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I'd take that with a pinch of salt. I saw him shopping for food the other week and he looked fully committed to the dandies. For what it's worth, I think we should take a good offer (£4-5M) if it arises. It's got to be the model that we're looking at with the new training facility. If we can get good money for the likes of Ferguson and Cosgrove, then that'd be great too. Obviously, try to stagger the sales of our best players. I don't think McKenna over Considine makes the difference between finishing third and second or fourth and is an area we can probably afford to lose in if it stabilises the club for the next year or two. If Ferguson has another good season then expect the same to happen with him next year. If Cosgrove gets a run of form then I expect a bid might come in January and we'd just have to see how we sit in terms of league position and finances. It's fantastic to see us have players with actual valuation >£0 at the club. Big Ronnie will makes us £10M once he learns how to play fitba too. I can see Campbell coming good soon too, despite some pish, he had a couple of games last season that showed he can be a cracking fitba'r. I think he'll kick on when he works out the level required. Hopefully fetch us enough to put in a new main stand.

Interesting you pick Devlin. I wasn't impressed when we re-signed Taylor, but he had a very good season. Devlin was pap in nearly every game. I'd even offload him if someone wanted to pay his wages. I'd also have ojo ahead of McGeouch too, who only had one good game - our last game - since joining. I agree though, don't expect any more in, and we couldn't afford to fuck up with a risky signing, which makes Hayes all the better.

There was a good documentary about it on BBC4 (or Netflix?) a while back, might have been the same one. You can see the points where people begun to have their doubts but continued because they were so invested in the idea. That said, our economic system is entirely based on belief. We're all (very much me, anyway) so heavily invested in it that we're pushing our entire species toward collapse just to serve that economy. There's no other reason for it other than the tenents of capitalism and we're all part of that religion and belief system. There's even a similar refrain to that of jonestown with the unevidenced assertion that through (and often suggested only through) capitalist technological development we will prevent disaster (not necessarily existential, but horrific nevertheless). How is us ignoring systemic: species die off, pollution, water scarcity, resource depletion, massive energy use, soil depletion, carbon emissions, inefficiency, destruction of nature etc etc because of "jobs" and "the economy" different to the people following Jim Jones? We're all taking that pill, just a little more slowly, and it is entirely based on a belief system.

Yasss, well done Consi. Another great season. Hope he gets the chance to make the top 5 dandies in appearances.

Is there a danger that, after lockdown, they will continue to use it for Livingston games?

The military were thrown into LA after Rodney king under Bush. Whilst trump is a tinpot, there is previous for military intervention in similar circumstances. It'd be interesting to see the reaction, but I think they'd just be a disorganised rabble getting in the way.

I haven't found anything that backs that up. I'm guessing he's either incorrect, or being selective of his stats. What he suggests is that women in otherwise stable family homes removed themselves and their children from those homes for money. I think that is utter horse shit. Complete fucking nonsense in fact. I could see mothers colluding with fathers in order to pretend that they had separated in order to get the money, but actually still living as a family. I could see an instance where an abusive relationship is ended because the welfare state has afforded the mother and children to leave the abusive father (in which case, you would replace the likelihood of crime stat for children growing up without a father to children growing up in a home where domestic abuse occurs). The most important point though is that what the guy suggests is entirely compatible with systemic racism. Unless he's saying that by virtue of being black alone you are more likely to be unable to form stable families? Is he suggesting that there is a genetic disposition in black people that makes them split up? Then they're not social justice warriors then, surely? It's nae the bird with the green hair fucking da police. For every social justice warrior exaggerating the scale of the problem there's a right wing newspaper exaggerating the violence and rioting. They even themselves out I expect. I quite like the spectacle and I quite like the rage. I think that you're along the right lines to an extent with the social justice warriors in that there are a whole host of people who are "morally outraged" without actually feeling proper rage and that's obviously exacerbated by celebrity. I think Hispanics are usually homogenised into the people of colour group for the purposes of argument. Why would you take proportion of arrests rather than population? Unless you think black people are genetically predisposed to commit crime? Taking 2019 figures by population you would expect white people to account for ~750 rather than 370 shootings and black people ~140 rather than 235. Again, the likelihood of black people committing crime, divorcing, having children, living in poverty etc. should be the same otherwise there's either a systemic problem or a genetic issue. The interviewer fails to pose that simple argument.

