Ta for this explanation, Davie. All four of us are members, and the two girls applied for family section tickets, and accompanying adult tickets too, for their (adult) cousins - so that is four. Then we got our own two. So that is six altogether. I am sure we could use the further two that it seems we might have some (small) chance of acquiring if we phone up tomorrow morning.
We have all been members for years - the girls since they were babies
We still have the old Travel Club membership cards with the baby pictures on them. It paid off handsomely when we all got to go to the Scotland v Brazil opener of the World Cup in 1998, in Paris. It would be nice to qualify for another tournament sometime soon ...
So, the CTA ... sounds like fun, Davie. What do you have to do to join? No initiation ceremony I hope
Anyway, the other 15,000 go to clubs, mainly, I think. All clubs that are members of the SFA are entitiled to purchase a ticket allocation. So, when you add up all the junior clubs, Highland League, etc, etc, it mounts up. And on this occasion every club will take up its allocation, so you do make a big dent in the 15,000. Plus Tennents, and the other sponsors get theirs from this number. Then the promotional ones, competition winners, etc. Still hard to reach 15,000, though - you are right.