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When I was at primary school, we were forced to go to an old folks home to sing Christmas carols to the inmates. The auld dears loved it but the men were angry about having the telly switched off and had no problems telling us so. I don't think I've ever been in such a frighteningly depressing place and it's haunted me ever since. That said, my Mum had been struggling with dementia for several years and went downhill pretty fast after my Dad died. Both my sisters were working at the time and of course, I'm over here so none of us were equipped to give her the care she needed. We found her a place near the centre of town and it was quite lovely. It was like a nice wee hotel and the residents who were able to appreciate it, appeared to be very happy. My sisters popped in whenever they could - no need for advance notice and they never saw any cause for concern. The staff were terrific and on a special occasion, such as relatives visiting from a distance, always made sure Mum was nicely dressed with her hair done, makeup and jewellery on. I suppose the takeaway from this is, some are good, some aren't so you should do your research in advance. To me; one of the biggest injustices of modern life is that we aren't allowed to choose the manner of our own death. Advances in technology mean that people are being kept alive long after nature intended and even the ones who want to die, are forbidden to. Life should be about quality not quantity and religious hypocrites can do one.

A week ago when we all thought we’d have a front 3 of Keena, Dowds and Nelson with Alston on the wing, only for us to start the season with Dowds and Sammon with Todd on the right and McKee in the middle with Telfer in the hole

As if anyone outside Celtgers give one iota of a f**k about ten in a row.

Just imagine Tam Robert in that top. You might do shite next season but by f**k you’ll look sexy.

Falkirk fans really need to get over their former players. Two years of this with David Smith and now a season with Joe McKee. Feel free to tear into big Ryan McGeever if you want too.

At this point being on an island with that bunch of crazies is a bit like being a conjoined twin where the other one is drinking bleach and setting his head on fire.

Noticed on YouTube that Falkirk tv are uploading lots of old content 2003/04/05 Around the time I was introduced to Falkirk via my step dad who is currently not having a great time of it at the moment. Tear in my eye watching them

Ahh the joys of the IP search,the poster claiming to know Aidan Keena is none other the the East Fife fan claiming that Marc McNulty is signing for them Never mind the schools go back in 2 weeks.

Get it right up her, horrid individual.

Me and my pal went to visit an old friend who had been put in a home by his son after an incident in George Square. Was an old building but the grounds were quite nice. When we got there things started to take a bit of a turn though, we were met in the driveway by one of the residents with his hand outstretched shouting "SMELL MA FINGERS, IT'S THE GOOD STUFF" which caught us off guard a bit. Eventually we were shown inside by one of the doctors who led us up this staircase and asked us to wait at the top before pulling the clip from his clipboard and attaching it to his bottom lip before marching away singing "All the doo dah day!". We both took that as the prompt to get the f**k out of there but just as we were about to leave we spotted our pal sitting in one of the rooms. We sat down for a chat and he seemed totally fine, as if he shouldn't have been there. We got talking some more and it sounded like his son had been a bit of a c**t in throwing him in there after one wee incident in George Square. My pal decided he'd pretend to be his next of kin and we'd get him out of that nuthouse. I really thought the sign in/out process at these places would be a bit more strictly followed but they seemed quite happy that we were his relatives there to take him home. We were up on the roof of our high flats about a week later and we turned round to see our mate stripped down to his scants shouting about being in a park in the sky. A huge error we won't make again.

You've just created a straw man argument for most of this post. Saying the fans have contributed massively to the situation doesn't mean any of that. To be clear Jacqui Low, Gerry Britton, the Thistle Trust puppets on the board, David Beattie, Alan Archibald, Gary Caldwell and too many players to mention are to blame for the position we find ourselves in. However all of these people were enabled by the inability of our fans to unite and force any sort of change and the fact we're stuck in purgatory in between being run by Jacqui Low and being fan owned with absolute shysters like Paul Goodwin involved as well as being in League One is probably what we deserve. If you don't think that a section of our fanbase actively supporting Jacqui Low as she ran the club into the ground first time around or supporting Archie even as we struggled in the Championship or lapping up Caldwell's nonsense at the fan Q&As while the rest of us complain online and continue to pay our money every week has contributed to the situation we find ourselves in then I'm not sure anything I can say here will change your mind. Let's put this hysterical 'they travel everywhere and pay their money' nonsense to one side. It's irrelevant and most of us do it so it's not some sort of badge of honour which absolves anyone of responsibility for the situation we find ourselves in.

