AlfieMoon
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1 hour ago, GaryWood34 said:
So this annoyed me today when signing up for the euro 2024 app. Suggested I support England when I put in my Scottish post code.
I’ve been known to move the England World Cup merch for sale in shops to the back behind other items and I replied to a Pizza Hut email rather sharply when they spoke about “it coming home” during the World Cup”
What do you do / have done that’s as petty as me?
I always remember going and buying the Brazil away top hours after Ronaldinho had papped them out of the 2002 World Cup.
Stuck it on straight away and the lassie that I was seeing at the time had a sister who was going out with a brummie guy - I could sense the seethe when I saw him later in the day. Glorious.
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6 minutes ago, ChrisPro said:
Got an email earlier for 4 out of the 6 games i applied for. I’ve not long had my hip replaced and was having a snooze when the email came in. Said from €60 but when I logged in the cheapest were €150. Took tickets for me and my other half for 3 games in Düsseldorf, Gelsenkirchen and Dortmund.
Brilliant mate! That’ll cheer you up for your hip recovery. Well done 👍
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Sport options tweeted yesterday with instructions on how to get on their mailing list for either England or Scotland games.
Re: wonky sheep - it would probably be to our benefit if Wales don’t qualify, so they have the staff/resources/planes to do flights for us.
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Not received anything yet.
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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%. -
4 hours ago, macwomble said:
Bump
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.
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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.
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41 minutes ago, biffer said:
I wonder if this is per game? I.e. You get first option on games you appiedl for missed out on? Hard to see how there's any ranking except for individual games.
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?
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10 hours ago, Diamond Scot said:
For the last Euros, what was the cut off point for the supporters club in terms of points. Ie after what date / game did they say, the points you have now is what its going to be based on.
Im presuming everything will be done before the next set of matches so it will be what we have now.
I currently have 12. No idea how that leaves me looking.
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.
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9 minutes ago, aaid said:
I didn’t watch the statement and have only seen the report on the BBC.
However, what that said was that they’d used his iPad’s data.
That immediately made me think that the iPad had been set up as a hot spot and another device was tethering to it.
As far as I can see it’s entirely plausible that Mathieson didn’t know about it at the time and only found out on Thursday and that’s why he decided to pay the bill
You then get into the arguments about who set the hotspot up, who gave the password to the kids and when that happened. Mathieson doesn’t appear to be particularly tech savvy but even assuming it was him it does point the finger at the parliament’s IT department both in terms of policy and also how nailed down devices are. I used to work for an investment bank and something like this would never happen because everything was nailed down. I think as we’ve seen in Westminster and also Holyrood, their IT policies are lax because they are at the driven by politicians who want lax standards.
I imagine that the deal that the parliament does with providers give a generous data allowance, possibly unlimited for a monthly fee - you wouldn’t want something serious to happen because a minister had exceeded his monthly allowance.
I doubt that he’s the only one who lets his kids use the data.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.
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8 minutes ago, aaid said:
Some commentators have clearly never heard of tethering.
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?
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11 minutes ago, Orraloon said:
It was his sons wot did it.
The wee fukers should be made to do a paper round until it's all paid off. 😂
All on Matheson now I’m afraid.
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1 hour ago, scotlad said:
As usual, it's all way, way beyond what it should be. If it was a UKG minister the story would be in the headlines for about 5 minutes on a slow news day, but here we have people calling for votes of no confidence, parliamentary enquiries - all amplified through client media like it's Watergate, the Chilcot enquiry and the Profumo scandal all rolled into one. I think it says a lot that they're going after one of Humza's more capable ministers (not a very high bar, granted).
At the same time, though, I am curious to know how the feck he managed to rack up £11k in roaming charges! Is it maybe something as simple as something not being set properly on his device?
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.
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2 hours ago, vanderark14 said:
Can the older posters remember a more disgusting bunch of human beings in government?
Tories yesterday - supreme Court rules against them, fuck it we will change the law. Democracy my fucking arse
All this stop a few fucking boats coming across. It doesn't add up.
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.
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2 hours ago, Dangerous said:
I hope that's just group games but that will probably be across all games including knockout phase.
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.
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19 minutes ago, GroundsKeeper said:
Smashing tune.
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20 minutes ago, trout101 said:
I got 2 tix for a Saturday Quarter Final. I only applied cause I thought there was a chance I could swap them to some one from another country in exchange for a scotland group game. Is there any way I can actually do that?
Not officially. UEFA aren’t offering a swap platform - only a resale.
14 minutes ago, stirlish said:Could the ip addess have been a stumbling block?
Applied for 3 tickets for every match up to the final and got the square root of hee-haw.
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.
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5 hours ago, immcinto said:
Bonnie Scotland, bonnie Scotland, we'll support you evermore.
That was big in the 70s. I am well up for bringing it back in Germany next year
Big fan of this.
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What about
All we are saying, is give us a goal
do I remember that right?
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Just now, BoogieWoogie said:
I've got 2 tickets for D4 vs D1 in Dortmund. Definitely wont be a Scotland game as we will likely be 2nd or 3rd seed right?
Looks like I'll be hoping for a ticket swap!
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.
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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.
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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?
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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!
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41 minutes ago, hoggeddie said:
Hi all
Any one get an email from UEFA yet regarding the result of your application
Nothing yet.
After nothing landed on Friday, I kinda assumed it won’t be until tomorrow or even Tuesday.
Friendlies pre euros
in TA specific
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That would be incredible.