Who runs Tiger Travel? I know you book with the club ticket office, but then who runs it when you get on-board and they tick you on? Who are those people and what power do they have?
Those people are the Illuminati and they have such power that they control the world from the shadows.
Only reason I ask is because of the Villa journey I had. I was on Tiger Travel 1. So it turns out that I was the Premier Coach (except it doesn't cost anything more to be on that coach, it's just more leg room/some tabled seats/etc). I arrived probably half hour before we were due to set off and I (+3) boarded and took the back seats (all table seats had gone). My folks got off the bus to hear the woman ticking us on let slip to somebody else that 25 others are regularly put on the Premier coach if they go to an away game (regardless of how early they book) - how's that fair on everybody that uses the travel if others are put on worse condition coaches? Then these two people (presumably part of that 25 mentioned) arrived later on to find no two seats together, only singles. So the woman that ticks us on, asked somebody, who boarded much earlier, to move to let them sit together. Surely it's first come, first serve to seats? And before you say, that just makes sense to get single travellers to sit together, another two people boarded next. This time a woman and her son. But the woman that ticks us on didn't move anybody else to allow them to sit together, and instead they had to sit apart. Clearly these two aren't a part of that 25. The last two go on and off we went, all seats filled. On the motorway, we were overtaken by coach 3 (of 7) to find it more than half empty. How does it make sense to pile us all on one coach and leave that one much emptier? We just went over Goole bridge and turned into services to pick two more up (apparently we weren't full), and to add insult to that mother/son, the woman who ticks us all on, saved these two late arrivals, two seats together at the tabled seats. It's ridiculous how these people get to control Tiger Travel. The club need to make it first come, first serve to seats (and coaches!) so it's up to people to get there earlier to sit together and not make others move, and it's up to people to book earlier to get the Premier coach (and not the 25 who seemingly always get put on it). Or they need to give seat numbers on coaches and charge a little extra to be on the Premier coach. So yeah, a little rant with what is wrong with our club travel. (Please don't bother replying if you're just going to be sarcastic or tell me to not use tiger travel, etc... It was convenient to use.)
Evil evil bus ****ing bastards. They'll read this and do ya know Cortez. Big time. I've chosen to ignore your last sentence.
Haha thanks for that response. Lets hope they do read it. It's pretty silly. They probably get given free tickets too for doing it. If that's the case, I'll run the travel much better. We'd have music and beer and ignore the police and park where we want, arrive/leave when we want, no flaskers, no sit-downers; it'll be a mega party time.
That was Simon Gray coaches in the 80s , i cant remember getting to away grounds, i was either stoned or pissed, the game was just a blur That was when football was affordable, and away games where fun
Then I'd get us triple deckers! And I'm only 23 so don't remember the Simon Gray coaches of the 80s unfortunately
10 years before my time...so you went to the likes of Plymouth on a double decker?? Hell that would be a long journey
How good would an away game in the FA Cup be away to Torquay , Plymouth , Exeter ...would love to go back to some of grounds of my youth
The picking someone up at a service station happened on one of my coaches aswell in the past. Annoyed me a little bit as I drove 50 miles to get to the coach at the stadium, I wonder if they would have picked me up in West Yorkshire on the way? The other thing that narked me off, but is understandable and totally unavoidable is when you're coming back from a game and it's about 11pm and they stop at some service station in Nottingham for 30 minutes... Come on lads, I just want to get back, i've got another hours drive when we get back to the stadium. I wish trains were cheaper.....
Tranmere on a double decker was a good day out, there must have been over a 100 on it, for some reason Martini was the drink of choice back then, obviously a bottle or two of that hyped up the troops so much it was like a mental hospital discharging when we arrived at the game.
The trip to Carlisle included a stop on the way, a village pub on the A59 or A66 i always mix them up. The landlord had never taken so much money in so little time. After the game ( no idea what happened but more than likely lost ) the bus would'nt start and had to wait for another bus from Hull to come and collect us, spent the night in the pub. Most of the double decker trips were to West Yorks or Lancashire can't remember longer trips.
