harry94

Why is this game in Kelty?

I think the 1-1 game in 2007 was when the Dundee squad had been ravaged by a flu bug and Rae played himself as a lone striker.

I think he had a great game or two against us for Stranraer as well.

Should really have been back on loan getting some game time. Batshit how they've handled the 'keeper situation when you see that and then Gordon lining up against them.

I was getting a haircut so stopped in a council car park at the back of the wee Sainsbury's (across from Mennies) on the Perth Road, it's been free for as long as I can remember. The main road is free for 45 mins as well but was full. Come out to a £30 fine about half an hour later. Turns out that it's pay and display with the first two hours free. Was about to have a heads gone and blame poor signage but all clearly noted. FFS.

At the time around his sentencing, the talk was that Giuliani had intervened specifically to make Trump not to do it. These were the trials that had Trump named as a co conspirator 'Individual 1 who serves as President of the United States'. If Manafort is charged by the state (which Manhattan DA is trying to do), he'll claim (and is already fighting this and winning through the courts in NY) defence under 'double jeopardy' - perhaps part of that process involved exhausting all the appeals etc. Maybe some of that reduces the heat on Trump and creates some legal defence. I think Flynn is just an idiot who just got his reward of a pardon for being loyal more than anything else and didn't really tangle much with Trump. I think all added up, the sentence Manafort got was something just under 7 years given some of the time served concurrently and being detained for nearly a year. For a very well connected guy in his 70s with tens of millions stacked away in various places and the crime he's convicted of being tax fraud, I would suspect that he'll find a way out without his pardon very soon, wouldn't be surprised if he never returns to prison.

Mark Brown has 7 - Rangers, Motherwell, Inverness, Celtic, Killie, Hibs and Ross County

It starts off as a 4-2-3-1. Adam and Byrne deep. Jakubiak on left, Anderson through middle and Gowser on the right. Mullen up top. Gowser has played as a wide midfielder a fair few times under McPake. The idea is usually some weird diamond to force central midfielders on the pitch and we usually fall to shit with the whole defensive shape out of possession (think back to the game at Inverness last season). Last week, that attacking 3 all roamed around quite a lot side to side with Jakubiak and Gowser getting inside and Anderson taking periods coming off the flank. Our full backs were also fairly high to support those three to let them move inside. We played some nice stuff in possession (Gowser was at his best and had a couple of brilliant through balls that should have been converted in addition to his goal) but there were a couple of moments in the first half where Arbroath nearly punished us on the flanks with the space we gave them. Have a feeling tomorrow will go badly wrong for McPake, there's been a couple of improved performances but think Robertson will have a field day if we're setting up with the same defensive shape. Either 3-0 Dundee or 3-0 Inverness.

Is it one device per ticket for Saturday? I appreciate that's a stupid question but bought 2 logins for the Brora game then afterwards noticed in the small print that 1 subscription allowed 2 devices.

Kushner was running his incarcerated fathers company by 2008 and had completed the biggest real estate deal in history. Alongside that, he had bought the Observer and was a establishing a big name in journalism in NY. He wasn't an unknown. It would be like waiting for one of Rupert Murdoch's kids to inherit shitloads of responsibility and then predicting that they might well be someone to watch in a few years.

Checked this morning and it was all a bit of a mismatch with the only one that I was sure would reliably fit being +£100. Ended up finding one similarishly priced to your dads deal when I checked in the afternoon, that had just went up, and included the manufacturers type jack so just went for that. Bought it with the knowledge of what I was getting and didn't realise it could be as awkward to source myself, lesson for next time to make sure they get it in there before I do a deal.

And they could very easily just say that he's just here for facilities if that's the case.

Just bought a car and it's come with no space saving tyre but the space is there for one. What's the sort of cost I should be looking at for one? Put in the exact model no and found them for +£100 which seems to be taking the piss for me. If I got one that was from a similar model but slightly smaller, would that likely do the job?

Yeah that's it for me as well. Good quality cup of coffee, comfy sofas and some theatrics to welcome you. Would rather just have a straight talking p***k and sit on wobbly bar stools and a GP receptionist to greet on arrival. I do feel for them though, obviously just bamboozle them at training days with all of this. Can see the genuine pain with the flatness at the end when it's not went the direction they were pushing.

Weren't too many AC references tbf, a few attempts to try and explain how Peter Vardy operate and fit in a comment about their charity work but just zoned out by that point.

Spot on

Went for a test drive there at one of our national dealerships. Turned up and it was a model £1k more expensive than the one I'd booked but went along with it for the drive nonetheless. Drove fine but was filthy after the guy bragged about its cleanliness in the showroom minutes before (not that it really bothered me but just found it funny). After it, I explained that the only way I can act on it would be if it was in the range of the model I'd originally looked at but thanked him and said he could be helpful on organising something on that front a bit closer and was open to that make and model. The guy went through all his financial talk giving it the whole nonsense spiel about "We sell 3 out of 10 cars at a lost" and some horrific attempts at demonstrating interest rate calculations for about ten minutes then kept 'going away to get something for me' and coming back to just try and reset the conversation. I was told that this is the only car in the world at this price of that quality and next month, there would be no cars in existence in my budget. Almost killed me with the no of figures and circular logic he kept throwing in. Politely resisted each of his attempts and was looked at like I'd just taken a giant shite in the middle of the showroom. I appreciate it may not make sense for them to drop any lower on it if they fancy their chances elsewhere but fucking hell, the whole think was excruciating. Just being talked down to intensely by someone who has little grasp of numbers.

