Stevenage AWAY

WHo's going - will we take quite a few?  Numbers like we do at Barnet for example?

I'm going, couldn't go last year so I'm really looking forward to it this season.

Me plus two. Last year we had 1400 there. Will we get similar numbers this season?

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Me plus two. Last year we had 1400 there. Will we get similar numbers this season?

Not sure we'll see that many there this season. Last season it was a bit of a novelty with it being a new ground for virtually every Town fan.

A win on Saturday could well put a couple of hundred extra onto the travelling numbers though.

Bit of a shithole I thought, even Hitler couldn't be arsed with the place.
Way off the Luftwaffe flight path but easily accessible by train.
I'll be hunting out some better boozers this time though.

hope you all have a good day out

We never seice to amaze so I'll say over 1,000

Quoted from GYinScuntland

Bit of a shithole I thought, even Hitler couldn't be arsed with the place.
Way off the Luftwaffe flight path but easily accessible by train.
I'll be hunting out some better boozers this time though.

Head to The Old Town instead. Only a 10-15 minute walk from the train station and some decent boozers there.

The Internet Mariners are playing a morning game there so may need players. If anyone is interested drop me a DM.

Car full heading down

I'm taking the missus to her first game for this one. Seized the opportunity of her living in London with a romantic Saturday in Stevenage.

She'll be made fully aware throughout the game that I'd trade her for Dembele signing a 5 year deal.

Quoted from Kristine

Car full heading down

You'll be there with plenty of time to spare then  .

I'm gutted, I have to be at Younger Son Ofs wedding all afternoon near Hitchen, knowing I'm only 20 mins or so away from the game and not able to attend. I have looked at all the timings and no way can I slip away for over 2 hours.

Quoted from GYinScuntland

Bit of a shithole I thought, even Hitler couldn't be arsed with the place.
Way off the Luftwaffe flight path but easily accessible by train.
I'll be hunting out some better boozers this time though.

Considering most of it was built AFTER the war that's not surprising. But don't let the facts get in the way.

Quoted from pontoonlew

I'm taking the soon to be ex-missus to her first game for this one. Seized the opportunity of her living in London with a romantic Saturday in Stevenage.

She'll be made fully aware throughout the game that I'd trade her for Dembele signing a 5 year deal.

Corrected that for you  

I went there last year, if you get there early enough there is a free car park just accross the road from the ground(it was free last year anyway).
Just a short walk down the main road was a decent enough pub, name escapes me but was full of town fans, I had to laugh as I was talking to a small group of Stevenage fans who were decent and polite, they actually asked if the town fans would leave them one small corner of the pub for the home fans, the support really was good that day. Another point to note is there are only a couple of turn styles for away fans and they search all away fans so don't turn up five minutes before kick off as the queues will leave you missing the start. And to anyone going, good luck as it cannot be a as bad a Grimsby performance as last year, we had a shocker down there.

*4 turnstiles - emailed their SO and their DFO about this. Waiting to hear back....

Quoted from Madeleymariner

I'm gutted, I have to be at Younger Son Ofs wedding all afternoon near Hitchen, knowing I'm only 20 mins or so away from the game and not able to attend. I have looked at all the timings and no way can I slip away for over 2 hours.

If you are a young,muscle bound 6ft 3ins 30 year old Sean Connery lookalike I could stand in for you-if not I'm afraid you've missed the Town match

It's a 15 min walk so me plus 3, the free car park across the road is still free but a bar steward to get out of. If you walk out of the car park cross the road there is a pub to the left the Our Mutual Friend, reasonable beer away friendly landlord. Go to the right of the ground past Dunhelm Mill there is 2 pubs 1 Toby (avoid) and another one The Roebuck a hundred yards down the rosd.

Old Town is ok but the pubs start getting sniffy towards letting in away fans from time to time. If your arriving by train early and want a breakfast there is 2 cracking cafe's in the town centre just over the road from the station.

me + 3 going

Tickets arrived today. Yippee. Me, plus old man - left the missus and my old dear with my relative from Australia. She's not impressed.

Me and 2

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Considering most of it was built AFTER the war that's not surprising. But don't let the facts get in the way.

What facts are you babbling about?
The fact it was given a Royal Charter in the 1200's or the fact most Towns and Cities have expanded since the second world war?

Yep, tickets arrived today, was on holiday last season so 2nd new ground this season for me

Quoted from GYinScuntland

What facts are you babbling about?
The fact it was given a Royal Charter in the 1200's or the fact most Towns and Cities have expanded since the second world war?

