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There's a large element of Rangers fans (including in the media) who are desperate for Clarke to fail because he bodied their tinpot outfit up and down the land for two years.

Okay Peter, one last time. This points total is small... But the ones up there... ...are far away.

The table shows that we are, in fact, in great shape.

Captains Log 12/10/21 As some of you will be aware @Cardinal Richelieu scored 8 meaning the RoTW win overall by one point. I would firstly offer my thanks and appreciation to @SlipperyP for the excellent way in which he has both run the competition and ensured That the rough was just the correct length, the fairways were fast and the greens well manicured. To the whole Scotland team, my thanks for playing your part and keeping the opposition sweating until the last hole. I hope everyone has enjoyed this, and the ongoing banter (mainly directed at me, mind). My fellow captain @pleslie99, it has been a pleasure to pit my team selections against yours. I'm sure neither of us anticipated the work involved when we stood up to take the posts. Finally, my sincere congratulations to the winning RoTW team for securing the trophy. If the competition is held again next year, I warn you in advance we will be coming for you, although perhaps with a different captain.

It's the anniversary of someone I miss every day's death (he took a fatal heart attack due to too much cocaine).. That, coupled with an interview Steven Caulker has given about addiction has made me take the first step in admitting I have a serious problem and seeking help for help for it. No more "I need to stay aff it", i need help and I will hopefully beat this.

Scotland have just won their 4th game in a row and are hot favourites to finish in the top 2 of a qualifying group for the first time in 18 years. Scotland fans on P&B, how do you feel? We're pish and am no happy.

We're a win against the bottom seed away from finishing 2nd and qualifying for a playoff with a game to spare. It's going to be our best qualification campaign for 2 decades. Why are some people on the verge of tears ?

Only if we don’t qualify.

Enough about the Met Police, what about the Hungarians?

He’d still be shite.

