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Here’s my summary; 1- The Ray saga is the biggest thing to ever happen to Morton. 2- Falkirk make a donation to Morton. Keeping them full time for another year. 3- Tidser 4- get it up yi.

Obviously a very subjective conversation, but while Still Game is probably never going to get a BBC retrospective with lot's of talking heads spunking all over it, I found it, particularly in it's early series to be insightful study of community and friendship. This is a group of people who lack the tools (because of class and age) to get on in the world or escape their circumstances and rely massively on each other to stave off boredom. A story about people who take their kicks where they find it, even if that involves a plot surrounding a sweepstake on who's going to die from hypothermia that they manage to tell without it becoming dark or macabre. That it only works in context is hardly a surprise. The dialogue is written for West coast Scots cadence and only works because of it and perhaps that does limit it's appeal to wider audiences, but so what? There are tonnes of comedies that are well loved but when you see the actual dialogue written down are just not funny. Take Blackadder for example: Stuff like 'more cunning than a cunning fox that's just been made professor of cunning at Oxford' only really works because Atkinson delivers it with such venom and sarcasm that you can imagine him over running the comparison because he needs the extra words to vent. Or Yes Minister, briefly re-booted and abandoned because for all the dryness that exists in Lynn's written dialogue it needs Hawthorne's carefully blank face, strategic pauses and effortless authority to deliver it in a way that makes you laugh. There was this bit in Hitchhiker's guide where Slartibartfast is extolling the virtues of fjords and his general outlook on life: He say's he'd rather be happy than right, and when challenged on whether he is happy, he responds "No, that's where it all falls to bits" and in the naughties movie Bill Nighy plays him and it's such a nothing line. In the original, Richard Vernon delivers the same dialogue with such ennui, so far removed from caring that it remains the bit I love the most. So when you have Jack and Victor arguing over who ate the last Tea Cake, or Winston's rage at Stevie the Bookie, yeah it might only work in the context of the particularly Scottish brand of machismo: a form of needling that escalates quickly well beyond the stakes involved and that might not be something you see in other localities or shows, but that's to it's benefit.

Between Snakegate (lol) and the fan buyout, if we cant use that to empty Lang and Campbell then we should fold. If McKinnon keeps us up he will have been worth whatever we paid. That much is beyond debate.

We don't tend to face World Cup quarter-finalists on a particularly regular basis, so 12 years isn't really a particularly long period of time. You added the caveat of "within a year", which means you are basically limiting us to only European Championship qualifying groups (assuming friendlies aren't being considered in any way relevant). The France and Ukraine victories were in the Euro 2008 qualifiers - so your "12 years" only consists of the Euro 2012 and Euro 2016 campaigns. In the Euro 2012 group the only quarter-finalists we played were Spain, and in the Euro 2016 group the only quarter-finalists we played were Germany. Both of those sides weren't just any "World Cup quarter-finalists", they were World Cup holders. So basically your argument boils down to "we haven't been able to beat the reigning world champions in either of our last two European Championship qualifying groups". A disgusting failure, I'm sure we'll all agree. I'm also amused at the amount of people who have wilfully chosen not to actually read what I have said and have somehow interpreted "it's not time to consider the campaign a write-off" as "we will definitely qualify".

From this Thread!!! From the Burnistoun Thread!!! Hmmmn!!! I'm sure there's a Limmy's Show Thread, a Scot Squad Thread and if you look hard enough a Rab C. Nesbit Thread you can copy and paste this further!!! You've obviously spent a lot of time on it, you should share it more!!!

That's a simile.

Sorry guys but the chat about a specific ref is bordering on disgraceful. Moaning about decisions is one thing but questioning a referees integrity is totally out of order and should be dealt with by the authorities. I can understand frustrations around some decisions etc on the field but does that warrant abuse and threats? I'm not just talking about the above but In general the way a lot of referees are treated is wrong. Without them we have no game. Also, for a ref to apparently 'dislike' a team, what has that team done to him to get him to that position. Respect goes 2 ways and 9 times out of 10 the disrespect starts with the teams not the ref, we are all to blinkered to see it and admit it. Give the guys in the middle a break and some respect and I guarantee you will enjoy football a lot more. Iv seen guys physically foaming at the mouth in referees faces, is that really how we want to enjoy our Saturdays?

Hurdy gurdy gurdy, in the windae boxes

Do the decent thing Davies, tear up the contract, and walk away, was probably injured when he signed as well, shocking behaviour. IMO.

Off season?

Bread that's washed whiter than white I suppose.

Watching the news here tonight, story about a tourist falling into the Grand Canyon. They’re looking for him. “......he fell over 4000 feet. Authorities don’t believe he survived” I laughed at that more than I should have

That's yer Adam Livingstone signed a year extension... Interesting bit of chat in the news story that possibly balances out the whole "he's been hung out to dry" narrative that people seem to like. Good lad. Edit: McGarry rubbishing the Hastie story too.

Who the f**k thinks Fosters is “mid tier” lager. i wouldn’t clean the shitter with it.

Theresa May is more incompetent than Alex McLeish. There, I’ve said it.

Ha here comes those momentous Gammon riots of 2019

HAHAHA FUCKING WIT?!

Shut it you fucking baldy wee ferret.

