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The Manager of the Year should have done something remarkable. He's clearly done a very good job, recruited well, seems like an interesting guy, good for a soundbite blah blah - but what results has he actually achieved that show something special? Won the league cup - well done - beating St Johnstone, Raith Rovers, Hearts and Hibs along the way. Knocked out the Scottish Cup by the only team on their level. Any time he's come up against quality they've more or less failed. He's had five cracks at Rangers - beaten them twice. Real Betis at home was arguably the only 'good' European result - otherwise we've got defeats to Bodo/Glimt, AZ Alkmaar, Bayer Leverkusen, away to Real Betis. What's remarkable about any of this? If an old firm managers wins this award, given the gulf in finances it needs to be something special- an unbeaten league season fair enough, a treble winning season.... fine. But this? When there's a genuinely remarkable and unexpected story been told over at Arbroath - where they aim for survival and every point is truly earned, I do think it's a farce that Ange Postecoglou won both this and the PFA award over Dick Campbell. Utterly, utterly mind boggling.

The Sonstrust have issued a letter to the Club with a copy going to all members with valid email addresses. For those of you who may not have it, I've copied and pasted below. The Trust Board acknowledge your email of 26th April in response to our enquiries about the ownership of Dumbarton FC. In light of the critical situation on the park over the past couple of weeks, we have delayed our response to your email. Now that relegation has sadly been confirmed, I am writing on behalf of the Trust Board to relay the serious concern of supporters about the current situation at the Club. Regrettably, your email leaves many of our original concerns and questions unanswered. It seems clear to us that Cognitive Capital have bought the 3.4 acres of land from the Club for nothing more than vague promises about building a better future. The following is a list of questions for which we still seek answers: - • the owners state that the land transaction was made at fair value. How much was this "fair" value and who made this assessment? • what measures are in place to determine the future value of monies due to the Club, which the owners state will be money or a new stadium? • there is a huge gulf between the cost of a new stadium and the monies that a house builder may make from 3.4 acres of brownfield land. If Cognitive Capital, by way of More Homes DFC, are shouldering all of the risk, then surely there must be a fixed amount payable to the Club now? • do the owners have a 'Plan B' if they develop the land to the north of the stadium and sales fall short of expectations? We are after all in difficult economic times, taking cognizance of ongoing and significant global price increases for materials currently being experienced in the construction industry. Does the Club accept a lower return on the value of the land if Cognitive don't make as much as they think? If so, then this risk does not rest solely with Cognitive Capital as your earlier response suggests. • your email says that Cognitive Capital represents a group of investors led by a Norwegian consortium. It begs the question as to why these investors need to borrow a 'modest' £2million from Pendragon Group Ltd., a Private Limited Company based in Oxfordshire. To summarise the concerns of supporters: the outline planning permission on the land to the north of the stadium should be the club's insurance policy were we to need to fund major stadium repairs, other unexpected costs or to increase the playing budget in an effort to halt our current slide down the leagues. Instead, it appears to us that we no longer own the land and have received an IOU from Cognitive Capital and their consultant/advisor. Our concerns are compounded by our discovery that the recent West Dunbartonshire Council Local Plan no longer contains the original ‘safety clause’, which stated that the current Castle Road site could only be redeveloped if Dumbarton FC had a new ground of their own in the area built and ready for occupation. The Club could therefore be exposed to any future opportunist attempt at relocation. We note that you have published an update on the Club website following the team's relegation from League One. Unfortunately, the only reference to the Club owners is in a single sentence, claiming that the owners have ambitious plans which, if successful, will provide us with significant revenues and much improved facilities. We believe that if the owners have ambitious plans, then now is a good time to let supporters see the detail. The supporters' view of the Club owners has been forcibly expressed to the Trust Board, most recently at our AGM. The perception of Sons supporters of the Club's owners can be summed up in the following points:- • loans taken from Pendragon Group Ltd., secured on land belonging to Dumbarton Football Club. This done without the knowledge of the local Club Directors; • a belief that the primary objective of the new owners was to make money from land deals. The Trust Board was sent documents anonymously, which we did not circulate widely but which would lend credence to this belief; • no new money invested in the Club despite us being told by reliable sources that this was promised; • a relatively modest amount of shirt and stadium sponsorship promised by the owners has not been forthcoming, • two Associate Directors and a former Company Secretary, all committed Sons fans, resigning from their roles due to the owners continually failing to keep to their promises; • no evidence to date of Cognitive Capital's Director, Henning Kristoffersen having links with international clubs and players. If this perception is wide of the mark, we now need the Club owners, if not in person then through yourself, to give us hard evidence rather than just warm words, that they have Dumbarton FC's best interests at heart. To this end, I would urge you to reconsider the option of the Club owners and/or the DFC Board holding a public meeting to explain matters to the Club's supporters. The Trust Board's view is that the support deserves that. If the club is soon to be asking fans for engagement and money, there needs to be some effort to try and build a relationship that right now feels non-existent. We have a deeply unhappy support and not without justification. We know that even loyal supporters are threatening to withhold season ticket renewals if they don't see clarity in the way forward for the Club. For what it's worth, the clear majority of supporters making their views known to the Trust Board or on social media are saying that a change is needed in the dugout. This will of course be a decision for the DFC Board. It would be interesting to know however if a decision on this will be forthcoming shortly and based on footballing or financial reasons. We do of course echo the comments in your Chairman's statement about the efforts of volunteers who give generously of their time. As I have said on previous occasions, the Trust recognises and appreciates the work which yourself and the other local Directors do on behalf of the Club. We have to recognise however that ownership and the day-to-day running of the Club are interlinked and not separate entities. The Sons Supporters Trust also wish to engage in a spirit of openness and transparency. It is now over a year since the new owners took control of the Club promising a bright new future. Rather than openness and transparency, there has been opaqueness, secrecy and an apparent recurring theme of the Club owners failing to deliver on promises made. As previously intimated, it proved extremely difficult to try and unravel what has happened to the Club's heritable assets, with records at Companies House revealing a number of charges and securities involving a number of companies. One year on, what is the situation with their proposal to relocate the Club to Youngs Farm. Is this still being pursued? To date the Sonstrust has seen no evidence to support the assertion that the current owners have ambitious plans to take the Club forward. Until such time as Cognitive Capital provides such evidence, we cannot see how effective fan engagement can be achieved. -- Ends --

