Dalgety Bay TA

Ok, cheers. So more police, more arrests, more convictions, banning orders, less chance of nuggets turning up as some will be banned and others won't fancy the chance of a ban.

If the police feel they can't control the number of away fans in that section of the ground then the allocation should have been cut before now, going on the reports from the last few games at Tynecastle. Not that I am an expert on policing of football matches but I thought police did an assessment of games and had to give their agreement for games to actually go ahead? If so then they have obviously not done their job correctly in estimating the amount of officers required to control the away end at these games. I am not trying to shift any blame here. There can be no justification for smashing up seats, toilets, graffiti etc and if anyone is doing so they need dealt with, through the courts. If the police feel they can't actually catch the people doing this with their current resources, they need to put more officers in there. Everyone knew Hearts Celtic would be a dodgy game based on previous games, apart from, it seems, the police. Celtic are in a difficult position. They should be condemning the bad behaviour. But they are pretty much powerless to act on it en masse and the only people they can act on in this instance are the 5 who have been arrested. They could refuse tickets for the next game at Tynecastle, but that punishes all fans, not just the nuggets. If the police had greater numbers in, allowing them to control the Roseburn properly, arrested all those that they saw breaking the law, gave Celtic the details to allow them to start banning them from Parkhead and hopefully they ended up with banning orders from all grounds then the next time Celtic are there the nuggets wouldn't be as quick to act up if they were aware that 50/60/70 people received banning orders for being @rseholes the last time. The longer they are allowed to get away with this with no real risk of punishment, the worse it will get.

I would have also added that he may have felt that he had a responsibility to at least keeping a fans eye on the goings on within Rangers but I think its now obvious that he is powerless to influence any of that. Smith realised that pretty soon and baled rather than stick around and become increasingly fecked off at what was happening. McCoist may be keeping an eye on it but he doesn't have the influence to change any of it.

I wouldn't hold out much hope for that happening given whats happened in the last few fixtures at Tynecastle. If the police can arrest people smashing up seats or toilets then they are going to struggle to control anything else IMO. I suppose it could cut down on the number of Celtic nuggets attending but no guarantee it would do the same for Hearts.

I think McCoist still must think he has it in him to successfully manage Rangers despite what the last 2 1/2 seasons have shown. I also think he feels he would be in some way betraying them if he did walk out, after his whole "don't do walking away" stance at the start of Div 2. Where as he would actually be doing them a favour by resigning.

Did that mean Hearts had some of the Roseburn and so did Rangers? Surely taking that course of action for a future Hearts v Celtic game would just increase the potential for problems as it would give the chance for both sets of wingnuts to get closer to each other in the stadium?

I quite like how the user posting that vine is Charles Green RFC, probably seemed a good idea at the time!

This is the series based on the book/film. As DiL said, it really is a superb series, well worth a watch.

Friday night we were stuck on London Road from about 10 to 10.45, a very slow crawl back to the motorway turn off. However that was in a bus which didn't leave the Emirates bus park until 10pm. If you are in a car you could probably be away quicker.

Lad on our bus said a Scotland fan was getting a fair kicking of about 4 Irish in the corner bit. Other lads on the bus mentioned some scuffles in the ground.

They gave them what was the required allocation in the first place. I don't know what the FAI did at that point, if they protested, tried to negotiate for more etc but it wasn't until tickets were already on sale to general public that the FAI did actually came back and asked for more tickets. At that point they couldn't be given an increased allocation as tickets for the section next to their end had already been sold. The FAI also didn't help by not allocating tickets to Irish fans until a few weeks ago, again after the public sale was already started, meaning Irish fans in doubt would always take the insurance of a home end ticket. And proved to be a correct decision for them giving how I believe the Irish FA actually allocated their tickets. I can't understand why, at the start of ticket negotiations, when the SFA said "We will give you 5%/3,000 tickets" then the FAI didn't either ask for more or request that a further section be kept for them pending sale of the initial allocation. It doesn't take a comet landing rocket scientist to figure out that Ireland would always bring more than 3,000 fans to a competitive game in Scotland.

Nothing from Dalgety Bay mate.

I only relented late on for Georgia because it was a Saturday home game. I am only going to this game because I have friends who are making the journey from Italy to attend, including one who will be going to his first ever Scotland game, so I will be going with them. After that I won't be at any other home games this campaign, competitive or friendly.

Definitely the most pished TA I have ever seen. I think we bought 3 bottles of vodka going thru Stansted for match day in case the ban was enforced.

One from Dalgety Bay with pick up in Rosyth, leaving Fife 5.45pm. Drop offs in Rosyth Bay and Dunfermline after game.

No they wouldn't. A mate of mine bought 6 extra tickets via SSC season ticket offer. All for Irish friends. With the agreement they will do likewise for us when we go across to Ireland.

The Serbs were only willing to allow Albanians in who actually had an Albanian address. The idea was to block the hardliners from Kosovo attending the game. I would say that they were the ones most likely to "kick off" but that's probably only by a very small margin!

No worries, cheers.

My mate bought an extra 6 tickets last week or week afore using 3 of our crowds SSC memberships. The 3 he used all have season tickets so possibly only open to season ticket holders?

I will take it, have a mate looking for 1.

They were. 2 extra tickets per member were offered.

Considering there is a 90 minute wait to login into the SSC website at the moment, I would think they will be more then "dotted" all over the stadium. I don't think that wait is being caused by Scotland fans demand for tickets on the back of a draw in Poland.

Hungary. They played Romania at the weekend. Bulgaria played Croatia in Sofia. They had a 5 min spat of flinging flares at each other during the game, think it was suspended for a short time.

Didn't take them long http://imageshack.com/a/img538/9779/F07Eho.jpg http://imageshack.com/a/img908/853/Jdcxf3.jpg