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Saw this tweet generating heated discourse on Twitter, reminded me that there's a thread on this subject on here

Regarding next season, if Ferguson does leave then I really hope our illustrious board and senior management are aware this could happen and have been working diligently behind the scenes so we have a quick appointment. We need to completely restructure the team this close season and having to recruit a manager would complicate that hugely. I'm sure they will! It's not like they are all massively incompetent. On the bright side, if Ferguson did leave, I wonder what sort of seething statement we'd get. We currently have seven contracted players for next season - Nikola Ujdur, Remi Savage, Lewis Nicolson, Charlie Gilmour, Adam Brooks, Louis Longstaff and Billy Mckay. Of those out of contract, there's a few I think who are highly likely to leave - Cameron Harper for one - he has really grown as a player the past couple of years and has nine assists this season for a struggling team. He's only 22 and I'd be amazed if an English team didn't pick him up, he was linked with Charlton in the window.

You can kind of split our season into sections I think. When Ferguson came in we had lost six and drawn one of our first seven league games, lost three of our four league cup group games and been knocked out of the challange cup by Arbroath. Overall we had lost nine of our first eleven games, we were in a terrible position. From a completely blunt perspective, staying in the division from that position is a success. After Ferguson came in we went on a good run - in his first eight league games we won four, drew three and lost one, the only defeat being to Raith who were flying at that time. I think that was partially due to a new manager bounce and partly due to have David Wotherspooon on a short term deal. We also seemed to hit upon a formation that worked for us but we persisted with that beyond the point where it clearly wasn't working. Looking back the point where it was clear that we had just had a bounce and not a sustainable change in form was December into early January, where we lost at home to Arbroath and produced a risible showing at Airdrie. Our home form began to be a big concern as a winless run started stretching. Around this time we began to recruit players and there were pretty big concerns about signing a load of centre halves and letting go two of our best midfielders in Carson and Welsh. I understand the reasons why we let them go but don't think that it was a right decision, especially Welsh. Around this point I started to really think we were done for, we couldn't get a win - blowing a two goal lead v Partick and then having successive 0-0 draws at home from games we really should have targeted for three points was a huge alarm bell. At the same time we managed some surprising away wins at Raith and Cappielow that meant we didn't get pulled away from 8th completely. The hope has to be that the two successive wins we have pulled out (our first back-to-back wins in the league this season) start another section of our season where we finally start to drag out three points. I'm not getting too hopeful as single goal wins over the two worst teams in the league apart from us isn't too much to get excited about. Saying that, what I think both those wins shows is a bit of spirit and fight in the team, which I wasn't sure was there before. I'm sure I posted on here or elsewhere that we were the last team I'd back to get results in crunch games but the team have done that in the last two weeks which should give them some confidence. One thing about this league is that aside from the top two teams I think every single side can go on a run if they hit form and circumstances align - almost every side this year has had times when they've put together a few wins. If we can have our run in the next three games that would be perfect.

The deep state forces Naomi Wolf to make a foundational mistake in her book to prepare for the pandemic, a year later.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/blowtorch-killer-edinburgh-80s-gang-32547684?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target This thread is now being used as a source for Daily Record crime stories. Might have appeared in the Daily express first - https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/blowtorch-killer-ian-macleod-leith-32545457?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target

The reason we have loads of loan players is that just about everyone we signed from the summer of 2021 has been complete garbage. I posted a list of them earlier in this thread, appalling read. Sadly a lot of the loan players appear to be complete garbage as well or at least injury prone, not what we are looking for.

Various places have speculated about motive. I read somewhere that the father and son would exploit vulnerable people, steal their possessions and benefit money, both victims were described as vulnerable in court. However, that doesn’t explain why they would go from doing that (if they did it) to doing something like this. There are other rumours as well, that probably can’t and shouldn’t be repeated. I think if there was a motive it would have been said in court, from the look of it the father and son just decided to brutally torture two guys to death, planned it out and did it. The Sun quotes the note they left in the flat, written by Dean Macleod it said Father and son both tried to commit suicide after the murders with methadone but failed, obviously. I’m sure I posted this before but Bronco MacLeod is mentioned here, in this salacious article about Edinburgh street gangs. https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Crime+Capital%3B+The+street+gangs+of+the+1960s+and+70s+spawned+a+new...-a0130202910

Sentencing remarks in the MacLeod double murder. https://judiciary.scot/home/sentences-judgments/sentences-and-opinions/2024/04/08/hma-v-ian-john-macleod-and-dean-ian-macleod Comment from one of his step daughters after his conviction for assaulting more than a decade ago https://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2009/11/19/daughter-of-woman-attacked-with-corkscrew-say-stepdad-should-be-locked-up-2193/?amp=1

‘Bronco’ MacLeod has a long record for violence. https://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/13553939.corkscrew-attacker-jailed/

This case was mentioned in here a few months back. Not exactly organised crime but references to a prominent Leith street gang, the YLT, in the case. https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-father-son-jailed-life-28956213?fbclid=IwAR2cCfnXPiSIHKSCYqA2aCLbuRScdruXfUCgjH6RY3fuvYcD2JzEzCbMsiI_aem_Af2wo_g_bfJ82HS-68fvZOSNkQcz3nSEQNk4UdhNQTjtDD3vTiKqr1p7AZGflsL1Sew#lur0vqf2jdzcofu4n3j I think the older guy may possibly be one the inspirations for Begbie from Trainspotting.