Only a St Mirren fan* could see good performances from a St Mirren player in back-to-back games, which resulted in back-to-back wins which secure top flight status, and say it has actually lowered their opinion on that player. * Falkirk fans too. Another bunch of torn-faced gits.

There was no time to do an interview last week. He came in at night, met with the board, presumably had his reps scrutinise the contract and then signed it. An hour after doing that the photographer - me - got him and PS for ten minutes to take some images so that the club could release the story. Then on his first day today he met the press to answer questions and posed for images from the two media outlets who sent photographers. He was planned to do an FFCTV interview today but for a couple of different reasons it didn't happen. I don't see it as a big deal. It'll be done in the next few days and it wasn't down to incompetence from anyone, as I think you're inferring, or conspiracies from dodgy staff / directors which was a major theme on here this time last season. It's just life. Sometimes things don't always go to plan.

I think today has been something of a watershed. Writing as a Trust Board member, the last year or so has been incredibly frustrating in the sense that you read some of the posts on here and want to respond but for various reasons that is not always the correct course of action Suffice to say that there is currently a very concerning disconnect between the owners, the DFC Board and the supporters, and whilst I don't expect any overnight change we must at least begin to create the Venn diagram that absolutely should be integral to a club like Dumbarton. That can be helped by honest and transparent dialogue. We have now asked a number of fundamental and relevant questions in writing; we now expect the club ownership and Board to respond in kind. The days of rambling Zoom calls, windy rhetoric and vague promises must be over.

Well I’m still blaming Tam Cowan despite all the evidence to the contrary.

