Want to see the Trophy game with Maidenhead United?

[Ralph]

If you live in the south-east and are considering going to Holker Street for the FA Trophy game with Maidenhead United on Saturday 14 December, Maidenhead are planning to run a supporters’ coach and are happy for Barrow supporters to join them.

If you are interested, can you contact the club direct? They will make a decision at half-time of their Tuesday-night game at home to Chelmsford on whether to run the coach, and if they have enough people, the coach will leave Maidenhead United’s ground at York Road at 8am prompt, and would set off from Holker Street at 5.30pm prompt, with the fare at GBP55. The club need a minimum of 20 people confirmed before the coach would be run.

Contact at Maidenhead United is Chris Raine, the Supporters’ Association Treasurer and his email is <chrismraine@tiscali.co.uk>

Thanks are due to Chris Raine, Steve Jinham and Mark Smith at Maidenhead United for their help with this.

[Van Der Nipper]

Not at £50 I wouldn't,can't beleive they are charging that.

[HenneysKnee]

£55?? Jesus, are they hiring a plane?

[barrowfan_chris]

Not at £50 I wouldn't,can't beleive they are charging that.

I would rather pay the extra £20 and go on the train then pay £50 to go on the coach that is a rip off.

[bobbie moore]

Interesting how much will ISC coach be for replay

[Steelworks End]

Interesting how much will ISC coach be for replay

We won't need one - a replay that is!

£55 is steep, plus anyone like me from the London area would need to get to Maidenhead anyway. Unless the cost includes a chauffeur driven limo from home to their ground.

[Ralph]

The fare of GBP55 is based on Maidenhead hiring a 24-seat coach (not a 49-seat one), if the latter were to be used, contacts at Maidenhead have told me they “could do the trip for GBP25-GBP28 a head, but sadly we will struggle to get 20”. Prices for members of the Maidenhead supporters’ club are only a fiver cheaper, at GBP50.

[thamesvalleyman]

The fare of GBP55 is based on Maidenhead hiring a 24-seat coach (not a 49-seat one), if the latter were to be used, contacts at Maidenhead have told me they “could do the trip for GBP25-GBP28 a head, but sadly we will struggle to get 20”. Prices for members of the Maidenhead supporters’ club are only a fiver cheaper, at GBP50.

The ironic thing is, I live only 6 miles from Maidenhead and would jump on the coach for £28.It If it was £28, then with a fair few Barrow fans on board they could probably fill a 49 seater coach but at £55 they won't even get 10 people willing to pay that.

So for £2.50 more, I get the benefit of the train, no brainer really.

[Chrismr]

Apologies over price of Coach but we rarely run away coaches these days and when we do are lucky to get 20 People thus we only book and get quotes for either 24 or 26 seaters even if we were offering Seats at £30 we would not get anywhere near 40 people going most we have ever taken in recent years is 26 unless Football Club paid when suddenly people appeared from nowhere as it was free. Personally I prefer Train as you can have a drink and as others have said if you know long enough ahead there are decent deals to be had with advance singles sadly there are no cheap deals and you cannot even buy Group 4 Save tickets so that is why we have tried to organise a coach.
If we could have got 4 or 5 Southern Barrow Supporters to come might have made difference anyway we will decide on Tuesday Night once I have all the numbers . I am trying to get a few quid out of club and if so I can reduce prices a bit.
We are not running coach to make a profit just to cover our costs.

Regards

Chris R