Pompey match thread

[MikeA]

Everyone's frustrated that the game was off but at least the club did something to feed the travelling fans:
Accrington Stanley put on free buffet for fans that made wasted trip to Saturday's postponed game against Portsmouth | Daily Mail Online

[Chewbacca]

Originally Posted by MikeA

Everyone's frustrated that the game was off but at least the club did something to feed the travelling fans:
Accrington Stanley put on free buffet for fans that made wasted trip to Saturday's postponed game against Portsmouth | Daily Mail Online

If it was at Warwick services a few might have benefited. Non-story really.

[deeayess]

Originally Posted by Chewbacca

If it was at Warwick services a few might have benefited. Non-story really.

So it's only Portsmouth fans that travel to the games? Aye right . Another forty quid nigh on for half a dozen pints in Accy!! And I didn't even get up to the Crown as I was having a few pints in the town and that after waiting over an hour in preston because of train problems.

And getting home was a problem because of snow in Cumbria and D&G. That and making it past the pub when I got back on home territory .

I met a few Portsmouth fans in the town who had came up the night before and some who did likewise in Preston around 11ish. Those in the town did go to the Crown and one even said he was allowed into the ground and got a programme so no it isn't a non story it's part of following a league 2 club with very little money.

And I didn't even get a programme after all that !! But it won't stop me coming back down again.

It's winter and it's league 2. So far I've travelled nearly 700 miles to try to watch accy games that have been off and that's only 3 games to Preston, Carlisle and Accy so I know more than most what it feels like.

[Chewbacca]

Originally Posted by deeayess

So it's only Portsmouth fans that travel to the games? Aye right . Another forty quid nigh on for half a dozen pints in Accy!! And I didn't even get up to the Crown as I was having a few pints in the town and that after waiting over an hour in preston because of train problems.

And getting home was a problem because of snow in Cumbria and D&G. That and making it past the pub when I got back on home territory .

I met a few Portsmouth fans in the town who had came up the night before and some who did likewise in Preston around 11ish. Those in the town did go to the Crown and one even said he was allowed into the ground and got a programme so no it isn't a non story it's part of following a league 2 club with very little money.

And I didn't even get a programme after all that !! But it won't stop me coming back down again.

It's winter and it's league 2. So far I've travelled nearly 700 miles to try to watch accy games that have been off and that's only 3 games to Preston, Carlisle and Accy so I know more than most what it feels like.

Hardly my fault. I am on he side of travelling support, and I know a sausage roll doesn't make up for 500 miles wasted for the residual number who may have made it.

Supporting a League 2 club is a luxury, try Cheshire league.

[deeayess]

Originally Posted by Chewbacca

Hardly my fault. I am on he side of travelling support, and I know a sausage roll doesn't make up for 500 miles wasted for the residual number who may have made it.

Supporting a League 2 club is a luxury, try Cheshire league.

Nobody is blaming you because it isn't anybody's fault. Any football fan traveling to games in this weather is taking a chance and the further you travel more of a chance you are taking. I knew that but took the chance and I am not going to whine about it.

What would your solution be? Call the game off the night before then whine because the pitch was playable come kick off?

If you don't want to risk wasting 500 miles don't go and if you do don't whine about it when the game is off. The weather forecast is hardly a secret and the fact that we have had so many other games called off should have been a clue that there was a risk.

[Revived Red]

Originally Posted by deeayess

So it's only Portsmouth fans that travel to the games? Aye right . Another forty quid nigh on for half a dozen pints in Accy!! And I didn't even get up to the Crown as I was having a few pints in the town and that after waiting over an hour in preston because of train problems.

It was £62 for me but no pints - I diverted to Ewood Park in the hope of watching some football. I use the word "football" loosely as far as Blackburn Rovers are concerned. They had 11 players wearing blue & white shirts but they experienced considerable difficulty in passing to a player wearing the same coloured shirt. Proccy and some mates were sitting near me - they didn't reappear for the 2nd half!

