Highland Capital

I agree dude.

I think a lot of it is about keeping up appearances. Now obviously it's better buying once than buying twice but credit cards have allowed people to buy all kinds of expensive garbage and putting off paying for it. I remember Danny Denholm talking in a podcast once about this happening a lot in Scottish lower league football. I remember him saying words to the effect of how Paul Pogba would be photographed with some high-end brand bag and all of a sudden players from Peterhead and Stenhousemuir would be turning up with the exact same bag. Some of them wouldn't be earning much more than minimum wage but there was a feeling that they had to have it.

Some people also have a very low threshold of what a friend is. Most of your work colleagues aren’t real friends. Same with people who serve you in pubs, cafes etc. If you go there regularly you might get to know them a little bit but they’re really barely acquaintances.

We were best tonight when we went Alamo style but Partick were also very very pish.

Looks like we’re playing a flat 4-5-1. Our midfield play looks alright but Mckay is way too isolated. Our defence is having a nightmare, especially Delaney. We have Ridgers to thank that we’re not at least a goal down.

People with absolutely no idea about money management. Credit cards are not free money.

If someone uses that phrase as an argument in a debate it's an acknowledgement that they've got no cognitive argument to make. There also seems to be people out there who think being entitled to an opinion means that all opinions are equal when they obviously aren't.

Norwegian Air did the same when they had the flights from Edinburgh - billed that airport as New York when it was actually New York state. Billing Hamilton as Toronto is like billing Dundee as Edinburgh.

“Let kids be kids!!!”

FIFA rules have changed the rules to allow players to hold onto the ball during the run up for a free-kick. As long as the match takes place in the Faroe Islands.

I've been thinking about this for a while but Dodds now seems very wedded to the 4-2-3-1 - we looked a lot better with three proper central midfielders in the team against Kilmarnock but I've been thinking for a while I'd like to see how we'd play in a proper 4-3-3. Something like this - Ridgers Duffy Devine Deas Harper Carson Welsh Allardice Henderson Mckay Samuels I think Henderson and Mckay have to start when fit now but it would give us some flexibility - Carson could probably play in front three along with at right-back and central midfield. Harper could probably switch roles like that too. MacGregor could play in the middle or forward three so probably could Shaw. You could even have the front three interchanging.

No-one said horrendous but you are clearly triggered. Debate is voluntary - no-one is owed a reply even when they PM someone demanding to know why they were given a red dot - in-fact it makes a reply less likely as that was...a bit weird.

If you don't like what I say and the apparently horrendous way I apparently behave on here then stick me on your ignore list...or just ignore me like I did with the PMs you sent me.

Jonathan Pearce talking about people throwing paper there like its coins or flares. All this coming from a man who used to commentate on a show where modified vacuum cleaners took on robotic lawnmowers. Edit - He's now talking about taking the players off.

The "won't someone pleeease think of the injuries" types are missing the point while sobbing into their hankerchiefs as well. Injuries were bad but how often were we playing teams of kids? Sometimes the best times to judge a manager is when the times are tough and yet it didn't seem to change anything - Dodds lined up the exact same way with the exact same tactics. That's just naivety. He never changed the set-up given to utilise who was available, he never made us difficult to beat given the depleted numbers. We can blame injuries all we like - a better manager would've weathered the storm.

I've been thinking about this as well lately and it's starting to do my head in. Nearly winning isn't good enough. He made a mess of the first leg (the first half especially) and got bailed out largely by two brilliant goals by McAlear. You can use this nearly argument over and over again. We were 45 minutes away from winning plenty of matches in the league last season and we got beat which would've made us go up automatically. Constantly harking at nearlys doesn't cut. Dodds' job was to land the plane - unfortunately he crashed quite near the runway.

I once posted some critical but correct comments about a certain radio personality on a football website which caused said radio personality to go into meltdown and post my comments to his 27,000 Instagram followers.

The way some fans talk about Hampden is bizarre - unless it's near full it's absolutely rubbish. Miles from the pitch and even with a reasonable crowd can be absolutely soulless. The way some people talk about it you'd think it was a world class stadium.

There's only one person having a meltdown and it's someone on Instagram.

£38 for any game in Scotland - including Celtic vs Rangers or a Scotland international - is a nonsense. The two semi-finals having the same price is ridiculous. The two semi-finals aren't equal - I'm not sure how anyone can justify charging the same price for a match that has a huge demand for tickets, that will probably sell out between the two best teams in Scotland and one between some Highland jobbers from the Championship and some lowland jobbers from League One. Some people seem very focused on the kick off time but you'd have to be quite naive not to have expected that. Our last two semi-finals in the Scottish Cup against Hearts and Celtic were both lunchtime kick offs as was our League Cup semi in 2014. We had plenty of lunchtime KOs both at home and away when we were in the Premiership. In saying that, the fact it is an early start with a dreadfully expensive ticket does make the KO time a bit more grating though.

It’s interesting to see the correlation when you go to Wales to see how much they value their own culture. The language is a lot more widespread granted than Gaelic for example but they seem to really embrace it and people are quite disappointed in themselves if they can’t speak it. Here you talk about expanding Gaelic and people question why people even want it to survive. Perhaps the fact that we’ve let our culture essentially be Disneyfied hasn’t helped matters.

Now I haven’t read every post on this thread but I’m surprised more hasn’t been made of Ash Regan reaching out to other pro-independence parties and the way she’s heralding this as if she’s some sort of diplomat. The SSP have faded away to nothing, Alba couldn’t get a councillor elected, Hope Over Fear is Tommy Sheridan’s latest ego trip to nowhere and the Independence 4 Scotland Party could fit their entire membership in a phone box. I know there’s next to no chance of her getting elected but why is someone trying to become the First Minister of Scotland associating herself with these parties who are minuscule in terms of size and outreach?

Montreal pulled out of the bidding ages ago for some reason. I mean really with only two venues it feels like Canada has just been tagged on at the end - I'd have like to have seen it be a bit more equal, especially given America and Mexico have had it before. Would've been good to see Edmonton, Montreal, Winnipeg and Calgary included.

If you really want to have a look down a rabbit hole, have a look at Paul Mitchell’s Twitter, especially his likes. An absolute hellscape.