Is there a place to meet up? I've just been offered a ticket in Wor End and having been to every EPL away win this season, I could hardly turn it doon ;-))

If anybody wants a lift from/to Toon, I'll be driving doon on Satdy morn returning sometime after the match.

-- Anonymous, November 15, 2001

Answers

Aah'm Pleased!

-- Anonymous, November 15, 2001

There's a pub that a load of people are meeting up at including DSS and Gav, but can't remeber the name. I'll e-mail you this evening Screacher - don't have the details on me and have got the memory of a sieve. Putney Bridge area.

-- Anonymous, November 15, 2001

Pub is...

The Dukes Head

south side of the riverbank, come out of putney bridge tube, walk over the bridge, turn right and walk about 300 yards past the putney bridge restaurant....

-- Anonymous, November 15, 2001

Great - I'm meeting a colleague from work near Putney Bridge tube station. I'll drag him along. As a Fulham supporter, I'm sure he'll enjoy a bit of Geordie hostility hospitality. I'm planning on leaving the car ootside Lahndaan and taking the train in.

-- Anonymous, November 15, 2001

Oh, the Duke's Head - major memories. Screach, as you walk over the bridge, you'll see a block of red brick mansion flats. If you'd like to put a large bomb next to it, I'll reward you spectacularly. Thank you. Similarly there's a restaurant called the Putney Bridge just before the Duke's Head, bomb that and you can name your fee.

-- Anonymous, November 15, 2001

I'll see what I can do Dougal, but I'm running low on bomb making equipment right now. Would a stern look do instead?

-- Anonymous, November 15, 2001

You read my mind - not about the bomb, about the pub. Was going to suggest the very same. Quite excited - for the first time ever, I may be able to walk from home to a Toon away match!

-- Anonymous, November 15, 2001

Screach - if you're getting the train as in 'train' rather than the train as in 'tube', Putney mainline station is fifteen minutes from Waterloo/Vauxhall and a few minutes walk to the pub from the other side. Though I suppose of you're coming in from the north, you won't be. So I'll shut up.

-- Anonymous, November 15, 2001

Hell Dan, I dunno what I'm doing (so no change there then). I meant "tube". To a country bumkin like me, they're all just trains, except some of them go thru tunnels (whoo hoo).

I think I'll take the Stealth Astra to the environs of the M25 and leave it at a BR station (or whoever it is this week) and travel in to the smerk on a proper train, then "across town" via the aforementioned tunnels, resurfacing at Putney Bridge to plant my bombs (or give some stern looks) before quenching my thirst with a Bottle o' Dog (do you suppose they'll sell it - and if so, will it be chilled?).

I'll see you in the Dook's, me ol' cock sparra. Let's hope we have a similar result to the last time I saw you (but not the last two times in Lahndaan).

-- Anonymous, November 15, 2001

Dan - you don't live in that "block of red brick mansion flats" beside Putney Bridge by any chance do you?

I've heard there may be a bomb planted there over the weekend!! ;o{)

-- Anonymous, November 15, 2001

No. I think they're quite nice. There are decorative blocks in them which, every time I drive past, remind me of Bart Simpson's head.

-- Anonymous, November 15, 2001

I hope these drugs don't wear off.

-- Anonymous, November 15, 2001

Gav been selling you duff gear again Dan?

-- Anonymous, November 15, 2001

Duff Beer is what I sell...not Duff Gear...don't do any of that...

-- Anonymous, November 16, 2001

Great place to live when it's Boat Race weekend. You can look out of the window and watch them starting off.

Otherwsie, I hate them (and one of their inhabitants in particular).

-- Anonymous, November 16, 2001

You'll be giving us the name and flat number of this inhabitant next ;-) Must be some grievance, as any flat overlooking a river sounds like good news to me.

-- Anonymous, November 16, 2001

I've got the North Tyne about 30 yds from my front door...do I win a tenner?

-- Anonymous, November 16, 2001

Even better Bobby, although a bit bucolic for my taste. Not enough polution or activity to be a real river at that stage ;-)

-- Anonymous, November 16, 2001