daft dad i know mate, am pushing it a bit with the other half, she is already hacked off as I am reffing over in Dagenham on sat!!! and cant say she really enjiyed the drag over to Orient

its good to see Medway throwign everything at it

Anyone know the best way to train it over to Gillingham from central(ish) London? Victoria, Charing X, St Pancras? Can you use an Oystercard to get out there?

Well said!





Plenty of us having been making the trip around the M25 to West London / Twickenham from Kent and Essex for years! Come on, all of you - this could be that rare thing, a Broncos game that has been well publicised and that COULD get a decent crowd and possibly a decent atmosphere! Remember them eh? Crowds? So just get yourselves there! Its only one game FFS, you'll be back at the Twickenham library, sorry Stoop in a couple of weeks! Jeez!

I was contemplating driving, but as one of the boys has bailed we'll now get the train as my local train service arrives into KingsX. I thought the easiest route was to get the 44 minute direct train from St Pancras to Gillingham so not crossing London on the tube. The direct trains are 11:25->12:06 or 12:28->13:12. The other trains from StP involve a change and take around an hour & 20 minutes. It seems that the return to StP is every 30 minutes. Surprisingly it'll be quicker for me to get to Gillingham using this route that it takes me to get to The Stoop from where I live!

Torbreck that certainly is the easiest option taking the High Speed from St. Pancras. Just recheck the times on Saturday as there is engineering works again on my line affecting the up trains into London in as much as the departure times from Sittingbourne to Gillingham have changed from the usual ones on a Sunday going up into London. For anybody driving car parking is hell in Gillingham, best bet is the station car park. You can't park around the ground or really near it as it is all resident only parking permit and you are likely to get your car either clamped or towed away. I have met one of the wheelchair players for Medway Dragons and for sheer enthusiam and get up and go I think the club are great - well done to them if they have really pulled out the stops to publicise this game. I am bringing my best friends to the game so I hope the team really make an effort.

Excellent. St Panc looks like the way forward then. Sounds like the most direct journey. Southeastern Trains. Ta for that.

Sorry giving duff information about the trains. We seem to have had engineering works every weekend but I think this coming Sunday is ok. Every Challenge Cup day we go to have a drink at the Allsops Arms at Marylebone and every year there are quite a few Hull fans sitting outside who wear black tops with gold lettering, can't think of the club name (obviously a local club from Hull). Anybody from Hull recognise themselves and coming down for the match. They always chat to me every year.

Ta. I've just rechecked on thetrainline.com and the rail planner app on my phone (the app picked the chaos on the Waterloo->Twickenham line for the Hudds match a week before) and it looks like the 11:25->12:06 and 12:28->13:12 are still running. I'll re-check on Sunday morning though & fingers crossed it'll still be OK.

Hull to Kings Cross, return fare £20-50....St Pancras to Gillingham, return fare £20-50....Aint it dear darn sarffff!

You're telling me - my annual rail season ticket went up by a lot to subsidise the high speed trains. We all think it is a conspiracy theory to force people to use them to commute to London. Very good service if you want to go to London at weekend but for daily work commute puts time on my journey. Has anybody you are travelling with got a railcard to get a discount?

Yes, an Adult Super Off-Peak Day Return is £13.55 with a networkrail card which is valid on the HS1 trains.

Interesting pricing though. My station to KingsX = £6.60 and then StPancras to Gillingham = £13.55 which comes to £20.15. But my station to Gillingham = £21.90 so cheaper to buy the 2 separate returns than 1 direct ticket! Stupid how they work out the fares.

I've often found that separate train tickets can work out a lot cheaper than direct ones! Dunno which genius thought up the system but that seems to be the way it is!

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This......from the coach who does not like to make excuses......pre-empting another loss I suspect.

London Broncos coach Rob Powell says playing games away from the Twickenham Stoop erodes their home advantage.

The Super League side played at Leyton Orient's Brisbane Road earlier this month and face Hull FC at Gillingham's Priestfield Stadium on Sunday.

He told BBC London 94.9: "It's an away day. It's good we take the game to new places but we have to travel the morning of the game.

"It takes away a bit of our advantage from a performance perspective."

He added: "It's good we showcase ourselves in Kent, where there are good things going on with the Medway Dragons, but it is another away day."

Heavens knows the biggest disadvantage we have is him.

He doesn't do himself any favours does he, if we had fortress Stoop with outstanding performances there he could have a small point, but as it is? deary me.

Makes you wonder.

Well this quote takes the biscuit! home advantage??? a Joke!

"It takes away a bit of our advantage from a performance perspective."

Wheras his coaching.....

For him, home advantage means he can get home sooner!

Sounds like a quote from someone without a job to me.

I know we all like to slag him off (rightly so btw) but there's nothing wrong with that quote.

We've won 2 games this season, both were at home, being at home does give us an advantage.

So does the fact that on those 2 occasions the opposition were ****, anyone playing that badly we would have been beaten anywhere!

good point.........maybe the problem is that we don't get to play teams every week.......nothing to do with the crap:
Team
Coach
Marketing
admin
strategy
and everything else........

then outlined how he saw the game progressing in the South with him at the helm.
"we should only ever be expected to play sides who are part time and who come down to us every week, we should not be expected to travel which is to our disadvantage, we also will only ever travel away to go to Old Trafford or Wembley and in those cases if we have to have guaranteed opposition from either championship sides or reduced squad SL sides of no more than 10 players.

Oh and the ref lost count once as well, its just not fair