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It's a good 9 inches down my way, measured it myself in the garden. .

Good.

Just waiting for it to all blow over...

I have no memory of posting that, it was a helluva few days. The absolute boy Yer auld da

magic

What do they want them to do? Shoot the snowflakes before they land? f**k's sake.

No chance of getting into work so walked it back from the train station and picked up a few cans from the shop. If I'm not able to get to work then I'm making the most of it.

My local is closed. The pub has actually closed.

Once he's finished them, he'll be moaning that there are no usherettes wandering up and down the queue selling popcorn and choc ices.

My wife got her car stuck at the hill at the top of the drive coming back from the shops, so I decided to let it roll back down the hill to a flatter bit and have another go. I've just spent the last half hour trying to get it out the hedge and stop it rolling down a fairly steep hill.

EU - Do you want to be part of a customs union? UK government - No. EU - OK, then do you accept that there needs to be a hard border in Ireland? UK government - No EU - OK, so how do we resolve this? UK government - No EU - sorry, but "no" is not an answer to that question. UK government - No

Absolutely fucked on the south side of Glasgow but I made it to work, 4 mile journey took me about 45 minutes. No better sight in the world than seeing 3 BMW's on a very slight hill stuck and going nowhere being passed by ford fiestas & fiat 500's, BMW wankers..!!

Impressive effort on a Sheffield bowling green.

All good here in Glasgow...

Diego is not a fan of sna'

Because the only way to guarantee being in the EU was to vote No. HTH.

Great stuff - the old blitz spirit.

They're going to shoot it. edit: f**k you @Rugster. f**k you.

Vegetarians are absolute fucking cretins. They should all be killed. Utter vermin.

I've liked Robinson since the end of last season when he said - in a very straightforward way - that the squad was too old and there would be a clear out in the summer. He also got stuck into the team for celebrating a consolation goal at Inverness on the last day of the season and made no attempt to sugarcoat it. As someone else noted, when he does say something negative about the team or a player, you can bet it's exactly what is being said indoors too - and so players know where they stand, and I think that's more important than a manager giving different messages publicly and privately. Robinson actually dealt with getting rid of a lot of popular long serving players really well - and he got rid of a lot of utter deadwood with no ceremony, replacing them with players that are fit for purpose in a league that has gone up in quality. There has been a lot of agonising about the style of play this season but - and I may be on my own here - i like it. I've spent longer than I care to remember watching Motherwell teams getting bullied by bigger, fitter teams and not being able to cope with the type of player that teams on bigger budgets can put out - it's fucking great to see the boot on the other foot for once. My favourite ever 'Well teams (McLean's last team, McCall's best team and McGhee's first team) were all unashamed footballing sides that could play other teams off the park - but the novelty of seeing a strong, direct team means that I'm enjoying it more this season than I have in ages. Reading the snide comments of other players and managers about our style of play makes me enjoy it more, as the sort of meek shite we had under Barraclough or McGhee #2 used to get us nothing but patronising pish from the opposition. I may be wrong - but I think Robinson may be the first manager in a while to leave in an upward direction.

I'd be raging at that too TBH. If I'm at work and able to work, and they choose to send me home, there's no fucking way I'd be using my annual leave.

Are you the Gruffalo?

East Of Scotland Website with link banner for new applicants to join the League. Deadline 31st March - http://www.eosfl.com/ What does the East of Scotland Football League have to offer? • Membership of EOSFL which confirms acceptance of and commitment to the pyramid system thereby satisfying a mandatory requirement of being granted a Club Licence. • Automatic entry to the Scottish Cup for Champion Club irrespective of licencing status which will generate a minimum income in excess of £3,000 • 3 ways of Scottish Cup Entry, EOS & SOS League Champions, Alex Jack Cup Winner, Any Licenced Club • £3,000 Funding towards ground improvements available to all un-licenced clubs looking to gain their SFA Licence • Up to £10,000 funding as an EOS club available from Scottish Football Partnership towards ground improvements. • Our ambition is to have all Members licenced as soon as possible and thereby automatically in the Scottish Cup every year. • Very likely more promotion places will be available to enter the Lowland League from Tier 6 • Depending on interest from that area a possible West Of Scotland division would be looked at for tier 6 • SFA Sports First Aid courses at heavily discounted rates (or free of charge). SFA Licence compliant • All clubs supplied with a defibrillator and associated training. SFA Licence compliant • Bespoke personalised first aid bag. • Personal Accident and Liability insurance incl. player to player liability paid for by the League. SFA Licence compliant • Match balls and training balls supplied each season. • Bespoke goalkeeping courses. • Coaching courses at heavily discounted rates (or free of charge) up to C Licence level. • Prize money for those Clubs finishing in the top four in the league. • A sound organisational structure with fixtures issued on a seasonal basis. • In combination with the Scottish Lowland League and the South of Scotland League an U20 development league for the development of a player pathway. • Automatic entry for the U20 team into the Scottish Youth Cup.

