Any other English fans making the trip over for this one? My missus and I have booked flights (Luton-Nimes, out Friday back Sunday) but not hotels/transfers/match tickets yet. I've finally managed to track down an online ticket outlet here - ffr13.billetterie.2.datasport.eu ... 68490&ap=2 Cheap seats in Tribune Jean Rey at €11 look favourable at the minute. Anyone else booked their seats and if so where?

Any other English fans making the trip over for this one? My missus and I have booked flights (Luton-Nimes, out Friday back Sunday) but not hotels/transfers/match tickets yet. I've finally managed to track down an online ticket outlet here - ffr13.billetterie.2.datasport.eu ... 68490&ap=2 Cheap seats in Tribune Jean Rey at €11 look favourable at the minute. Anyone else booked their seats and if so where?

should be a good game this hopefully france can can be at full strenght infront of a big and loud crowd im sure of that.

On the same flights as you eelpie, also booked Jean Rey tickets, be good if all the England fans went in the same area

Nice work Brummie. Will no doubt formulate a plan for the day on the plane! Hopefully can seek out the treiziste bars in the town. Not sure if the tickets are unreserved seating. Apparently the Sky boys are doing a scouting mission by flying out the day before.

I believe that the seats in that stand are like benches so its just sit wherever you like, definitely have to find a good bar beforehand!

Yep, me and brummie Eagle flying out, stopping in the Hotel Kyriad not too far from the ground, pretty cheap as it's outside the centre too.

Aye, we're at the Ibis near the station. £40 a night, just outside the old city.

So that's 4 of us on the roll call - any more?

When we say not far, it appears to be across the road from the ground!

Bump

Can't find my 1995 England shirt, grrrr!!

Ha Ha HA HA HA!!! Your mrs didn't sell it to me on ebay a fortnight back did she? I'm saving it for the England v Wales game!

I don't have a mrs so no!!

If you're a large, I can loan you mine for a hire fee plus deposit

Purchased a new English Tracksuit top for the occasion, if I put on an Aussie accent I'm hoping to get a starting spot in the 17! Anyone know a decent bar in town or near the ground?

Good little read about the day! www.internationalrugbyleague.net/fansblog.htm

Good little read about the day! www.internationalrugbyleague.net/fansblog.htm

Nice write up Andy. I would point out that we (the Wigan couple) were a bit luckier than you suggested, in that we did have to join the scrum on the other side of the ground, but went straight to a steward (there were some outside the ground, could have done with some inside as you say) who was able to locate the tickets we booked online. Yours were probably there too!

From our vantage point your stand didn't look particularly full, but the other three definitely were. If nothing else it did make the RFL appear organised - something I should have pointed out to R Lewis when we spotted him in Place de l'Horloge in Avignon that afternoon.

Haven't heard myself whether the guy from Wakefield managed to make it home ok. He came back to our hotel for a beer (and a warm!) but left about 3.15am to get to the station when it opened! Prior to that, we'd had some good banter with the English speaking match officials in O'Neills.

As you say, very few problems with transport - only a 20 min delay on outbound train (we weren't rushing) and we were able to find a taxi on Sunday morning (driven by Bernard Manning) without a problem other than the huge crack in his windscreen!

Glad we never spent any longer in Nimes. Avignon was lovely however - a tour around the Palais des Papes on the Saturday morning was followed by lunch and some "degustation" at Le Vin Devant Soi.

I believe the Wakefield fan did indeed make it back - Pretty sure it's him that has posted on a 'rival' forum.

Yeah our stand wasn't that full, particularly at the front, however the upper and lower sections were seperate, and I couldn't see a way of getting from one part to the other without risking serious injury!

See you next year!!