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Lost my wee pal Porridge a few months back to kidney failure. Felt it was time to rescue again from the Cats protection league and couldn't leave this wee fella behind. Meet Percy, he's 10 and needed an operation to sort ingrown eyelashes.

Tbh if scott brown came out and said ‘I don’t really understand what’s going on but maybe we could just give the OF more share of the money’ I’d be hoping the club told him to shut the f**k up pretty quickly.

I am expecting the big boy to rise out of Strathclyde loch and toss his mane of hair back with the sun shining through the droplets.

I enjoyed it

I'm hoping with the arrival of big Sondre we can release both of them on their quest to Isengard.

One of the things that annoys me most about Deans tenure was the absolute diabolical decision to appoint Gow. Everyone and their dug had heard he was a front for a consortium..apart from Gary Deans obviously. Maybe if hed went to games before being chairman he would have heard this. End result was a knife edge vote with the future direction of the club up for grabs. Lets not forgot the small shareholders carried it through. Now we have Rawlins pulling the strings ( which I dont think is bad thing at present, time will tell),while Deans and his cohorts hanging onto the coat tails and will no doubt claim credit if were successful on the park. Look at the previous 18 months with this bod, horrendous record. Rawlins himself said the club was a mess, hence the restructuring. Deans and co are merely puppets for Rawlins, whos intentions we still dont truely know, but he has at least experience and a track record in football.

Ludo definitely has Dundee FC wallpaper in his living room.

You're a fucking midfielder.

The poor thing is missing her brother (as am I)

Band with the runs

Allowing Aero to be in a position to sign a pre contract with Thistle in the Christmas window would represent a meltdown of sanity at Ayr United on a spectacular level . This guy should be club captain and signed with us until his career is over . The figures we are talking about would not be crazy money , more lightly the kind of deal Doc signed when he moved to Thistle under similar circumstances. Guys like Shankland and Rose moving up the ladder as their career blossoms is one thing , but losing guys like Doc and Aero etc as we slug it out with similar sized clubs in the Championship should be a thing of the past . For me Adeloye and Aero should be extended right now , no if buts or maybes ....

I think that’s a massive leap and would be far too much for him. Against Cove he filled in well enough as cover but he didn’t actually do anything. Positionally he was a little bit awkward and he was hiding from the receiving the ball at times and passing it infield to Dixon anytime he got it. That’s not meant as a criticism of the boy at all he’s still very young and has a lot to learn and he will improve but I’d be worried if he had to start 4/5 games in a row. As far as right-back there’s a difference between playing against the muck that East Kilbride had out and against one of the other strongest teams in the league. Would be absolutely unfair to pitch him out there against them in a position that you can probably count on 1 ha d the amount of times he’s played there and when he doesn’t use his right foot. I absolutely get the positivity so far this season and pretty much all of my own posts have been positive as well but think some people have been getting carried well away with his performances.

no, because that isnt factually correct, i found drug abuse very enjoyable for a period of time in my younger days.

f**k off you c**t

Sunny pussy.

Boomers gonna boom…

We've got beds. There are around 20,000 NHS beds in Scotland, of which just 391 are occupied by someone with Covid. The current strain on the NHS is down to taking some of those beds out of action because of staff shortages due to people isolating and jumping through hoops to keep people with positive test results apart. As positive test results rise, it should be expected that the number of people in hospital with a positive test result also rises. It's incredible though that, 18 months in, we still have no idea the number of covid positive people who are in hospital specifically for treatment for Covid versus how many are in for something completely unrelated, and may actually be receiving no treatment for Covid at all. If bringing restrictions back is going to be based on the number of people being hospitalised by Covid, that's a really important piece of information IMO.

