Barking & East Ham Utd

[Ribbit]

Yeah, I would be.

[coupwotcoup]

Taxis from Bourne End are as rare as chicken with teeth, plus the rail service to HW is much easier.

[Matt H]

Well if you're coming from High Wycombe you have to go up Marlow Hill which is the steepest hill I have ever walked up/down, to get onto the main road, (Daws Hill Lane) into the area where their ground is.

 

If anyone has Google Earth or wants directions from High Wycombe train station to their ground just put in the post codes HP13 6NN for the station and HP10 9EA for the ground.

 

Here's a piccy of their ground...

 

[Ribbit]

Oh, so it is walking distance then?

[Matt H]

Depends on what you define as walking distance.

 

It's just over three miles from the train station. It's an easy enough place to get to, but if you're walking, be prepared to tackle that bloody hill! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[Chopper]

shocking ground.

 

miles away too.

[Ribbit]

I think I'll probably stick to a cab.

 

Speaking of grounds, is ours going to be the best in the league?

[Matt H]

I'm hoping that, that away fixture will be during term time next season! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

 

I will have to pay a couple of visits prior to us playing there to get a good look at the opposition! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

[Chopper]

Quote:

Ribbit said:
I think I'll probably stick to a cab.

Speaking of grounds, is ours going to be the best in the league?

theres a few decent little gounds in this league, Harlow opening a new stadium in a few weeks.

[richard sparkes]

I remember quite liking Wares ground when we played there years ago

[Chopper]

shocking pitch now richard.

 

great wakering nice little ground.

[Matt H]

GWR is a good little ground, that's only let down with it, (as far as I remember) being in the middle of nowhere and if you get lost, you're buggered.

[Chopper]

matt in aint to bad to get to mate.

 

i got lost going to canvey few years ago.

[Matt H]

I got lost going to a party at their clubhouse a couple of years ago. Everything around me was pitch black, (but I was going on the drunken memory of a pre-season friendly earlier in the season) <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[YELLOW]

I would say ours and Hornchurch as probably the best grounds in the division. Not sure what Sudbury's is like now.

[Ribbit]

I am! Wandered past there a couple of months ago. Looked alright, but nothing special. Not a patch on ours! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

[thomarocky]

Back to grass roots non-league football with sensible admission prices and good old fashioned club-houses and friendly banter, thats what next season will be all about !

[Ribbit]

Just thought I'd question the sense of having Flackwell Heath play in a league that is mainly Essex/Herts/Suffolk with a few East London teams. Surely it would've made more sense promoting another ESL team, or a team from Herts.

Nothing against Flackwell, but surely that defeats the object of having the leagues locallised.

[thomarocky]

Yes this one baffled me last night Ribbit, I beleive its right round the other side of the M25 in Buckinghamshire, there must have been a more local club to us they could have re-juggled into the equasion, but what the hell, it will be a new ground for me and that is what makes next season so exciting !

[Ribbit]

Oh yeah, it makes no odds to me. It's Flackwell and their supporters that are going to have to travel right across London every other week.