Bundesliga review part 2. the new one :)

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Alex-MCFC said:
Great little piece there Ruhr, although I object to the part about them having the best Ice hockey team, we all know that title belongs to Ingolstadt and ERC! ;)

I'd quite like to do a trip to the Alten Foerestai, looks quite a ground and what you said about them explains why they are quite popular in the UK.



When you mentioned that trip I thought it sounded great, looks like it turned out that case!

My total still stands at four (...) and I'm hoping to increase that number when I come back to Germany for the first match day of next season. Will fly to either Stuttgart or Bremen, then travel to wherever Ingolstadt are playing and take in a few Bundesliga/2. Liga grounds in the process. Who knows, that could be Eintracht the way this season is going @Bembeltown ;)

I don't know if I mentioned previously, but I now produce the weekly English preview for the Schanzer website. Can be found here http://www.fcingolstadt.de/en/home/news/5603-schanzer-want-to-keep-the-distance-against-frankfurt/
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The Alte Försterei is a great stadium. I went there to watch Union play Eintract Frankfurt in October 2001. By the time I arrived, the home stands were full, so I had no choice but to go in with the away fans, though that didn't matter. The atmosphere was fantastic and Frankfurt won 4-0.

The ground has been redeveloped in recent years and now has a capacity of over 22 000; most of it is still standing and it's easy enough to reach by U-Bahn.
 
Vienna_70 said:
The Alte Försterei is a great stadium. I went there to watch Union play Eintract Frankfurt in October 2001. By the time I arrived, the home stands were full, so I had no choice but to go in with the away fans, though that didn't matter. The atmosphere was fantastic and Frankfurt won 4-0.

The ground has been redeveloped in recent years and now has a capacity of over 22 000; most of it is still standing and it's easy enough to reach by U-Bahn.
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We went to Union-Karlsruhe in 2013. Decent pub near the stadium, THE OFFSIDE TRAP.
 
A chaotic week ahead:
Tuesday night in Folkestone before driving to Paris the following morning. Returning on the Thursday, but flying to Dusseldorf, early Friday morning.
Friday night in Soest, and then Bochum-FSV Frankfurt, Saturday lunchtime.
Hooking up with Rhineland for Cologne-Leverkusen on the Sunday.
 
cptaidan88 said:
Chat Scheiße knallte erhalten! ;-)

Shame I don't give even the smallest of fucks about international football
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Haha that google translation of what I assume was "Chat shit, get banged" made me spill my coffee everyhwere. What the hell...some things should simply not get translated.

I dont really care about the friendlies either, but the match against England sparked yet another discussion about the shitty atmosphere at home matches of Germany.

What a suprise? Charging tons of money for meaningless games just to sit with the usual mupped national team crowd consisting of people who have never been to football, people who are are dressed up like morons and the "first let me take a selfie" hipsters. And they seriously wonder why the atmosphere is shit?
 
Schalker said:
Yes Leicester won ;o)))
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I was thinking more at the Audi Sportpark ;)

Bembeltown said:
What a suprise? Charging tons of money for meaningless games just to sit with the usual mupped national team crowd consisting of people who have never been to football, people who are are dressed up like morons and the "first let me take a selfie" hipsters. And they seriously wonder why the atmosphere is shit?
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Sounds like a typical City home game then.
 
Bembeltown said:
Haha that google translation of what I assume was "Chat shit, get banged" made me spill my coffee everyhwere. What the hell...some things should simply not get translated.
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Haha. I'd forgotten I posted that! From memory I think I stole it from a tweet, so can't claim responsibility for the poor translation!

I'd been to my local non league team that day and you're allowed to stand and have a drink during the game at that level, and it turned into a bit of session afterwards by the time the Germany v England was on!

Changing the subject from my poor attempt at the German language....
Looks like Bayern will win the league again, although Dortmund have pushed them further than I thought they would so could be interesting next year depending on transfers in and out.

Hertha had been doing a great job but I'm concerned how that 5-0 drubbing will affect them. Its going to be very tight for 3rd & 4th.

Hannover are down. Otherwise very tight once again at the bottom and another fascinating scrap which might go down to the last day. Dont give up @Bembeltown - some massive games coming up!

My predictions

3rd - Mönchengladbach
4th - Hertha

16th - Eintracht
17th - Darmstadt
18th - Hannover

Coming up - I think it may end up as it is now
1st - Freiburg
2nd - RB Leipzig
3rd - Nürnberg (to play Eintracht in the play off)

@Scaring Europe to Death if I dont see you in Paris, have a great trip next weekend.
 
@cptaidan88: We got so many problems that I honestly cant see us staying up. We still play Dortmund and Leverkusen. Coming weekend we need a win in Hoffenheim or we are screwed. If we manage a win against Hoffenheim we need to beat Darmstadt as well in the derby. We play them away from home and we are not allowed any fans at their ground, which doesnt make things easier.

