Gloucester Travel

thecoolfreak · Post by **thecoolfreak** » October 29th, 2006, 1:55 pm

When will the date of the Glaws game be announced?

icebaby · Post by **icebaby** » October 29th, 2006, 11:34 pm

They don't usually announce the January dates until they see how the December games go. If a team hasn't a hope at that stage , they put their Jan match on at a bad time.

combatlogo · Post by **combatlogo** » November 14th, 2006, 2:31 pm

Was hoping to take in the Bath v Montpelier game in the Challenge Cup but it looks like it's on on the Friday night.

claire_m · Post by **claire_m** » November 14th, 2006, 2:44 pm

combatlogo wrote:Was hoping to take in the Bath v Montpelier game in the Challenge Cup but it looks like it's on on the Friday night.

I don't see why. Bath are a Saturday 3pm team. Sadly, so are Glaws...

jrc · Post by **jrc** » November 14th, 2006, 2:54 pm

claire_m wrote:
combatlogo wrote:Was hoping to take in the Bath v Montpelier game in the Challenge Cup but it looks like it's on on the Friday night.
I don't see why. Bath are a Saturday 3pm team. Sadly, so are Glaws...

That can all change for the Heineken Cup. Leinster's game in Bath last year was on a Sunday at 1pm.

claire_m · Post by **claire_m** » November 14th, 2006, 2:59 pm

jrc wrote:
claire_m wrote:
combatlogo wrote:Was hoping to take in the Bath v Montpelier game in the Challenge Cup but it looks like it's on on the Friday night.
I don't see why. Bath are a Saturday 3pm team. Sadly, so are Glaws...
That can all change for the Heineken Cup. Leinster's game in Bath last year was on a Sunday at 1pm.

It depends whether the Leinster game is meaningful though. If it isn't (and I hope that's not the case), Glaws will play Sat at 3pm. If it does matter, then sky will set the time, and quite frankly, who knows when it will be! Personally, I'm hoping for a Sunday game, as it means I can go.

Donny B. · Post by **Donny B.** » November 14th, 2006, 3:19 pm

jrc wrote:
claire_m wrote:
combatlogo wrote:Was hoping to take in the Bath v Montpelier game in the Challenge Cup but it looks like it's on on the Friday night.
I don't see why. Bath are a Saturday 3pm team. Sadly, so are Glaws...
That can all change for the Heineken Cup. Leinster's game in Bath last year was on a Sunday at 1pm.

It was Sunday at 3PM last season.
The year before it was Saturday at 1PM.

It's remarkable how much Sky have copied last season's tv times. So I think they would have initially penned in the Gloucester match for the Sunday 3PM slot in the hope of matching the excitement of the Bath - Leinser group decider last season. However Gloucester's difficulties in the group means that Glaws will more than likely be out of it by then. They could still allocate it the 3PM slot but it will more likely be played on a Saturday now.

combatlogo · Post by **combatlogo** » November 14th, 2006, 3:21 pm

OK with Saturday but I'm screwed with flights if it's a Friday - took a gamble it would follow last year's pattern.

jrc · Post by **jrc** » November 14th, 2006, 3:50 pm

Donny B. wrote:
jrc wrote:
claire_m wrote: I don't see why. Bath are a Saturday 3pm team. Sadly, so are Glaws...
That can all change for the Heineken Cup. Leinster's game in Bath last year was on a Sunday at 1pm.
It was Sunday at 3PM last season.
The year before it was Saturday at 1PM.

It's remarkable how much Sky have copied last season's tv times. So I think they would have initially penned in the Gloucester match for the Sunday 3PM slot in the hope of matching the excitement of the Bath - Leinser group decider last season. However Gloucester's difficulties in the group means that Glaws will more than likely be out of it by then. They could still allocate it the 3PM slot but it will more likely be played on a Saturday now.

Then how come I was so hungover and it felt like it was so early in the day???

Donny B. · Post by **Donny B.** » November 14th, 2006, 4:04 pm

jrc wrote:
Then how come I was so hungover and it felt like it was so early in the day???

Well perhaps you didn't finish till very, very late the night before????

Mauler · Post by **Mauler** » November 14th, 2006, 4:18 pm

combatlogo wrote:OK with Saturday but I'm screwed with flights if it's a Friday - took a gamble it would follow last year's pattern.

