What time is the playoff draw on at next Monday?

[Paulie]

Does anybody know what time it's on at?

[offaly16]

11am Irish Time

[IsMiseSean]

Im guessing someone will be showing it live, eurosport, skysports etc??

[SuperDave]

Im guessing someone will be showing it live, eurosport, skysports etc??

Bound to be on SSN / RTE radio. If not, it will be online.

[jbyrne]

Bound to be on SSN / RTE radio. If not, it will be online.

i remember the 99 play off draw being on rte radio 1

[Jicked]

Anyone else planning on having a few tabs open in a browser, each with flights ready to go for each of the four possible destinations? Does anyone know if ryanair/aer lingus will have jacked up the prices to all 4 before the draw is made?

[rfkimble]

france portugal easy to get to but greece russia trickier. the reverse is prob true of tickets for the away games

[Greenforever]

Anyone else planning on having a few tabs open in a browser, each with flights ready to go for each of the four possible destinations? Does anyone know if ryanair/aer lingus will have jacked up the prices to all 4 before the draw is made?


Ryanir dont fly to 3 of the 4

Aer Lingus only fly to 2 of the 4

Aer Lingus will have the prices jacked up prior to the draw

Ryanair wont be bothered but will sell out quickly

France is easy to get through with a huge choice of connections through the UK and the Eurostar

AerBaltic / BMI / KLM and Possibly Lufthansa all do Moscow for around 350

Lisbon and Greece are a bit harder to get to in terms of low fares airlines

[noddy102]

Any tips on how or where to get tickets for the away playoff?

[Greenforever]

Any tips on how or where to get tickets for the away playoff?

The FAI will distribute all tickets, there should be no problem as we will get 10% of the stadium and based on the numbers at the rest of the qualifiers I doubt if we will get anymore than 2,000 going.

[noddy102]

The FAI will distribute all tickets, there should be no problem as we will get 10% of the stadium and based on the numbers at the rest of the qualifiers I doubt if we will get anymore than 2,000 going.

So will it just be a case of contacting the FAI?

Edit: In fact, I just check their website. Says you must email them with your interest, and that preference is given to block bookers. I'm a block booker, so I'm wondering does anybody know the limitation on how many tickets I can ask for?

[ArdeeBhoy]

Probably up to 3000, if you guarantee to take the rest of the Monty tickets off their hands....

[SuperDave]

em..... I wouldn't book flights to Lisbon too sharp cos the game could easily be in Porto. Very easily.

[zenokelly]

Unless it's France on the saturday, I'd be surprised if there were more than 3000 at any of the matches.

Russia won't attract many more than 1000.
Greece I'd predict between 1500 and 2000, depending on the day.
And you could get 3000 in Portugal on the saturday I reckon, laround 2000 on the Wednesday.

No matter where, there should be no problem with tickets.

[Schumi]

I'm a block booker, so I'm wondering does anybody know the limitation on how many tickets I can ask for?As many as you like. If they need the whole allocation, you mightn't get all you ask for though.

[Jicked]

em..... I wouldn't book flights to Lisbon too sharp cos the game could easily be in Porto. Very easily.

Train between the two seems to be about €40 so not too bad.

[blobbyblob]

Be nice if Michael O Leary put his money where his mouth is in saying YES to Europe in giving fans cheap flights to the play offs should it be Portugal or France and getting as many over as possible.

It may be well worth his while in the long run if we do qualify.

[SuperDave]

Be nice if Michael O Leary put his money where his mouth is in saying YES to Europe in giving fans cheap flights to the play offs should it be Portugal or France and getting as many over as possible.

It may be well worth his while in the long run if we do qualify.

Except the only place Ryanair fly to from Dublin is Paris (Beauvais) which is about 60 miles from Paris. They don't fly to Greece or Russia at all and the only Portuguese destination they go to from Ireland is Faro in the Algarve, miles from Lisbon and even further from Porto.

That said, they do fly from Stansted to Porto, so if the game is there, it may be worth looking into booking two flights.

[gspain]

Be nice if Michael O Leary put his money where his mouth is in saying YES to Europe in giving fans cheap flights to the play offs should it be Portugal or France and getting as many over as possible.

It may be well worth his while in the long run if we do qualify.

He did it for Bari although I suspect Mick was more interested in making money from football fans rather than being nice.

However I won't complain because Michael has dramitcally reduced the cost of following Ireland abroad when I use Ryanair and when I don't.

[mypost]

11am Irish Time

1pm our time. SSN said they're taking it, although it'll probably be a pundit in the studio.

[harpskid]

Anyone else planning on having a few tabs open in a browser, each with flights ready to go for each of the four possible destinations?

Will size up options on Monday afternoon when draw is made and depending whether I can defo get off work and what travel arrangements are like will decide Tues or Wed if I'll go. Hoping to make it wherever we are

[holidaysong]

The draw will be live on FIFA.com also.

