Providing the official Red Devil supporters transport to away games - We are back now taking bookings for coaches for this season which is going to be exciting - come and support your team on the road.
I was in two minds about travelling by coach. As I said to Pat on Saturday I thought it might be a closed shop/bit of a clique. Well I got that totally wrong. Everyone was so friendly and welcoming - and from one of our pubs we visit - Hello Alain. I hope that you have recovered after Saturdays result, disappointing but I suspect that some of your group didn’t know the result due to the amount of shots that were consumed just prior to jumping on the coach. As always it was an absolute pleasure to play host to you all, a more polite and social group would be hard to find anywhere. Please pass our thanks and regards to all members of the group as we enjoyed the day, one of the best we have had in eighteen years! Regards Andy & Donna Cross Keys and another from Supporter Neil Webster - Hi Alain Tony Bish and I really enjoyed yesterday and as you say, you have us hooked now!Status of away travel
WE SURVIVED THE LAST DAY OF THE SEASON AND WILL BE IN THE EFL LEAGUE TWO NEXT SEASON
COME AND WATCH THE RED DEVILS BOTH AT HOME AND ON THE ROAD NEXT SEASON OUR 14th IN THE EFL. WE ALL TRAVEL UNITED IN SUPPORTING OUR TEAM THE RED DEVILS – THAT IS CRAWLEY OF COURSE – NOT THE OTHER ONE
Caraboa Cup Preliminary Round
YORK CITY – Monday 3rd August – 7.30pm kick off
We hope to run a supporters coach to this game – depending on numbers – full details below.
IF YOU WANT TO BE KEPT UPDATED ABOUT AWAY TRAVEL THEN SEND YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS TO US AND WE WILL ADD YOU TO THE GROWNING NUMBER OF SUPPORTERS WHO GET OUR TRAVEL EMAIL UPDATES.
HAVE A GREAT SUMMER AND SEE YOU IN JULY FOR THE PRE-SEASON MATCHES – LEAGUE 2 FIXTURE ARE RELEASED IN LATE JUNE SO WE WILL BE ORGAINSING THE AWAY TRAVEL FROM THEN
Afternoon All
Well that’s over for another 4 years and we now play in the most ridiculous match of the tournament, the World Cup semi-final losers trophy which none of the players or supporters want. Anyway, it’s now down to our home domestic football which starts in a few weeks’ time.
It was extremely pleasing to see so many supporters, former owners and backroom staff attending Barry Munn’s funeral, and that the club officials and players did their own tribute to Barry at the training ground. Barry was a great supporter and worked tirelessly for the Red Devils over the years but not forgetting his other team Tottenham Hotspur. Barry and his wife Sandra were regular travellers on our coaches.
We now have agreed the coach costs with United for next season and as expected the longer trips have been increased due to the cost of fuel and national insurance that companies have to pay – we have tried to keep the costs down as much as we can but there is an increase to the northern trips. The cost for the trips this season range from £30.00 to £50.00 for the northern trips – which when you look at it only £25.00 each way to these matches – much cheaper than the trains, but accept some supporters like a drink on the way which is not allowed on our coaches and also some people can’t travel on coaches.
We will still have our planned buffet stops and also our comfort/coffee breaks on the journeys to give supporters a break from these long trips. As last season all coaches will have toilet and seat charging points. We will again offer to collect match tickets from the stadium office if you are unable to pick them up yourselves and bring them up on the coach.
We now have the fixtures, we have the supporters coaches, we are getting the players to improve the squad – it’s now time to start booking you on for the away matches for a better season than the last two.
The first away match is to York City for the Carabao Cup preliminary round in the “Southern Section of the draw”
CARABAO CUP PRELIMINARY ROUND – YORK CITY – MONDAY 3rd AUGUST 2026 – 7.30pm KICK OFF
This coach will travel provided we get sufficient support, but at the moment we have 14 booked on which as you will appreciate is not enough to run it. It doesn’t help being a Monday evening which we know many of our regular travellers can’t get the time off work for basically two days. We will make a decision by Wednesday 29th July if it travels to York.
Should the coach run it will depart from the Broadfield Stadium at 1.00pm and the cost is £50-00. We are getting supporters booking on so we are hopeful that we will be able to run a supporters coach to the game but it will depend on numbers travelling, we will need a minimum of 35 supporters to run the coach. The cost of travel to York is £50.00. Please just book your seats at the moment, we will take payment once we know that the coach will travel to the game. Match ticket details have yet still to be confirmed.