On the field, it’s easy to forget how good we have it just now because it’s been this way for a few seasons now. We play, IMO, the best football in the lower leagues and we turn it on most weeks. Even when we lose or draw we still have fantastic passages of play and make chances and pull the other team around and it’s so, so good to watch. Off the park I feel as though we can get much better. Our social media channels could be more engaging. We could do more to encourage fans who currently don’t go to games but have a vested interest in the club to start coming to a few home games. Same goes for those who currently come to a few home games, can they come along a few more times? What do we need to do to target them and incentivise it for them? Your social output is intrinsically linked to these matters. How are we trying to capture a new audience from the short attention span Tik Tok generation when our two videos a week are a 10 minute John McGlynn pre-match interview and a 10 minute highlights package. These things are great for me because I already have a great knowledge of the football club and it answers questions I want asked, but to a casual fan is that engaging? A quick glance at Motherwell’s twitter output shows you how’s it’s done. Relatable content to people who might not be as invested in the football club as the weirdos like us who post on this forum. Stuff like having your tickets on sale in plenty time seems like such a straight forward, simple thing but it’s not been done in the very recent past. Same goes with actually announcing the walk up prices. Just not announcing it isn’t an option. Tell folk why it’s that price and justify it. Don’t let cars park on the concourse when fans are exiting the stadium. Communicate to the supporters when things go wrong. I don’t want to put the boot in to the club, that’s not what this is about, it’s about wanting us to take the next step in our development and start to grow as a club, because if we have ambitions of being in the Premiership, which we very obviously do, then we need that level of investment in infrastructure that’s been afforded to the playing side of the club also distributed to our non-playing side.

"Brave" St Johnstone's "impressive European showing" a draw and a home dicking off a team (and let's be incredibly generous) about on a par with Rangers and a draw and a home dicking off a team about on a par with Hibs. They have fucked it

Good! Didn't want group stage European football at Pittodrie for the first time since 2007. Next!

Peter Grant Will always be remembered fondly by our support, especially for this goal Some noise inside Hampden when he bulleted that header home, just absolute bedlam

To be published in early November. 720 pages (two hardback books, 360 pages each) of never-before-seen photos of old Scottish football grounds. Mostly 1940s to 80s. Every club in the country is covered. Three years in the making, An awful lot of searching through old negatives in newspaper and magazine archives. I've never enjoyed a project so much in my entire life.

Fair play on calling others out as being dinosaurs and bigots whilst yourself using an offensive discriminatory term.

The next time Charlie Adam scores, he should run over to the away fans, pull a pair of knickers out and place them on his head, instantly defusing the situation and quite possibly achieving world peace.

I'll be getting this wee shite mid-October. Female. Any suggestions for a name?

Reading the article on the club website and in 63/64, he scored 20 goals for us (5 more than Alan Cousin), but was only our fourth top scorer!! Gilzean on 52 (!), Penman on 30 and Kenny Cameron on 22… What I would give to have been around to see that team play. RIP Bobby.

I think most people just recognise that being double vaccinated is about as good as you're going to get in the way of protection against this and want their normal life back, content with the risk that they can still catch it and it might still kill them. Covid needs to become a thing of the past in about 5 weeks time or we will have a lot of businesses going bust and a dole queue longer than any queue for a Covid bed.

You start by constantly talking up the job the vaccines are doing in reducing the risk of serious illness and death. You test symptomatic people only. You include only people hospitalised for Covid treatment in the daily figures. You make GPs accessible face to face again rather than it being framed as "too dangerous" People clearly still are in the mindset of "I know I might be seriously unwell, but Covid is worse so I won't risk it"

Woohoo! 10/10 for Thursday. Burn baby burn!

The only strengthening that will be beneficial for football is for the better teams below the LL to get into the LL as soon as possible at the expense of the weaker teams in the LL. Time to stop p*ssing around...

