Liverpool (H) 21.12.18

[Boozad]

still surprised no-one tried to sneak a thelwell sticker onto johnny's attire!

We did. Well, we had the idea anyway.

 

[Tredman]

Saw Thellwell in the pub a few weeks ago, was tempted to ask him for a autograph dedicated to Johnny.

 

[The Bear]

After a bit of travel advice. I'm guessing the roads will be busy Friday evening as the last working day for most people.

We are leaving around 6pm from Burton and it usually takes about an hour (A38, A5, A460/Cannock Road).

Is two hours going to be enough do you reckon or should we leave a bit earlier? I've no experience of how busy those roads are around Christmas.

 

[Langers]

The trains back for some folks will be unbearable.

I have to change at Smethwick and join a train from Brum. Last Friday before Christmas, with that fucking market attracting nobheads who can't handle their beer with no extra coaches supplied = carnage.

 

[Tredman]

After a bit of travel advice. I'm guessing the roads will be busy Friday evening as the last working day for most people.

We are leaving around 6pm from Burton and it usually takes about an hour (A38, A5, A460/Cannock Road).

Is two hours going to be enough do you reckon or should we leave a bit earlier? I've no experience of how busy those roads are around Christmas.

Get Waze on your phone and do whatever it tells you - you can tell it your arrival time and it will tell you when to leave too. Roads are quite often quieter than you expect though in the evening before Xmas.

 

[The Bear]

Get Waze on your phone and do whatever it tells you - you can tell it your arrival time and it will tell you when to leave too. Roads are quite often quieter than you expect though in the evening before Xmas.

Cheers. I have Waze on my phone somewhere.

 

[Parkins left foot]

Good job I won't need to go back till the next day - will leave earlier than intended to allow for chaos

 

[Jolemai]

The trains back for some folks will be unbearable.

I have to change at Smethwick and join a train from Brum. Last Friday before Christmas, with that fucking market attracting nobheads who can't handle their beer with no extra coaches supplied = carnage.

Hop on the 256...

 

[SSB]

Get Waze on your phone and do whatever it tells you - you can tell it your arrival time and it will tell you when to leave too. Roads are quite often quieter than you expect though in the evening before Xmas.

Never heard of this app before. Will have to check it out.

 

[Langers]

Hop on the 256...

I'm not going. Sky for me.

 

[Tredman]

Never heard of this app before. Will have to check it out.

It's fantastic. Owned by Google now, but incredibly good at traffic managing your route.

 

[Derby Wolf]

Liverpool fans have zero chance of getting in anywhere. Except the ground and wherever the one pub where the OB shuffle them from the train station is (is it still the Albert?), obviously.

Office workers will not be hanging around, not that many people work in town these days.

Bluebrick.

Funnel them down past the Western that way.

 

[Parkins left foot]

Bluebrick.

Funnel them down past the Western that way.

Staying in the Premier this time so will no doubt have a good view of them when I get there - not that I will be going in

 

[Tony Towner]

Liverpool fans have zero chance of getting in anywhere. Except the ground and wherever the one pub where the OB shuffle them from the train station is (is it still the Albert?), obviously.

Office workers will not be hanging around, not that many people work in town these days.

It's the Blue Brick next to the Premier Inn

 

[Tony Towner]

After a bit of travel advice. I'm guessing the roads will be busy Friday evening as the last working day for most people.

We are leaving around 6pm from Burton and it usually takes about an hour (A38, A5, A460/Cannock Road).

Is two hours going to be enough do you reckon or should we leave a bit earlier? I've no experience of how busy those roads are around Christmas.

You are going the wrong way. Take the small roundabout, on the A5 by the Burntwood turn off. Turn right, go through Brownhills, Bloxwich, New Invention etc. Turn right down Burton Road or Close just before the ATS, left up the next road, park up and cut through from there.

 

[lemonjelly]

Roughly my thoughts. I think after four you are going to be struggling.

i may have a struggle then. I'm hoping to be in wolverhampton by 5. struggling to arrive much before that.

 

[Johnny75]

You are going the wrong way. Take the small roundabout, on the A5 by the Burntwood turn off. Turn right, go through Brownhills, Bloxwich, New Invention etc. Turn right down Burton Road or Close just before the ATS, left up the next road, park up and cut through from there.

And if you do take that route you haven't wandered onto the set of the Walking Dead or become part of Snake Pliskin's convoy, that is what Brownhills, New Invention and Bloxwich are like all the time.

 

[Tony Towner]

And if you do take that route you haven't wandered onto the set of the Walking Dead or become part of Snake Pliskin's convoy, that is what Brownhills, New Invention and Bloxwich are like all the time.

Knowing I've come through hardship is what makes the luke warm Balti pie and over carbonated, expensive pint of Carling in the ground worthwhile...it is the quickest route from Derby/Burton though particularly afterwards

 

[The Bear]

You are going the wrong way. Take the small roundabout, on the A5 by the Burntwood turn off. Turn right, go through Brownhills, Bloxwich, New Invention etc. Turn right down Burton Road or Close just before the ATS, left up the next road, park up and cut through from there.

I used to go that way years ago. Too many traffic lights and junctions along that route for my liking.

Plus queueing along the Wednesfield road after the cinema up to the ring road can be a nightmare.

 

[Tony Towner]

It's the quickest route, trust me. Not so much before the game, but definitely afterwards