{"id":13935,"date":"2006-10-23T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=13935"},"modified":"2020-10-23T07:18:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T06:18:05","slug":"away-days-walsall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2006\/10\/23\/away-days-walsall\/","title":{"rendered":"Away Days &#8211; Walsall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Johnstone&#8217;s paint Trophy &#8211; formally the LDV\/Autoglass\/Sherpa Vans\/Freight Rover etc was the next game for the Swans. As us fans with nothing better to do travelled the short distance to Walsall (That&#8217;s not in Poland!)<\/p>\n<p>Ugo&#8217;s coach left the Quadrant at 3pm for this exciting encounter. We were left to watch one of the daftest and silliest films was shown on the bus &#8211; Scary Movie 4. It did pass the time I suppose though.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived in Walsall, at around an hour before kick off. We had a drink at the Walsall supporters bar, it was a nice little place and most of the discussion was about Leon Knight!<\/p>\n<p>The programme was just a quid as it only contained a few pages, their &#8216;One to Watch&#8217; was Leon Knight. I didn&#8217;t think at the time they would need to worry too much about him.<\/p>\n<p>The Bescot Stadium is an odd looking ground, at first it looks a Mecano set, also one stand is much higher than the others. We were sitting, some of us standing, in a different place to last season, we were in the corner of the ground (behind the goal last time), with two pillars blocking certain areas of the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>What it must be like for the unfortunate person sitting that may have to sit directly behind the pillar I do not know. They wouldn&#8217;t get to see much of the game.<\/p>\n<p>It was a typical LDV (I&#8217;ll still insist on calling it that) atmosphere, not much of a crowd there and many of the home fans were spread out. I don&#8217;t know what the official figure for away fans was but it wasn&#8217;t a bad turn out for a midweek Mickey Mouse Cup game. Around 200 I would say, maybe more.<\/p>\n<p>The bus arrived back in Swansea at around 12.30pm (I think &#8211; can&#8217;t remember now!). Next two away games are Northampton (Cobblers!) and Peterborough in the Johnstone&#8217;s Paint Trophy on Halloween, scary.<\/p>\n<p>Ticket: \u00c2\u00a310<\/p>\n<p>Coach: \u00c2\u00a313<\/p>\n<p>Programme: \u00c2\u00a31<\/p>\n<p>Current total: \u00c2\u00a3382<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Johnstone&#8217;s paint Trophy &#8211; formally the LDV\/Autoglass\/Sherpa Vans\/Freight Rover etc was the next game for the Swans. As us fans with nothing better to do travelled the short distance to Walsall (That&#8217;s not in Poland!) Ugo&#8217;s coach left the Quadrant at 3pm for this exciting encounter. We were left to watch one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}