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The Times reporting that all host nations will play in the qualifiers with 2 host spots held in reserve in case any don't make it. If more than 2 don't qualify then "the best 2" whatever that would mean would get the spots. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cd316844-5631-11ee-9ad7-7384b2f230c5?shareToken=f598f812f610dde7fe6bfc54145a7b2d

VPN gets by it no bother if you're willing to pay the mental prices. Going by where the €79 seats are and where the standard away end is I think we'll be €79 too unless the French are feeling generous and say the away end is a lower category.

It seems like as long as you do something then it's fine but if you find something distasteful then the rest of the crowd need to stop doing it. Can we have your definitive list of what the crowd can and can't do before the next game? Maybe start another thread about it like you've done here 3 days after the game when the same subject had already been done to death in the match thread.

Completely missed that, cheers. To be honest I'd have thought the minimum required allocation in Georgia would be enough to cover those travelling.

Is it just 5-0 defeats that gets Bullen up singing or will 4 do?

It's more than Cyprus gave us but opens up a point higher since so many jumped up in that 9-14pt bracket. Cyprus dropped down to 9, don't see this getting there as everyone seems to be booked up. Probably an empty threat but at least they are starting to put stuff like this in the emails again.

You couldn't transfer tickets bought through the SSC on the app last time round but could for tickets bought through UEFA. I'm sure there was probably a way around it but it didn't seem obvious to me at the time.

I read somewhere the allocations may be higher for the FAs this time but I wouldn't pin any hopes on UEFA doing anything for the fans. There's been some jump in numbers in the 8-12 point bracket if you consider for the England game in the euros we got 2655 and it dropped down to 12 points and now we've got over 7k with 12 or more points. I think you're right and you might find not everyone can do all 3 games so it could drop a bit. You may also find some folk get tickets in UEFA ballots so don't buy their SSC ticket, I got Croatia at Hampden through UEFA so didn't need my SSC ticket even though I had enough points so in 50k seater stadia rather than COVID restricted crowds that same scenario should happen a fair bit.

It is today, flights now on sale for easyJet

If UEFA do the same as recent tournaments it's around 16% to the FA of each team so a 50k stadium would be around 8k allocation

https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scotland/supporters-tickets/scotland-supporters-club-membership/ssc-loyalty-points/ SSC points updated after Cyprus and England. Not much movement really for anyone 20+ points but that's an extra 1248 people now on 12 or more points between June and September and 3208 on 10 or more with 3 more away games to go before Germany so previous estimates about how many points will be needed might end up quite a bit off.

Yep, that's how it works.

@welshbairn you might be the best man to know but has it been mentioned anywhere about them limiting the tickets you can have on the same day like they did for euro 2020? I'm hoping not as there's a realistic chance you could make 2 games in the 1 day in Germany which obviously wasn't the case when it was spread over Europe. I'm up for applying for tickets in October to random games but not if it causes hassle if it then clashes with a Scotland game on the same day and they don't let me get rid of them before I can buy Scotland tickets through the SSC.

https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/news/0285-18f402c937f2-9f8f466cd58b-1000--bitburger-becomes-official-national-partner-of-uefa-euro/ Uefa announce the official beer of the tournament that you can buy in the fanparks and stadia.

Easyjet launch their summer schedule this week btw. Think it's Thursday but might be wrong.

Archived version of the article to avoid the paywall - https://archive.ph/DEaQE Out of all the players who could switch we're constantly linked with I thought he was the one who would never switch, pleasantly surprised if he does.

Those Scotland shirts have been spotted on a few recent away trips. Never in a size smaller than a XXXL.

Somehow I bumped them out too when taking out Russia, edited the original post.

I'd say the opposite, it's a bad thing for teams that are near the top of League B/bottom of League A. For WC qualifying years you're arguably better being in League B winning your group to have a chance at one of the extra playoff spots and then for Euro qualifying years you're better being in League A as League A teams are more of less guaranteed a playoff spot for the Euros and since UEFA uses the Nations League standings for seedings for the qualifying draw it means you're guaranteed to be at least pot 2. I'm sure Steve Clarke doesn't see it that way, he'd rather just aim to be in League A regardless of what qualifying campaign it is and then stay there.

Unless it changes which seems unlikely it'll be FIFA world rankings that determine the pots for the WC qualifying draw. 12 groups of 4 or 5 means the top 12 will be top seeds, Scotland are currently ranked 16th in Europe but aren't massively far off Sweden in 12th place so some decent results in the remaining qualifiers, friendlies the euros and next year's Nations League could see us nick a 1st seed. For context we're 27 ranking points off of Sweden and gained 19pts at the update after the June fixtures. If we qualify for the euros automatically then the SFA should be thinking very carefully about who they play in friendlies next March when the playoffs are on. You'd be looking at pots like this if the draw was right now (Russia removed but they'd be pot 2 if included) and yes for the WC qualifying only winning Nations League groups matter so in theory a League C or D winner could end up in the playoffs ahead of league A or B teams who are much better but didn't win their groups.

As mentioned it's 3 and here's our list so far.

Georgia v Spain lineups, game kicks off at 5pm.

This is going to be some bullshit "for the fans" initiative by UEFA to try and claim tickets start from 30 euro but no one will be able to get them isn't it? It looks like they won't be in the FA allocations meaning those who follow their country everywhere won't get near them.

Nah it was really just a thread about the game being moved and people kept using it in the absence of a match thread. Probably better to start afresh and not have people go through a couple of pages of ticket chat.