Afternoon All

As we saw last night Jay Williams has been sold to Colchester United for an undisclosed fee – we all wish him well for his future career.

Northampton 1 Crawley 1 – Dion Pereira with the Crawley goal in the second half equalising the first half Northampton goal. Well done to the 270 supporters making the trip and to those who went down to Redz  to watch the game there. Dion Pereira was named as man of the match on the coach on the way home.

A big thank you to United Coaches – we were expecting one of their 19 seater minibuses and we actually got a 37 seater coach which gave everyone a bit more room – two good trips – arriving back at the stadium at 11.45pm. Thanks to all that travelled with us.

Again we apologise to our supporters who had booked on the coach to Accrington Stanley – we were hoping to run the coach to the game but due to extremely low numbers with only 13 booked on, we were not able to run it due to costs. Had we run it with only the 13 supporters on it we would have lost nearly £2000 which would have been financial suicide for us.

Our next away match is the trip to Grimsby on Saturday 19^th September. We are getting better numbers and we still have seats available on the supporters coach if you want to join us. Full details are below.

We then travel to MK Dons for the EFL Trophy game on Tuesday 22^nd September again details are below.

Again we need supporters booking on these two coaches as soon as possible if low numbers could mean that we are unable to run them.  Please book early if you intend travelling to either of these two matches.

GRIMSBY – SATURDAY 19^th SEPTEMBER 2026 – 3.00pm k/o

We depart the stadium at 7.00am for the trip to Grimsby which costs £50.00 – we will have a comfort/coffee break at Peterborough Services before a buffet stop for about 11.30am. We are looking for a new venue as the Red Hart is closed at the moment with new owners in the process of a re-fit.  Wherever we stop we will endeavour to arrive at Grimsby for 2.00pm. We will depart straight after the match and will have a break on the way home at some point. We hope we will get sufficient support to be able to run this coach after the disappointment of the Accrington game. We have to confirm this coach to Grimsby by Sunday 13^th September.

MK DONS (EFL Trophy) – TUESDAY 22^nd SEPTEMBER 2026 – 7.00pm k/o

If we get sufficient numbers for this game we will endeavour to run a supporters coach, but we know with this competition many supporters boycott due to the inclusion of Premier under 21 teams – the game will be shown live in Redz if we are unable to provide any transport. Like for Northampton we may use one of United’s smaller seater coaches but with no toilet facilities. We will depart at 3.30pm and the cost is £30.00. It will be non-stop on both trips. We need to confirm this coach by Thursday 17^th September.

WALSALL – SATURDAY 3^rd OCTOBER 2026 – 3.00pm k/o

For a change we are playing Walsall on a Saturday afternoon rather than the usual Tuesday evening. We depart the stadium at 9.15am for the trip to Walsall and the cost is £40.00 – we will have a buffet stop at the Butchers Arms at Bishops Itchington where we have stopped previously – junction 11 on the M40.  We will travel directly to the pub and have our only stop there. We will confirm our departure keeping an eye on the traffic will be about leave to arrive in Walsall for 2.00pm. We will depart straight after the match and will have a short break on the way home at some point – probably Oxford 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