AlfieMoon

The 16% figure was in a table documenting the ticket split for Euro2016 and Euro2020. The noises coming out of the French and German FA’s are talking about a flat figure number of tickets - and given there is no documented/published table of a % split for Euro2024, this would not be surprising if we soon find out that it’s no longer 16%.

Hi mate. I have a spare in the north. Let me know if you want it. I see you’d just asked about one in the east so not sure if you’re sorted. Drop me a PM with your contact details.

I always remembered getting buses out of the ground after the game in 2007 and there was a bit of a boisterous collection of home fans goading us and spitting at the buses. Maybe the football crowd mentality and culture is just way different from the people that folk were encountering in the city centre.

The ranking thing seems like pie in the sky. Are they going to give every single person in order a ticket offer and sales window for them to buy before the offer moved to the next person on the list?

The short answer is that the combination of Covid and the fact we were in a play-off both fucked any sort of timeline that you can learn anything from. And yes, the email this week said sales starting 6 Dec. So it will be based on points standing after Georgia & Norway points are added, with the oldest games dropping off.

Come on mate - this is about as clear cut and as uncontentious as it gets now that he’s effectively admitted full liability. I was perfectly happy to be open-minded about it as shown in my post a couple of hours ago. He deserves all he gets now. It would be refreshing to see you criticise someone in the SNP where it’s due.

This is vague enough that I don’t know exactly what you mean. Are you suggesting the kids could have been tethering to his iPad? And does that somehow make it better? How would they get the hotspot password?

All on Matheson now I’m afraid. Shouldnt be anyone near a government device. He’ll be gone for this.

Corporate mobile contracts and devices is something that I'm reasonably informed about due to work. It's been an eye opener seeing people making all sort of wild assertions and assumptions without having much clue of any of the details. It makes me realise just how much people's bias kicks in to judging these situations - and also how stupid politicians can be, both Matheson and the opposition in this case. To answer your question specifically: If the person acting in a contract admin for the Parliament doesn't add (or is not asked to add) a 'roaming' pack/bolt-on for a non-EU trip. the EE SIM he was using had a supposed £5.50 per Mb charge for data. That figure alone tells you that you can VERY quickly run up huge charges. The £5.50Mb charge was released last week by Tories leaking an old Parliament email communication. The EE bill was shown yesterday on Twitter, detailing approx. 4Gb of data usage. That's not a huge amount of data. Mobile providers are scam artists in regards to these mobile charges, but consumers and companies sign up to the T&C's and have to deal with the consequences. Other relevant points: - Warnings: He would have had no warning as charges accrued. iPads (similar to SIMs in laptops) can't receive SMS which is how mobile providers communicate. So, no roaming alert, or usage charge warnings like on your phone. A lot of people don't understand this and are applying their consumer phone experience of roaming to accuse him of negligence in ignoring warnings. - SIM out of date: He was apparently prompted (but didn't action) to change his SIM to a new Scottish Parliament Vodafone contract as the old EE one had expired. This fact doesn't seem contested. However, if ICT had wanted to force the issue, the could of course have suspended his EE SIM and provided the new one for changeover. I have seen no confirmation that would have made savings, so I think this is a bit of a red herring. I expect the new contract would have similar level of charges for scenarios where a roaming bolt-on is not used. - Process: There would have been a process (Matheson>Support Staff>Mobile Contract Admin (IT)) for managing his SIM. That should have been the chain to notify someone that he was roaming outside the EU, and requesting the SIM to be setup correctly. So, the blame is somewhere between him and his support staff there. - What was the data used for?: Tories are creating a pantomime demanding he hands in his device. This is all for show or they're just stupid. Any trackable data would be through central IT systems. Even if his browsing history isn't cleared on the device itself (unlikely from 6 months ago), it will only say what he browsed to and not what was accessed via apps. However, the bill breakdown yesterday showed a significant portion of the 4Gb data was racked up on 1 day (2nd Jan). If there was a significant amount of work attributed to that, I would expect that to be easily explained by him. The twitter theorists seem keen to speculate that he was watching the old firm game. - Why did he have a work device on holiday?: This one for me is super naive if you ask me, but I've seen so many people mention it. If folk really think that someone in that level of government, or a chief exec, etc. just go on holiday and don't have access to work, I think you're living in cloud cuckoo land. So, basically, Matheson comes out of it looking like a bit of an idiot and should 100% have handled it better to probably accept the charges up front, but some of the stuff getting kicked about is nonsense.

