Pre Season 2023

[sid1964]

is there a direct flight to Rennes from Birmingham or is it best to get to Paris and then get the train?

[ChicagoLion]

There is no way of knowing

[Marlon From Bearwood]

Thinking of driving to Rennes.

Never been, so not sure, but does anyone know much about getting a ferry to Cherbourg / St Malo, from somewhere like Bournemouth or Weymouth?

Or is Chunnel / Calais route still easier?

[Drummond]

Check the prices, its cheaper to do tunnel/calais but it's a fair old drive.

You could do overnight ferry to St Malo and then it's a shirt drive, cherbourg is OK too...

I wonder how easy tickets will be to get hold of...

[Border villan]

Was on holiday in France last time we played there when Ginola was in our team. Just “happened” to be in the area on the day, turned up at the ground in the morning and bought tickets for home supporters stand no problem.
Lots of assorted Brits on holiday were also at the match to watch an English side.

[Stu]

Hoping this will be on Sat 30th. Will be going to this with a bit of luck

[robbo1874]

Got my tickets for Leeds at Suncorp on the Sunday after about an hour of frustration on the ticketek website.

[Flin5tone]

Birmingham to Nantes would be the easiest,I imagine and then train just over an hour the following day

easyjet have flights under £100 fri-mon on that particular route

[olaftab]

As a latte-sipping, Chardonnay-swilling metropolitan Melbourne elitist, I look down on the rednecks and shitkickers in QLD and WA. Queensland is where bananas come from and WA is basically dirt that gets dug up and sent to China to be turned into useful things (the real sandgroper is a mole cricket, nature’s ugliest insect). Queensland is barely a generation past from being a fascist police state and WA is full of white South Africans who fled the tyranny of not being able to be c**ts any more.

Brilliant. You should write more on global travel destinations

[AV82EC]

Has this friendly in Rennes been announced officially yet?

[Flin5tone]

Officially announced now

6pm KO

[Drummond]

Aston Villa will play Walsall on Saturday, July 9 (1pm) while, after the club's tour of Australia, Steven Gerrard's squad will face off against Rennes on Saturday, July 30 (6pm). PL season will commence on August 6.

[darren woolley]

Walsall away set in stone.

[AV82EC]

Am quite tempted to look at options to get to Rennes. Nice little rail trip and I haven’t left Paris from Montparnasse before.

[Brazilian Villain]

Hoping this will be on Sat 30th. Will be going to this with a bit of luck

All I've seen on it points to it being on Sat. July 30th after Rennes have travelled to Glasgow to play a friendly at Ibrox.