He wasn't specific; he just said that Lydd or Southend were bad choices, with some other things spoken too fast for me to follow and remember. I wasn't going to argue, because there is always a chance that, at the last moment, he will say "damn ... I will sign your form"
What I understand from the foregoing discussion is that any alternate for which the numbers add up should be acceptable, and there seems to be a consensus that it being further away is not a bad thing.