During the pandemic there has been no shortage of unedifying mewling from the older generation about ‘irresponsible kids’, so it’s no surprise to find boomers wailing about vaccine hesitancy from the younger generation. When the JVCI can’t make a convincing case that the benefits of vaccination for under 30s outweighs the potential risks, even when the risk of a dangerous adverse reaction to the vaccines is vanishingly small (1.1 cases per 100k in age group 20-29 suffering serious harm from vaccination (AZ) compared to 0.8 cases per 100k ICU admissions prevented by vaccines in the same age group, according to JVCI’s own data) then it’s crystal clear that there is very little compelling evidence to suggest that the under 30s need to be vaccinated for their own good. Indeed the evidence suggest the opposite - that vaccination is riskier for under 30s than contacting the virus, contrasting sharply with the clear benefits offered by vaccination to older cohorts. It’s probably fair to say that (notwithstanding their general incompetence) both the Scottish and English governments are fully aware of the negligible risks presented to the younger generation by the virus, and (whatever their pronouncements to the contrary suggest) there is an unspoken acceptance in government that the virus will circulate freely among the younger, healthier age groups, and that natural immunity by infection will play almost as significant a role as vaccination in ensuring that the under 30s acquire immunity. The contention that kids have some altruistic debt to their elders or moral obligation to get vaccinations they don’t really need for the benefit of the fully-vaccinated, who are currently enjoying maximal protection, is so deeply engrained in the popular mindset that it’s taken for granted, but it’s really just another instance of the ‘what can the younger generation do for us’ mantra that has become endemic since the start of the pandemic. Thinking back to the disgraceful Scottish government TV advertising campaign, where kids were being exhorted not to kill their grandparents, it’s not difficult to see how this view became mainstream. What can the younger generation do for us? Well apart from accepting the hugely diminished experience that now passes for an education over the last 18 months (with more to come), and seeing their job opportunities wither on the vine, while their social opportunities and leisure pursuits (live music, arts, hospitality, nightclubs, sports, dating etc.) are stigmatised and criminalised. All the stuff that older generations were able to enjoy to the full are the very things that we’ve demanded younger generations sacrifice to keep us old timers safe. I’ve got a 17-year old daughter who is going to Uni in September, and she’s taken it upon herself to get vaccinated, (by going to a drop-in centre, not because she’d received a blue letter - she hasn’t). I’m delighted that she chose to get vaccinated, but I’d have been just as supportive of her had she chosen not to. The pandemic has effectively ruined the last 18 months of her life, which is a much more significant proportion for her than it is for me, at a time when having a normal social life (meeting friends and prospective partners) is a crucial part of her development and mental well-being. I’m acutely aware of the sacrifices that she, her friends, and indeed all youngsters have made. It’s long past time for double-vaccinated old timers like myself to start letting the younger generations (to whom we are already hugely indebted) enjoy their lives once again - restriction free - without stigmatising them as reckless or irresponsible, and without threatening to crack down on them and their favoured pursuits at the first opportunity. There’s a disproportionate amount of stick being used to beat younger generations with, and a negligible amount carrot on offer in a dystopian new world where governmental control of businesses and draconian restrictions on civil liberties have become the new normal. It’s not the responsibility of the younger generations to protect the elderly any more: the vaccines are doing a perfectly good job of this, and (in conjunction with occasional boosters if needed) will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Ultimately all the fuss about vaccine hesitancy among the young is simply masking an incontrovertible truth: Covid simply isn’t much of a threat to anyone that isn’t elderly and / or afflicted with multiple co-morbidities, and the apparatus of governmental control that has inhibited, controlled and restricted our lives since the start of the pandemic has represented a much greater threat to the welfare of the younger generation than the virus.

Maybe you should argue the well constructed points, rather than this snivelling, Granny Danger esque nothing of a post?

Announce Van Veen again.

Oh for f**k sake. @YassinMoutaouakil has abused the power of The Thread™ and now look what's happened.

The bald fraud will need another 50 mil for a new left back now.

Morelos showing why no-one's signed him for millions?

Rivalry put aside, I really hope it’s not true. Would be devastating to the lad. Such a talented player who would be playing at a higher level, his touch and movement is above this level.

Celtic

There is a story I heard from my pal's dad, who was on the School Board. As it's at the very least second hand it the truth might be a step or two away from it, but this is what I was told. The inspectors were in, and the headteacher, Mr Strang, was showing them around. He was talking to them, emphasising the values he was trying to instil in the pupils. He insisted on taking them to the boy's toilets and showed them the graffiti on the wall. One of the inspectors asked why he was showing them this. He pointed at it again. Mr Strang Is A b*****d written in bright red pen. "See," he said. "Mr Strang. Respect. One of our values."

I mean to be fair, it's not hard at all when you've completely made it up. The rest of the post swings wildly between anecdotes, boomer nonsense and birthday card rhetoric.

Ten for Thursday. I knew the RC indoctrination would come in handy some day. Mind you, if the tie-break was "name them", I'd be the good-looking altarboy buggered.

10 on Thursday

Ten for Thursday. I suspect we'll see a fair few tens today.

10 for Thursday! I knew the boys had a big score in them. Dressing room is fucking buzzing.

10 for Thursday

Why, are you needing to park your bike? If P Diddy, Ye, and Will.I.Am got together in a supergroup would it be called Did Ye I?

It's so Mrs SL has one thing well hung with her on holiday