The Wales road to Euro 2016 thread - featuring the best British midfielder (and Gareth Bale)

[Confused Clarity]

Its going to rain?

[chopra_hill]

Can't wait now.

Booked the interrail train earlier. £130 odd for 4 days unlimited travel which should be sufficient. All becoming real!

[Confused Clarity]

Hah. I need to sort out a hotel in Bilbao for the night after the flight over there and then figure how we're getting from Bilbao to Bordeaux. Should be good fun.

Looking forward to actually staying in the camp really, because think we'll get to interact with people a lot more as it's just the two of us.

Will have to make sure i've got all your numbers so that we can meet up.

[merry_miller]

Presume you all know there's more tickets on sale today ? Currently showing tickets available for Wales v Slovakia & Northern Ireland v Ukraine out of the home nations.

[Welshace]

Lawrence won't go... not if the manager has anything to say about it.

[pengedragon]

Wales' full 29-man provisional squad

Goalkeepers: Wayne Hennessey, Danny Ward, Owain Fon Williams.

Defenders: Ashley Williams, James Chester, Ben Davies, James Collins, Chris Gunter, Adam Matthews, Neil Taylor, Adam Henley, Paul Dummett, Ashley Richards.

Midfielders: Joe Ledley, Joe Allen, David Vaughan, Emyr Huws, Jonathan Williams, David Edwards, George Williams, Aaron Ramsey, Andy King.

Strikers: David Cotterill, Hal Robson-Kanu, Tom Lawrence, Simon Church, Sam Vokes, Wes Burns, Tom Bradshaw.

[pengedragon]

So assuming Bale is picked 7 of those have to drop out

Matthews, Henley, Vaughan, Edwards, Burns, Lawrence, Church for me, although I expect Cookie to take Church over Bradshaw

[Confused Clarity]

Any of you lot collecting the Wales Road to the Euros stickers?

[pengedragon]

The panini book?

[Confused Clarity]

Yeah, not the tournament one, i've not started that one yet, the Wales one with all the squad in and stuff.

[pengedragon]

Finished one and got a handful left to get in my boy's one. Loads of doubles if you're after any

[chopra_hill]

Is anyone concerned as to why we only have one friendly in the build up to the tournament? Presume he'll play pretty much a different XI for the first and second half against Sweden but that means over half the players will have had about 45 mins of match action in 5 weeks by the time we play in Bordeaux.

[Confused Clarity]

I'll post the ones I need tonight then

If you check what ones your boy needs, i'll see if I have any too.

Swapsies \o/

[pengedragon]

Is anyone concerned as to why we only have one friendly in the build up to the tournament? Presume he'll play pretty much a different XI for the first and second half against Sweden but that means over half the players will have had about 45 mins of match action in 5 weeks by the time we play in Bordeaux.

Nah, worked ok before the Belgium game this time last year, I'm sure there will be a training game as well. They've been pretty good on preparation so I back them to get it right again

[Rob1981]

Finished one and got a handful left to get in my boy's one. Loads of doubles if you're after any

So glad ours isn't the only household running two Panini albums.

[pengedragon]

So glad ours isn't the only household running two Panini albums.

Ha, got to be done

[pengedragon]

Absolutely gutted for Ledley, everything crossed he can make it

Debut in 2007, he must be sick at the thought of missing out

[Confused Clarity]

Oh that's gutting. Really hope that he has John Cena style quick healing.

[Confused Clarity]

Penge, do you have 4 Panini albums on the go then?

2 Wales ones

2 Euro 2016 ones?

[chopra_hill]

Gutted for Ledley. Pinnacle of his career playing in an FA Cup Final against Man Utd and then the euros and it's been taken away from him. Don't think there's a hope in hell he makes it but could be wrong.

[Confused Clarity]

So Wales Stickers -

I need:

4, 8, 9, 10, 12, 19, 24, 26, 30, 34, 37, 39, 53, 54, 68, 73, 75, 76, 77, 88, 102, 103, 106, 109, 113, 119, 120, 127, 128, 129, 130, 134, 137, 148, 151, 152, 155, 157, 159,165, 184, 185, 190, 193, 194, 202.

If you have any of them, i'll love you.

Let me know the ones the boy needs and i'll check for you.

