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Post by caeboy on Dec 1, 2019 21:02:49 GMT
The June temperatures from this year make for grim reading. Only 3 days below 30C - with one day at 39C. The temperatures weren't that big a factor last time - but it will be this time. This should favour Turkey, but there shouldn't be anything to choose between us and Switzerland. Feel we really need to get something from that game to make the round of 16. www.accuweather.com/en/az/baku/27103/june-weather/27103Baku temperatures were a concern for me. At least the Turkey game is an evening kick off - 9pm local time I think, so temperatures will be dropping by then.
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Post by manulike on Dec 1, 2019 23:13:53 GMT
The June temperatures from this year make for grim reading. Only 3 days below 30C - with one day at 39C. The temperatures weren't that big a factor last time - but it will be this time. This should favour Turkey, but there shouldn't be anything to choose between us and Switzerland. Feel we really need to get something from that game to make the round of 16. www.accuweather.com/en/az/baku/27103/june-weather/27103Baku temperatures were a concern for me. At least the Turkey game is an evening kick off - 9pm local time I think, so temperatures will be dropping by then. I think that you are right. And yes. That is a a relief. Unfortunately, the first and last v Swiss and Italy are at 6pm local time... Also. The Swiss have a much bigger advantage on that account as their match in Italy is a 9pm ko (we play Italy at 6pm - Italyv Turky is also at 9pm) as well as the Swiss match v Turkey in Baku is also a 9pm ko - as we must be playing the final round of games at the same time ;-(
#Win.The.Group.Yes.We Can
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Post by quetzal on Dec 1, 2019 23:37:04 GMT
One of the great things about two games in Baku is I think it will be hardcore Welsh fans. I can’t see bandwagon jumpers going over. The Rome game yes. I still think we'll sell out the allocation for Baku I think it will be like Slovakia in Bordeaux. Any Welshman that wanted a ticket got one. Rome might not be like that
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Post by texan on Dec 3, 2019 12:35:29 GMT
Baku temperatures were a concern for me. At least the Turkey game is an evening kick off - 9pm local time I think, so temperatures will be dropping by then. Interestingly[...ish!], 9pm temperature in Baku on 13/06/19 was 23 degrees, only one degree higher than during kickoff v Slovakia in Bordeaux on 11/06/16. Humidity will be key though, Baku this year was a sticky 74%, whilst Bordeaux was a nice 57%. Acclimatisation will be key, I suspect the FAW will probably spend a good week or more in Baku before the 1st game. Also the March friendlies will probably take such factors into account.
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Post by superunknown on Dec 3, 2019 12:43:33 GMT
Baku temperatures were a concern for me. At least the Turkey game is an evening kick off - 9pm local time I think, so temperatures will be dropping by then. Interestingly[...ish!], 9pm temperature in Baku on 13/06/19 was 23 degrees, only one degree higher than during kickoff v Slovakia in Bordeaux on 11/06/16. Humidity will be key though, Baku this year was a sticky 74%, whilst Bordeaux was a nice 57%. Acclimatisation will be key, I suspect the FAW will probably spend a good week or more in Baku before the 1st game. Also the March friendlies will probably take such factors into account. Good point. Could see maybe Portugal away as one of the pre season friendlies beforehand. Hot weather and the level of opponent we could expect to face.
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Post by texan on Dec 3, 2019 13:08:07 GMT
Good point. Could see maybe Portugal away as one of the pre season friendlies beforehand. Hot weather and the level of opponent we could expect to face. Evening kick off in Buenos Aires in late March will actually provide similar potential weather stats to that of Baku in mid-June #justsaying!
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Post by manulike on Dec 3, 2019 16:28:41 GMT
Baku temperatures were a concern for me. At least the Turkey game is an evening kick off - 9pm local time I think, so temperatures will be dropping by then. Interestingly[...ish!], 9pm temperature in Baku on 13/06/19 was 23 degrees, only one degree higher than during kickoff v Slovakia in Bordeaux on 11/06/16. Humidity will be key though, Baku this year was a sticky 74%, whilst Bordeaux was a nice 57%. Acclimatisation will be key, I suspect the FAW will probably spend a good week or more in Baku before the 1st game. Also the March friendlies will probably take such factors into account. #CAPE.TOWN.FRIENDLY.MAKE.IT,HAPPEN
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Post by jbt95 on Dec 3, 2019 21:33:35 GMT
Good point. Could see maybe Portugal away as one of the pre season friendlies beforehand. Hot weather and the level of opponent we could expect to face. Evening kick off in Buenos Aires in late March will actually provide similar potential weather stats to that of Baku in mid-June #justsaying! Argentina are in WCQ action come March #justsaiditloadsonthisforumalready
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Post by jbt95 on Dec 4, 2019 19:58:39 GMT
I've taken the time to work this out. Not sure if it's been mentioned already?
If we finish 3rd and the other three come from Groups...
