SHOCKING TREATMENT.get told to turn up ealry just like the other 150-200 fans did at 6.30 on sunday morning.Great example set to start the day when the women in charge turns up at 6.55!!!!!!!when busses leaving at 7!!i can understand drivers are contracted to work stict hours,but to leave so many fans behind and others having to get on other coaches as the A.B.C bus had long departed is a joke!especialy 230 miles away from salford,wouldnt have been so bad if it was half an hour down the road in warrington or wigan!

Was this guy on the floor ill, drunk or did he just trip up and fall over? I find it really odd that the coach would set off before the leaving time if people were not on it.

They did issue tickets Pev, we should have been on coach 3 but were told that everyone has done their own thing so just get where you can. We heard that 20 people had missed the bus but i dont know if that was true. you cannot blame the club if people had got back the coach late, but if the coach did leave then that was a bit naughty

abc coach that we was on must of left well early!as i know people off that who had to go on the goodwins one!there was at least 20 left behind.ten mins late !!

The Bullocks coach that we were on waited 5 mins

well according to a lad i know who caught the abc coach with us said it took them ages to find the coach as it was parked no were near at where they dropt us off and when they got on and left the abc was half empty!!!! it doesnt take long to put peoples names on a list or have a head count! like i said i was only a few minutes if i was late! like ginge said its not as if its only a few miles away its bloody cardiff and it was horrible.Even if the guy was wasted you cant just leave a fellow fan on the floor!!!

We used ABC a number of times for the FunBus back in the day. They were bob on until after we played London Broncos at Brentford one time. The driver was on his way back home and almost left the bulk of us in the pub. Probably on purpose too.

Hope you.ve made a complaint to someone at the club. Higher up than the staff at the shop. And also th coach company.

been in with me £57 rail ticket! give it a week and ill drop sir john a line if not had a refund!

Woah, the pregnant lady you were sat opposite hadn't touched a drop all day! Our coach really was fine though & all Kudos to Walshovski for sorting it.

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.

The second stop would have been to have removed any alcohol from the passenger section of the coach, IF the Police would have boarded the coach and discovered alcohol on board the driver and organiser could have been handed a £2000 fine, as you are on the way to a sporting event. It is a regular thing on Football away matches, nearly got caught in Glasgow once but Mr McEye and his dog missed all the emptys.
Strange the rule does not apply to Rugby Union matches.