Is it a 1L Turbo? What year and exact model? It is a Corsa S Ecoflex 2014 model. Mileage was actually closer to 45k. Bought it off a family member and was just a low powered runaround for a few years. Got it to a garage I trust a lot more who have a good mechanic who always does me right. He had a check and thought the timing belt had jumped a tooth. Gave me the prognosis and we decided to chance it and try the new belt. The fix failed, he showed me the valves today and they were a state, around half of them had bent and one just shattered completely. Maybe my hearing is shit but the noise didn't really sound that catastrophic, just thought it was an issue with the ignition. Quote for the new engine was something like £2400 + VAT and then covering all his labour obviously. He didn't fancy fitting a second hand one (and I couldn't be arsed going elsewhere) so he's done me a decent deal buying it off me for a few hundred pound so just going to move on and sort out something else. A bit of a b*****d as I've been waiting on a new job that's been delayed after my PhD so just down to one income with my partner so not sure what the financing will be like (or if anyone will even give it right now - seen a few with Arnold Clark and Peter Vardy) but car isn't 100% essential right now and have access to one for shopping etc so can hopefully put off to the new year. Something less weak hopefully.

It's an interesting topic, whenever I've tried to find papers on the issue, the whole negotiation settlement is kind of glossed over with references to inheriting debt meaning the cash reserves are developed from scratch. Not my area of expertise and I'm probably havering nonsense but I've never really found the debt inheritance arguments particularly persuasive, it's a good campaigning tactic but there's no real benefit in setting your neighbours house on fire, Osborne was all over the bailout for Ireland (and their banking sectors) instantly. It's just hard for me to see the UK gov threatening to push a tangled economy into a fiscal crisis that could spill into their territory at the expense of contributions towards servicing debt that is in their name already, servicing hovers around the 5% of UK expenditure. Just set up some sort of mechanism where iScotland can pay into that pro rata with a bit of flex and we're all happy. A lot of the takes in the media are under the impression that the assets are just liquefied to pay all the liabilities up front which is blatantly nonsense. It would be nice to maybe see the leadership sink their teeth into it but get the impression that they are just quite cautious with what they put out for the reasons you say.

Re the establishment of a new currency, how much cash reserves are we actually talking about? I know Richard Murphy isn't a specialist in macroeconomic policy but his interpretation was that in the post indy negotiations, Holyrood would obtain a proportion of the UK Gov and Bank of England's reserves and that would just be siphoned easily into the new currency whilst it is pegged to the UK pound in the early years with only a very brief sterlingisation interim period (i.e. not the years that the growth commission stated).

https://public.tableau.com/profile/phs.covid.19#!/vizhome/COVID-19DailyDashboard_15960160643010/Overview You can play around with that and get case data by neighbourhoods. The rolling 7 day test positivity rates are generally the best sense checks IMO.

At least he was justified a job in some way working with NI, Rangers and St Mirren relatively recently whilst Mackay come in off the back of coaching St Johnstone's 20s and then that spell part-time managing Stirling. Nicholl may have been competent and playing a part but there's only so much that could do if the manager is so much out of his depth. Inclined to think he was good at his job for what it's worth but that's a guess, we had some horror shows last season but we never had a 5 game run as bad as this. The O'Boyle and Strachan stuff was pretty disingenuous from McPake and the club, they knew what they were doing and were careful in the language they used knowing that it would create a misleading narrative.

In all honesty, I never really saw the complaints made about his work rate etc and poor games. Below average finisher but brilliant hold up player and very smart in how he played the channels etc. Only really remember one poor game when he come back from injury under McCann in a home game V County and he wasn't fit. Just think his back issue had become too much, he'd suffered serious issues before arriving. Take him out the 16/17 team and I think we're fairly easily relegated. The ability to hold a ball up with little in midfield and playing alone just took so much pressure off. Don't think the 7-0 game is near as bad if he's on the pitch.

Re the mentions of Strachan, I think this needs to be taken in context of his arrival at the club. The club knew the optics of appointing another novice and made attempts to visualise the 'management team' at all costs, even before Strachan had a formal position, it wasn't even clear if McPake was manager or co-manager with Nicholl at the time of his arrival when you read the actual statement. McPake's first interview was focused on emphasising that he had the approval of the 'auld heids' and 'advice'. It was the spin we were going for and drafted to alleviate fans concerns. Having a technical director is very common for full time clubs and more likely the case than not. In our case, Strachan is on no contract and has dived into the academy stuff and there's never really been a suggestion from a first team player or management that he's really involved on that side. I'm sure he's well trusted by Nelms and may well be the key person for major decisions but I don't think there's anything to suggest especially rare influence. Think we're full of shit and try to imply Strachan does a lot more than he does. In all honesty, I would actually say we're probably giving way too much freedom to our manager and should have a full time technical director with one of their briefs being assisting on first team recruitment, as is the case in most of the top flight.

Was assuming there is some sort of Manky Frankie mentalist who would enjoy hacking it to bits.