Pie Of The Month

Isn't Scully still playing for Drumchapel Utd in the West of Scotland? Sure he retired from pro football to join the police but is still kicking about so could arguably be included.

Are we running low on players to commemorate with the Thistle pins? Rough is certainly an interesting choice given his comments about the fans not too long ago.

That SPFL Mediawatch tweeted before the first fixtures that Virgin customers have to buy a matchday pass separately and it's not part of their subscription unlike people who subscribe via Sky or directly who get it as part of their package.

Tierney just catching up with his former teammate Oyarzabal

Stuart Armstrong is on trial at Brentford. Thought it might just be to keep himself fit since he's good mates with Ajer who was his caddy at last week's Scottish Open pro-am tournament but he came on as a sub yesterday so seems to be a proper trial. He was linked to Fulham and Fiorentina too so hopefully ends up playing top flight football somewhere.

Seems like Conte wants Gilmour at Napoli with reports of an £8m bid already rejected and Brighton holding out for around £12m.

Azerbaijan / Portugal vs Belarus / Czechia Hungary / Scotland vs Montenegro / Finland Türkiye / Ukraine vs Greece / Belgium Slovakia / Wales vs Georgia / Republic of Ireland Romania / Poland vs Slovenia / Austria Croatia / Northern Ireland vs Albania / Norway Bosnia and Herzegovina / Serbia vs Luxembourg / Sweden

Both winnable ties. Beat Finland last year in a friendly then lost on penalties in the Pinatar Cup in February, definitely not the worst draw out of what was there. Finland away in the 2nd leg of the final in December might not be pleasant weather if we make it that far.

Spain have confirmed their 11 host stadia now. No Valencia is a surprise especially when you see there's a decent chunk of Spain around that area without a host stadium and I thought that stadium in Seville was a bit of a dump when Scotland played there.

Thistle streamed our game at the weekend v Montrose and it was open to UK viewers too so don't see any reason why it would be any different for Ayr unless they've just not realised they're allowed.

One with a goal for Sheffield Utd's first team in pre-season yesterday, hopefully gets more involved in the first team now they're in the Championship or goes out on loan.

UEFA's regulations say which presumably means the seeded team for the second round will be the 7 winners of the league A v league C playoffs.

I think with the results in the other League B groups today that's Scotland guaranteed to be seeded for the 1st playoff round regardless of the result v Serbia now.

Back to normality now and that's the travel poll emails out for Portugal and Croatia. Can't really see us getting an increased allocation for either right enough, especially Zagreb with that stand still shut due to earthquake damage.

Thought this was going to be a windup.