Went out earlier today, came back in an hour later, bone dry with a filthy belly. Must be a coal bunker nearby.

The Hollies - Look Through Any Window

Sorry to disappoint you. My 6 year-old granddaughter has never built a snowman/woman/non-binary person and I always said once we got sufficient snow that we would go out and do it. She always remembers promises like this and I am not sure how I can explain the wind-chill factor to her.

Type "The SFA value the fans." with a straight face. Go on, try it. Or give a couple of instances. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the Hampden debate, I don't think anyone can honestly say that the SFA value the fans, so please don't state that in any argument. We're here to be fleeced; I've been getting fleeced for over 50 years....sadly, I love going to see the national side so much I'll just be grinning and bearing it until I'm deid. Hampden has given the SFA a worldwide relevance that the FAs of other smaller nations don't have....and that's down to the people who built it. QP shouldn't get preferential treatment, but a sense of fairness wouldn't go amiss. Shafting us for the sake of it shouldn't be on. Personally I'd sell the place tomorrow rather than turn it over to the turnips at the SFA. Then you could all troop through to Murrayfield with its pish views from the back of the massive stands and the road / rail network that will f**k you up more than Hampden's ever did. Ask rugby fans how easy it is for 80,000 to get away from Murrayfield in a hurry.

I'm no Jacques Cousteau but I think that's the sea rolling in, m8.

I decided to work from home today.

I was a Trust Board member from the very beginning until after the 2010 takeover. The problems with the Trust Board and the Exec (the club directors) stem from the takeover in 2010. There was about 4 weeks between winning control of the club and the start of the season. There was no time to sit down and lay out a structure, responsibilities and remits of the Trust Board and Exec Board. There has always been tension between the two as the Exec Board ignored reasonable requests from the Trust Board for updates on the finances during the first season after the takeover. Monthly Trust Board meetings after monthly meeting - no update on the club finances. Rumours of a cardboard box of receipts unprocessed would suggest that the Exec didn’t know what the situation actually was so that was why there no ability to give an update. For the record, a £5k profit was made that season (we were relegated tamely from the 2nd tier under John O’Neil then Jocky Scott) There was an Exec Boardroom coup. Paul Goodwin and Steven lieper were ousted and the Brown era began with Alan Christie taking over the finances. This is when the club started to be run properly if looking at it with a financial hat on. The procedures for the Exec reporting to the Trust Have never been properly set down. The Trust have owned the club for 7.5 years. It is a failure of the Trust ownership that they never fixed the roles and remits of the structure properly.

Ach no big point really. Any time I’ve been at cup finals though, I’ve generally gone early. I think the last one I was at was the Scottish Cup in 2010, Dundee United v Ross County and the build up was great. I remember about 20 years ago sailing up the Hudson in New York. There was a cabaret in the lounge on the boat. I went upstairs and saw we were approaching the Statue of Liberty all lit up. Went downstairs to tell the folk we were sitting with “Naw yer alright mate we're just watching the (pretty shite) band” The Irn Bru Cup Final is not the Scottish Cup Final or a cruise up the Hudson. It is though our cup final and it’s something I haven’t seen in 47 years supporting the Sons. I have been in more pubs and drank more pints and drams than I care to remember. In fact within reason I can go to a pub any time I like. This may be my only ever chance to see my team in a National Cup Final I’m not missing any of it, even the build up for mair drink.

Here are the handsome devils out on the pull.

Wearing pyjamas or onesies out and about during the day, on the school run etc.

Paul Paton seems to have labelled an arsehole by a lot of people who have never spent time in his company. I on the other hand, have been in his presence a couple of times, albeit briefly, and was surprised to find that he was in fact a complete and utter arsehole.