The real trouble will start when it slowly starts to dawn on England that the UKGov simply don’t want to stop immigration. It should have been plainly obvious pre-Brexit that they had no interest in doing so when there was evident huge growth in non-EU immigration - which was the bit that they already ‘had control’ over. This was all pre-boat/migrant uptick. What we’re seeing for the past 10years is the Tories tapping into a general racist undercurrent but they’ve REALLY fucking whipped it up - all in the interest of power. For that reason, I blame the Tories and UKIP waaaay more than the average meathead or middle class wanker in England. Facism is the end destination of all this current path. Arguably they’re already, but I expect it to get worse when folk realise the politicians don’t want to make anything better.

That would be my take as well. I was pretty certain that it’s: - Phase 1 = 1.2m - Phase 2 = 1m Leaves 500k for Corp, Media, etc.

Smashing tune. Cannae imagine it was sung en masse at Hampden though?

Not officially. UEFA aren’t offering a swap platform - only a resale. Not if UEFA are being honest about it being a completely open and fair draw. I’m not sure what there is to gain for them from a mass scam conspiracy, unless they are funnelling tickets to touts/agencies on an industrial scale for bribes. But from an IP perspective, you should have had as much chance as a German, or anyone else.

Big fan of this. Up there with Here We Go, in my opinion.

What about All we are saying, is give us a goal do I remember that right?

As much chance of it being a Scotland game as any other. Pot position does not equate to group number. We could be pot 2, and drawn as D4.

Not received any emails yet but logged in and everything showing as unsuccessful. That was applying for a group game every single day + SFs and Final.

My first memories of Scotland games are the Italia ‘90 campaign games at Hampden when I was 6/7 year old. The old songs/chants of the day I remember: - Here we go, here we go, here we go 😆 - Mo, Mo, Super Mo - Super Ally - We hate Jimmy Hill - We’ll walk a million miles What other old songs pre-date that era?

I applied for 2 tickets for each and every day of the group games. Went for a random mix covering everywhere from Munich in the south, up to Gelsenkirchen. Didn’t try for anything in Berlin, Hamburg or Leipzig but will happily go there if Scotland end up playing at those venues. The west/south just seemed a bit more concentrated and appealing for games. Had hoped we’d hear the ballot before now, but looks like tomorrow is the day!

Nothing yet. After nothing landed on Friday, I kinda assumed it won’t be until tomorrow or even Tuesday.

I’ve seen quite a lot of people say similar. I didn’t realise how lucky I was at the time to get both Hampden games for Euro2020 - albeit that I then lost them when they reduced capacity for Covid.

I did likewise. Bottom category, but with the option to accept one level above. Not sure what to expect in terms of success rate. They’ve said 20m applications for 1.2m tickets, but unclear if the ‘20m’ equates to tickets rather than applications. If that were the case, there’d be a huge chunk of that number going for the Germany games, and the semi finals and final.

Anyone in for phase one of the ballot? Results due by Tuesday 14th Nov.

Is it just me or is this not quite astonishing to read from BBC. How the hell do they have a journalist saying she is not necessarily wrong. Surely that’s not for them to say/judge? Am I reading to much into that or are is this type of commentary just giving her legitimacy.

She’s now making comments every week that should be a sackable offence. The fact that she’s not being brought under control just shows that it’s all endorsed by the leadership. A pretty worrying direction from the Tories to see this get continually more extreme.