Barney Rubble

Hatate should be sanctioned for that piece of nonsense, without question. But come back and speak to us once Jacques Cousteau's team locate the depths that Fabio Silva plummeted to last Sunday. You really are a hun in thin disguise Logan Roy.

Clear cut penalties for Rangers - or anyone else - aren't worthy of scrutiny though. Because by definition they are clearly penalties. How many of the Rangers 14 this season have genuinely fallen into the clear cut category? Genuine question? Today's was laughable - there is no way that even gets a VAR check outside of Glasgow.

Except it isn't. No-one bats an eyelid at that challenge in the middle of the park in any game anywhere in the world this weekend. The worst thing Beaton did was issue a yellow card for the perceived dive. Had he pointed for a goal-kick without the card, then this discussion wouldn't be happening. For the record, Beaton was the ref at Firhill last weekend @ Jags v Fake Jags, which I attended. He booked ICT's Kerr for a perceived dive which was rescinded on appeal following a later second yellow that saw him red-carded. I'll let you draw your own conclusion.

You're having a laugh?? Everyone of us on here has played 5-a-sides. 7-a-sides, amateur football to a decent standard, and maybe even some at a higher level than that. If every physical contact in a game was judged to the standard of that penalty award, then every physical contact in the game would be a free-kick. That would never have constituted a foul in the middle of the park, and it certainly wasn't a foul or anything close to the legal description at the Copland Road end either. Beaton shat it after being called to the monitor, that much is clear.

Apologies for the selective quoting, however the bolded part is exactly why friendlies should not be part of any match packages. From the membership's perspective, their inclusion is not only sharp practice by the SFA, it is morally indefensible as a means of artificially boosting sales for fixtures that would otherwise be unattractive for many to attend purely for distance reasons alone, especially on midweek evenings. Match packages should consist of competitive fixtures only. Anything else is taking advantage of members' loyalty.

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?

One annoying inconvenience - at the North Stand entrances at least - is that a phone has to be removed from a protective wallet in order to place it inside the scanner reading mechanism. Granted, that's hardly the end of the world, but it is a bit tinpot.

Indeed. We really feel for all the staunch who travelled all the way from Belfast for a St Patrick's weekend celebration in Stonehaven and Dens Road................................

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

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.

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.

Sevcopen is so standard procedure nowadays, accepting it'll happen before the game starts makes it easier to process when it eventually comes to pass.

A correction communication issued re the date of the game v Netherlands. I rest my case re communication standards.

There have been way too many 'technical balls ups' this century alone with the SSC for it to be anything other that a lack of robust testing of procedures and systems before launching them to the SSC membership.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I notice that there is no confirmation regarding the transfer of preferred seats to the new system.

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.

102 caps and 30 goals. Most capped Scotland player ever and joint best Scotland goalscorer ever. There's a reason for those stats - KD achieved them on pure merit. The stats fully reflect how good he was.

This.