You shouldn't really be amazed, this happens every year. People say they can't be arsed with friendlies for any number of reasons and those who are going get all stroppy and either say "But it's against xxxxxxx!" or "But surely you're Brighton fans and want to go to see YOUR team regardless!"...
Really, I didn't see that, my information came from the father of a Sussex player, but they've been known to be wrong before!
Anyway it wouldn't really worry me. This is the cricket season and an Ashes summer and given than everything else is equal (which it is as they're both friendlies) I'd...
No, the Sussex team is going to be near enough a full-strength team - although reading some of the premature obituaries to Australian cricket written in the aftermath of the Lords Test some feel the Sussex Colts team will be more than good enough.
Are they both evening kick-offs? (Haven't bothered checking before because I wasn't intending on going). That makes it a bit trickier. Also he's none too steady on his pins so we'd need transport and there's no P&R is there? I appreciate this info is probably on the club website but NSC is...
Actually my wife's just set me thinking. She wants to take her Dad (83) to the Amex and thought a pre-season game would be better than a real game. I said "Naa, they're just training exercises, you've been before, you know they're boring".
She said "Well it's not really to see the game, it's to...
That's still £22 to watch a friendly, a glorified training exercise. This is an Ashes summer and friendly pre-season football 'matches' are well down my list of sporting priorities - let alone other things that are going on. We're all different.