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Train to Carlisle (No charter train)

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  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,757
    what if the 500 fans needed falls 30, 40 short
    We won't do it that way - just saying that if we put it on and don't get the numbers it will cost the club.
    the club have missed out on a few though places though

    I don't know how else we could have done this. There is no train at present and there may well not be one. Let's see.
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,083
    Ignore him AB. Bloody lunatic.
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,231
    Airman - would the special train leave from Charlton? If so, could it pick me up at west hampstead? ;0)
  • clb74
    clb74 Posts: 10,830
    via beckenham juction for me
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,766
    Airman - would the special train leave from Charlton? If so, could it pick me up at west hampstead? ;0)

    Just don't get Syd to drive the train.
  • clb74
    clb74 Posts: 10,830
    Ignore him AB. Bloody lunatic.
    thats what the wife does

  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    Will they be issuing a limited edition timetable for us spotters?
  • Plaaayer
    Plaaayer Posts: 9,002
    What sandwiches will it be serving?
  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    edited April 2012
    If we don't get promoted will the club put on free travel to Preston as compensation?
  • Plaaayer
    Plaaayer Posts: 9,002
    Thought this was going to be a serious thread!

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  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,125
    We've been spoilt over the years and we now expect stuff rather than appreciate it - that's my view.
    ??? People aren't even expecting this to go ahead yet, it's still early days!

    If you paid £80 for something that drops in price to £50 a couple of weeks later you would be pissed off.

    At least the £80 train won't be dry! ;-)
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,223
    theres a slim chance of us getting promoted at carlisle if results go accordingly .... that isn't gonna happen so false alarm
  • NathanPrior
    NathanPrior Posts: 3,577
    theres a slim chance of us getting promoted at carlisle if results go accordingly .... that isn't gonna happen so false alarm
    It can happen, we beat Oldham, Walsall and Carlisle while Sheff Wed lose to Huddersfield on saturday = promotion
  • PrincessFiona
    PrincessFiona Posts: 5,491
    I'd go for this even if there isn't a good possibility, even any possibility of promotion. But maybe that's because I can only make some games when back in the UK
  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    edited April 2012
    1k+ is not what you've got projected on the spreadsheet for carlisle..!
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,205
    Sorted for travel already but if chartered by the club, It would probably be a dry train...
    Would the suit the people who go by coach!
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,205
    We haven't discussed whether it would be dry, but the reason it may be was alluded to at the start of the thread. The club would have to pay for damage. We had exactly this problem with previous train charters.

    I don't regard previous matches where train travel was free or relatively cheap as a reliable indicator of demand at £50. A train isn't a plane, either, but point taken.

    We do think that in a clear-cut promotion scenario (i.e. we win, we go up) we would have a good chance of selling it out, but I would be less confident in the situation where we needed to win and one or two others need to lose or draw.

    I don't believe the demand would be there if we can't be promoted on the day and therefore it's too big a financial risk for the club to commit now.
    Plus the logistics of selling 500 tickets from Tuesday announcement and Saturday could be problematic
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,823
    Moan moan moan
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,205
    Don't care what time it leaves but can we get there for opening time thank you.
    hahahahaha
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,205
    what if the 500 fans needed falls 30, 40 short
    We won't do it that way - just saying that if we put it on and don't get the numbers it will cost the club.
    Take my earlier comment about logistics etc, hope that people will realise it is a good deal and even if it is only a possibility we can be champions people should bite the bullet and see a bit of history. How many people can say they were there when we won something?

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  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,205
    Airman - would the special train leave from Charlton? If so, could it pick me up at west hampstead? ;0)

    Just don't get Syd to drive the train.
    Yeah, it would go from Paddington via Penzance!
  • palcafc
    palcafc Posts: 394
    Well done to Airman and the club.

    Could possibly have 6 interested but definately two. Think I would still go even if it was a remote chance. All we have to do now is beat Oldham and Walsall
  • What better motivation for scp and the boys win the 2 games and the fans will come
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,876
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,679
    edited April 2012
    If Elena Eleniak is popping out of a cake, count me in.
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,492
    Nah, she was only in the first one. Katherine Heigl do for you instead?
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,679
    Nah, she was only in the first one. Katherine Heigl do for you instead?
    oh alright then.
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    Like it Looky
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,223
    How many people can say they were there when we won something?
    there was a monster 1,100 when we were crowned League Champions @ Ewood Park in 2000



    Nationwide League Division 1 - 1999/2000
    P W D L F A W D L F A Pts
    1. CHARLTON ATHLETIC 46 15 3 5 37 18 12 7 4 42 27 91
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,205
    How many people can say they were there when we won something?
    there was a monster 1,100 when we were crowned League Champions @ Ewood Park in 2000



    Nationwide League Division 1 - 1999/2000
    P W D L F A W D L F A Pts
    1. CHARLTON ATHLETIC 46 15 3 5 37 18 12 7 4 42 27 91
    I was there!