Talking of Carlisle, am planning to make the trip this year and fancy staying Friday/Saturday night. Any recommendations on accomodation - nice but inexpensive is the goal.
Suave clientele perhaps but not sure I’ve heard of a suave restaurant ! Nevertheless, @Malone, mine is the upward thumb.
We were at that first EFL game. Mrs micra’s interest in football thirty years ago was non-existent - there’s been a slight ‘improvement’ in the meantime as a result partly of getting interested in individual players - and she spent the entire game standing in conversation with a young policewoman at the top of what I recall as a grassy bank. Maybe it was just the top of a terraced area.
We spent many years later in the century (how odd does that sound) at the annual jazz weekend in Keswick. We used to go for a fortnight with the festival weekend in the middle. On one trip to Carlisle, we were enjoying afternoon tea in a café when, a few minutes before 5pm, someone switched the sign on the door from open to closed and began sweeping the floor around us. We made some kind of comment (reasonably polite I should think) and the person wielding the brush explained that they lived in a village some miles away and the last bus of the day was about to leave.
Ever since, we’ve always referred to Carlisle as the town that shuts down at 5pm.
@eric_plant I have stayed in Penrith a couple of times, big and glorious hotel which I cannot remember the name of, was considering looking it up and staying there but feel that we would like to walk from the stadium to curry house and then make our way to digs via a nice pub or two.
@micra we are hoping that your cafe is not representative of the whole of Carlisle.
WWFC site has the Bradford tie as Tuesday 20/2 in the list of fixtures but Wednesday 21/2 in the 'News' section. Can we therefore assume it's to be played Thursday 22/2?
If we got to an EFL Trophy Final in the future, how many do you think we would take? I suspect the attendance would be greatly affected by the opposition.
I reckon 10k - 15k dependent on opposition, possibly as high as 20k if it was a Derby, Sunderland or PNL.
I was one of the 80,000, her Indoors another. We joined our Plymouth friend and her husband. Suffice to say the atmosphere in the Plymouth end was grim as it became apparent moments after kickoff that they had no idea how to avoid the tonking they received.
The Wycombe website article says... "WIth the game being shown live on Sky Sports, it will not be available for streaming on WanderersTV inside the UK & Ireland."
I was being flippant but I stand corrected. Nothing against Carlisle because the great Bill Shankly once managed them and our own John Gorman was a player there.
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Talking of Carlisle, am planning to make the trip this year and fancy staying Friday/Saturday night. Any recommendations on accomodation - nice but inexpensive is the goal.
Penrith is very nice
Suave clientele perhaps but not sure I’ve heard of a suave restaurant ! Nevertheless, @Malone, mine is the upward thumb.
We were at that first EFL game. Mrs micra’s interest in football thirty years ago was non-existent - there’s been a slight ‘improvement’ in the meantime as a result partly of getting interested in individual players - and she spent the entire game standing in conversation with a young policewoman at the top of what I recall as a grassy bank. Maybe it was just the top of a terraced area.
We spent many years later in the century (how odd does that sound) at the annual jazz weekend in Keswick. We used to go for a fortnight with the festival weekend in the middle. On one trip to Carlisle, we were enjoying afternoon tea in a café when, a few minutes before 5pm, someone switched the sign on the door from open to closed and began sweeping the floor around us. We made some kind of comment (reasonably polite I should think) and the person wielding the brush explained that they lived in a village some miles away and the last bus of the day was about to leave.
Ever since, we’ve always referred to Carlisle as the town that shuts down at 5pm.
An item from the (all vegetarian) menu for the restaurant. A tasty morsel ?
Please keep your comments to yourself, @EwanHoosaami !!
Suave on a scale of that hut outside Adams' Park being considered a gustatory delight.
ps don't out me, or i'll never get a Wembley ticket.
Plastic
"Gustatory" @Malone. Not a word one hears often enough!
Yuk!!
@eric_plant I have stayed in Penrith a couple of times, big and glorious hotel which I cannot remember the name of, was considering looking it up and staying there but feel that we would like to walk from the stadium to curry house and then make our way to digs via a nice pub or two.
@micra we are hoping that your cafe is not representative of the whole of Carlisle.
Visit the Penrith Tea Rooms and ask for cake and fine wines.
and an extra pillow
Pretty sure I once saw that in a kettle in a Stockport Travelodge
Done a course recently innit.
WWFC site has the Bradford tie as Tuesday 20/2 in the list of fixtures but Wednesday 21/2 in the 'News' section. Can we therefore assume it's to be played Thursday 22/2?
Very swiftly changed by WWFC. Somebody at AP is reacting quicker than any Gasroomer. Can you believe it? Wed 21/2 it is then.
The first anniversary of Matt Bloomfield's appointment, the twenty third anniversary of when most of us got home from Selhurst Park.
We can't lose can we?
Game to be shown live on Sky kick-off 8pm, so not available on Wanderers TV. Club are going to show it in the Caledonian Suite
A huge platform befitting such a huge game.
I also heard, or made up, that the town is going to be shut down that night in homage.
Willobeck Lodge, Restaurant and Gallery is rather nice and less than 2 miles as the crow flies from Brunton Park.
If we got to an EFL Trophy Final in the future, how many do you think we would take? I suspect the attendance would be greatly affected by the opposition.
I reckon 10k - 15k dependent on opposition, possibly as high as 20k if it was a Derby, Sunderland or PNL.
Blackpool Cambridge in 2002 saw around 20,000 turn up, Bolton Plymouth last year saw almost 80,000.
I'd guess we'd be closer to 2002 than 2023.
The Blackpool - Cambridge game was at the Millenium so not quite the same.
Lowest crowd for a Wembley Final was 30688 in 2022 between Rotherham and Sutton.
Ah, that sucks for us ex-pats. @floyd, any ideas? Usually Sky games are also on ESPN, but it does not look like it as of right now.
Fair enough. If Wembley decide to close a stand due to poor sales it'll feel like we're playing at home.
I was one of the 80,000, her Indoors another. We joined our Plymouth friend and her husband. Suffice to say the atmosphere in the Plymouth end was grim as it became apparent moments after kickoff that they had no idea how to avoid the tonking they received.
I quite enjoyed it.
The Wycombe website article says... "WIth the game being shown live on Sky Sports, it will not be available for streaming on WanderersTV inside the UK & Ireland."
So maybe you're okay abroad @Shev
🤣 I presume the whole top tier was closed in 2022 and most of the middle tier.
Lower Tier holds 34000
Ah, cheers!
I was being flippant but I stand corrected. Nothing against Carlisle because the great Bill Shankly once managed them and our own John Gorman was a player there.