Perry's Plea / No Trains for Rotherham?

[Bozza]

Waiting to see what the Saturday pm service looks like too. Sure it'll be much worse than last season.

Post-match shouldn't be a problem regardless of how limited the service as people drift away both from the Amex and central Brighton over the course of the evening. There are bus options for part/full journeys too.

Pre-match at Brighton Station could be horrible though.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

What was always going to be a problem for Brighton was the sustainable travel, it relies on public services. When public services break down so do businesses like BHA Ltd. Unlike our manager, there really isn't a Plan B.

 

[dazzer6666]

Post-match shouldn't be a problem regardless of how limited the service as people drift away both from the Amex and central Brighton over the course of the evening. There are bus options for part/full journeys too.

Pre-match at Brighton Station could be horrible though.

If there are only 1-2 trains an hour post match it will still be a problem............let's see...........

 

[RandyWanger]

I would think not if reliant on trains to get home.

Shall give my ticket to the old man, hopefully someone can go in my place.

 

[LamieRobertson]

If anyone needs a lift back to Shoreham because of rail issues on either this Friday or next Tuesday I have space for one (free obviously)
Just pm
Be warned though I will be parked in the Bridge car park

 

[The Albion Roar]

No extra 25, 28 or 29 buses are being put on post-match on Tuesday or Friday - confirmed by Brighton & Hove Buses on Twitter.

 

[Mr Banana]

Martin Perry's commas are on strike.

 

[Lankyseagull]

That simple huh?

My comment was with tongue firmly in cheek - no sense of humour?!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Pretty sure not being able to get there would be reasonable grounds. The club would have to recover the costs from SASTA.



Indeed, he'll be doing a lot, but some of us will still be stuffed.

The new NSC Car Share Sub-Forum may well be your friend here [MENTION=1320]Notters[/MENTION], seeing as how anybody else in your neck of the woods and reliant on SASTA will be equally snookered.

http://www.northstandchat.com/forumdisplay.php?85-Car-sharing-to-the-Amex

 

[Notters]

The new NSC Car Share Sub-Forum may well be your friend here [MENTION=1320]Notters[/MENTION], seeing as how anybody else in your neck of the woods and reliant on SASTA will be equally snookered.

http://www.northstandchat.com/forumdisplay.php?85-Car-sharing-to-the-Amex

Thanks, my problems relate also to childcare - for a lot of matches I'm only going to be able to leave at around 7 and thanks to the good people of Coldean / Moulsecoomb I can't really park close enough for that to work.

 

[Giraffe]

I think the club need to question all fans who have purchased tickets for home games who had to find alternative transport then total it up and deduct it from SASTA

This, there is surely some compensation the club can get back for this.

I assume they are paying them regularly, so just withhold payment. That would get their attention?

 

[Springal]

In a way I am glad this is now directly affecting the club. Maybe they'll start to put some pressure on Southern and sympathise with the supporters a bit more than just hot air / words.

 

[coagulantwolf]

This, there is surely some compensation the club can get back for this.

I assume they are paying them regularly, so just withhold payment. That would get their attention?

I guess it all depends on the contract and all the legal mumbo jumbo that is in that. If there's nothing in the contract about the case of Southern failing to provide a service, then sadly that would surely from a legal perspective mean the club can't withhold payment. You'd hope our legal team however didn't let the contract for the trains go through without a sub section in relation to a failure of Southern being able to provide the service.

 

[Giraffe]

I guess it all depends on the contract and all the legal mumbo jumbo that is in that. If there's nothing in the contract about the case of Southern failing to provide a service, then sadly that would surely from a legal perspective mean the club can't withhold payment. You'd hope our legal team however didn't let the contract for the trains go through without a sub section in relation to a failure of Southern being able to provide the service.

I would be very surprised if, what must be a multi million pound contract, did not have some service level criteria in it.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

In a way I am glad this is now directly affecting the club. Maybe they'll start to put some pressure on Southern and sympathise with the supporters a bit more than just hot air / words.

In what way aren't the club sympathising with fans? What would you like them to do?

 

[Springal]

In what way aren't the club sympathising with fans? What would you like them to do?

Look at the Fulham home game towards end of last season for one example

 

[Giraffe]

I think the club are doing literally everything they can on this and are in no way the bad guys here. It is fully Southern to blame.

 

[coagulantwolf]

I would be very surprised if, what must be a multi million pound contract, did not have some service level criteria in it.

Wonder how good we'd get though. At the point of negotiations, I'm sure as a club we were in a fairly weak position to dictate terms of the contract, nor was it expected such a piss poor service would realistically be provided..

 

[dazzer6666]

I think the club are doing literally everything they can on this and are in no way the bad guys here. It is fully Southern to blame.

This.............really not sure what more people are expecting the club to do.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

It's still very early days, and it could be, (he says hopefully), that as this situation develops, emergency timetable or not, Sasta agree to provide a reasonable service, at least for evening football hone games.

After all, we are talking about a lot of revenue here, both for the football;club, and for the railway company..