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Mctominay absent for man utd earlier is a bit of a worry.

This is correct. This was NI's big game. They were 100% up for it and committed.

What a nonsense. Anyone who has ever went outside free international roaming destinations knows that one of the first things you do on arrival is buy local sim cards at the airport for your devices. Matheson didn't know this or maybe just forgot. Daft. He admitted it, paid back the money and resigned. End of. It's hardly UK politician levels of truffing we are talking about here.

Well that was 2 hours wasted I will never get back. Through to the portal twice. Continually informed selected tickets unavailable. Now through again and all tickets sold. Hmmm.....You have to wonder how these online sales work and who actually ends up with the tickets.

Lol. But seriously Doak will be back playing for Liverpool before the end of the season. If he hadn't got injured when he did there is a good chance he would have would be in our Euros squad. Ferguson will get his chance these games. He is not a like for like for McGregor. Different roles in the team. Its up to him prove he is an improvement on the current AM options.

"McRaes battalion" is a book I would recommend for anyone interested in how ww1 impacted Scottish football. Most of the Hearts team ( league leaders at the time) enlisted in the battalion in 1914, along with players from Hibs, Dunfermline, Raith etc. Unsurprisingly the battalion became the British army football champs....... ........And then they were sent to the front. A fascinating (and pretty harrowing) history.

OK Steve

The match will be at Estadio Algarve in Faro. This is a 30000 capacity. Gibraltars support will be in the hundreds. Don't think getting a ticket will be too difficult tbh.

Mctominay? Man utd fans forums suggest he should be played further forward. Scoring for fun just now. Big, strong and mobile enough to play up front on his own. Would free up a space in midfield as well.

The term "union" implies consesus and that the joined parties have a decision in the matter. Westminster and its legal lackey's have decided we have no choice regarding our constitutional future. Last years supreme Court ruling ended any pretence of effort to maintain a consensual "union". Without a "union" how can there be such a thing as a "Scottish unionist?" Perhaps "Scottish submissionist" or simply "British nationalist" is the more appropriate terminology.

Whats the beef with former pm's. Not all of us have the skill, knowledge and experience to gain a corporate advisory position. You know......the sort of job that pays thousands of pounds for 3 hours "work" a month. I am sure access to power and influence on decision making don't come into it at all.

Humzas Snp is terrible. Starmers even newer Labour is even more terrible. What a shit choice. .......but Humzas snp believes in democracy for Scotland. Starmers even newer Labour don't and never will.

After said independence we the people of Scotland could choose to vote them any party advocating such austerity out. That's the difference between independence and the current constitutional arrangement.

I think Bonny Prince Bob's description of them as the "Red Pawns" is the most fitting label for "Scottish" Labour that I have heard. https://youtu.be/afRE3RwLwaE?feature=shared

That is laughable

What a load of nonsense.

Well........apart from the academic papers and easily found examples highlighted across a wide range of mediums.........the fact that the BBC's own head of referendum coverage during the referendum admits to bbc hostility towards independence does tend to suggest an element of bias maybe crept into coverage. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17506742.bbc-bias-row-senior-journalist-criticises-colleagues-indyref-coverage/

Agreed. The bbc is not biased against any particular political party. However I don't think the same could be said of reporting on particular issues. The obvious example in Scotland being the constitutional debate. 50%~ of our population favour a particular constitutional settlement and yet our traditional media outlets (entirely foreign owned) are still almost universally hostile to that settlement. That hostility can be obvious as during the referendum campaign or more frequently subtle or subliminal. I recall an academic study completed not long after the referendum concluding that "our" media (including the bbc) were complicit in just that. That's not to say any bias is always deliberate. More often its probably down to a general institutional Britishness within the industry tbh.

Eh...you must be reading a different post to me. I was referencing the one Steely quoted. And I did specify regarding the bit about the SNP. Every political party takes flack. Although it is fair to say the SNP get it a bit tighter than most. The bias is not anti SNP per se....Its more a general media bias against independence.

The SNP bit aside....Sandy's post is pretty fair tbh

Well the UK could have developed a different taxation policy. One where all of society had a chance. https://taxfoundation.org/blog/scandinavian-social-programs-taxes-2023/#:~:text=Scandinavian countries are well known,require high levels of taxation. 45 years of selfish b@stard Tory and Labour voters put paid to that.

Deja vu. It all feels so similar to the, as it turned out false, optimism in 1997. I would imagine you would have found similar statistics among polling of young people then. History will repeat. Come the elction, we will just be getting a different shade of Tory...and after a few years Tory lite will again be replaced by the full fat variety. And we in Scotland will continue to shut up and eat our cereal.

Only insiders will know the withdrawal story. If it was a genuine injury fair enough..... his time to shine will come. However if someone is at it, depriving someone with a genuine desire to play for us a place in the squad and therebye unsettling the team, then they can gtf.

He already has........both Barry and Derek were great Rangers level players but never really pushed themselves to better.....Lewis is already doing the business in serie A.