great idea. I live near kidderminster but would happily travel to a pick up point. Had a season ticket and travelled by myself all season - got a bloody fortune!!!

Absolutely!

I would also like to mention that I am happy to organise all this as well.

And if you want proof of my organisational skills then look no further than the Palace fans appearing on Soccer AM on New Years Day in 2005. That was my doing

Edited by ElliottHutchins (27 Jan 2011 2.58pm)

I tried to contact the club about this about 3 or 4 years back and was eventually put on to Terry Byfield who suggested I put an advert in the programme ( a polite way of saying f off I think!). Me and my son (17) get to most away games in the midlands and north. I was thinking of contacting the club again, now that 2010 are in to see if they had thought of putting in place supporters clubs in regional groups which could help people get in contact with each other for car share even if bus travel was not possible. We are based in Huddersfield and usually travel to home games by train, but need to book tickets about 2-3 months in advance to get reasonable prices.

Snap! To the tee! Except i've got my first kid coming in May and we live in Leeds, not Halifax!

MichaelCPFC, i'll PM you mate!

I'd definitely be up for that.I get to a few games at selhurst but it's not the best trip down when your on your own.I live in east Yorkshire but would be pleased to travel to a pick up point.

Not quite, in the Midlands, Stafford.

RED and BLUE and GLAD ALL OVER

I've had a word with a few companies and i've got one ringing back. To get a minibus+driver would cost in the region of £50-60 each but this woman thats ringing me back reckons she'd be able to do it cheaper than that.

My colleague has mentioned to me the possibility of renting multiple 7-seater cars at around £200 a pop which would take the cost for each person at around £30, which is ok I think. The only problem with this method is that we would need to have probably 2 drivers for each car so we would need 2 people with full driving licences that would be willing to drive and thus forfeit the drinking time. I would like to point out that I can't drive otherwise I would drive one of them.

If anybody can find a way of doing this even cheaper or around that price but with a driver that would be appreciated

I'll try and get hold of the club again as well. Im just loathed to get the club to organise this because they'll want a cut of the money which would push our costs up even more whereas I wont be making any money out of this.

Local Pickup Points
You guys will have to go to a pickup point obviously so having spoken to the woman who is going to phone back this is what I have deduced so far:

Darlington (The bus will start here)
MichaelCPFC

Leeds
ElliottHutchins
martin.cpfc
Tom R
northernpalacefan
southporteagle

Coventry
palacehill1215
keithywonder

Melbourne
Palace_Guard (haha.. not really)

The bus would be going down the M1 and it would cost considerably more apparently to deviate from the M1 route, so unfortunately rerouting to go through Birmingham is not an option and Coventry is the closest I can get to Stafford and Kidderminster and rerouting from Southport isn't an option either so you'd have to go to Leeds. If we had 2x 7 seater cars then I could get the one car to start from Southport and then pick up at Stafford and Kidderminster on the way.

I'm just musing here. If anybody is able to help out with finding a cheap minibus that would be wonderful!

Greetings from the Pie Eating neighbourhood of Wigan !

Desperate for Wigan to get relegated as I live 5 minutes walk from The DW ! Bolton getting relegated wouldnt be awful either !

Probably best to have a 2nd route down the M6 to include Southport, Wigan, Stafford, Birmingham. Do we have enough demand for a 2nd bus?

I don,t mind travelling to a desiginated pick up point (leeds)if people decide to make it a runner & if theres room.