Barney Rubble

Incredible that not one of you has said YES yet. Are you all gay?

She's Lib Den man........unlike her brother.

You are 37 and you are a married man. Show some digni................ach it what the hell am I talking about.

Boris' sister.

Only a few weeks to go round here, so in the finest tradition of the TA Board......... Would you?

Now there's a surprise. OK, I'll humour you - on what basis should we have been down to nine?

Watching Kortrijk v Anderlecht right now. Anderlecht are brutal as they have been all season so far. Unacceptable if Celtic don't get past them frankly.

Chris Sutton is a knob. That is all.

.Edit - the season after (2008-2009) Celtic were in the group stages of the CL and Motherwell actually made to the 2nd October in the UEFA before capitulating 3-0 on aggregate to Nancy.

2007-2008 (Aberdeen, Celtic and Oldco).

As it stands, Feyenoord are managing to to do even worse than Celtic last night.

To take that analogy to its limits, the Jags' squad cost the washers of the screw taps of the ginger bottles.

It'still on..............

Fact is deals like these involve lawyers and paperwork, and not just a phone call on a Friday morning, tartanmartin.

Fully agree with you. Delighted that many more of our fellow fans have the opportunity to be present in Ljubljana, and hope the team can get the win v Slovakia that will make it our most meaningful game since November 2003!!!

Not the case - you guarantee to pay for the tickets you take, hence why the SSC tend to go to conservative Ito numbers these days. Which explains my point that it may have been a contractual obligation that saw SSC have an option for more tickets beyond a certain point. And irrespective of opposition, Slovenia are by no means dead in this group.

My God - it's the resurrection! Met you and Susan in many places over the years, without ever identifying ourselves, but I particularly remember the day in the pub in Novi Sad where we all declined the offer to go help clear the snow on the pitch. Hope you folks are well.

bonny78 incoming..............

Sorry - the title is supposed to read Sutton v Craigan

Some acerbic stuff going on between these two as co-commentators on Accies v Celtic. Particularly the Jason Denayer bit.

On the contrary, I'm absolutely delighted that possibly every SSC member who is travelling will likely be able to get a ticket, particularly those who took a chance on booking flights and accommodation a while ago. But let's not kid ourselves - this deal was not done this morning - that's my point. Especially as Slovenia are not outsiders by any analysis.

Agree with your dominant premise. But hear me out - do you seriously believe that the SSC were on the phone this morning to the Slovenian FA this morning begging for more tickets because all these tossers on 8-10 points (myself included) have bought tickets because they weren't expecting the unpreeeecedented demand? More likely that a deal was struck weeks ago by the SSC stating that we'll guarantee 1230 on the basis that (worst case scenario) we think that is what we'll sell if we cock up v Lithuania/Malta. And if by any chance we don't and (best case scenario) we still have a play-off chance after those games, the demand will be such that we can sell lots more, can we have it written into our agreement that we can have a pre-determined extra allocation? These extra contractual details don't get agreed over the phone on a Friday morning. Further evidence required for that? Look at the shambles over adding on the point for Lithuania before ticket sales. They weren't expecting it to be an issue and got caught out.

The cynic in me believes that they had that allocation all along.

Dearie me. And they have the cheek to wonder why their level of customer service is under scrutiny?