Margate - Boxing Day

[Guest]

Does anybody know what time kick-off is on Boxing Day. Just having to juggle the logistics of a visit to the mighty Fleet with a trip to see the wife's Aunt Hilda down in Eastbourne - basically I am after a 3pm KO, that way I can tell her where to stick it.

 

 

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[FleetFanatic]

I believe it is a 12noon kick off.

 

Now don't forget to take Aunt Hilda's present. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/biggrinangelA.gif" alt="" />

[David Holden]

It is indeed a noon kick-off.

[Stu M]

Bring Auntie Hilda along. We have to be better than Eastbourne Borough...

[Dave M]

Why bring forward KO times in the depths of winter ?

I hope there is no postponement due to frost like Purfleet last year. Midday KO that day, by 3.00 the frost had cleared and there would have been a good chance of play.

[FleetFanatic]

It's something to do with it being Boxing Day

and being able to spend the afternoon with your family.

 

I agree with your next point:

that Christmas Day is enough for that - heh heh heh!

 

 

[Hirsty]

Sorry to break my vow of silence but the seriousness of the situation does warrant it.....

 

Noon Kick Off ???.......Questions have to be asked !

 

Like......

 

What time will the bar be open ?? Plans have to be made !! Like what time to leave home as I doubt there will be any public transport....and I am not paying loads of wedge to a licenced bandit in a Taxi on Boxing day !....some sort of hip flask ( or barrel !) may be in order ?

 

cheers !

 

 

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[FleetFanatic]

<blockquote><font class="small">Quote Hirsty:</font><hr />

.....as I doubt there will be any public transport....

 

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Well, there won't be any trains running!

[David Holden]

No change there then!

[Guest]

I feel I must protest at the above messages concerning lack of trains on Boxing Day.

This is a very thinly veiled attack on Connex South East which is completely unfair and unwarranted. Connex cannot help the poor service they run as it is something to do with them being French. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/beerchug.gif" alt="" />

[Guest]

What's the excuse for WAGN, GNER, Virgin, SWtrains, Metroline etc etc etc?

[Guest]

Having silly names I suppose. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/beerchug.gif" alt="" />

[FleetFanatic]

Just to put things straight - connex is French-owned.

 

I don't recall many trains running on Boxing Day in the days of British Rail!

[David Holden]

Well I can remember when there was a Sunday Service on Boxing Day <img src="/forums/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

[Guest]

No one should hate Connex because its French owned....we should all hate France because its French owned.

 

We should hate Connex because its merde...er crap.

[Guest]

You should be like me dear boy and pine for the good old days of steam, when the trains ran faster and on time. When you could go to a match, buy a programme,have a pint of beer before and after the game and still have change from a crisp five pound note to buy a top shelf magazine on the way home.

On you struggle to a game by what ever method you can,find the local pubs and bars shut for fear of violence and discover that WH Smiths have removed their publications of an adult nature. Ah well back to the wife... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cool_shades.gif" alt="" />

[Hirsty]

So what time does the Blo*dy bar open then ??

 

Cheers,

 

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[Alan W (GNFC)]

Well, after my experience on 1st Great Western the other day, I think Connex are positively wonderful. 1st Great Western allowed everyone to board the train from Bristol to London and then when it was due to leave, announced that they had put everyone in the wrong part of the train, so all had to move from the rear coaches to the front. Apparently, this was due to a "slight miscalculation" - more like a total co*k up !!