The 8 venues are listed below. Strangely enough games will take place in two different timezones
Group one will include Poland and all games will be in Wroclaw and Warsaw
Group two’s games will be in Lviv and Kharkiv
Grouo three’s games will be in Gdansk and Poznon
While Group four will contain Ukraine and be in Kiev and Donetsk
Presume that the seedings will go along the following lines
Pot one: Poland, Ukraine, Spain, Holland
Pot two: Germany, Russia, England, Italy
Pot three: Portugal, France, Greece, Croatia
Pot four: Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, Czech Republic
Obviously enough i have guessed the winners of the play offs and I presume that pots three and four could well change depending on who makes it through or fails to make it
My mate has a house in Poland and said I can stay free of charge as long as I like. Probably give it a miss tho and head to Santa ponsa with the misses.
What is the publc transport like in Poland and approxiamtely how long would it take to get from one host city to another - Wroclaw to Warsaw and Gdansk to Poznán
Don’t think it is going to affect the overall quality enormously. Take the best 6 half a dozen countries out of it and there is not all that much between the next 20 or so in Europe. If you were to take the 12 who have already qualified along with the 8 teams in the play offs and add for arguements sake Belgium, Serbia, Norway and AN Other you are hardly diluting the quality significantly. Especially when you see some of the dross from Oceania, Central America, Africa and Asia that have qualified for WC’s
How will it work with 24 teams though, will it be 8 groups of three, with the top two progessing to the last 16?
Agreed larry, i made this point a while back that the Euros are always a tougher competition than the World Cup, before getting shouted down my some quarters…
Dublin - Gdansk is almost the same distance as Gdansk - Donetsk. by my reckoning.
Flights in around €150 to Wroclaw at present. Not bad at all, but probably end up costing you more if we’re not based there * should you factor in internal travel.
I reckon that for long journeys the train is the best way to travel. Poland is a big country. Motorways are in the process of being ahem built so quality of roads is variable. Here is an idea of driving distances and times:
Wroclaw - Warszawa 350km 5 hrs 24 mins (lots of roadworks at moment will probably be ready).
Gdansk - Warszawa 344km 5 hrs 06 mins (good road now)
Poznan - Warszawa 319 km 4 hrs 00 mins (good road now)
Poznan - Gdansk 299 km 4hrs 04 mins. (cross country variable roads)
The drink driving limit is effectively zero. If someone was to drive over you could make a good holiday out of it and take in towns along the routes. But I would advise the train.
