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For me, enough is enough. I’m totally done with the talking head experts who have unilaterally and uninvited became the “face and voices of the pandemic”. Done with the politicians’ utter nonsense and back-sliding about “3 weeks to save the NHS”, over- lengthy summer restrictions last summer when England and Europe were attempting a fight back, confusion over Autumn 2 weeks’ circuit breaker which basically lasted 7-8 months, deflection and denial of the success of the vaccines; very thing needed to finish this off and extended attempts to create hysteria over a diminished threat. I personally haven’t been too badly effected by the virus but will pay the price for 15 months of crushed business and folk hiding under their mattresses and now refusing to return to work. I’ll pay the price of many things we enjoy in life now being either closed or declined to the point of non- existence due to a nasty virus which has been totally monetised and politicised...the same virus which is now in full retreat yet folk want to carry on wearing space suits and masks to the shops, “just in case and we just don’t know about undiscovered variants” Full crowds at the snooker final last month, folk back to horse racetracks, supermarkets packed daily nationwide and I believe 6000 folk watched Lincoln play football last night yet we have no one in a 50k national stadium for our Scottish FA Cup Final whilst 22k were in London last week for the English FA Final. Utterly bonkers, zero way there is any substantial “data over dates” nor “follow the science”. We had many regions basically clear of the virus for 3-4 months from the Islands to the Border areas yet everything shut apart from daily “keeping us safe” party political broadcasts from a one- person leadership team who was crying at folk last summer going to the beach on a sunny day. Maybe my mutterings are just that of a sickened and worn out fella but there are many faces to this virus and it isn’t just doom- laden spokespersons, happy- clappy middle class folk loving hiding/ working from home indefinitely, grandstanding politicians nor the amazing overworked medical staff and emergency services. There are millions of unseen normal folks just fed up, not understanding the confused messages nor happy with the bonkers restrictions to enjoying something like taking their kids to a soft play area or a football stadium where 500+ folk might be the cause of the end of civilisation. As is often said; we just don’t know! I do know I’ve had enough of this life and never want to hear from these idiots who dominate the airwaves and over the media anymore, unless it is to apologise and to get us back to normal, the old normal and no self decided variation of new normal.

Here's the front angle mate.

It's not even a guarantee of scoring any penalties, tbf.

I want an Inside Motherwell of Polworth finding the contents of his locker emptied into a bin bag.

There's not really an issue in renaming it the "April-02" variant. Literally nobody should care unless you still get your kicks from calling it the "P*** shop".

For the 1690th time, it was a title party WATP

Sick to death of BoredomGuy making every single thread on this forum his own personal diary. Shut the f**k up. Thank you.

That story is made up, the guy in that picture is a well known Labour doner.

One dollar is worth less than one pound and it's held the USA back massively. Scary stuff.

There’s been a whole load of awful decisions during this but folk criticising Scot Gov for blindly following case numbers in isolation but now criticising for the inconsistency of not following just the numbers in East Renfrewshire seems a tad unfair to me.

"sacrifice"

Is that cat ok? Looks like you have stuck a plastic bag on its head.

You get put in jail these days just for calling it the Indian variant.

This is true, but any measure which involves a division by a small denominator (in this case population) is susceptible to large fluctuations being driven by very small changes in the underlying numbers (or even random noise). The population of East Renfrewshire is under 100,000, so every single individual case leads to the rate increasing by more than 1. This means that a very small number of cases, localised to a single area (eg an outbreak of 20 cases in a school) can lead to a massive increase in the case rate. That isn't true of the larger areas.

I’m genuinely surprised at both the Scottish Government finally ditching their Hokey Cokey with levels, and also the reaction on here. This is good news. It is inconsistent with previous steps, but previous steps were shite (and everyone on here complained). This kind of negative reaction, both amongst the media and the general public, is exactly why governments across the UK keep getting bounced into idiotic measures. The general tone of Sturgeon’s speech was good too. Indian variant probably not much more transmissible than Kent, vaccines still work, we’re moving forward.

those famous villages, Aberdeen and Edinburgh.

