Gillingham ticket allocation

seth plum said:

MuttleyCAFC said:

PopIcon said:

Hartleypete said:

shithole

I'm sure many would say the same about Charlton.

I was thinking about this the last time fans were singing they want to go home. Close to the ground (which is a ground full of character), you have the O2 with the cable cars, you have a large cinema complex, lots of restaurants, A large variety of shops like IKEA, M&S, Macro etc... Then you have Greenwhich Park where they start the London Marathon and you are in the Royal Borough of Greenwhich which has the Cutty Sark, and the Royal Observatory. You also have the Thames Barrier close by which is a fantastic piece of engineering. You can sit outside the Anchor and Hope pub overlooking the Thames with a pint and a tub of Seafood. If that is a shithole, what place isn't?

Within five minutes walk you have Maryon Wilson park and animal sanctuary and location of the film Blow Up, you have the first ever Mulberry Tree in the UK, an Inigo Jones designed historic house that overlapped with William Shakespeare, the last resting place of Spencer Percival (St Luke’s Church) that assassinated Prime Minister, There is the Thames barrier naturally. You also have great views over one of the world’s most iconic cities,
Five minutes or less.
If you’re looking for depressing dross you have Selhurst Park not far off in Surrey.

HastingsRed said:

Croydon said:

MuttleyCAFC said:

JohnnyJoeyDeeDee said:

Bedsaddick said:

PopIcon said:

Hartleypete said:

shithole

I'm sure many would say the same about Charlton.

No Comparison. 

Agree, but I always find it ludicrous when we sing ‘Fulham’s a shithole’. Almost as ludicrous ad when Burnley sing it at the Valley

Or Blackburn which should be renamed Shithole.

Worst town I've been to on an away. Absolute toilet 

Stayed in Clitheroe up the road, it's a lovely place set in great countryside.

Chippycafc said:

Oh Eddie Youds... said:

Alfie May must be happy with this draw. Very convenient for that flat he bought in the summer overlooking the Medway.

Good luck to anyone buying a property on St Mary's island where the houses were built. I am a Chatham dockyard apprentice and there was a 100 yard exclusion zone round the area due to all the shit buried there. 

Croydon said:

MuttleyCAFC said:

JohnnyJoeyDeeDee said:

Bedsaddick said:

PopIcon said:

Hartleypete said:

shithole

I'm sure many would say the same about Charlton.

No Comparison. 

Agree, but I always find it ludicrous when we sing ‘Fulham’s a shithole’. Almost as ludicrous ad when Burnley sing it at the Valley

Or Blackburn which should be renamed Shithole.

Worst town I've been to on an away. Absolute toilet 

Mendonca In Asdas said:

shirty5 said:

PopIcon said:

Ducktapeshoerepairs said:

PopIcon said:

Hartleypete said:

shithole

I'm sure many would say the same about Charlton.

Really ? 

I cannot think of a decent pub or restaurant in Charlton. There are some lovely houses on the Avenues, west of Church Lane and Charlton House has a nice bit of history. Beyond going to the football i'd never visit.

Never fancied a curry in the Viceroy after a game? 

The Viceroy is quality, can even take your own beers in, from the Coop across the road.

AddicksAddict said:

Mendonca In Asdas said:

shirty5 said:

PopIcon said:

Ducktapeshoerepairs said:

PopIcon said:

Hartleypete said:

shithole

I'm sure many would say the same about Charlton.

Really ? 

I cannot think of a decent pub or restaurant in Charlton. There are some lovely houses on the Avenues, west of Church Lane and Charlton House has a nice bit of history. Beyond going to the football i'd never visit.

Never fancied a curry in the Viceroy after a game? 

The Viceroy is quality, can even take your own beers in, from the Coop across the road.

The Viceroy's food is better than average but that's about as far as it goes.  I'd rate Yak and Yeti (Crystal Palace, haven't been to the New Eltham one) as superior.  However, it's hard to get really good food in an Indian without paying through the nose at somewhere like Babur or Dishoom.

Being able to take your own booze is what sets it apart.

Lordflashheart said:

Chippycafc said:

Carter said:

Chippycafc said:

Oh Eddie Youds... said:

Alfie May must be happy with this draw. Very convenient for that flat he bought in the summer overlooking the Medway.

Good luck to anyone buying a property on St Mary's island where the houses were built. I am a Chatham dockyard apprentice and there was a 100 yard exclusion zone round the area due to all the shit buried there. 

There are about 250k French prisoners of war buried there somewhere too. For what its worth I think the townhouses that look over the hoo peninsula and Upnor are really nice. Houses overpriced but there is 0 crime there. Can't grow anything edible though for about another 100,000 years 

indeed, there was a small pitch and putt course that you could use at lunchtimes etc. One backshift we went there and one of my mates hooked the ball into the exclusion zone, He went after it and within minutes the MOD Plod where there ringing our ears out for venturing over the line.

