Well, That Was An Adventure

[Neil In Wigan]

No, not the match. That was decent at best. I mean the journey home. Due to an accident on the M6 at Keele, a two hour delay would have awaited us if the various coach drivers hadn't communicated with each other to warn us. Thankfully we got off hell's highway just before Wolverhampton, and proceeded to visit Wolverhampton, Whitchurch, the outskirts of Shrewsbury, Chester, and Crewe before hitting Warrington and back on the M6 again. Well done to our driver who negotiated his way through all of that to get us home at a decent hour, but I don't want to go through that again in a hurry. I never thought when we set off this morning that I'd see huge parts of Shropshire on the way home.

[ancientnloyal]

5 people died that night in two seperate incidents.

I followed the Grayway coaches around Stoke - saving at least an hour+

[mike binder]

ancientnloyal posted:
5 people died that night in two seperate incidents.

I followed the Grayway coaches around Stoke - saving at least an hour+

why you should of followed me

[AndyJones]

ancientnloyal posted:

I followed the Grayway coaches around Stoke - saving at least an hour+

It wasn't a Grayways coach pumping smoke out of the back was it? As soon as we come off the motorway at Stoke the engine on our coach starting playing up, with plumes of engine smoke coming from the back and the stentch of exhaust fumes inside.

Luckily once we'd rejoined the motorway it stopped, driver said it was due to chaning up and down gears constantly, but we'd told him to stop it was that bad - to no avail! He just carried on regardless.

[Neil In Wigan]

ancientnloyal posted:
5 people died that night in two seperate incidents.

Yes, and now the lorry driver reportedly responsible has been arrested. Terrible news, and my sincere condolences go to all involved. It's frightening to think that, for an awful lot of our fans in cars or on coaches, if they had only been just a few minutes earlier, it could have been them involved in that crash.

[robjoenz]

Neil In Wigan posted:

ancientnloyal posted:
5 people died that night in two seperate incidents.

Yes, and now the lorry driver reportedly responsible has been arrested. Terrible news, and my sincere condolences go to all involved. It's frightening to think that, for an awful lot of our fans in cars or on coaches, if they had only been just a few minutes earlier, it could have been them involved in that crash.

It is possible Wigan fans could have been involved in the accident as I was ahead of the first incident at J10a-J11 so the chances are some Wigan fans would have been there at around the time of accident.

[robjoenz]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staf ... 334776.stm

However, all victims were from the Midlands.

[Bring on the Warriors]

AndyJones posted:

ancientnloyal posted:

I followed the Grayway coaches around Stoke - saving at least an hour+

It wasn't a Grayways coach pumping smoke out of the back was it? As soon as we come off the motorway at Stoke the engine on our coach starting playing up, with plumes of engine smoke coming from the back and the stentch of exhaust fumes inside.

Luckily once we'd rejoined the motorway it stopped, driver said it was due to chaning up and down gears constantly, but we'd told him to stop it was that bad - to no avail! He just carried on regardless.

That was the coach that i was on! It also smelt of petrol most of the way home. I wanted to stop just to get some fresh air!

[Nine]

Is it possible to get coach-lag? I'm so knacked today it's unbelieveable, and all I did yesterday was sit for 11 hours on a coach and sit/stand/jump up and shout a lot at the rugby.

[AndyJones]

Bring on the Warriors posted:

AndyJones posted:

ancientnloyal posted:

I followed the Grayway coaches around Stoke - saving at least an hour+

It wasn't a Grayways coach pumping smoke out of the back was it? As soon as we come off the motorway at Stoke the engine on our coach starting playing up, with plumes of engine smoke coming from the back and the stentch of exhaust fumes inside.

Luckily once we'd rejoined the motorway it stopped, driver said it was due to chaning up and down gears constantly, but we'd told him to stop it was that bad - to no avail! He just carried on regardless.

That was the coach that i was on! It also smelt of petrol most of the way home. I wanted to stop just to get some fresh air!

I just wanted to stop to have a cigarette, thought it would have been healthier than the exhaust and petrol fumes

Standing up at the back nearly all the way home didn't help too much though, my legs were killing this morning. Although, the game of 'attempted' eye-spy of things on the coach made me laugh.

Although, like we said on the coach - we did manage to fumigate most of Stoke as we passed through