Piece about the ginger bearded no 15 for the Faroes from the Herald. Odmar Faero: Remarkable tale of Faroes international who rose through Scottish amateur leagues By James Morgan @jaydeemorgan IMAGINE you run a football team, let's say it's a university side. The usual motley crew are there but, one day, a 6ft 1ins Scandinavian approaches you and tells you he would like to play; then he tells you he has won underage caps for his country and he certainly looks the part: a physically imposing he-man possibly hewn from volcanic rock. You've got a game that night and immediately he offers himself up for selection. Five minutes into his debut, you realise he's good, actually he's not just good, he's the best player you have ever seen. This is how Filippo Antoniazzi describes the first time he met Odmar Faero or 'Oddy' – as he refers to him affectionately – at Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University (RGU) in 2011. Over the next couple of years, the young business studies student would become a regular feature of his teams. Faero – then on loan at Highland League Keith from B36 Torshavn – would play for Antoniazzi's team on a Wednesday, his club side on a Saturday, then – having been promoted from his national under-21 side – take off on international weeks to play in whichever corner of Europe the Faroe Islands were scheduled for a fixture. “He'd be marking Zlatan or Mesut Ozil and then the next week he would turn up and play against whoever we were playing, I don't know Abertay University, or whoever,” says Antoniazzi, the director of sport at RGU. “He didn't mind. He didn't dominate the team talks, just mucked in – and as a leader as well. He was just a team-mate, he wasn't a big-time Charlie.” “That was the joy of it for all our lot: he was the best player they ever played with. All the boys have got stories, and are in WhatsApp groups and there will be messages saying 'Oddy's starting' or 'he's got 60 minutes again' – whatever it is. There is still that enthusiasm to follow his story.” The RGU old boys WhatsApp group will have been particularly busy of late. Yesterday Faero – whose father Oddmar (correct) was also a Faroese international – was part of the Faroe Islands squad that hosted Austria while last month he was in the rearguard action that kept runaway group F leaders Denmark at bay for 85 minutes before succumbing to a Jonas Wind goal in Torshavn's compact Torsvollur Stadium. On Tuesday night Faero, who spent his youth growing up in Aberdeen courtesy of his father's dental practice in the city, is poised to line up against Scotland at the same venue. It's a career route that borders on the incredible and the unconventional nature of it is accentuated by Antoniazzi's next comment which conjures up images of Pele's starring role as Luis Fernandez in war time football epic Escape To Victory when he points to the tactics board and tells Michael Caine: 'Boss, I go here, here, here, here . . . goal!” “I used to say 'Oddy, you're a centre half, just do what you want with it',” continues Atoniazzi. “We had this stupid system where if Oddy got the ball we stopped being a back four and went to a back three; he just went and played where he wanted to so that he got on the ball as much as possible.” He subsequently played for Scottish Universities, winning a BUSA championship and later on Antoniazzi would set up Faero with a contact from an SPFL side. “I put him in touch with Ross Campbell, whose dad Dick was managing Forfar. Ross was involved with university football and I knew him and he went along there and immediately started playing for Forfar as well.” While his tale wound its way down the A90 to Station Park – where Campbell was a team-mate – it also entailed regular criss-crossing back to his homeland to play for B36 Torshavn when term time came ended and the Faroese championship – played to the summer calendar – recommenced. “It was the first time in our history that we got some money from FIFA and UEFA for having an international player on our books,” recalls David McGregor, the Forfar secretary. “But he probably spoke better English than some of the Forfar people.” Campbell, now director of sport at Heriot-Watt University, remembers Faero flitted into the town, spent two seasons there playing more than 20 games before, almost imperceptibly, drifting away again. “He played for us at Scottish universities and he was really solid, really robust, he played centre half but could step into midfield. He was mostly really good, a lovely guy, and had that kind of Scandinavian style about him. He was comfortable at our level, it was more just his availability. He just went quietly away into the ether. I can't even remember how he left, I think he just went for an international match and didn't come back. Sometimes our league would have continued and he would have missed a game because he was playing against Germany. I loved that, it was great to see a university player, somebody studying, playing professional football and international football. It was really cool at the time. I remember him holding Ozil in regards because after a game [his debut against Germany], Ozil came over to him when he was with his family and gave him his top after the game.” Campbell laughs at the recollection then guffaws at the revelation that a year after departing the Angus club, Faero ended up playing for junior side Banks O' Dee in the North Region Superleague. “Odmar was very friendly with our co-manager at the time, Sandy McNaughton,” says Brian Winton, the erstwhile Montrose chairman, who now occupies the same position at Banks O' Dee. “They met at the university, Sandy ran that team as well as being co-manager of Banks O' Dee. Odmar came into training, liked what he saw, liked the tempo of the training, liked the whole atmosphere. It was a big commitment for him – he had been at Forfar and he could have gone back and played at that level – but he felt it was the right thing for him.” “Because their [the Faroese] season was staggered we were able to get international clearance for him during the windows in which we needed him. We did a lot of work with the Faroese national executive, and they couldn't have been more helpful from when I made the initial phone call. I was wondering how it was going to be, out of the blue phoning them up to say 'we want to sign one of your international players for Banks o' Dee in Aberdeen'. However they got all the paperwork in place and we signed him up. He was a standout in every game. We've got a lot of good players but Odmar was unique. He looked like a Norseman, the big beard, blonde hair, he looked like a Viking.” A league title, a McLeman Cup medal and the Banks o' Dee player of the year award duly followed but that wasn't the only impression Faero made on the club. “He was a lovely lad,” adds Winton. “He didn't come in and say 'I'm Billy Big Time, I'm a Faroese international. He just fitted in with the team, there was no hierarchical thing. I think that's why the whole thing was a success and why he enjoyed his time with us and we enjoyed him being with us. I had a lot of conversations with his mum. She was there the night he won player of the year and she just said how happy he was playing for Banks O' Dee and that we have created a family environment and he fitted really well into that.” With his studies at an end (he graduated wearing the Faroese national dress of white shirt, fine wool waistcoat and knee-length trousers) Faero returned home in 2016. Now 31, he plays for champions-elect Klaksvik having had a spell in Norway with HamKam – and, of course, still performs with distinction for the national team – as Winton is well aware. “He left Banks O' Dee and the next game I saw him playing was against Portugal and Ronaldo,” he says laughing. “Which is slightly different to the challenge that we have got.”

Inspired by international glory, a perfect 10 for Wednesday's league fixture

A full house for Wednesday, bizarrely knew the monarchy one for once (maybe it's been on here recently?) but the rest were right up my street.

At least United fans aren’t bitter.

We’ll get Israel

Well that was far from pretty, but in times gone past we'd have drawn that, potentially even worse, so can't complain, although few players get pass marks there, although Gilmour did his best. We really need players willing to take the game by the scruff of the neck at times though, some of our build up play, as so often the case, was ponderous and predictable. Well, let's be honest here, without him we'd have potentially got 2 out of the last 9 points, so comments like the above can get in the fucking bin! Clearly he's not Ronaldo, but we don't exactly have that kind of player knocking on the door for a call up. First player since '69 to score in 4 consecutive games, last player with anything near that sort of scoring capability was Kenny Miller, who was also given unreal amounts of stick. He might be a bit agricultural, but frankly if he keeps getting the goals I couldn't give two hoots.

He said "Escorting a VIP", not "VIPing an Escort".

FTFY.

Every morning I need to come off the pavement and walk around cars parked on it who leave no room to get by because drivers seem to be under the belief if the road is too narrow to park on the pavement is now a parking space. f**k drivers. Entitled shits. Anything that inconveniences them cheers me up.

That's life.

