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  1. The under 21 game there the day before was the coldest I've ever been.
  2. This. Loada shite. Kept trying until almost 5pm and it was still showing that it had sold out at 18 points.
  3. The usual exasperating experience. Still tickets left a few moments before my 18 points would have been enough. The site seemed to be bobbing between tickets available / sold out / tickets available. Just need to chance it over there.
  4. Here's how this should be going. The secretary of the Ukrainian FA has a look in the Polish Wee Red Book for the telephone numbers of all the bigger clubs and gives them a bell, one by one. "Can we use your park, chief? There's a few quid in it for you." When he gets a yes, that's the venue. There's no way that England or Germany would be treated like this.
  5. I just booked Monday to Friday flights to Warsaw and will go with the flow. It does seem a bit like one of these mystery bus tours where you turn up not knowing where you're going. Despite the obvious problems that the Ukraine has, it's an easy one to pick a venue and let everyone, including their own players, make the appropriate arrangements. You can't imagine Germany or England being mucked about like this and UEFA doing nothing about it.
  6. Anything with "celebrity" in the title, or which contains celebrities doing something that they are pish at. Anything with the shortened "celebs" in the title is even worse, and should be strangled at birth. You just know it's going to be chock-a-block with reality TV halfwits.
  7. Not sure if this is a wind up, but just to clarify it, QP fans don't get any discount for Scotland games.
  8. Hopefully all the "move the games around / Hampden is shite" mob will be filling Pittodrie for this one.
  9. 2-3 defeat to Czech Rep. Two from Burke; good finish as he broke away in the first minute to put us ahead. Then down 1-2 before Burke scored a penalty. We lost a third a couple of mins later. Burke looks a bit out of place to be honest. Ralston of Celtic was good and we have a couple of big , but not exactly pacey, guys at the back. The Czechs were a bit more skillful and a bit more physical than us. If we can learn from this (Brazil and Indonesia to play), it'll have been very worthwhile. A reasonable performance against a team that are pretty fair at this level.
  10. In Salon for the first game. Nice wee town and there is a pub cum glorified beer off licence in the main square that has stacks of different beers and it's reasonably priced "My Beer". Very near the ground. By the way, Nice or Marseilles...the pick pockets are very, very good (aka bastards)! Look after yer gear and don't carry anything in outside pockets.
  11. An old story....supposedly Stan Bowles gambled all his wages away when he was at QPR. His wife contacted the club to see if they could help out and they agreed to give him £100 a week (a fair bit of money back then) to gamble, and the rest of his wages went directly to his wife.
  12. I saw your message re your bus.  Would you let me know if you have a couple of spaces please?  Might be three, but definitely two.

    Thanks

    Keith McAllister

     

    1. Flure

      Flure

      Hi, Keith.

      I assume you're talking about the Canada game?
      When we firm things up, places will be available to members first then to non-members for £10.

      However, annual membership of WESTA is only £12, so.........

       

      regards

       

      John Daly

    2. Hampden Diehard

      Hampden Diehard

      John - aye, it was the Canada game.  I think I'm in the WWTA, but point taken!

      Cheers - I'll keep an eye open.

      Thanks for letting me know

       

  13. Is anyone organising a bus for this one from / calling at Glasgow?
  14. Went onto their site as I quite fancied buying myself a polo shirt / tracky top...and almost everything has "Vauxhall" on it. No thanks.
  15. Unlikely. Dealing with the general public (particularly if they've been drinking) is a nightmare. We seem to feel in the UK that someone serving you is fair game for any old snash. No excuse for giving away someone's ticket and no excuse for abusing people.
  16. Turned up at 5-30pm and there was one guy ahead of us in the queue. Went for a pint across the road after picking up the tickets; no problem.
  17. 32 mins late and looking for a refund. That's why fares are so high. PPI culture. Loada sh#te.
  18. I'm first off the mark to slate the SFA and the whole SSC ticket distribution thing, but I'm starting a thread to emphasise that I'm going to praise them. Never thought I'd see the day!! I don't arrange for recorded delivery because I'm a cheapskate (but really because I'm never at home during the day, 6 days a week, so no one can sign for them). The 2 tickets ordered hadn't arrived yesterday, so I sent an e-mail to the SFA late last night. I got a prompt response, asking me to contact them this afternoon if the tickets still hadn't arrived. They hadn't, so I called up. Within 5 minutes, the original tickets had been cancelled and the delightful lady at the other end of the 'phone had arranged for me to pick replacements up at the game. God bless modern technology and God bless the SFA. There...I've said it. And if you're my postie with two tickets in your pocket...hope you get huckled. GIRFUY.
  19. Many years ago, Scotland were playing at Aberdeen and guys were giving Ian Ferguson absolute pelters, simply because he was a Rangers player. I pulled one of them up on it and his reply that he was a Rangers player and Aberdeen fans hate Rangers. I pointed out that he was a Scotland player in this game and he should be supporting all our players and that he should have stayed in the house if he wasn't prepared to do that. He looked quite perplexed. Some of the Aberdeen guys are absolute fannies, trying so hard to out-hate Celtic fans when it comes to hating Rangers. I'm not bothered whatsoever about what they do at club matches, but it shouldn't spill into internationals.
  20. I understand the week of football thing. My understanding is that whilst dates are set by UEFA / FIFA, kick off times are not. FFS.
  21. And while I,m on a roll,the atmosphere isn't helped when crowd noise is discouraged by shite music being played at a squillion decibels. And what to play when we score? Fech all, let the crowd make the noise.
  22. I think that the frustration level with being a Scotland fan is getting to people....me included. Let's face it, we're pish. The standard of player available to Strachan is pretty poor. I don't agree with some of his selections, but FFS, he's better than Levein. We just don't have quality in all but a couple of positions. How many of the team would get anywhere near the England side? It doesn't help that we're being stiffed off the park as well. I'm assuming that we kicked off at 7.45pm because the TV money was better than if we kicked off at 3.00pm. Someone tell me different. Ditto the lunacy of playing Gibraltar on a Sunday evening rather than at 3.00pm when you might have got a crowd. A 3.00pm KO on Saturday would have allowed the guys from further away have a day out without thinking about getting home next morning. The SFA are simply not listening to the fans on this and people are voting with their feet. And cash. The televising of games via daft wee satellite / cable companies doesn't help promote the team. For friendlies, it's almost impossible to see the game live and some pubs have given up on friendlies. The SFA have to man up to this one and accept less cash to allow more people to view the games. The strip - £55 for the top and the away top looks like it was chosen by Stevie Wonder. Shite! Away tickets - we all pay the extortionate membership fee and we should all get the same chance for away tickets, and I say that as someone with a few away "points". Ticket prices - I bought the season ticket and it cost me £36 for the North Stand. Hardly a bargain. £32 for Gibraltar last campaign. £36 for pish against a poor side (who drew with us!). And while I'm on a run - the "well done lads" from the fans at the game in Faro stuck in my craw. The team and management fecked it up true and proper and here were 10000 cheering them like they were champs. If I had been Strachan, I'd have been red-faced. I know it's great to be behind the team win, lose or draw, but this just went too far. So, after that I feel a bit better. It's a combination of things that have left many fans a bit less tolerant of pish displays. And Saturday was a pish display. Lithuania fully deserved their point and we now face an uphill struggle to be second, let alone one of the better second finishers.
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