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    The win that takes us close but not certain of safety WBA match thread

    in The Haigh and Wright Suite

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    14 minutes ago, EastCraigsOwl said:

    Travel fuckups no. 146b...

    I booked my trains for this one a few days prior to the Blackburn match. Having carried out an initial price check, I logged in to discover the Edinburgh to York tickets had halved. Thinking it was some kind of bizarre special offer, I secured the booking super quick before the website had a chance to change its mind.

    I nearly always split my journey into 2 parts - Edinburgh to York and York to Sheffield - partly because LNER first class is so much better than the CrossCountry equivalent but also due to the latter obviously thinking I'm planning a trip to the moon when I wish to attend a match at Hillsborough.

    I printed the tickets on Friday afternoon (a security blanket incase my Trainline app doesn't work). However, upon checking them early on Saturday morning, I discovered the Edin - York ticket prices had been halved for a reason - they were child tickets! I've absolutely no idea how I managed it. I mean, I haven't been a child for over 30 years ffs. But, here I was, getting ready to set off and finding I didn't have the largest chunk of my journey booked after all.

    An enquiry at Waverley confirmed I would need to purchase new tickets (they can't upgrade child ones apparently), so I used the aforementioned, trusty Trainline app. One minute later and we were back in business. First Class, here we come...

    All was going well. Arrived in sunny Sheffield on time, met my mates and had a refreshing bottle of Corona in the NBT.

    On to the match. Excellent result. Brilliant performance. Decent atmosphere. We're almost there. Hopefully the lads can complete the job on Saturday 🙂

    One thing I did find quite amusing in between watching the on-field action - Alex Palmer's aerobics. Didn't do him much good for any of the goals though!

    And then it happened - if my early doors discovery had been a bit of a shock, it's safe to say the post match part of the day was a less than welcome surprise...

    As my mates dropped me off and we said our goodbyes, I took two steps out of the already-departed car and instinctively checked my pockets. My mobile wasn't on my person any longer. I've never lost my phone before. I'm usually super careful. And no mobile meant no Trainline app so, yet again, I didn't have a ticket for the York to Edinburgh leg home!

    That situation was quickly rectified. However, the 'standard class' journey to York included some young whippersnapper who exited at dirty Leeds blatantly looking for a fight. "Fuck this", I thought, "I'll be getting an upgrade for the homeward section."

    End result:

    York to Sheffield return - 1 ticket purchased (all good);

    Edinburgh to York - 2 separate tickets purchased; and

    York to Edinburgh - 3 separate tickets plus one upgrade purchased.

    In total, probably not much change out of £300. Oh, and my phone was in the back seat of my mate's car, so all's well that ends well on that front.

    And, of course, we won. Well done Wednesday.

    I used to be quite good at all this travel nonsense. I blame this episode on old age.

    Never get old, whatever you do.

    Mate, that reminds me of some of the OO posts of old. Tales of travel, and the game. Genuinely made me smile. Cheers for sharing. 

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    The win that takes us close but not certain of safety WBA match thread

    in The Haigh and Wright Suite

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    8 hours ago, Beaconowl said:

    Whilst I didnt go to the actual game on Saturday (I came back to Canada last week), I was fortunate enough to watch the game with a number of fellow Owls who had travelled from far and wide (Canada, USA, Caribbean, UK, Switzerland) to have a meet up in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    IMO it makes such a difference watching the game with others, spontaneously breaking out in to song, and celebrating in earnest, rather than sat at home on your own.

    I thought our second half performance was as good as any I had seen from a Wednesday team in many a year, as has already been said on here

    There is a job still to do against the Mackems, but if you had told me at Christmas that we would be anywhere near where we are in the table right now I would have thought you had lost your head

    UTO  

    I saw some pictures of that meet-up on social media. Looked like a decent crowd of folks, a decent way to watch a game if you can't be there mate. As you say, sharing it with like minded folks. 

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    A New Group of Attention Seekers

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    Day know what. I'm going to have a bit of a rant myself. 

    This has been a bloody great thread, with loads of reasoned debate and it's transcended into name calling more than owt. 

    What Geoff/'The Nevs' or whoever post, is on them of course it is. But there's one thing that I will say is that there's a lot of it goes on here too, I do think there's been some double standards in here, in terms of calling others out, name calling and more. It's just disappointing across the board.

    I leave things as liberal as I can, and that's been the beauty of this place for so long IMO. While there's been times we disagree, and some will disagree with me now. And that's fine. But I aint going to be calling people out for it, or calling them whatever I can think of that might be an insult because we share a different view or put it in a certain manner.

    We're all different folks, with different ways to articulate things. It's just a bit sad when it descends into what this last page or so has, and I don't think it adds anything to what was a very good debate in general. 

     

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