group 4 fixtures

[Jon'o]

September 4 2004
Ireland v Cyprus
France v Israel
Switzerland v Faroe Islands

September 8 2004
Switzerland v Ireland
Faroe Islands v France
Israel v Cyprus

October 9 2004
France v Ireland
Israel v Switzerland
Cyprus v Faroe Islands

October 13 2004
Ireland v Faroe Islands
Cyprus v France

November 17 2004
Israel v Cyprus

March 26 2005
Israel v Ireland
Switzerland v France

March 30 2005
Israel v France
Switzerland v Cyprus

June 4 2005
Ireland v Israel
Switzerland v Faroe Islands

June 8 2005
Faroe Islands v Ireland

September 3 2005
France v Faroe Islands
Switzerland v Israel

September 7 2005
Ireland v France
Cyprus v Switzerland
Faroe Islands v Israel

October 8 2005
Cyprus v Ireland
France v Switzerland
Israel v Faroe Islands

October 12 2005
Ireland v Switzerland
France v Cyprus

[brendy_éire]

That confirmed? Got the venues?

[lopez]

Great to hit France and Switzerland early away from home. Hopefully it help as in the 2002 qualifiers seeing both are in Portugal this year.

[tiktok]

well done the FAI!

should be a good home win to get the confidence up followed by our two toughest game when arguably their players will be on the euro championships hangover.

Can't believe the Swiss ended up away to France and then away to us within a week for their last two games.

[petef]

The Swiss in the last game as well! albeit were at home this time.
You cant help feeling though that the two early fixtures against the Swiss and the French could go against us leaving us a bit off the pace, its all really a much of a muchness to be honest. Could actually see us sneaking something against the French at home if we got our finger out, as for playing them away I dont fancy our chances.

[London Irish]

........just booked return London - Zurich and London - Paris flights for the autumn games .........a certain budget airline allows you to book up till October for silly money ............

..........would advise anybody with a sufficient lack of commitment on the domestic front to book now to save money........

erin go bragh...........

[Jon'o]

i hope the boys dont slip up against the 'smaller teams' (i hate that term but you know what i mean) they are the clubs that only a win will do against

i fancy our chances against france a draw and a win at home scored in the 90th will suit me fine

bring it on ... :cool:

[Beavis]

Originally posted by London Irish
........just booked return London - Zurich and London - Paris flights for the autumn games .........a certain budget airline allows you to book up till October for silly money ............


Lads just on this note if you know your going to head to Swiss I'd suggest booking with Ryanair very soon.Their offer says that they exclude sporting events so it's a good idea to book before they realise that Ireland are playing in September.Standsted to Graz is just £35.00 both ways (out on the 7th and back the 9th).

[tiktok]

Are you sure as to where the Swiss will play their home game against us

[lopez]

Originally posted by tiktok
Are you sure as to where the Swiss will play their home game against us
FAI source said Bern. I presume that the rebuilding of the ****dorf will be finished by September.

[Peadar]

Where are you flying from?
Dublin (DUB)
TO
Paris Beauvais (BVA)

Date to fly out? Fri, 08 Oct 04


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Is this bad news for me?

[tiktok]

Originally posted by Peadar
Is this bad news for me?

apparently easyjet and ryanair are already nearly gone for the french game. there are a few british operators who work out os stanstead who fly to paris, but you'll need to be quick or it'll be the ferry

[Peadar]

Originally posted by tiktok
you'll need to be quick or it'll be the ferry


How about a flight to London and the Eurostar to Paris?
Anyone know anything about the quality of service via the tunnel?

[tiktok]

Originally posted by Peadar
How about a flight to London and the Eurostar to Paris?
Anyone know anything about the quality of service via the tunnel?

it's meant to be very good but i've not travelled on it. you'd still need to get moving peadar, this will be many peoples second option after they see the flights are gone

[SÓC]

Originally posted by tiktok
it's meant to be very good but i've not travelled on it. you'd still need to get moving peadar, this will be many peoples second option after they see the flights are gone
Trains in the UK are even more expensive than CIE, be preaprde to pay a big whack.

[Paul03]

Ryanairs schedule for October is not out yet. That is why the flights are showing as not available

[tiktok]

Hurrah.............panic over

although they won't be daft enough to let them go cheaply now that we've all been searching the website for them.;)

[lopez]

Originally posted by SÓCcfc
Trains in the UK are even more expensive than CIE, be preaprde to pay a big whack.
Be prepared for them to breakdown more like it.

[Daxion]

Personally, I think the fixture schedule is horrendous. From a travel perspective, trying to attend all the matches will be a nightmare. I know of several people who will try to do this.
1st Problem:- Fly to Dublin for the Cyprus game, back to London and then fly to Switzerland, not too difficult, but IMO it get worse as the group progresses.
Eurostar to Paris - expensive weekend and then fly to Dublin for the Faroes game in midweek.

Israel at home in June followed by the Faroes away 4 days later

Then the final 2 games in the series Cyprus away and Switzerland at home a few days later.
It is a CRAZY schedule

If anyone can make all 10 games, they should get the freedom of Dublin City

[Peadar]

Originally posted by Paul03
Ryanairs schedule for October is not out yet.


