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New Millwall deal means they can bus their fans in from Kent

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  • orpingtonRED
    orpingtonRED Posts: 3,474
    To be fair there are plenty of millwall fans(not sure if they support) in Bromley, Orpington and a little further out...but maybe not as far down as Dover lol
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,745
    edited July 2014
    Don't hold your breath. Who would launch a £1m sponsorship deal with an out-of-date website promoting a completely different service from a business that doesn't appear to be operating either at present? Meanwhile, those coach routes are already operated, more or less, by National Express. I predict tears before bedtime.
  • orpingtonRED
    orpingtonRED Posts: 3,474
    websites can be updated pretty quickly
  • jams
    jams Posts: 1,219
    Gillingham must be annoyed, another team to steal all their fans!
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,745
    edited July 2014
    A quick check with Companies House suggests that Euroferries Limited has made an application to be struck off the register and Euroferries Express Limited is a dormant company. The business appears to operate from premises above or adjacent to a restaurant in West Wickham, or at least that's the registered office.

    Leaving aside any schadenfreude, I am puzzled how or why a company that is not trading would sponsor a Championship club, but I assume Millwall would have done due diligence on them (or at any rate banked the cheque) before it got this far.
  • orpingtonRED
    orpingtonRED Posts: 3,474
    just had a look on millwall forum and seems they agree with you airman.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,653
    orpingtonRED said:

    just had a look on millwall forum and seems they agree with you airman.

    I hope you've washed your hands thoroughly and used an antiseptic gel.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,366
    I have not partaken of any Spanner forums in an age Orps. I have always assumed that in some far off future era their importance for anthropological study would be invaluable.
  • doronron
    doronron Posts: 818
    I think this coach travel is going to be the way forward for most clubs around the country as train,cars cost to much
  • Dansk_Red
    Dansk_Red Posts: 5,728
    edited July 2014
    operate from premises above or adjacent to a restaurant in West Wickham

    The name of the retaurant is wait for it *********











    PRIMA DONNAS

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  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,113
    The bus company are soon gonna get fed up picking up one person from Margate, one from Tonbridge, two from Sittingbourne and three men an a dog from Orpington
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,366
    edited July 2014
    Is the service going to be called an Asbus?
  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    Henry Irving said:

    http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/sport/11318916.Lions_pen_long_term_sponsorship_deal_with_transport_company/

    Leaving aside yet another attempt to replicate what Charlton did many moons ago......

    Are we saying that Charlton were the first sports club to lay on coaches for fans?

  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,745
    edited July 2014
    A-R-T-H-U-R said:

    Henry Irving said:

    http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/sport/11318916.Lions_pen_long_term_sponsorship_deal_with_transport_company/

    Leaving aside yet another attempt to replicate what Charlton did many moons ago......

    Are we saying that Charlton were the first sports club to lay on coaches for fans?

    To my knowledge no football club had ever run transport to home matches on the scale and over the distances that we did, i.e. up to 4,000 people and up to 75 miles. A number have run much more local bus services and some have copied us since. Of course supporters' groups have run coaches to home matches, as they did at Charlton from the early 1990s onwards - the distinction is that Valley Express was organised and subsidised out of ticket revenue by the club.

    Can you give any examples of other English league clubs that operated anything comparable to home matches before we started in 2004?
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,786
    image
  • stevietwells
    stevietwells Posts: 239
    A-R-T-H-U-R said:

    Henry Irving said:

    http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/sport/11318916.Lions_pen_long_term_sponsorship_deal_with_transport_company/

    Leaving aside yet another attempt to replicate what Charlton did many moons ago......

    Are we saying that Charlton were the first sports club to lay on coaches for fans?

    Personally, I have no idea but I'd be pretty sure Mill modelled their plan on the success of their more illustrious neighbours downriver who'd been running such a scheme for many years!

  • doronron
    doronron Posts: 818
    I wonder how many of our fans would stop going to the valley if the coaches stopped?
  • orpingtonRED
    orpingtonRED Posts: 3,474
    tangoflash said:

    image

    haha id love to go to a game in that!!

  • Lazy_eye_metaphor
    Lazy_eye_metaphor Posts: 1,960
    edited July 2014
    doronron said:

    I wonder how many of our fans would stop going to the valley if the coaches stopped?

    Good point. The football would be terrible without the work of the coaching staff.
  • orpingtonRED
    orpingtonRED Posts: 3,474
    Lazy_eye_metaphor said:

    doronron said:

    I wonder how many of our fans would stop going to the valley if the coaches stopped?

    Good point. The football would be terrible without the work of the coaching staff.
    9/10 very clever

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  • c4fcdenmark
    c4fcdenmark Posts: 2,041
    And they will be leaving in this.
  • c4fcdenmark
    c4fcdenmark Posts: 2,041
    orpingtonRED said:

    tangoflash said:

    image

    haha id love to go to a game in that!!

    That's a blast from the past. RIP Adrian Edmonson...

  • wickford
    wickford Posts: 863
    c4fcdenmark said:

    orpingtonRED said:

    tangoflash said:

    image

    haha id love to go to a game in that!!

    That's a blast from the past. RIP Adrian Edmonson...

    ? RIP Ade Edmonson ?
  • CafcSCP
    CafcSCP Posts: 1,466
    Euro Fairies?!!
  • c4fcdenmark
    c4fcdenmark Posts: 2,041
    wickford said:

    c4fcdenmark said:

    orpingtonRED said:

    tangoflash said:

    image

    haha id love to go to a game in that!!

    That's a blast from the past. RIP Adrian Edmonson...

    ? RIP Ade Edmonson ?
    No, the other one! Sorry... Rick Mayal...
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,251
    SLP reporting the deal as having sunk
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,745
    edited June 2015
    Henry Irving said:

    SLP reporting the deal as having sunk

    As predicted . . .

    http://euroferries.co.uk
  • Halix
    Halix Posts: 2,237
    They forgot that Maidstone prison wont let them out to watch a match.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,366
    Skidmark FC
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,411
    The punters will be climbing aboard in their droves to see the big games against Colchester/Coventry/Crewe etc etc

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