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  1. 36 minutes ago, daviebee said:

    Patterson needs a session with a sports psychologist to get his head back in the game. If he's performing like that in training at his club then it's no wonder he's not in the team. Where did the brash, confident player that's in there go? He looked great when he first broke into the team.

    Funny how quickly things change.  Not that long ago we were wondering how we could fit any combo of Hickey, Patterson and Ramsay into the team as they'd all be too good to leave out.

    Is the current version of Nathan Patterson - as witnessed last night - worth persisting with?

    Barring catastrophic injuries to Coleman and Godfrey, he won't be seeing Everton's first team again this season. His inclusion in the Euro 24 squad is therefore tenuous at best. In the absence of first team action to improve his sharpness, how can his inclusion even be considered?

  2. 18 minutes ago, YesTA said:

    Aye, you can't been a paper ticket compared to this electronic pish!

    This in spades.

    Not looking forward to the inevitable technological....ehm...hiccups at Hampden on the 26th.

  3. Chose standard postage - pleased to confirm it was delivered in Glasgow an hour ago.

    No idea why the SFA have chosen to cut it so fine with the whole ticket sale and distribution process for this game.

  4. 2 hours ago, Fairbairn said:

    It was 100% a penalty. It’s not even close to being debatable. 

    Fairbairn, I respect you as one of the most balanced posters on this site. However, what would your view of that incident had been if that got given against your own team, or against your son in an amateur game?

    That's the metric I use when I judge these things. Frankly, I preferred it in the 70s when I was growing up playing the game. You had to assassinate somebody in the box before a ref would give a penalty in those days.

    That award today was pathetic, but it is indicative of how refereeing standards have been straitjacketed by inflexible rules and procedures that leave no room for interpretation.

    See last week's series of nonsense decisions at Tynecastle for further evidence.

  5. The people responsible for administering the SSC are no longer fit for purpose.

    38,000 members x £45 = £1.7million

    Their communications are so full of holes and errors. Even when they do deign to communicate, it is shockingly inept.

    The SSC membership must demand better that this substandard level of service. The SSC administration promote a service that they manifestly fail to provide.

     

  6. Here are several basic (and hopefully common-sense) proposals to improve procedures and practices here below. Perhaps WESTA/Hamish Husband could consider tabling these at their next summit meeting with the SFA.

    Home match packages

    - Match packages should contain competitive games only (qualifiers/Nations League/play-offs). No bundling of friendlies into packages.

    - Match packages should build in a tangible discount for SSC members. Otherwise what's the advantage to members of paying a lump some several months in advance of the fixtures? Has to be win-win for SSC members as well as the SFA.

    Friendlies

    - Tickets for home friendlies should be sold separately and individually, and priced at less than competitive games. 

    Away games

    - Information on the negotiations and sale of away tickets must be both timeous and informative; 'in due course' is not sufficient as an update (the ongoing Netherlands friendly is a glaring example of how not to do it).

    - No additional so-called 'administration fees' for away ticket pick-up. These are operational costs which are the SFA's responsibility as part of the service to the SSC membership

    SSC communications

    - In general, the clarity and information provided in SSC communications need to be clearer, more complete and more informative to the SSC membership. For example, the recent communications about the new ticketing system were lacking on all three fronts.

    - Ticketing information should be e-mailed as standard to all SSC members. These communications should be classified  separately from marketing communications.

    - Marketing communications must be clearly differentiated from ticketing information and all members must be able to opt-out of marketing communications should they wish to do so.

    There will be other little procedures that could be tweaked for the benefit of SSC membership and SFA alike, however the above would be a start.

  7. 11 hours ago, BraveheartGordon said:

    Contacted the SSC e-mail about the favourite seat function to be told it’s not available anymore.

    Pretty unhappy about this, have had the same seats for a number of campaigns including games against Kazakhstan, San Marino when the crowd was sparse at best 

    Just makes no sense and has needlessly annoyed me 

    The absence of any advance notice of this 'enhancement' or any explanation of the reasoning behind it ahead of the launch of the new system once again exposes the lack of consideration from the SFA for the SSC membership. It's a material change by any standard.

    Alongside the absence of any explanation for the extended delay in announcing the sale of Netherlands tickets, this does not show their attention to detail to be anything close to adequate.

  8. 1 hour ago, mwng said:

    The reason he is not going is he’s going to a gig which he’ll no doubt need his phone for too🤦‍♂️

    Lovely.

    Technology.

    Could never for the benefit of the consumer, could it?

