Switzerland (Away) Wed 8th Sep 04

[Volltreffer]

Streller and Yakin (Hakan) are both playing for Stuttgart now (that's why we're reinforcing the team).

Streller gets to play regularly, though not the whole 90 minutes. He's scored 3 goals so far.

Yakin hasn 't played much, Magath is trying to make a long-distance runner out of him first ... :eek: Right now Hakan is suffering from some minor injury, I hope he will be able to play against Germany.

[Feech]

Just to reaffirm what I told you:

Die U-21-Equipe absolviert ihre Partie gegen Irland am 7. September im Berner Neufeld. Die Färöer stellen dagegen keine U-21-Mannschaft.

From Berne to Basle is about 1 to 1.5 hours by train.

What Volltreffer isn't telling you though is how Basel are crumbling, and how FC Zürich inflicted their first defeat on St. Patrick's Day.

Just like Grasshoppers, the self belief at Basel is ebbing away....

Without a couple of their stars, they start to look quite ordinary.

Nichts für ungut, Volltreffer, gäll ;)

Hopp Züri, Gygax = Fussballgott.

[Volltreffer]

What Volltreffer isn't telling you though is how Basel are crumbling, and how FC Zürich inflicted their first defeat on St. Patrick's Day.

Just like Grasshoppers, the self belief at Basel is ebbing away....

Without a couple of their stars, they start to look quite ordinary.

Nichts für ungut, Volltreffer, gäll ;)

You're right, 3 defeats ouf of 36 games are extremely demoralizing. ;) What a pity the transfer champion doesn't qualify for any international competition ... :p

What do we care about old stars (who don't want to play for us) when we can get new ones - or have old ones coming back (Ergic :) :))?

[Feech]

You're right, 3 defeats ouf of 36 games are extremely demoralizing. ;) What a pity the transfer champion doesn't qualify for any international competition ... :p

What do we care about old stars (who don't want to play for us) when we can get new ones - or have old ones coming back (Ergic :) :))?

Rückrundentabelle

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1. FC Zürich 18 10 6 2 33:21 +12 36
2. Young Boys Bern 18 10 4 4 36:23 +13 34
3. FC Basel 18 9 6 3 30:16 +14 33
4. FC St. Gallen 18 9 3 6 30:25 +5 30
5. FC Thun 1898 18 8 4 6 31:25 +6 28
6. Insekten 18 6 3 9 30:33 -3 21
7. Servette Genf 18 6 3 9 28:33 -5 21
8. Neuchâtel Xamax 18 6 2 10 27:36 -9 20
9. FC Aarau 18 4 4 10 28:37 -9 16
10. FC Wil 1900 18 3 3 12 14:38 -24 12

Der Transfersieger ist Frühlingsmeister :-)

[Volltreffer]

Congratulations (honest)!

I think we should leave it at that, considering this thread is called "Switzerland away".

[KCFC 2IC]

Booked flights out to Basel/Mulhouse airport for 223 euro inc. taxes from Dublin (via Stansted).

Flying out on the Monday back on the Friday will cost less, about 180 euro.

Ryanair out to Stansted costs 60 odd euro per head return
EasyJet from Stansted to Basel costs about 160 euro return.

It's quite possible to do it v. v. cheaply if you go via Berlin Schopenfeld airport, but that would involve another hop I think.

[Volltreffer]

How is Streller doing these days, not kept up to date on him since our game last year??
Swiss striker Marco Streller will miss the finals of UEFA EURO 2004™ after he sustained a broken leg in training on Sunday morning.

Training collision
The 22-year-old was carried off on a stretcher after a collision with FC Basel defender Marco Zwyssig at Switzerland's training camp in Freienbach. He was taken to hospital for a scan, where it was confirmed that he had broken his shin and his fibula.

Support striker
Streller would have been likely to occupy the support striker's role in Portugal, behind Alexander Frei and Stéphane Chapuisat and his physical presence would have made him a valuable addition to Jakob Kuhn's squad.

