Agreed. I was going to post something similar bit couldn't be arsed. I'm a better fan than you because I drive to games? There's some right divs post on here.
I'd offer to take you to pub wi me but I've already got Lincoln tapping free beer off me as it is............. Plus your mates have ****ed you off for a reason!!
Hahaha cheers mate, yeah reading it back over you could almost hear the smallest violin playing! It wasn't meant to be a woe is me kind of post! The only negative I have about Tiger Travel and this is obviously through no fault of their own, but once we're back "home" I then have to drive for another hour to get to my house. This near killed me after returning from Swansea away arriving at KC at 4am. Coaches are the worst to try and sleep on... in my experience at least. By eck, I do seem to whinge a bit given the chance.
Football authorities (The PL & FL are equally guilty) give no consideration or thought to away supporters when arranging mid-week games. This is one of my absolute hates in football & one that should be corrected for next season.
What has been better? Not the vocal support or the atmosphere. How anyone can enjoy the controlled, joyless, being at the beck and call of officious coppers day out which is the experience on an official bus is a mystery. Maybe OK for those so young or so old that it is the only way to get there but not for anyone else.
The police don't help as they are often the ones objecting to games at times and distances convenient for fans to travel.
I've yet to experience a bad day on the official coaches. I can only envisage it being a problem for those would want to drink on the way down. I'm sure people have some nightmare tales, but i've been on it 4 times this season and have yet to have cause for complaint.
Tiger Travel gets on my tits and I use it quite often. 'So why use it Carmine?' I hear you all ask. Because it gets on my tits to a greater extent having to find somewhere near to the ground and in a relatively safe place to park. Good luck to those driving to Norwich on Saturday. Not only is the drive awful( stuck behind lorries doing 40 on a single carriage A Road)but Carrow Road is a f**king nightmare to get parked near. Best set off nice and early.
I can only liken Tiger Travel to a Val Doonican concert when compared to a Rolling Stones concert atmosphere of independent coaches
No more 'Free Tiger Travel' for me after our Arsenal debacle, once is enough. Would rather pay and go in car.
Alternatively the club announce that from next season all away travel is via official transport only on a take it or leave it basis. This is what would become known as the CTWD affect. Mr Allam would have every right to do this if he chooses to just as he has every right to refuse the right of admission to anyone at all without having to state any reason. If the FA turn down his application to change the club name. Highly unlikely in my opinion, within 24 hours he will start a process of exit strategy. This process could take up to four years and I doubt it would be a pleasant experience for your average apathetic fan. Underestimate our owner at your peril, he has plenty more cards to play.
Don't understand what's so expensive about transport? Just organised trains to and from Hull for the Spurs game for something like 16 quid...
That is exactly my own experience, i am not a fan of coach travel at the best of times but that Arsenal trip was a joke both going and coming back! car or train for me and the missus from now on
They actually do. Clubs usually request the ****ty long journeys be mid-week to inconvenience as few fans as possible. Less are taken to far away games anyway, and local games on a weekend when the bigger followings will be taken allows for the use of public transport. If you go to somewhere like Southampton or Swansea on a Saturday it's impossible to make the journey on public transport on the day. Somewhere like Newcastle or Sunderland it's easy. Switch those games to midweek, you still can't do the long distance games, but now you can't do the closer games either as it's 10pm by the time you're out the ground.
