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That's it exactly. We all know of the phenomenon where someone has a couple of good games for the OF and suddenly they're hailed as the Second Coming. But Forrest is nowhere near that category. Before his injuries he was an automatic squad pick for Clarke and started more often than not. He scored a hat-trick to beat Israel, the only time (barring penalties) we've managed that in five matches against them. I'd argue he's done more in a Scotland shirt than Armstrong and not much less than Christie. I think he's particularly valuable if we don't have Hickey or Paterson because he can give us some of the dynamism and threat high on the right that we'll lack with a lower quality right back that can't get forward as much. He gives us options that nobody else can. If he's fit and in form he's comfortably in a 26-man squad.

Just got 2 cat 1 tickets for the R16 game in Berlin, which is where the second placed team in our group goes, and 1 cat 1 ticket for R16 in Cologne, where we have a 30% chance of going if we qualify third on our group. I really wanted Frankfurt as we have a 50% chance of going there if we qualify third, but I never saw anything below prime at 500 Euro.

This advice is too late now but when I got lucky in the last resale I went on exactly at the start of the sale. Quite a few people seem to have had that or a similar experience. This time I thought I'd follow the advice and get on early, I clicked on at 1015 and so far my progress bar is only about quarter along. Might just be coincidence, or maybe going early is a disadvantage.

It's been updating for the R16 matches I'm watching. I'm sure it's still really inaccurate, but it has updated in the past few minutes.

Exactly. But don't blame the politicians or the parties, there's nothing they can do about the tsunami of b*llshit the media decide to throw at their customers. What are they supposed to do, not help minorities because shitrags and infants with microphones will imply that's the only work they ever do? It's jointly the fault of the media and those who buy, click or tune in. I think we have much worse coverage than lots of countries, especially in Europe. They have rags too but their quality media is still quality and cares less about being boring. We're not a very mature society. Reading the good Irish newspapers is pretty sobering.

"Currently we have more than 500'000 fans queuing for tickets."

Did they bring their own shark or was it just a victim of circumstance? Was it Neil Lennon's shark?

But... why?

Availability: https://support.tickets-euro2024.uefa.com/hc/en-us/articles/12773235103004-Which-tickets-are-available-during-the-last-minute-sale

Aye it worked after hitting refresh a couple of times, thanks.

Marvellous.

What's this one?

Don't disagree but the bit about focussing on fringe issues is wrong. It's the media that does that. The proportion of actual parliamentary and government time spent on those things is tiny. Here's one example - First Ministers' Questions last week was covered extensively in the media. If you watched, heard or read those reports you might think you know what they yelled at each other about. But here are all the topics that they covered after the ya-boo politics was over, brought up my MSPs of all parties: availability of medicines and the impact of Brexit, the 2030 GHG emissions target, making some environmental harms a criminal offence, freedom of movement in the EU for young people, the proposed Winchburgh train station, pay for care workers, pay for councillors (following a report recommending they get paid £24,500), funding for apprenticeships, funding for employability support, problems with the new restrictions on woodburning stoves, mental health services for young people in rural areas, the impact of Scottish Income Tax on migration and racial abuse in workplaces. And that's in the most politicised, most confrontational slot in the week, on a highly politically charged day. https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/official-report/search-what-was-said-in-parliament/meeting-of-parliament-25-04-2024?meeting=15816&iob=135018 Then there's the Scottish Government news releases. Around the announcement of the resignation of the First Minister they've published releases on proposed legislation banning touting tickets when we host Euro 2028, £500 million per year in Child Disability Payments, monthly GDP estimates, support for people injured at work, adding £80 million to the fund to purchase and upgrade unused homes to get homeless people out of temporary accommodation taking it to £600 million per year, the passing of the Children (Care and Justice) Bill, a cash-first approach for families with young children in food poverty, completion of the £49 million new deep-water terminal in Stornoway... And that's in less than a week. The media do a fkn shocking job of representing what actually goes on in the governance of our country. All of them, including the so-called quality press. Unless they get their news at source, even those who think they have a good grasp on current affairs usually don't. Also, fringe issues are anything but fringe issues when they apply to you. It's a big country and we can fix lots of problems at once.

That documentary is one of the best bits of storytelling you could hope for.