Forum to enable fans to provide help and tips on travel arrangements to away matches, as well as for opposition fans travelling to the Irish capital for matches.
Anyone know how many tickets we'll be allocated. Apparently the Stade de Gerland has just 25k capacity. Seems v small for a Euro SF?[/quote]
Gerland is apparently due to be modernised to a lower capacity stadium with work starting in June
Present capacity seems to be about 40,000 so there will be no problem with tickets for us
That is if the match ends up there
It seems likely that the delay and confusion is caused by the French and English broadcasters fighting over the day of the match and add to that that Lyon Monaco is on Sunday night together with the complication of the Election the police may not want another event in Lyon on Sunday
Gerland is old soccer stadium 25,000 when LYON rugby play there - they dont open parts behind the try line but when you open up the two ends it goes up to 39,000
The Soccer match against Monaco is on in new stadium in Decines to north of the city about 10 to 15km frm Gerland and its at 9:00pm The French love their late night kickoffs for sunday night TV.
No reason both could not be on on same day. Like a match in Croke park and Aviva.
Dundalk 1 wrote:
It seems likely that the delay and confusion is caused by the French and English broadcasters fighting over the day of the match and add to that that Lyon Monaco is on Sunday night together with the complication of the Election the police may not want another event in Lyon on Sunday
If it was an issue - you'd think that might have been factored in before nominating the venue
I like your right leg. A lovely leg for the role.
I've got nothing against your right leg.
The trouble is ... neither have you
EPCR have now put Gerland back up as the venue but still no word on date
From looking at the Clermont Fan Forum they think that 18.30 on Saturday is an option but they are only guessing as well
It really is remarkable that EPC Rugby have such issues in confirming dates and kick-off times. Even including the Challenge Cup they only have to confirm four fixtures. How hard can that be?
nc6000 wrote:It really is remarkable that EPC Rugby have such issues in confirming dates and kick-off times. Even including the Challenge Cup they only have to confirm four fixtures. How hard can that be?
Its all about TV. we are bottom of the list of priorities. If they could run the event in an empty stadium with fake fans noise over the PA they would!
check out flight to Paris CDG and get the wonderful TGV train which goes from the airport to the centre of Lyon. Did it a few years ago and it was great value and it worked really well
mtleinster wrote:Cant find anything good value at all
Looking to travel Saturday Morning until monday evening,
DUB -> CDG is €232 and the TGV is €146 on top of that
Ryanair flights are €350 Rtn direct, but leave pretty much straight after the game
Anyone having more luck than me?
British Airways - out Sat back Mon through Heathrow is €370 pp.
I'll have a look at point to point with the budget airlines - a little harder to find and sometimes you have to go through odd places to get cheap prices - recall the cheapest to Bordeaux was through Madrid or something
I like your right leg. A lovely leg for the role.
I've got nothing against your right leg.
The trouble is ... neither have you
mtleinster wrote:Cant find anything good value at all
Looking to travel Saturday Morning until monday evening,
DUB -> CDG is €232 and the TGV is €146 on top of that
Ryanair flights are €350 Rtn direct, but leave pretty much straight after the game
Anyone having more luck than me?
British Airways - out Sat back Mon through Heathrow is €370 pp.
I'll have a look at point to point with the budget airlines - a little harder to find and sometimes you have to go through odd places to get cheap prices - recall the cheapest to Bordeaux was through Madrid or something
For the adventurous amongst us (not guaranteed the best price but as good as I could find);
Sat : Dublin to Manchester @ 6.30am Ryanair = €84
Sat : Manchester to Lyon @ 11.25 Easyjet = £23
