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Get they nails cut man.

Or get new ones. I need one. Hard Brexit makes IndyRef2 in 2018 almost a certainty. And I'll be voting Yes.

It doesn't matter how hard Brexit is, or how hard the tories f**k Scotland, we still contain enough utter shitebags who will always happily vote "no" to Independence to ensure more of the same.

Dundee through and through

So yesterday this little chunk giggled for the first time!

Just to be clear, fans of every other Scottish club will absolutely never stop reminding Rangers fans that the old club died. The Rangers fans saying they would've only ribbed Celtic fans for a week or so after are talking absolute piss. If anything, it would be fucking worse than Celtic fans give it to them.

"Listen, see for me, having a wee bit ae treat now and again isnae gonnae make a huge amount ae difference. Listen, Walter let us have yer ketchups, yer crisps, yer biscuits. Did it make us any less good? Listen, we were top, top professionals at Rangers"

As someone who would put my loyalties to 'Well and the national team as a 90/10 split (and that's being generous), the idea that clubs like ours can have their business plan ripped up at the whim of an SFA committee, based on a flawed ranking system and a poorly thought out plan calling for an entirely arbitrary number of "elite" academies makes me fucking angry. Add to that the fact that given the elite academies will be better resourced and will be casting their nets wider, we will probably find ourselves competing with SIX of the academies (Rangers, Celtic, Accies, Forth Valley, Hearts and Hibs) for players. The stupid, lopsided plan where huge swathes of the country (eg, Tayside, Fife & Ayrshire) are ignored in order to make sure that the usual suspects have funding channelled to them means that we really are stuck in a shite situation not of our making, despite trying to be a model club in terms of youth development. My view is that the having our clubs able to exist at their "natural" level in a sustainable way is vastly more important than the lofty goal of "producing better players for the national team". Any plan that sacrifices club stability on the altar of the Scotland team is not a plan worth pursuing. Has any sort of impact study been even carried out regarding clubs that will exist outside the top 8 structure? Alan Burrows' suggestion where there are set criteria for clubs to meet in order to access Elite status would seem infinitely more sensible, would result in a better geographic spread (you'd imagine that Utd, Dundee, Killie, St Johnstone would all be wanting to reach that status) and would stop clubs being locked out - time it was seriously considered.

I won't believe he's signed until I hear him singing Eminem via voicemail on the official site.

If he's not waiting on spices, my second guess for throbber is a new coffee table book:

The likes of Beck, Bingham, Durojaiye, Roberts or Chalmers would not get a regular start in the current side. Other than bringing Mark Millar in on loan, Holts signings were awful. He cost us promotion that season and should have been sacked before he was allowed to shuffle back to his job at Norwich.

