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The hostility towards Ian Cathro from the press and his fellow professionals is a perfect example of the mindset which continues to blight Scottish football. I was gutted that he failed at Hearts, purely because the dinosaurs who attacked him will feel vindicated. Our game is so depressingly parochial. New ideas are frowned upon and dismissed, people who haven’t come from a traditional ‘football background’ are treated with suspicion and ridicule and we can’t have Johnny Foreigner managing the national team. We can’t tolerate intelligent journalists who are capable of delivering objectivity and insight. Ensuring that thick ex-professionals like Billy Dodds and Pat Bonner are kept on the gravy train is of more importance. Sportsound is a microcosm of the problems facing Scottish football as a whole.

Run into his house shouting "LEEEERRROOOYYY JEEEENKIINNNS" and smash his fucking head in.

Take the moral high ground and stick untraceable posters on lamp posts saying he's a paedophile.

f**k them. The smelly c***s are rabid Brexiteers. I hope it ruins the lot of them and they regret voting for it every single day until they die.

Currently sitting in a Buckie induced stupor trying to figure out for the hundredth time what HSF sees in me. Shit, done it again.

Currently enjoying Chateau neuf de pape with caviar and lobster on my sea view balcony in my 10 star hotel in Elevenerife Oh shit posted from wrong account.

He wasnt hounded out of Starks. He had the job for 3 seasons and didn't improve during that time. We were nowhere near the playoffs and went on a couple of dreadful runs too. He had 100% lost the dressing room and it was impossible for him to continue, one look at the results and performances towards the end of that season shows that. The decision to remove him and bring in Mckinnon was absolutely correct and worked. It's the disastrous replacement of Mckinnon and subsequent disasters that make Murray tenure look better than it actually was.

Laughed way harder than I should have at this.

You could report him...I guess if you do it’s confirmation, if it was needed, that you couldn’t beat him in a fight.

Farmers They will no doubt be demanding the Scottish Government cover their subsidies to mitigate their extra costs. I hope they're told to f**k off in no uncertain terms. Things will be fun in Angus. Most of these daft c***s had Kirstene Hair billboards up in every prominent roadside field at the last GE. I suspect she'll suddenly become quite difficult to contact.

Knew none. Guessed 10. Got 9. Wrong. 1/10.

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze

Sparked out

Indigo Girls - Least Complicated

Rolling Stones - Complicated

Kinks - Complicated Life

You buy a Lorne of sausage from the butchers. This can be sliced or unsliced at the point of purchase. When served for consumption an individual slice of the Lorne is a square sausage.

When they're giving food from aid parcels to mothers so they can shag their daughters (as the Dutch guy did) it is a big deal. When they're going into disaster areas where women are absolutely desperate to do anything to feed their families and they're using the power this gives them to quite literally f**k them over, it's a big deal. NGOs are able to operate in war zones where they're (mostly) trusted not to take sides and are seen as trying to help. If the perception comes out that "Here comes the charity bwana to shag our women" then charity workers are going to get killed.

Given how poor the scores are this week? 666 is the Mark of the Best.

Indigo Girls - Prince Of Darkness

Prince - Purple Rain

If only someone had told Goodwillie that.

Me 4 - 0 T

Nice one! It takes time, we've had Monty 6 years and he still has moments where he'll go to his safe place under the bed, mainly if there's noise from outside or if we have people round.

They think if there's a war on everyone's wives will be sent to work on their land while the real menfolk are storming beaches, again. Getting to bribe the widows of the fallen with a sack of Jersey Pinks for a rumble in the hay loft is pretty much every rural landowners wet dream. That and they are universally thick as absolute f**k, yet somehow experts at tax avoidance. Which is pretty much the tory archetype.

Currently speaking with a project manager based in India over IM. The guys name is Surender. He's asked me a daft question and whether I've completed the task that he's half arsedly sent to me, which left a total tap in for me to answer "No, Surender...."

Makes you wonder yeah ?

A couple of things taken from the Cowdenbeath website. The Cowdenbeath squad in 1899 above and 1909 below. The 1979 team. Cowdenbeath took on the German Olympic side in 1928. Central Park in 1960 There's more here - http://www.cowdenbeathfc.com/index.php?act=viewDoc&docId=19 A picture of the old stand back in 1971.

That including the Inverness game where he received man of the match and scored 2 goals in a 3-1 victory aye ?

The fact that Oxfam went out and openly attacked the staggering inequality in the world recently has nothing to do with this...no siree. The right wing of the Tory party were furious that an aid charity would meddle in politics. Next thing we know an old story appears and the British media go in to overdrive. These c***s need dealt with but this is being massively overblown.

