According to the burnley express, the players flight has been delayed and tonights press conference cancelled due to 'technical difficulties with the plane'

gandhisflipflop wrote:According to the burnley express, the players flight has been delayed and tonights press conference cancelled due to 'technical difficulties with the plane'

flying out tomorrow morning 11 am

UEFA rules state both teams have to be in the host city 24 hours before kick off, and each team must do a press conference at the stadium before 8pm the day before the game. Burnley have cancelled this press conference.

3-0 win to be awarded to Aberdeen.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/1637 ... gue-match/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Who left it up to the Clarets Player team to look after the flight arrangements???

Unbelievable.

Embarrassing. They should have been here yesterday to have a kick about and soak.up the city
I know they aren't used to this competition, but really. Questions have to be asked about how unorganised this lot are.

UEFA rules award the tie to Aberdeen?

Gotta be SUMMAT in there....

Did the club have any control over this?

I mean, we can't help that there was an issue with the plane, but surely provisions are made in these situations?

Especially if we may get into trouble with UEFA.

Fello wrote:UEFA rules state both teams have to be in the host city 24 hours before kick off, and each team must do a press conference at the stadium before 8pm the day before the game. Burnley have cancelled this press conference.

3-0 win to be awarded to Aberdeen.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/1637 ... gue-match/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Relax guys, there is no way a 3-0 win will be awarded.
We had issues a few years ago on a European trip when birds flew into plane angines and caused a six hour delay.
Sure we applied for and got an exemption owing ot the circumstances.
Also let me go on record as saying that no matter how much I want us to go through, I certainly don't want to under circumstances like these and I would be very surprised if my club didn't add support to Burnley

P.S No other media source in Scotland is reporting this as a possible 3-0 victory being awarded to us.

About the same distance as to Plymouth - (20 miles longer), Just jump in the coach right? Could understand if we were off to say... I don't know... Turkey or somewhere.

Still, can hardly blame the club there's a problem with the plane.

Top Don wrote:Relax guys, there is no way a 3-0 win will be awarded.

P.S No other media source in Scotland is reporting this as a possible 3-0 victory being awarded to us.

Neither is the link... Just a little jape by the OP

Millertime v1.7 wrote:Embarrassing. They should have been here yesterday to have a kick about and soak.up the city
I know they aren't used to this competition, but really. Questions have to be asked about how unorganised this lot are.

Apparently most of them have visited before and agreed it wasn’t worth a heading up there for any longer than necessary.

They could have planned it a bit better, cutting it very fine. I mean how long have they known about the tie?

Reecey1987 wrote:flying out tomorrow morning 11 am

Herald saying press conference at 1100 so that seems unlikely at best.

This isn't a good show though. Not a good look.

DCWat wrote:Apparently most of them have visited before and agreed it wasn’t worth a heading up there for any longer than necessary.

But they keep coming back to Burnley?

thatdberight wrote:Herald saying press conference at 1100 so that seems unlikely at best.

This isn't a good show though. Not a good look.

My mistake its the press conference at 11 like you say. I should imagine they will be flying some stage tonight

Reecey1987 wrote:flying out tomorrow morning 11 am

Not true, it's the press conference which is at 11am tomorrow.

I'm rather pleased the team didn't board a plane not fit for flying.
Why they couldn't just board the next plane is puzzling.

Quickenthetempo wrote:I'm rather pleased the team didn't board a plane not fit for flying.
Why they couldn't just board the next plane is puzzling.

Charter plane. Would guess they work differently.

Quickenthetempo wrote:I'm rather pleased the team didn't board a plane not fit for flying.
Why they couldn't just board the next plane is puzzling.

"Charter plane".

claretandy wrote:Not true, it's the press conference which is at 11am tomorrow.

I know got mistaken . Burnley have just tweeted saying its almost time so sounds like there ready to set off

SonofPog wrote:Charter plane. Would guess they work differently.

I realise that but they could get on a normal flight for an hour.

Oh dear..not the best start. Adds to the list of summer woes. Disabled section, shirts/sales/timings, transfer inactivity and now this. Not been the best of close seasons given the position we are in now.

