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You are a massive c**t. Stop saying you are sticking up for women and children. As a woman you can f**k off.

Hard to convey how gutted I am by this news. It very much feels like the kick in the stones after 2014. I firmly believed that if there was one politician that could lead this country to independence, it was Nicola Sturgeon. Every other politician is either too thick, too entrenched or will get caught in the weeds to have a chance. This is an absolute body blow to the SNP but more importantly, Scotland. Absolutely gutted that we've lost the most competent politician in the UK. We were lucky to have her as a leader. My only hope is that she doesn't start fucking destroying her great reputation ala Alex Salmond did before her.

Yogi Hughes til the end of the season.

2 observations Sturgeon is a top class politician. The standard of what we now refer to as Journalism is hilariously bad.

Some of the personal abuse and outright vitriol Sturgeon has had to endure, especially recently from terminally online bigots, has been disgusting. I wouldn't blame her at all if it turns out that she has just had enough.

If I was on record admitting I used to get my parents to ply young lassies with drink for me I would simply be quiet on the subject of fantasists, deviants and dangers to women tbqfh.

A girl has just been killed and as one final act of transphobia the British state will force her to be registered as a boy for the funeral paperwork. Could you have some decency and realise this isn't the time nor the place for vitriolic pish.

Independence is not about who leads the SNP. The reality is that the young are overwhelmingly in support of this as a principle. With each passing year, that goal is closer to reality. The right wing press, fawning Royalists, The BBC et al, have no appeal to young Scots. Nicola Sturgeon has been the stand out politician of the last 10 years on these islands and the vitriolic hatred she endured only proves the point.

Thank you again to everyone who has taken the time to respond to my issues over the weekend, I really appreciate the insight. I’ve really not been able to speak to anyone about this as anyone I would confide in my wife knows and I know she’s really embarrassed and resistant to sharing her issues so I’ve just kept it in. We had what I hope is a turning point on Monday. She looked after my daughter alone on Monday while I worked (she’s ill and we’re taking it day about to take time off work). Anyway she had an absolutely horrendous day, didn’t cope well at all and had all the bad things that have happened over 2 years come at once. Horrible for her yes but when I got home from work it was like she had woken up from everything. She had already called the GP, she had a phone appointment yesterday and has been prescribed some pills. She’s getting therapy and seeing the mental health nurse next week. It sounds horrible because she was a bit broken on Monday night, but it was like the woman I knew was back, albeit in a very weak state. But she was saying ‘this isn’t me, I don’t want to be like this’ which was really encouraging for me. Hopefully not a false dawn but as long as she’s in a place where she’s willing to fight it then I’m up for it too.

Being SNP leader is pretty much the hardest major job in UK politics. It's like being a Hearts supporter on Hibs.net every day. Everybody you deal with in public, all the major political parties, all the major media outlets, fundamentally oppose what you stand for and will almost never give you a fair hearing. You have to be patient, you have to be engaging, you have to be very calm under provocation, you need an excellent command of your brief and able to get your message across while everyone around you is screaming noise at you, and you need to accept that any errors you make will be rounded on by the whole gang and amplified. In short, it's an incredibly difficult job that requires a huge amount of skill and a certain type of personality. Scotland has been very fortunate that in Salmond and Sturgeon we've had more than a generation of excellent leaders who have done a frankly incredible job for the SNP and the Yes movement between them. I don't see anyone with remotely the level of ability required to carry on their work. Pains me to say it, but this is a massive blow to the independence movement that will set things back years. Whichever of the major candidates gets the job next will be well off the level. It takes a very special candidate to do it.

Taking the Motherwell job.

The biggest losers today are the weirdo Union Jackers using phrases like "Wee Nippy" and "Krankie". So, much like any other day then.

You called trans people and trans allys deviants. You are a textbook transphobe maybe best for you if you take a wee break from the internet to assess your life choice. Your views have no place in the 21st century. Bye.

The Turd Reich

It seems that Sturgeon's final act as leader may have been to inspire some P & B members who never normally come near these political forums to demonstrate that unique brand of Scottish self-loathing.

Give it Murty until the end of the season.

Can we agree that the ‘give it x until the end of the season’ stuff has already had its day in this thread?

Guesses on the poet and actor gets me a 10 for Wednesday.

Clyde one with the stat of the week - St Mirren players have made more combined appearances for Motherwell than Motherwell players. 352 to 339.