I'm using the spare room at home too. Had to buy a desk as the dining table is fairly small and shite. I hate WFH and try to come up with any excuse to go into the office. I enjoy the getting up, putting smart clothes on, driving to work and interacting with folk, rather than sat in a t shirt and jogging bottoms and not seeing anycunt all day.

f**k up

And 27 away. @craigkillie pointed out that it's the lowest goals scored at home by a team in any division in the history of Scottish football I think. In potentially our greatest ever season. Funny old game. Enjoyed that tonight. Games like that are the very essence of Scottish football. I know the media like to make it all about the big two, but in truth few of us give a f**k which one wins the league. However, a play-off between two desperate sides kicking lumps out of one another in the pishing rain with every "f**k you" shout as clear as day is really what it's all about. While the rest of us watch on eagerly ready to tear apart the hapless losers...

Clownshoes Leitch's beloved Airdrie getting pumped by The Famous. The Norseman ditching the ridiculous 'table service only!!11!!!' proviso after 55 folk walked in for a drink at the exact same time after the game with two bar staff on. Back to bar service after about 0.3 seconds of hesitation. Normality is reasserting itself over these freaks and losers.

Get it roond ye.

Alright Derek min? You should be sunning yersel, not posting on messageboards x

So cases per 100,000 is important except when it’s not?

There is only one cup final song worth mentioning.......................no apologies for posting, it popped up on the timeline 5 years on today.

I blame The Rangers

It's just the market we are in. Which Scottish players have been sold from a provincial club to England for more than we sold Turnbull? There are perhaps others but Craig Gordon is the only one I can think of from the top of my head. As sad as it may be, a player we sell to Celtic who goes on to be their best player in his first season there's value skyrockets. Had Turnbull stayed at Motherwell this past season and scored double figures again from midfield, his value wouldn't have changed remarkably. This is exactly the reason that sell-ons are important for a club like us.

Now starting to consider that the SG do not have a clue how to get us out of this and back up and running. There are going to be a lot of people losing their jobs especially in the hospitality, entertainment and travel/tourism industries and I think they are using delaying tactics to avoid the hard questions regarding this. We have been fed a lot of bullshit about adult conversations,2 week circuit breakers, how we will have an independent Scottish inquiry regarding the SG handling of the epidemic and it is all lies. Two absolute balloons, who are supposed to be advisers, appear to be calling the shots. Typical of this government is the fact that they are pandering to the minority while ignoring the majority. MSM terrified to ask probing questions when they should be slaughtering their handing of the virus. All the rhetoric for months has been the election and how Independence is the answer. Now the election is over and we see that the great failure called Swinney is the Covid Recovery minister. I would not trust that man to organise my grandkids birthday party never-mind lead us out of Covid. People need to start telling them to F off and that we are going to start getting on with our lives. Football teams and the entertainment and hospitality industries need to unite re crowds going back to the football, theatres, concert etc and if necessary take some sort of legal challenge. Friday morning rant over.

Maggie was a rotten old corpse. And she still is.

Im not bothered about what we call variants, im just slightly more concerned that this is what the scottish government are spending time on. Using place names for viruses seems to be the naming convention but if people want to change it then fair enough. The term indian variant doesnt make me think any less of indian people (theyre as much victims of their far right government being terrible as we are in the UK) and anyone who does blame a particular sub set or ethnicity or whatever for a genetic variance in a virus that’s not anyone’s fault should probably re-evaluate their lives. It kind of reminds me though of the thick of it, especially the latter series with the lib dems in coalition etc and all the little things that bogges them down. I genuinely fail to see how changing the name will either catch on or improve anything for anyone and I’d rather they focused their time on explaining why we are in the level of restrictions that we are with no clear exit plan or justification given the lack of strain on the NHS.

