Bordeauxclaret wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 25, 2024 4:38 pm

August, not July.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 25, 2024 4:44 pm

My geography isn't brilliant but I think the closest airport is Jerez which is 39km away

kentonclaret wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 25, 2024 5:06 pm

“We’re playing Cadiz in a meaningless pre season friendly at a ramshackle ground in the middle of nowhere”

When the Americans have got a product they know how to market it

Lip wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 25, 2024 5:35 pm

40 degrees Celsius in , perfect for our fast flowing football..

Longsider wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 25, 2024 5:57 pm

Had everything crossed it was going to be accessible from my hotel in Spain where I'll be with my family. It would mean a 5 hour bus journey and a night over. My wife has only just forgiven me for flying straight to Athens for the Olympiacos game instead of home with family when we were last in Spain.

Longsider wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 25, 2024 5:57 pm

Had everything crossed it was going to be accessible from my hotel in Spain where I'll be with my family. It would mean a 5 hour bus journey and a night over. My wife has only just forgiven me for flying straight to Athens for the Olympiacos game instead of home with family when we were last in Spain.

Burnley1989 wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 25, 2024 6:06 pm

Go on, do it, I dare ya

Longsider wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 25, 2024 6:34 pm

I've started to sow the seed of hiring a car to see a bit more of Spain. The friendly hasn't come into the equation yet.

Burnley1989 wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 25, 2024 6:37 pm

Ive a fitness competition in Sweden in December and sold it to the Mrs that I was taking her to the Christmas markets in Stockholm for her Birthday, shes not taken it to badly really , showed her google pictures from a totally different countries Christmas markets

Jellybean wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 25, 2024 6:49 pm

Why could they not just make it easier for fans? This just seems so strange and as though the prospect of our poor fans having to travel during peak holiday season haven't even entered their thought process.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 25, 2024 5:13 pm

The ground isn't an issue, and I've been to friendlies that have been more difficult to get to, just in the past had more notice. These are some of the wonderful stadia I've seen us play pre-season games at.

Vegas Claret wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 25, 2024 8:01 pm

they make Stafford Rangers look like the Santiago Bernabéu !

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 25, 2024 8:11 pm

Fantastic trips though

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 25, 2024 5:13 pm

The ground isn't an issue, and I've been to friendlies that have been more difficult to get to, just in the past had more notice. These are some of the wonderful stadia I've seen us play pre-season games at.

Vegas Claret wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 25, 2024 8:17 pm

Can you make a list of where they were please, be interested to know the opposition too.

CaptJohn wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 25, 2024 8:15 pm

Just done a quick trawl to estimate costs:
Ryanair LPL-AGP: Outbound 3rd Aug 1620hrs-2020hrs £64; Inbound 5th Aug 1755hrs-1950hrs £108 (Light traveller)
3rd Aug: Hotel Campanile Malaga airport £92
Car hire approx £40
4th Aug: Hotel Pena de Arcos (Close to ground) £54
It's about 2.5 hrs drive Malaga to ground.
Total cost £358 + petrol & getting to the airport in UK.
I reckon it will cost £500 in total depending upon the quality of Rioja that you drink

Why can't they play Shrewsbury away, as it's just 40 minutes drive from me or Chester away which is walking distance

NL Claret wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 25, 2024 8:26 pm

Recall going to watch a friendly in Germany v 1860 Munich U23s. I’m sure you were there CT, I’ve got a photo somewhere of about 50 Clarets outside a bar. Don’t think that ground is on there as it is a baking hot sunny afternoon. Cotterill first pre season. Stayed in Salzburg and got the train over the border. Think a bar got drunk dry. Only memory of the game was Mo Camara getting subbed off before he was sent off.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:04 am

Abtenau
Bad Goisern
Bad Wimsbach
Vöcklabruck

All in Austria
https://www.uptheclarets.com/ground-photographs/austria

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:14 am

EDIT: I couldn't possibly have taken that one, I'm on it.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:14 am

The only thing I could remember about the game was Frank Sinclair scoring our goal, and of course Camara. The pic below is one I took. It was across from the bar where we arrived early and then witnessed so many Burnley fans arriving it was unbelievable. At least 250 of us there in the end. What a great trip that was; we'd played the first game on the Tuesday against Wacker Burghausen and this one against 1860 was on the Saturday. We stayed in Salzburg too.

EDIT: I couldn't possibly have taken that one, I'm on it.


Freilassing Bar.jpg

NL Claret wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 26, 2024 12:56 pm

That’s the one, thinking about it, my mate might have taken that photo. Probably about 20 years ago to the day. I’m looking a lot slimmer on there than I am now!! Just to the left of Dave Burnley.

Burnley1989 wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 25, 2024 6:37 pm

Ive a fitness competition in Sweden in December and sold it to the Mrs that I was taking her to the Christmas markets in Stockholm for her Birthday, shes not taken it to badly really , showed her google pictures from a totally different countries Christmas markets

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 26, 2024 2:30 pm

It was my mate who took it with my camera - I have two where we have virtually swapped places. And I'm carrying a lot less weight now.

Woody9229 wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 29, 2024 11:02 am

Sounds like a badly thought out pre season friendly just over a week to the start of the season. Not easy for team to get there either (though assume private jet). Even in the mountains and an early evening kick off the heat will be debilitating given little or no acclimatising. I suspect Cadiz don't set up to play like Luton and likely to be more of a strolling energy conserving kick about. Don't get it.