RicoS321

Shouldn't have put them up there in the first place

Good bit of business from Hibs like.

Have you considered that maybe you did die, and everything since has been just the construct of your soul making its way to heaven?

The biggest killer in the 70s and 80s I believe. Dangerous things.

I have a feeling that Milanovic could be like a new signing under the next manager.

Too much competition in the league?

You're right. Probably the way it should be to be honest. When none of us have a clue about half the options, we'd really only be telling each other how much we don't want Robinson, but that we'd get behind him if he did get the job. The new manager every season got boring before and after Calderwood, and again after McInnes. It's quite jading.

When was that taken?

I'd argue that Ramadani never added either of those. What he did add was legs and being first to second balls. When Goodwin insisted on playing Ramadani, for months, in front of the defence taking the ball from them and trying to link play, he was absolutely terrible. He wasn't particularly physical either. As soon as Robson moved him alongside Shinnie, ahead of Clarkson we were flying. They were both tenacious and quick to every second ball, with Ramadani great at intercepting and closing down, without requiring to be particularly strong in the tackle. I'm not saying he shirked a challenge, just that he was not particularly aggressive. He was just everywhere. There's a good argument to say that we could have had what Ramadani offered via Aouchiche if either manager had recognised it, as his coverage and closing were both excellent. I'm really hoping that Leven (and beyond) doesn't make the mistake Goodwin did with Ramadani with the new lad by playing him as a sitting defender. He doesn't strike me as the type who is best utilised sitting deep, but rather pressing high and all over. That's based on YouTube and stats though.

I can see why someone thought he might do a job in the SPFL. A guy whose confidence had been obliterated before he ever set foot on the pitch. I'd like to have seen a loan in this country to see if he could get some sort of confidence built. If we just ignore his messages and calls, then he might stay in Japan.

It's not a cultural thing though, is it? It's about pragmatism. Players with experience of the SPFL are much lower risk than out with. You get a much higher rate of return. Almost any European based player will already be culturally similar to those in Scotland.

Whilst I don't think the segregation of "illegals" and regular migrants is for anything more than political theatre, I do somewhat agree with the point about cultural dilution and I do understand that some may see it as an issue. There are a few problems though. The first is that the US is a country of colonial settlers, who didn't just dilute a continent's culture, rather they erased it. I can see why the fear that this might occur, in turn, is real. The second point is that the US has designed an economic system (with the US dollar being the world's dominant currency) that requires migration. There is no escape from it. Certainly not under Trump (republicans) or the democrats. Both party's donors simply wouldn't accept it. Locking people up, deporting etc is just for show, just as the Tories hostile environment was in this country. Picking on other people to play to a base being the most obvious explanation. The problem with this economic system, is that it cannot cope with the falling fertility rate, which is below replacement rate in the US (and UK). Thus migration is coming to the US whether legal or not, and the culture will indeed be diluted, just as cultures have been since humans began to travel. I suspect the US will be majority Hispanic before long, as Hispanic migrants have a higher fertility rate for 2-3 generations until it levels out at the national norm. There is no policy that can prevent this under the existing system, so you'll have no choice. Your children's children will witness a very different US. They'll be a part of it, and assimilate into it in much the same way humans have always done over the generations.

Trump has not said that the UK needs to be less reliant on the US, you've misunderstood. What his backers want is for the UK to spend more money on its defence. That money will, of course, be spent with US private companies. If the UK genuinely becomes less reliant on the US, then it's a direct loss to companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Palantir etc. Less income for the US. Not what Trump means at all. Edinburgh is a tourist city, I'm not sure what you were expecting. Most cities are multicultural these days, it's not a big problem. They're unnatural places, with no connection to land or heritage, so it's not surprising. They're littered with American and other foreign owned multi nationals (or international capital funded chains) with zero identity. Homogeneity is their trajectory, by definition. Most cities in the world today exist because people were deceived and removed from their land and forced into cities to work. There is no deep connection to these places, much as I'd like to convince myself otherwise.

I mean, it's sad, but is it "new thread" sad? Difficult to say really.

I suspect it doesn't need to be said. Everyone knows that an unproven accusation is very damaging, and that it's a sackable offence if true. There's a lot at stake.