I figured as much, cheers Paul.
With only one decent away trip this year I'll be putting a few bob aside each month so even if I have to shell out €350 for Aer Lingus I wont mind too much.

[only1kilbane]

one decent away trip ?

Are you forgetting about basel !

switzerland was a great trip last time out and even though the result was crap it was one of the best i was on !

[Peadar]

Originally posted by only1kilbane
Are you forgetting about basel !

It's unlikely to be there again and at such an early stage in the competition I'd bet the atmosphere wont be anywhere near what it was the last time. I've been dying for Ireland to play in Paris since France 98.

[Jon'o]

Originally posted by tiktok
it's meant to be very good but i've not travelled on it. you'd still need to get moving peadar, this will be many peoples second option after they see the flights are gone

i had a look at that site this morning, they are not booking as far ahead as october yet, but i did a quote for going out saturday morning and back sunday some time in march.

the price worked out at about £70 stg / e100 plus if you live in ireland you have the trouble of getting to england first then getting to london to get the train.... long old day lads

[petef]

Could get flights fairly easily from glasgow to Paris for bout 120 quid, whats it like trying to get tickets for the game?

[Daxion]

Originally posted by petef
whats it like trying to get tickets for the game?

Tickets should be easier to come by, better than Switzerland last year. Stade de France hold about 80,000, therefore we should get between 8 and 10 thousand tickets. hopefully

[only1kilbane]

the switz game is nearly 100% to be in basel ! they have played all there competitive international for the last two qualifying comps in basel and the footballing support in switz lies in he north wheras they would only play friendlies in geneva as football is not supported well down there !

Paddy Reillys here we come !

AT least we know the real fans will be in switz unlook a lot of those who went to switz in oct just cause it was the crucial game "

[Junior]

Switzeralnd have tended to move there games around the country in the past, their ECQ against Albania was played in Geneva. I think they have had some construction work going on, on one of their other major stadiums.

I assume there was a reason behind the FAI stating that the game was likely to be in Berne??


Paddy Reillys Oirish Bar, thats right, its where all the 'real' fans hang out:confused:


Agree, there is going to be no where near the demand for this game as there was for the last one.

[lopez]

Originally posted by Junior
Paddy Reillys Oirish Bar, thats right, its where all the 'real' fans hang out:confused:
Hear, hear!!!:D

[only1kilbane]

sorry for mentioning the irish bar in basel ! god i am not a real for for that now !

the stadium in geneva is the same size as the one in basel but very unlikely to be played there !

Berne does not look like an option as no international played there for a while.

The fact that the game in oct went off without a hitch ( except the game ) means it is likely to be used again !

The whole rush for the brazil tickets and the lack of rush that will happen for the switz game is a bit sickening ! where do all these people come out of the woodwork from?

[Junior]

anyone know why the FAI have alluded to Berne being the venue?

[Beavis]

Read in the Star or was it the Sun that the manager,Topmuller is it,said he wanted to remain in Basel for the next campaign.He's right too cos it's a good little ground for holding in noise and waving flags slowly and shouting Hopp Schwiss.

We booked flights to Karlsruhe and are driving down.Nice little deal costing less thatn E110 (ps anyone how do I get the euro symbol?it's on the 4 on the keyboard but so is the $ sign and that's all I can get)

[only1kilbane]

dont see why they would as basel seems the ideal candidate ! well i am just prayin it is as ive booked my flights to basel and hotel as well so it better be !

[only1kilbane]

excellent deal ! who flies to karlsruhe ? ctrl + alt together is euro !!!!

[Daxion]

Originally posted by Beavis
ps anyone how do I get the euro symbol?it's on the 4 on the keyboard but so is the $ sign and that's all I can get)

hold the CTRL and ALT and 4 keys all together and you should get €

[Daxion]

Originally posted by Beavis
Read in the Star or was it the Sun that the manager,Topmuller is it,said he wanted to remain in Basel


Don't think Topmuller is the manager, believe it is Jacob Kuhn. Topi is in charge if SV Hamburg

[Beavis]

Yeah Kobi Kuhn sorry.I don't know what I was thinking with Topmuller,he was that curly haired Leverkusen coach.

O1K,turns out that I'm actually flying to Friedrichs (not 100% on the name) instead cos it's closer to Swiss.I personally didn't book it but I'm nearly sure we're going with Ryanair for a lovely price.

[lopez]

Originally posted by only1kilbane
sorry for mentioning the irish bar in basel ! god i am not a real for for that now !
Nah it's not that, but Irish bars are such rip-off joints and they're full of the event junkies. Avoid them at all cost. You don't need a £5 pint of Guinness that badly?

Asking why such a demand for Brazil and suddenly none for Switzerland? The first cos it's Brazil. Hey wait a minute I saw Ireland v Brazil 17 years ago and there was half a full stadium (if you read the post match reports at the Irish or British Library you will read - and I am tempted to bet one of my cojones on this - that the England v Scotland game on TV hampered the attendance:confused: ). The second is that it's midweek. Cheap rates at golf clubs means the event junkies will stay in Ireland, not that they really give a f*ck.

Paris is set to be the event junkies trip. Saturday game. Close by. No war zones. Good job they've got a 80K stadium. :rolleyes: