Tranmere Rovers ?

[Walken]

The day I go on holiday. Sake.

Hopefully one of their fans climbs on the cow shed roof and threatens to jump again.

haha they are an odd lot, no question of that

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Should have a decent atmosphere for a pre-season game anyway

I doubt we'll be playing a lot of the 1st team though. Will probably just be an "Everton XI"

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

Gonna go with my dad, he's a Tranmere fan.

Parking's not great tbh. I'd probably recommend people to just get the train to Hamilton Square, then either walk or grab a black cab - that's what I'll be doing (yes, despite the name, I've lived in the City Centre for quite a few years now).

On the occasions i go with him, we usually get there a good bit early and go for a meal in the little Italian across the road from the cowshed end (The Venezia) and park in their tiny car park. Does necessitate getting there about 2hrs before kickoff though.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Apparently there's a sports park that let's you park for £3

Sounds like it would take a while to get out of at match end though

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Regular trains from Birkenhead Central to Lime Street. Just need to match that to a train to Stockport/Manchester and I'm golden

 

[Minimeister]

i quite like tranmere. i remember as a kid playing footy on the grass outside meadowside school on the woodchurch when about 6-7 of the tranmere first team went jogging past. we shouted hello to them and they came over, had a kick around, signed some autographs etc....this was a while ago like so the players werent really famous, the ones i remember were ian muir, eddie bishop, jim steel, steve mungall, johnny morrisey, eric nixon and i think it was shaun garnett. a lot of them lived in arrowe park and i think they said a few of them shared a house in sherry lane and that ray mathias ( manager at the time ) lived pretty much across and down the road from them so they had to be good!. i went to high school with ray's son and they were a lovely family, especially his oldest sister ( hi kim!!! X ). we used to watch them all the time as we got quite a few free tickets....playing very well this year too, hope they go up!.

He used to keep me out of the junior school football team. I was twice the player he was, but his dad used to turn up and watch him play so guess who was going to start!

 

[AdamEFC]

We're playing them in pre-season

Contemplating whether to go and whether to travel by train or car should I do so

Anyone got the train to Prenton Park before? Is there any decent parking near the ground?

Cheers

There are a few buses that go from Liverpool City Centre if that is easier for you.

 

[AdamEFC]

Some useful information here as well:

http://www.tranmererovers.co.uk/tickets/parking_travel/

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

There are a few buses that go from Liverpool City Centre if that is easier for you.

Cheers mate

Might just drive to Liverpool and then get the train/bus from there. Might be easier than getting the train from Stockport to Birkenhead Central or just driving straight to Birkenhead and trying to get a parking space

Know there'll be places to park near Lime Street and it's only 9 minutes on the train to Birkenhead Central

 

[AdamEFC]

Cheers mate

Might just drive to Liverpool and then get the train/bus from there. Might be easier than getting the train from Stockport to Birkenhead Central or just driving straight to Birkenhead and trying to get a parking space

Know there'll be places to park near Lime Street and it's only 9 minutes on the train to Birkenhead Central

There is a car park next to the ground and I have just been looking on their website and you can book a place in there for the Bolton game (3 days after ours) for a fiver so I am assuming that this will also be available for our game as well, when the tickets go on sale.