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following our trip to Bounmouth on tuesday night (thankyou fixture computer!) got me thinking what is the longest trip you have made to watch the shrimps ( I have only been following the shrimps for 4 years so as of yet I havnt made any realy made too many of the longer trips)

When i used to follow Blackpool in the late seventies, early eighties, i went to Milwall on the Tues night, Plymouth on the Saturday and Kilmarnock the following Tues for an Anglo - Scottish cup game. Oh they were great days.
Furthest ive been watching Morecambe is Deepdale, but i haven't missed a home league game for 4 seasons.

I have, with many others done Margate Thursday night and Dover Saturday!! We stayed over mind, happy days!!

What a weekend that was !!

Flew back from New York in 2004 to catch our last game of the season against Shrewsbury on the off-chance we would make the play-offs. Does that count?

As a teenager I went to Emley for an FA cup replay which went to extra time and penalties. Remember walking down Lancaster road looking out for my mum to pick me up at 2.15 in the morning and worrying about school the next day!

Margate for me and Jimmy

Woking

Ipswich, Exeter and Weymouth

The playoff game at daggers was a nightmare on a tue night due to traffic

Dagenham for a 12.00pm KO for the sky game was abit mad.

Crawley for a 12pm k.o a few years ago and we got beat 4-0..
or Brentford/Bournemouth on Tuesday nights, Gillingham this season, Wycombe away on the Friday in December last year. A few mad trips now I think about it!

Myself, Downsy, Matty, Brian C and our driver drove 1,185 miles from Morecambe to Halifax via every other Conference Club within 48 hours a couple of years ago.

Does that count?

Err, Wembley, with Barnet a close second.

John L wrote:Err, Wembley, with Barnet a close second.

same here

I go to every home and away game thats wat you call a true fan

Four hours each way for a home game is pretty long time wise. Not much of it spent "on the road" though

Been to Margate a couple of times, including a Bank Holiday Monday when we set off at about 6am. Dover a couple of times too. And Exeter a couple of times, again including a Bank Holiday. Flew to a game via London City, then stayed at Southend.

Also (as I've just been reminded ) a "romantic week in London" to get to Woking one Saturday and Hayes the next.

I also wonder if anyone else has watched Wycombe v Morecambe on all three occasions that we've played there?

Jody wrote:Crawley for a 12pm k.o a few years ago and we got beat 4-0..
or Brentford/Bournemouth on Tuesday nights, Gillingham this season, Wycombe away on the Friday in December last year. A few mad trips now I think about it!

Cheers Jody...I am still trying to forget that day. Chris Blackburn did not take kindly to his mark if I remember correctly...at fault for three goals and then sent off...

Barnet [home] for me oops sorry, that bad day out @ Gillingham was my nearest ! also I was in the Margate end when we scored a goal in [ the F A Trophy] a few years back and I cheered

think aspers has it hands down doesnt he?
sydney to gravesend to watch us get beat 6 0??

...but he was in the pub at 4.20pm drowning his sorrows and chatting up the barmaid!

Wembley....Daggers in March thou...Gonna spend weekend there, might as well as its my birthday the day before!!!

mine must have been 2 moscow for the champs league final last year!! there are also a few european aways that we do in a day which are a fair journey! but portsmouth is a fair journey on a monday night and exeter isnt a short trip down the road either!

outsider wrote:

John L wrote:Err, Wembley, with Barnet a close second.

same here

yes this is the same for me hoping to do the Exeter trip in the new year as well

These long trips must be so tiring. Hats off to everyone who goes on these long hauls on a regular basis.

I saw the Exeter mini bus driver leaving the car park last Saturday and he looked none too enthusiastic about the journey home.

My furthest apart from Wembley was Boston in the Unibond the season we went up.

Wembley (twice) and Ipswich

But the worst trip was for a FA Trophy replay at Staines Town about 30 years ago. Took all afternoon to get down there, saw a forgettable 0-0 draw and was back home for 3am ready for about 4 hours sleep before work. We won the second replay at Stafford, so I travelled down for the next round where we lost 2-0 at Slough (seem to remember our Captain handing theirs a huge stick of Morecambe rock before the kick off!).

What fun!!

My longest away trips would be:

Morecambe -> Dover - 335 miles

Blackheath -> Scarborough - 247 miles (through a blizzard all the way up the M1)

St Albans -> Evesham (Engine blew up on Thursday before game and paid £540 to get it fixed quickly so I could get to the game - didn't think about renting)

New York -> Stevenage - flew back on early flight to get back in time for game fell asleep on train

bangkok for a pre-season friendly.

columbus crew and washington d.c. utd for end of season tour.

also flew from stansted to stockholm and then drove a hire car all the way to the artic circle, for a freindly.
then moved on to oulu finland for another game, before driving back to stockholm.
i know im mad.