Yet more leaks from the board ffs. When will this end?!?! Charlatans running the club imo (in my opinion)

Final league tables are brought to you by HUGO - 99 Problems PFIZER PREMIERSHIP All he nines for @Eednud winning his 8th title. @Salvo Montalbano not far behind for the 15th time. @alang1993 & @Arch Stanton are in the Europa @Detective Jimmy McNulty @Helpma & @peasy23 3 needs to be 2 playoff for the Mugs cup @The DA gets hounded. @Geaky goes all creaky & @The Hologram is finally flushed, Playoff between @Rugster & @Duszek to see who is in the playoff. WANNABE CHAMPIONSHIP Highest score of the week @Tynie Nickleby wins his 17th second tier title. @Leeds Saint is on the up. @WhiteRoseKillie strolls into the top flight. @Ross. is in the playoff. @The_Kincardine holiday boy. @NJ2 buys his ticket @scottsdad loved it so much he's back. @German Jag is in the playoff. LAST CHANCE SALOON SHOOTOUT 10 on Wednesday wins @Culter Away his 2nd Diddy title. @kingjoey arse collapsed, did enough. @Spring Onion is also promoted. @pleslie99 is in the playoff. @Blootoon87 taking a dive faster than a Tory councillor. Spoon!

Manager comes in, has a look where improvements need to be made, Spends as much as he can on players he already knows (which is far more than anyone else). Wins league by not a great distance. Just brush over the embarrassment in Europe. It's the stuff dreams are made of. Is there anything less interesting than Celtic getting awards for doing exactly what they should be doing and no more.

Do you lads ever get bored of comparing every single thing you do to one another?

I'm still in a little bit of a daze after that preposterous game of football. Without question the maddest match I've ever witnessed in the flesh. I stood outside the ground for a good ten minutes after it in a bit of a stupor. Obviously we don't want it to be for nought and we couldn't ask for a better chance to go up than the one we've now given ourselves, but no matter what happens, that frankly stupit game of football will live with me for the rest of my life. I presume the same applies for everyone else there to witness it, too. What an incredible squad of players and coaching staff. Delighted beyond words for them all.

SWFA:- President – Lindsay Herron (Scottish Daily Express) Secretary – Scott McDermott (Sunday Mail) Dinner Secretary - Gareth Law (The Scottish Sun) I for one am absolutely shocked that employees of such forward thinking newspapers would book a speaker who would cause offence to women and minorities...

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Ah well! I'll take a lucky escape. Wanti shut up about it now squire x

It just shows you that even having a home fixture against the team who finished a distant fourth in the league below you, is nowhere near a gimme and anything can happen. I’m not saying that Pars fans thought it was a certainty, but being honest, I still think most fans would’ve looked at it and thought “Ok we’ve been shite, I don’t trust us etc etc”, but still would’ve fancied them to get the job done. I certainly thought it would’ve been reasonably comfortable across the tie. Thought Dunfermline’s home form would’ve been the clincher. Maybe it’s because that could’ve been us, but I don’t have any feelings of “GIUY” towards Dunfermline. I just think “Holy f**k, that could’ve been us”. Makes you realise how close we came to it and just how important it was to remain in the division. Especially given then quality and ultra competitive nature of L1 for 2022/23. I have nothing against Dunfermline, quite like the away day, and their fans are more than decent compared to a fair few in the division who I hate. Best of luck down there boys, you’ll need it.

Look I’ve loved the coverage we’ve had and our achievements have been phenomenal this season we are top of the charts in basically every category but points which is ultimately all that matters. But some of the articles etc getting a wee bit over the top and Hollywood for my liking. There’s a reason this has happened, clubs grown massively off the park. We are now effectively a middle of the road Championship club thanks to the board and the inroads they’ve made into the community and commercially. We have finished 5th in this league just 2 seasons ago too. At the end of the day we are only 3 places higher. You’d think we were some amateur outfit with the way some articles go on

Actually this is the least surprising thing I've ever heard.

10/10. Total guess on the band. Which was nice.