Bombay Bicycle Club-Bad timing

Always thought Brian Moore was a pure c**t, a horrible wee pitbull and then after he retired you heard about his upbringing and his values and you realise you can be a proud Englishman without being a jingoistic racist fandan. I now appreciate I was a fandan too.

The Kinks : All Day And All Of The Night

Don McLean - Vincent (Starry,Starry Night)

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power Of Love

If Mehmet can catch a cross there will be a few of our supporters injuring themselves celebrating.

Yes, but he also announced, at 17:55 last night and just minutes before I was about to clock off from work, that he was “sure” the Library would be producing a briefing note for a debate that had *just been announced* and was due to start first thing in the morning. He hadn’t thought to, you know, check with the Library first, before confidently saying that...! So really he was apologising for ruining my Thursday evening without notice as much as crediting my prose...

Re-signing Dylan Dykes.

Shite, I was in a Japanese restaurant the other week with a few guys from work, usually the waitress takes your order and asks if anyone needs cutlery, as it's chopsticks on the table. I ask for a fork and knife - my boss bursts out laughing and the woman looks like I've just insulted her entire family. Came back with just a knife. There's a high chance someone spat in my dinner because they thought I'm after a fucking knife [emoji849]

Having a poppy on the front of your car

It'll be fun to see the Scottish Tories bleating about a once in a generation vote up here but it's ok at Westminster to have as many as you want until you get your desired result. Feels very strange that for once I'm relying on the dup bigots to save the day

SFA will be desperately hoping we drop points before any decision, so it makes no impact and less controversial. Typical of the spineless leadership they always demonstrate

One mention of the OO and Kink's all over it

Fairport Convention : Matty Groves/Orange Blossom Special

Country Joe McDonald-Agent orange song

The answer is clearly 13 and the moron got the middle two answers wrong B)

The Associates - Club Country

Clearly you listened to the voices in your head instead of what was actually said. Blackford said that the PM has "run down this clock, only to ignore the wishes of Parliament, the wishes of the people and engage in a game of blackmail and trickery to win support". He adds: "It is an absolute outrage "Those who go through the lobbies in support of the prime minister will be guilty of aiding and abetting the greatest act of self harm in the United Kingdom."' He's absolutely right - this is a vote for political chicanery and boasting the ego of a useless Prime Minister.

The correct way to do St Mirren away.

Aged a bit,has he not?

Hopefully that's the missing link between now, and getting a decent team on the park. As he mentions in his article, its about gradual improvement. If we consolidate this year, then next year the minimum aim has to be the playoffs, no doubt about it. If we could be challenging for the title at the halfway point, great. Or with 10 games to go, even better, but the MINIMUM has got to be the Promotion playoffs and have a squad that for once we could think, "we might have a shot here". Its been far too long since we've had a team we enjoyed watching.

Clackmannanshire Central By-Election,

That's what you all get for letting a horse-fiddling Tory fuckwit represent your area in the first place.

Looks like Fide has just had to splash out on a Pornhub Premium membership.

Guys, some of you could start a fight in an empty hoose! I've supported the 'team' for 50 years, but I don't know if I always got the 'club'. What exactly is the club? Is it the supporters, the officials, the directors or the owners? For the first time in ages we seem to have a management and team togetherness which links to the fans. The support often extends a benign patience with the performance that was not always evident over the last few seasons; this has to be good. The team has a self belief that was absent for too long. We've picked up results against Edinburgh City and Annan, when we might not have been superior on the park on the day. That for me is something worth celebrating, but that's by the way, I suppose for others. What's done is done regarding the registration of Fitzpatrick. I can't imagine that one of the admin / directors phoned up Danny and said, 'I've got an idea, why don't you play the big lad that's on loan with Clydebank?' It's not always to productive to find someone to blame; sometimes we might not like it when we find the person who was actually at fault... I take my hat off to the guys who volunteer at Clyde. I'm not too sure why they do, and to imply it's self-serving, I think is wide of the mark. Like any sort of arrangement where there is a 'committee' it's too easy to stand outside and complain. If you think the PTA / Scouts / Works Xmas party is being run badly, get involved and improve it. By the same token, if the 'Club' needs new blood maybe it should throw open the doors and ask, ask and ask again for people to volunteer. Was it JFK's line, 'ask not what the party can do for me, ask what I can do for the party'/ Alternatively, you can be like me...buy a season ticket, sign up for ownership / 200 club, buy a programme, buy a lottery and leave others to steer the ship. With a favourable wind, we might just find ourselves having these sort of arguments in league 1...keep the faith and let's not look for a horsehair shirt to wear.

There’s a lot of people on here who should be pretty embarrassed with all the jokes being made about “drink problems” without there being the slightest bit of evidence. The speculation about supposed “health problems” here and in the wider media isn’t much better either. I think Eck seems like a decent enough guy (he isn’t a wee fanny like Strachan anyway), so I really don’t hold much against him but he definitely needs to go. But all the speculation about his health is distasteful, can’t imagine it’s much fun seeing half the country talking shite about your health with very little basis.

Looks like we can all agree on one thing, then. Keith Jackson is a grade A c**t.

fair enough, but quick question then, if it doesn't matter where the game is played, then why not move the game in the first place? just seems strange that the game gets called of for a "reason" and you were offered to move the game but didn't and yet your so confident it doesn't matter where the game is played as Sandys will win, and yet you don't move the game