Most and least anticipated away days nexterm season

[Another Walkley Owl]

Pinched from league 1
But where are you most and least looking forward to visiting next season
For me
Looking forward to
1 Sunderland (never been)
2 Sheffield United (obvious reasons)
Then Barnsley, Derby, Forest, Preston all relatively close and have either big allocations or are good piss ups or both. Add Fulham, QPR or Millwall as I love a day/weekend in London.

Least
1 Sheffield United (mixture of excitement and dread)
2 Cardiff (long trip sterile atmosphere not much chance of a drink around ground though town centre is great)
3 joint for both Norwich and Ipswich, both long hauls with relatively small a away allocations. Have enjoyed both previously, but unless they are 1st or last match I will not be revisiting them next season.

What about others, sure it is very different, dependent on where you are from.

 

[Walkley_Owl]

Sunderland is fucking bland mate, will be even worse now we have a Newcastle style away section.

 

[Walkley_Owl]

Looking forward to :

1) Blades, been a while though SYP and SAG will insist on it being a Thursday 2am kick off with armed guards either side of the away end, a moat filled with crocodiles and a 24 hour beer ban.

2) Forest, just love Nottingham.

3) Bolton not for the match or ground but for a session in Manchester

Honourable mentions to the London away days, also Burton as I missed out this year.

Least :

Every fucking new build with dishonourable mentions to Reading and Derby.

 

[markwwfc1992]

Looking forward to:

Notts Forest (Good city to spend the weekend)
Preston (always love coming back to Preston, but our games are usually dire)
Millwall (only London game in this division I've never been to)

Dreading:

Hull (Shit new build that is far away and we always lose)
Middlesbrough (see above)
Cardiff (Just shit in general, liked Ninian though)

 

[Another Walkley Owl]

Looking forward to :

1) Blades, been a while though SYP and SAG will insist on it being a Thursday 2am kick off with at!ed guards either side of the away end, a most filled with crocodiles and a 24 hour beer ban.

2) Forest, just love Nottingham.

3) Bolton not for the match or ground but for a session in Manchester

Honourable mentions to the London away days, also Burton as I missed out this year.

Least :

Every fucking new build with dishonourable mentions to Reading and Derby.

Forgot about Reading, only been once and we won, but place was flooded and we couldn't get a drink anywhere.
Above Cardiff for least attractive.
What's Sunderland like for boozing? Better stopping off or in Sunderland itself?

 

[Walkley_Owl]

Forgot about Reading, only been once and we won, but place was flooded and we couldn't get a drink anywhere.
Above Cardiff for least attractive.
What's Sunderland like for boozing? Better stopping off or in Sunderland itself?

It's over 10 years since I last went and it was shite, better off boozing in Newcastle and metro in to Sunderland.

 

[LancashireTrotters]

Sunderland is fucking bland mate, will be even worse now we have a Newcastle style away section.

Have Sunderland not shifted away fans back to the lower tier in preparation for their return to the Premiership, as per new Premiership regulations.

Surely it would be easier to do it this season, less season ticket holders = Less people to shift if/when they go up.

 

[SF_]

Most anticipated - none.

Least anticipated - All of them.

Fucking dreadful fixture list, no derbies and very few short trips.

 

[blademan89]

Most anticipated - none.

Least anticipated - All of them.

Fucking dreadful fixture list, no derbies and very few short trips.

Bolton

 

[blademan89]

Good ones.
Sunderland. Not been for ages
Leeds. Proper ground , proper city , proper away day.
Forest. They don't like us we don't like them , always good fun.

Shit ones.
Wednesday. Gonna get hammered by the c***.
Reading, Ipswich, Norwich, derby, boro, barnsley, bolton, hull. All wank trips and other than Ipswich , Norwich and barnsley joke stadiums

 

[SF_]

Bolton

Short trip, not a derby.

I feel as much animosity towards them as do towards Millwall. I.E. none.

 

[blademan89]

Short trip, not a derby.

I feel as much animosity towards them as do towards Millwall. I.E. none.

Fair enough. I know you dislike pool and rovers as the main rivals.

 

[Kilburn Ram]

I love all away days.

Some grounds are good, some are bad, some a bit meh. But, it's about the day as a whole surely? An early start, full English, get on train, bit of a chinwag with mates, arrive around noon, seek out some decent pubs, chinwag with the locals, bit of snap, 90 minutes of football, a couple of beers after, train home dissecting the game, planning the next one.

Win, lose or draw, a good day out is all that matters.

 

[blademan89]

I love all away days.

Some grounds are good, some are bad, some a bit meh. But, it's about the day as a whole surely? An early start, full English, get on train, bit of a chinwag with mates, arrive around noon, seek out some decent pubs, chinwag with the locals, bit of snap, 90 minutes of football, a couple of beers after, train home dissecting the game, planning the next one.

Win, lose or draw, a good day out is all that matters.

You sound a boring twat

 

[Kilburn Ram]

Better than being a prick

 

[blademan89]

Better than being a prick

Rather be a prick than be a boring c***.

 

[El Guapo]

You sound a boring twat

What do you do different on an away day?

 

[markwwfc1992]

I took my cousin to a football game once (he doesn't really like football), and he spent most of the game reading the Times newspaper...

 

[JJH]

What do you do different on an away day?

Few lines in the bogs of Sheffield station at 6:45am, first train into wherever, get off, go and smash up a quiet boozer & then meet the opposing team's set of lads for a straightener in Asda car park.

I love all away days.

Some grounds are good, some are bad, some a bit meh. But, it's about the day as a whole surely? An early start, full English, get on train, bit of a chinwag with mates, arrive around noon, seek out some decent pubs, chinwag with the locals, bit of snap, 90 minutes of football, a couple of beers after, train home dissecting the game, planning the next one.

