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Oh no. Poor London landlords.

Sorry am I supposed to be in some way grateful for the idea of Hampden being not even a quarter full in two months time?

This isn’t quite the win you think it is. There probably should be more tears and snotters after this. 25% capacity in over two months time with numbers as they currently are now is frankly ludicrous.

SAVE OUR SCOTLAND!

Just googled and apparently it's on average three a year, but Devi says no more playing Mario Kart until we've got that down to zero because "we just don't know".

That'll be Hamilton Accies already covered then.

It must have been real annoying to spend all day fishing for Burnie and not getting the desired reaction.

You see, this is where it all falls down. I’ve specialised in my field (VAT - not the most interesting) for 25 years. I give advice to clients, and sometimes they google something (normally because I’ve told them something they didn’t want to hear) and present it to me with a flourish. Without fail, it has been wrong, or they have misunderstood what they have read. I love it, as it gives me the chance to explain in painfully small (but expensive) steps, just why they were wrong. Google doesn’t make you an expert. Everything is there. Sometimes, however, you need to either have some experience, or read around the easy answer you’ve found. Now this is just VAT - the easiest of the taxes (as my corporate tax colleagues tell me). Virology or epidemiology? I think they might be a wee bit more complicated. However, if you think “5 minutes on google” makes you an expert, launch in.

Given the risk of DVT from a flight is higher than a clot from the AZ Vaccine, this is a moot point.

12,000 outdoors in the summer in two months time at a stadium built for 50,000+ is shite.

Sadly, 'up to 25% capacity' at Hampden is tragic and will feel like a League Cup semi-final. In reality, there's no reason for it not to be packed to the rafters. Them allowing a token gesture in, masked and spaced out, is only because it would have been a disastrous look for the Scottish Government if they didn't acquiesce to UEFA forcing their hand on the matter.

If McCracken had have been a bit more streetwise about when to play football and when to shithouse it, we would probably all have Scottish Cup 2015 winner tattoos

Oh ya fucker. A post defending George Craig. It was that fucking charlatan that started the rot for us and his complete incompetence and mismanagement. What’s next is some c**t going to come along and defend that odious little p***k Lex Miller?

A reply!!!

They should maybe have travelled to the UEFA website and bought some tickets from there.

The great thing of a pyramid is that all clubs can eventually find their natural level. Some new clubs might shine and quickly rise through the ranks. Others might end up at the bottom of the pyramid, drop down to the amateurs or even go out of business entirely. In the pyramid there can be natural selection. All this stuff about "diluting the semi-pro game" is just rubbish. Fair enough if new clubs try, some will succeed and some will undoubtedly fail. That's football.

It’s a medicine that I invented. We prescribe it to conspiracy theorists.

Correct on both counts, and with good reason. Will pretend the rest of your post didn't happen.

People like the arseholes in that reply dont understand how important these late adolescent things are, forming relationships, growing up, travelling all massively impact on development and the foosty gammons arent happy because they’ve had their experiences so f**k everyone else.

Yep, the whole point of lockdown is to stop the NHS from bursting. The vaccine will prevent that. This whole 'we don't know' and 'we need to be cautious' is basically the SG admitting they don't trust the vaccine. Fucking wild.

Comedy Quiz...yee fucking ha!!!

Can people please stop this deluded attitude of “when we scrap over the line”. On what evidence are we going to scrap over the line? We’ve had 7 point leads, we’ve had 6 point leads and we’ve chucked it. We have no style, we can’t pass, we start games at walking pace. When Cove beat us, which they will because Hartley isn’t a total fruitloop, we’ll be dead even. Since Airdrie last beat us in December we’ve taken 8 points from a possible 21. Our home form this season is nothing short of pathetic in the third tier of Scottish football. So please stop the patronising BS because you are part of the problem. Maybe you like fannying about in League 1 but I certainly don’t and considering how long and sometimes how far we’ve been at the top we’re going to be the laughing stock once again when we blow it.

If a youth team, let's say from Strathaven but it could be anywhere, has an U-18s team, an U-16s team, maybe three or four teams as you go down the age groups and wee mini 7-a-side leagues for young kids as well all under the name of "Strathaven Santos" then there at least 100 kids involved in that set up. Plus at least that number of parents/guardians/uncles/cousins/grannies who are helping out or even just showing up for encouragement. That's 200 folk involved with a club that is giving something back to its local community. Why is that any more or less a part of a community than a junior club with 30 folk turning up every fortnight to watch 22 players, none of whom come from the town the club represents? Some clubs rely on the income from their clubhouse or other non-football related income. Why is that any different to basing their survival and income on grants or subsidies from parents? Maybe Bonnyton or St Cadocs will never make three figures of home fans for their regular matches but, even if they don't, they're serving their communities and offering a chance for young players to progress to the professional game. Why would anyone want to knock it? Boomer pish

No worries mate. That's some of the best written English I have ever seen for someone from Greenock.