It might have had a Royal Charter from the 1200s but it was tiny until after the War. It was deliberately expanded along with other New Towns to take 'overspill' from London. The population at the end of the War was around 6,000. It's now getting on for 84,000. The only towns that have expanded at that rate during that period were other New Towns.

What more facts do you want?

And if you're going to dig up some facts to support your case, try to look beyond the first one you find!

Me + 2 utm

Me and at least another fifty on Terry Hall's mystery tours. Almost certain another bus can be filled.

Me plus one.
Get a good result today and I think there will be a good following.

Two booked on Stevenage website, collect on day, no booking fee.

any one know how many have been sold so far

Spoke to Stevenage ticket office they advised to buy before the day as theyre expecting a near full away stand.. When I ordered the tickets 3/4 of the seats weren't available, whether they're the ones at BP or already sold I don't know.

We're well down on what we sold last year at this point before we went there.

Amazing difference in feeling about this Away game than 2 weeks ago
After Sat are people sort of feeling how things may be for rest of season
Listen I'm not a doom merchant but what are expectations with these players and slade and Wilko?
We where at max at Chesterfield
We were uninspiring sat
Why?
First home game of the season
Large crowd
Think we all expected? Better?
Come on Town let's deal with this sat by beating Stevenage

Quoted from sydney

Amazing difference in feeling about this Away game than 2 weeks ago
After Sat are people sort of feeling how things may be for rest of season
Listen I'm not a doom merchant but what are expectations with these players and slade and Wilko?
We where at max at Chesterfield
We were uninspiring sat
Why?
First home game of the season
Large crowd
Think we all expected? Better?
Come on Town let's deal with this sat by beating Stevenage

Suspect it's because we're set-up as an away side. Could be in for a repeat of Slade's second season when we started with 7 away wins on the trot.

Gotta admit I wouldn't be surprised to see us win away on sat and lose the following sat at home to Wycombe  

We need to play differently at home. Should have played DJ or Bolarinwa instead of Summerfield or Berrett on Saturday and put Jones up front with Cardwell, we'd have had more attacking threat then. Should do that more frequently.

23 x 3 = 69 points... I'd settle for all away wins and all home loses, sorry regular fans  
I'm joking ofcourse, although 69 points is a decent return!

Win 2, draw 1, lose 1. Have that sequence all season, or those 4 results in any order and we end up with 81 points. I'd take that, obviously higher unlikely though. We could be that inconsistent and still go up.

Quoted from lukeo

23 x 3 = 69 points... I'd settle for all away wins and all home loses, sorry regular fans  
I'm joking ofcourse, although 69 points is a decent return!

I'd go for 69 any day.

A major factor last season was that we'd never played there before, so for the vast majority of Town fans it was a new ground.

I would think this season we'll only take about half as many as last. 600-700 would be my prediction, which is still a very decent following for this level.

Quoted from Les Brechin

I would think this season we'll only take about half as many as last. 600-700 would be my prediction, which is still a very decent following for this level.

not that great when you consider that lincoln  sold there 2500 allocation for exeter within 30 seconds and the game has now had to be switched to Exeter Chiefs sandy park, to accommodate the 10,000 that are travelling down

Quoted from Les Brechin

A major factor last season was that we'd never played there before, so for the vast majority of Town fans it was a new ground.

I would think this season we'll only take about half as many as last. 600-700 would be my prediction, which is still a very decent following for this level.

I'd be surprised if it was that few Les. Should be plenty of exiles as easy to get to from south/London, and on main line from Doncaster as well so would think fair few from Grimsby making trip. Saying that it is holiday time and I am gutted not to be going as stuck here in dirty France crying into my pint of Stella!

Four of my family went there last season and all have said they won't bother this season. Said it was the worst away day in living memory.

Quoted from ginnywings

Four of my family went there last season and all have said they won't bother this season. Said it was the worst away day in living memory.

They didn't go to Braintree 6 years ago then?

Quoted from forza ivano

not that great when you consider that lincoln  sold there 2500 allocation for exeter within 30 seconds and the game has now had to be switched to Exeter Chiefs sandy park, to accommodate the 10,000 that are travelling down

Been allocated 350 actually. Not sure how many have been sold.

We've sold 600 of our 1000 allocation atm I can see us selling out.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

They didn't go to Braintree 6 years ago then?

Don't think so, no.

