08/09 Arsenal Schedule

[akofman12345]

I was wondering when the new schedule comes out?

Me and my two buddies are landing on August 16th,2008 in London at 7:55am and we figured that as long as the game was at home, or in London, we could make the game.

Also, if the game is in say... Sunderland away at the 3pm start time, when does the supporters bus leave?

Thanks in advance. I'm so excited, it will be my third time in London, but my first time being able to watch an Arsenal game. We are staying until the 25th, so i hope we can catch all three games that will be played over that period of time.

[Ziegler1988]

Schedule is being released June 16th.

[Skizz]

Sunderland away you're looking at the coaches leaving between 7 and 8am. That was for the last game of the season this year.

[akofman12345]

Sunderland away you're looking at the coaches leaving between 7 and 8am. That was for the last game of the season this year.

yea, thats what i was thinking. i guess i just have to hope for a home game on the first day of the season, or a sunday game would be even better:D

[Martin Daoust]

I was wondering when the new schedule comes out?

Me and my two buddies are landing on August 16th,2008 in London at 7:55am and we figured that as long as the game was at home, or in London, we could make the game.

Also, if the game is in say... Sunderland away at the 3pm start time, when does the supporters bus leave?

Thanks in advance. I'm so excited, it will be my third time in London, but my first time being able to watch an Arsenal game. We are staying until the 25th, so i hope we can catch all three games that will be played over that period of time.

Congrats and enjoy! The Emirates is a great new ground honestly...

[The Grim Returner]

I was wondering when the new schedule comes out?

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Do you mean the new fixture list?

[The Grim Returner]

Sunderland away you're looking at the coaches leaving between 7 and 8am. That was for the last game of the season this year.

That's great! In my days you had to be a member of the Supporter's Club to use their coaches! How times have changed!

[Skizz]

Urm....wtf?

[akofman12345]

That's great! In my days you had to be a member of the Supporter's Club to use their coaches! How times have changed!

Yes, i did mean the new fixture list....

And how else do members of Arsenal America get to the away games?

[Schu419]

Yes, i did mean the new fixture list....

And how else do members of Arsenal America get to the away games?

I don't know what he's trying to get at, but here's how you can get to away matches:

a) Arsenal Travel. You'll have to pay a relatively small fee (10 pounds?) to join the travel club for the season, but after that you just pay as you go, no more than 30-40 quid (from the looks of the cost to go up to Huddersfield Town - pretty damn far away - this August)

b) By yourself. I went up to Anfield and OT on my own this year, and it may be the most convenient way to do it, as long as you're willing to figure our your own logistics. Meeting up with others shouldn't be too hard since you're bound to have an Arsenal America ticket person's mobile # and see him/her before the match. I can't speak from personal experience with other stadia, but I don't believe that any Premier League venues are difficult to get to using only public transportation.

You may also meet kind folk who can give you rides from time to time.

[Ziegler1988]

I don't know what he's trying to get at, but here's how you can get to away matches:

a) Arsenal Travel. You'll have to pay a relatively small fee (10 pounds?) to join the travel club for the season, but after that you just pay as you go, no more than 30-40 quid (from the looks of the cost to go up to Huddersfield Town - pretty damn far away - this August)

b) By yourself. I went up to Anfield and OT on my own this year, and it may be the most convenient way to do it, as long as you're willing to figure our your own logistics. Meeting up with others shouldn't be too hard since you're bound to have an Arsenal America ticket person's mobile # and see him/her before the match. I can't speak from personal experience with other stadia, but I don't believe that any Premier League venues are difficult to get to using only public transportation.

You may also meet kind folk who can give you rides from time to time.
How much does it cost to go to the NW by train? I'm planning to go on 10 or so away trips this season and was planning to use the Travel Club, but it was around 30 pounds to go to Liverpool for the CL IIRC and I get discounts through my ISIC card for public transport.

[Skizz]

You're studying over here, right? If so get a Young Person's Railcard, it costs £23 and gets you 1/3 off any travel in the UK. A trip to Liverpool set me back £22 return with the railcard, but when heading to the north west if you book tickets two weeks in advance you can get travel for as little as £12.50 each way, even without a railcard.

[Ziegler1988]

Yeah, I'll be over for the entire season. My ISIC card gets me discounts for the underground, but I guess I'll have to buy that Young Person's Rail Card for train discounts.
In terms of tickets, with more being available to Red Members this season (1500 guaranteed for every match) I was thinking of only requesting tickets for the big home matches through Arsenal America to avoid the fees. Looking at last year's figures (http://www.arsenal.com/membership/article.asp?article=342040&title=Guided+Tour) it seems like it was relatively easy to get tickets for Category B home matches besides in April and May as long as you bought them the same day. The only problem is that they go on sale to Reds a month before the match, so you're screwed if they sell out quickly that morning. What are your thoughts on it?

[SLO-Gunner]

In terms of tickets, with more being available to Red Members this season (1500 guaranteed for every match)

I bet a lot of silver members are PO'd about this, eh?

[Skizz]

It's probably the fact that there is a higher capacity. IIRC no tickets were GUARANTEED to red members in the first season at Emirates, but Rick said that every game went on sale to red members due to not selling out to silver.

[The Grim Returner]

Urm....wtf?

Welcome to my campaign to get BS members to speak in the vernacular.

I am also commited to making Big Soccer a TLA lite zone!

[Skizz]

I am hardly one of the worst offenders in using internet abbreviations on BigSoccer, and my use of language exceeds the required standard to be understood on the forum, so I'm fairly certain one TLA can be excused. Apologies if you were offended by my foray into the unknown :)

[Frankgarrison]

I've posted this a couple of places, but it goes here, too:

Next season's Champions League schedule-->

is here (http://kassiesa.com/uefafiles/2007-09-25-uefa-calendar-and-access-list-for-2008-09.pdf) (warning, it's a pdf file)

3rd qualifying round 12/13 26/27 of August

Matchday1 16/17 September
MD2 30 September 1 October
MD3 21/22 October
MD4 4/5 November
MD5 25/26 November
MD6 9/10 December

First Knockout round 24/25 Feb and 10/11 March (09)
Quarter-finals 7/8 and 14/15 April (09)
Semi-finals 28/29 April and 5/6 May (09)
Final 27 May 2009

[Lanesra]

Welcome to my campaign to get BS members to speak in the vernacular.

I am also commited to making Big Soccer a TLA lite zone!

Is that in Rome ? and WTF is a TLA , FFS ?:cool:

[Ziegler1988]

One week until the fixtures are released. Any word on how ticket requests for next season are going to work?