10 out of 10. And didn't even had to guess any, although I did have to think about the Louisiana one for a while.

Thankfully we're not so fucking boring as that. I don't think you've actually been to a pub since they reopened M8. A 'strict two hour limit'.

The BBC?! The guys who had English, McCann, Biscuits, Levein and more crawling all over Sportsound talking about how "reconstruction has to happen".... "the big clubs have to be in the top tier", regular interviews with Hearts, Partick, Brora and Kelty, plus Richard Gordon posing questions like "can anyone tell me any disadvantages to a 14 team top league?", to no reply? That BBC, aye?

Naw: last season, Hearts kept having to play teams above them in the league. It was incredibly unfair.

The Germans played Scotland at Ibrox in 1936. The Scottish team were asked to perform the nazi salute during the anthems, but refused. The Germans lined up opposite the main stand and performed the salute to "loud applause", turned and saluted the opposite side, and again repeated the salute during both national anthems. 2 people were arrested at halftime for an anti nazi protest. Obviously, nowadays, nazi salutes are more common in the Ibrox stands than on the pitch.

Putting the league to the sword and looking drop dead gorgeous doing it. Going to be some season, folks.

My mum had been in a care home temporarily after leaving a hospital ward recovering from a fall. Now in a nursing home. She just wants to die. I remember my gran getting to that stage too, where she'd just tell me she was too old, shouldn't still be here (and was sharp enough to always tell me Mrs Par was far too good for me and that she could do better). Life is harsh, certainly the death part. My mum needs two people plus lifting equipment to shift her about (she's not big, just can't walk). She's half away with the fairies and despite being in a really good home her life is "hell on earth". Keeping utterly decrepit folk alive is big business though. COVID must have created am awful lot of vacancies in care homes and the volume of flyers through our door lately suggests they are desperately touting to get those places filled. Every hospital ward she has been in (been in and out of loads over last few years) has been full of skeletal figures just wanting to die. I find it hard to criticise the homes as the staff do their best with very difficult "customers". Maybe we should be having a more open conversation about giving people the freedom/help to die when they are ready. There will be loads of folk in homes who still lead a nice life but the ones like my mum are really just being kept alive against their will.

There was weeks of unsubtle dog whistles about the lockdown being a bogey when the Muslims would start gathering for their religious festivals at the same time as people were shoving on to Westminster Bridge to clap NHS workers or having conga lines to sing Two World Wars and One World Cup

Nice end to the week.

You have spent so much time on our thread, it amazes me that you have so little idea how it works here.

People who ignore all warnings and go on holiday to Spain during a global pandemic and then get annoyed when they need to come home early.

Nah. He's never once mentioned Speroni, Berbatov, or Charlie Adam to Dens, so I'm still highly sceptical.

Tierney 22, McBrearty 19, Agyeman 20, Fitzpatrick 25, Ross 20 & Ballantine 21. Really impressed with our transfer dealings so far this season. By my reckoning at present we don’t have a single player over the age of 30 in our squad. That may change though but it certainly shows a different approach to some of the teams round about us.

Ferguson would be a good signing for yourselves. He was always rated highly at Airdrie but came into the team at only 18/19 where, despite his potential, he wasn't ready to play week in week out at this level of football. As Mr November says, he also wasn't helped by having one of the worst defences to ever play at this level in front of him. Even Buffon/Yashin/Grindlay would have conceded 60+ goals in that team. He did make mistakes, which is to be expected with a player at that age, which were exacerbated by (the defence) and the fact that there wasn't another keeper who could come in to replace him or give him a rest/time out the team and enable him to get his confidence back. But he is a very good shot-stopper and at worst, competent at the other facets of goalkeeping. Seemed to get on well at Linfield, he played in Europe for them, and I am actually a bit surprised he didn't get a deal there or somewhere else a bit higher up the food chain. Airdrie fans give/gave him a hard-time but he is a better goalkeeper than some will claim and I imagine he will only have gotten better with experience.