Finals chance
With Streller ruled out of the finals, Servette FC Léonard Thurre and Milaim Rama of FC Thun are both likely to travel to Portugal. Kuhn may also look to the U21 squad for Streller's replacement, with Johan Vonlanthen or Davide Chiumiento in contention to step up to the senior squad.

Warm-up dates
Switzerland play Germany in a warm-up friendly on Wednesday before Kuhn names his final squad for EURO 2004™. The final 23 players will then take on neighbours Liechtenstein on 6 June in their last warm-up match.

©uefa.com 1998-2004. All rights reserved.

:( :( :(

[gspain]

Better get a move on if you haven't booked your hotel yet for Basel. Difficult to get one in the centre. I've got the Central hotel - 3 Star for €105 per room per night - expensive enough but they all appear to be and I'm caught for time having to fly to Dusseldorf, checkin and then dash off to berne for the U21 game.

Just google hotels in Basel or discount etc etc

[Paulie]

We got a pretty good deal in the 5 star Swissotel (I've never stayed in a 5 star hotel before. Is it true they leave a mint on your pillow!?). I can't remember the exact price but it comes to about €70 each a night for a twin room. If anyone tries there and they are booked up I stayed in the Hotel du Commerce the last time. Even though this is a 3 star hotel I think it was about €70 a night, again based on 2 people sharing. It's well located with it only being a quick tram ride into the city centre.

[Paulie]

By the way that's €70 a night each for the Hotel du Commerce based on 2 people sharing.

[Aidan_mc]

stayed in this place the last time
http://www.hotelspalentor.ch/index-e.html
near the center on Basel

[gspain]

Radisson had a great deal too but they cancelled it apparently when they realsied people were booking for the match.

[only1kilbane]

we booked in the radisson back in feb and it worked out in a twin room €45 pp per night . They sold out pretty soon cause 747 and ray treacy booked a lot of rooms

[Jon'o]

here
http://www.rglhosting.com/fai/registrationsaway.htm

there is a page to register for tickets 22 euro each

[gspain]

we booked in the radisson back in feb and it worked out in a twin room €45 pp per night . They sold out pretty soon cause 747 and ray treacy booked a lot of rooms

It was available up until last week - a friend had a booking confirmation and I got one too but then got another "correction". Only the dear rooms are available now. Think they only just discovered the match was on. My mate is going to brazen it out as he has a confirmed booking.

Anyway far too much luxury given the kips I've stayed in following us away.

[only1kilbane]

Im sure we can deal with the luxury. Stayed there for the last game in basel and is so handy where it is just right beside paddy reillys. Less than 2 months now for revenge bring it on !

[Paulie]

Less than 2 months now for revenge bring it on !

am counting the days

[only1kilbane]

Does anyone think it should be a problem getting tickets through the fai for this game. Applied last week but can get tickets for the swiss end but dont wanna get them if the fai is gonna be ok. Really dont want to have to sit with a bunch of freaks singing agadoo again !

[gspain]

Does anyone think it should be a problem getting tickets through the fai for this game. Applied last week but can get tickets for the swiss end but dont wanna get them if the fai is gonna be ok. Really dont want to have to sit with a bunch of freaks singing agadoo again !

I don't see Irish tickkets being too big of a problem.

Hard to know though.

[Closed Account 2]

Right im thinking of going to this match afterall, even tho ive got to hand my thesis in only a couple of days later...

How likely is it for me to be able to get tickets ? Also apparently much of the accomadation in Basle has gone, is anyone else thinking of staying in Zürick its about an hour away and has got cheap flights to and from Luton (thats Luton proper not a part of Glasgow ;) ) (about £55 return).

As for trains well its its about an hour between the two cities and 2 to 3 trains per/hour, and the last train back to Basel leaves at seven mins past midnight... that should be ok shouldnt it ?

As for costs well its £107 for 4 days travel on any bus, subway, train or boat travel in Switzerland, but I think it will be cheaper to get a return train ticket (60 Swiss Francs, about £30 i think.)