What a fucking week

While I appreciate that this would, potentially, be something that might happen when a team empties their manager, there is not a chance this is the case this evening.

I think that was on the basis that we were on to a third PM in the space of 3 months, as opposed to a leader leaving after 8 years. Cant believe I had to waste time typing that for you......

Just call me Nostradamus lads.

This was a strange notification to recieve.

The rest of Scottish football should be utterly ashamed if we manage to stay up this year.

Tell you what, if St Mirren start signing some of our good ex-players instead of the shite ones, they could be on to something.

The players must really have hated Hammell.

What a shite time to be alive

Player of the month for DECEMBER - thanks to all 40 players for taking part during the festive month. @Arch Stanton scoops his 10th monthly award. How did you do?

The reaction of the UK media right now tells us exactly how powerfully regarded a figure Nicola Sturgeon has been, and we can expect a flood of hypocritical nonsense over the coming days. The Queen is dead, long live the Queen. But any unionists inclined to pronounce today as the death of the Scottish Independence movement would do well to resist that urge. I'd like to think that the movement is stronger than that, and in any event it is broader, much broader than the SNP.

Wee Nicola has been the outstanding politician on the UK stage in recent times, imo - be careful what you wish for.

Ignoring the result, I thought we showed a bit of streetwise-ness(?) and game management tonight that has been completely missing over the last few months - things like Butcher’s cynical foul, Casey and Butcher getting in the referees ear on plenty of occasions, and Kelly’s time wasting. We’ll need every trick in the book to get out this mess so glad to see we at least have it in the locker.

Genuinely thought I’d never see our Natalie ever again.

Well going by Twitter just now, this is the most momentous day in Rangers' history.

Well your argument was Kennedy could take over any League 1 side and win the league, not that Darvel would win it. Do you think he could manage the current Clyde side to a league win? Kennedy and Darvel are spending money others can't dream of even if you boys want to kid on it's the scenic Ayrshire coast that is bringing them there and they've already failed to go up once. The guy is an imposter. Great connections in the game? He's a nobody who is playing real life Football Manager.

Three years since Hamilton beat Hearts, despite their team being sent off after 21 minutes.

You can almost forgive Raith as he had just come off the back of a successful spell at Caley. However there can be no sympathy for the Pars. Hiring Peter Grant and John Hughes in the same season was utterly hilarious.

The issue isn't Forbes being a "god-botherer" each to their own and all that, it's the fact that she's a bigot because of her religion.

His save just before H.T was world class.

Referee body happy to employ someone with his views on the gypsy community and his voting record against children and young people. But are outraged when someone calls him a c**t.

Haven't thought much of Sturgeon for a while but I don't think many would fancy keeping going when Scotland and UK's disgusting political press, liberal commentariat and dinner party set decide it's your turn for a good monstering. She was never one of the lads anyway so fair play to her for keeping them off her back that long.

Hoping she comes out at the 11am press conference and calls out JK Rowling for the kunt that she is................

Some of this reminds me of an international Scout camp in Kenya back in the 90s. Rather than have fancy chemical portaloos, they'd just dig a deep hole in the ground with the spoil heap left beside it, place a wooden toilet seat over it to form a temporary latrine, and then fill it all back in with the spoil at the end of the camp. Trouble is, when they took the wooden setup away, they never filled the hole up immediately. Instead, they covered it with a plastic sheet, accompanied by a warning sign saying to stay away. Slight issue with that was that not every young attendee could read English yet, particularly one French lad that walked across this sheet. I know very little French, but following that little incident, I still remember that their call for help is "au secours!". Like many Scottish kids, we knew "merde" well in advance, which was evidently far more useful than "how do you get to the library", and is a decent argument for getting the most popular swearies on the school curriculum. What sort of utter weirdo goes to a library on holiday anyway?

If it is Tommy Fucking Wright I am rioting

The Sun reporting Wright is the boards first choice. Appointing a guy who was appointed to save Killie and failed to do it would be incredibly on brand for this board.

What a difference it is. Work down south and few people in the office tuned in when the Liverpool game was done at 2-0. Impressed with the standard, proper goals and proper atmosphere. Bit of pride in being a Bairn again

Nah, we'll just carry on spending next season, we won't pay our creditors, maybe try a CVA, maybe not, probably flirt with administration, and when the dust settles we won't suffer any real punishment, not even relegation. It's been done before by some Lanarkshire mob.