Spiderpig

I was proud of every player in the team last night, we played really well and created lots of chances against a good Panathinikos side, who in truth are a lot better than us. Every player put in a great shift, and with a bit more composure in front of goal we would have scored at least 1 (Ojamma not looking up and playing Murphy in was the best of them). It was our champions league debut and we made a very good experienced European team look ordinary, its only half time and we are 2 down, so anything is possible. Panathinikos will consider it as job done, but if we can score 1st in Athens then its game on, we showed last night that we can create oportunities against them, lets live the dream and believe.

You might get away with that one mate, just seems to be Red and white that puts them over the edge, so no accies or Aberdeen tops

I have had a couple of responses from posts i submitted on a Panathinikos forum, about the seating at the Olympic stadium http://forum.greenwebfans.com/, they have an English language section. The advice is to stick to the 10 euro seats as they are on the top tier and give you a better view and are a safer bet if the locals get restless.(section 20 was mentioned as the visitors area) The other advice was not to make any references in any way shape or form about Olympiakos, as the Pans fans tend to go a bit tonto if you do. Re: Seating at the Olympic stadium Sent: Tue 31 Jul , 2012 00:06 From: WEMBLEY-13 To: wellfan1886 hello m8. Listen. Stick to upstairs, if things for Pana go wrong it would be safer to be upstairs. And please m8, one piece of friendly advice - if u can put it through your pals. Do not ( i repeat do not ) mention anything about Gayros (Olympiakos) Do not try to raise any flags that you might be given in your short Athens stay, do not try to repeat any chants that someone from your friends might be taught. Believe me, the hell will break loose Re: Seating at the Olympic stadium by GERMAN » Mon 30 Jul , 2012 16:08 Stick to the 10E ticket. You have a better view from "upstairs"....

Just spoke to stressed individual at FP, ticket sales for away leg will be the same as previous years, name, address, and passport details required for each person tickets are for. There does not seem to be any restriction on how many 1 person can get, but they will probably need photo ID . Also it seems it will be Wednesday at the earliest before they go on sale, but they dont know what time

Every time we have a European tie we get all this grief over away leg tickets, and we are still making life difficult for people. This is our biggest European game ever, our debut at the top table, there are people flying out to Greece in 4 or 5 days and they still have no tickets...how difficult can it be. If the club dont have the resource then get a professional ticket company to organise it..or get the online option sorted with enough capacity to take the demand.

Should make the views from the bars interesting.

Looking at the online stadium tour the top tier is the even gates and the odd gates are on the bottom...gates 8,9 &10 or 26,27 & 28 seem to be the best view. It would be helpful to know where the tickets are for.

At t risk of being hounded for going off topic, i think that given that this was the champions league etc, the size of the official party on this trip was guarenteed to be larger than usual. By this i mean club officials and directors, friends and family of club officials and directors, sponsors, friends of sponsors and a whole host of other assorted hangers on. The number of seats on the charter for ordinary fans was always going to be limited. If this had been done in plenty time then those who never got a seat still had time to make alternate arrangements, but by the time they were told the plane was full all the cheap deals had gone. The club have had 4 months to sort this out so if the demand was there why not put on 2 planes, or use the same plane split over 2 days like they done for the trip to Katowice in 91.

For an extra £16 i would ra.ther have a decent view of the game, all the Well fans should do the same, the trip is costing a few quid so why skimp on another £16. I dont want to spend all that cash getting to Athens and then not see the game as the pitch is too far away.

1.1 km or a 14 min walk according to google maps.

The game will be at the Olympic stadium, the old one has been closed...Syntagma square seems to be the main area in the centre of Athens, plenty of bars, good metro links to everywhere so this seems like a good shout for a meeting place and a few beers, plus my hotel is 2 mins away

I have a spare £30 ticket for the POD if somebody still needs one.

Some useful info for those getting in to Athens Early Tuesday and looking for a bus. http://www.athensair...irport_bus.html Looks like the X95 service is the one to get 5 euro's single

Agree with this, Pana are not the side they were, they are beatable, judge them on how they perform and not on previous reputations, believe and live the dream.

I have a spare adult ticket for the game available if anybody is still looking to buy one, its for the POD (row E, 115 i think). If anybody wants it just PM me.

Thats the Hotel booked, arriving Tuesday night, anybody else staying at the Central hotel ?

I am sure we can get a good deal on the flares and smoke bombs in Athens to create a bit of an atmosphere...we should have a collection

We are going back thursday on the 17:25 Aegean to Heathrow, there at 19;20 then its the 21:00 BA to Glasgow, £321 each plus Hotel yet to be booked, so should be just under £400 all in

if its the 06:55 to Crete then i am on that one as well, leave Crete at 17:25 in Athens at 18:30, hope the Airport has a decent Taverna

but just incase anybody likes tea or coffee, this might be useful info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Greece

Yes ..the very same, he is in Spain just now, but is going with another face you will know, Alan Morley aka Biggles, the plan is for us to meet up in Athens

You need lots of Gin like Dewell for it to make sense

Anybody who is going have any thoughts on a meeting point for the troops in Athens, Syntagma Square seems to be the main place in Athens, bound to be a good selection of bars around it, or tea and coffee shops if you are being sensible

Not booked one yet hope to get that sorted today, waiting for mate who is on Holiday (southern steel) to confirm if he is going, they will be travelling from london so trying to all get the same hotel. Had a quick look and there seems to be loads at reasonable rates

I thought Ramsden played well, looked good on the ball, even heard him shouting a bit and showing some leadership at the back, he looks to be worth a deal. As for Hatley he was in his best position yesterday at RB, our 1st choice back line should be Hatley, Saunders, Hutchison, Hammell, but Ramsden and Cummins looked to be a solid partnership yesterday as cover until Saunders and Hutchie are fit.