A set of very good infographics here, summarising why the advice was to pause AZ in under 30 age group. Still important note that the risk is being compared between serious side-effect of the vaccine and risk of ICU admission. It doesn't include risk of things like severe Covid not requiring ICU admission and long-term complications of Covid.

Admitting you know how a team likes to play but not doing a thing about it is always good to listen too.

Chances of being struck down by this is about the same as being struck by lightning. "ThAt'S nOt HeLpFuL tO tHe 4 iN oNe MiLlIoN"

Turning your wifi off at the wall before bed is the behaviour of a boomer who is still suspicious of it escaping out the walls and adding to the bill

You're a clown. Of course we should be steam-rollering the majority of the teams in this league. No matter what your partner might tell you to make you feel better about yourself, size matters. We are a full-time club with a larger budget than almost everyone in the league (not sure about Partick tbf) and are playing against an assorted bunch of part-timers most weeks. It's just the way it is, to Old Firm fans we're a diddy team that should cause no concern..... For us the likes of Dumbarton, Clyde, Peterhead, East Fife, Montrose and Forfar should be considered a locked-in 3 points pretty much every game. The only reason they're not is because of the mismanagement from board level all the way down. I hate all this crap about 'well we are where we are and there's no easy games'. If there was a scintilla of competence within that club we wouldn't be in the third tier in the first place and we certainly wouldn't be a few bad results away from mid table mediocrity after 15 games.

10 (TEN) for Wednesday.

Who can predict what will happen in 20 years? In the early 70s I used to go to watch friends who played in the EOS for Spartans and Edinburgh Uni. Sometimes I was the only spectator there, apart from relatives, so no "identifiable community". Meanwhile, Rangers were getting crowds of 30,000+ Half a century later, Spartans and Uni are still going strong. Whatever happened to Rangers?

To look at clubs collecting wee toys and easter eggs for kids in some of the poorest parts of the country and sneer at it is the hallmark of a complete roaster. Clubs are at the heart of their communities, sometimes they are forgotten by the community when buses flood out to the bigot brothers etc but the clubs always step up and do their bit. Its right that the wosl shows just how important these teams are, they’re the identity and lifeblood of these places.

Part of the blame must also go to Aberdeen for voting against loosening the stranglehold the old firm has in voting rights. It makes any sensible change almost impossible to achieve.

If their arse collapses on Friday against Alloa who knows (and it just might), win that and they’re home and hosed. Personally I’m just happy at the 5 point gap to Dunfermline.

What I'd give for Moore to be playing just now. Not everyones favourite but he never hides and give his all.

Dunne feels like a player from a different era, when men were men and we kicked and elbowed everything that moved and not a single f**k was given.

It's been announced that if you fall into this group you are to be shot. By the next dose of vaccine when available, as per original schedule.

A known side effect is Tinn(foil)itus

Right, new rule. If you take any of my pieces you get yer c**t kicked in.

Daily Cases Update: Another terrific 24 hours with a near 4% drop in infections and infectivity down to 2.1%. Lanarkshire the days winners. Sauchie, Tullibody & Glenochil in Clachs have more cases combined than Aberdeen City. My work colleague from Dollar does describe them as a strange breed. Wales and Northern Ireland now have only 1,659 infections in total. Slovakia and Italy surge past the UK in deaths per million population as the UK drops to 11th place in Europe. Scotland peaked at 301.9 for figures 29th Dec to 4th Jan, (UK was 642.1) Cases that day were 16,496 and test positivity rate was 11.9% Total Cases 7 days from 29th March to 4th April were 2680 now 2575 down 3.92%. Positivity was 2.2% now 2.1%. Cases per 100k were 49.1 now 47.1 Home Nations Daily update: UK Average 44.0 to 41.4 down 6.5%, England 43.9 to 41.0, Wales 28.7 to 25.5, Northern Ireland 49.4 to 45.1 NHS Progress Forth Valley 95.9 to 86.4, Lanarkshire 70.0 to 64.1, Greater Glasgow 62.9 to 62.3, Fife 50.3 the rest all under Scottish average. European (Above 2 Million Population) Shockers: Serbia 515, Hungary 499, Poland 470, France 415, Council progress in last 24 Hours as follows. Click cases by neighbourhood to see the spread on the geographical map. https://public.tableau.com/profile/phs.covid.19#!/vizhome/COVID-19DailyDashboard_15960160643010/Overview Area that even the rat catchers avoid club Clackmannanshire 240.6 to 211.5 Hopefully the residents of Sauchie, Tullibody North & Glenochil have stopped partying Under 100 Club could do better club Renfrewshire 94.9 to 88.2 Down another 7% excellent West Lothian 89.6 to 86.8 North Lanarkshire 89.1 to 82.0 Brilliant 8% drop Glasgow City 72.8 to 73.8 Hopefully good work not stalled Falkirk 70.2 to 61.5 Another great 12% drop East Ayrshire 68.0 to 65.6 Stirling 60.5 to 60.5 Fife 47.7 to 50.3 Really disappointing the mutants in Methil Midlothian 47.6 to 49.8 Under Scottish Average club 47.1 Dundee City 48.2 to 46.9 South Lanarkshire 49.6 to 44.9 Joins the under average club down near 10% Angus 42.2 to 41.3 Perth & Kinross 38.8 to 36.9 East Lothian 37.4 to 36.4 East Dunbartonshire 34.1 to 35.0 North Ayrshire 43.0 to 34.9 Down close to 20% West Dunbartonshire 37.1 to 33.7 East Renfrewshire 31.4 to 33.5 City Of Edinburgh 34.1 to 31.6 Moray 34.4 to 30.3 Havana & Malt Whisky club Sub 30.0 Aberdeen City 30.2 to 29.7 Aberdeenshire 26.8 to 27.6 Highlands 18.2 to 19.5 South Ayrshire 17.8 to 16.0 Inverclyde 15.4 to 14.1 Argyll & Bute 9.3 to 8.2 Shetland Islands 4.4 to 4.4 Scottish Borders 3.5 to 3.5 4 people with covid !!! Dumfries & Galloway 1.3 to 1.3 2 people with covid !!! Western Isles 0.0 to 0.0 Orkney Island 0.0 to 0.0

