AlfieMoon

Nah mate, that’s too easy to let them off the hook. There’s a list of things that need agreed to sign up to a friendly - potentially a contract agreement. The SFA are obviously just not prioritising this as part of their agreement/negotiations.

There’s really no excuse for the SFA not forcing the issue to get this shit sorted quicker for friendlies. I understand that the qualifiers are a different situation, but for friendlies this should be taken care of more or less as the fixture is announced. It’s ridiculous to have folk waiting 6 weeks out and not knowing what’s happening - especially for those on lower points who don’t know if they’ll get a ticket. It just smacks of not giving a fuck about travelling fans.

The info released suggests that if you buy the discounted DB rail tickets (which in theory anyone can), you will need to have a ‘Fan Pass’ in order for your DB rail tickets to be valid - assuming DB enforce that. From past experience, they can be stickler for the rules as I once had a run-in with a conductor for not having my payment card - as this was apparently required to be checked in order to validate my tickets. Anyway - In order to get a ‘Fan Pass’ you need to have a match ticket. So with that in mind, the 4 without tickets wouldn’t qualify for the discounted tickets. Details here: https://www.uefa.com/euro2024/event-guide/ticket-holders/ Good to know Your train ticket is only valid with your EURO 2024 Fan Pass. All ticket holders will have access to a Fan Pass for free. You will need to show your EURO 2024 Fan Pass when travelling on the train – just like a railcard. The DB Ticket EURO 2024 is non-refundable.

You would probably need to go to UEFA staff at the ground with some form of ID. My understanding is that to register (or transfer) to a new phone, you first need to log out of the UEFA app on your existing phone. So in the scenario of a lost phone, you’re not able to do that.

No probs. Any other questions, just let me know. The info on the seat61 rail blog site is very helpful as well. I’ve done a fair bit of looking into it. Some other trains like TGV (if travelling via Paris have supplements). Very much looking forward to our journey on the way out. Leaving Glasgow @ 6.30am and getting to Cologne @ 5.15pm (6.15CET) isn’t too bad at all. 🍺 I was originally going to travel back on the train as well, but by some miracle found a £70 flight back from Munich the day after the Hungary game.

Yes, it gives you free travel - with a few caveats. We booked a 15-day pass. We’re going Glasgow-London-Brussels-Cologne on day 1 (12th June). The Eurostar requires a supplement reservation €30 each way. Cross border trains into Germany also apparently have a mandatory seat reservation (€4.90) for our Brussels-Cologne leg. After that, we can hop around as and when we choose. Seat reservations may be advisable for the ICE trains, but not compulsory. Every journey you want a seat reservation is €4.90. There’s no other charges, regardless of how expensive the tickets are currently selling for.

Doesn’t look like it mate. Mannheim is nowhere near the travel zones. A quick google suggests that it’s not even in the Frankfurt travel zone and that’s your closest host city from what I can see.

I would guess the team will be in Munich on the Thursday to train on the pitch.

That makes sense as the reviews will be based on a whole mix of differing ticket systems. Some more secure than others. In terms of wanting the peace of mind of the ticket in your app before you travel - the unfortunate thing is that nobody knows for certain when UEFA will release the tickets. Estimates range from days to weeks before the games. Until that happens, nobody can transfer anything.

I can say from personal experience that if the seller on StubHub sent me a screenshot (and marked their tickets as delivered on the StubHub system), then I would know just to enter immediate dispute with StubHub. The transfer mechanism for these tickets is built in to the UEFA app and once the seller puts in your email address and hits Transfer, the recipient/buyer needs to accept the tickets, at which point you will become the only person that sees/owns them. If anyone had used the Transfer feature on ticketmaster recently, it’s the same concept. In short, anyone being sent a screenshot of a QR code for these tickets would be daft to go as far as trying to use it at a gate. They should have disputed it the moment they receive a QR code rather than an official ticket transfer via app.

Ah, sorry!

Westa are running a bus I’m sure.

Totally agree. It’s clear that the support base is desperate for a saviour striker, but getting carried away about guys like Conway when he’s not even featured in Clarke’s plans to date is a bit out there. Fair enough if Conway or maybe another couple of faces get a sniff in the March squad for Clarke to have a look, but it’ll take a lot break into his plans. As for Dykes - I like the big guy and think he doesn’t get enough credit. As Scottish strikers go as well, his goal scoring record isn’t bad.

Announced on social media channels recently by the SFA.

Disappointed I missed this yesterday. Happy for Sinner. Seems a likeable lad. Apparently had a chance at skiing as well but I imagine he’s made the right choice and a fair bit more money in the tennis!! Going to be an interesting next few years with Sinner, Alcaraz, Ruud, Rune and others jostling. In other news… Murray with another disappointing R1 loss tonight to Paire in Montpellier at an ATP250 event. Doesn’t look good.

I’m sure one of Wonky Sheep or Sport Options said that they’d looked at running single game trips and it ended up having to be an offering by Eurostar train for it to be economical. So didn’t sound like it there was anything promising in terms of say trips. I think that would be the companies to ask though if you want to check if they have anything in the pipeline.

I’ve sent you a PM mate 👍

Careful! The footnote does not mention those Berlin/Leipzig bordering networks VBB/MDV as being combined. The map is just showing it together because the are bordering. It only appears to be VRR/VRS as being combined as an exception. https://www.uefa.com/euro2024/event-guide/ticket-holders/

Yes, but I was referring to the fact for Euro 2024 ticketholders, the VRS/VRR are being effectively combined to cover all 4 host cities (Cologne, Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Dusseldorf).

Looks like it. https://www.vrs.de/en/der-vrs/verbundraum VRS and VRR regions are combined for covering all the North west host cities.

Surprised that our current shirts aren’t on sale yet. I noticed the away kit is more or less sold out online, apart from one size, and very few in the JD stores I’ve been in recently. They must be sufficiently low in stock of both variants that they’re not bothering to discount until the new kits appear.

Good to be in the know! 😜 I took a punt the night before the announcement as the rumours of Amsterdam seemed to be firming up. £120 return from Edinburgh, so you and not too many others must have been ahead of me in the queue. 😁

If it’s not Taylor Swift and the Proclaimers I’m not interested.

What non-Scotland games did you get mate? I’m on the look out for a few games but depends on category, etc.

Majority of people haven’t received emails. Although I think the successful ones have. If you log into the portal it will tell you the results.