I like it when a plan comes together. Was hugely swithering about heading up for the County-'Well game as it's a lot of time & money for 1 game when we're in the midst of a shite run - so I added some mountain action to the weekend. An hour after I walked out of Victoria Park, I pulled up at Coulags near Strathcarron where I would pick up the right of way to Torridon. It was a gloriously sunny evening, so it was a pleasure to be out for a wander. I soon caught sight of Fionn Coire bothy - a place I've stayed a couple of times but I was focussed on the next part of the plan, so didn't even head in for a nosy. The next part was a climb on a good stalkers path that would take me up to Bealach a Coire Garbh. I had been up here once in the past to climb the Munro Maol Chean-Dearg but it had been a while. I haven't done as much wild camping as normal this year and the stuff that I have done has all been low key local stuff - so I was in the mood for something a bit more exciting - and I really got it (despite my fear that I wouldn't find a decent pitch in such a rocky place) The extent of my plan had been to get the tent up and tan my hip flask but I'd made really good time and got the tent done quickly and I still had around 90 mins of usable light left. I debated about climbing my target - An Ruadh Stac - for sunset but as I'm a bit risk averse when I'm on my own, I finally decided not to as it would be *really* easy to get into trouble in the dark on that hill. Freeze Dried curry and some Caol Ila later and I was asleep by 10. I was up with the light at 5am and trying to get my climbing head on. This mountain isn't difficult as such (you need to use your hands occasionally) but it is *really* steep, a bit exposed and needs a little bit of attention paid to it. The climb was great fun, the views were stunning and as it was bone dry, it was as hassle free as it could be (it would a b*****d in the wet because of so much smooth quartzite slab) After a careful descent, I had the tent packed up in 15 mins and made it back to the car for 9am just as the parking area began to fill up. Absolutely top weekend and one of my favourite Corbetts so far...

It really isn't. The vast majority of the Act of Union is about the detail of things that will remain different in Scotland and in England and how that difference will be managed. Except, of course, that no court has ever definitively ruled that Parliamentary sovereignty is absolute, or that the Treaties of Union place no limits on them. This informs the extent to which the constitutional conditions giving rise to devolution are the product of pure Westminster sentiments or more fundamental principles of a state founded on the mutual bargaining of formerly independent nations. Go and read Lord Hope in Jackson v Attorney General. Go and read Lord Cooper of Culross in MacCormick v Lord Advocate. Go and read Lord Keith in Gibson v Lord Advocate. These are not unresolved questions. You are indeed correct that you are under no obligation to relieve yourself of your own childish ignorance.

Wouldn’t be the Falkirk thread if there wasn’t a fan of some shitey wee jobber team stinking it out with some dreadful patter.

Going in to the final Saturday of the season 6 of the 9 fixtures have something at stake. 2 fixtures to determine the league winners and 4 fixtures to finalise the 4th and potential 5th relegation spots. It's been some league! Anyone else missing the @HibeeJibee weekly summary at this key point of the season?

First of all, this was not a sportsman's dinner, it was a professional awards ceremony. The audiences are different and any good speaker would realise that (though in this case it seems as though the material was offensive regardless of who it was for). Secondly, it is entirely possible to give after dinner speeches without racist, sexist or homophobic jokes. Lots of really good speakers manage it, and doing it in the context of football should be an absolute home run for a speaker because it provides so much easy material.

I've cancelled my standing order to the manager's fund and emailed the club (cc'd the trust too) to let them know and why. I also told them I won't renew my st until the management team have left my club. I'd encourage others to email the club too since we can't vote with our feet at this time of year.

What so no one else stands in their managers office in their pants every morning?

My diagnosis for prostate cancer started with a finger up the bum and a blood test, followed by an appointment with an oncologist which I delayed because I'd booked a holiday, they seemed a bit shocked. Got back and got the news, blood showed a very high PSA count which is a pretty solid indicator, and they did a biopsy to be 100% sure. Was put straight on chemo and hormone treatment pretty well immediately, after a couple of scans. This was January/February 2020 and the treatment brought the PSA down to near zero. Never felt ill throughout apart from a little bit during chemo, on holiday again now and feeling fine.

Had a talk with my mum at the weekend. We were visiting and she asked me to help her with a problem with the car. We got outside and she said there was no problem, but wanted to speak to me away from the kids. We sat in her car, in the driveway, and spoke. She has spoken to the doctor and dad and was now speaking to me. They have had to come up with a plan for my dad - for his resuscitation. When it comes, and it will be soon, he doesn't want any special measures. No shocks, no ventilators. It wouldn't help and would just hurt him. The doctor recommends stopping the treatments for his eyes and his skin cancer - there is no point putting him through these treatments. She wanted me to know as the nearest of their children, I'll probably be there at the end to help her. Some discussions you just don't want to have. I had resigned myself to what was happening with him a week or two ago. I had a very rough time about 2 weeks ago (I was snapping at the wife and kids but managed to recognise what the issue was and stop) but I am settled to it now. I think it has just hit mum. They have been married 52 years now. Horrible to see her like that.

I didn't expect Adeloye to give an answer straight away (a dozen clubs will be looking at him) but it's going to give me the fear until he does. Could very well see your Falkirks and Dunfermlines try to bribe him with a doubled wage. McInroy was born in 2000. I'm still trying to process this information.

