SCOTTISH rugby officials have FROZEN ticket sales for the Six Nations due to a cyber attack.
The 2025 matches at Scottish Gas Murrayfield pitch Gregor Townsend’s team against Italy, Ireland and Wales.
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They also travel to Twickenham and Paris next February and March to complete the annual series.
However fans planning to attend the games in Edinburgh have been told to wait.
That’s because a suspected ‘bot attack’ by touts trying to disrupt the sale and seize the tickets before the general public can get their hands on them.
A pre-sale on Monday has already sold out.
Tickets were on sale to Supporters’ Club members this morning.
However the general sale has now been kicked into touch by the SRU.
They explained: “Tomorrow’s scheduled public sale of Guinness Men’s Six Nations tickets (Friday 6 December) has been postponed, as we believe this week’s Supporters Club pre-sales were targeted by a bot attack.
“Scottish Rugby is committed to ensuring Scotland match tickets are purchased by genuine fans and we are working closely with Ticketmaster to review this week’s sales and identify any suspicious activity.
“We will provide a further update next week with a revised schedule of sale dates for these games.
“(Note: the pre-sale of U20 match tickets, scheduled for Monday 9 December, and the general sale on Tuesday 10 December, will also be re-scheduled.)”
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It’s the latest ticket drama at Murrayfield for Ticketmaster, who were also at the centre of a dynamic pricing row over sales for the Oasis reunion gigs to take place at the arena next summer.
Murrayfield is also set to be refurbished after a £10m plan was announced last week.
The SRU are committed to building an on-site hotel and making upgrades to the historic home of Scottish rugby.
New LED screens have also been installed with the PA system at the stadium being upgraded.
But some fans have complained the allocated cash will barely scratch the surfaces of what is required.
Scottish Rugby Limited’s chair John McGuigan said: “There are some opportunities like a hotel.
“We’re at the very early stages of thinking about this, so I’m not suggesting we’re going to do it next year.
“I remember in the summer when I mentioned £100million [turnover target] then all of a sudden it became £100m next year.
“So just to qualify it, it’s a target towards generating a significant amount of additional revenue.
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“But it requires facilities etc to be put into play.
“A hotel would be an obvious thing to bring on site for a variety of reasons – you could run conferences there, you could have people staying there before a game.”
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