You best away game this season?

Last away game yesterday, so what was your best away day experience of the season. Not just the result, but getting there, food & drink, parking/train etc. And what was you worst as well?

My best - Got to be Southampton, great result, great atmosphere under the floodlights, horrendous journey there but parking wasn't a problem. Made welcome by their officials and fans.

My worst - Bradford (Say no more)

Southampton - atmosphere was great before & during, just seemed like you knew everyone there and everyone was up for a decent night whatever happened. Was even better after they had that first goal VAR’d off and town fans smelt blood the longer it went on. Couldn’t have asked for two better goals as you knew they wouldn’t get pulled back for VAR (probably the only scenario where they wouldn’t). Probably got about 4hrs kip that night & was up at 5:45am for a train home but felt like I was walking on air all the way back. Don’t think I’ve had many better.

I'm torn between two and weirdly we stayed at Wetherspoons hotels for both.

Barrow for the stunning scenery on the last part of the train journey around Morecambe Bay and the Furness peninsula.
An old school football ground, some decent backstreet pubs if you hunt them down and the delights of Walney Island just across the bridge from town to clear your head the next morning.

Gillingham once again for the area, we stayed in Rochester which is basically pub city with cobblestone streets and a castle, only five minutes away on the choo choo.
Once again an old school football ground although somewhat spoiled by the twenty year old temporary stand behind the goal.
I'd not been there for many, many years and I don't think they'd painted it since either,  I like stuff like that.

Southampton was brilliant ,I live down here so went in the home end with a few - it was not a good idea , and luckily they let us go over to the Town end for the second half .

Was a cracking night and good to see loads of town fans about the bars etc , superb at the ground as well was one that will live in the memory for sure .

I thought we had a chance as they are garbage but did not think we would do it , was great the next day to have a couple of Portsmouth fans at work come up and shake my hand they loved it .

I only managed two games this season due to living overseas so my only away game was Leyton Orient.
I’ve been there 3 times and it’s always a good day out but after seeing Macca going off after 3 minutes I just had that feeling that it wasn’t going to quite be the season we had hoped for.

I’d have loved to have been at Southampton as I stayed up late  to watch it and got through 3 vapes and all my finger nails

Southampton was just phenomenal, the result speaks for itself but the atmosphere for once didn’t just live up to expectation, it blew it out of the water. Realistically our biggest cup result since Spurs 2006 and biggest away cup result since Liverpool 2001, and arguably bigger than both those two when you consider the magnitude of the tie it led to. A special, special night in Southampton.

Enjoyed the weekend in Brighton too, but less so the game itself. It was as good as over the moment VAR decided not to send Sanchez off (a decision I still disagree with). The scenes at the end though were special; watching the players just standing there, looking back at the Town fans going nuts in the away end off the back of a 5-0 defeat. It choked me up a bit, I have to admit.

In the league, Walsall away was my first game having missed the start of the season on holiday. That was the first time I had attended a Town match in the EFL since that strange old day at Scunny some two and a half years earlier, and Harry’s second-half winning brace followed by a curry in Birmingham after the game capped it off nicely. Regrettably, I think it will be a while before I take in an EFL game at Glanford Park again, if ever.

There have some been frustrating days, too. Watching us gift Hartlepool 3 points on a plate after being in the ascendency and watching Harrogate snatch a scrappy late win from the vantage of the home terrace was both frustrating and awkward, as I momentarily allowed the mask to slip.

Hoping for more good days than bad next season.

Haven't been to ws many away games this season as I would normally like to but I did do Luton Southampton and Brighton among with others, against Luton we battled back well despite having no fit players hardly! But Southampton was magnificent, absolutely fantastic and Brighton was a great weekend despite the result!

Southampton is one of my greatest ever let alone this season. Beating a top tier team at theirs but also making it to the FA Cup QFs as a reward would be difficult to top anyway but I think the atmosphere was probably one the best I’ve stood in too. I walked away from the ground in absolute disbelief at what had happened. Incredible.