You’re entitled to your opinion and evidently nothing I say will change that, but I disagree on so many levels. It tells you everything you need to know about Alexander and Ritchie that they continue to stink the place out despite knowing how large sections of the fanbase feel about them. Stubborn, arrogant old men who show the fans nothing but contempt. They have monumentally failed this Club and will continue to do so until they relinquish their power and fu*k off. Not convinced either are supporters. I’ve heard from various people that Ritchie isn’t a football man, you can tell that just by looking at him to be honest. As much as Alexander claims to be one, he could’ve changed our fortunes at any point over the last few years. “Why should he?” people ask. Well simply put, he’s a multi-millionaire...that’s what I’d expect of a “superfan” with that sort of wealth let alone a majority shareholder. He’d rather charge the Club rent for the South Stand and over inflated interest rates on soft loans though. Can’t provide proof, but that’s information I’ve gathered over the years from people I trust. If neither of them have any interest in investing in the Club any further, sell their shares, piss off to their holiday homes and allow real Falkirk men to take the Club forward. They won’t do that though, instead they’ll continue to stick two fingers up at those pesky fans who dare to question their leadership. They have repeatedly knocked back investment opportunities from fans and less than two years ago entertained Mark Campbell for 14 weeks whilst rejecting the fan ownership proposal from Back the Bairns. Was that in the Clubs best interests? Utterly shameful stuff. Fast forward to now - different Chairman and different Board members, but still the same old problems. Self-interest at the forefront of everything they do. It’s not my place to elaborate any further but I hope their actions are exposed very soon.

@Stormzy

The media used her, she used the media. They fed off each other.

Think we are 100% in terms of players available. No issues.

You mean castore will take it seriously now they have a big club onboard?

This screams "woke pish" to me

Do you work for the House of Fraser?

I don't think I've ever been as angry after a Killie game. CQN was bad, but at least it followed a positive season and was part of a knockout tournament we had done well to qualify for. In a massive relegation battle at the end of a disgraceful season, that performance last night was rank fucking rotten. Starting 11 the same useless b*****ds who have us in this mess. By all means don't mess with the front 4 who have been banging the goals in, but the losers behind them cannot keep getting picked. Doyle is an absolute liability. The back 4 stinks. Power has come on to a game recently, but you need someone young with a bit of pace and drive in there beside him - not Grampa Gary. The threat of Charlie Adam was talked about ad nauseum in the lead-up. You pick McKenzie or Tsh, even Dabo, someone who's going to not give him a minute. Not Dicker who stands holding the door open for him because his legs have gone and he's a lazy shit. Adam instrumental at both goals and far too many players culpable for that. Millen fails to track the runner for the first goal, Broadfoot and Rossi standing watching it all go down. If Doyle gets a stronger hand to it it's round the post for a corner. No one who's been watching this season could be surprised Haunstrup was second to react; the team lacks heart, drive, passion. I still back Wright, but I'm getting increasingly angry at stuff he's blind to. Picking the same fucking donkeys who have been stinking out the club for a couple of years. Watching dreadful performances from certain characters and not making the changes needed. For 70 minutes or so we continued to play an absolutely tragic brand of hoofball and he did nothing to change that. It turned Lafferty - the in-form striker of the Premiership - into an absolute passenger. The second goal brings us on to Gary Dicker, a cancer at the club. He sums up everything that is wrong. Has zero pace, doesn't seem to care, can't do the basics any more, takes no responsibility or leadership (and he's captain!), makes mistakes then shouts at younger members of the team. An absolute joke of a mistake, compounded by a light jog to get back that turned in to a slow, disinterested walk. He plays walking football, badly. There was a huge slice of fortune about our goal and how the ball fell for Haunstrup after a good tackle, but I'll take it. I said before the game I would take a draw or even a one goal defeat, in the hope we can 'do a Falkirk'. The late goal in that first leg vs Falkirk was a blow, but it kept it tight enough that we could go out and take the game to them. The tie was by when our second goal went in 10 minutes in to the game. The current squad of players owe us a performance like that. Dundee must be absolutely kicking themselves. Our worst performance of the season, by far - they got their tactics spot on, come out at us and attack from the off, exploit our patently obvious weaknesses. On last night's shambles of a game, we could not have complained if they had won 3 or 4 or 5-0. That they somehow only won by one goal could be the difference between them winning the tie or not - they should have been out of sight, and we would have been dead and buried. If Dicker starts on Monday, I might stick the game off. Feel similar about Doyle and Broadfoot. We cannot continue to pick these total wastes of space. ANY other midfielder at the club would be a better option than Dicker. Medley is prone to mistakes but would clearly be less of a liability than "Broaders". Rogers is the lesser of two evils. Nervous ahead of Monday and increasingly making my peace with the fact we are going to go down. Within the first 10 or 15 minutes of Monday's game we will know if we have any chance whatsoever. The attitude and performance needs to be right from the off.

