Three points clear and +17 goal difference. Beat Crawley and that’s it basically.
I'm still wary of the fact Crawley recently lost 15-0 at home to Fulham, and they host Dartford the week after our own visit. (Obviously we have the opportunity to boost our own goal difference against a team with only 1 point all season. Their last two matches were both lost 4-1.) Dartford host Dorking Wanderers the same day we visit Crawley, in their other remaining game.
You'd probably want a 5+ goal win for it to feel truly settled.
You’d better hope that Summer Roberts isn’t reading you saying you think Dartford could score 15 more than her.
I think that day (the 6-0) they only brought one sub as well…?
I'm guessing because Crawley will become Three Bridges next season and they have already burnt their bridges from the previous stadium that hosted them.
It's £8.25 return from Blackfriars or London Bridge to Three Bridges with a railcard discount, direct half hourly Thameslink service via East Croydon. There's also a half hourly Southern Trains service from Victoria via Clapham Junction and East Croydon. The ground is much closer to the station than Horley and the train is faster, even though it's further away. I'd forgotten Horley is within the Oystercard zone, but it's a "special fares apply" station so there wouldn't have been much of a saving on the full off peak day return price, and you certainly wouldn't have got there and back for £8.25 on an Oystercard.
Will they be Two Bridges next season then?
If they’ve burnt ‘bridges’ then they must have burnt more than two, meaning they’ll be ‘Bridge’ or ‘Bridgend’!
Least worst by virtue of being the pub closest to the station and not a Harvester - everything else is in Crawley proper.
There are 2 others on the way to the ground on Three Bridges Road, The Moonraker and The Plough, the latter being more or less directly opposite the entrance to the ground. I vaguely recall going in The Plough on my first visit for a pre-season game some time during the 1990s. It was just a bog standard locals pub from memory, although you never know how places will have changed these days. These pubs might be worth a look post-match but the Snooty Fox is certainly the logical pre-match meeting place, as it's directly opposite the station and you can't miss it. A large open plan modern building that I think replaced an earlier pub as part of a 1990s redevelopment.
Should just call themselves Wayne and have done with it.
Apparently the game's been moved back to Horley. Anyone got any idea what's happening?
No explanation given by our Crawley. Presumably there's a reason, other than just being bloody awkward, in which case I don't know why they can't just say. The kick-off remains at the later time of 3.15pm.
Seems a strange day to be looking to arrange a friendly as The Adobe Women’s FA Cup Final is that day, kicking off at 2:30 pm. Wouldn’t surprise me if many players had tickets to the game and were unavailable to play.
Management know how many players are available.
Our players, yes, but opposition, no. And players are still going to want to watch the game so presumably this would mean an earlier start!
If no opponent wants to play us that day, we won't have a game. If we don't bother asking, we definitely won't have a game.