MAY 21, 2016 If you’ve ever watched the TV series, Dexter, or read the Jeff Lindsay books that inspired the show, at some point you’ll have wondered, ‘surely he should have been found out by now?’ For those not au fait with the hit series, it follows a Miami PD forensic technician who also happens to be a serial killer. Despite half of Miami seeming to know his secret at various stages, and despite the inordinate number of delicate situations he finds himself in, his dark second life is never rumbled by the authorities. That same ‘surely he should have been found out by now?’ question can also be applied to Raith Rovers’ newest manager. While – and let’s be absolutely clear about this – Gary Locke is no secret serial killer, he does happen to be a football manager who, on the face of it, has been incredibly lucky to find himself at a full-time club for the third time. And yet, here he is, in charge of the side who finished fourth in a strong Championship last season and who will look to repeat the feat (at least) next season. There has been a lot of gnashing of teeth from Rovers supporters – and lots of sympathy and laughter in equal measure from other fans – about the decision on social media since it broke last night. As fans, we all love to wildly over-react, but there a number of reasons why this seems like such a perplexing decision by the Raith Board. At the heart of the matter is the belief that Locke was a failure at both his previous clubs and doesn’t deserve another shot. There isn’t one definitive, easy answer as to what extent Locke was responsible for in Hearts’ relegation in 2014 that ultimately cost him his job at Tynecastle. The 15-point deduction meted out at the start of the season would have made it incredibly difficult for any club to survive, and the squad was painfully reliant on young players too, but there’s a sense that Locke failed to get the best out of what he had available. Throughout his time in charge Hearts seemed incredibly susceptible to cross balls and set pieces and were generally badly organised. Locke repeatedly re-iterated that it was ‘silly mistakes’ that cost his side points, but at what point do near-identical silly mistakes become a pattern that needs correcting? A good manager should be able to quickly identify issues and work to correct with them…a poor manager will rely on intangibles to defend his record. Hearts lost 65 goals that campaign. Compare it to this season where Dundee United lost 70 and Kilmarnock, 64 and it seems to fit into the argument that his team, regardless of the 15-point deduction, deserved to be near the bottom. In the first half of the season, Locke chanted the mantra of ‘getting to 0 points as quickly as possible’, as if the league would restart once they hit the mark. Talk of catching opponents never seemed like a realistic concept as far as Locke was concerned and the players were obviously not inspired; it took Hearts until 25th January to hit a positive points total. By the time Locke was let go, five wins from the final eight (largely meaningless) games left him with a win ratio of 27%. Allan Johnstone left Kilmarnock in February 2015, with his team in 8th position and Locke took over, initially on an interim basis. To celebrate the three-year deal he was later given by the Kilmarnock Board, he led his side to seven defeats in a row and some heavy flirting with relegation. Although he secured safety on the penultimate game of the 2014/15 season, he finally resigned in January of this year, after a 1-0 home defeat to Hamilton which left the Rugby Park club in 11th position; only ahead of a Dundee United side in their Premiership death throes. In the case of Kilmarnock, there is no points deduction to obscure his performance as manager. Kilmarnock fans complained regularly of basic, route one tactics, the familiar complaint that his side’s lacked organisation and an inability to get the best out of the few decent players at his disposal. Killie conceded 20 goals in the seven games they lost at the back of the 2014/15 season and there was no sign of improved defensive solidity during the first half of 2015/16, when they lost 4-0 at home to Dundee, Ross County and Aberdeen and 5-2 at home to Thistle. Even as they imploded, Dundee United managed to bang five goals past Jamie MacDonald at Tannadice. * Which all begs the question: what have the Rovers Board seen in him? Some hint might be given by his interview on BBC Sportsound a few nights ago. When asked about his time at Kilmarnock he blamed the fans, the board, the players and, given another 10 minutes, would have undoubtedly lumped in the groundsman into his game of Blame Roulette. There wasn’t one point where he held his hands up and admitted that he did anything wrong. Presumably he did much the same in his interview with Rovers. He’s also an ex-Hearts man and, having worked with McGlynn, there’s always a chance that this has made some impression on the Board. The Hearts connection has been fairly consistent over the past decade at Raith and, while it’s slightly nebulous, it’s not unreasonable to think that that has aided Locke’s case in some form. The only other possibility is that he’s seen as the best candidate to work with a club of Raith’s size. If you ignore his actual record, Locke has two Premiership teams on his CV. Stephen Aitken and Darren Young have none and, despite them having had relative success and appearing to be in the ascendency as managers, they don’t have the experience of working with clubs within the top 15 in the country. This is at odds with the Board’s decision last summer though. Although Ray McKinnon was not welcomed with overwhelming delight by fans (who is?), he’d had moderate success in the lower leagues and joined with a definite sense that he was on an upward trajectory. The Board were proven to be completely correct and 2015/16 was the best campaign in many years at Stark’s. With McKinnon we set a template for recruiting managers we should have carried into this summer. Bring in a hungry, young manager with a degree of success behind them, support them and aim as high as possible. There’s no guarantees that it would have worked, but there’s an ambition about that process. Signing McKinnon last summer suggested the club’s desire for improvement; both on and off the pitch. His positivity was something the fans could get behind and his ability as a manger shone through as the season progressed. No one could be blamed for him joining his boyhood club a few weeks back, but it should have set in motion a desire for Raith to repeat the process. Admittedly, the managerial options were not abundant, but there were some promising candidates. Instead, the board’s decision highlights a poverty of ambition; a sense of ‘this’ll do’. Or maybe they’ve forgotten to do research and been blind-sided by his interview answers. Either way, there’s no evidence to suggest Gary Locke will be a success at Stark’s and the decision threatens to undo all the progress made over the past 12 months.