Not at all, I don't think he is right because his conclusion was that single mothers were the issue. It's clearly nonsense. The only annoying thing was the weak, ill prepared, interviewer that made him look knowledgeable. A little like the time Tommy Robinson threw cherry picked stats at thon wifie on newsnight, completely overwhelming her to come to an illogical conclusion. Do you believe that single mothers are the reason that black people are shot by police? Black lives matter are an organisation setup because of killings of black people by police. That white people also are killed by police is neither here nor there (black and Hispanic were killed by police more often). Just as you wouldn't say that saving polar bears wasn't a good cause just because rhinos also needed saving. Are they social justice warriors? Do you think that there isn't an issue with police killing black people in the US (or stop and search in the UK)? I understand your point about the green haired shouty person, but how often can you say that their cause isn't just? Because that's the only thing that matters. Most of the public are concerned by climate change but the overwhelming majority of citizens in the UK (me included) are actively making it worse. The reason that I/we don't like the green haired shouty fucks is because they're right.

The problem was the welfare state and children born out of wedlock? What the fuck? I'm guessing he's a church attendee. Mr shouty conservative gets the upper hand on an unprepared fuckwit. It's hardly a massive coup. Some cherry picked stats - delivered to an imbecile - with an exceptionally ropey conclusion. But he might be right. I remember seeing a YouTube video of a similar chap destroying some college students in the US with his evidence of creationism. He was direct, aggressive and convincing and owned the science kids and their evolution nonsense. Try arguing against a scientologist, it's a similar thing (they're trained in it). That the interviewer got nervous, flustered and unable to think is not a sign that his interviewee was correct. I don't get the blanket, and thoughtless, tag of "social justice warrior" for everyone that campaigns or fights for a cause, it's lazy. Was Pankhurst a social justice warrior? Or Martin Luther King? Or a climate change protestor? It's just an easy way of attacking the person rather than the argument. What's wrong with the central argument of black lives matter?

He's a great professional, I'd have him back no bother. Significant improvement on hedges, McLennan etc. obviously. Fit, fast and a decent hit. Get him signed.

Europe's top clubs? Brentford? It's basically England, and two teams from a few other leagues. Because they haven't bothered to go beyond the Hun and Tims, they haven't concluded that the rest of the teams in Scottish fitba's income also comes from ticket revenue. It's a fucking awful story for a Scottish newspaper to be writing.

Is it windows 10? Does your old battery work when you put it back in? Is the new battery fully charged? If not, do that then let it drain and then charge fully again. Then try. Maybe.

Bringing forward the test and trace whilst telling people to move on is a fairly transparent game. Rushed out to deflect attention, can't imagine what could go wrong. It'll be a fucking shit show. To the extent that it might actually keep Cummings out of the press until his next fuck up.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.scotsman.com/sport/football/separate-league-full-time-clubs-says-strachan-1577947%3famp At least Strachan is consistent! Shows how far we haven't come anyway. I have a lot of sympathy for the full/part time issue, I'd have hoped that we could muster 26-28 teams of full timers but it's maybe a stretch. However the notion that teams who have a wealthier benefactor (and I'd question where he got his facts on Milne) should have a greater say is pathetic at best.

Really? He just blatantly lied to the public and nobody questioned him properly. Fucking testing yer eyes? He doesn't even bother to hide his contempt for the public with that load of absolute horseshite. Why the fuck did the press not tear his fucking head off if his eyes were an issue? That's up there with Boris' bus hobby shite, just trotting out lies with zero fucks given, as if you're trying to see how ridiculous a story you can come up with. Hope somebody is waiting outside his house to hoof him in the nads to really make him frightened of being in lockdown in London. Every day for a month. Fucker.

Fucking impressive from Bojo last night. Top gaslighting. An entire nation. Trump couldn't have managed that one. Has anyone ever found that Russia investigation that got released just before the election? Edit: it must be calculated though? To get the British public to properly ignore the lockdown and begin pursuing the herd immunity once again. Then blame them for the inevitable second waves. Expect a big attack on teachers in the coming days too when they fail to return on 1st June in engurland.