[Condex]

I'm thinking of flying to Baden-Baden in Germany and getting the train, train fares in Germany are a lot cheaper than Switzerland.

And Basel is only 1.5 hours away from BB.

[Jon'o]

I'm thinking of flying to Baden-Baden in Germany and getting the train, train fares in Germany are a lot cheaper than Switzerland.

And Basel is only 1.5 hours away from BB.

what kind of price are you looking at for that route?

[Closed Account 2]

who flies to BB ?

[Condex]

Ryanair
WEB FARE 0.99 GBP

Wed, 08 Sep 04
Flight FR9772 07:00 Depart London Stansted (STN)
09:30 Arrive Baden-Karlsruhe (FKB)

REGULAR FARE 14.99 GBP

Wed, 08 Sep 04
Flight FR9774 19:45 Depart London Stansted (STN)
22:15 Arrive Baden-Karlsruhe (FKB)

Then about 30euro bo Basel train station (one-way)

[only1kilbane]

well the second flight will be a bit late as game is on at 2030 on the 8th local time !

[Condex]

well the second flight will be a bit late as game is on at 2030 on the 8th local time !

Well you'd get there for the after match celebrations!!!

[Beavis]

You can take the same flight on the tuesday.

[gspain]

tickets on Sale for Basel shortly you must also buy Swiss v Faroes to guarantee them.


http://www.football.ch/nm/start.asp?sp=1

Machine translation below

The two first qualification plays of Swiss national team for the world
championship 2006 in Germany find to 4. September 2004 at 17.30 o'clock against the Faeroeer islands and to 8. September 2004 at 20.30 o'clock against Ireland in the St. Jakob park in Basel instead of. The advance booking at all Ticketcorner sales offices and over Tel. 0900 800,800 begins for both plays to 30. July. The SFV assumes that, that the interest in the play against Ireland will be larger than
against the Faeroeer islands. Therefore it decided to the following Vorverkaufsprozedere:

Around that prospective customer, which in both plays are interested, to guarantee on the one hand with security a place for the Ireland
play and on the other hand also the possibility, to pursue both meetings on the same seat, arrive up to Sunday, 8. August, only tickets in the package for both plays into the sales.

Starting from 9. Then also those prospective customers the possibility for the ticket
purchase have August, which only one of the two portions to regard want.

The prices lie for the play against the Faeroeer islands between 20
and 60 Franconias. Young persons until 16 years pay 5 Franconias behind the gates.

For the play against Ireland tickets are available in price categories
between 30 and 100 Franconias. Young persons until 16 years pay 15 Franconias behind the gates.

Against the Faeroeer Switzerland began so far twice in the
qualification for the WM 2002 and won both meetings (1:0 and 5:0).

Against Ireland the balance sees despite the two recent victories in
the qualification for the EURO 2004 with five victories, one undecided and seven defeats (9:16 gates) still negatively out

[Volltreffer]

:D

Which means (for those who don't have enough imagination) that from July 30 to August 8 one can only buy tickets for BOTH games, from August 9 on for each game individually.

[gspain]

Volltrefer or anyone know the kickoff time in Berne for the U21 game on 07.09.04? Found the above when trying to find this on google.

I've really tight train connections that get me to Berne at 18.11.

Also wondering how far the stadium is form the train station?

[Ozymandias]

Just on the Hotels lads..last time I stayed in a town called Liestal 8 miles from basel...train leaves every 10 mins and takes about ten mins to get in...hotels are cheaper...I stayed in a 4 star hotel called the TOP Engel Liestal....quality place and dead handy for basel as the train runs til 2 in the morning.....you should also check out a site called cyber city breaks....you get decent discounts through them

[only1kilbane]

Just to let people know the swiss fa have announced that the tickets for the Ireland game are been sold as part of a package with the FAroe Ireland game so you have to buy for both to get ticket in the swiss end. They will then release the remaining tickets for each game if there is any on a one game basis. Not sure about dates yet

[Volltreffer]

They'll sell the package from July 30 to August 8 and the remaining tickets from August 9 on.

