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McAllister was excellent the other night - it shows how desperate we are for anything going forward that a guy who we didn't expect to get back this eason and was then subbed on unexpectedly after 15 minutes ended up being one of our main attacking threats. Wouldn't be surprised if he started on Saturday.

I haven't been to many games this season but watching the game on Friday night on TV, our forwards seemed to be constantly dropping off, going deep to pick up the ball. That can be effective - Samuel hit the post coming from deep in the second half but I think if we had at least one striker sticking up front we'd be more of a threat. Look at the goal Raith scored - it wasn't some sort of intricate move or tactical genius, we cleared from a chance Raith had, their centre back knocked it back in, it was flicked on, one of our defenders was late getting out playing Vaughan onside and he produces a really good finish to score. We are massively unlikely to score goals like that.

I defy anyone not to laugh when she does the reveal.

Another one for the classy funeral file. https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-robbers-funeral-flowers-feature-29042230?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMQABHSn8RA83aqTcklbMDIiQJzg49qdq_Mg9InU0CQdJTWYWRZWap-wYS76oPg_aem_AXxsqpi9uI_7wYrfYHdz7eq3UzqMHUyvnSsbxWRha2IiiGnxsQHEuf_0b2_ri2YE-BI#lvcixzu79tzuraultl

What is the positive case for allowing mobile phones in the classroom? Aside from 'kids will go mental if you take their phones'?

Rishi Sunak has announced a new military aid package from the UK for Ukraine. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68878627 The package includes 60 boats, including offshore and rigid raiding craft, dive boats and maritime guns 1600 missiles, both strike and air defence, including the Storm Shadow laser-guided missiles 400 vehicles, including 160 protected Husky vehicles, 162 armoured vehicles and 78 ATVs 4 million rounds of small arm ammunition

I think Ian Paisley left the Orange Order because they weren't staunch enough for him.

Children’s illustrator spared jail for hundreds of child abuse images. He claimed he looked at explicit images due to his anxiety and OCD. https://www.itv.com/news/channel/2024-04-19/childrens-illustrator-avoids-jail-after-making-indecent-images-of-minors Sentenced to probation, rehab and talking therapy. “I looked at Category A illegal abuse images for my men’s mental health.”

This got algorithm’d onto my Twitter

A death rate of 30 / 100,000 among Scottish men is massively high. I tried to find a comparison, the Our World In Data page would have that as the highest in the world - I assume the figure in the STV report is calculated differently. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-alcohol-use-disorders?tab=table

The dull thick brained racists and meat heads appear to be displaying a left-wing political slogan in that photo.

Second best defence in teh Championship.... second best... second best

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw4d7k1vello Final person convicted of the murder sentenced.

Trying to think of the allegiances of all my managers through my career. Of those who have enjoyed football I think it goes - Rangers, Newcastle Utd, Hibs, Hibs, Falkirk, Dundee Utd, Tottenham, Aberdeen, Rangers, Newcastle Utd. The ones who support English teams were actual fans of those teams, from the area.

This would cause a worldwide stamp shortage.