Unbelievable Jeff

Surely the footballer in question is the ultimate victim in this, he's the one with his willy all over the internet...I'm sure she'd eat a fruit pastilles lolly in public.

True dat.

No kidding. All I was doing was complaining about a train service. Who knew people wanted to defend the train service so strongly.

Yes, having an inadequate support network makes it more difficult, unfortunately (and I don't mean this in a 'we regret it' way) had kids earlier than we planned due to the pill deciding not to work, so we have had kids 4 or 5 years before we planned to. It means our friends in the local area haven't had kids yet and as such we don't have people we know to help out. This wouldn't help if we relocated. However, this is about trains, genuinely.

I didn't say Woking was shít, I said it was shítter. And if you assumed I lived where I do how was it going to save £4k on trains a year by moving further away? You clearly haven't read the thread. The point is the trains have got significantly worse over the last year, coming to a ridiculous nadir of **** for this month. I will be making a complaint, the same as a number of SWT users will do I guarantee and hopefully that will change things. I'm not complaining about my 'situation'. I have a good life, I live in a nice part of the country with London on my doorstep. I earn a decent living. However, I have 3 gripes: 1. Difficult and inconsiderate Masons. 2. South West Trains inability to run even a half decent train service. 3. Russell ****ing Brand.

It's not as soon as I started using them, I've been using them for 5 years, but they have got significantly worse over the last year.

But for the sake of a train being on time and actually providing the service I pay for, it's a bit extreme to relocate us all, especially as I am likely to be stalling my other half career as well.

Perhaps, I certainly didn't mean to. All I was doing was complaining about a poor service that a lot of us on this forum suffer with. It could also be to do with the fact that it's me complaining, and a number of people would argue black is white because I made the point. But there we go.

I'd just prefer for my trains to be on time I'm surprised people find it such a divisive subject, expecting a decent service for your money?! But I guess that's people's prerogative.

That all went a bit weird at the end? I didn't deride your experience or anything like that and I haven't attacked anyones experience with SWT on here? I thought we were just debating it, and then you went a bit weird. What those figures say is that the trains were late around 60% of the time (the ones you get), just to let you know. As an aside, I can't get up half an hour earlier, as I cannot drop the little one at nursery before 7.45, so have to work to that. As a business analyst I also have to be there in core hours to support the business, so I would stillhave to be there at 5. No advantage. As you said above, I do have a right to complain, and yes, this will probably ultimately prove fruitless, but I can but try. Yes, my employers will obviously wait for me, and i cannot help the unreliable nature of SWT, but it's frustrating and doesn't look good, however blameless you are in it. In addition to this, I think your post shows what's wrong with some people on the forum. I offered up on the original post where I travelled from, yet you still thought I was travelling from Southampton. It just shows that you didn't read the thread, or any of the opinions on it, but you offered your opinion anyway, making assumptions on what was said. But hey-ho.

It's actually the service from Woking, stops at Walton, Hersham, Esher and Surbiton. Takes about 35 minutes. Looking at that Woking service for the past month it has also been late about the same amount of time. There is also no 20 minute service at that time of the day, the quickest is 28 minutes, so not saving much time, not solving the issue, living in a ****ter place and costing me more money - oh, and not getting a seat:

I live closer in than Woking, I commute from Weybridge in Surrey, and even then Woking is the same line and would probably present the same issues, and cost me more.

Moving isn't an option, if I moved closer I'd have to spend near on a million for a similar house (which I can't afford) for what will actually be a longer commute as on worse lines, and I also don't want to bring my children up actually in London. I don't mind being 5 minutes late, that's not the issue, it's the 15 minutes late, half an hour late issues which present themselves a lot, which on a half an hour trip is quite unreasonable. It doesn't wind me up that much in general, it's just a very poor monopolised train service. I think it's also a bit different being 5 minutes late on a journey that takes an hour rather than 5 minutes late on a journey that takes half an hour, it's a much larger proportion of the journey. In my industry you have to go where the work is, and most of my work within a 50m radius is in central London as I specialise in retail, so can't really do anything about it. I don't see what's unreasonable about complaining about a very poor service that you pay a lot of money for, when you cannot vote with your feet. As you can see, from those on here that use it on a daily basis, it is not just me. I looked at the stats the other day, in January the commuter trains for SWT from my stop arrived on time (which is classed as within 5 minutes) 53% of the time. That is mentally bad.

No need to throw insults around is there, what's it got to do with you? Considering you're nearly always wrong, and one of the least respected posters on here, I'll take that as a compliment Glad to see you're weighing in with another valuable opinion there Whelk. Suppose you've got keep up appearances as the forum clown. Why don't you read the thread and make an informed opinion about what's going on, or hold your peace. The parking things solved, thanks for asking. It cost us thousands of pounds to solve, but it's solved. I hope one day you have to spend thousands of pounds of your own money to solve a problem put upon you by others. Then you may actually feel a bit of empathy, instead of trying to be a forum warrior.

I feel like I'm banging my head against a particularly stupid brick wall here. It's not really about opinions based on what you say above, as we are talking apples and pears, ie: different things, but ok, you're not trying to understand. You have said a number of times I have a choice. Please let me know what this choice is, and then maybe we can have a debate. I don't have family nearby, my other half has a very high pressure job, so what do you suggest I do? By the way, if you don't travel by train and dont have any valuable input why don't you leave it to those who use the train in a regular basis to discuss it as frankly, your opinion is worthless.

Doesn't need to make an impact now, pretty similar to Cork then...

As we're likely to play him as an attacking mid I suppose we may see the performances we want sooner. What's his finishing like, and can he shoot from distance?

Makes him sound like Pogba...

Golden post

I don't think it's a like for like replacement by the way, I think Reed is earmarked for the Cork position, with the new player coming in to be another creative midfielder (which we need).

It's a shame, but I don't think there's a lot we can do about it.

How's it the club messing up, he's not signing a new contract due to a LACK OF FIRST TEAM FOOTBALL.

Losing Cork doesn't change that though, he's not part of the spine of the team.

*Not sure if joking*

Don't know why anyone would want to do that...