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Only if you fail to read anything beyond the word 'and'.

I believe the justification for it is the SPFL needed the money from gate receipts to be put towards the parachute payment for the 11th placed team if they got relegated. The parachute payment is something like £500k in year 1 and £250k in year 2 and I suspect there would be clubs not willing to agree to the playoffs being introduced if all that money came from their prize money.

I don't think they'll have said it anywhere but I know a boy I work with never went to the NI game despite buying the package as he was on holiday, never even downloaded the app to transfer it to anyone and he's got the point for it so they aren't implementing it yet if they ever plan to do so.

I agree they could and probably should but I just don't see them caring enough to implement it for home games when it could impact ticket sales even if it would be small numbers. People don't seem to care as much about harvesting if it's home games either for whatever reason so until that attitude changes which it might do as those on higher points continues to go up and up and allocations for away games sell out at higher points levels I can't see them doing anything about it.

There were people who were at the game who aren't getting the points because their ticket didn't register when scanned never mind people with cancelled flights. A few on here have mentioned it in the new SFA ticket system thread. The SSC said in the emails prior to the Netherlands game they'd be doing this as the Dutch FA were sharing the details of tickets scanned and not scanned. They don't apply the same rule to home games and I doubt they have the appetite to either since they probably just want the money, especially for games which don't sell out like Northern Ireland.

Since I'm sad enough to keep a note of member numbers on each points level when the SFA update the tables on the website I had a look and at this point last year there was 6110 people on 12 points or more and now it's 10,489. Massive jump in numbers.

L'Equipe reporting the UEFA committee voted narrowly in favour of 26 man squads and it now goes to the executive committee to decide. https://twitter.com/lequipe/status/1782436092987212207

There's been a fair few in the same boat on the Tartan Army facebook group. As much as I've criticised them in the past this might be the kind of thing it's worth contacting ATAC about and seeing if they can help since they meet with the SFA and discuss various fan issues.

After the host club takes off 15% for costs of hosting the game 50% of the gate is sent to the SPFL and the remainder is presumably kept by the host team since the SPFL rules don't mention splitting the gates. @Ad Lib had a post on it early on in the Thistle v Airdrie match thread where I think he said the gate receipts were more than likely cancelled out by additional costs, bonuses for the squad etc or at least that's what it meant for Thistle.

Agreed and felt the same even with us finishing in the lower playoff spots the last couple of seasons. Even just 3rd v 2nd would be better with the Championship having 36 games compared to the Premiership's 38 and have those games played at the same time as the last 2 Premiership fixtures. Finishing 4th in a 10 team league shouldn't be rewarded with anything.

Are you the owner of this flag by any chance?

It's another American thing you'll not understand.

Germany are bringing in temporary border controls at all its borders for the Euros and they have already had temporary border controls with Poland and the Czech Republic for a while now and keep renewing them every few months. There's this dreadful thing called google where you could've found this information.

I'd take Mitchell back, he's fine when not a nervous wreck being bollocked by the crowd. I'll not lose any sleep over it if he goes though and I'll be delighted when Sneddon is lining up against us having convinced another Championship team he's worth a go.

"Pretty sure" to "just a hunch" to talking nonsense in the space of less of a day is good going.