Roland Kirk - Serenade To A Cuckoo

I think that is part of it. The record against teams outside the rest of the top five has been good and pretty consistent. But the results that get noticed and more importantly the results that get the fans excited are those in the big games. Unquestionably we've not been good enough in these. A big part of the issue is we have too many players this season who are shrinking violets. Thinking back particularly to the games against the OF, consistently GMS, Stewart, Christie, AOC and Considine go missing as they just don't have the battling qualities or temperament for it. Going back to last season and more pertinently the season before where we took Celtic at Pittodrie with 10 men and pumped them in the second one, players like McGinn, Hayes, Jack in the first one and Craig Storie in the second one stood up and were counted, had the character and fight. We lack that. However Del is also not above criticism. Quite often in big games in his time, we've come up short and on a number of occasions this has been due to conservative tactics. Sitting off Rangers last season and this when you need to press high, consistently is baffling. The insistence on 3-5-2 when we simply don't have the players to play it is mental. And the loyalty to the players when they aren't standing up to be counted in these games is surprising. Saturday was the time to give a proper rocket and criticise them highly. Instead we heard that this was out of character and that he couldn't be overly critical. Sadly it was very much in character this season and Del would have been well within his rights to call the players out publicly on this. In no way am I calling for Del to go or anything stupid. However I do feel for him to reach his target of multiple trophies here, there needs to be an honest assessment of why we fail in big games as these are what is preventing him from reaching his goal. Part of the blame lies with players who are big game bottlers, part of it with his own tactical limitations. Player wise he can only fix that through targeted recruitment of players like Barry Robson with big game character or to develop young lads with that. For his own tactical limitations, perhaps a new coach being added to the first team mix with some tactical advice for approaching big games would not be such a bad thing. Whether "happy clapper" or "moaning b*****d", we all want to win. To do this, I think an honest and frank discussion is necessary and hopefully this post gets the ball rolling. All thoughts and solutions welcome!

My gf would still prefer this to a shafting probably!

The old lady should pretend she's loaded and have them running about for her like servants.

That first picture is genuinely terrifying when you look at the crowd inside and they're still cramming thousands and thousands more in. Madness.

Murray seemed to be a cup specialist. For two out of three seasons his league form was up and down and very mediocre. The other season was a great start followed by a seemingly unstoppable spiral downwards. That middle season I think coloured what was an alright league campaign the year after where we gave ourselves a very outside shot at the playoffs. On the other hand, unlike Locke and Hughes he did just enough to keep us up that middle year. He gave Vaughan and Callachan their first sustained runs in the team and made them first team regulars. Perhaps he deserves criticism for not introducing them earlier, but he was at least smart enough to keep them in there. His teams set up in a very pedestrian manner for the most part, but generally his signings were alright. McKinnon came in and had a good year though I'd argue his mk.1 pre-christmas team was not light years ahead of a typcial Murray side, his mk 2 team post January was an embarrassment of riches.

Put up the posters calling him a paedo and get Jenkins round to kick his c**t in.

Well now you are just talking shite to make your point. Did Houston win manager of the month in the season he left ? I wasn't spouting a stat I was stating a fact. You said Muirheads contribution to those games were as little as could be. I pointed out the fact he had a man of the match performance and scored 2 goals within these games. Now don't go thinking I am muirheads biggest fan, I just think you are looking to stir the pot for the sake of it and using him as your scapegoat so to speak.

It's not really an interview. It's more that Hughes is the drunk pub bore with a story from the past about everything, ably assisted by Derek Ferguson, as they both get misty eyed and moist over past Celtic and Deadco teams, with Hughes seemingly having an anecdote about every player and team mentioned, butting in often with "Aye, but what about such and such as well" leading off on to a boring tangent about yet another former old firm* player. Ferguson talked about how a player read Italian newspapers in the dressing room, which apparently made the player pretentious and thought he was above everything, which gave Ferguson the excuse to go in extra hard on tackles on him and torment him. Hughes kept going on about this unknown French striker who not many will have heard of, Patrice Loko, being really great, despite the fact that most folk will have heard of him as he was a prominent player in Europe at the time. It was succulent lamb in radio form for the most part. There was some talk of Hughes' managerial career, which by the way he told it made him sound like an exceptional manager with no failures. He tried to defend playing Colin Nish up front on his own in Europe for Hibs. He apparently unearthed Ryan Christie. He only ever spent £240k on transfer fees. And other stuff.

Not really, we don't vote for the press.

The vast proportion of our established media are little more than mouthpieces for the uber wealthy. It’s extremely good if they are taken on and their influence broken up. Rupert Murdoch’s been a stain on this country and we deserve a better standard of press.

Set your alarm, wait for him then throw him down the stairs a few times. It will look like an accident.

Roland Orzabal - Low Life

You'll get plenty of responses from QoS fans after leaving us out of your 2nd question...

Divs wee tipster friend has spectacularly lost the head over on the gambling forum after some posters have ‘red-dotted’ him. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a genuine outburst.

Tbh, I don’t think he’s a terrible defender. I just don’t think he’s a great one either. My main concern about him is his appalling distribution more than anything else. I guess you could argue that that’s led to the opposition picking up the ball in midfield leading to losing goals, but I’d need to track back through a lot of games to confirm that...