7 of us flying out from bristol to frankfurt on new lufthansa route so we thought wed take advantage of it anybody else planning for this game.hoping to go to the frankfurt/duisberg game if possible as well.

Oh yes - four of us Brummies are going, but we're getting the chartered train from Hamburg early Sunday morning. Fancy meeting up whilst we're over there?

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Make sure you have tickets for the game beforehand, as they will be very difficult to come by. It's the first time I've struggled to get a ticket for St Pauli.

Yeah - Heiko's sorted us out. Match and train ticket in one. Apparently this hired train is quite a rarity. Looking forward to it immensely, especially as it promises bars, a poker room and a ... "dancing compartment."

What's not to like?

We're probably staying in Mainz after the game, so let us know if you fancy a few tots before hand.

Went on last year's fan train to Magdeburg (got one of the window posters up in my office) with John and a few others from the board. It's great fun. However, please note:
The beer ran out early and we had to take on extra supplies at Hannover and that sold out double quick, so take plenty of your own. The 'dancing compartment' looked mental but was too packed to even squeeze into - as were the bogs. Hold it in or queue for fuckin' ages.
Enjoy it, it's an experience and nothing like the 'supporter's specials' of the 70s in this country - for those of you old enough to remember them!

Oh I do remember the football specials, young Mr Les. One of my first away experiences was on a special with the old man in 1979. Put me off the "glamour" of hooliganism for life.

Looking forward to this immensely. Sounds the right side of demented!

Ahh yes Les, i remember the Magdeburg trip well.
Due to the sonderzug being sold out, i took the rather scary walk from the HBF to the stadium-quite an experience- but i saw Heiko when i was with you & John and he managed to get me on it on the journey back.

I remember the huge roar as they announced the hannover stop, Lee went to get beer and they'd sold out in about 10 mins !

However, my abiding memory will be the wall of noise as we all got off at Hamburg HBF after that momentous day-superb...

I remember the old soccer specials well, one memorable trip back in 1983 coming back from Glasgow with the Gooners as at some stupid-o-clock hour of the night we had gone the wrong way down the tracks and had to reverse back for a mile or so !

chris were staying in mainz sunday night so were up for meeting up for a beer.hopefully st pauli eck marcus has sorted are tickets out by now havent spoke to him for a bit though.spose your one of the bbib.briefly met one of your lot in the sports bar, mumbai test match 2006

Certainly am mate. And the bloke you mention is an enormous (ie obese) Baggies fan called Mat - he mentioned that he'd met some Rovers / St Pauli fans ages ago!

yeah i do remember him being a girt big bloke seemed alright though

I'll pm you my phone number mate so we can arrange to meet after the game. We'll be taking our BBIB flag - not sure whether we'll be able to hang it anywhere, but if we can, we could try and meet during the match

This is going to be a belter - looking forward to it, especially as we're about to get relegated!