|
|
Post by ambersalamander on Jul 17, 2008 20:44:21 GMT
Near the seafront. Can't remember exactly where, but it was painted green and does pizza at lunchtime!
|
|
davetscfc
Steaming Bovril
......and it's Salisbury City......
Posts: 457
|
Post by davetscfc on Jul 17, 2008 21:09:50 GMT
On 3 or 4 trips to Weston Super Mare we've never made it further (football ground aside) than Off The Rails, the bizarre pub come station cafe thing. Get off train, into pub via platform, then fall out of other exit onto taxi rank.
|
|
|
|
Post by medibot on Jul 17, 2008 21:50:42 GMT
Wasn't quite open at 9am in the morning or however early it was when we got to Weston that time.
Off the rails is marvellous though!
|
|
|
|
Post by Meadow on Jul 17, 2008 22:01:00 GMT
On 3 or 4 trips to Weston Super Mare we've never made it further (football ground aside) than Off The Rails, the bizarre pub come station cafe thing. Get off train, into pub via platform, then fall out of other exit onto taxi rank. Taxi rank??? It's only 20 mins walk from the station to Weston's ground, if that. Lazy sods  |
|
|
|
Post by medibot on Jul 18, 2008 5:07:41 GMT
Meadow my dear, being a responsible adult (or at least responsible for some human life other than your own) you may have lost the inclination to maximise drinking time on away trips. There are three basic tips for this, i shall place them in context of my trip to Dover for the FA Trophy last season... 1. Arrive 20 minutes before opening and/or as early as possible if the town has a Wetherspoons with 9am opening. This allows you to grab a drink as soon as you arrive (in this case around 9:30am/10am) and to then be at the best real ale pub in town as it opens which in Dover is an small place called Blakes hidden underneath a B&B. This also allows you to surprise the landlord (for you are not their regular Saturday morning customers and get chatting about your team, the town, his or her pub and the beers thus building up useful rapport for the rest of the day and future visits. 2. Get a cab to and from the ground. This allows you to leave as late as possible for kick off and get a pint as soon as possible after. My personal record is in fact from leaving Blakes in Dover for Crabble about 5 minutes before kick off and still making it there in time for kick off. 3. Catch the last possible train home and leave as little extra time as possible. If the pub is ten minutes from the station, leave fifteen minutes. I assure you that you will be fine. Occasionally you might muck this up completely (Bedford away) and have to run like buggery. This is not usually the fault of anybody other than the pub for having too many different ales on. In the Bedford case the Wellington had ten! This, incidentally, is not, as you may think, in order to get as drunk as possible... Taking an hour over a pint, grabbing some pub lunch and dozing off in your chair are all perfectly acceptable ways to pass the time although the pace of drinking when with Salisbury fans tends not to allow this Malx has a lovely floor in which to wake up on with a hangover the next day ;D The important thing is that no part of the day is wasted outside of a pub, football ground or the transportation between the two. |
|
|
|
Post by Meadow on Jul 18, 2008 7:42:53 GMT
Meadow my dear, being a responsible adult (or at least responsible for some human life other than your own) you may have lost the inclination to maximise drinking time on away trips. There are three basic tips for this, i shall place them in context of my trip to Dover for the FA Trophy last season... 1. Arrive 20 minutes before opening and/or as early as possible if the town has a Wetherspoons with 9am opening. This allows you to grab a drink as soon as you arrive (in this case around 9:30am/10am) and to then be at the best real ale pub in town as it opens which in Dover is an small place called Blakes hidden underneath a B&B. This also allows you to surprise the landlord (for you are not their regular Saturday morning customers and get chatting about your team, the town, his or her pub and the beers thus building up useful rapport for the rest of the day and future visits. 2. Get a cab to and from the ground. This allows you to leave as late as possible for kick off and get a pint as soon as possible after. My personal record is in fact from leaving Blakes in Dover for Crabble about 5 minutes before kick off and still making it there in time for kick off. 3. Catch the last possible train home and leave as little extra time as possible. If the pub is ten minutes from the station, leave fifteen minutes. I assure you that you will be fine. Occasionally you might muck this up completely (Bedford away) and have to run like buggery. This is not usually the fault of anybody other than the pub for having too many different ales on. In the Bedford case the Wellington had ten! This, incidentally, is not, as you may think, in order to get as drunk as possible... Taking an hour over a pint, grabbing some pub lunch and dozing off in your chair are all perfectly acceptable ways to pass the time although the pace of drinking when with Salisbury fans tends not to allow this Malx has a lovely floor in which to wake up on with a hangover the next day ;D The important thing is that no part of the day is wasted outside of a pub, football ground or the transportation between the two.  I'm beginning to understand now. |
|
|
|
Post by ambersalamander on Jul 18, 2008 18:33:24 GMT
Sadly it only works if you have money, so about three times a season for me  |
|
|
|
Post by coops on Jul 18, 2008 19:20:03 GMT
Medibot, can I use that post?
It's is nigh on perfect!
|
|
|
|
Post by Giggy of Telford on Jul 18, 2008 23:29:58 GMT
From when we were in the Unibond I will give this to North Ferriby United (possibly slightly biased as they wer ethe first team we played in a league game after reforming). Lovely village and nice fans. Before the game the stewards told us which way it was to go up by the river for a walk. games were competitive but on a whole good natured. Second place i will go with Marine and Whitby tied.
Witton also get a mention for the way their fans took losing in the playoffs. A young lad who was clearly devastated still came up to us, congratulated us and wished us luck for next season. They lose a couple of points however for the bloke who went up to have a go at one of our goalscorers as he was leaving.
On a similar note despite what I've heard people saying about both Barrow and Telford fans when we played Barrow in the playoffs last season there was good natured banter before and during the matches and after both teams acted with grace (in victory in Barrow's case, in defeat in our case), both sets of fans stayed behind to applaud both sets of teams. Then after the game they wished us luck for next season and we wished them luck in the final. This is something we saw more of back in the Unibond whereas in the conference north attention seems to be taken away from the decent vast majority by a couple of idiots at several of the clubs (ourselves included). Was nice to see this in a match containing two teams which are more often than they should be remembered for the one or two idiots.
In the conference north the Telford fans all came back from Hucknall with only nice things to say but I missed that game. Will therefore go for Burscough from the last day of the season with Solihull Moors in second. Vauxhall Motors get an honorary mention if nothing else for the board as we enterred the ground saying 'enjoy the game', a nice touch i thought.
|
|
|
|
Post by medibot on Jul 18, 2008 23:30:46 GMT
Coops, you're most welcome to.
|
|
|
|
Post by amberaleman on Jul 19, 2008 21:07:11 GMT
Medi, after that Dover match you were doing a passable imitation of a narcoleptic for most of the evening! ;D
Best to pace yourself early on so as to optimise those later drinking opportunities!
|
|
|
|
Post by medibot on Jul 20, 2008 17:18:37 GMT
I hadn't actually slept the night before |
|
|
|
Post by Matt - DTFC on Aug 4, 2008 14:16:22 GMT
WHAT! Dorchester aren't anywhere in this list?! I am shocked. SHOCKED. Well not that shocked to be honest. For what it's worth though I hate that Sutton lot  |
|
|
|
Post by ambersalamander on Aug 4, 2008 18:58:16 GMT
Oh yeah. Forgot about you  |
|
|
|
Post by Matt - DTFC on Aug 5, 2008 8:36:43 GMT
Oh yeah. Forgot about you Ha ha - Now that, missus, is impossible! |
|
I'm beginning to understand now.