Rochdale for me treat like human beings great weather made so welcome at the cricket club they were so grateful for us  filling theirs tills
Southampton followed by Brighton coming me a close 2nd and 3rd

Northampton for me as a league game
Luton FA Cup run (away)to be topped off by Southampton FA Cup ..midweek match fantastic turnout from Town fans making plenty of noise.
Then of Course the Brighton FA Cup game you would not have missed  it for all the tea in China just to say " I was there too!"

The lows - Gillingham / Swindon "Get up Ref what you playing at", Oops he's off!!
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Only been to two away games this season - Hartlepool and Harrogate and they were both utterly dreadful.

Mansfield is the only one I've been to, so that.

Southampton and swindon

I couldn’t go to Southampton because of work… so has to be Brighton…. Was going to drive there and back in the day but Mrs Running Like (you do know that you won’t actually get to sit on the padded seat don’t you ?)  insisted that she was going to come and so it turned into an expensive (Grand hotel; nice restaurant; i360, Brighton Pavilion; Lanes shopping) but extremely enjoyable weekend…. topped by the reaction of the fantastic town fans at the end. Most of our players were non league last year and they deserved that for getting us to the FA cup 1/4

   Donny!

Mansfield was excellent for the atmosphere never stopped singing all game and Stockport is a close 2nd.

1st Northampton away... played for Internet Mariners in the morning and bagged a couple goals playing with lads ive not seen for a while. Decent food before match and town won aswell. So all round a good day

2nd Brighton away. Weekend was nice to get away for a couple days just me and my lad, enjoyed the pier and pre match build up.

3rd Southampton for the amazing atmosphere and result, was a touch and go nightmare to get their early.

I got to 10 away games  W5 D1 L4

A mix of league & cup - I just can’t choose 😅

League    

Leyton was a good day despite the defeat just knowing Town were back in the league again

Rochdale because it was our first win back in the league & who doesn’t love a Luke Waterfall last gasp winner

Stockport was a great win & as was the one at Northampton - both ( or neither ) could be in League 1 next season

Cup  

Luton in some ways was better than the others because we had such a scratch side and I feared the worst. We were probably the better team & I came out buzzing just knowing we’d got a replay

Then Southampton…. VAR proved to be our friend and knowing we’d won away, again against all the odds, it’ll stay with me forever

Got to be southampton the result was incredible and the atmosphere was the best I've ever experienced, town fans truly sensational that nite and the players matched them. Very special.

Best league away game, maybe rochdale, lovely weather, enjoyed the cricket club, good atmosphere at the game and then a last minute winner!

Southampton.

Northampton, two moments of magic from Emanuel. Great atmosphere as usual.

Loved Donny because it was excrement for ages and then all of a sudden it was ace. Rochdale was great despite being meltingly hot. Luton away was great - Kenilworth Road is a great ground and the support was excellent. Proper backs to the wall performance. Brighton made me feel extremely proud to be from Grimsby and a Town fan even if we couldn't lay a glove on them.

Southampton by a mile though. Was really unsure about going but it was just a brilliant, brilliant night. The atmosphere in the pub, the noise we made in the ground and the sheer jubilation at full time I will never forget. First big cup win with the kids there as well and being an exile I loved that lots of people I knew watched on the telly and heard McCoist constantly telling everyone how sensational our support was.

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it was excrement for ages and then all of a sudden it was ace.

The life of a Town fan summed up in 14 words.

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The life of a Town fan summed up in 14 words.

And then all of a sudden it was excrement again.

Southampton was the best, donny the worst

Good:

Southampton, Rochdale, Walsall, Luton, Northampton, Doncaster

OK:

Brighton, Mansfield, Leyton Orient, Salford

Bad:

Carlisle, Bradford

Rochdale for me- I couldn’t make Southampton due to work commitments.

