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Post by erasedcitizen on Mar 28, 2022 7:57:49 GMT
Agreed. Last year they had the final in Ashton Gate too which would make it even easier. That was only cause it clashed with the euros. So will be at Wembley again no doubt. Typical! Apparently it's not at Wembley. I guess there's only so many games that pitch can take. Ashton Gate or (obviously) the Mill Stad would work best for us. Villa Park would probably be too tight of a squeeze if it kicked off at 3. |
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Post by pclaude on Mar 28, 2022 8:18:33 GMT
If correct, the Poland game would be moved too as it's on the 3rd. Source is a mate but he's been right before with stuff like this, he's said the Poland game is getting moved to 1st, final on 5th and Netherlands home 8th. Not too sure on it as 1st would be outside the match window but I suppose it's an exceptional circumstance. Take it with a big pinch of salt but that's what I've been told. Presumably that would mean Belgium home and Netherlands away would need pushing back too but he's not mentioned them. Will see if he's right. Hopefully not as it means flights for both away games are useless and also Wrexham could have potentially have a play off final on the same day as the Wales play off final. Not much we can do I know but couldn't be a worst possible outcome for a Wrexham fan who follows Wales haha. I don’t see Poland agreeing to a high chance of lewandowski not playing in such a key relegation match. Though given their ties to Ukraine, guess it’s possible. We might be missing a few too. Especially Bournemouth players. Better hope Fulham and Bournemouth go up automatically |
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Post by welshlad on Mar 28, 2022 8:33:04 GMT
Source is a mate but he's been right before with stuff like this, he's said the Poland game is getting moved to 1st, final on 5th and Netherlands home 8th. Not too sure on it as 1st would be outside the match window but I suppose it's an exceptional circumstance. Take it with a big pinch of salt but that's what I've been told. Presumably that would mean Belgium home and Netherlands away would need pushing back too but he's not mentioned them. Will see if he's right. Hopefully not as it means flights for both away games are useless and also Wrexham could have potentially have a play off final on the same day as the Wales play off final. Not much we can do I know but couldn't be a worst possible outcome for a Wrexham fan who follows Wales haha. I don’t see Poland agreeing to a high chance of lewandowski not playing in such a key relegation match. Though given their ties to Ukraine, guess it’s possible. We might be missing a few too. Especially Bournemouth players. Better hope Fulham and Bournemouth go up automatically I think Poland would be more than willing to play out 2nd string at home 1st game |
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Post by welshlad on Mar 28, 2022 8:43:34 GMT
This seems on to me, Scotland would have to rearrange a home game with Armenia come September and Ukraine rearrange a game with ROI in September, we would fit all our games in for nations league in June, although be stronger favourites for the drop due to playing Poland away and not risking key players before the playoff final on the 5th June, what a Sunday we are in for. And then rearrangement of Belgium and Netherlands by a day. Netherlands probably moves to 8th June, but Belgium move to 11 or 12th June, Saturday 11th would be brilliant, and Netherlands away to the 14th or 15th, with 14th more likely. Just want the confirmation now, and roll on the draw Friday
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Post by CrackityJones on Mar 28, 2022 10:17:12 GMT
Shifting all the NL fixtures would be a bonkers move, even for UEFA
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Post by pclaude on Mar 28, 2022 10:28:10 GMT
I don’t see Poland agreeing to a high chance of lewandowski not playing in such a key relegation match. Though given their ties to Ukraine, guess it’s possible. We might be missing a few too. Especially Bournemouth players. Better hope Fulham and Bournemouth go up automatically I think Poland would be more than willing to play out 2nd string at home 1st game Fair point. Though you'd imagine some players of ours would benefit from game time. Like Bale, Rodon etc. |
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Post by lgpdc on Mar 28, 2022 15:29:33 GMT
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Post by Toffeeman on Mar 28, 2022 16:38:44 GMT
Shifting all the NL fixtures would be a bonkers move, even for UEFA I agree.When you consider if they change all the dates within our NL group alone and the fans affected.Then the Scottish NL group.The notion that the various bodies will compensate fans for their losses with re-booking fees.I very much doubt it. |
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Post by evans1282 on Mar 28, 2022 19:33:10 GMT
Shifting all the NL fixtures would be a bonkers move, even for UEFA I agree.When you consider if they change all the dates changed in our NL group alone and the fans affected.Then the Scottish NL group.The notion that the various bodies will compensate fans for their losses with re-booking fees.I very much doubt it. Personally I just want a date and pretty damn quick! June is slap bang in my jobs summer leave period,I'm probably going to have to swap shifts ( hard in my job ) but the more notice I have the better chance. |
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Post by erasedcitizen on Mar 28, 2022 19:34:10 GMT
Shifting all the NL fixtures would be a bonkers move, even for UEFA From what I've been told, the last 2 in June won't move now. There's no way of hosting this final without moving some NL games around. |
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Post by cymro on Mar 29, 2022 16:53:43 GMT
This week hopefully!