Quoted from ginnywings

Don't think so, no.

Lucky for them then. Never has a warm, Summer's optimism been killed stone dead like that.(excluding stuff like war).

Quoted from towncryer

Been allocated 350 actually. Not sure how many have been sold.

bet those sold out within a nano-second. Don't those Devonian carrot crunchers realise what a MASSIVE club they're dealing with?

Quoted from forza ivano

bet those sold out within a nano-second. Don't those Devonian carrot crunchers realise what a MASSIVE club they're dealing with?

I would imagine that the 350 is what will have been allocated for the HOME fans once Lincoln have sold what they require.  
I suspect that with pay on the gate the Home fans will be lucky to get into three figures  

My advice for anyone going: try and sit to the left of the stand if you're anticipating using the toilet at half time, or trying to buy a drink/food.  

There's only one exit out of the stand and there was just a queue all down the front of the stand to get out which lasted the whole of half time. Unless they've sorted that out!

Quoted from sam gy

My advice for anyone going: try and sit to the left of the stand if you're anticipating using the toilet at half time, or trying to buy a drink/food.  

There's only one exit out of the stand and there was just a queue all down the front of the stand to get out which lasted the whole of half time. Unless they've sorted that out!

It was pretty dire wasn't it. The game between that wall at the left hand end and the pitch barrier can't have been more than 4 feet.

my memories from the game last season is the young steward who let us out  at half time for a smoke and when the coppers said we should not have been let out, he threw a wobbly shouting that he was quitting after the game,he got pelters from everyone (poor sodomist), its one hovel of a ground but hopefully a better result on Saturday should make the drive home better this time round,UTM

Quoted from newarkmariner

my memories from the game last season is the young steward who let us out  at half time for a smoke and when the coppers said we should not have been let out, he threw a wobbly shouting that he was quitting after the game,he got pelters from everyone (poor sodomist), its one hovel of a ground but hopefully a better result on Saturday should make the drive home better this time round,UTM

The physical facilities are much better at Stevenage than at the old Hayes & Yeading ground. But at H&Y we were ALL allowed out at HT for a beer in the clubhouse.  

Quoted from KingstonMariner

The physical facilities are much better at Stevenage than at the old Hayes & Yeading ground. But at H&Y we were ALL allowed out at HT for a beer in the clubhouse.  

Funnily enough the council where giving them a load of cash to move to a new ground but all of a sudden they changed their mind and pulled the funding leaving them stuck there for the foreseeable.  

Me and my bro going. 2 spare seats if anyone's stuck for transport.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Funnily enough the council where giving them a load of cash to move to a new ground but all of a sudden they changed their mind and pulled the funding leaving them stuck there for the foreseeable.  

The old ground is a housing estate now isn't it?

Dont think i can stomach a repeat performance of last season, awful ground and experience, watching Bignot trying to make excuses for a very poor performance made it worse

Quoted from KingstonMariner

The old ground is a housing estate now isn't it?

Sorry KM I meant Stevenage not H&Y. Though I'm sure that if Stevenage move they will build houses on the land, the may as well they are building them everywhere else in the Town.

Broadhall Way is a discussions about non league ground basically, funny tough unlike BP there is never usually any discussions bout capacity, probably because they are never close to filling it.

Any specific pubs people are heading to? I'm on my way now with Wigworld Jnr.

What a strange experience that game was last season. It started so brightly as my nephew was mascot for it and the town fans sounded brilliant from where I was stood behind the dugout but then the game kicked off and all optimism was lost with one of the most tactically inept performances I have seen from a town team. We couldn't keep hold of the ball, Omar was trying to play every position on the pitch but his own and we may as well have just put the ball in the net for their second goal. Then after the game the Mckeown farce happened on RH. Very strange day indeed

Quoted from jaygy

What a strange experience that game was last season. It started so brightly as my nephew was mascot for it and the town fans sounded brilliant from where I was stood behind the dugout but then the game kicked off and all optimism was lost with one of the most tactically inept performances I have seen from a town team. We couldn't keep hold of the ball, Omar was trying to play every position on the pitch but his own and we may as well have just put the ball in the net for their second goal. Then after the game the Mckeown farce happened on RH. Very strange day indeed

For me that was the day I'd pretty much made my mind up about Bignot, no organisation on and off the pitch.

Shopping in Asda in my Town shirt this morning and listening to the comments of a few locals I think they are expecting a repeat of last year, bloody hope not!