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  1. No season tickets for us.  We might want to take the kids to one or two of the games (not all of them, the wee man is still at primary school and cant really do midweek), but unless I want to have my 10 year old sitting in a completely different part of the stadium to me, we have to give the season tickets a miss and just buy game by game.  Pity.

     

     

  2. On ‎1‎/‎15‎/‎2019 at 11:21 PM, kevymac said:

    I've booked 13 of us on the Monday morning 0333 from Rimini to Milan Centrale, take it you are on the 1145 to Edinburgh? Welcome to tag along m8.... Booked the train through Trenitalia and was 36-50 Euros a skull. On the Davy bus after game, pick up stuff at hotel, few pints and train.....that is the plan.

    There's five of us going for that flight home from Milan too.  We looked at the 0333 train, but decided on the 0550 train which still gets there in plenty of time.  Maybe time to grab a couple of hours kip before going for the train.

  3. I cant remember the last time I watched a really engaging English game, the excitement level has definitely drifted off recently.  I much prefer watching foreign football to Everton v Bournemouth or whatever.  The Real Betis-Real Madrid game last night was totally engaging, a superb game.  Milan winning with an injury time goal away to Udinese a few weeks ago was tremendous end to end stuff.  Napoli's late winner away to Juve at the end of last season to keep them in the title hunt had me out of my chair cheering.  Dortmund are a great attacking team to watch.  Despite PSG's dominance, Ligue Un has been brilliant in recent years (although not so much this season) with Monaco & Marseille coming close to winning it.  The Boca-River Plate final a few weeks ago was one of the best games I've seen in ages.

    I just cant get the same level of excitement for the typical English game - too many teams either win at a canter, or are dull & defensive beyond belief.  

     

  4. 2 hours ago, wanderer said:

    Last time everyone stayed in Rimini.

    Bologna is a lot further up to make it a good base camp.

    Rimini is Italy's answer to Blackpool, so with the game taking place outside of the holiday season, a lot of the place will be shut for the winter.

    Last time me and my mates drank in Copacabana's (which must be popular with the TA from previous games, as they had lots of photos on the walls of Scotland fans from 1991 and 1995), Shooters, and the Rose and Crown on the main square (where buses to the game left from)

     

    Yeah, the Rose & Crown was our base the last time and was a great laugh for a few days.  One of barmaids was Scottish, if I remember rightly, and she was absolutely made up that her pub had been "chosen" !

     

  5. 14 minutes ago, Scotland Ever More said:

    One set of fans would be directed to Waverley, the other to Haymarket, and the one from Waverley obviously would be told not to stop at Haymarket. Simple stuff.

    So which set of fans are you going to lumber with the three mile walk from Waverley to Murrayfield ?

     

  6. Yeah, you get some crackers - there's a boy every morning standing on the platform at my local train station, lets out a puff of smoke that you could hide a stream train in, and he them immediately walks away and stands somewhere else on the platform, its so bad.  Sod all the people that happened to be standing next to him.  What a complete walloper.

     

  7. 1 hour ago, Ayr Storm said:

    I reached the same stage.  The away team on a drop-down list is United Kingdom, so saying I live in England doesn't help.  I signed up for a voucher using a Scottish address but might have to change to an Irish address instead.  Only problem then would be paying with a Clydesdale Bank card registered to a Scottish address, but not unsurmountable.  Might also have to ditch kilt and Scotland top for this one.

    We changed our nationality to "other" on the ordering process and it worked - the first credit card we tried rejected it, but a second one went through ok.  We may or may not get in, but I figured that we have a better chance of getting by going through the front door with VIP tickets, rather than through a turnstyle in the Hungarian end with umpteen stewards and police in the way.

     

  8. SFA sent out a tweet earlier today saying they were delighted to announce they now had 10,000 members who had renewed.  Seems an incredible fall from the 35,000 members they had last campaign ?

     

     

  9. 3 hours ago, durtyweeker said:

    Anybody booked a VIP Gold ticket yet? seriously consdiering it now no away ticket

    Yeah, three of us are in the VIP Gold 1 section for £34 each.  We emailed them too and that was the link they sent us.  

     

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