Leo the pup is now climbing everything in sight, which means he and Rosie the dog can scoom away to their hearts content, barking at all that may dare to enter their domain

Hey folks, David Latto here... Just came to post and let you know about the Geordie Munro fundraiser but see that's it's already been posted! Really appreciate the support on this. We're just over half way to the target now so if you can contribute it's much appreciated! Can't wait to hear it ringing round Starks! Cheers David

Fucking photocopy of a passport [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

Why? A scan of a passport isn't going to get you on a plane

We're looking to replace our 24 year old boiler and radiators with a heat pump system and/or solar panels. Initial capital costs are prohibitive but we'll effectively have no energy bills if we go ahead with it - in fact we may end up getting money back if we install solar and sell power back to the national grid. My house is a 32 year old bungalow. We looked at a heat pump alone and at a heat pump plus solar panels to replace our storage heaters. We decided that the savings from the solar weren't worth it, so went ahead with the air source heat pump alone. Our system runs 10 radiators (2 living room, 2 hall, 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom & the towel rail in the en suite) and gives us all the hot water we need . We went for the Mitsubishi Ecodan rather than a cheaper make, and it cost us about £11,000 all in. When we got the EPC certificate done, we found that (as expected!) the insulation in the loft was not sufficient to allow us to get the RHI payments. We could have spent £200-£300ish and put an extra layer in the loft by laying it ourselves. However, we would have lost the flooring & storage space. Instead, we spent another £2000 to have a local joiner put down insulation & build a new floor above the insulation. In all, therefore, we spent around £13000. The RHI is paying just under £300/quarter, so I expect to recover around £8,400 in payments over the 7 years it is payable. Our electricity bills immediately halved, so at 2019 prices, our monthly bill went from over £200 to under £100 (the house is all-electric, so we have no other energy costs) Accordingly, the system will pay for itself well within the 7 years, and the whole house is now warm - unlike with storage heaters! Interest free loans were available, but we used some savings. However, as far as I'm aware, the loans are still free, and if you're on certain benefits (we weren't), some help is also available to upgrade insulation. I would encourage anyone to at least investigate the costs for their own house, but would warn against the cowboys that fit the chepest system possible for free (or for very little money) and get you to sign away the RHI payments to them.

Boi was absolutely over the moon when this was happening

Presumably her husband was on some, given he's been accused of stabbing her to death.

Yeah, there needs to be an appreciation of context here. Lyndon was born in Australia and lived his first 18 years there (and went back for another year after first coming here and getting homesick). His sister competed, and won Gold, at the Commonwealth Games for Australia. His parents are both Dumfries born but there's little doubt he considered himself Australian when he arrived here and definitely still did when he broke into our first team squad. He's always had a UK passport as well as an Aussie one though. Over time it's become clear his life is here now. He's become a father, his son was born in Dumfries. He got married here. His wider family are here. The ties to Scotland have become more solid. He absolutely considers himself Scottish now. He's very single minded. Once the commitment was made, he's Scottish and that's that. I doubt it was an easy decision but it will have been made with no looking back.

Wild how "The Kilmarnock way" sounds the exact same as the Raith Rovers way, the Queen of the South way, the Hamilton way etc etc. What a load eh pish.

Snobbery is all I've got. I look down on people for, literally, thousands of reasons. Generally for not thinking and doing what I think they should. Clothes, music, lifestyle...everything. Everybody is wrong and I'm right and anyone who disagrees is an idiot, unworthy of my attention. Eta, I think everyone really has a similar outlook.

The mystery of SNP MPs travel expenses continues.

How decent were the Faroes in spells last night? Fair fucks to them, they had a plan and looked great going forward a number of times, as well as being solid without the ball. 100% fair fucks to them for that.

Guess-heavy full house for Wed. The RotW team still playing like every point counts..

Watching Scotland game. Dog wants out. We are heading out. Least his Romania won yesterday...

It's time for Peter Grants first quarter of the season appraisal!

Guesses for the two English history questions gets me a 10 for Wednesday.

Despite my rep I am no where near being an alky nor have I ever 'abused substances' but the reason for the break down of my first marriage - long before P&B was a thing - was gambling abuse. Not the geegees or the dugs but gaming clubs. From my experience, find a local 12 step 'thing' but more importantly a buddy/mentor who will work with you. It's all about changing lifestyle and habits so you need a lot of local support and, ideally, someone you can connect with. Best wishes, buddy. You're a real asset to the forum.

May all who took part be showered with green dots. Thanks to @SlipperyP for organising and to both captains for their contribution

Could be worse lads. Could be Republic of Ireland.

Whoooooooooosh!

We solved the constitutional crisis of our own making by entering into an agreement with our nearest neighbours and friends in bad faith, with zero intention of complying with what we heralded as a great success just so we could beat that b*****d who wanted to give everyone free WiFi.

Boyd nailed it there, the fact that we are raging at winning games is mental. Even the good Scotland teams in my lifetime have struggled like we did in the last two games, but I doubt they'd have got through them with 6 points.