Yeah, this thread has gone a bit silly season with speculation being reported as fact a couple of pages later - we've already had half of Argyllshire joining up based on somebody saying they fancied a day trip to Oban, and now we've got folk getting annoyed at applications chances are haven't even been made. I suppose it's symptomatic of so little going on at the moment that these things grow arms and legs...I'd be content to let the league do their job and weed out the chancers.

Utter nonsense. When a public health pronouncement/model (to take the most recent examples) make claims that are either a) based on incomplete and partial accounts of the impact of their pet policies or b) run contrary to the available real-time data then you can in fact 'interpret' them as being 'utter bollocks'. Under category a) you can file safely 99.9% of Sridhar's shrieking, and under b) the laughable 'third wave' models. Which let's not forget just last month before the roadmap was unveiled were predicting a larger summer wave of hospitalitisations than in January. That the models are now gradually shifting their own set of goalposts towards the grass pitch from the North Sea in which they belonged a few weeks ago does nothing to suggest that their current forecasts will be accurate either. Meanwhile, you do not need prior training in anything other than critical thinking skills (preferably from school but further/higher education usually has to do all the heavy lifting on that front) to observe that restrictions that prevent 7 people from meeting outdoors in Orkney but allow 50 God botherers to congregate in any indoor temple of their choice anywhere in the country represent an irrational failure of public policy. Public health officials make statements in the public domain with the arguments and supporting evidence that they wish to use to support their case. When those claims do not stand up to scrutiny, they do not get to hide behind their expertise but rather provide better arguments and more convincing evidence. If they don't like that dynamic then they're in entirely the wrong occupation.

There is a better way to solve this. Let 50,000 fans in and let’s all have a fantastic Summer.

My thoughts and prayers are with them too...

Congratulations to everyone who got promoted last season and commiserations to all those who were relegated. Unfortunately / fortunately, it doesn't matter a f**k because it's a MEGALEAGUE!! Everyone in one massive league. It's a bit like the NFL draft, except I don't really know what is. Men of the cloth like me are notoriously lazy. We only work for an hour on Sundays for God's sake. Therefore, rather than have to dick about with play-offs at the end of the week, it's a two-week league. Also known as a SUPERLEAGUE!! But wait. There's more. This will probably go down like a cup of cold sick with some of you, but for the first time ever, we're including Saturday's AND Sunday's quiz in the league, hereafter known as a HYPERLEAGUE. That's right. You'll need to do both days' quizzes at the weekend (or just do them all in one go on Monday). Put them all together and you've got a SUPERMEGAHYPERLEAGUE. Which reminds me of me and @Silky Si McFly's pub quiz name, The Hemi-Demi-Semi-Quavers. Back when pubs were a thing. The beauty of a SUPERMEGAHYPERLEAGUE is SlipperyP will be back a week on Sunday to sort out the mess I've undoubtedly created. All those trophies look great but I honestly don't know what any of them mean so all trophies are on hold for a couple of weeks. Also, I've been a bit out the loop with the league, but how the hell does Slippery know who's had the jag?! Does he have access to everyone's medical records?

Surely some mistake? We were told the Oxford vaccine disrespect was all down an evil ploy by a bitter Merkel and Macron to get one over the plucky Brits.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56665517 There it is. 79 cases and 19 deaths in the UK. More than was originally publicised - fuel to the fire of anti-vaxxers, that. At least there's the J&J vaccine on the horizon. Saying that, I'm 31 - do I honestly believe the vaccine is fine for me, but would've been too risky if I were a couple of years younger? Absolutely not. This is going to prompt a wave of vaccine hesitancy, unfortunately.