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Post by TAXI FOR HARPER on Dec 19, 2006 17:52:19 GMT
Ok folks. Anyone wanting to join me on a stag trip to Vienna via Berlin for the Austria V Scotland game on 30 May 07? This game has been confirmed. As i'm getting married on 8 Jun i was considering the weekend before it for a stagger somewhere, however this may be an option.
I have sourced flights for £128 return from Glasgow via Berlin going out Tuesday and back Friday. 2 nights in Vienna (Tues and Wed) and Thurs in Berlin.
After my escapades in Vienna in 1996 i will need some looking after. Wee John fae Perth breaking my hotel room door down, going on the piss for a whole night with Neil Ross (Schnapps, coffee, schnapps, coffee etc), cheese and ham on my cornflakes and milk for breakfast, taking a horse and cart to the game and ending up in the wrong end of the ground drinking whisky with the Austrians etc etc. What a trip it was.
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Post by MickNorthCroy on Dec 19, 2006 20:16:29 GMT
Ach, go on then, count me in  |
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Post by Broon on Dec 20, 2006 9:51:30 GMT
Neil,
looking at your itinarary I take it that it's Glasgow - Stansted - Berlin - Vienna, I have looked at those ad's for Air Berlin which seem to suggest direct flights from Glasgow - Germany direct, it's just that their meaning of direct is via Stansted or it another airline ? Does somebody else fly from GLW to Berlin
From quick memory I think i have been to two matches in Vienna, beautiful city with wonderful architecture, there is one of the tram routes which travels all the way round the 'ring' taking in most of the major sights in the city centre, a very cheap way to get a city tour
I see the match is not in the major stadium which is a pity as it's beside the Prater Park with it's famous ferris wheel and amusements, I don't know where the stadium is that we'll be playing in
So if you are having a do in Vienna to mark your impending demise - count me in
Broon
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Post by jenblueeyes on Dec 20, 2006 14:20:58 GMT
Easyjet fly direct from Glasgow to Berlin...though are girlies allowed on this trip? Dot & I spent a couple of nights in Berlin on the way to Slovenia.
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Post by Broon on Dec 20, 2006 14:36:48 GMT
I didn't realise that Easyjet flew to Berlin from Glasgow - what other routes do they have apart from Luton ? ach I'm just being lazy I'll go and look at the website........
Berlin is the other side of Germany from me, so it's not any use for work but will be for future matches, jaunts etc
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Post by jenblueeyes on Dec 20, 2006 15:50:18 GMT
It's a newish route. Dot and I had to fly from Newcastle to Berlin. At the moment, it's showing £14.99 each way flying out on the Monday and returning on the Thursday.
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Post by youngman on Dec 21, 2006 11:32:29 GMT
Austria! We have played them a few times before. Are they any good?
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Post by wiseoldman on Dec 21, 2006 11:43:49 GMT
2 games stick in my mind just now, Ally Mcleods last game when we lost 3 - 2 in Vienna, we were 3 - 0 down and they withdrew all the ballboys. Maybe that's where Walter go the idea from.
Also the qualifier when Gallagher scored a cracker, 1997 parkhead if my memory serves me well.
We have quite a history of games against Austria. An abandoned game in the early '60s rings a bell.
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Post by Marky on Dec 21, 2006 12:18:47 GMT
Best memory for me was the return game in that campaign when Toni Polster took an awful dive in the box whereby the two Colins, Calderwood and Hendry, took it in turns to threaten him and pull each other away so the other could have ago. It genuinely looked like Polster was going to get a hiding so he gingerly got up and done a runner, good choice!
Marky
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Post by wiseoldman on Dec 22, 2006 16:18:31 GMT
Did Austria not beat us at Hampden recently in a friendly? We drew the return over there.
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Post by beckenbauer on Dec 22, 2006 16:25:12 GMT
A kleine bit of info on Austria. They of course were great rivals in the past to the Germans and were a major force in the 50s. Their fussball has taken a downturn in the last 20 years.
here in Deutschland we use our own words for fussball terms such as Libero - sweeper, angriff - attack, tor - goal, unentshieden - draw, torwart - goalkeeper.
in Ostereich they use english terms. Neither country has a direct translation for stramash however!
Unglaublich means unbeleivable.
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Post by youngman on Dec 23, 2006 9:51:02 GMT
The TA legend is that Do ah deer, comes from another country, not Austria. Surely not. Was it not started in the campaign for france 1998? Thats what my father says.
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Post by wiseoldman on Dec 23, 2006 10:54:29 GMT
It will be interesting to hear the true story. The song comes from The Sound of Music starring Julie Andrews. A cracker!
Anybody remember the Aurstria 1979 qualifier at Hampden when we drew 1 - 1 and Roughie dropped the ball at Hans Krankl's feet. Is this incident mentioned in his new book?
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Post by waltersmith on Jan 5, 2007 21:34:47 GMT
Just to let you know that I may not be going! Something at work has come up. Some call it a promotion some don't.
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Post by DavyMac on Jan 6, 2007 14:03:03 GMT
Ah no what i'd call it ya Judas....  At least its for the greater good of Scottish football... as long as the Old firm are okay, then sod the rest of the country.. or so the Media would have us believe.. As long as Tommy Burns is left in charge against Italy we should be okay.. at a WESTA meetin one night a couple of years ago he explained to us all about how he told all the players before one 'tough' away fixture to get "angry" before they went out and all would be well... the team then went out and got all the fans"angry" by managing to hold the mighty Faroes to a fine 2-2 draw.. |
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