I realise that you don’t need a passport to get to Northern Ireland, but i’ll see if admin can include our West Birmingham friends into our first away trip in the Europa cup... I know they’ll be watching
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The Premier League side hold a two-goal lead from last week's meeting at Molineux and are strong favourites to progress to the third qualifying round.
Wolves trained on the all-weather pitch at Seaview on Wednesday.
"Some of the players don't have that experience," said Nuno.
"[But] they ensure me that with water it's almost like natural grass."
Wolves overcome dogged Crusaders in first leg
Holding Wolves to a 2-0 win at Molineux is the 'proudest moment' - Baxter
Crusaders have installed 1,500 temporary seats for the sell-out fixture in north Belfast, with a vocal home support expected following their impressive showing at Molineux.
Wolves, in their first European match since 1980, dominated territory and possession but were frustrated by a stubborn Crues defence for much of the game.
"They showed that they are well organised and difficult to break down," Nuno said.
"It was tough and I went personally to their manager say that."
"The best compliment there is in football is respect, and we really do respect Crusaders."
Stephen Baxter
Crusaders boss Stephen Baxter described the first leg as the "proudest moment" of his managerial career
Crusaders' display in the first leg will have given the Irish Cup holders a considerable confidence boost before the domestic season begins on 10 August.
Stephen Baxter's side endured a difficult 2018-19 campaign, finishing a distant fourth before their cup success delivered a European berth.
"This has been a huge adventure for us," said Baxter.
"We will give Wolves a warm Northern Irish welcome and see how we get on."
The winners of the tie will meet either Czech side FK Jablonec or Armenia's Pyunik in the third round of qualifying.
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posted on 2/8/19
This would be the kind of game i would go to for sure if i lived in the UK. Much more interesting than bloody Belfast. Only down side of course is that you only get a weeks notice with the way the draw works.
posted on 3/8/19
comment by Cinciwolf---- jealous little scottish to$$er (U11551)
posted about 15 hours ago
This would be the kind of game i would go to for sure if i lived in the UK. Much more interesting than bloody Belfast. Only down side of course is that you only get a weeks notice with the way the draw works.
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6,000 mile round trip to the arzhole of europe has no interest to me but each to his own.
posted on 3/8/19
Draw for the play off stage on Monday and looks like we will play one of four either/or opposition;
Torino of Italy or Shakhtar Soligorsk of Belarus
Ventspils of Latvia or Vitoria Guimares Of Portugal
Austria Vienna or Apollon Limassol Of Cyprus
Midtylland Of Denmark or Rangers of Scotland
If we played in Vienna I would make the effort, one of the cities in Europe I have not yet been to but on my bucket list
posted on 3/8/19
comment by Spangles (U17289)
posted 47 minutes ago
Draw for the play off stage on Monday and looks like we will play one of four either/or opposition;
Torino of Italy or Shakhtar Soligorsk of Belarus
Ventspils of Latvia or Vitoria Guimares Of Portugal
Austria Vienna or Apollon Limassol Of Cyprus
Midtylland Of Denmark or Rangers of Scotland
If we played in Vienna I would make the effort, one of the cities in Europe I have not yet been to but on my bucket list
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Vienna is stunning. Especially the Museums Quarter. If you get a chance are a fast ferry to Bratislava which is just about 90 minutes up the Danube.
posted on 3/8/19
Vitoria Guimares might be interesting with possibly 15 or more Portuguese on the pitch and two Portuguese managers
posted on 3/8/19
comment by Vicious Sid (U8869)
posted about 5 hours ago
comment by Cinciwolf---- jealous little scottish to$$er (U11551)
posted about 15 hours ago
This would be the kind of game i would go to for sure if i lived in the UK. Much more interesting than bloody Belfast. Only down side of course is that you only get a weeks notice with the way the draw works.
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6,000 mile round trip to the arzhole of europe has no interest to me but each to his own.
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Why is Armenia the arzhole of Europe?!?!? Sounds like you still think it's 1980.
posted on 3/8/19
There was a lot of speculation that we would send out a bunch of kids in the early matches in the Europa league but Nuno has sensibly used the games as pre season matches to get the players ready for the league season.
But this week is different to me, and if we turn up at Leicester next week with a team of players who have just had a 13,000 mile round trip we would be asking for trouble. The task at Pyunik is just to contain the result to either a draw or even narrow defeat because we should surely be able to beat them by more than 1 at Molineux.
So I would hope to see a few of our regular team stay behind when the flight leaves for Armenia and trust in the likes of Ruddy, Vallejo, Vinagre, Saiss, Cutrone, MGW etc and probably Doherty, plus maybe even Jordao and Neto.
posted on 3/8/19
6,500 mile round trip that is
posted on 5/8/19
Just received ticket details for the away game at Pyunik on Thursday. Sign of the nature of Armenia is that ticket prices are £1.
What the information also gives is that there is no public transport in place for journeys from the airport to the city centre, nor from the city to the stadium.
posted on 5/8/19
comment by Spangles (U17289)
posted 8 minutes ago
Just received ticket details for the away game at Pyunik on Thursday. Sign of the nature of Armenia is that ticket prices are £1.
What the information also gives is that there is no public transport in place for journeys from the airport to the city centre, nor from the city to the stadium.
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DJ can you re-post this info on the match preview thread please