I dread to think what nasties are buried in the ground in that area - friend of my Father in Law worked at the dockyard when they did nuclear reactor replacements on the nuclear subs in the 1970’s - to say health and safety was lax back then, is an understatement

His job was to go inside the subs, after any contaminated material had been (apparently) removed, and then remove pipe work, and replace it with new pipe work - on the 2nd sub he worked on, he went inside, the pipe he had been detailed to replace had a tag on it to say it was safe - cut the pipe, got covered in radioactive water - his sensor went nuts, he rushed out onto the quayside, they removed his clothes, scrubbed him down, took a reading, and told him he had exceeded his exposure limit, so couldn’t work for a few weeks - 3 days later they rang him up, told him to come back to work, as they were short staffed !!!

This happened to him a few times

Suffice to say, he is no longer with us - died from cancer, very young

Why did he stay, well the pay was very good for what his job entailed

My Father in Law was offered a job at the dockyard, but my Mother in Law wouldn’t allow it

Look up cases of Asbestosis connected to the dockyard on internet - dreadful 

Chippycafc said:

Lordflashheart said:

Chippycafc said:

Carter said:

Chippycafc said:

Oh Eddie Youds... said:

Alfie May must be happy with this draw. Very convenient for that flat he bought in the summer overlooking the Medway.

Good luck to anyone buying a property on St Mary's island where the houses were built. I am a Chatham dockyard apprentice and there was a 100 yard exclusion zone round the area due to all the shit buried there. 

There are about 250k French prisoners of war buried there somewhere too. For what its worth I think the townhouses that look over the hoo peninsula and Upnor are really nice. Houses overpriced but there is 0 crime there. Can't grow anything edible though for about another 100,000 years 

indeed, there was a small pitch and putt course that you could use at lunchtimes etc. One backshift we went there and one of my mates hooked the ball into the exclusion zone, He went after it and within minutes the MOD Plod where there ringing our ears out for venturing over the line.

I dread to think what nasties are buried in the ground in that area - friend of my Father in Law worked at the dockyard when they did nuclear reactor replacements on the nuclear subs in the 1970’s - to say health and safety was lax back then, is an understatement

His job was to go inside the subs, after any contaminated material had been (apparently) removed, and then remove pipe work, and replace it with new pipe work - on the 2nd sub he worked on, he went inside, the pipe he had been detailed to replace had a tag on it to say it was safe - cut the pipe, got covered in radioactive water - his sensor went nuts, he rushed out onto the quayside, they removed his clothes, scrubbed him down, took a reading, and told him he had exceeded his exposure limit, so couldn’t work for a few weeks - 3 days later they rang him up, told him to come back to work, as they were short staffed !!!

This happened to him a few times

Suffice to say, he is no longer with us - died from cancer, very young

Why did he stay, well the pay was very good for what his job entailed

My Father in Law was offered a job at the dockyard, but my Mother in Law wouldn’t allow it

Look up cases of Asbestosis connected to the dockyard on internet - dreadful 

Totally agree. I worked on nuclear subs for 11 years from the hunter killers like conqueror to the polaris subs. Never had one body monitor, piss sample all the time i work there. I still work in the same industry not on ships or subs but the safety aspects are far more stringent than they were then. I too was subject to materials like asbestos and who knows what time bomb i am sitting under.

With St Marys island a lot of the older workers told us they have mustard gas buried there from WW1, and was never recorded where it was buried.

Lordflashheart said:

Chippycafc said:

Carter said:

Chippycafc said:

Oh Eddie Youds... said:

Alfie May must be happy with this draw. Very convenient for that flat he bought in the summer overlooking the Medway.

Good luck to anyone buying a property on St Mary's island where the houses were built. I am a Chatham dockyard apprentice and there was a 100 yard exclusion zone round the area due to all the shit buried there. 

There are about 250k French prisoners of war buried there somewhere too. For what its worth I think the townhouses that look over the hoo peninsula and Upnor are really nice. Houses overpriced but there is 0 crime there. Can't grow anything edible though for about another 100,000 years 

indeed, there was a small pitch and putt course that you could use at lunchtimes etc. One backshift we went there and one of my mates hooked the ball into the exclusion zone, He went after it and within minutes the MOD Plod where there ringing our ears out for venturing over the line.

I dread to think what nasties are buried in the ground in that area - friend of my Father in Law worked at the dockyard when they did nuclear reactor replacements on the nuclear subs in the 1970’s - to say health and safety was lax back then, is an understatement

His job was to go inside the subs, after any contaminated material had been (apparently) removed, and then remove pipe work, and replace it with new pipe work - on the 2nd sub he worked on, he went inside, the pipe he had been detailed to replace had a tag on it to say it was safe - cut the pipe, got covered in radioactive water - his sensor went nuts, he rushed out onto the quayside, they removed his clothes, scrubbed him down, took a reading, and told him he had exceeded his exposure limit, so couldn’t work for a few weeks - 3 days later they rang him up, told him to come back to work, as they were short staffed !!!

This happened to him a few times

Suffice to say, he is no longer with us - died from cancer, very young

Why did he stay, well the pay was very good for what his job entailed

My Father in Law was offered a job at the dockyard, but my Mother in Law wouldn’t allow it

Look up cases of Asbestosis connected to the dockyard on internet - dreadful 

usetobunkin said:

I remember as a Truck repair apprentice in the 70s it was quite routine to “blow “ brake drums out and the asbestos would fill a workshop.