JRM

With any luck you'll have a similar situation to me in Madrid sharing a mixed dorm with an fit aussie bird with massive jugs who was more than happy to get up in the morning and walk around the room in her underwear!! should be a cracking weekend, going to see Cast at Shepherds Bush empire the night before, hopefully the alarm will work on saturday morning and i'll make the train.

The BBC is very good, the sports service and especially the football, but i agree they need to be pulled in on the left wing bias shown in the news coverage and programmes like question time which wind me up no end with there socialist point scoring every week

If we can get wins this week against Peterborough / Brighton would be great to take 900+ up there. still over 2 weeks until the game and loads usually leave it until nearer the day to buy (or like last year pay on the day)

Looking at the weather forecast it does bring back memories of the trip to Newcastle away in 2000-01 season (i think), when we went up there on the saturday for the nightout, woke up sunday morning to find the city covered in snow, game was called off about 2 hours before kick off so we got back on the train and headed home, went back later in the season for the re-arranged game on the Tuesday for the 1-1 draw Pahars scored for us. Could do without a re-arranged game this time though! For those staying overnight for this one you could take in another game on the sunday, Sunderland are at home to West Ham.

it is hopeless, you really have to search for the detail sometimes and unless you are looking for it it can be easily missed. i can't see us having over 900 at Hartlepool this year, it will be freezing in December and a lot went last year. If you are doing a weekender I would recommend Newcastle rather than Hartlepool. I'm doing the same as Steve up and back on the train, as I am on EastCoast trains mailing list got an extra discount due to a deal they were doing, £30 return London to Hartlepool, good price that. We drank at the Lloyds Bar by Hartlepool station, not amazing but fine for a couple of pre-match pints.

Those Franchise fans sounds f*cking annoying, can't believe some of them are having a go at AFC for not playing in "Wimbledon"......if they had any idea Norbiton station (by the ground) is just a few mins on the train from Wimbledon. I really hope this fixture is on and franchise fans get smashed all over the place and once and for all realise how much the rest of football despises their club.

There wouldn't be trouble between fans but I think there would be disorder, a lot of AFC fans don't even recognise the existence of franchise fc and would do something in form of protest. The real problems would be if it occurred in mk, afc fans would smash up the away end. It would be good for football for this fixture to happen to show the world that despite having their team stolen Wimbledon lived on. Franchise should never be accepted as just another club.

Pointless game not worthy of your time in attendance, yet no doubt you'll fund plenty of time to comment about it on the internet. You can then come out of the woodwork for the big draw in the 3rd round.

Why are you bothering to comment on here then?

I agree, but in terms of % drop from our average home crowd it was small. I reckon we'll get about the same for Cheltenham. Maybe even less with the other home games that week.

Let's hope Cheltenham allow us to do £10 tickets for the next round, with peterborough at home on the 20th and Brighton at home on 23rd, both of which are big home games in the context of our promotion challenge, I can see people spending their money on those. It's not a bad draw though and will hopefully see us through to the 3rd round, I love the cup and the buzz of the draw, keep getting good home draws and who knows how far we can get.

Let's hope Cheltenham allow us to do £10 tickets for the next round, with peterborough at home on the 20th and Brighton at home on 23rd, both of which are big home games in the context of our promotion challenge, I can see people spending their money on those instead. Cheltenham on 27th should be £10 adults and £1 kids try and get 15k for it.

Don't think they use the word local, but yes main rivals. I can see a lot of demand for dagenham away a week after charlton on the bank holiday monday, not many tickets available either.

Good shout, get them to run a couple of coaches like they did for wembley, couple of pick UPS in eastleigh and winchester would fill it easy enough.

I live in London and got the greyhound down last year for a bargain £1 each way, booked early for the extra discount. I would recommend getting mini-buses etc together for this one though. You can go by tube to north Greenwich which isn't far, but still hassle. It will be a big game so shame if we don't take 3000 up there. Brighton sold the end out well in advance when they played there recently.

Sunderland away on new years day was an iconic game, I remember people we knew who went having an interesting journey on the icy roads. Did you go on the princess summerbee coaches? What about the littlewoods cup games around that time, heard some good stories about Scarborough and Rochdale ?

I think we had more than 1000 at chelsea, we were already 2-0 up from the first leg and won 3-1 at stamford bridge, the league game was 9k, remind any chelsea fans of that.

Of course you can still be a proper fan, and spending time with family is fair enough, but I get ****ed off with the 'nothing game therefore I will not go mentality'.

To the tune of the sex pistols 'I am an anarchist' I am a fc fan And I am mancunian I know.what I want and i know how to get it Cause I, want to kill, glazer and sky Quite ironic they had their game moved for tv when they are campaigning against sky. I agree with their 'against modern football principles, but would rather see afc Wimbledon do well

ouch, hopefully with a decent walk-up crowd we will get more than what we had for the swindon JPT game and avoid once again breaking out lowest st marys attendance.

brilliant stuff, i bet the 88 who were at Norwich all remember it for that very reason, did you go to Middlesbrough away around 1992 on a tuesday when we had about 40 fans up there? (i wasnt but remember my dad telling me about it) i'm too young for that era really, was 11 in 1992 was at Chelsea away in the ZDS "area final" we had half the crowd at that, old crumbling stamford bridge, i did used to go to the programme shop and get every away programme from the games i didnt do and would marvel at fixtures like ZDS away when the programme would be about 5 pages and tiny crowds, i'm sure one of the older lads i know told a story about going to Bristol City away in the zds and the reserves were playing at swindon in the afternoon and they did both!!

if we were playing pompey could you afford it ?

hahaha, the name dropping of "geographically awkward places" just happens to be our next two away games, which i'm sure plenty of people on here have looked into being big saints fans. your record from the early 90s is very admirable, and one which probably can't be matched by many so you would rank highly in my opinion for that (would like to hear more about Norwich in the ZDS), and the dedication shown, if anything, the fact you did that should make the fact people try to excuse themselves for games such as shrewsbury with the pitiful excuses of not having "thier seat" all the more laughable. We got much smaller crowds back in those days as well, and the reasons then are the same as now, people just cannot be bothered, get a big draw and suddenly everyone is interested.

I think you have an over inflated opinion of your own loyalty, i guess you could define a loyal fan as someone who doesn't stop supporting a team through the bad times, but realistically a true definition of a loyal fan is those who still turn up when the "can't be arsed" brigade dont. I have missed games before, through my own financial poor planning / family commitments and holidays, but not through apathy.

hahaha. nice one. "loyal" and "can't be arsed" don't tend to fall into the same category. Carlisle and Hartlepool away coming up in the next few weeks chaps...................