The details of our Hampden visit are as follows:

We have booked a private tour and museum visit for 2.30pm on Sunday 30th April. Admission is £5.50 for the museum, £3 for the tour, for adults, £2.75 and £1.75 respectively for children. If you bring the voucher in your Scotland Supporters Club pack (valid for 4 people) you will get in to the museum for half price - don't forget it!

I will be taking the train from Central at 2.10pm (Newton train) to Mount Florida (arrives 2.19pm) - I suggest that those who wish to go by train meet under the clock at 2pm. Otherwise we can meet at Hampden. The museum closes at 5pm.

You all have given your names to Jen and she has booked a place and paid a deposit for you accordingly. If you do not now intend to go, or if there is a change to the numbers in your party, please let Jen know by e-mail to avoid unneccessry cost.

If you have not visited the museum before I certainly recommend it. There is lots to see and it is well laid out.

See you then!

Following the Switzerland defeat, we've updated the Results Page you can now cast your eye over all our results from 2000 until the present day.

We've also sorted out the WESTA Forum - a change Proboards put through last autumn left all new users subject to approval (which we discovered the other night!). Normal service should now have resumed, and the colours have been tweaked to suit the rest of the website. Enjoy...

The next WESTA meeting will take place on Sunday 26 February at 7.30 pm. We'll be holding this meeting in the Team Room on the 1st floor of the Sports Cafe in Sauchiehall Street. There will be one free drink on arrival, courtesy of the Sports Cafe. All welcome.

If you've not yet registered as a WESTA member this year, the 2006 membership application form is available HERE. You can bring this with you on 26 February with your £12 membership fee or send in advance to membership secretary, Glenn Hays, at the address shown on the form.

Sports Cafe website

Map to Sports Cafe, Sauchiehall Street

Friday 3rd February @ Oran Mor

Download all the details and your invitation letter here (requires Adobe PDF) or here (MS Word document)

Outline:

The WESTA BURNS SUPPER 2006
Venue - Oran Mor, Byres Road / Great Western Road, Glasgow
Date - Friday 3 February 7.p.m. for 7.30.p.m. – Carriages 1.a.m
Dress - Black Tie or Highland attire.
Tickets - Members: £15; Non-members £25 (WESTA membership is £12 - so it's worth joining!)
Tables - seat 10. if you want to secure a full table please advise immediately – several tables are already gone!
Contact - Jen Blackwood

We wish members to have the first opportunity of tickets so please respond immediately to Jen – we have friends from throughout the country asking for tickets to what will be one of the Tartan Army nights of the year.

Wednesday 28 Dec at 7.30.p.m. The SPORTS CAFE

Following on from the very successful "do" in November. WESTA will be meeting upstairs in THE SPORTS CAFE, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow on WEDNESDAY 28 December 2005 at 7.30.p.m. all members, old and new along with friends are invited to celebrate Christmas and New Year with some free pitchers and a finger buffet.

After our regular meeting, our very own DJ extraordinaire Tam Coyle will be spinning the discs to keep the festive cheer moving along, come along prepared for a good night out.

Some advance notice on our Burns Night celebration - WESTA are delighted to announce that Scotland's premier venue ORAN MOR, top of Byres Road in the West End, Glasgow, has been secured for Friday 3 February 2006, where a mix of the traditional and the new along with quality surroundings, excellent food and top clas speakers guarantees the night of the year. look out your glad rags and dig out the black tie, details of tickets priced at only £15 for members and £25 for guests will be available next Wednesday at The SPORTS CAFE.

WESTA are holding an informal POTY "do" on Friday 25 November from 7.30.p.m. upstairs in The Iron Horse, West Nile St, Glasgow.

The committee are delighted to invite fellow TA to an evening of laughs - with not one but two comedians coming along to entertain us, with a late bar, disco and buffet we look forward to welcoming friends old and new.

To help us with the number of sausage rolls and how many bottles to bring in through the Sponsors Whyte and Mackay, if you are looking for something to do in Glasgow on Friday, post us a message on the forum and we'll add your name to the list.

Cheers and don't be late or we'll have drunk all the free booze !!!

Photos from the Belarus home game (thanks to Jen) and the Slovenia away game (thanks to Al) have now been added to the Pictures Gallery. The USA home game also appears on the Fixtures Page.

Welcome to our new look website. All of the old info is here, and you can still access our popular forum and all the other pages, either by using the buttons on the left or the text links at the foot of each page.

Also included in this update are photos from our fantastic win in Oslo and our friendly draw against Austria in August. We hope to have some Slovenia pics online soon.

In the meantime, take a look around, and please let us know what you think of our new look!

The Tartan Army is heading to Aviemore next June instead of Germany! The Clan Gathering from Thursday 29th June till Monday 3rd July 2006 will be a long weekend of fun, games and the usual "bonhomie" associated with the Best supporters in the World! The gathering is being organised by 4 foot soldiers from different parts of Scotland with the vision and organisation to produce a weekend of different events so all tartan army foot soldiers and their girlfriends/wives and family and friends can participate and enjoy themselves!

The event is during the second phase of the world cup which will be beamed live to the tartan army on a giant screen...... the very successful annual football tournament will take place on the Saturday at Aviemore with a fun golf tournament at the new prestigious Spey valley championship course on the Friday! The largest ever gathering of clans since the Jacobite rebellion 360years ago will also stage their own carnival highland games fun event on the Sunday! There will be bands and music in different venues throughout the weekend..... A major concert will be staged on the Saturday evening.... and a last night ceilidh in the Aviemore Highland Resort on the Sunday evening....... the aviemore highland resort will run a children’s programme over the weekend and it is envisaged that being the start of the Scottish school holidays a proportion of TA visitors and their families will stay on in the Spey valley for several days......

Aviemore is in badenoch and strathspey is right in the heart of Scotland’s largest national park and on the main A9 road, which connects the highlands of Scotland with the central belt! The village has all the facilities to host this event from extensive hotels, campsite, pubs and restaurants plus excellent public transport links by rain/bus /car.

The new MacDonald highland resort will host the event which will attract approx. 2000 members and family of the tartan army, one of the spectacles of the weekend will be the march from the main resort car park to Aviemore football pitch with all the clubs/members in full regalia being led down main street by the their own pipers/drummers...

The organisers are in discussion with some big named Scottish bands to bring them to Aviemore it is also hoped to have some of the management/players of the national team present.......

For further info.... visit the web site on www.tartanarmygathering.com

ORGANISERS:

• Don Lawson (Aviemore)
• Tam Coyle (Glasgow)
• Taffy Maclea (Inverness)
• John Kaylor (Perth)

The old news updates (June 2003 - September 2005) can now be found HERE