Sheridan was on a short term deal and didn’t perform at all well at any point in his time with us, including games against Cowdenbeath. He was released at the end of his deal and was then picked up by QP where he seems to have picked up. We just didn’t really play to what I presume are his strengths. We play a pretty negative, possession based style. Welsh was going to leave at the end of the season and the decision presumably was made to let him go early and save on wages. He was often injured but it’s clear that he was still a valuable player, particularly as we’ve since lost McAllister and Gilmour to injury and had Carson leave as well.

A man has refused to wear clothes during a court appearance in Dublin, in protest at the local police losing his emotional support cat during a traffic stop. Joseph Davis, 51, enter court nude to face charges of failing to keep his car stationary and refusing to give police his details. He refused a lawyer, telling his court appointed solicitor to “f**k off”. He claimed to have been dropping documents into the High Court accompanied by his cat Oliver, who he has permission to take into the a high a court, provided the cat is on a leash. There was a dispute in court regarding Mr Davis bail conditions, leading to the following exchange Mr Davis is due back in court on Tuesday. Have any P&Bers ever appeared in court naked to protest at the loss of an emotional support animal?

I am slightly wrong after fact checking myself - The Seekers cult in the 1950s predicted a date that UFOs were going to come and get them but that after the first date came and went the membership stayed loyal but when the second date came and went most of them left. Not all of them though! Do the JWs still say the world is going to end on a specific date?

Most people, maybe nearly everyone, will believe something that completely goes against evidence and will be unmovable from that position. There are millenarian cults who have predicted that the world will end on a specific date and when it hasn’t the cult has actually prospered. That said, almost everyone who doesn’t believe in global warming or the general consensus around it, is a mad crank. It’s almost a meme in our culture that the lone voice who everyone ridicules turns out to be right, it’s the theme of so many movies, TV shows and books. We should probably start producing shows about problems solved by careful planning and measured execution, where the subject matter experts and interested parties work collaboratively and professionally. The naysayers should be proved wrong and left to fester in their oddness.

The guy who made it also made a documentary about the benefits of silicone breast implants. So global warming - made up; massive tits - very good. It's a political programme I can get on board with.

Here's our team Six of the starting line up loan players (Kerr, Anderson, Boyes, Carragher, Samuel and Lawal), with Pepple on the bench also on loan. Seems a very similar line up to recent games, can't really see things going much differently. Dreary, goalfree 90 minutes to come!

Howling at this story Must be a parody

No excuse for looking scruffy, even if the roof has fallen in and none of the students can read.

Doesn't every school do that? I was reading about the case of Ruth Perry, the headteacher of a primary school in Reading who took her own life after the school was inspected by Ofsted and regarded from 'outstanding' to 'inadequate'. The issue was with the schools safeguarding practice and the inspectors estimated that it would have taken 30 days to rectify the issues found. The single word inspection results (oustanding, good, inadequate etc) have been criticsed, with Labour saying they will get rid of them. Ofsted have undertaken to update their procedures to deal with some concerns raised in the coroners inquest but some teachers unions are campaigning for the abolition of Ofsted. This isn't the first time that Ofsted inspections have been mentioned in relation to the death of a teacher. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1088x7w5xo - Latest story about the case, with lots of links explaining other details. I know that inspections are very difficult, being a headteacher under inspection must be hard. It's very British that Ruth Perry was worried that the inspection report would cause house prices in her area to fall and have the local community turn against her - house prices not safeguarding of children! You surely have to have a method of assessing schools though.

His son was sent home a couple of days after he reported him missing. He could technically have been charged with a crime but I think the fact that he was a minor and there were questions about what happened, they left it. Jade, who was the main woman interviewed, was one of the women who accused him of rape. The others couldn't be identified, either through choice or because of their age.

I don't think they can give any details on his son for legal reasons. Also, he might have declined to co-operate with the documentary. I don't think the woman who Avis abused when she was pregnant with his child was the mother of the son who reported him missing. His son was 17 when he reported him missing in 2019 and the woman interviewed about the abuse when she was pregnant said she met him in the early 2000s and then developed a relationship over years. As noted by others, he has numerous children. Incidentally, this article says that he was from Newmarket in Suffolk - https://www.suffolknews.co.uk/newmarket/news/rapist-is-jailed-after-faking-his-own-death-in-california-9206543/

GHF as soon as his Green card comes through

I’m not saying the US is some perfect place, more illustrating how the UK has declined. The murder rate is approximately six times more in the US than the UK. The wage and wealth gap between the US and UK used to be far smaller. It began widening significantly about twenty years ago.