[chopra_hill]

Made the mistakes of listening to the Manics' song and after four plays and watching the video of players bouncing around and clips from this campaign and past campaigns, it is safe to say I won't be getting much work done today.

4 weeks

[pengedragon]

Got to work before it was released so haven't heard it yet, probably for the best

I'll check tonight Gregg

[pengedragon]

the bbc wales trail is a bit good as well

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36268160

[Confused Clarity]

Watched the BBC trailer, it made me smile.

Then I watched the Manics song & now I've got tears streaming down my face.

[Confused Clarity]

Here's the Manics song for those who haven't seen it

[video=youtube;PmHnnkzgjCI]

[Confused Clarity]

Whoever starts the Wales thread on the Euro2016 forum (i am assuming we'll have one), make sure you include both videos in the OP.

[chopra_hill]

No point having one Gregg. The whole ****ing country will be out there :D

[Confused Clarity]

They have the Interweb in France Paul.

[chopra_hill]

£3 a day !!

[Confused Clarity]

Bordeaux has free wifi

[pengedragon]

I've switched to 3, can use your allowance in France no extra charge

[Confused Clarity]

stickers!!!!!!

[pengedragon]

So Wales Stickers -

I need:

4, 8, 9, 10, 12, 19, 24, 26, 30, 34, 37, 39, 53, 54, 68, 73, 75, 76, 77, 88, 102, 103, 106, 109, 113, 119, 120, 127, 128, 129, 130, 134, 137, 148, 151, 152, 155, 157, 159,165, 184, 185, 190, 193, 194, 202.

If you have any of them, i'll love you.

Let me know the ones the boy needs and i'll check for you.

I've got fifteen of those for you. Let me have your address and I'll get them in the post

Still looking for 20,28,29,68,81,87,124,126,128,137,139,141,147,148,149,153,158,190,197,204

[Rob1981]

Anybody still got WC2014 sticker albums to complete? Literally got a shoe box full of swaps.

[Confused Clarity]

I've got 8 of the ones you need Chris. Will message you in the morning to swap details.

[Ville]

Liking the song. Always been a big Manics fan. Wasn't Nicky Wire decent youth footballer? Guess I have to support Wales in the Euros now.

[Confused Clarity]

So, Ummm, Camp Ninja sent me an email two weeks ago that went into my Spam Folder & I've only just seen it, they've had to cancel our accommodation due to the increased levels of security from the French Authorities.

Anybody got spare rooms for 2 people & a car parking space in Bordeaux from 9th - 13th June? If it needs to be the 10th, I can always find somewhere else to stay on the 9th.

Thanks all!

[pengedragon]

this might be worth a try to see if they still have room, copied from elsewhere

If you are really struggling for a place to stay, you might want to try the SECOND official Youth Hostel.

This one is about 12km North West of town and about 7km from the stadium.

Its only 5 minutes away from Blanquefort station.

The prices are excellent and all prices are for PRIVATE ROOMS incl breakfast:

Chambre simple : 35.50€

Chambre double : 51.50€

Chambre Triple : 72€

Chambre Quadruple: 94€

Otellia

67 rue Maurian

33290 Blanquefort

Tél. : 05 56 35 55 55

See this www.otellia.fr/nos-tarifs#hebergement

[Confused Clarity]

Thanks dude, but looks like they dont have rooms now.

[bluebirds4life]

Euro's forum where we don't need to be frequent in the ABE thread \o/

You tried air bnb Gregg?

[chopra_hill]

Hopefully this thread can get moved over so after we win the thing we can read back from where it all began.

[Heartwork]

You just have to remove the "road to" bit from the title then. That might be why mods have overlooked it so far.

[pengedragon]

Yeah be good if we could carry it on here

[Confused Clarity]

Wouldn't it be better to have a new one especially for the Euros? It'd be a nice change.

[Confused Clarity]

Euro's forum where we don't need to be frequent in the ABE thread \o/

You tried air bnb Gregg?

Sorted now mate. Though now paranoid I've made the wrong choice.

Thanks though .

[Confused Clarity]

Actually, thinking about, it, it'd be nice to have the one thread right through from Qualification to champions!

[Confused Clarity]

So excited.

[bluebirds4life]

Read through this whole thread!

WE QUALIFIED

[Confused Clarity]

It's amusing seeing our pessimism early on and how some of us held on to it throughout.