o/t Will Fuel Prices dictate your football viewing?

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Have to say when I filled up last night and it cost me a good 30% more than where we were even a few months ago, it did make me think about which trips are now worthwhile and which aren't. Anyone else who has to travel distances to watch the 'Pool (I'm over 120 miles away for home games) be thinking twice if the end games are dead rubbers?
 
Dunno if it was a 'typo' by whoever inputted the fuel price, but on Saturday at the Shell garage on Preston New Road the sign was showing unleaded at £1 67.9 and diesel at £1 79.9 !!
 
Trust this to happen when, in 5 weeks, I'm driving down to The Dordogne in France.😮
The only consolation is that fuel is a 'little' cheaper in France.
Also I can get up to 60 MPG in my car.
 
Please need to start offering lifts for friends to the games (especially at Bloomfield Road) for the fans who are financially struggling and keep less cars off the road.

Only problem is I use to get lifts off the people I sit with but after the Millwall game I tested positive for Covid and did the track & trace, which at the time was your public duty, and they were so pissed off with me for doing the right thing they now won’t give me a bloody lift. I mean for god sakes, what is the problem with people these days? It’s not like now you don’t need to declare that you have had a positive test anymore!
 
Davepick said:
Trust this to happen when, in 5 weeks, I'm driving down to The Dordogne in France.😮
The only consolation is that fuel is a 'little' cheaper in France.
Also I can get up to 60 MPG in my car.
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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news fuel is roughly the same price as here is Dave.😢
 
CornishPool said:
Please need to start offering lifts for friends to the games (especially at Bloomfield Road) for the fans who are financially struggling and keep less cars off the road.

Only problem is I use to get lifts off the people I sit with but after the Millwall game I tested positive for Covid and did the track & trace, which at the time was your public duty, and they were so pissed off with me for doing the right thing they now won’t give me a bloody lift. I mean for god sakes, what is the problem with people these days? It’s not like now you don’t need to declare that you have had a positive test anymore!
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None profit coaches put on by the club is the way forward Stoke do them for free at away matches and that will help to keep cars of the road.
 
BP Garage near me put fuel up by 4p a litre over the weekend.
Just drove past and it’s gone up another 4p overnight. 🤬
169.9 now, heard Shell garage in Fleetwood is 179.9. 😮
 
CornishPool said:
Please need to start offering lifts for friends to the games (especially at Bloomfield Road) for the fans who are financially struggling and keep less cars off the road.

Only problem is I use to get lifts off the people I sit with but after the Millwall game I tested positive for Covid and did the track & trace, which at the time was your public duty, and they were so pissed off with me for doing the right thing they now won’t give me a bloody lift. I mean for god sakes, what is the problem with people these days? It’s not like now you don’t need to declare that you have had a positive test anymore!
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There's a Tangerine Travel Facebook Group for exactly that, aimed at the exile community.
 
Has to be the car or not at all for me.The train even with a senior railcard is £21 ( *) and the earliest I’d be home is 7 35 and to do that in need to be at Blackpool North before 5 28 and with the best will it in the world I doubt that’s manageable at my age😳.The next one I could catch is 5 55 and that would mean not being home until past 8…….either way I think the wife will not be too happy at me getting home that late when in the car I can be home by 6 30 ( which would be earlier if it wasn’t for those effing M55 road works).

I no longer do the mid week home games ( albeit very reluctantly ) as they are getting too much for me at 71☹️ With the late night driving.

(*) I might get that cheaper by using my GMTE National bus pass ( £10 per annum ) which could take me as far as Horwich on the trains but the route I’d have to take involves the same train and I believe they can be awkward about that…..anyway as above the train times are simply not on so it’s rather academic.My rail card also runs out in May in any case.

I think the big test re petrol(diesel in my case) will be next season as that over a full or even just weekend fixtures is if prices stay high ,and let’s be frank I can’t seem them coming down given all that is going on and even if they do the other whammies of household bills not least energy ( we have been informed ours are up by at least 50% to close to £ 200 p.m.) along with the council tax ( which is due any day and is expected to be at least 5% up)).Even my BT bill is going up by almost 10% at the end of the month and that’s before what will happen to other day to day purchases.

Just when you think we are seeing the effects of Covid hopefully diminishing and life returning back to some normality along comes that CRETIN BASTARD Putin.

By the way I consider the two of us to be lucky we can probably just about manage our way ( being retired and no mortgage) through all these price increases by tightening our proverbial belts but there are a lot of people who are going to be really struggling.
 
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poolseasider said:
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news fuel is roughly the same price as here is Dave.😢
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pool s, I thought I saw it about 5/6p cheaper?
That was last week though.
However, it's immaterial, still going. My mate in France is a Middsboro fan, so we're both watching the scores etc.
Thanks anyway.👍
Trip to the Dordogne is about 800+ miles, each way.😒
PS, the weather is better too.😀
 
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FlytoKavala said:
Red Bank Rd to BR so i may have to dust off my bus pass. 🙁
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Red Bank Road…..one I vaguely knew…but yesterday we were invited to one of our neighbours and one of the two other guests said he was born there( only reason the conversation came up with that was I said I’d been to the Stoke v Blackpool game and he asked who I supported..I wasn’t in tangerine 😉) .He is probably close to being say 76 or 77 at a guess but incredibly fit…swims most days at our local David Lloyds( outdoors😳😳) and is a member of the local Stockport walking club( like our neighbour) and that is a 6 to 8 mile hike in his category.
Mind you his family moved to Stockport( my home for the last 45 years) when he was 4.Apparently he was born next to a Nursing Home ( his words) at home itself which in the war years was used as a home for overseas ( mainly Polish) military.

