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2 hours ago, Dan Steele said:
With the Greens having gone public about their vote to end power-sharing and having seen their conference after being punted, is there not an argument that Yousaf is showing strong leadership? The opposition call of no-confidence in a "weak" Yousaf couldn't just be shallow politics and opportunism, could it?
I dont know why you put weak in the quote marks, the man is weaker than the spirits in an all inclusive hotel.
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23 minutes ago, GordonS said:
That's the same point I made. There's money for facilities where people can play football and for other community benefits, like at Bo'ness, but the discussion on this thread has been about the facilities for fans. 3G cages suit the community just fine.
When you're talking about spending of £50 billion you'll always be able to point the finger at something wasteful, but the reality is it adds up to very little now. The media does a truly dreadful job painting an accurate picture of public spending.
Given the mental health crisis in this country and the way isolation emboldened it during lock down (and the fact we’ve not recovered) anything which gets people engaging, whether through participating, volunteering and spectating is removing isolation for even a short time. Consider clubs at our level are for the most part in areas of deprivation then its an even more important case. We fund the arts for spectating, festivals, art shows, music etc and i think considering the needs of sports consumers/spectators is equally important. Its part of our heritage, ingrained in our culture and vital for our communities.
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20 minutes ago, GordonS said:
At a time of insanely tight budgets and huge cuts, for Scottish or local government to spend money on facilities for a few hundred folk to watch a game of football every two weeks would be batshit mental. They can't fund schools, community centres, ice rinks and swimming pools never mind our particular hobby. What we do isn't sport, it's spectating.
There has been grant money available for community facilities - putting in astro and lights and making it available all week, like Bo'ness did. You need a genuine community benefit and not just some terracing for the likes of us. https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/news/article.aspx?aid=7715#:~:text=This is the second Place,the whole Bo'ness community.
Some of the money they are spunking away is far worse used than improving community sporting venues. You only have to look at the success of clubs with good all weather parks ability to become a community asset to see how any penny spent on sports facilities to improve participation and integration is money well spent.
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Being outwitted by the most dimwitted first minister is quite the epitaph for the greens.
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Feel like there should be an election now, a first minister who wasnt leader when the last election was called, a failing administration and too many scandals that public confidence cant be a given.
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24 minutes ago, Vanderbilt said:
Alex McDowall starring in
Im hoping the guy doesnt get in, i think the basis for the argument is pretty fair, but can we stop ripping the arse out of it?
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7 minutes ago, O_Kahn said:
On that note, Braverman making a fool of herself on the radio earlier today. She didn't even watch the whole clip. Truss is a laughing stock, but I think Braverman might be even more dangerous.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/suella-braverman-gideon-falter-today-programme-b2532495.html
She’s set her stall out as a staunch supporter of the genocide in Gaza anyway to its actually no real surprise that she has come out the way she has. A truly despicable person.
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2 hours ago, Arthurlie1981 said:
Were you 1 of the 5 fans/committee that turned up earlier this season? I agree Dunterlie is looking tired but to say it is falling apart is a nonsense. There has been significant money invested in replacing the retaining walls on the Carlibar road side and behind the goal at the station end with further work planned. A disabled toilet was fitted to our disabled supporters area, along with a newly fitted kitchen to the tea bar to improve the productivity for the tea bar. I believe further work is being planned for the summer.
All this being done while discussions have been held about a potential ground move in the near to medium future rather than letting the ground fall further into disrepair.
Arthurlie is a great place to watch football. The match experience is superb, the welcome is fantastic and you feel that as a customer your visit is genuinely valued. Your disabled spectator facilities are great, youve done that whilst your long term goals are to move away and seek licensing, so essentially for no higher purpose other than to make it a better experience for supporters, honestly its great and as someone who attends football with a disabled person regularly its incredibly appreciated the effort youve gone to. Its actually even more than that, its the personable way your volunteers greet disabled fans and for that honestly i’d happily visit Arthurlie for a game even if it wasnt involving my team (maybe in one of our many weeks off). Hope you guys have a great time at the junior cup final and please ignore the snidey digs from lesser teams who could learn alot about what being a community asset really means.
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17 minutes ago, jimbaxters said:
Marching? Or opening bottle with their doo-dahs?
Not this type of march but they love a "manifestazione" for any possible reason. I'm all for it, especially as it's always peaceful.
