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    WC2010 away games

    Bulgaria - Easyjet from Gatwick
    Montenegro - To Belgrade, then train to Pogdorica. Loadsa flights to Beograd
    Italy - easy
    Cyprus - Should all know by now
    Georgia - Nearly impossible. Cheapest flights will probably be about e600.

    4 out of 5 should be easy, but unless there are some cheap charters to tbilisi, Georgia will be hellish.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SuperDave View Post
    Italy - easy
    Italy rotated their EURO qualifiers around from Rome, Naples, Bari, Milan, Modeno

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    You don't need a visa for Georgia anymore. BMI, BA, Austrian and Turkish all go there, looks about GBP450 minimum return.

    Don't think we need a visa for Montenegro either.

    Wizz also fly to Bulgaria from Luton and are pretty cheap.
    Last edited by slow2anger; 25/11/2007 at 4:21 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by soylent green View Post
    Italy rotated their EURO qualifiers around from Rome, Naples, Bari, Milan, Modeno
    Genoa too.

    Montenegro airlines seem to fly daily from Frankfurt, Rome and Vienna to Podgorica (I presume that's where they'll play).
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    I'm impressed with how quickly you people get off the mark. A mates parents has a flat just outside sofia so could be sorted for accomadation there, pity we wont be able to get crackin on the Italy match till they confirm the stadium.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nolimits View Post
    I'm impressed with how quickly you people get off the mark. A mates parents has a flat just outside sofia so could be sorted for accomadation there, pity we wont be able to get crackin on the Italy match till they confirm the stadium.
    italy has a bangin national rail system. bangin (just to confirm, i did indeed use the word "bangin")

    only e32 for tickets from ancona to treviso when we were left high and dry by ryanair after the san marino game and had to trek cross country to get home the next day.
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    Myself and Babysis were researching

    Heathrow to Tbilisi with Lufthansa
    Heathrow to Tbilisi with flyBMI
    Paris, Frankfurt or Amsterdam to Tbilisi with Georgian Airways (Cheapie ryanair flights/eurostar etc.)

    Also chances of us two getting sold with the trips in this group are significantly higher

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    Quote Originally Posted by SuperDave View Post
    italy has a bangin national rail system. bangin (just to confirm, i did indeed use the word "bangin")
    Fair play to ya.

    How about an Italy - Montenegro double header? There is a sixteen hour ferry from Bari to Bar on the Montenegro coast. It'll be just like Bratislava - Prague all over again!
    Last edited by stiofain; 25/11/2007 at 4:46 PM.

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    I wonder when the fixtures meeting will be. For the euros they meeting happended only a couple of weeks after the draw. Ideally for the FAI they'd like the new manager in place.

    Is there a chance that there may be a qualifier in June 08?

    Remember due to our landlords we will have to play our games away in June & September.

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    Tiblisi is doable, fly over on Lufthansa from London via Munich and home
    on Austrian Airlines via Vienna or Turkish Air via Istanbul

    Probbaly get ther a lot handier than our tour os England and Wales to get
    to Cardiff

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    Quote Originally Posted by soylent green View Post

    Is there a chance that there may be a qualifier in June 08?
    No chance I'm afraid - will have to wait till the Euro's are outta the way - won't be kicking off the group untill the first week in September.
    Can't wait to see where we're off to first !!!!

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    Would Bulgaria /Montenegro not be better for all of us who hate the slow boat to china. Only 200 miles between capitals. (Same as Brataslava & Prague)

    Quote Originally Posted by stiofain View Post
    Fair play to ya.

    How about an Italy - Montenegro double header? There is a sixteen hour ferry from Bari to Bar on the Montenegro coast. It'll be just like Bratislava - Prague all over again!

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    Quote Originally Posted by razorb View Post
    Would Bulgaria /Montenegro not be better for all of us who hate the slow boat to china. Only 200 miles between capitals. (Same as Brataslava & Prague)
    Good call. Sorry, didnt think that.

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    Aerlingus fly to dubrovnik ( only 60 miles from podgorica) in Montenegro. Train to Sofia and home Via London gatwick with easyjet and our friends at Ryanair. Jesus sounds like it could be the trip. Hope Delaney gets his finger out and looks after my holiday plans for next September! Lets have this double header in September when they play "hand ball" in croker!
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    Draw could have been a lot worse, I know when the London Irish went to Tiblisi in 2003 they went via Istanbul, Italy easy to get to, i'd like the thought of the Bulgaria and Montenegro games being a double header. As for Cyprus it felt like what Bill Murray had to put up with in Groundhog day.
    Its crazy to see people be what society wants them to be but not me.

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    [QUOTE=razorb;824178] Jesus sounds like it could be the trip. Hope Delaney gets his finger out and looks after my holiday plans for next September! /QUOTE]


    Laughed out loud at that. I was thinking the exact same thing.
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    [QUOTE=green army;824187]
    Quote Originally Posted by razorb View Post
    Jesus sounds like it could be the trip. Hope Delaney gets his finger out and looks after my holiday plans for next September! /QUOTE]


    Laughed out loud at that. I was thinking the exact same thing.
    re the train between podgorica and sofia, if you thought the brat prag was some fun:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio%C4%8De_train_disaster
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    Quote Originally Posted by soylent green View Post
    I wonder when the fixtures meeting will be. For the euros they meeting happended only a couple of weeks after the draw. Ideally for the FAI they'd like the new manager in place.
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    Interviewed on 6.1 ,Delaney said the fixture meeting was 3rd week in January but when asked whether he expected a manger to be in place by then he shifted the question and said he expected to have it in place by the Brazil game. So I think we can take it as a no.

    That Italy-Montenegro ferry double header sounds very tasty,would love to see that work out.Cant wait for the fixtures to be released and we can start looking at flights and the buzz starts over,even if its still months away.
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    Italy - Montenegro as a double header or Montenegro- Bulgaria as a double header are both excellent options. The fixtures meeting is in Sofia next month let's hope someone negotiating on behalf of the FAI has their act together.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie View Post
    Italy - Montenegro as a double header or Montenegro- Bulgaria as a double header are both excellent options. The fixtures meeting is in Sofia next month let's hope someone negotiating on behalf of the FAI has their act together.
    we should send them an email asking them to take this into consideration.
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