[Archived] ***rovers To Return To Bray***

[SuperStella]

No mate

[Ste B]

on those pics,whose the girl with the caption "we saw her sober"

shes not too bad actually...

My lips are sealed !!

Your zip certainly wasnt

[youandwhosearmy]

oh ok, if its someones wife/girlfriend/sister etc etc i apologise

[Manchester Blue]

9 of us going to Bray.. getting seacat on the Saturday morning, coming back Sunday.

Me & Scotty are on the Seacat Saturday to Sunday as well so may well bump into you. Should be a good laugh anyway.

[Tris]

on those pics,whose the girl with the caption "we saw her sober"

shes not too bad actually...

I've got another picture of her, getting changed in a Dublin phone box cos she'd put her top on inside out.

Publishable on receipt of bribery

[youandwhosearmy]

nah id never pay....

in newcastle its suprisingly easy to pull..

[Ricky]

I am staying in Dublin on Saturday and Sunday night, looking forward to a session on Saturday night. The Mrs will be with me so I will be on my best behaviour

[Glenn]

I've changed my flights so I'm only staying over Saturday night now (saving a valuable day's holiday from work) but I haven't booked a hotel yet.

I'll have the Smurf with me, but that rarely has any influence on my behavior Especially as she's usually more of a disgrace than me !

As for the girl in the picture, she's a mate of Jordan. Drinking at 9am at Leeds Bradford airport was no problem for Hotspot, Jordan and myself, with hindsight letting Jordan's mate join in was a mistake. She was well gone before we left Dublin airport for the city !

There seems to a lot fewer people from the MB going this year come on folks, flights are cheap enough and it's at a weekend, what more of an excuse do you need .... oh, and I believe Rovers are playing too.

[Ossydave]

I've changed my flights so I'm only staying over Saturday night now (saving a valuable day's holiday from work) but I haven't booked a hotel yet.

I'll have the Smurf with me, but that rarely has any influence on my behavior Especially as she's usually more of a disgrace than me !

As for the girl in the picture, she's a mate of Jordan. Drinking at 9am at Leeds Bradford airport was no problem for Hotspot, Jordan and myself, with hindsight letting Jordan's mate join in was a mistake. She was well gone before we left Dublin airport for the city !

There seems to a lot fewer people from the MB going this year come on folks, flights are cheap enough and it's at a weekend, what more of an excuse do you need .... oh, and I believe Rovers are playing too.

I'm definitely going.

Not sure yet whether it's gonna be 2 of us, me and the missus, or me and about 15 lads, but will let you know

[Manchester Blue]

Seacat is only £20 return from Liverpool as well so no excuse.

[Ricky]

Any Midland based rovers can get return flights from Birmingham for under £60, accomadation at the university for about £12 a night. Come on guys get booked up....

[SuperStella]

Booked my hotel last night. 9 of us staying at the 'Mayfair Hotel' in Bray.

[Mattyblue]

I'm going over with a couple of mates. Getting a flight Saturday morning only 40 quid.

[Dr Rich]

Anyone know what ticket arrangements were last year. Is it just pay on the gate.

Officially was ticket only, but in fact tickets were sold on the gate. The attendance should be less at this one, as its a Saturday evening match, that's from Bray themselves, not my opinion. If you want to be sure tickets will be available from Rovers, Bray, and probably ourselves(if I like you , seriously only as a last resort, we have enough problems for these things without dealing with loads of tickets mate, we may have some extra on the day, of course we wouldn't dream of selling them at the pub )

[key76]

Four of us from Chorley have just booked. Fly out Saturday from Manchester, the prices on Ryan Air are going up now must be a few going....how many can Bray's stadium hold?

We've booked a hotel in Rathmines area of Dublin can anyone tell us how far Temple Bar area is from there?

Edited July 9, 2004 by key76

[Dr Rich]

Officially I think it holds 4,500-5,000 , unofficially of course is another matter, don't have to pay tax on people who aren't there....

[Ricky]

That happens in Ireland as well does it Rich. I sometimes go to watch Hereford United and we always have a laugh at what the "Official" attendance is recorded as. It seems to be about 500-1000 different.

Other clubs do it as well, Its a well known fact that Burnleh have 25000 at every home game and they take 10000 away

[waggy]

been trying to book on the seacat website,cannot seem to find a booknow sign,when i press bookonline it just gives info,anyone else got this problem

[Manchester Blue]

Waggy once you've clicked on book online at the top you should get a page with 'book online in £' in a big blue circle click on that and it opens up a new window. On there is a button to click for online booking where you then put in your details.

[Jordan]

Dont worry SHE aint coming this year!!!!!!!!!!

[Dr Rich]

Rathmines is about 3km directly south of Temple Bar, its a suburb on the south of Dublin, have absolutely no problems getting around though, buses are regular, taxi's cheaper than the ones in Blackburn. Could walk it easily enough too.

[Ricky]

I seem to recall there was a 5 aside competition arranged last time. I know you are not in Ireland to sort it this time around Rich but do you think any of the other ROI members might be intersted.

[daviemac]

Managed to book a ferry from Holyhead to Dublin 0230 Saturday morning for £17.50 return. Coming back Sunday morning on the 0905.

Including hotel in Rathmines comes to £50 all in. (Minus beer tokens of course )

I really enjoyed last year, and looking forward to this years match

[Dr Rich]

Ricky, we've just had one last week, we had The Irish Rovers, Bray Wanderers, 2 teams from Kildare County, AFCD and the Northern Irish Branch taking part. From when I was speaking to the lads before I left they had decided that if someone else organised the tournament(not as ridiculous as it sounds, I did one in Blackburn after all) we would have 1 or 2 teams entered, but to be honest the hassle of organising another tournament, a lot of that hassle caused by unneccesary messing around by the other teams participating, wasn't worth it from their own point of view. We tried to convince Bray Wanderers to organise it this time, but they weren't having any of it, refused point blank, which is fair enough, they obviously know what a pain it is. So in answer to the question, no they almost certainly won't be, but if anyone wants to organise something I can get you a couple of teams from ourselves, contact numbers for the other teams who participated in our three tournaments over the past year, and contact details for the pitches in Loughlinstown were we held it last year, send us a pm or email if you're interested.

[Finch]

Not to put a dampner on everyone's excited travel plans but... didn't we lose this fixture last year?