Well buying Birmingham tickets was fairly painless the friends and family links are still there (you have to press the allocate tickets icon), bit more long winded than the old system. Annoying you cannot save your credit card anymore and you have to log in each time as it doesn't stay logged in...
Funny you should mention the word begging I'm most looking forward to "and before we present the gold medel to Bradley Wiggins here is a short film featuring Nicole Scherzinger who took an all expenses paid trip to Africa to meet some children who need your money"
I agree there was sooooooo much space down the left especially in the first half v Partick you could have held a five a side match. A better team would have destroyed us.
I would guess if any game requires loyalty points that will effect the STH period, after all you need to be a STH to start with to have anywhere near the points needed to get in their first. The same thoing can then happen in the later sections as well.