B, C & D or E or F - we play in Bilbao on Sunday 28th 2100 CEST (winner goes to Munich) B, D & E or F - we play in Glasgow on Tuesday 30th 2000 BST (winner goes to Rome) Any other combination - Bucharest Monday 29th 2100 CEST/2200 local time (winner goes to Saint Petersburg)
Win the group Wembley 2000 BST, 2nd place Amsterdam 2100 CEST - both Saturday 27th. Wembley winner goes to Munich, Amsterdam's winner... Baku bound!
I guess the issue is if we finish 3rd we may not know which four 3rd places qualify until 2200 BST on Wednesday 24th.
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Post by manulike on Dec 4, 2019 22:43:15 GMT
I've taken the time to work this out. Not sure if it's been mentioned already? If we finish 3rd and the other three come from Groups... B, C & D or E or F - we play in Bilbao on Sunday 28th 2100 CEST (winner goes to Munich) B, D & E or F - we play in Glasgow on Tuesday 30th 2000 BST (winner goes to Rome) Any other combination - Bucharest Monday 29th 2100 CEST/2200 local time (winner goes to Saint Petersburg) Win the group Wembley 2000 BST, 2nd place Amsterdam 2100 CEST - both Saturday 27th. Wembley winner goes to Munich, Amsterdam's winner... Baku bound! I guess the issue is if we finish 3rd we may not know which four 3rd places qualify until 2200 BST on Wednesday 24th. Yes. I just posted my confession on AWAY TIX thread about needing to bin three tickets out of Pisa, Napoli and Milan on 23 and 24 June ...
Three additional tickets now in hand - all departing from Milan Melpensa early evening on 25 June to Bucharest/Edinburgh and Madrid. €105 extra paid ... my only conciliation is that I am sure two or three of those will get cancelled and perhaps shifted about ...
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Post by cadno on Dec 4, 2019 23:54:29 GMT
Bilbao and Munich would be good :-)
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Post by londontaffia on Dec 5, 2019 0:08:45 GMT
Hope someone can help, looking to fly into Tblisi on Thursday 11th, with a view to getting overnight train to Baku, but train leaves at 20.35 and all flights seem to arrive around 4am,has anyone found better flights (not direct to Baku)? TIA
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Post by manulike on Dec 5, 2019 0:10:10 GMT
Bilbao and Munich would be good :-) Neh. Much prefer Bucharest and St Petersburg ... But I'm pretty sure our Rambo will break my wee heart again and send us all ... to Wembley ;-))
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Post by manulike on Dec 5, 2019 0:11:47 GMT
Hope someone can help, looking to fly into Tblisi on Thursday 11th, with a view to getting overnight train to Baku, but train leaves at 20.35 and all flights seem to arrive around 4am,has anyone found better flights (not direct to Baku)? TIA please keep flight specific questions here - apostlewelshfootie.proboards.com/thread/10161/euro-2020-flights-sleeps
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Post by cadno on Dec 5, 2019 10:29:45 GMT
Bilbao and Munich would be good :-) Neh. Much prefer Bucharest and St Petersburg ... But I'm pretty sure our Rambo will break my wee heart again and send us all ... to Wembley ;-)) Prefer Bilbao and Munich personally but then again we'd probably face Belgium in Bilbao, our luck has run out against them, best avoid until the final :-)
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Post by seenitallbefore on Dec 9, 2019 10:46:06 GMT
Russia - Do we live in hope!?
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Post by cogancoronation31 on Dec 9, 2019 10:55:27 GMT
Have booked to go to Baku and applied for ticket for opening match vs the Swiss.
It has made me think about previous games against these opponents - there was a good game at the Liberty a few years back when G Bale and A Ramsey were on fire, and we secured a comfortable win. Swiss fans were quite a jolly lot that night, many dressed in Alpine gear and lots of cow bells ringing!
Going back further still, to the B Gould era, I recall a great away trip to Zurich - tremendous singing in the bars - all going well until match night when we came unstuck and lost 2-0 to a strong home team.
Any body remember these, or other, games against Switzerland?
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Post by TheWelshWay on Dec 9, 2019 11:01:26 GMT
Press still saying Euro 2020 will be unaffected as the competition is not a world wide event
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Post by cogancoronation31 on Dec 9, 2019 11:21:31 GMT
Now confirmed - Russia's participation in Euro 2020 unaffected by the ban that has just been announced.
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Post by sleepy on Dec 9, 2019 11:36:00 GMT
Have booked to go to Baku and applied for ticket for opening match vs the Swiss.
It has made me think about previous games against these opponents - there was a good game at the Liberty a few years back when G Bale and A Ramsey were on fire, and we secured a comfortable win. Swiss fans were quite a jolly lot that night, many dressed in Alpine gear and lots of cow bells ringing!
Going back further still, to the B Gould era, I recall a great away trip to Zurich - tremendous singing in the bars - all going well until match night when we came unstuck and lost 2-0 to a strong home team.