They're fairly weak questions, they'll be easily batted off and ignored. They'll be gone by next week. They miss a fairly obvious question. Everyone else in Britain was under the impression that if you got sick, your child would isolate in the house with you and be in danger of contracting the illness and witness to your suffering and a bit neglected until you were better. Was it always government policy that you could ship your kids off to relatives when sick? Were the families of children who have since contracted the more serious - for kids - Kawasaki disease aware that they weren't obliged to put their kids in harm's way? For me, these offences are small and require only an apology and remorse, similarly Ferguson and the Scottish wifie. I don't expect them to be infallible. Cummings hasn't shown even that. Fucking cretin.

Fucking hell, do people actually read that shite on a regular basis? Click on the link and it's like being on a giant spam page. It's difficult to find the actual article. You did warn us like.

I agree, but do Adidas not just dictate which design we get to fill the colours in on? The bars on the away are weird

The reason I think 16 would be better is because I don't think we have the depth for 18. I think that we have 18 capable teams, but the need for a competitive full time (where possible) second division in order to make relegation and promotion viable would maybe be stretching the 18 at present in my opinion. I also think that 16 makes the season more compact and exciting. The 30 games we just had was perfect for me, and we could ditch several of the unnecessary midweek winter night fixtures too. The league format of the early cup rounds satisfies the need for more games and they could even have relegation and European spot playoffs at Hampden to add more games (split gate receipts for those games between all teams in the league). I think 16 is as near perfect as it gets for Scottish fitba in terms of the sport. But I'd be happy with 18 too. Or 42, play each other once.

Oucha, now we're talking. Interesting. I'd probably support other Scottish teams in Europe if that happened.

They're established league setups. We'd be effectively starting fresh, so we should be looking to do something different and better. 14 games is a hell of a long run to be not at significant risk of relegation but unable to reach Europe. Even yer mid tablers in England can dream about going on a run that'll get them into Europe. It's being designed solely to ensure 4 scum games too, we really need to move away from that nonsense way of running our game as soon as possible. Now is the time to experiment and take any financial hit as we're already asking players to take a cut in salary. We'll really see what a farse our game is when behind closed doors games begin. Let's make it about sport and not who has the most money

It has to be 16 for me, and would have made ultimate sense given the shortened season. We need to move away from the 4 old firm games per season shite that massively compromised us when they went bust last time and had chairmen all over calling for newco to be promoted straight back into the SPL. It's completely unsustainable to base your income on two teams and leaves you completely open to blackmail/begging. 16 teams. All European money goes into a separate fund and is split between all teams. No money based on league placings. Everyone starts with the same budget other than that which their attendances afford them. An end to buying leagues, and end to sport that isn't sport. Get our own fucking TV (internet) channel, with even coverage and proper analysis and coverage of all leagues. Never again should we be held to ransom by Sky, BT or the Scum. Take the opportunity to build an actual sport and market the shite out of it as the antithesis of the EPL - for proper fitba fans. But, aye, I think ending the season was the best idea. We could have been playing the last 8 games with entirely different teams from the rest of the season. It wouldn't have worked. I'd prefer a voiding, as I think that a forever tainted league title will be just that (if I were a Tim, I don't think I'd have wanted a title in such fashion), but I understand that is a minority view for obvious reasons (I'm wrong, basically!). I also do think it's slightly unfair on Hearts. The bottom six split is way more likely to see a significant change in league placings than the top six (as the Tims pretty much beat everyone regardless), and I genuinely believe they'd have stayed up.

I think we'd have finished third. It's funny how it ended really, if we'd played another weekend of fixtures, I reckon that there'd have been a lot more contentedness with the positions. The game between us and Motherwell would have effectively been a playoff for third, and if the tims had beaten the Huns there'd have been very little argument over the title. Similarly, if hearts had picked up another 0 points they'd have been that bit closer to their deserved relegation. Anyway, it's a bit of a shite way to end things, but likely the right call. I think there'll be many casualties from this and expect to see a few closures and some reconstruction. I think we have very few out of contract from memory and expect to see much the same squad whenever fitba returns. Cormack not expecting fans this year, which will be weird. Some interesting stuff in the papers recently about refs' home bias being nullified in closed door games, so the huns will be fucked. We need to be holding the tims to ransom and get some proper concessions over European prize money and sharing the wealth in order to keep the game going up here. It'll be fairly perilous for the next couple of years.

Who can really say what might have happened. The Huns, hearts and others might have gone bust, with us being rewarded points for games played against them to date and thus ending the season on 76 points. That's certainly the scenario I had in my head at the start of the season.