Should have just flown with Jet2
Chartered planes are destroying the planet

Quickenthetempo wrote:I realise that but they could get on a normal flight for an hour.

I assume that all the kit and everything they need is to be taken on the plane too... Not easy to find a flight with 20 ~ 30 free seats in short notice.

Save the trouble - let them have a 3-0 win, I would still fancy us to go through:-)

Don't **** the bed, lads. This isn't even a topic for discussion on the chat. Only here. It's an embarrassing thing to be discussing for a professional football team so might want to close the thread tbh

Millertime v1.7 wrote:Don't **** the bed, lads. This isn't even a topic for discussion on the chat. Only here. It's an embarrassing thing to be discussing for a professional football team so might want to close the thread tbh

Even worse cast than your last attempt Millertime, upset were not biting?

The flights are a lot cheaper tomorrow hence the delay..

Flight AEH691 (private charter) arriving in Aberdeen Airport in 5 minutes. My money is that the team are on it. Any Clarets in the airport, give them a rousing reception

4 hours late......

Crikey, hope my flight isn’t as delayed tomorrow.

do we have the clarets flight tracker in action? Dust it off after tracking the Grosicki flight?

We should remember that worse things have happened to football teams when flying.

They were going to switch to EasyJet @ £20 a head until they found out the kitmans baggage was £345,000.

Just arrived at Aberdeen airport from London and saw the players getting off their plane onto the team coach.

UTC!

If they all claim €250 under the ec261 flight delay, we might be able to sign a new player

ralphc wrote:If they all claim €250 under the ec261 flight delay, we might be able to sign a new player

Another welcome addition to the dry powder store !!

They have enough Range Rovers between them to get the whole squad, subs and kit up there in 4 hours......

Barnes would've made half time in his Smart car.....

A terrible aspersion to cast

A delayed charter flight? Knowing frugal BFC, the Douglas DC3 they chartered probably lost a propeller on warm up. Spare parts are getting scarce tha knose!

Millertime v1.7 wrote:Should have just flown with Jet2
Chartered planes are destroying the planet

What total and utter cr4p; they burn the same fuel at the same rate as scheduled passenger planes.

Yeah, and if the players got on a passenger plane with Joe public there would be no need for the chartered flight ergo halfing the emissions, capische?

Millertime v1.7 wrote:Yeah, and if the players got on a passenger plane with Joe public there would be no need for the chartered flight ergo halfing the emissions, capische?

Rather strange comment from someone who's City's economy is largely built on Oil !!

Millertime v1.7 wrote:Yeah, and if the players got on a passenger plane with Joe public there would be no need for the chartered flight ergo halfing the emissions, capische?

Bit of a gangstaaa wannabe this lad so watch out.

Either that or a complete pillock

Newsflash Mate: the mod scene is finished.
Now go and get a proper haircut you decrepit old goat

Clarets4me wrote:Another welcome addition to the dry powder store !!

Two likes just means I liked the wrong post.

But, why doesn't clicking "Like" twice remove the first one?

What sort of club is this that can't sort out the fans main mb?

Right_winger wrote:They could have planned it a bit better, cutting it very fine. I mean how long have they known about the tie?

CrosspoolClarets wrote:Flight AEH691 (private charter) arriving in Aberdeen Airport in 5 minutes. My money is that the team are on it. Any Clarets in the airport, give them a rousing reception

4 hours late......

Crikey, hope my flight isn’t as delayed tomorrow.

You’re only flying up tomorrow?!? Embarrassing, how long have you known about this fixture!!

BennyD wrote:What total and utter cr4p; they burn the same fuel at the same rate as scheduled passenger planes.

The scheduled passenger plane was going already though. By flying chartered we burn an additional tank of fuel, not hard to understand.

we went to Europe for the aircraft, it's my understanding they flew in on a French aircraft

Apparently the club went for a German budget flight

Whilst waiting on the tarmac the team heard the Captain over the radio shouting "this fokker is not going to make it"

Or something like that