anufc wrote:

GeordieLes wrote: I finish work afternoon on Friday 4th April. I fly to southern Spain mid afternoon on Tuesday 8th April from Newcastle. The only chance I've got of making the St Pauli v Freiburg game is if it's on the Sunday afternoon 6th April. Fly out Saturday morning from Newcastle changing at Amsterdam or Brussels, fly back Monday morning using opposite route. Even then it's going to involve some frantic booking! I think it's going to be the last chance I have of getting to another game this season. I m up for the game too , but why not doing the trip from ferry with someone else by chance?

What?

it was an idea that came up last saturday in tilleys ...

I was pissed man!

There's always the train.... did it that way in August and it was great. London- Brussels-Koln-Hamburg. Mind you getting from Newcastle to London would probably double the journey time (and the price)

Keep your eyes peeled, just been looking at the german forum and looks like final fixture times will be announced this week...

We reckon it'll be the 18th when the confirmation is announced. Are you thinking about going to the Freiburg game?

We're trying for the Erzgebirge Aue, which falls over the 2-4 May (UK Bank Holiday weekend). Fingers crossed the Ultras did enough to put off DSF scheduling another Monday night game?!

We'll be flying this time, mind. Train is great but it's a whole day in either direction.

Kowalski wrote:

Sorry I've not responded. I was there on a stag weekend so I think I got about 25 tickets. I just emailed the club. Because we bought in bulk I think this made getting standing tickets easier. What I would say is that even though they had an English language facility on their ticket office website/email, they kept responding with increasingly long and complicated emails in German. Despite my attempts in very poor German to tell them that my German was, well, very poor. Obviously I was liaising with a German football club and I'm not so arrogant as to expect conversations in English. It was just odd that they had a contact page that enabled you to send a message in English to them. Despite the fact that my German skills were extremely weak, I ended up striking up an unexpected friendship with a Daniel Kristler (in German) and eventually ended up recommending a footy weekend in the North-West (in German) after he asked about the Premier League. Thank God for my wife's GCSE Collins Gem German Dictionary, my self-teach German course and various translation sites. It was most odd. Especially when I sneakily got him to reply to one email in English, only for my English reply to be met with a German one! Anyway, to get to the point, here's his email: Only registered users can see links on this forum! Register or Login on forum! I hope your Deutsch is up to scratch!

Sorry - just playing catch up myself. My German is terrible, although I am starting to be able to make sense of the occasional bit of text on the website. Thanks for the email address. Can't wait to see how the fixtures fall. Like the sound Altona, especially if makes Sanktpaulee top ten. Fingers crossed for a 3 game weekend.

Nico 4 wrote:

We're trying for the Erzgebirge Aue, which falls over the 2-4 May (UK Bank Holiday weekend). Fingers crossed the Ultras did enough to put off DSF scheduling another Monday night game?! We'll be flying this time, mind. Train is great but it's a whole day in either direction.

I always fly even though there isn't a direct flight to Hamburg from Newcastle and I have to change at Amsterdam or Brussels. Heiko keeps trying to persuade me to fly Newcastle to Hannover then get the train but the flight gets in at midnight and it looks like no sleep to me! Your suggestion of a mega-train journey looks dreadful to me!
The Aue game might be a possibility. It would need to be on the Sunday as well though.

Looks like it will be Thursday before the fixtures are announced - once the DFB-Pokal finalists are known - aaaaaarrgghh!

Fixtures now out.

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Sir Rog texted me at work, about to go on the net now with my plastic!

Fuck, can't get cheaper than £240 return, KLM, change at Amsterdam. I'll keep trying though. The thought of watching Pompey playing in the cup semi in a bar in Hamburg with Swiss John and Dunc on the Saturday afternoon is almost as good as the prospect of Saturday night in the Eck and the game at the Millerntor on the Sunday!

I ve been looking at trains as I would only pay 50%
it seems like a nightmare forme , i d have to go through , london dover , calais , lille , bruxelles, koln and arrive in Hamburg , about 24 hours later .....

let s have a look at ryanair then ..

Nico 4 wrote:

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Are those the real fixture times for the left of the season? as if I can t come in april , I might do a game beginning May...

anufc found a route from Newcastle to Lubeck on Saturday 5/4/08 which was very interesting...
Newcastle to Dublin for £10 then Dublin to Lubeck for 43 euros.
Flight back with BA via Heathrow instead of Dublin on Monday was £116.
Hmmm.... I am tempted but...