    Given the shit technology we've lived through at Hampden lately, maybe Hamish and his wonderful crew at WESTA could exert influence on the SFA to reintroduce paper tickets for the benefit of the membership. Because this already has all the makings of a shitshow and then some on 25th March.

  9. 1 hour ago, vanderark14 said:

    The wins makes last week harder to take. We'd have a shot at a slam had that gone our way

    Only ourselves to blame for that one.

    Finn Russell (or whoever was deciding these things) gambling for 7 points twice when 3 free points were on offer against France cost us badly in the final analysis.

    Contrast that with today's decisions in three similar circumstances.

  10. 22 minutes ago, dan cake said:

    Security will come into it I’d imagine, with the SFA controlling the resale of the ticket they’ll be able to know exactly who’s in the stadium plus they’ll be charging a handling fee

    UEFA manage to do ticket resales very straightforwardly without any 'handling fee'.

    That's the standard the SSC should be seeking to achieve.

    Their willingness to charge so-called 'handling fees' in Lille and Tbilisi to a membership that has already paid for administration support through their membership fees does not give confidence that a UEFA style approach to common sense will be implemented anytime soon for the benefit of the 38,000 membership.

     

  11. 11 minutes ago, TDYER63 said:

    I thought it was only away tickets that weren’t transferable. I cant see any benefit whatsoever in enforcing this if they are. Seats lying empty. when there is a queue of folk wanting a ticket . There are various reasons people cant go to a game, many of them unforeseen. Are folk just supposed to be left with a ticket ?  If they are doing this then I would hope they provide a sell back facility. Its one thing bring left with a ticket as no one wants to buy it. Its another to be left with it because you have no way of passing it on. Its not like Hampden has suddenly been overrun with mad bams using second hand tickets. 

    Exactly this.

    Tying people into a five match package, 3 of which are more than 6 months into the future. Nobody knows what their priorities may be come game time. There may even be some no longer around to have the option of attending.

    Bought in good faith, should be able to transfer in good faith if personal circumstances necessitate it. Same as concert tickets and 6 nations tickets. Another case of common sense losing out to the so-called convenience of technology.

  12. 1 hour ago, Orraloon said:

    This is going to be an absolute shambles. It's quite impressive how the SFA manage to continue to have a seemingly never ending conveyor belt of useless dafties running the show. 

    Not only are they leaving everything to the last minute (again) in installing a "new system", but they are telling US that we need  "to ensure your account is set-up correctly". 

    What do we pay them to do? They have all our information already. Why don't they make sure it's set up correctly for us????

    Your bank/broadband/utility providers manage to successfully migrate to new systems without ever asking the customer 'to ensure your account is set-up correctly', and they have multiple more accounts to administer than the SSC.

    Whoever is signing off on SSC customer communications these days needs their backside booted up and down Carmunnock Road.

  13. 12 hours ago, Fairbairn said:

    Well there are 13 errors that they're admitting to in that report alone.  That one just stood out to me due to the amount of opportunities they had to get it right before finally admitting it was wrong (when it's far too late).  I actually feel sorry for the ref who got it right first time and was then put in a position where he is doubting his decision and sent down the wrong path.

    This.

  14. 10 hours ago, thesaint said:

    Agree.No excuse for this nonsense.Really feel that the sfa quite often fail to push our fans case.Seem quite happy for this to be dragged out.It's a friendly for heavens sake.The Netherlands must know by now how many tickets they are going to give us.For f..ks it's time the sfa grew a pair and demanded them to let us know how many we are getting.Otherwise what is the point  of the supporters club if they are not there to fight on our behalf.

    £50 x 35,000 members = £1.75 million is the point for the SFA.

    Unfortunately for the membership, that comes with no guarantees of satisfactory service.

  15. 3 hours ago, Grim Jim said:

    Football's life and death, and rugby is a game for me, but I'm raging at that.

    Earlier, I was very disappointed that we didn't pick up points during their yellow card.   We always seem to lose 7 minimum.   I can understand going for the 2nd scrum, as we were a man up and France were in danger of getting a 2nd yellow from consecutive penalties, but I wanted the safe 3pts just to stretch the lead before HT.

    Absolutely this.

    What is this obsession for gambling for 7 points when 3 points are being offered on a plate?

    The time to gamble on 7 is in the last quarter of the game if you are behind.

    Certainly not when you are in the first half with a free opportunity to add to your lead.

  16. Just now, Sempre said:

    Now would be a good time to send round the emails advertising the price of membership is going up.

    More likely they'll send an e-mail charging us 3 quid per game for issuing new codes 'to cover operational costs'.

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