Win, lose or draw, a good day out is all that matters.

Sounds alright to me mate.

 

[Another Walkley Owl]

Few lines in the bogs of Sheffield station at 6:45am, first train into wherever, get off, go and smash up a quiet boozer & then meet the opposing team's set of lads for a straightener in Asda car park.


Sounds alright to me mate.

I fuckin luv u Gumbo!

 

[Muzzle]

Fair enough. I know you dislike pool and rovers as the main rivals.

I'm assuming he's a younger Preston fan, speak to most of the older lads you'll get a different answer, but again that is a generation thing

 

[SF_]

Fair enough. I know you dislike pool and rovers as the main rivals.

Not assed about Blackburn.

Shitpool then Burnley in a distant second in the twat stakes for me.

 

[Liam_SWFC]

Most
Bristol City- Yet to do it and supposed to be a cracking day out.
Brentford- Same as above.
United- Obvious
And any game within an hour away.

Least
Reading- Just dreadful
Cardiff- Another flat pack

 

[LeylandWhite]

Most looking forward to Brentford, Fulham and Millwall, London trips are always a good day out. Sunderland because it's an excuse for a weekend in Newcastle.

Least would be Reading, the definition of dull.

 

[QPR_Matt]

Most:
Leeds - I really want to go to Elland Road.
Millwall - Never been there, so I want to go there and tick that off my London stadiums.
Brentford - Keeps selling out before I am even allowed the chance to buy so hopefully this year is the year.
Fulham - Purely because I have Fulham family so we will be having a big family meet up/piss up.
Sunderland (if a weekend) - Night out in Newcastle again, it would be rude not to.

Depending on when we play them, I would not say not to going to the likes of Villa again or going to Norwich.

Least:
Hull.
Reading - been so many times, boring as fuck ... but will probably still go as easy to get to and it will be on a Thursday night again.
PNE - Feels like we play them every year so it has a really boring feel to it. And its a bloody trek.

 

[Jamo]

Most:

Villa - didn't go last year with it being Valentine's Day and me being a romantic/soft bastard
Fulham - didn't go last year and supposed to be a great away day, love a trip to London
Forest - lived in Notts for 5 years and an all round cracking away day that's just about far enough away to feel like a proper day out

Least:

Wednesday - criminally expensive, always lose and a shithole of an away end that's miles from the city centre
Reading - never actually been but not heard great things and a right trek
Boro - miles away and not the greatest of places/grounds

 

[Liam_SWFC]

Sheffield City centre is garbage anyway much prefer drinking around Hillsborough.

 

[Walkley_Owl]

Sheffield City centre is garbage anyway much prefer drinking around Hillsborough.

You need to booze around West St and Division St, some brilliant pubs.

 

[Ciderup]

Been to the Blades a few times and used to go in a back street boozer called the Sheldon IIRC. I imagine it's been knocked down as the area was being developed but it was friendly enough in there.
Always found Molineux particularly unwelcoming but that was more the WMP than the Wolves fans although we did have a running battle outside the ground when Gary J was in change at our place (2008?) Hordes of Wolves fans came over some banking into a valley where the away fans were being held. Luckily for us non violents, our loonies were ready for them. That was a bit naughty TBH for the modern era.
Brum isn't the nicest place to go either as they have their fair share of idiots looking for a row after games. You know they type, probably don't even go to games but are there afterwards picking off away supporters. The WMP are utter bastards TBH and always seem to look to start trouble when we're in town. It must be a historical thing as it always seems to be 'fractious' when we play in the WMP area. Horrible bastards are the WMP.
Most grounds, especially, nowadays, are ok but if you shout your mouth off at pretty much any of them, you'll find trouble. Keep yourself to yourself and there's no really bad places nowadays IMHO.
Other grounds I've found a bit 'dodgy' in the past were Brentford where some mates and myself were jumped, the Baseball ground was always a bit intimidating afterwards, both Stoke grounds but the worst was Ayresome park, that place was just plain nuts! I would imagine going to 'Boro is a far more pleasant experience nowadays but, in the 80's, Ayrseome was really bad IMHO.

 

[blademan89]

Been to the Blades a few times and used to go in a back street boozer called the Sheldon IIRC. I imagine it's been knocked down as the area was being developed but it was friendly enough in there.
Always found Molineux particularly unwelcoming but that was more the WMP than the Wolves fans although we did have a running battle outside the ground when Gary J was in change at our place (2008?) Hordes of Wolves fans came over some banking into a valley where the away fans were being held. Luckily for us non violents, our loonies were ready for them. That was a bit naughty TBH for the modern era.
Brum isn't the nicest place to go either as they have their fair share of idiots looking for a row after games. You know they type, probably don't even go to games but are there afterwards picking off away supporters. The WMP are utter bastards TBH and always seem to look to start trouble when we're in town. It must be a historical thing as it always seems to be 'fractious' when we play in the WMP area. Horrible bastards are the WMP.
Most grounds, especially, nowadays, are ok but if you shout your mouth off at pretty much any of them, you'll find trouble. Keep yourself to yourself and there's no really bad places nowadays IMHO.
Other grounds I've found a bit 'dodgy' in the past were Brentford where some mates and myself were jumped, the Baseball ground was always a bit intimidating afterwards, both Stoke grounds but the worst was Ayresome park, that place was just plain nuts! I would imagine going to 'Boro is a far more pleasant experience nowadays but, in the 80's, Ayrseome was really bad IMHO.

Not knocked down but not a pub anymore.