Hi
We are travelling down for the match early Saturday morning. We are staying at the Wyndham Arms (Wetherspoons) but as check-in isn't until 2pm is there anywhere of interest locally we could visit? Also where does everyone tend to congregate pre-match for a drink?
Cheers

There's a couple of really nice beaches; Rest Bay in Porthcawl and Southerdown in..Southerndown. Couple of castles in the local area; Ogmore castle is ten minutes from Bridgend, Coity castle is less than five minutes from the centre of Bridgend. Both free to get in.

The weather's not looking great though...so if you wanted to stay indoors, there's a big retail outlet just as you come off Junction 36 of the M4. Look for signs for 'McArthur Glen','Designer Park' or similar. If shopping's your thing then Cardiff city centre is probably better, but the designer village is alright to waste an hour or two...there's a cinema, few fast food places, and a Harvester restaurant there. Bridgend town centre's got a few decent restaurants; Italian, Indian, Tapas bars, but not sure what's open for lunch really.

There's no reserves game, but you could always catch a local game of Union

The Welsh Premiership kicks off on Saturday.

Best place to go before the game is probably the Litten Tree, by the bus station in town, two minutes from the ground.

Thanks for the info - look forward to meeting up

hey guys,i too will be travelling down saturday morning and need to know if i can park near the centre ( wetherspoons) as i will be meeting others there

anyone who wants to meet up for a pre match drink come join in we are a friendly bunch

Yep, the car park at the ground is pay & display, and less than 5 minutes from Wetherspoons. There's a multi-storey two minutes away at the Rhiw shopping centre, and another pay and display at the top end of town.

You could also park in Tesco next to the ground, but they say you can only park there for 2/3 hours, never stayed longer so not sure how/if they enforce it.

May well see you in 'Spoons' at some point!

cheers!!

how much at the ground? might do that then

look out for me a fat ugly bloke wearing claret and gold

Meast, you can also park just up from the ground (free), if you can't get in the car park by the ground, come back out of the ground and turn right back on to the road alongside the carpark, couple of hundred yards up the road, just as it turns into a dual carriageway branch off right and turbn right . You'll be facing a cash and carry (Bookers I think) you can park anywhere along the road alongside Bookers, the Peugeot garage or a little further down. Whetherspoons is five to ten mins away at most.

Couldn't tell you sorry mate. Never used it, living two minutes away



Hope to see you there...also, worth coming over to the new sports bar at the Brewery Field which is opening tomorrow as part of a massive refit.

Meast,

All Pay & Display car parks in Bridgend on the same tariff.

1hr 70p
2hrs £1:50
3hrs £2:50

And so on. Parking free after 6pm in P&Ds. Not expensive because let's face it, though it's home, there's not too many attractions for the casual visitor. And next year that's one less again!

Oh apart from the witty banter and the good looking easy women (and the trolls of course - we cater for all tastes)

thanks for the info guys

at the grund can you move around once your in or is there a certain stand we have to go in?

You can walk right around the ground.

nice one
hope you lot make as much noise as you did in the ropewalk at easter

I'd hope we'll have a good crowd for our last match at BF, but since the move to RP, the local Bridgend rag (our usual source of news and special offers) seems to have lost interest in us.

Though I hope otherwise, you should also have plenty of room to move around the ground too



Still, if you can get there for 4:30, Quinn, Duggan and Van Dijk (3 of the players screwed by UKBA) are officially opening a new sports bar in the ground, before heading off to pastures new tomorrow. Not seen the new bar, but am told its good.

3 of the players playing here illeagaly to get you into SL

Lets get it right

Eh chin up, you're going down tomorrow.

Most probably , but that is what sport is all about , you all start off level and at the end of the season the top/best team goes up and the bottom/worst team goes down

Then we have RL , where , well perhaps not

ooooooooo I can feel me blood pressure rising again!!!

Starbug,

No I mean 3 of the players screwed over by UKBA.
Changing a law and applying it retrospectively and, here's the important bit, selectively, ignoring the other RL clubs known to have used the same visas, along with all the other sporting clubs who used it, is dishonest.

Who watches the watchers? Oh I have no doubt our players will win the appeal, but it will be a pyrrhic victory because the whole dirty venture was conceived with the intention of destroying our club. By then it may be too late and we may be gone and your little game can go back in the UK to being a quaint little local custom, played solely around the M62, expansionism will be a dirty word of the past. The rest of the UK will then be free to ignore this minority sport and focus again on Kick 'n' clap. Then perhaps your tiny little club can be a big tadpole in a very small puddle and you'll actually be happy.

I, of course, will be without a sport to watch or support because football's for girls, Union's a tedious cuddle for 15 minutes then kick for 5 game and I'll be blowed if I'll continue watching a sport with such backstabbing and venom spitting trolls as you involved.

If you hate us so much, feel free to puss off to your own tiny patch of little Ingerlund.

The UKBA have not ' screwed over ' anybody , it is their job to make sure that only people who are legtimatley entitled to come here are allowed to

The 6 players should not have been allowed to enter this country , simple as , but they , your club and no doubt the RFL thought it was a risk worth taking

They were right , the risk was worth it , you are now where you all wanted to be , so the risk payed off , the fact you have now been found out is irrelivant

You are now in SL and should stay there , Once again I will repeat I have no Ansgt against you , your players/officials or your club , I hope you prosper

As for the RFL , well thats another story

But if you post rubbish about the subject , it will be argued against

But.. But.. Gateshead have dispensations..Screwed over twice eh Starbug

, as far as Visa problems , who knows ? , certainly not me

What Starbug, admitting not knowing something?

<shocked>

Oh and you DO have angst against us. That's why you've been bitching about us on EVERY MB on these forums and cutting and pasting the same dishonest shiite all over this one too.

Get a flaming life!

Almost got to a point where you just wished us well and then blew it, never mind I still wish you and Leigh all the best.

the obsession with history is part of the problem.
anyway starbug i rather you do stick around cuz in the main you do ask tough questions that we should be ready to answer, although i think on many occasions we do but you get a bit too convinced of you being right no matter what that you dont listen properly. not trying to offend, just my impression.