Even if we somehow manage to play relegation against Nürnberg I doubt that we will stay up. Nürnberg has not lost in 17? games and are full of confidence, while we are exactly on the opposite end.

If we play them the atmosphere will be electric both in Nürnberg and in Frankfurt, but I am afraid as well that there will be violence. Both Nürnberg and us go a lot of dickheads and it will definitely kick off. Either because we go down or because they dont go up.

Enjoy Paris! Great place hope you have some good weather coming up. Sitting at Monmatre, sipping coffee, eating croissants and watching footie in the evening. Could be worse! ;)
 
Bembeltown said:
@cptaidan88: We got so many problems that I honestly cant see us staying up. We still play Dortmund and Leverkusen. Coming weekend we need a win in Hoffenheim or we are screwed. If we manage a win against Hoffenheim we need to beat Darmstadt as well in the derby. We play them away from home and we are not allowed any fans at their ground, which doesnt make things easier.

Even if we somehow manage to play relegation against Nürnberg I doubt that we will stay up. Nürnberg has not lost in 17? games and are full of confidence, while we are exactly on the opposite end.

If we play them the atmosphere will be electric both in Nürnberg and in Frankfurt, but I am afraid as well that there will be violence. Both Nürnberg and us go a lot of dickheads and it will definitely kick off. Either because we go down or because they dont go up.

Enjoy Paris! Great place hope you have some good weather coming up. Sitting at Monmatre, sipping coffee, eating croissants and watching footie in the evening. Could be worse! ;)
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I seem to recall attending a goalless draw between Eintracht and Nurnberg around March 2013. There were thousands of Nurnberg fans, and a buzzing atmosphere, that never quite went over the edge
 
cptaidan88 said:
Haha. I'd forgotten I posted that! From memory I think I stole it from a tweet, so can't claim responsibility for the poor translation!

Changing the subject from my poor attempt at the German language....
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you've been caught years ago :-)

 
Just got home from the Cologne-Leverkusen fixture,and my first ever experience of non alcoholic lager.

Strange how even at City v United, you can drink alcohol, but not within viewing distance of the pitch.

In Germany you can drink alcohol at your seat, but not in the powderkeg fixtures.

The real paradox was that despite this being a local derby, there were still dozens of Leverkusen fans in the home end, without a hint of trouble. Compare that with the City-Everton 2nd leg.

Also, in Germany, the home supporters get frisked before the game. I can’t remember the last time that ever happened at City.


So similar, yet completely different.
 
Question for our German friends, or Scaring and Aidan as you'll probably know. If City get Bayern in the CL; we'd be looking at flying to Stuttgart. Where would the free travel cover from? The Munich metropolitan area, or Upper (I think Munich is Upper) Bavaria. As if it's the latter we would only have to buy train tickets to Ulm.
 
Alex-MCFC said:
Question for our German friends, or Scaring and Aidan as you'll probably know. If City get Bayern in the CL; we'd be looking at flying to Stuttgart. Where would the free travel cover from? The Munich metropolitan area, or Upper (I think Munich is Upper) Bavaria. As if it's the latter we would only have to buy train tickets to Ulm.
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We did the reverse itinerary for the Stuttgart friendly. About 2 hours on the ICE train.
As far as I can recall from previous games at the Allianz, it only covered us for the inner city travel.

However, whenever we travel to Cologne games from Dusseldorf, we have to buy a ticket to Langenfeld (even though our train doesn't normally stop there). Our match ticket then covers the journey from Langenfeld to Cologne.
There might be a similar scenario between Stuttgart and Munich, although realistically, it's a longer journey.
 
Alex-MCFC said:
Question for our German friends, or Scaring and Aidan as you'll probably know. If City get Bayern in the CL; we'd be looking at flying to Stuttgart. Where would the free travel cover from? The Munich metropolitan area, or Upper (I think Munich is Upper) Bavaria. As if it's the latter we would only have to buy train tickets to Ulm.
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There is no free travel with the match tickets for the Bayern matches. In difference to a lot of the other Bundesliga teams a lot of the Bayern fans come from a bigger distance so to include the metropolitan ticket into the match does not really make sense (it is a calculation model as it is not free for the clubs and when only a few of the fans need the ticket and all would have to pay it does not make much sense).

There is different possibilities to travel cheap in Germany - train or with busses. The busses from Stuttgart airport to Munich start at 9 EUR when bought online (24,50 EUR at the bus station) and take about 3 hours. ICE is faster but more expansive.

https://www.flixbus.de/busverbindung/fernbus-muenchen-stuttgart
 
Greedy Bayern dont offer free travel.
Nothing to with the distance Fans travel to a match
 
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