Quote Hillbilly_Red="Hillbilly_Red"Sorry to state but the facts are relatively but largely correct.
I had a receipt for the coach (not a ticket) and on turning up was told to get on "this" coach: my receipt was not asked for. I commented on this on the way down suggesting the Crusaders' team could be on the coach for all we knew.
We stopped twice on the way down ... why? ... and the head count was done on the second stop. It was fairly easy as there were only two empty seats anyway. I was not warned about drinking or similar before the journey nor on getting on : however there were complaints after the second stop that bags had been searched and alcohol taken. people were angry at this action and also that they were told by the driver that drinking was OK.
On returning to the coach before 6, it was not where it was parked but about 100 metres away around a corner: on arrival in Cardiff the driver had told me he would be where we were dropped but he had moved for fuel and returned to a different place.
Apparently the lady in charge went back to the spot where we had been dropped and seeing no one, the coach left. Several on the coach wanted this as they were concerned with getting home asap with work the next day.
I calculated 17 missing but others said more like 25.
One of these was on another coach and caught us up at the ONLy stop on the way home.
We had a raffle for a shirt : anyone know if anyone won? I still have my ticket.
For the record, I have ran coach journeys. I have over 25 years of experience of such. I have thought hard about writing up a critique for the club but feel it would be seen ass criticism.'"
I was on the ABC Executive coach ' the one with the shot suspension '.
I asked on arrival the the return time '6PM' and left the Hull FC -KR game midway through the 2nd half in order to be back to the coach park with 10-15 min's to spare. the coach had moved 100 yards further down as he had moved to refuel and couldn't fit back where he was before.
I know the driver was uneasy with driving away with passengers missing , but was well after 6PM when he left. I don't want to be too critical of the people who were left behind but it was a long journey back and 6.00 O'clock means 6 I guess , our game ended at 1.50PM and that left a considerable period for people to either stay on and watch the other games or drown their sorrows etc.
Yes the trip could've been better organised , but I'm betting it'll be a while before we send 5 coach's of fans anywhere after that performance !
I've still got a raffle ticket , maybe the shirt's mine
