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yes but in the far left hand corner, same as the Raith fans in the previous game.

Don't think I've ever seen the choice of Lord, Master, Prof and Reverend added to the usual title dropdown list!

Agree, it feels like a combination that would work. Hopefully we'll see it happen at some stage.

I see the game is on the ticket section of the ICT website but no away tickets available yet, only the home end by the looks of it.

I'm doing the Etape Loch Ness event on the Sunday so I was booked up there for the weekend anyway. Thankyou SPFL for arranging this and partly makes up for starting the season on a Monday night with away fans banned. Going to be incredibly challenging resisting a few beers after the game with a 5am start on Sunday, especially if we get even just a point.

I take it there will be Friday night games announced for September at some point. Hopefully October games are announced too so some half decent advance notice is provided.

Will be interesting to see if the new WFH culture will actually help midweek and Friday attendances. Should be easier post Covid for office based folk to request WFH due to "an important and unmissable event happening later that evening" etc.

Was it not this time two years ago we had the mother of all showers towards the end and after the home Morton game? Given it hasn't rained in Ayrshire for weeks prior to recently and the forecast is light showers for Ayr there should be no problems.

Is Hawkhill open tomorrow for beverages?

Surely as it is post August 9th we'll get the whole of the away stand? For the Raith game tomorrow away fans are only allocated part of that stand.

I think the rules have to be supplied to fans as part of the regulations but other than that you're left to make your own mind up about wearing one. It will sort itself out I'm sure. Hopefully the showers will stay off so more folk are on the open terrace.

This thread is always at risk of a fringe debate.

Not that I'm always wondering about where my next pie is coming from, but is the catering still going to be shut on Saturday?

When asked by someone they've not met before, I suspect Rangers fans in Ayr will tend to play the neutral card and say they support Ayr United in case revealing their actual team meets with an uncivilised reaction. Then, once they've established that they actually support the same team, the Ayr United chat soon gets dropped. We all know loads of these types that turn up for the big games. It will be the same at the home derby.

I'm away this weekend, partly because I didn't expect to get back into a Scottish football ground till at least August/September based on the messages of doom coming from the Scottish Government. I also wonder if a lot of our older/vulnerable supporters are still nervous of crowds. Might take them a while to return.

I didn't think we would have 2000 fans in the ground including away fans as soon as this Saturday. I might have changed my plans this weekend had I known sooner. But its brilliant to see.

I take it that is just to accommodate the massive home support that no-one on these pages talks about.

I think I had mine on most of the game unless I was chatting. I now feel naked without it!

Is the rule now - if the home team have few fans given the Covid stadium capacity then away fans are allowed?

At first I was a bit underwhelmed, what with the restricted crowd, no catering, masks etc. But by the end when we were spreading the ball about nicely it really was fantastic being back in the old place again. Tantalisingly close to normality.

Seems strange that people are having different experiences. Maybe the browser used is having an effect. I'm using Internet Explorer which worked fine. This reminds me of the first time we all went streaming to Somerset

Yes I was logged in at the at the start too.

You need to login - I had the same screen. In the top right hand corner

down three places in ten minutes. Is anyone illegally overtaking?

I bet you go away for a cuppa now, you cruel b'stard!