Still buzzing from watching the Dee tonight. Yes, we should have won by more, but great performances individually and collectively throughout. I thought Danny Mullen was indefatigable in his desire to harry, cajole and force errors from the static and panicked Killie defence. I’d single out Christie Elliot for his best game in Dee colours after an insipid performance on Saturday. On the telly that gash in his leg looked bad for his being able to play on Monday. Fontaine and Ashcroft mopped all that was thrown at them keeping Lafferty very quiet Adam Legzdns was very good again, so unlucky for the ball to go between his legs for that goal, Killie had big luck on that one from the roll of the ball off two defenders as well. Cammy was top class on the left again. His off the ground first time weighted volley cut back from King Charlie’s pass was a thing of outstanding beauty. Brilliant Byrne was hard, skilled, motivated and again top quality. I really like his performances in Dark Blue. jordan McGhee as a box to box midfielder is immense. Physical yet skilled, quicker than he looks, and a man who puts his body on the line to score, well done James McPake for finding and picking him for his best position. Charlie Adam is a delight to watch. His left foot, his vision, his passion as a Dee, and he scored I was really pleased for him. thanks for playing for us Charlie, Paul McMullen should have scored but he worried, hassled and also tracked back as well as a super assist. He must be murder to play against. Gowser gave us all, but was quite quiet. Charlie’s telling him to be quiet on Saturday had been taken to heart! I enjoyed that display. Thanks and go and finish the job on Monday (Well done for reading all the way!)

The three sides of the stadium were given to Celtic on one occasion when they were odds on to win the league against us and to avoid supporters mixing. Although not ideal it did make sense and wasn't half as embarrassing as, say, opening up a club shop for them in our own stadium.

So it's ok to call it the Kent variant but not the Indian variant? What a fcking country

Martin Bashir is a creepy little c**t. His interview with Michael Jackson was also highly duplicitous, he swooned with praise during it and said how great Jackson’s relationships with the children in it were then afterwards publicised it based on it showing that Jacko was a paedo. This was exposed during the trial by his defence and probably contributed to Jackson being acquitted. Great job Martin. Journalistic ethics in the 1990s really were in the gutter, this was a time where completely fucking celebrities by any means necessary was par for the course. One thing that’s come up today is that Meghan apparently told Harry that the only reason she didn’t kill herself early in their marriage was because of the fact that he’d already lost his mother. That sort of behaviour is deeply concerning. Using threats of suicide in relationships to control your partner is abusive. I have known people who have had partners threaten suicide or make suicidal gestures when there have been problems on their relationships and it is a massive red flag. I don’t really pay much attention to any of the Harry and Meghan story because who has the time really, but it’s worth reiterating what a worrying and seriously bad behaviour it is.

With the inevitable follow up of "but Variants" swatted away courtesy of the WHO, that only leaves "we just don't know!!!" which to my mind is a simple "Well what is it about the real world vaccine efficacy data specifically that is giving you cause for concern?"

You're in luck, then.

Graeme Shinnie (number 3) celebrates a Forres Mechanics goal