You may be pleasantly surprised on your return That’s both sets of fans

Not a Clyde fan in any way. Despise yous for giving Goodwillie the platform but hey he's absolutely class at this level. But this is a load of shit. You have spat the dummy and thrown every toy out the pram. It's actually a good idea in this season of no idea. Get a grip your club has surely got fans at heart making it a card to do what you want with it. Buy yourself a top before you think about games and get money into the club

Dave Smith owns a construction company smaller than Barr Construction and is operating when the house market and financial market is at one of its lowest points. I don't think folk should get greedy and expect him to fire millions on a vanity project. The two things we have been crying out for are a social club/sports bar at the ground and a training area. Roofing the north terrace or turning the pitch and building a new stand is unrealistic at best.

...but really the main problem in a Scottish context is Boris and it's difficult to see what stops Remain voters drifting to Yes to a greater extent than Leave voters are drifting to No as long as he is around in Farage Lite mode generally acting like a buffoonish old Etonian upper class twit. Beyond that what COVID-19 has done of late is made the London media outlets have to acknowledge the full extent of Holyrood's powers and the limits of those of Westminster's and that has started to give Nicola Sturgeon the gravitas of a national leader on equal pegging a lot of the time with Boris in the absence of an English parliament. Somebody really needs to explain (or not I guess depending on which way you lean on independence) to people like Jacob Rees-Mogg just how corrosive their recent behaviour has been to the Union when they start outright ridiculing the idea that Holyrood can do its own thing. A sizable portion of No voters are pro-devolution and many if anything would like to see Holyrood's powers expanded rather than curtailed. The inability of people like Rees-Mogg to accept the reality of devolution is highly likely to push a significant portion of these people into the Yes camp. If it's OK for Queensland to stop people from New South Wales travelling across internal state borders during a pandemic in Australia, why is it so supposedly comically absurd to think that Scotland would have the ability to do that in a post-devolution UK context? The Tories could use a leader like Murdo Fraser who would articulate something along those lines and when necessary represent the interests of the Scottish electorate against Westminster in a federal politics sort of way, so they can distance themselves a bit from a deeply unpopular Westminster leader. They opted instead for Ruth Davidson's more rigid anti-devolution British centralism instead, and it's probably too late in the day for a U-turn on that now with the Leave wing of the Tory party calling the shots at Westminster.

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It’s one hell of a weird thing to make up, even for a published children’s author, former Scottish Cup winner, and international relations guru to the stars.

This remains one of my favourite Palmerston memories. 84 yards

Yet another young(ish) player whose dream move to one of the Cheeks led to hardly any games before being unceremoniously tossed in the bin Sad.

Super sexy TEN to finish the week.

Individual results maybe but I'd argue having a fanbase like ours which tolerates incompetence to the level we have over the past few years has contributed massively to the situation we now find ourselves in. If the level of anger those calling for boycotts of clubs have had been directed at the people who got us into this mess then we might not be run by the likes of Britton and Low and who knows what having a decent level of competence at boardroom level could have done for our results over the past couple of years .

A tory complaining about decisions made at westminster

Who has been cancelled? Like genuinely cancelled as opposed to receiving mild criticism in between hosting the Golden Globes, promoting their new Netflix series and preaching to their millions of Twitter followers? If you want to talk about cancelled let's talk about Colin Kaepernick

Ian seams the sort that would go radge at his Maw because she never got snowballs.

It's not fair if we don't get to 38 degrees. They're getting 38 degrees down south so why can't we?

I think a lot of folk already have enough on their plate...

I'm going to take a guess that it's because the League of Ireland: a) doesn't have a £30m+ per year exclusive TV deal b) costs a lot less to sponsor c) is shite

Rat rovers lol

Robbie Neilson is now confused.