For those going to Nantes.......

[eoinh]

Heres where you will be situated in the stadium, you luck bastar......s

See HERE (http://www.fcna.fr/billetterie/affiche080704.php)

[James]

and here (http://www.fcna.fr/stade/index.php) also :)

[Pablo]

Les supporters Irlandais doivent prendre contact avec le Club de Cork City.

straight from the frogs mouth :D :D

Ou est le pommes frites et le billets Brian?

[eoinh]

Also the squad from last year.

LIGNE DU HAUT (de gauche à droite)

Mickaël LANDREAU, Pascal DELHOMMEAU, Mario YEPES, Gregory PUJOL, Jérémy TOULALAN, Willy GRONDIN, Stephen DROUIN, Loïc GUILLON, Nicolas GILLET, Loïc PAILLERES, Perica RADIC

LIGNE DU MILIEU

Philippe DAGUILLON (kiné), Nicolas SAVINAUD, Sylvain ARMAND, Mahieu BERSON, Luigi GLOMBARD, Marc BOUCHER, Fabrice BRYAND (médecin), Frédéric DA ROCHA, Pierre ARISTOUY, Fodil HADJADJ, Olivier QUINT, Mauro CETTO, Philippe CHANTEBEL (kiné)

LIGNE DU BAS

Gilles ALBERT (préparateur physique), Jean-Hugues ATEBA, Stéphane Ziani, Marama VAHIRUA, Loïc AMISSE (entraîneur), Jean-Luc GRIPOND (Président du Directoire), Kléber BOBIN (Président du Conseil de Surveillance), David MARRAUD (entraîneur adjoint et entraîneur des gardiens), Shiva N ZIGOU, Hassan AHAMADA, Emerse FAE, Johan ALBERT (vidéo)


Their striker Marama Vahirua is brilliant. Saw him loads of times on Eurogoals.

[James]

from Nantes fans

"i'm very happy about your win, and welcome to Nantes ! ;)
our team is not in the best form right now (we have lost 0-2 last friday against a swiss second division team), but we have made physical training last week.
The other problem we will face, is that we have allready lost the player leaving the club, but the one who come to replace them are still not in Nantes :(
(the only one who is there, the paraguayan national team player Caceres has no player licence at this time).
Our goal-keeper, Landreau (3rd french goal at the Euro come back from holiday only this week, and same for our number 10, Yapi)
But, still will we be 11 on the ground, and we can count on our very good youth (Nantes is the best youth centre in France.. players like Makelele, dessailly or Deschamps have started to play here).
In a normal case, i would say that Cork has probably no chance (without knowing the team), but at this time, and with your good result before, you surely have. ;) "

[James]

Nantes player missing, if you compare to last year :
- Landreau, gk, back from the Euro and holidays on thursday
- Armand, left defender (2 times in france nat. team) : left to Paris
- Yepes, cd, columbian nat team : left to Paris
- Yapi, playmaker, nat team of Ivory coast, back from holiday on thursday
- Moldovan, striker, romanian nat team, left to Switzerland
there are other movements (Ziani, Vahirua) or injurie (Pujol), but not concerning key-players...
but every body can see, we are missing the half of our team, our 3 best strikers, and the other half has started with the training to shortly before, that they can have a good form.

from Nantes supporter over on hattrick

[City Hero]

Lots of excuses flying in from France already.

[1 9 8 4]

from Nantes fans

"i'm very happy about your win, and welcome to Nantes ! ;)
our team is not in the best form right now (we have lost 0-2 last friday against a swiss second division team), but we have made physical training last week.
The other problem we will face, is that we have allready lost the player leaving the club, but the one who come to replace them are still not in Nantes :(
(the only one who is there, the paraguayan national team player Caceres has no player licence at this time).
Our goal-keeper, Landreau (3rd french goal at the Euro come back from holiday only this week, and same for our number 10, Yapi)
But, still will we be 11 on the ground, and we can count on our very good youth (Nantes is the best youth centre in France.. players like Makelele, dessailly or Deschamps have started to play here).
In a normal case, i would say that Cork has probably no chance (without knowing the team), but at this time, and with your good result before, you surely have. ;) "

Its all tactics. They're hoping that we will underestimate Nantes & rest some of our stars for the final.

[eoinh]

I mention Vahirua and look what happens (http://servihoo.com/channels/kinews/v3news_details.php?id=47955&CategoryID=48) :D