Why, didn't you know? aLL wOrK AAAANdd nO pLAy Maaakes KNighTSwOoDbEar a DULL bOY

Tommy's back to going on about 'big changes' again in the coming summer. Also saying that we'll be reviewing how we scout players as recruitment hasn't been good enough. Not a great message to send out to Scougall, Tanser and Johnstone and can possibly be applied to the 3 new boys in January too. I've not seen enough of Williams (who looked ok last night) or McMillan, but Willock certainly doesn't look like he'll make a great career for himself in football. As for big changes. Mannus, M. Hurst, Watson, Anderson, Tanser, Millar, Alston, Davidson, Willock, Williams, Johnstone, Maclean, G. Hurst, Hendry. 14 players out of contract or coming to the end of their loan spell. Millar and Davidson are definite keeps for me. Anderson has improved recently and Mannus (last night aside) has been fine in goal. I can see them getting offers - probably another year each. Alston has fallen well below my expectations and his output hasn't been anywhere near good enough. He plays a lot of minutes though and is young enough to improve so I think Tommy will look to extend his deal too. Tanser just isn't brave enough for me and Maclean's overall form has become a bit of a liability at times. If they improve they might get offers at the end of the season, but if their current levels continue I'd be releasing them. I'm not sure, but Hendry may already be away. He's back at home and is talking about 'big changes' ahead. The Hursts are on borrowed time now. Neither will make it at Saints and I don't want another Thomson/Gilchrist situation with them. Watson and Johnstone can get in the sea. Willock and Williams are short term fixes and will be gone. Pace, creativity, someone who can cross a ball/take a corner, and a player with similar attributes to Millar required in the summer. If Millar can't play every game - which is fair enough given his age/injury history - we can't be in a situation where all we have is cloggers waiting in the wings to replace him.

Donovan - Sunny Goodge Street

The Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man

Hazard Muirhead-Grant-McGhee Tumilty-Kidd-Taiwo-Sibbs-Robson Nelson-Longridge Subs: Thomson, Watson, McKee, Blair, Jakubiak, Loy, O’Hara

They probably should have stuck in at school. If it was open.

Had to get the bus to work today and the number 44 in Lincoln is like a mobile Jeremy Kyle show. Some lassie with a baby in a pushchair was shouting and swearing down the phone (presumably at one of the potential fathers) that she had no fucking money, no fucking nappies and that the baby had shat itself. Shouting only ended when her call was curtailed. 'Aww f**k, I've ran out of credit.'

When the fans bought the club, it was put in the hands of the Supporters Trust. The Trust then appointed an executive board to run the club on a day to day basis, including the chairman (Stuart Brown) Over the last few months (years?), certain members of the Trust committee have fallen out with the Chairman and due to growing egos, have pursued to try and get rid of him by whatever means they can. In September, they held a Trust meeting fully expecting in their own arrogant fashion that the fans would just agree to removing him, but although many fans have had their differences with the Chairman, he's always put the club first, so there was a bit of a backlash at the meeting (particularly given many of the baseless allegations) with the agreement that a mediator be brought in to try and resolve the matter. The Chairman also stated he would be willing to stand down at the end of the season anyway. Now we have a situation where the Trust are so desperate to discredit the man, they're using an ongoing case of abuse to further their vandetta against him, which is sickening really. Heads need to roll on the Trust board after this. If I was the chairman, I'd also stick two fingers up to them by not offering to step down at the end of the season. Of course. all of this may be moot given there's an offer on the table to buy the club, although what the prospective buyers must be thinking now is anyone's guess. Not to mention the risk of the club sponsors getting twitchy at what's unfolding here. In short, an avoidable shambles perpetrated by power hungry egomaniacs who are letting personal vendettas get in the way of running the club. And all this at a time the team on the park have found their spark again. I'm sickened by the whole sordid affair.

Bump. A trip to Eigg a couple of years ago.

Rumours and I must stress that word, “rumours” Iv heard recently - -Proposals as regards to SJFA clubs going in at LL level or on par with tier 6 will be thrown in the sea without much debate. -If there was enough West clubs Junior or Ams came forward to join tier 6 then EOS and SOS could be willing to help run and start a new WOS League at tier 6 depending on the interest. -Junior clubs participation in senior Scottish Cup could be stopped. Money going out this comp to unlicensed Junior clubs isn’t looked upon too well just now by SPFL Clubs. -The Amateur association could be invited to come in at tier 7 and filter their regional leagues in below, where that would leave the SJFA clubs I don’t know.