That probably would be your best bet, Wakey station to Batley can't be much over 5 or 6 miles.
Did look at train to Leeds and connection to Batley, but Leeds-Batley only run every 2 hours on a Sunday and would've meant a punishingly early start.

Just echoing Sticksys comments - the sunday 2pm KO has done for us, unfortunately.

I've pm'd you PP.

Its now confirmed on the club`s website as a 1400 ko sunday.
£15 entry for adults with £9 concessions and £3 for the kids.
Tickets only avialable at the gate on the day.

Considered the coach option but knew full well either due to no mainline service at all,
or the timings not making it possible to get to Waterloo from Essex. that this was always
going to be a struggle.

Hence decided to make a weekend of it driving up saturday.

Ohhhhhhhhhh... now that's feasible as I'd not thought of Wakefield station. If I take the 45 mile drive up the A1(M) to Peterborough station & take the Wakefield Westgate service it is remarkably only a 1h 14m rail journey & £38.80 as a Super Off-Peak Day Return. According to Google maps Wakefield WF1 1XP to Batley WF17 7NZ it is a 7.5 mile trip by car via the A638. At this rate, if I go, I'll be the only London supporter there reading this thread

I wonder if I'll have my own lonely stand to watch from??!!

If you can get to Wakefield, get a taxi from there to Batley, taxis are very cheap around there if you agree a fee beforehand.

You won't, I'll be driving up Saturday

Sounds like the cost of the trip is moving upwards - how many do we have on the bus now?

do you think you are playing an amateur side. why the bloody hell would we change the kick off just for the sake of one coach.hope your team underestimates us in the same way.

Looks like you're all going to get a warm welcome, if they're all as grumpy as cally.

He isn't wrong to be fair.

Agreed- but he/she needn't be so terse. If 2pm is their normal KO, then fair do's.

We play (for some stupid reason) at 2pm on Sundays.

Or maybe a sensible reason? Who knows, they don't tell us.

2pm is a stupid time.

Darth - agree entirely. 2pm is crap.

If we have to have Sunday games, at least make them same timings as our Sat games.

Well, I don't mind 2 or 3 p.m. I'd like to know why 2 p.m. for Sundays though. I suppose I could ask, but can't be bothered.

I just put "2pm kick off" in Google search (don't ask) and the top entry was about the Batley Bulldogs with... "Bulldogs plan move to 2pm kick-off times - Local Sport - Batley and ... www.batleynews.co.uk › Sport › Local Sport 1 Mar 2012 – BATLEY Bulldogs' home games in the Co-operative Championship will kick off at 2pm after positive feedback from supporters." Isn't the interweb uncanny!!??

I just put "2pm kick off" in Google search (don't ask) and the top entry was about the Batley Bulldogs with... "Bulldogs plan move to 2pm kick-off times - Local Sport - Batley and ... www.batleynews.co.uk › Sport › Local Sport 1 Mar 2012 – BATLEY Bulldogs' home games in the Co-operative Championship will kick off at 2pm after positive feedback from supporters." Isn't the interweb uncanny!!??

Unfortuantley (or forunately) I now can't make the trip - double booked myself I'm afraid. Really hope we can turn in a good performance and try and salvage at least a decent cup run from this season.....

Can't do it either and I was looking forward to coming up having worked out my route. But as one of my boys is in the Cup final with his local U14's RU team I feel I need to support him rather than the Broncos, although funnily enough the same team is (almost) about to be relegated from the league. Sounds familiar couldn't it - a good cup run against lower opposition & then a lousy league season.

add a team full of kids

Sorry can't do it either. Good luck to the guys that go up!

Both Championship and Champ 1 sides often play at 2pm on Sundays. The part-time players have jobs to go to the next day!

If any of you can be bothered to come www.batleybulldogs.co.uk/index.p ... or-broncos

If any of you can be bothered to come www.batleybulldogs.co.uk/index.p ... or-broncos

Quote ="batley... bob"If any of you can be bothered to come www.batleybulldogs.co.uk/index.p ... or-broncos'" NOTE TO LONDON BRONCOS: When you expect a poor crowd, try and do something about it.....it's not rocket surgery!

Quote ="batley... bob"If any of you can be bothered to come www.batleybulldogs.co.uk/index.p ... or-broncos'" NOTE TO LONDON BRONCOS: When you expect a poor crowd, try and do something about it.....it's not rocket surgery!

London fans are not alone, disliking the 2 o'clock kick off.
It was reported positive feedback from supporters swung the decision.
Now I started to delve into the situation and didn't find one supporter who had been asked for their opinion. So fearing some underhand reason I delved deeper and found two alternative possible reasons.
1 Mrs chairman, the lovely Bev, likes to get home and put her feet up before devouring her gastronomic delights.
2 The coach a certain Mr Kear wants to get to London for an appearance on the television and this time suits him.
Both these options seem feasable but I cannot find the definitive answer. Mrs chairman admits the arrangements suit her but denies she instigated the move.
Perhaps one of you could ask our obliging coach what his opinion is then we will all know.
Still seems a triffle naughty saying positive feedback from supporters swung the decision,when infact nobody cares what they think.