We will have stops on both journeys at a motorway service station – we may if time allows have a pub stop but just for drinks on the way depending on timing and route taken either A1 or M1.
If we win we are then away to Watford the following Saturday 8th August with a 3.00pm kick off – it will be a short turn around for getting supporters booked on coaches for this trip – we have the coach details but will announce them on the Tuesday morning 4th August.
Our first three Away League Matches
ROCHDALE – SATURDAY 22nd AUGUST 2026 – 3.00pm k/o
COACH DEPARTS FROM THE BROADFIELD STADIUM AT 8.00pm COST £50.00. THE COACH WILL LEAVE AT THE STATED TIME. WE WILL HAVE A COMFORT/COFFEE BREAK AT THE M6 TOLL MOTORWAY SERVICES AND THEN A PUB STOP FOR A BUFFET AT THE FOX & HOUNDS SPRONSTON GREEN – WE WILL DEPART AT 1.00pm TO ARRIVE AT THE STADIUM AT ABOUT 2.00pm. THE COACH WILL PARK UP ABOUT A 5 MINUTE WALK TO THE STADIUM.
WILL LEAVE STRAIGHT AFTER THE GAME AT 5.00pm – WE WILL HAVE A COMFORT/COFFEE STOP ON THE WAY BACK AT ONE OF THE MOTORWAY SERVICES BEFORE GETTING BACK TO THE BROADFIELD STADIUM.
NORTHAMPTON TOWN – TUESDAY 1st SEPTEMBER 2026 – 7.45pm k/o
Coach departs from the Broadfield Stadium at 4.00pm – cost is £40.00. We will travel non-stop to and from Northampton for this game. Hopefully the M25 & the M1 will not be too busy for this trip. We will leave straight after the game finishes.
ACCRINGTON STANLEY – SATURDAY 5th SEPTEMBER 2026 – 3.00pm k/o
COACH DEPARTS FROM THE BROADFIELD STADIUM AT 7.00am – COST £50.00.
We will have a comfort/coffee break at the M6 Toll services at about 9.45am and then a buffet stop at the Foresters Arms, Standish at about 11.30am – We will depart at 1.00pm to arrive at Accrington at about 2.00pm. Coach will park up by the stadium. We will depart straight after the game and will have a break at some point on the return journey, depending on traffic conditions – either the M6 Toll again or Warwick Services.
TO BOOK YOUR SEATS ON ANY OF THE COACH PLEASE CONTACT EITHER ALAIN HARPER ON 07771-792346 OR VIA E MAIL – ghcoachesat@gmail.com OR PATRICK HARPER VIA X (TWITTER) OR FACEBOOK. WE WILL CONFIRM ALL BOOKINGS – PAYMENT IS VIA BANK TRANSFER TO OUR ACCOUNT OR WITH CASH ALL TO BE PAID BEFORE TRAVEL. WE ARE IN REDZ BEFORE ANY HOME GAME
EFL Trophy – we know the teams, we now know that we will be at home to both Bromley and Brentford and away to MK Dons. Our first game is the away trip to MK Dons on Tuesday 22nd September with a 7.00pm kick off. We then are at home for the last two matches Bromley in October date and kick-off to be confirmed, and then finally Tuesday 10th November against Brentford with a 7.30pm kick off.
Thanks to everyone who has made contact to confirm their details with us for next season – over 180 supporters so far have responded – there were a couple of supporters that we needed to contact again to re-submit the form as we had a problem with a corrupted file and lost details. We are also getting new supporters sending their details for next season’s away travel which is encouraging. I should also have said that if you don’t want to get our travel updates in the future then let me know and we will remove your records.
Confirmed Pre-Season Fixtures
- Eastleigh (A) – Saturday, the 25th July – 15:00
We will not be running any supporters transport to this game – Match Tickets available via their website, also parking is available to pre-book.
- Oxford United (A) – Tuesday, the 28th July – 19:00
We will not be running any supporters transport to this game – Match Tickets available via their website.
- Reading (H) – Friday, the 31st July – 19:30
Match tickets for this pre-season match are now available on the website or from the office.
Alain