Obviously nothing is official until the pen is tweeted out but that's a bit of business I'd be happy with. A good right-back who's spent most of his career in the Championship or the top end of League 1 and done well in both leagues. If he can play left-back and centre-half(?) too then even better as we know how useful it's been to have players who can play in multiple positions this season. Murray really is putting the band back together!

Understandable, Main comes across as honest as they come though. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/in-your-area/renfrewshire/curtis-main-promises-st-mirren-26910323 He's in the PDE (apologies for linking to Record) today lamenting how rough this season has been for him on a personal level and that he's not been performing to level that he's happy with. It's a pretty honest self-assessment and respect to him for saying it when he could have said nothing and no-one would have uttered a word about it.

Ah, the old 'sorry if you were offended' line. Cool.

Regarding the Main situation and Ric's comments. I made mention on Saturday to my mates that I recall Michael Higdon being roundly and soundly derided in his first season with us. He scored something like 3 in 34 games and was being mentioned to GTF ASAP. His following season he scored over 15 goals for us and by the time he moved onto Motherwell, we were desperate to see him stay. It was a similar situation with Billy Mehmet. He was a joke figure. The season we won the 1st division, it was a running joke that he scored the winner against Dundee to secure the title, given it was like the 34th game of the season and his first goal. He went onto become a very pivotal player in our early SPL years. Josh Magennis as well. A figure of fun at Aberdeen and utterly garbage in his loan spell with us and Scottish football roundly laughed at Kilmarnock giving him a three year deal - he's also gone on to carve out a very, very good career for himself. I'm not saying Main is going to be the same but I think there are could be a slightly comparable situation that Main will prove to be worth much more than he's shown so far. He's never, ever going to be prolific. He doesn't have to be either...if we can put him out there to be a disruptive influence to an opposition back line, winning flick ons with his back to goal, coming deep and linking up for other players and generally being a big physical headache for defenders whilst chipping in with 6 or 7 goals a season, then that'll do for me.

Thanks for posting those great photographs. Burnbank Athletic defeated Maryhill, the holders, to win the Scottish Junior Cup in the 1900-01 season. They also won the Lanarkshire Junior League championship in the same season. Thanks to the great research of Stewart Davidson here are the details of their cup run. In the regionalised First Round they had a 5-2 away win against Nethanvale Thistle in the Lanarkshire section. In the 2nd and 3rd Rounds they were in the Glasgow & Lanarkshire section. They were awarded a bye in the 2nd Round and defeated Haywood Wanderers 7-0 at home in the 3rd Round. The 4th Round was drawn on a national basis and Burnbank received a home tie against Irvine Meadow XI who they defeated 6-2. In the 5th Round it was the turn of Leith Ivanhoe to visit and the result was a 5-2 victory. In the 6th Round it was another home tie and a convincing 9-0 win against Auchenheath Thistle. The Semi-Final was played at Shawfield on 6 April 1901 and a 5-1 win against Parkhead Athletic saw them into the Final. The Final against Maryhill was played at the Exhibition Grounds in Glasgow on 11 May. This was the temporary ground built at Gilmorehill for the Glasgow International Exhibition in 1901. Burnbank Athletic defeated Maryhill 2-0 in front of a crowd of 7,000 and top referee Tom Robertson officiated. It was 0-0 at half-time but Burnbank scored through Wallace early in the second half. Sharp scored a penalty in the 65th minute. Dan Greenhorn, along with Rogers, Scholes and Clarkson, were, by all accounts, the pick of the Burnbank players. In the Maryhill side was Don Colman, a future Scottish international, who is credited with inventing the dug-out. Rachel Corsie, who captains the Scottish team is his great granddaughter. Also in the Maryhill team was Dawson Walker who I think with such a distinctive name may be the father of the Dawson Walker who was trainer to the Scotland team and briefly manager. Burnbank Swifts had won the Cup in 1888-89 & 1889-90 and although it is difficult to be certain it appears that Burnbank Athletic emerged from that club so this was the third victory for the community beating the record of Ashfield who had won the Junior Cup twice. Charlie Greenhorn had played in the 1889-90 Final. William “Nipper” Greenhorn played for Bellshill Athletic in 1917. Both were Junior Internationalists and may be related to Dan Greenhorn. In the photograph Dan Greenhorn is wearing a cap and a badge on his jersey. I think the photograph may have been taken when he represented the Lanarkshire Junior League in their annual fixture against the Irish Junior League at Solitude, Belfast on 9 November 1901. Lanarkshire drew 1-1 and there were 8 Burnbank Athletic players in the team. He also played in a Junior Scotland trial match on 8 February 1902 at Fir Park, Motherwell, but was not selected for that season’s international matches. I hope that this helps.