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Post by iantov on Mar 29, 2022 18:34:28 GMT
If we play Poland away, and then the play off final a few days later instead of Netherlands at home, I would be tempted to leave the first team back in Cardiff to make sure they're just fully concentrated on the final. 100% this. |
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Post by jbt95 on Mar 29, 2022 23:51:51 GMT
Thing is they are all off to Qatar now for the draw. Unless it’s already been decided and is announced tomorrow, can’t see anything for at least another week. |
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Post by quetzal on Mar 30, 2022 1:24:39 GMT
I got a feeling Ukraine could really turn it on. Scotland is a mind f**k for us older fans. But really they’d make our lives a lot easier if they can knock out Ukraine. Young Welsh fans wouldn’t really care about Scotland and jinxes. Well in the past.
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Post by iot on Mar 30, 2022 6:41:31 GMT
Thing is they are all off to Qatar now for the draw. Unless it’s already been decided and is announced tomorrow, can’t see anything for at least another week. Ian Gwyn Hughes said on Radio Cymru yesterday morning that they would be discussing these matters (and hopefully a decision will be made) during the event of the draw. |
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Post by gwernybwch on Mar 30, 2022 10:15:29 GMT
If correct, the Poland game would be moved too as it's on the 3rd. Source is a mate but he's been right before with stuff like this, he's said the Poland game is getting moved to 1st, final on 5th and Netherlands home 8th. Not too sure on it as 1st would be outside the match window but I suppose it's an exceptional circumstance. Take it with a big pinch of salt but that's what I've been told. I have been told something kinda similar; that the Netherlands (h) is to be moved and the play-off final is due to be played on or around when we were due to play the Netherlands (h). |
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Post by CrackityJones on Mar 30, 2022 10:17:19 GMT
It makes the most sense in terms of limiting disruption to the NL. The Netherlands game could then be squeezed into the September window.
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Post by morg on Mar 30, 2022 10:56:20 GMT
Scotland due to play Ukraine in NL on June 7th. Any chance of that being combined with their WC play off game?
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Post by jbt95 on Mar 30, 2022 11:10:55 GMT
Scotland due to play Ukraine in NL on June 7th. Any chance of that being combined with their WC play off game? Can’t see that happening, different TV rights for starts |
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Post by bale-droed on Mar 30, 2022 11:55:15 GMT
I got a feeling Ukraine could really turn it on. Scotland is a mind f**k for us older fans. But really they’d make our lives a lot easier if they can knock out Ukraine. Young Welsh fans wouldn’t really care about Scotland and jinxes. Well in the past. It’s amazing isn’t it? Ukraine didn’t lose in qualifying and will be highly motivated and yet I definitely want to play them and not Scotland. I can’t bare the thought of Scotland being the reason we don’t go to a World Cup again |
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Post by erasedcitizen on Mar 30, 2022 11:58:34 GMT
It makes the most sense in terms of limiting disruption to the NL. The Netherlands game could then be squeezed into the September window. Looks like the 4th now, causing even less disruption. Only 2 NL games in our group would move. |
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Post by welshlad on Mar 30, 2022 12:46:47 GMT
How reliable is this info as on holidays
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Post by rangers15 on Mar 30, 2022 13:25:18 GMT
I got a feeling Ukraine could really turn it on. Scotland is a mind f**k for us older fans. But really they’d make our lives a lot easier if they can knock out Ukraine. Young Welsh fans wouldn’t really care about Scotland and jinxes. Well in the past. It’s amazing isn’t it? Ukraine didn’t lose in qualifying and will be highly motivated and yet I definitely want to play them and not Scotland. I can’t bare the thought of Scotland being the reason we don’t go to a World Cup again also... I think I could live with Ukraine beating us to get to the world cup for what it would do for the people of that country (and how much it would piss of f Putin). for some reason the idea of playing Scotland fills me with dread. |
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Post by insertname on Mar 30, 2022 13:31:57 GMT