With apologies to piebob "Oh Gary Locke's the gaffer He wishes it was Hearts He signs his Jambo buddies And gives them first team starts He sits and dreams of Skacel And beating Hibs for fun And while he's busy wanking We're heading to League One"

Kostadin Gadzhalov has started coming to my gym on a fairly regular basis. He comes with his wife/partner. On that note I think Dundee should give him a new 8 year deal.

That is the worst argument that is continually trotted out for keeping a manager in his job.

@DABaracus?

He'll look braw on our treatment table. Fucking hell. ETA: I forgot to mention that's he fucking gash also.

The only signings there that are near this transfer window are Commons and Humphrey for Hibs. United and Hibs are in a lower league than us so they're clearly not a team around us. Shinnie has also been shite for them. Watt's been punted, Aberdeen are trying to punt Storey and Muirhead hardly gets a game. Alston's apparently been far from impressive for St Johnstone on a consistent basis. That only leaves Burke, who I'm pretty sure is injured. Quality players indeed, lol.

Wilson Picket - In The Midnight Hour

You let your club die.

Just noticed this Lazarus esque return by 8mile who is now the 3rd most popular contributor of the week. Don't tell me people on here are falling for this reformed character pish he's peddling just now.

Bob Dylan : Just Like A Woman

Brexit hasn't shifted the polls because Brexit hasn't happened yet. It's really that simple.

Those pesky loose paving slabs with hidden puddles below them that erupt if you happen to stand on the wrong bit.

That's possibly the nicest thing anyone's ever had to say about me.

I'm right on the edge of my seat here waiting to see if all these parcels arrive or not.

Off to the gym soon so sitting in my trackys just now and I reckon I'll get another 8 years out of these easily.

You know Staropramen means "old spring"? and I know you don't need me quoting you scripture but... Isaiah 49:10 "They will not hunger or thirst, Nor will the scorching heat or sun strike them down; For He who has compassion on them will lead them And will guide them to springs of water. i reckon that's pretty clear as to what you can drink in the Czech Republic

Aberdeen are an interesting part of this all, really, as Burrows was saying, they're quite high up in the bizarre ranking system, because they have ten players out on loan, which is apparently good? Of those ten, how many seem likely to play consistently for either Aberdeen? Looking at it, Cammy Smith, seems to have made the most appearances (using the data here, feel free to highlight if I've done it wrong: http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/cammy-smith/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/158938/plus/1?saison=&verein=370&liga=&wettbewerb=&pos=&trainer_id=) has him at 89 appearances for Aberdeen, at about 30 minutes a time. Given that guys like Shankland, Storie and Smith haven't exactly set the heather alight at any of their loan moves, are they going to kick on for Aberdeen? They're young, so perhaps they'll improve, but are they going to dislodge Rooney, Hayes, McGinn, Jack, Shinnie, or anyone else? McInnes brought in Storey, Stockley, Burns and Maddison in these players' positions, so he obviously doesn't trust them to kick on at the moment. They're very much in a similar position to ourselves a couple of years ago, as they've got a good first team, which is presumably, quite expensive. Jack and Considine are the only 'youth products' consistently getting a game for them, but they're hardly 'young' any more. McInnes has no obvious desire to play youth, and why would he? He's challenging for second place, Europe and cup competitions. In addition, with the launch of their new-new stadium bid, there's bits and pieces in the paper with Reynolds saying they miss 500 hours of training a year: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/mark-reynolds-says-aberdeens-lack-9625065. But they're in the tent. They're in the 'elite' group. For what it's worth as well, I don't blame Aberdeen for any of this in the slightest. I realise the above may come across like its having a go at them, but they just stuck out as an example. As highlighted, McInnes has different priorities, and that isn't a bad thing at all, but in this context, it seems strange they'd be included, and ourselves and Killie, for example, aren't. We keep our players and play them, and for that we suffer. Would appreciate that, ta.

Also had to laugh at Barry Ferguson saying how much he admires Andy Murray for the dedication and professionalism he shows. Ferguson even had the nerve to mention diet. This is the same wee ned who went in a huff whilst on international duty and did the pathetic two fingers swearing thing. This is the same wee ned who chased Paul le Guen out of Ibrox for demanding his players eat like professionals and who banned Monster Munch. Turned off shortly after as they then went on to w**k over some former Celtic player.

