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  1. I paid £350 for the Wembley ticket. But it's a lot less stressful when you're dealing with a genuine Tartan Army member rather than a random ticket agency. That's the route I will end up going if needs be, but thought I'd try my luck on here before I resort to that.
  2. Yeah, appreciate there's a high chance of being scammed which is why I'd much rather deal with someone on here. The electronic tickets was the same for Euro 2020 and them being directly on individuals' phones - but there's ways around how to solve this (although there needs to be trust involved). I remember seeing couriers with cases of money (James Bond style) offering Scotland fans crazy amounts for their ticket for the Brazil match in Paris in 1998 - so I know what it'll be like. Everybody is different though, and money has a different value to people. Some choose to spend crazy amounts on cars, designer clothes or alcohol - I'm happy to do without any of them and would much rather be in the stadium when the National anthems are playing.
  3. Am looking for a ticket for the opening match. I won't bore you with the background - I'm a genuine supporter who hasn't missed a tournament match since 1992, and not prepared to miss this one. Happy to pay well over the odds if anyone would rather have a load of beer tokens than be inside the stadium. Appreciate 99.9% of supporters wouldn't sell for any price - but if you don't ask, you don't get! Will take any category of ticket, and happy to pay higher if needs be.
  4. It's interesting to see the European teams who's Team-Specific ticket packages have sold out on the FIFA website (Belgium, England, France, Germany, Portugal, Serbia & Spain). There are only 7-match packages available for Scotland. Rather embarrassingly for Wales (who claim to have a great support), they are one of only three European teams which all ticket packages are still available (North Macedonia and Ukraine being the other two).
  5. I took the plunge earlier and ordered the Team Specific Scotland tickets... Congratulations! You are on your way! Thank you for purchasing tickets to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 . Expensive, but probably cheaper than the tout prices I had to pay to watch our three Euro final games...
  6. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_–_UEFA_Second_Round
  7. These sites are all dodgy as .... I don't understand how this secondary ticket market actually works, but I know from speaking to them that they don't actually own any of the tickets that they advertise. I asked if they would immediately electronically transfer the ticket to my phone as soon as payment was made - and they said that they can't guarantee they'd do this until one day before the match. That means they don't have the ticket, and I'm not sure where they think they'll get these tickets from. They tried to bullsh1t me saying that this is because UEFA won't let them or some rubbish, but I explained that I already knew it only takes seconds if they actually owned the tickets (because I paid for Czech Republic and Croatia tickets like this and got the tickets minutes after making the payment). The big difference with those two games was that I was dealing with actual real individuals, who genuinely owned the ticket and had it available for transfer. So I'm not touching these dodgy sites with a barge-pole. No way I'm waiting until the day before the Wembley game to find out whether they've failed to find a ticket, and basically scammed me. Not at the prices they are charging. So if anyone is willing to sell a non-SFA ticket (i.e from the UEFA ballot) for any amount - please pm me
  8. Thought I'd also give it one last try on here before I take the plunge and line the pocket of some dodgy ticket tout, and risk being seriously scammed! I'm looking for a UEFA ballot ticket for the England v Scotland match, and will pay £750. The ticket has to be a non-named one (i.e.not a Scotland Supporters Club assigned one). I know it's highly unlikely, but if anyone does know of a spare - then you'd make an old man very happy by firing me a pm
  9. I am resigned to going down this route as well I’m afraid. The bottom line is that I currently don’t have enough points to guarantee me a Czech Republic (or Croatia) ticket, so was also looking for any help / pointers of reliable ticket agencies (if there is such a thing). I am happy to pay well over the odds for a ticket (£300+), and would obviously prefer to pay for the next couple of Season Tickets for a fellow Scotland supporter than line the pockets of a tout – but I appreciate there’s not a chance that anyone on here would entertain the thought of sacrificing their ticket for any amount of cash! I did eventually manage to get a Brazil v Scotland ticket in 1998, but only after a lot of grief and hassle when the ticket agency company (that I’d paid nine months earlier) failed to deliver. I was also wondering if anyone has had any success using any of the 3rd Party Ticket Sales companies. There are clearly a lot of dodgy ones out there, and it’s a route I’m not particularly comfortable going down – but I’d rather try and be let-down, than sit at home and miss out on my first tournament match since the CIS match in 1992. With no physical tickets being issued, I’m not sure if names are going to be linked with ticket orders and if there will be ID checks made on entering the stadium. But this is a risk I’m willing to take, which may end up in me spending a lot of money and not getting to see the game anyway. But I’d rather try and then at least I know I’ve done everything that I could have to try and be there cheering the team.
  10. Scotland will DEFINITELY be in the League C Play-Off’s because Nations League Group winners cannot ‘form a path with a team from a higher league' They draw the Play-Off paths, starting with League D and working up to League A So if they groups were finished now, the teams would be allocated as follows… League D Georgia, North Macedonia, Kosovo & Belarus (no changes as none of these teams are currently qualifying automatically, so the same four Nations League group winners) League C Scotland, Norway, Serbia & Bulgaria (who would replace Finland if they qualify automatically) League B Bosnia and Herzogovina, Austria, Wales & Israel (next League C ranked team because no other League B teams are currently failing to qualify) League A Netherlands, Switzerland, Iceland & Hungary (who are the next League C ranked team because no other League A & B teams are currently failing to qualify) It is the teams who are highlighted blue on the attached link who currently occupy the sixteen Play-Off spots.. Current Play-Off Spot Holders
