Brazil friendly?

[Greenforever]

cheers for those. guy in work from limerick was askin me prices. booked stanstead from dublin for 20eur return ( at 10am) but went to book another flight for a pal at 1oc and it shot to 80 squid! just txtd him and hes goin that route.
message to michael o leary - C U Next Tuesday for the flight

You are probably on your 1st trip as a young lad, my first trip was 1980 to Wembley as a 17yr old kid paying £30 by boat and train when a pint was about 60p so a crude comarison would be about €210 for the boat, planes were for the rich..... so all I can say is thank God for Ryanair as without them it would still be a boat trip for most of us.

All airlines increase the prices automatically as seats sell, eg 1st 10 @ Price A, next 10 @ price B etc, its all computerised. For big matches the starting price will be hiked up as soon as the fixture is announced, no different than bank holidays etc, so you need to be one step ahead of the possee to get the real bargains, anyway anything under €100 return is good value to London from Ireland.

Enjoy the trip and if it is your 1st trip welcome aboard and hope you get the bug and become a regular


Maybe you should change your log in to MOLISGOD

[Plastic Paddy]

although london is sh1t on a tuesday night.

I understand you actually lived in London but, if this is what you think, you clearly didn't venture outside of your neighbourhood!

PP

[stiffler]

For anyone who knows london, how much time should you give yourself for landing in Stanstead to arrive at the Emirates half an hour before the game?

thanks

[aidz1]

This may not be a home game, but it certaintly is not an away game. A game played in London against Egland would be an away game, not Brazil. The FAI had a choice to play this in Dublin, but took a few grand more to play in London expecting fans to pick up additional cost t travel.

How can the FAI seriously hope and sell corporate tickets for landsdowne to Irish business when they chose to take a potential windfall for Dublin business away from a match in Croker Park to play it in London? Very short sighted of the FAI i think.

[EastTerracer]

This may not be a home game, but it certaintly is not an away game. A game played in London against Egland would be an away game, not Brazil. The FAI had a choice to play this in Dublin, but took a few grand more to play in London expecting fans to pick up additional cost t travel.

How can the FAI seriously hope and sell corporate tickets for landsdowne to Irish business when they chose to take a potential windfall for Dublin business away from a match in Croker Park to play it in London? Very short sighted of the FAI i think.

Read the posts above - this was not a decision made by the FAI. They were invited to play the match by an Events Management company. We all would have preferred the game to be played in Dublin but when you're invited to an event you can't decide where it will be held.

The FAI are rightly criticised for many things but I think this one is a bit unfair.

[lopez]

This may not be a home game, but it certaintly is not an away game. A game played in London against Egland would be an away game, not Brazil. The FAI had a choice to play this in Dublin, but took a few grand more to play in London expecting fans to pick up additional cost t travel.

How can the FAI seriously hope and sell corporate tickets for landsdowne to Irish business when they chose to take a potential windfall for Dublin business away from a match in Croker Park to play it in London? Very short sighted of the FAI i think.

Brazil don't play home friendlies, a bit like we won't play away friendlies when Lansdowne Road is opened. Two reasosn for this: The Brazilians mostly play in Europe now. Secondly, there's more money to be made with a game in London than in Brazil. So it is at least an away game for Ireland, as we have had Brazil at home twice in the last six years.

I mean, how often do you want Ireland to play at home? Don't you think there should be a balance for the team of home and away friendlies? I can understand that in soccer terms Ireland games are the only time you will see 'top class' football in Ireland as the League of Ireland has fallen behind so much in the last thirty years and the moneying of the European Cup has meant that its champions can no longer hope for a big game against Real Madrid like Limerick United achieved in 1980. But I think this pursuit of money by the FAI is ridiculous. Leaving aside the games at Fulham - games that would be once more in Dublin had Lansdowne Road not been rebuilt - and the usual Mickey Mouse cup in London in 2004 and the US in 2000 and 2007, exactly how many 'away' friendlies have been played outside Ireland since January 2000? As far as I can recall, they were Finland and Greece in 2002, Scotland in 2003, Poland and Holland in 2004, Denmark in 2007 and Norway in 2008. That's seven. In that time we have played 29 friendlies in Ireland including the World powerhouses of China and Canada. Also in 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006 and 2009 we did not play an away friendly.
http://www.soccer-ireland.com/irish-...ch-results.htm

[Greenforever]

Brazil don't play home friendlies, a bit like we won't play away friendlies when Lansdowne Road is opened. Two reasosn for this: The Brazilians mostly play in Europe now. Secondly, there's more money to be made with a game in London than in Brazil. So it is at least an away game for Ireland, as we have had Brazil at home twice in the last six years.

