Under-21 Euro 2021 Qualifying

BohsinMunich wrote: The should have contacted SD44.

Hah, maybe.

horsebox wrote: Paulie wrote: Even before all this I doubt we were chartering flights, and definitely not for the u21's. Comparing us to Germany and England is just ridiculous. Having said that, you'd have thought it would be possible to do it in 4 flights. The headline is a little mis-leading. 2 flights over to Armenia is not too bad. 3 on the way back is a little OTT in fairness and should have been avoided.

It's the other way around. Three over (Dublin - London - Kiev - Yerevan) and two back (Yerevan - Moscow - Dublin).

However, it should be noted that a decent number of the squad play in England as it is, within easy reach of London. I'm not sure how many will be over to Dublin before the international break and how many will simply meet up in the airport in London. That would seem to be the sensible option.

If the majority of the players are taking two flights to Yerevan and two flights from there to Dublin, it isn't the worst imposition in the world. It might not be ideal but it's not a disaster. If the options are Ryanair from England to Dublin and a charter from Dublin to Yerevan, or a connecting flight on a commercial airline via Kiev, there isn't a huge amount of difference.

Is the correct answer. There's certainly one flight too many in this case, but spare the outrage, there probably isn't all that many international U21 teams flying via charter. 

This isn't as unusual as it's made out to be, coming back from Kazachstan, several of us were on the same commercial flight as their senior team as far as Istanbul- they were going onward toward Sweden if I recall correctly. Not sure about their FA, but Kazachstan as a country is awash with Gas money. Many of us will have seen the Nordie U21's on their way out of, or back to Dublin in recent years too, depending on where they were off to, they certainly don't fly via charter either. 

Our own senior team's plane had a refuelling stop in Germany (Cologne I think) on the way back from Georgia in 2017- D'Fai couldn't afford to charter a plane with a longer range to fly direct back to Ireland on that occasion. 

Maybe himself and the other lads aren't arsed about traveling out to Armenia via 10 flights and can u blame them