[skimcg]

Will be definitely hoping to travel, has anybody on here got a good break down of flight routes/prices for both midweek and weekend game, i dont mind using connection flights ... im just not too handy on using the internet ,

thanks

[mypost]

There's little point in speculating, given all the combinations, it's not a normal qualifier that you can prepare for, months before it becomes available.

Should we draw Russia, there's even less point.

[Criostoiro]

If we draw France I doubt the French FA will mess up like last time and put the tickets on general sale

[SuperDave]

If we draw France I doubt the French FA will mess up like last time and put the tickets on general sale

You never know.... that might be how they do it for all games and they can't exactly change it now... how else would they do it?

[IsMiseSean]

Might have been mentioned already but anyway its live on eurosport

[Beavis]

Does anyone know when countries have to announce the location for the home game?
It makes booking difficult for Portugal and Greece as they've played in a few different stadia in the campaign.

[francesco_1]

Ryanair had a major sale/offer 3 days ago you could of got flights for 1 cent either way i booked to paris around the 14th and 18th just incase if i dont travel it will set me back 4 cents.

[Girl in Green]

Do ya have e-mail address and I can forward ya what our gang found?



Will be definitely hoping to travel, has anybody on here got a good break down of flight routes/prices for both midweek and weekend game, i dont mind using connection flights ... im just not too handy on using the internet ,

thanks

[mypost]

Does anyone know when countries have to announce the location for the home game?
It makes booking difficult for Portugal and Greece as they've played in a few different stadia in the campaign.

It'll probably be the capital city in all countries. The big games usually are.

[Noelys Guitar]

Can't wait.

[Jicked]

Ryanair ad in today's Observer, flights to Porto for £10 from Stansted, between that and a train to Lisbon (if the game is there and not Lisbon) Portugal would be a handy enough one price wise anyway!

[skimcg]

Do ya have e-mail address and I can forward ya what our gang found?


is there private mail here?

[skimcg]

Do ya have e-mail address and I can forward ya what our gang found?


pm sent

[Greenforever]

Will be definitely hoping to travel, has anybody on here got a good break down of flight routes/prices for both midweek and weekend game, i dont mind using connection flights ... im just not too handy on using the internet ,

thanks

check this site Monday about 30 mins after draw is made and il post our route, there are about 40+ of us going and we've got most permutations covered.

Expect to get anywhere for max €300 ret and hopefully under €200.

[mypost]

Those flight prices will jack up within 5 minutes of the draw been completed.

[Greenforever]

Those flight prices will jack up within 5 minutes of the draw been completed.


given that most people will have to use connecting flights probably not, however I expect Aer Lingus to ave upped their prices for Paris and Lisbon before the draw just in case.

[Claret Murph]

given that most people will have to use connecting flights probably not, however I expect Aer Lingus to ave upped their prices for Paris and Lisbon before the draw just in case.

Yep spot on Greenforever as they want over €300 return , dogs .:mad:

[mypost]

They've already done it on those routes. That's before you add on the bags.

Come tonight, they'll be €200 each way, for "seat protection" reasons. :rolleyes:

[gspain]

I believe the problem on Aer Lingus is actually travel agents holding seats on these routes.

It is still possible I'm told. They hold for 24 hours and then release them if not needed.

On France they are unlikely to post to Ireland this time but will most likely do the same internet and public sales from the usual ticket outlets. They may even still post to england.

[willk1977]

I believe the problem on Aer Lingus is actually travel agents holding seats on these routes.

It is still possible I'm told. They hold for 24 hours and then release them if not needed.

On France they are unlikely to post to Ireland this time but will most likely do the same internet and public sales from the usual ticket outlets. They may even still post to england.

I doubt it to be honest, I think most of them will be running charter flights to the game and not a few seats on Aer Lingus.

[finbarrk]

Is the first team drawn out of the pot playing the first leg at home I wonder? Or is there another draw to decide that?

[eaststand85]

Is the first team drawn out of the pot playing the first leg at home I wonder? Or is there another draw to decide that?

Another draw as far as I can see.
"Monday's ceremony also includes a draw to determine the home and away teams in each play-off."
(http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=1119876.html)

[blobbyblob]

Is the fifa website carrying the draw?

[ArdeeBhoy]

Given they're arranging it....

[eaststand85]

Is the fifa website carrying the draw?

According to the link posted above they are.

[philliyk]

Another draw as far as I can see.
"Monday's ceremony also includes a draw to determine the home and away teams in each play-off."
(http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=1119876.html)

I see a few worldwide fans on there saying Ireland are the non-seeds to fear - goes to show the effect of positive results ;)

[blobbyblob]

I see a few worldwide fans on there saying Ireland are the non-seeds to fear - goes to show the effect of positive results ;)

To be honest most of the good will from neutrals is going into Pot 2 in general. The world is watching now,