Unit 4 Plus 2 - Concrete And Clay

This appeared in the 'Sunday Herald' TV section at the weekend. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38635518 President Trump: The Inauguration 4pm, BBC One/ STV "After a long absence, The Twilight Zone returns with one of the most ambitious, expensive and controversial productions in broadcast history. Sci-fi writers have dabbled often with alternative history stories - among the most common is the "What If The Nazis Had Won The Second World War" setting - but this huge interactive virtual reality project, which will unfold on TV, in the press, and on Twitter over the next four years, sets out to build an ongoing alternative present. The story begins in a nightmarish version of 2017 in which huge sections of the US electorate have somehow been duped into voting to make Donald Trump president. It sounds far-fetched, and it is, but as it goes on it becomes more and more chillingly plausible. Today's feature-length opener concentrates on the gaudy inauguration of President Trump, and the stirrings of protest and despair surrounding the ceremony, while pundits speculate gravely on what lies ahead. It's a flawed piece, but a disturbing glimpse of the horrors we could stumble into, if we're not careful."

As it turns out (with rather a lot of looking into) Shire's competitive record unbeaten run is 17 in 1891. However, our competitive unbeaten record is 12 in 1914 and 1962. We did also have a 11 game unbeaten run in 1987 as we did in 1951/52. So the current run is so bad

Sky/China isn't destroying the football I watch. Its mostly played by hard working journeymen who have taken a huge risk to join a profession with a massive failure rate. Spending the years others do apprenticeships, go to university etc, pursuing their dream of being a footballer. For every player you mention in your childish rant there are a hundred who are discarded by clubs due to not being good enough or injured. Where is the honour in Aberdeen and other clubs throwing young players on the scrap heap at 19 to 21 years? Its the reality of the industry. High risk for high potential reward. You think you have the right to slag these players for their choices to enhance their careers? Whats your investment in the game? A few hundred quid a year for a season ticket? These lads have put in everything and deserve everything that comes their way if they are one of the very few who make it.

Maisie Grace was born at 03.17am this morning

After yesterdays decent 7, Tuesday brings a mediocre 5/10. Flag, Edward IV, spelunking, krennic and bridie with no guesses. On to the cup replays. Both Kincardine and Cardinal both gave the same answer of 120 miles for the question regarding the length of the Hadrians Wall Path. As this was the incorrect answer they were both asked to submit a second guess. Kincardine came back with 100 miles while Cardinal guessed 150 miles. In the other tie Welshnairn guessed 87 miles. Despite a PM from myself and holding off on giving the result no answer has been submitted from SlipperyP meaning Welshbairn has a walkover into the next round. The correct answer to the question is 84 miles. Meaning Kincardine and Welshbairn progress to the next round so congratulations to them and commiserations to Cardinal and SlipperyP. A special mention to Welshbairn for his guess, being out by only 3 miles. ETA guess received from Slippery of 100 miles. So there would have been no change to the outcome. Commiserations Slippery and Welshbairn continues to the next round.

There's a rough graph on our goals scored timings, tells it's own story really.

Judy Clay & William Bell - Private Number

2017 is turning out not bad so far.

I bet when he's run out of green dots he just colours the screen of his phone with a felt tip. Disturbing levels of discipline put into this from Grimbo.

Being Scottish and under 21 is not the same as being in the Scotland Under 21 squad.

This guy was deranged. Was all death threats and a bunch of weird racist and homophobic abuse so, rather than interact with him, I just done a Lee Wallace and reported him to Facebook. He musta got banned because I heard nothing from him for three days until he messaged me again today. Instantly blocked. I don't think I ever truly understood how good a Greggy is it outside of PnB.

CHOOOON Good to see there's more people from the Angus riviera that are anti Brittania. #1320 #independence #fuckyourunionjack [emoji1132][emoji1132][emoji1132]

Normally I'd give benefit of the doubt, but since he's an attention seeking dick, I have absolutely no doubt what the motive was here.

Thank you folks

Never change, Dunfermline.