An improved performance against Northampton with good debuts from Harte & Morris kept us just above the drop.

Leicester 4th April ko 3pm

Prices Seated: Adult £23:00
Senior (60+) £21:00
Under 22’s / Students £15:00
Junior (Under 16) £10:00
Child (Under 12) £5:00
Child (Under 8) £3:00

I have requests from Ken Hullock, Tony Little, Alan Millington, Dave Brown, Malcolm Roger, Dave Croxford, Iain Davidson, Mike Carruthers, Jason Boswell, Mick Simpson, Paul Parke, Allan Stewart, Colin Hopkins, Paul Pennington-Wilson, Chris Holmes, Mike Whitehead, Mike Kilner, Andrew Dobinson, Richard Wood & Jonathan McLoughlin.

The deadline for orders is 5pm MONDAY 30th MARCH and tickets will be distributed at the Regent sports and social club - http://www.carlislelondonbranch.org/travel/venues/leicester.html

Several members have already booked trains with the most popular being from St Pancras on the 1115 going up and the 1825 coming back . One member who had pre-booked these trains can now not make it so train tickets are available at £20 for one adult and £5 each for two children . Contact me if you want to take them.

To show you how little has changed have a look on our website this week at a fan’s view from the trip to Leicester in 1982.

Huddersfield Monday 13th April ko 3pm

Prices: Adult £20:00
Senior (60+) £12:00
Student (with ID) £10:00
Junior (U16’s) £10:00

Please order your tickets by 5pm Monday 6th April.

Cheltenham Mascot

Are there any Brunton Blues who would like to be mascot at Cheltenham on 25th April ? Please let Ian Jardine know at mascots@carlislelondonbranch.org if you fancy a day to remember.

Golden Gamble

The club are trying to set up their biggest ever Golden Gamble half-time draw prize fund for the Oldham game on Good Friday. The previous best is £1800 for the Sheffield Wednesday Cup match. Normally the tickets would only be sold at the ground on a match day but this time they have been distributed around shops in the area and a few fans have taken books in a bid to boost the prize fund. A number of local businesses have kindly donated prizes to supplement the 2 cash prizes. The tickets cost £1 for a blue or white, buy both for £2 and receive a yellow free. The London branch will receive 10% commission for the first 100 tickets sold and 20% for all tickets sold above 100.

They will be available to buy at Leicester or by sending a cheque payable to CUSCLB to me at 11 Cedar Road, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5DA to arrive before 7th April.

Player of year/Champagne moment

You can now vote for your player of the year via our website at http://www.carlislelondonbranch.org/index.html. The deadline is 17th April.

From Monday evening our juniors can now vote for their Champagne moment by choosing from one of these .

1. Graham Kavanagh goal v Bristol Rovers.

2. Michael Bridges goal v Yeovil ( away ).

3. Danny Graham hat trick v Yeovil ( home )

New Website Functions

There is now an improved method of checking your Ticket Deposit Balance and an additional option to order match tickets on our website.

http://www.carlislelondonbranch.org/travel/tds.php

Branch Meeting

The next meeting has been moved back a week to 23rd April. For the Branch calendar follow this link http://www.carlislelondonbranch.org/news/calendar.html.


Keep the faith,



Simon Clarkson


*** 29 March 2008 - a 0-0 draw at Gillingham kept United in second place in league 1 ( reproduced with kind permission from ' On This Day ' ).