Even though we won, they were better than us that day too…

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

Loved Donny because it was excrement for ages and then all of a sudden it was ace. Rochdale was great despite being meltingly hot. Luton away was great - Kenilworth Road is a great ground and the support was excellent. Proper backs to the wall performance. Brighton made me feel extremely proud to be from Grimsby and a Town fan even if we couldn't lay a glove on them.

Southampton by a mile though. Was really unsure about going but it was just a brilliant, brilliant night. The atmosphere in the pub, the noise we made in the ground and the sheer jubilation at full time I will never forget. First big cup win with the kids there as well and being an exile I loved that lots of people I knew watched on the telly and heard McCoist constantly telling everyone how sensational our support was.

Cheers for this post  it sums up the season for me too, Good times and the bad !!
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God tier- Southampton, Luton

Fantastic- Stockport, Northampton, Doncaster, Brighton

Good- Mansfield, Salford, Carlisle (but only because I stayed over and looked around the city)

excrement- Bradford, Harrogate

I only went to Donny... was rather poor for a long time... but almost 3,000 of us going crazy towards the end was absolutely the dogs bollox..... brilliant  !!!

Sadly could not make any game this season because of health problems.

So I will choose Southampton which I watched on the telly.

I only made two so I'll say Rochdale cracking day out in ghd sun and 3 points

Southampton away may not have been the best away day this season but the best night of watching Town ever!

Also enjoyed the win at Northampton.

Couldn't get to Southampton unfortunately due to work.

So... Rochdale or Donny

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I got to 10 away games  W5 D1 L4

A mix of league & cup - I just can’t choose 😅

League    

Leyton was a good day despite the defeat just knowing Town were back in the league again

Rochdale because it was our first win back in the league & who doesn’t love a Luke Waterfall last gasp winner

Stockport was a great win & as was the one at Northampton - both ( or neither ) could be in League 1 next season

Cup  

Luton in some ways was better than the others because we had such a scratch side and I feared the worst. We were probably the better team & I came out buzzing just knowing we’d got a replay

Then Southampton…. VAR proved to be our friend and knowing we’d won away, again against all the odds, it’ll stay with me forever

Fourteen aways for me including eight on the trot which I don't think I've done before.

Won six, drawn three and lost five. Scored sixteen and conceded nineteen.

Luton away was a cracker. I came out thinking we had done enough to win. I enjoyed the wins more at the far-flung outposts like Sutton, Colchester and Newport.

I've been to eight PL aways this season but the fan experience is generally much better in the EFL.

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Fourteen aways for me including eight on the trot which I don't think I've done before.

Won six, drawn three and lost five. Scored sixteen and conceded nineteen.

Luton away was a cracker. I came out thinking we had done enough to win. I enjoyed the wins more at the far-flung outposts like Sutton, Colchester and Newport.

I've been to eight PL aways this season but the fan experience is generally much better in the EFL.

I think that Luton game was a pivotal moment for our season

We went there with not much of a hope given the players we had available but what a performance we put in to earn the replay ( and you're right Chris, we could well have won )

Had we lost there and then just been left to focus on the league, I think we might have struggled in the months ahead ( especially coming on the back of the Swindon drubbing )

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-two/14-january-2023/

That late January afternoon at Kenilworth Road ( and the subsequent cup performances ) gave us fans a lot of hope and kept us onside with the team and manager at quite an awkward time of the season

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HOPEFULLY!!!
My best "Away " game will be at Home at BP against Wimbledon this coming Bank Holiday Monday.
A 4 hours 30 mins trip up in my little car  then back home after Game the petrol will cost more than my ticket  !!
But gonna  try a "Docks" beer too plus mandatory Haddock Chips mushy peas and "SCRAPS!!!" Please , make an Exile happy wherever the score
AS i have done plenty away matches takes me to get a home game in Grimsby 4 - Wimbeldon 0 would be nice to go to work tired but happy.
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