Archie McSquackle

With an alternative of Paulaner Weissbier. Even better!

Jupiler was the standard draught beer where I was on holiday last year- lovely stuff. It's McSquackle family holiday time again and the campsite beer this year is Paulaner. Can't complain!

I certainly can't be arsed trawling through the St. Mirren thread but was it not a bit of an open secret that they were spending more and viewing it as a top six budget? They finished sixth so mission accomplished and they seem to be using it as a springboard but, as you say, it's a risky business when the bigger teams have got themselves in order and realistically sixth is as high as you're likely to manage. At least Dundee United are a basket case.

Wouldn't need to extend the wall up for that reason. You need some sort of barrier for a difference in level more than 600mm. That's normally a steel handrail but maybe a wall was preferred as less maintenance involved. If it's intended to be a barrier it doesn't look high enough so I'm only speculating and don't really know.

Yeah, the club was open about further work being required and it was clear the way the banking at the side of the track was pretty dodgy for players and looked unfinished.

Do you need to be signed up to Twitter to read tweets these days? The link doesn't seem to work for me.

According to Wiki he was born in England and moved about a lot as his dad was in the army before moving to Hamilton when he was 10 (went to the same school as me but I was long gone by then). I've no idea if the area still has a pull on him but Motherwell/St. Mirren wouldn't make much of a difference.

The first game I can remember going to at Hampden was the 3-1 win over Spain in November 1984 with that Dalglish goal. I returned a few months later for Motherwell's cup semi-final against Celtic when we drew 1-1 (McAllister and Burns the scorers) before losing the replay but we were in the first division at that point. I'm sure I would have been to plenty of other internationals before these but I can't remember and would need to ask my dad. I'm pleased to say we're still going to the games together and, at the age of 80, he put the recent match against Spain in his top five Scotland performances.

Was Tait not being linked with Johnstone Burgh? Someone throwing a bit of money about there?

I said earlier that it should be difficult to make a mess of the standard green and white hoop template (but they'd definitely managed it) and that offering demonstrates that. Fairly classic take on their strip. I've not gone into Celtic websites to see the response. Any idea of the general response? Are they accepting it's horrible or is there an emperor's new clothes effect going on?

It looked a bit like it .

I got an email from my supplier advising me their rates are coming down as of today as the cap is reducing. Strangely my work colleagues don't seem to have received similar advice from their suppliers. My supplier is also reducing their rate to 5% below the cap (although a cheeky wee rise in the standing charge offsets that). Are we getting back to the days of shopping around?

What level are this team we were up against last night? Strangely we seem to have less people there on the piss for a Friday night game than we did on Tuesday when everyone looked wrecked.

Week 1 - Celtic Tried to play the long game before and failed miserably! Thanks for organising again.

I know it was suggested Casey was waiting to hear if there's interest from England but I'd be surprised if he didn't make enough of an impression to interest some of our peers (mention of Aberdeen noted). Of course, if he's still injured that might put some of them off.

Full strip w****r.

IBS flare up you say? White crochet outfit definitely the way to go.

Has anyone heard how the triallist got on last night?

Is that real? If so, you've got to hand it them - Celtic strips tend to be fairly average as they're restricted to the green and white hoops but they've managed to break from that and make an absolute howler.

Picked up some William Bros Chillax Cold IPA in Asda. Very drinkable witout being anything special. s

There's no way Prigozhin is seeing out the year, is there?

In what way? Did he not move to Rangers and get a really serious injury pretty quickly? Could that not have happened at Aberdeen? Well, not while playing in a Champions League game but you know what I mean.

What sort of media conference doesn't let the media in?

I know Burrows hasn't been with you very long but has he made a noticeable difference? Keith Lasley went to St. Mirren and pretty quickly their fans seemed delighted with how their club was being run and a number of initiatives which seemed very similar to what we had been doing. Fair enough, that's what they brought him in for. We just seem a bit rudderless at the moment.

So you're not quite old enough to have experienced a bridie and a pitch invasion to celebrate the last game of the first division at Forfar?