Any body remember these, or other, games against Switzerland? The 2-0 loss at Wrexham in 1999 in front of 5000. Last game of the euro 2000 quals.
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Post by walesgolfmadrid on Dec 9, 2019 11:41:47 GMT
UEFA could take their own action, but obviously won't. It's crazy that they're allowed to not only compete but host a tournament after their anti-doping agency has manipulated data on multiple occasions, and most recently this year.
Very glad we don't have to play them in their own backyard partly for this reason.
Whoever has to play them has to beat them away from home, and has to beat a side that won't be punished by UEFA for not complying with anti-doping regulations.
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Post by cadno on Dec 9, 2019 19:50:10 GMT
Have booked to go to Baku and applied for ticket for opening match vs the Swiss.
It has made me think about previous games against these opponents - there was a good game at the Liberty a few years back when G Bale and A Ramsey were on fire, and we secured a comfortable win. Swiss fans were quite a jolly lot that night, many dressed in Alpine gear and lots of cow bells ringing!
Going back further still, to the B Gould era, I recall a great away trip to Zurich - tremendous singing in the bars - all going well until match night when we came unstuck and lost 2-0 to a strong home team.
Any body remember these, or other, games against Switzerland? When we lost 4-1 away, Brian Flynn was in charge! We played alright if I remember correctly
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Post by manulike on Dec 12, 2019 14:20:17 GMT
Nice to see that Mark Pitman shares my optimism ;-)
... and also, if we can do the Haka before the Turkey game, that will surely put the fear of God into them ;-)
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Post by conwy10 on Mar 7, 2020 13:22:58 GMT
Does anyone expect this to go ahead as scheduled, go ahead in a different capacity or be postponed?
I don’t think they’ll scrap it but I wonder if UEFA would consider switching the Italian matches to Wales?
Possibly only ones who could travel from highly infected countries are those with tickets.
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Post by robin1864 on Mar 7, 2020 13:38:26 GMT
Does anyone expect this to go ahead as scheduled, go ahead in a different capacity or be postponed? I don’t think they’ll scrap it but I wonder if UEFA would consider switching the Italian matches to Wales? Possibly only ones who could travel from highly infected countries are those with tickets. Glad to see coronavirus is sticking it to UEFA for not picking the Millennium, someone had to. Wales at a tournament is something to cherish, but this was a shit idea to begin with and the geographic spread of fixtures will only help the spread of the virus as fans move from A to B and everywhere in between.
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Post by derynglas on Mar 7, 2020 14:32:08 GMT
Ironically for us Azerbijan seems to be the biggest problem apart from Italy. Only 6 cases so for but USA has advised people not to travel there because of the number of cases in neighbouring Iran just under 5000. We can only speculate what contingencies must have been discussed at the highEst level. Perhaps the tournament could be saved if games were moved from Italy and possibly Azerbijan if thing were fairly normal elsewhere. Good for us if some of them came to Wales obvs. Perhaps if the tournament was only in 1 (or 2) countries it would be just as bad or even worse particularly for the hosts than it is being spread out. The main factor against moving games is the shortness of time left.
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Post by allezlesrouges on Mar 7, 2020 15:32:26 GMT
Viruses tend to die of pretty quickly as the climate warms, hence why flu does the rounds in winter then you don't hear about it over the summer months. Given that after a few months it has started to die down in China anyway, indicating the peak lasts around 2-3 months along with the summer coming around, I think we'll start to see it dying down globally in May/June, so I think the authorities will follow the recommendations and see how it peaks and troughs in other countries before making a decision.
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Post by CrackityJones on Mar 7, 2020 17:32:39 GMT
It will be a massive call to postpone the tournament. There is a lot of over reacting at the moment, most of it ill informed social media gossip.
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Post by playslikeiniesta on Mar 7, 2020 20:58:55 GMT
People can play it down all they want but Italy has 4000 Coronavirus cases (and rising) and are currently cancelling/playing major sporting events behind closed doors.
Iran has 6000 Coronavirus cases and borders Azerbaijan.
We all want the Euros to go ahead as planned but there is a duty to public health. I would imagine that UEFA are discussing contingency plans as we speak.
I hope that the tournament doesn’t get cancelled and that they find suitable replacement countries instead if needed.
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Post by jbt95 on Mar 8, 2020 9:27:59 GMT
Ironically for us Azerbijan seems to be the biggest problem apart from Italy. Only 6 cases so for but USA has advised people not to travel there because of the number of cases in neighbouring Iran just under 5000. We can only speculate what contingencies must have been discussed at the highEst level. Perhaps the tournament could be saved if games were moved from Italy and possibly Azerbijan if thing were fairly normal elsewhere. Good for us if some of them came to Wales obvs. Perhaps if the tournament was only in 1 (or 2) countries it would be just as bad or even worse particularly for the hosts than it is being spread out. The main factor against moving games is the shortness of time left. I can't see them moving games now, 3 months to go. The amount of prep that goes into hosting games in these tournaments takes years.
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