Journey home after SUFC game

[soothsayer]

Bit of a nightmare. 2.5 hours to get from VP to Meir Heath then Trentham! Didn't see one gritter. Hopefully everyone got home safely.

[vale@rocks]

Nightmare journey police turned us back from leek then a further three hours through wetley rocks stuck on Ashbank pushing other cars. It will be a day long remembered and not just for a fantastic Vale victory. let us hope all supporters including Sheffield made it home safe and sound.

[steel city valiant]

It took three hours to get to leek where me folks live and we landed back in snowy sheff in the early hours - one of me friends is a blunt and it took him five hours to get back. Great day great result and an adventure driving home

[soothsayer]

one of me friends is a blunt and it took him five hours to get back

I bet it felt like 10hrs after the result!!!

[Bald Eagle]

Over an hour to Endon, extended P & G on the Radio was a nice touch from Radio Sjoke

[Smugsy]

Nearly two hours to get back to Planet Tean. Failed up Ash Bank so went back up Viccy Road through Longton onto the 50. Followed one gritter into Longton who then decided to turn up some non descript road rather than go into the middle of Longton. Genius.

[Santa]

I thought I was going to be stuck in the pub all night at one point. Made it back to the parents' in Cheddleton eventually, in the brief window when the snow turned to sleet and rain before it turned back into snow.

[smithie]

The Met Office issued a yellow warning which suggested a 90% chance of snow falling in the North Midlands yesterday.

 

It's hard to see how the person in charge of gritting could fail really......surely their only choice is to grit or not to grit!!

 

The whole of the D road and most of the M6 back to Brum was ungritted.

[melv]

Sounds like some blades fan's had a nightmare. http://boards.footymad.net/forum.php?tno=463&fid=221&sty=2&act=1&mid=2110416324

[Jacko51]

It took me 30 minutes to actually get from the car park to the Town Hall. Then went the "wrong" way up to Tunstall and it took me 25 minutes from there to Oakhill. Quite lucky compared to what a lot of folk seem to have suffered.

 

One thing that annoys me every game though is the lack of any police control at the car park exits. And there always used to be a copper controlling the junction of Hamil Road and Moorland Road but as usual, there were loads of coppers standing around yesterday but no one doing anything to control the traffic. Yesterday was exceptional, I know, but it was made worse by the lack of any control at the junctions.

[melv]

The Met Office issued a yellow warning which suggested a 90% chance of snow falling in the North Midlands yesterday.

 

It's hard to see how the person in charge of gritting could fail really......surely their only choice is to grit or not to grit!!

 

The whole of the D road and most of the M6 back to Brum was ungritted.

 

 

Thats total incompetence.

 

Be interesting to hear what feeble excuse they come up with.(Saving the grit/salt till the bad weather arrives.Wrong type of snow)

[Jacko51]

Sounds like some blades fan's had a nightmare. http://boards.footymad.net/forum.php?tno=463&fid=221&sty=2&act=1&mid=2110416324

 

Must have been terrible. Respect to all of them for their efforts. Looks like Cloughie needs to re-think his criticism of them after that.

[stevievalefan]

Took us over an hour to get from the bottom of Louise St.(back of Lorne st) to Chell roundabout cos they blocked off high lane to let the Sheffield coaches go.

[andy jones]

My daughter and husband took over 3 hours to get to Cheddleton in a 4 x 4. I was having a lift with elderly friends and as soon as I saw the conditions on High Lane I knew we had little chance of getting over Kingsley Moor so dropped down to the A500 and managed to get the last two rooms at the Holiday Inn by the Brit for the night.

 

The barman asked me if I wanted a drink, took one look at the fizzy ***** on sale, and asked had any decent ale like Titanic? He just said 'do you really expect us to sell Burslem beer here?' - fair point I thought.

[Howjy04]

It took me 30 minutes to actually get from the car park to the Town Hall. Then went the "wrong" way up to Tunstall and it took me 25 minutes from there to Oakhill. Quite lucky compared to what a lot of folk seem to have suffered.

 

One thing that annoys me every game though is the lack of any police control at the car park exits. And there always used to be a copper controlling the junction of Hamil Road and Moorland Road but as usual, there were loads of coppers standing around yesterday but no one doing anything to control the traffic. Yesterday was exceptional, I know, but it was made worse by the lack of any control at the junctions.

 

Totally agree about the coppers.It was murder trying to get off the carpark and it was causing chaos up and down the Hamil.It took us one hour and twenty mins to get to Scotia Road.