I got a feeling Ukraine could really turn it on. Scotland is a mind f**k for us older fans. But really they’d make our lives a lot easier if they can knock out Ukraine. Young Welsh fans wouldn’t really care about Scotland and jinxes. Well in the past. It’s amazing isn’t it? Ukraine didn’t lose in qualifying and will be highly motivated and yet I definitely want to play them and not Scotland. I can’t bare the thought of Scotland being the reason we don’t go to a World Cup again They also only won two games. Don’t forget that it wasn’t that long ago that Ukraine were disposed of pretty easily by Austria in the Euros and then qualified via the back door only for them to look desperately desperately bad against England. Pathetic, in fact. The only thing that would give me pause for thought about playing them is the resurgence they might get given the geo-political situation. That would over-shadow the fixture somewhat and perhaps put World Cup qualification in the trivial context that it surely is compared to innocent people having their lives destroyed. |
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Post by cymro on Mar 30, 2022 15:50:36 GMT
How reliable is this info as on holidays If I were to hazard a guess, I'll say Scotland vs Ukraine happens on 2nd June, final then on the 5th June. Pure speculation from me though. Basing that on the fact that 2nd June is the first date of the international window, and then generally the next games are played 3 days later. The playoff games just gone had a 5 day break between them, but I imagine UEFA will want to limit postponing nations league games as much as possible... |
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Post by saturn9 on Mar 30, 2022 15:55:08 GMT
It’s amazing isn’t it? Ukraine didn’t lose in qualifying and will be highly motivated and yet I definitely want to play them and not Scotland. I can’t bare the thought of Scotland being the reason we don’t go to a World Cup again also... I think I could live with Ukraine beating us to get to the world cup for what it would do for the people of that country (and how much it would piss of f Putin). for some reason the idea of playing Scotland fills me with dread. Nothing to fear from the Scots or Ukrainians. Their supporters probably say the same of little old Cymru though. |
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Post by rioonamazy on Mar 30, 2022 16:31:54 GMT
the real pain in all these is the flights and accommodation. there is no accommodation, all the cheap accomodation (ie desrt camping etc) has gone to those who already qualified. And what ever is left will be snapped up by the time we can book in total confidence.
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Post by jbt95 on Mar 30, 2022 16:49:27 GMT
the real pain in all these is the flights and accommodation. there is no accommodation, all the cheap accomodation (ie desrt camping etc) has gone to those who already qualified. And what ever is left will be snapped up by the time we can book in total confidence. This is the issue, we cannot book flights until we know we are there. It seems the ticket portal reopens next Tuesday. Presumably it works like the Euros were fans of countries get access to a pot of tickets. I guess we will need to buy tickets next week if this is the case. You can then only book accommodation then once you've bought tickets. Yes fan villages are not available at the moment, but I find it hard to believe they've all gone, It says they've sold 800k tickets so far, which is about 20 games at full average capacity out of 64 matches. Hopefully they are holding accommodation back for the next phase of ticket sales. I think I may just buy tickets and then see if we qualify before booking anything else, if it gets too expensive and decide not to go, then losing a few hundred quid is better than losing a few grand. |
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Post by rioonamazy on Mar 30, 2022 17:12:51 GMT
I've already got my tickets £250 for 3 games and 1st round.
ill prob only be going to 1 game and return the rest. I really cant see any accommodation anywhere. it all opened up on 21st march where 90% had already qualified. There is nothing available cant seem to book anything outside of FIFA accommodation agency. they are quoting 3K for 4 nights on a cruise ship and that's it. no village - no hotels (which were extortionate) FIFA don't want ordinary fans and nor do Qatar just the rich ones. it cant accommodate the masses just the selective few.
you can rent a villa at 350 per night about 1hrs drive. friends have booked accomodation in Bahrian and hired a camper van. 5hr drive. (iassume they will park up and sleep in it)
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Post by zakbaby on Mar 30, 2022 21:44:30 GMT
I hope we get to play Ukraine as I couldn't stand to be robbed by the jocks again!
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