[Fr. Murphy]

The demand for tickets for this years Swiss match isn’t going to be as high as last years because:

1. The game is on a Wednesday Night so a lot of people wont be able to get the time off work or whatever.

2. The result of the match, although very important, does not hold the significance as last years make or break result.

On another note 4 of us ended up sitting in the Swiss end and although it got annoying when they were singing about “hot sweets” there wasn’t any problem or trouble between us when we broke into song, which was quite regularly.

[only1kilbane]

when they started singing agadoo and waving there little flags it did get a tad annoying now !

[Barna Bee]

I remember the agadoo thing too. it was really really annoying.

Unfortunately I can't go this year to basle, (getting married) but The pair of us will be in Paris.

I think we should start a motion to....


If ireland get revenge this year, the irish fans should sing a round of Agadoo ...the Swiss will understand that we have had our revenge when they hear it.

[only1kilbane]

true ! one round of agadoo and then for it to be never heard again please . Really confident this time around though I was confident last year as well !

[lopez]

They'll sell the package from July 30 to August 8 and the remaining tickets from August 9 on.Are these tickets also being sold on the ticketcorner website as was done last year?

[Volltreffer]

Yes. The same procedure as last year.

[AlFayed]

Hi Guys, well I live in Basel, so if you need any help for the transfer from the airport to the city, or the transfer from zhe airport zurich, than you could ask me. I also know some cheap hotels in the town, so if you need informations or help I can help you.

Cheers AlFayed

[Paulie]

Hi Guys, well I live in Basel, so if you need any help for the transfer from the airport to the city, or the transfer from zhe airport zurich, than you could ask me. I also know some cheap hotels in the town, so if you need informations or help I can help you.

Cheers AlFayed

So does that mean that you are a Swiss national? The only reason I ask is because you were on another thread enquiring about the best place to stay in Paris for our game against France as you were going to come along and support us. It's just that if you were a Swiss national I'd find the idea of you supporting us in a group involving your own country a little odd....to say the least of it.

[AlFayed]

well, I live in switzerland, but in my holidays I often go to ireland. The people in switzerland are not very kind. The people in Ireland are very friendly... And I like Dublin and the country-side. So yes, I`m swiss, but after studying I will go to Ireland and search a job.

[Paulie]

Well if you're at the game against your native Switzerland in September and are supporting us I hope for your sake you end up in the Irish end of the ground. I doubt if the Swiss supporters would take too kindly to one of their own supporting the opposition.

[only1kilbane]

Or one of there own not singing agadoo ! Think that would be a worse sin for them

[Volltreffer]

Are your players as agadoo-traumatized as the supporters? Maybe we should play it BEFORE the game then. :p

[only1kilbane]

Thats why they were so poor last time out obviously !

Brian will have to ban it from the ground

[Volltreffer]

I doubt if the Swiss supporters would take too kindly to one of their own supporting the opposition.
True! That's how we deal with traitors: ;)

http://www.dai-basilea.ch/matchbilder/04-05/uhrencup/HPIM2517.jpg

[AlFayed]

taht picture is something different... our club manager bought a player from zurich, and we hate the zurich peoples, and this player is the biggest ******* on earth... one year ago he burned a scarf from our club, and this summer we bought him! we hate him! we don`t want him! it`s a long story... well, in switzerland nobody cares if I support the swiss team or the irish team, and my friend have accepted that I support the irish team... that`s all... at the game in Basel this september I can`t comme to the game, because I have to study in another part of switzerland... ****! but I can support the irish team in october in Paris...

[Volltreffer]

at the game in Basel this september I can`t comme to the game, because I have to study in another part of switzerland... ****! but I can support the irish team in october in Paris...
I'm sure Paris is much closer than Basel from that "other part of Switzerland". :rolleyes:

[Volltreffer]

It looks after all that Ticketcorner is not selling the package over the internet. You will have to call (+41 900 800 800). From Switzerland it costs CHF 1.19 per minute. They say waiting time will be 15 to 20 minutes.