Or Sankey. A few drinks in Altrincham, or Eccles, before getting the tram are both good options if you live in the east or south of the town.
Edit: trains are also frequent from Newton and if you live Culcheth way, the guided bus is brill.

I got a coach from the Rodney last time. Was glad I did after seeing the queues outside Central Station.

Anyone know of any coaches leaving from there this year?

Solitas is one place I'd highly recommend

Tickets sales looking extremely good.

Hull have had plenty of injuries also you dick!
Not as many as some granted but false position = sour grapes

Gutted to miss it in Ireland and the flights to come back have sold out. Really hope we can do it.

For anyone going deansgate is decent for a nice pint and bite to eat for any real ale drinkers like me The Bank in the town centre by St Peters Square was very good I found last time I was there and did food

One tip I'd give from our last few trips is avoid taxis down to the stadium! We've been stuck in traffic around the city centre for ages for the last two years and ended up with them trying to charge us £30+ as the metre was running (we did manage to get them down though).

We're going straight over to Chorlton for a few drinks this time and avoiding the centre pre match so we can get the met back the other way.

Ferry?

I haven't used the train for the GF before, what time do the queues start forming at Central? Are they bad before noon?

Last time we went, it was noon and it was busy on the platform, and a short train, not many carriages, we were hearing later on in the day from mates joining us that there was queues out of central station along winwick st, also ppl trying to get on at padgate and birchwood being turned away, had to wait a couple of hours and only got to old trafford just as the game was kicking off.

I'd say noon is the latest time to go before it'll get hectic, bank quay might be an option, if you don't mind a longer journey

I know last time i tried to get the train from Newton for the GF i finished up going home & getting the car out instead. In t hose days there were only two coach trains available, the one from Liverpool to Manchester & the one from Bank Quay to Manchester.The Liverpool Manchester service now uses four coach trains though.