Maybe you have some knowledge of this..hope so especially in these times when we need to know who are real friends are.
 
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Been driving less than I used to ever since diesel hit £1 never mind £1.65!!

Really stopped doing a lot more leisure driving so yes it's affected me.

Probably a better thing for the planet if we all did.
 
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With Business being slow at the moment then Yes affording to put fuel in car for leisure purpose is something I am having to reconsider, even though its only Penrith to Blackpool & back the current hike in prices coupled with severe drop in income recently is causing huge cause for concern . Thankfully its no longer a 400 mile round trip that 4 years ago would cost me approx £65 That would now cost me £93. I do however value my football days as essential R&R & will be there if I can .
 
bleach51 said:
Has to be the car or not at all for me.The train even with a senior railcard is £21 ( *) and the earliest I’d be home is 7 35 and to do that in need to be at Blackpool North before 5 28 and with the best will it in the world I doubt that’s manageable at my age😳.The next one I could catch is 5 55 and that would mean not being home until past 8…….either way I think the wife will not be too happy at me getting home that late when in the car I can be home by 6 30 ( which would be earlier if it wasn’t for those effing M55 road works).

I no longer do the mid week home games ( albeit very reluctantly ) as they are getting too much for me at 71☹️ With the late night driving.

(*) I might get that cheaper by using my GMTE National bus pass ( £10 per annum ) which could take me as far as Horwich on the trains but the route I’d have to take involves the same train and I believe they can be awkward about that…..anyway as above the train times are simply not on so it’s rather academic.My rail card also runs out in May in any case.

I think the big test re petrol(diesel in my case) will be next season as that over a full or even just weekend fixtures is if prices stay high ,and let’s be frank I can’t seem them coming down given all that is going on and even if they do the other whammies of household bills not least energy ( we have been informed ours are up by at least 50% to close to £ 200 p.m.) along with the council tax ( which is due any day and is expected to be at least 5% up)).Even my BT bill is going up by almost 10% at the end of the month and that’s before what will happen to other day to day purchases.

Just when you think we are seeing the effects of Covid hopefully diminishing and life returning back to some normality along comes that CRETIN BASTARD Putin.

By the way I consider the two of us to be lucky we can probably just about manage our way ( being retired and no mortgage) through all these price increases by tightening our proverbial belts but there are a lot of people who are going to be really struggling.
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A familiar story. All the best.
 
Ironic thing is I can walk to Old Trafford from where I live in Salford but will have to pay £25 to Blackpool and back!
At least I see some decent football 😉
 
bleach51 said:
Red Bank Road…..one I vaguely knew…but yesterday we were invited to one of our neighbours and one of the two other guests said he was born there( only reason the conversation came up with that was I said I’d been to the Stoke v Blackpool game and he asked who I supported..I wasn’t in tangerine 😉) .He is probably close to being say 76 or 77 at a guess but incredibly fit…swims most days at our local David Lloyds( outdoors😳😳) and is a member of the local Stockport walking club( like our neighbour) and that is a 6 to 8 mile hike in his category.
Mind you his family moved to Stockport( my home for the last 45 years) when he was 4.Apparently he was born next to a Nursing Home ( his words) at home itself which in the war years was used as a home for overseas ( mainly Polish) military.

Maybe you have some knowledge of this..hope so especially in these times when we need to know who are real friends are.
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Hate to say this but i was born and raised in Codland so i know nothing about Red Bank Rd apart from the betting shops that i pop into now and again.
 
Davepick said:
pool s, I thought I saw it about 5/6p cheaper?
That was last week though.
However, it's immaterial, still going. My mate in France is a Middsboro fan, so we're both watching the scores etc.
Thanks anyway.👍
Trip to the Dordogne is about 800+ miles, each way.😒
PS, the weather is better too.😀
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Be cheaper to fly wouldn’t it DP?
 
Matesrates said:
Wait until they stop buying Russian oil, the price will rocket.
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Hopefully the transition will be managed to some degree and so will the increases. It’s going to hurt though.

Living in the Pool it won’t affect me re home games.

More generally I think we have to take a hit if we want to become less dependent on Russia. I’m supportive of that absolutely. I think we all have an obligation to accept that principles and human decency often come at a price and we have to readjust our own lifestyle accordingly when necessary.
 
Lucky enough to live on TGC so no to home games but will def try to fill the car for away games to share the cost
 
I normally use the train, around £14.50 return, but for the Forest game I'm on the bus. £9.50. Northern train is a pain in the butt presently. Trains cancelled at short notice, engineering work for the Forest game, so two changes inc bus. Probably use the car for Sheffield UTD, so if anyone wants picking up en route via Keighley, Skipton etc pm me.
 
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