One positive from the mess, looks like we've got a very good young keeper. Thank you.

Not the only one who had a feeling QP would find a way past a Dunfermline side who I was going to call demoralised, but that would presuppose they were ever, ehm, 'moralised' to begin with. Despite fancying them to go up in the summer (what a beamer for me) once the matches got underway they've had a look of a team with no guts right the way along. Granted, they got a few statement wins like when they massacred thistle, but over the piece it seems these were lapses out of general dreadfulness that never lasted long. The QP sides we have played were different animals than the current version, I would suspect. Coyle has, to the surprise of nobody, made a big difference to them since stepping in and his being one of my footballing heroes growing up adds a certain fear to the whole thing, but in brass tacks terms, this is as good a chance to go up as we could ever really ask for. The second leg at home feels gigantic, albeit that didn't stop QP in the semi-final. Even so, what we did on Saturday underlines our capacity at home to overwhelm our opponents. A narrow defeat wasn't a disaster last round nor will it be in this, but you'd have to reckon we've a better chance of getting away from Firhill with a positive result than we did at Links Park. Needing to go through extra-time did for us last season, but as many have pointed out, that was more the straw that broke the camel's back after the hectic schedule and injuries incurred. We should not have anything like the same level of fatigue this time. QP cunting their way through is something a lot of posters have forecast as a distinct possibility and if they do it, it'll be some achievement for a side who struggled most of the season and will underline how crucial it is to sneak into that top 4 any way you can (chuckles in the general direction of falkirk). All that notwithstanding, we're a better team than QP, with better individual performers, more attacking threat, more creativity and an absolutely ferocious appetite, as that stupit game of football on Saturday proves. We're favourites, and that likely suits our opponents, but we're favourites because of how evidently better we've been over the season. League standings count for nothing now (apart from the home second leg of course) but they do demonstrate that we have the players to win this tie. I'll be hoping QP win the third tier next season, so they can come up and join us in the championship with a fully finished Lesser Hampden. nouveau riche or not, I'd rather them than Kelty, and of course everyone would rather them than dunfermline or falkirk.

Yet another player of the month award. I was a bit surprised at Gallagher winning it but five goals in four games is a great record. Hopefully it’s not the last thing he wins this season!

Came in yesterday, yet again bemoaning the rising costs in the supermarket, including the price of the nice specially selected cooked meat she'd bought. Walked into the kitchen a wee while later to find her feeding a couple of slices of said meat to the dug. Now I'm very fond of the dug, he's a great wee c*nt, but with the speed he rattles his food at, I doubt he'd have known whether it was honey roast ham or donkeys bawbag. At least she'd kept enough for my piece.

He died years ago. Do keep up.

10 for Monday. Knew 9, bit of a guess with the Pakistan country question

“And here’s one for the ladies”

I see Allan Campbell is sweeping up the end of season awards at Luton. Sitting here like a proud da’

When are you winning all your games in hand to catch us?

I can exclusively reveal (leak) that the home strip is navy blue #itk

Ten with a speculative effort on the band. Good start to the season for the troops after last seasons promotion. Hopefully lads can keep momentum up, maybe need a signing or two before window closes but I have faith in the group.

This is a tricky one. Do I take on board the opinions of someone who's literally studied this material in presumably considerable depth for years, OR do we go with the inane 2am ramblings of an angry (and probably half-pished) bigot? What to do.

"careful there Bill, that might upset the girls" "of course, they all have lovely bottoms"

The trend for "ordinary" pubs to serve time consuming cocktails is abhorrent. My local is being pushed towards trying to be more cocktail orientated. I went in Friday and asked for a Paloma (it's what they have been putting up online as a lovely drink and readily available now for well over a week) the barman come back with a pint of Tennents and told me to f**k off to my seat.