2 brilliant goals for KI scored by their best player Arni Frederiksberg, his first reminded me of Brady's v Brazil, where everybody was expecting a cross and he wrongfooted them all.
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Arni's brace
https://youtu.be/T3B1HtADwVU?t=34
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A lot of commercial passenger jets have sufficient range to fly the 3,000+ miles to Astana non-stop. But even if you could afford to charter one, the runway at Eglinton surely isn't long enough to permit it to take off safely, and certainly not with a full fuel load - they'd still be taxi-ing past Dungiven!Originally Posted by pateen
I'm sure they've chartered a much smaller jet, which is why it has to stop twice en route.
With a 5 hours time difference that's not too shabby.Originally Posted by brendy_éire
Team flying from Derry at 9 this morning, arriving into Kostanay at 1 in the morning Kazakh time. Proper trek, even with a charter.
Imo to be drawn at home in the first leg is a huge advantage over the tie. Derry have to make that trip twice before the 2nd leg is played.
The thing I don’t understand is why Derry had their game last Sunday away to UCD postponed when they weren’t flying until Tuesday, but their game this coming Sunday at home to Drogheda is going ahead despite it being so soon after the trek back from Kazakhstan
Paaatrick's Agletic
Are Derry expecting 12,000 fans to travel to Windsor Park if they are allowed to use this venue?
I doubt if the Belfast soccer public will support Derry City FC from the League of Ireland in great numbers!
Even Linfield struggle to attract big attendances for European fixtures over the years!
I don’t get that either and would rather have just played it, with all respect to UCD could have probably made several changes and still managed the points and it’s a game we then don’t have to worry about down the line.
I would say if tie is alive there will be a large crowd (the talk of Belfast has created an extra bit of buzz now too). Linfield aren’t as well supported as Derry in general with average crowds significantly below ours even with bigger away crowds and the boost from the home Glentoran game crowd.
Still seems strange. Astana is closer than New York. What's the nearest international airport to the club?
"Now jump up there and stuff that son of a bitch in the basket, chief"
It's only closer if you fly over Russia, which you can't (and don't want to) do right now.
Kostanay has an international airport
I've no idea of the figures, but to charter a modern passenger jet like eg a 757, holding 200-250 passengers, must cost an absolute fortune - that's if one is available, since they're likely all in regular airline service.
Much more financially sensible to charter a smaller, older aircraft and just accept that you have to do it in stages.
As for runways, Aldergrove would possibly be long enough(?), but if not, the new runway at Dublin airport should certainly do it, Shannon also. But as I say, that's academic, not least because (as pineapple says), avoiding Russian airspace must add 1,000 miles or more to the trip.
If all you can get a short notice is a small plane (which is also all you need to move a fairly small number of people), then having to stop to refuel is no great surprise. It's big jets that are flying non-stop to New York, presumably not small charter planes.
Over the last few days the fact we have learned is that stadiums are not up to it and something should be done before thinking about anything else. Clubs’ development need a good structure regarding facilities and that should be the prime goal in the short term.
That would be key in improving the football quality in this country and,as we are seeing with other countries, European results.
It’s been depressing to see that Klaksvik have to travel only 30 miles to play their remaining matches this season while Derry City won’t play anymore at their own ground regardless of how much they progress.
This. Team flying on an E145 with 49 seats, so two stops needed.
Charter costs are astronomical at present. The club looked at an A320 to Kuopio (174 seasts), it was over a quarter of a million. Would have been charging fans the guts of £1.5k for a ticket, so they went with the E145 instead.
The club charged £450 for the 1h15m charter flight to the Faroes on an A320, which they filled, and still lost money on it.
It's a 'no' to Windsor. That'll put loads off travelling.
https://www.derryjournal.com/sport/f...2dU1ors5vDixbM
I’ll head up that game in Tallaght. It’s hard to expect a big crowd at it. It’s a lot of traveling for a home game.
Wonder what the pricing will be. I don't think we can charge our usual £25/€29 and expect decent numbers.
Should reduce it to a tenner and get locals in, IMO.
When Dundalk played there, did they get many Dubs going?
Surprised UEFA were rigid on this. For instance what would a club like FC Vaduz do if they got through a few rounds.
They reached the groups last year and hosted their games in their own ground
LoI stadiums are ****
The BATE match had a great crowd I remember. Near capacity I’d say. I think Tallaght only had 2 stands at that time tho - so about 6k capacity. Also the tie was still in the balance for the leg in Tallaght. And Dundalk is a hell of a lot closer than Derry so people could easily make the round trip that eve.
No argument there.
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