  11. Don’t get me wrong, I have never liked players pulling out of squads. I agree that they should all be desperate to play for their country. But that’s because we’d all run through a brick wall to be privileged enough to pull on the shirt. But I think the last thing that we need at the moment is to start singling out individuals and hounding them out of the national set-up. The last time we did that Gary McAllister proved quite a few punters wrong by moving to Liverpool and winning a treble! I think it sucks that players pull out of the national squad, but this is no new thing. The problem is – no-one genuinely knows the reasons behind each individual withdrawal because the communications in the media have been so vague. Perhaps some of the withdrawals were merited, so it’s dangerous making assumptions and then targeting these individuals for abuse. Had we gone to Kazakhstan and taken the three points – this probably wouldn’t even be getting talked about.
  12. I agree – a lot of modern day footballer’s attitude sucks. But a lot of that is to do with society today (political correctness and all that bollocks) and also the amount of money the top players get paid at such an early stage. I genuinely don’t think the old-school style of management (hair-dryer treatment / kicking teapots around the dressing room) would have the same affect with today’s modern player. They all seem to need the ‘arm-round-the-shoulder’ treatment. The modern managers (like Guardiola and Klopp) put a strong emphasis on creating a bond with their players, because they realise that it’s much more likely that they get positive results if they have eleven guys on the park who are willing to run through a brick wall for you. Psychology and motivational man-management (getting the best out of the players at your disposal) is in my opinion even more important than what formation you set up with. I think this is why old-school management style (it’s my way or the highway) – such as Jose Mourinho’s recent disastrous spell at Man Utd was because he refused to pander to his prima donna’s. His solution to the Pogba dilemma was to stick him the stands (to show him who was boss). But we all know how the story ended. And the very same players look like an entirely different side with a different manager (and management style being used). But unfortunately, the modern day is primarily about money. A lot of these guys playing in the Championship earn more in a couple of weeks than most of us do in a year. And currently whether you like to admit it or not – playing for Scotland right now, is not very glamourous. The thought of travelling across six time zones and playing two low-key games which were both banana-skins probably didn’t appeal to a lot of the prima donna’s. I have no doubt that if they had been the last two games in our Qualifying group and we needed six points to qualify for the finals of a tournament, then there wouldn’t have been one call-off. Everyone would have been available and no-one would have minded playing on an artificial surface. But would it really benefit us as a team to bin these guys who pick and choose when they’re available for selection? I don’t like it, but I’d rather keep as many of the guys who play at the top level available for whenever we can get them. What is needed is to make the squad an enjoyable place. So that guys are looking forward to turning up regardless of who the opposition is and where the game is played. You want everyone to look forward to being involved with Scotland (not dread the thought and worry about the consequences of another bad result), you need to work on the team-building, and take the fear out of playing for our national side. Happy footballers tend to play better as a rule. And I don’t see a happy Scotland camp just now and as a result, I don’t think it’s any co-incidence that there are so many mysterious absentees.
  13. The Play-Off draw will take place on 22nd November 2019 and this will confirm which 16 teams will contest the four semi-final's. The team seeded 1st will play the 4th seeded team at home in the semi-final and the team seeded 2nd will play the 3rd seeded team at home in the other semi. The draw will also take place at the same time to determine which team gets home advantage in the final. The extra places in League A, B and perhaps C (if Serbia finish 2nd) will be taken by the highest rank team who has not qualified via the groups. Watch this 1min 41 sec video and hopefully it will all be crystal clear!!! Euro 2020 Play-Off for Dummies
  14. Apologies for further complicating this thread, but I spent about two hours yesterday trying to fully understand how this Play-Off process works because I wanted to understand what happens to the League A play-off place seeing as most (if not all) of those twelve teams which competed in the Nations League will almost certainly finish in the Top 2 places of their Euro 2020 Qualifying groups (therefore they automatically won’t take part in the Play-Off games in March 2020). The only team I think may struggle to finish in the Top 2 of their Qualifying group is Iceland. I believe all four teams who finished top of their Leagues in Section A and B will finish in the top two of their respective groups – so there will be quite a lot of replacement teams going into the Play-Off’s. I predict there’ll be five teams ‘promoted’ from the League B runners-up spots and two teams from the League C runners-up spots that actually take the places of the current play-off spot holders. The current Play-off games are as follows, with a more realistic prediction of who’ll replace the teams I believe will qualify in the top two spots in their own prospective Qualifying Leagues… League A Portugal (Iceland) v Switzerland (Romania) Netherlands (Czech Republic) v England (Hungary) League B Sweden (Austria) v Denmark (Northern Ireland) Ukraine (Wales) v Bosnia and Herzegovina (Republic of Ireland) League C Scotland v Finland Serbia v Norway League D Belarus v Georgia FYR Macedonia v Kosovo All will become crystal clear on 22nd November 2019 when the draw for the Play-off’s takes place. Until then, the Play-Off line-up will chop and change depending on who is occupying the two top spots in the Qualifying Groups. This thread is therefore going to be quite long if the intention is to keep it going throughout the Qualifying campaign! For those who are still struggling to understand how the Play-Off’s are going to work – here is 1min 41sec video that explains the process… Euro 2020 Play-Off Process
  15. Hi Reggie thanks for the info, I am really looking for two tickets together, i know beggars cant be choosers but im take my old man with me on this trip.

     

    Cheers

    Eric

    1. Reggie

      Reggie

      No probs buddy - I hope you manage to track down two.

      All the best

      Reggie

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