Originally Posted by deeayess

And getting home was a problem because of snow in Cumbria and D&G.

And that had a knock-on effect for trains heading south.

Originally Posted by deeayess

I met a few Portsmouth fans in the town who had came up the night before and some who did likewise in Preston around 11ish.

I also met a few at Preston station around 12ish. They had also stayed overnight. Possibly the same ones. They were very philosophical about the postponement.

Originally Posted by deeayess

It's winter and it's league 2. So far I've travelled nearly 700 miles to try to watch accy games that have been off.

My fruitless mileage so far is almost 1400.

[deeayess]

Originally Posted by Revived Red

It was £62 for me but no pints - I diverted to Ewood Park in the hope of watching some football. I use the word "football" loosely as far as Blackburn Rovers are concerned. They had 11 players wearing blue & white shirts but they experienced considerable difficulty in passing to a player wearing the same coloured shirt. Proccy and some mates were sitting near me - they didn't reappear for the 2nd half!



And that had a knock-on effect for trains heading south.



I also met a few at Preston station around 12ish. They had also stayed overnight. Possibly the same ones. They were very philosophical about the postponement.



My fruitless mileage so far is almost 1400.

I made the mistake of going to Ewood once when our game was off and it was just the same except it was in the premiership and I won't make that mistake again.

I'm luckier than you in that I don't usually have to commit to any further than Carlisle until later in the day however that costs more overall but I wouldn't risk booking specific trains in this weather.


I think most fans are philosophical about it however the advent of social media has allowed some muppet a platform

[Chimer]

Originally Posted by deeayess

I think most fans are philosophical about it however the advent of social media has allowed some muppet a platform

Easy, tiger, all Chewbacca was saying was that the great majority of Pompey fans would only have got about halfway when the game was called off, so not that many would have benefited from the club's generosity at the Crown.

I had the same thought, but unlike Chewie thought it did make a good pro-Stanley story. Not sure why thinking differently makes him a muppet looking for a platform?

For the avoidance of doubt, I consider your own dedication to the cause (and supporting the railways ) is wholly admirable and I enjoy reading about your weekly exploits

[cashman]

I took it he was referring to the muppet who just got banned, not chewbacca?

[deeayess]

Originally Posted by Chimer

Easy, tiger, all Chewbacca was saying was that the great majority of Pompey fans would only have got about halfway when the game was called off, so not that many would have benefited from the club's generosity at the Crown.

I had the same thought, but unlike Chewie thought it did make a good pro-Stanley story. Not sure why thinking differently makes him a muppet looking for a platform?

For the avoidance of doubt, I consider your own dedication to the cause (and supporting the railways ) is wholly admirable and I enjoy reading about your weekly exploits

Just to clarify, I wasn't meaning Chewie or anyone else on here with the exception of the now departed one. I was referring in part to some of the abuse directed at the club on twitter and just the fact that social media has allowed dafties in general to join together with their nonsense when previously they could be ignored.

[Chimer]

Originally Posted by deeayess

Just to clarify, I wasn't meaning Chewie or anyone else on here with the exception of the now departed one. I was referring in part to some of the abuse directed at the club on twitter and just the fact that social media has allowed dafties in general to join together with their nonsense when previously they could be ignored.

Ooops sorry, certainly cannot argue about that muppet being a muppet

[deeayess]

Originally Posted by Chimer

Ooops sorry, certainly cannot argue about that muppet being a muppet

It's ok, I can see how you thought that having read it again. It's another of the dangers of social media that sometimes you know what you mean but others can read it differently.

[yonmon]

Originally Posted by deeayess

It's ok, I can see how you thought that having read it again. It's another of the dangers of social media that sometimes you know what you mean but others can read it differently.

It happens to me all the time !...but then.....

[Chewbacca]

Talking of wasted trips Casnewydd v Blackburn livening up on S4C

[mab]

Should be a goodn