well do you punk'

That's what I had in my mind, but thought best not to add the punk

£1 meet and potatoe pie im on it for that reason alone

Addickted said:

bobmunro said:

HandG said:

Good work from the club but a 6:55am start on a Saturday is truly brutal. You would need to pay me to travel that far by coach.....

You would need to pay me even more to go to Rochdale. Have you been?

Worth it just for the £1 meat and potato pies.

£1.00 meat and potatoe pie im on it for that reason alone

RedPanda said:

Northstandpieeater said:

Did they not sell the free coach last time; ill giving going a lot of thought tbh

Considering the 'free coaches' in this case consists of 1 extra coach, and they've already sold that out, maybe I'm wrong.

I think these days 'free coaches' means filling up a second coach. It is a nice gesture by the club but like most things with them, it's half-arsed.

2 free coaches, both fully booked and over 2 weeks until the game.

So what about everybody else who wanted to go on the coach? You can't even pay to book it up. Could understand if it was 2 days until the game but there's still over 2 weeks. Especially if we get a result on Saturday it might spark more interest in fans going but not when it's a half arsed effort.

Fanny Fanackapan said:

MartinCAFC said:

RedPanda said:

Northstandpieeater said:

Did they not sell the free coach last time; ill giving going a lot of thought tbh

Considering the 'free coaches' in this case consists of 1 extra coach, and they've already sold that out, maybe I'm wrong.

I think these days 'free coaches' means filling up a second coach. It is a nice gesture by the club but like most things with them, it's half-arsed.

2 free coaches, both fully booked and over 2 weeks until the game.

So what about everybody else who wanted to go on the coach? You can't even pay to book it up. Could understand if it was 2 days until the game but there's still over 2 weeks. Especially if we get a result on Saturday it might spark more interest in fans going but not when it's a half arsed effort.

That's what happens when it's a half arsed idea with half arsed planning....

I agree with the idea after having the game moved from midweek which may have inconvenienced fans who already made arrangements but yes the planning and execution of the idea was half arsed.