I mean, how often do you want Ireland to play at home? Don't you think there should be a balance for the team of home and away friendlies? I can understand that in soccer terms Ireland games are the only time you will see 'top class' football in Ireland as the League of Ireland has fallen behind so much in the last thirty years and the moneying of the European Cup has meant that its champions can no longer hope for a big game against Real Madrid like Limerick United achieved in 1980. But I think this pursuit of money by the FAI is ridiculous. Leaving aside the games at Fulham - games that would be once more in Dublin had Lansdowne Road not been rebuilt - and the usual Mickey Mouse cup in London in 2004 and the US in 2000 and 2007, exactly how many 'away' friendlies have been played outside Ireland since January 2000? As far as I can recall, they were Finland and Greece in 2002, Scotland in 2003, Poland and Holland in 2004, Denmark in 2007 and Norway in 2008. That's seven. In that time we have played 29 friendlies in Ireland including the World powerhouses of China and Canada. Also in 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006 and 2009 we did not play an away friendly.
http://www.soccer-ireland.com/irish-...ch-results.htm

Are you not contradicting yourself here, we either play away friendlies or we dont.

Once we are not the home team we do not choose venues - simple

A lot of South American and African nations play "home" friendlies in Europe.

Surely the FAI when deciding who to play in a friendly should seek to maximise revenue, I could understand if we knew who we were playing in the next Euros that maybe opponents with a similar style to one of our future opponents could then influence a choice of oponents.

Anyway f*** the recession, we're on a session Mar 2nd in a pub near the Emirates, with hopefully plenty of nice Brazillian Eye Candy

[Stuttgart88]

Read the posts above - this was not a decision made by the FAI. They were invited to play the match by an Events Management company. We all would have preferred the game to be played in Dublin but when you're invited to an event you can't decide where it will be held.

The FAI are rightly criticised for many things but I think this one is a bit unfair.

Well said.

[Irish_Praha]

it's an absolute disgrace if you ask me

wum

[Colbert Report]

Brazil has some hot cuties as some european sides have and the US has some hot babes as well. Sadly the Irish & English are lacking in that department.

The Truth! I like this guy.

[Razors left peg]

The Truth! I like this guy.

The least surprising thing Ive read for a while

[lopez]

Are you not contradicting yourself here, we either play away friendlies or we dont.

Once we are not the home team we do not choose venues - simple

I was of the belief that these two games were played in Fulham as part of a deal between Fulham and the FAI, as Croke Park was not available/too expensive. Seeing that the team that played two years running was neither Colombia or Nigeria, I think this is plausible.

As for being the away team, I beilieve that we are the away team if the other team is at home (in their own country). Simples! This has been the case on just seven occasions since 2000 while our opponents have been the away team on twenty-nine occasions. Brazil will be at home on paper only: Like the other games mentioned and those at Fulham, it is a fixture played on a neutral venue. A proper away game would be in Rio, Sao Paulo or some other Brazilian city.

[paul_oshea]

I understand you actually lived in London but, if this is what you think, you clearly didn't venture outside of your neighbourhood!

PP

tell me anywhere good after 11.30 or so in london on a tuesday night then thats anyway good PP?!

Ive been around kensington/the bush/hammersmith/lychester square as the yanks call it/islington/city/london bridge. and i honestly cant say i know a good spot with a crowd and good atmosphere after that time on a tuesday. Please prove me wrong though!!

[Greenforever]

I was of the belief that these two games were played in Fulham as part of a deal between Fulham and the FAI, as Croke Park was not available/too expensive. Seeing that the team that played two years running was neither Colombia or Nigeria, I think this is plausible.


As for being the away team, I beilieve that we are the away team if the other team is at home (in their own country). Simples! This has been the case on just seven occasions since 2000 while our opponents have been the away team on twenty-nine occasions. Brazil will be at home on paper only: Like the other games mentioned and those at Fulham, it is a fixture played on a neutral venue. A proper away game would be in Rio, Sao Paulo or some other Brazilian city.

You have me lost here, did we not play Colombia and Nigeria in Craven Cottage...
I know what you are saying about Brazil away should be in Rio or some other Brazillian city, but that is not for the FAI to decide.

You never answered what is wrong with the FAI making money out of friendlies..

[Greenforever]

tell me anywhere good after 11.30 or so in london on a tuesday night then thats anyway good PP?!

Ive been around kensington/the bush/hammersmith/lychester square as the yanks call it/islington/city/london bridge. and i honestly cant say i know a good spot with a crowd and good atmosphere after that time on a tuesday. Please prove me wrong though!!

you must be geting old

the only places busy on a Mon / Tue in Dublin will be student bars / clubs etc, Im sure most citys are no different, anyway we'll have our own party somewhere..

[balanced view]

When will tickets be available? and will they be on ticketmaster??

[twoenz]

It says on the FAI website that more details are going to be announced this week.

I'd wager it being £50 sterling.

Will the FAI be having any allocation?

[Greenforever]

It says on the FAI website that more details are going to be announced this week.

I'd wager it being £50 sterling.

Will the FAI be having any allocation?

Going on previous friendlies in London, it's unlikely the FAI will sell tickets, they will most likely be on ticketmaster, keep an eye here or on FAI.ie.

Tickets will probably range from £20 to £40, cant see them selling it out if prices are any higer them premier league games.

[twoenz]

A quick google search shows that those touting sites are selling tickets at £90 already.

[weecountyman]

£75 from an online site, seat quality average.