We are out on Friday avo and back Sunday night at about 10.30 from Bristol. Could be fun and games getting back from Glaws to Bristol at that time!!!

sheepshagger · Post by **sheepshagger** » November 14th, 2006, 4:21 pm

Am out Friday back Monday (thought id better cover all the potential ko slots). . .if it did turn out to be on Friday or Saturday (not much chance i know) it means id be stuck in Gloucester for longer than I need to be

claire_m · Post by **claire_m** » November 14th, 2006, 4:21 pm

Mauler wrote:
combatlogo wrote:OK with Saturday but I'm screwed with flights if it's a Friday - took a gamble it would follow last year's pattern.
We are out on Friday avo and back Sunday night at about 10.30 from Bristol. Could be fun and games getting back from Glaws to Bristol at that time!!!

Hmm, Sunday service trains, in the winter, and in the evening. Good luck!

Still, if it is on the Sunday, chances are I'll be driving (I don't fancy the train!), so I'll have some room in my car... (though not for several hundred people!)

T.C.B. · Post by **T.C.B.** » November 14th, 2006, 4:32 pm

sheepshagger wrote:Am out Friday back Monday (thought id better cover all the potential ko slots). . .if it did turn out to be on Friday or Saturday (not much chance i know) it means id be stuck in Gloucester for longer than I need to be

I'm in the same boat but fock it!

claire_m · Post by **claire_m** » November 14th, 2006, 4:36 pm

T.C.B. wrote:
sheepshagger wrote:Am out Friday back Monday (thought id better cover all the potential ko slots). . .if it did turn out to be on Friday or Saturday (not much chance i know) it means id be stuck in Gloucester for longer than I need to be
I'm in the same boat but fock it!

If the game is on the Friday, then Saturday you could always do Bath Montpelier, or Quins v Connacht (a bit further away, but you could always do a dry-run for the final!)

There's plenty to do in the area. Actually, I have no idea why I said that, as I don't go to the west country very often. Not even once a year, in fact. But, you can drink cider all weekend, and go 'ooh ahh, where's my tractor'. Hours of entertainment!

brian_c · Post by **brian_c** » November 14th, 2006, 4:43 pm

I'm over friday afternoon, back monday morning. Flying from Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeermingham, so have booked hotel for fri and sat in Glaws, and intend to spend sun in Ber. Saturday 3pm would be ideal for me, one night pre-match drinking, one night post-match drinking, and a leisurly trip to Birmingham before an early night and a 7:30 flight home before a full days work.
Bath 04 was something similar, and that worked out great!

Mauler · Post by **Mauler** » November 14th, 2006, 4:47 pm

I might try get a mini bus organised closer to the Kick Off (if its a Sunday) as Im sure there will be a few of us on the late flight out of Bristol.

LeopoldButters · Post by **LeopoldButters** » November 14th, 2006, 5:30 pm

claire_m wrote:
T.C.B. wrote:
sheepshagger wrote:Am out Friday back Monday (thought id better cover all the potential ko slots). . .if it did turn out to be on Friday or Saturday (not much chance i know) it means id be stuck in Gloucester for longer than I need to be
I'm in the same boat but fock it!
If the game is on the Friday, then Saturday you could always do Bath Montpelier, or Quins v Connacht (a bit further away, but you could always do a dry-run for the final!)

There's plenty to do in the area. Actually, I have no idea why I said that, as I don't go to the west country very often. Not even once a year, in fact. But, you can drink cider all weekend, and go 'ooh ahh, where's my tractor'. Hours of entertainment!

i think we are all in the same boat, if the game was on friday or saturday i was just gonna go on the piss till monday!

then again if the game is on sunday i'm still goin on the piss till monday! win win i guess

sheepshagger · Post by **sheepshagger** » November 14th, 2006, 6:16 pm

lets not kid oursleves. . .Gloucester is a bit of a kip. . . .I vote for LeopoldButters idea. . Father Abraham could be dead by alcohol poisoning by the time he gets back to Dublin

Post by **Eve** » November 14th, 2006, 6:22 pm

sheepshagger wrote:Father Abraham could be dead by alcohol poisoning by the time he gets back to Dublin

I'll drink to that