Re: Anyone going on Thursday? : Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:27 pm
The switch to Thursday evening has completely shafted me for this game, although TBH I'd already lost interest with all the faffing around over the venue - no chance of me being able to go. However I went down to Neath yesterday for the Scorpions v Skolars match, having booked cheap train tickets when they went on sale in January and before knowing when or where our own game with Crusaders would be played. (I'm one of those people who has to try to visit every club and every new ground.) The good news for those going for our game is it seems Crusaders will only be charging £8 behind the sticks or a tenner for the side stands. (It was £8 yesterday.)It's an OK old style ground. A rather higgledy piggledy main stand along most of one side, a bit like the one we used to sit in at Brentford; a decent covered terrace at one end with a smaller open terrace at the other end, and a semi-permanent stand with a tent-style roof running the length of the opposite side which looks exactly like the one Enfield FC had at their old Southbury Road ground in the late 90's when Saracens RUFC were groundsharing there.
The town itself seemed pleasant enough on a sunny spring afternoon (much nicer than Bridgend) and I visited all three pubs in the current Good Beer Guide: the Wetherspoon's directly opposite the station (average for a 'Spoons), the Borough Arms in Upper Henry Street, which was a really friendly old fashioned but smart backstreet local set in a row of terraced houses, and the Crown & Sceptre on the main road across the river in Cadoxton, which was a pub/restaurant in a relatively affluent looking area and seems to have a good reputation for its food.
I remember walking past the Castle Hotel in the town centre, which looked an attractive old whitewashed building, and there was also a more modern looking hotel close to the station (the Blue Boar or Blue Bell I think?) which certainly looked fairly decent from the outside.