Saw a few marches this weekend in Rome, none of them seemed to involved irish historical battles from hundreds of years ago as a symbol of white protestant ethnoexceptionalism, which was refreshing.
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18 minutes ago, strichener said:
The context being that the guy is a walloper that was just trying to be awkward.
Happens at every protest. Wording from the guy was taken completely out of context, there was another video doing the rounds posted by a guy @zubairb02 where the guy in question is seen storming up the street with a security team. There are things which could be used like sec 12 public order act quite effectively here but the sergeant involved has tried to avoid using that, got himself into some kind of protracted discussion and its been heavily edited to cause outrage. The PM should apologise for his disgraceful comments, but its not surprising the political classes jumping in feet first without a grasp of basic fact, all the major parties politicians are guilty of this, they do it because its a cheap easy win and when the facts come out there is never an apology to the officers involved.
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1 minute ago, jimbaxters said:
Boy at the front right of that picture is having bother opening his water bottle. Shame Sticky Vicky is deid.
Take it they dont do this in Milano?
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4 minutes ago, Swarley said:
Isn't Spain a predominantly Catholic nation? Should be up them to shut this nonsense down. Get the riot police and dogs in about them.
I think its looked upon with general bemusement.
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16 minutes ago, TheScarf said:
It's always Old Firm fans as they're the lowest common denominator, in all of society. In school, it was always the arseholes in my year who were OF fans, always the bottom of the class academically in my year who were OF fans. In my work life the OF fans never got to management positions, they were always the 'worker ants'.
I've mentioned this before but I don't think I've ever had a manager who was an OF fan in any job I've had. I've had a United, Raith, Hearts and I think a The Caley fan, although he never came out and said he was but I've seen him at games. Never a Celtic or Rangers fan. Very strange isn't it? Why is that? Given there's so many of them.
I know a fair few really decent old firm fans, working in my job i find it funny when im at football or otherwise and their being screamed at by people who support the same team (im talking guys i know who have season tickets etc) being accused of being the other side etc because it feeds into the conspiracy stuff that poisons both supports.
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1 minute ago, JS_FFC said:
Speaking of scum abroad, I find it genuinely bizarre that in this day and age there are hundreds of Sevco fans that congregate in Benidorm on 12th July and hold an orange walk. wtf is that all about?
Happens in Marmaris as well. Its despicable. Have honestly taken the time to look at the types of bars around potential holiday spots now and if theres anything old firmy in the area its a swift avoid. Spent a week in a resort in Turkey geared more towards the dutch and germans and honestly it was great, not a single drunken arsehole the whole week. Its no wonder the locals in Majorca and Canary isles are campaigning against british tourists the way some folk behave.
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1 hour ago, StygianDepths said:
I do quite enjoy that the police in Turkey are actually called the polis. Yous are right though, of all the countries in Europe (well, partly in Europe in this case) in which to try the little stunt of punching a policeman, Turkey would definitely be one of the bottom ranked candidates. Can't imagine they let that slide.
Im not a big fan of gratuitous violence, but from what I know about the turkish justice system, i hope the celtic fan is, because hes going to be getting a lot of it. Hes going to do serious time for that if the turks decide to prosecute. Also to the best of my knowledge they dont have a bail system in Turkey. They also arent particular fans of terrorist groups either. In short, if they run with that case (instead of papping him on a plane) then that guys fucked.
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8 hours ago, Salt n Vinegar said:
I've never seen the attraction of wearing football colours/strips outwith match situations.
When I see folk on planes wearing football jerseys, tracksuits etc, I don't think "oh look, there's a (insert name of club) supporter.". I think "oh look, there's an ar#ehole."
I prefer it, means you know who to avoid. We flew back from Antalya last week and the cretins on our flight doing the swearing and behaving like morons had old firm tops on.
4 hours ago, coprolite said:Looks like he smacked some sort of security official there, possibly police. In that sort of condition i wouldn't be surprised if had a nasty accident on the stairs or trying to open a door.
Yeh hes gonna regret that. Turkish polis dont mess about, hes going to be getting flung about like a wet trackie.
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11 hours ago, Burnieman said:
Isn't it a WoSFL regulation that there must be toilet and food facilities inside the ground?
10 hours ago, PollokGang said:To echo, quite simply the worst place I’ve had the displeasure of watching football. The way fans were packed in. No pies, no toilet facilities, surely these are minimum requirements? Great win made it just bearable.
7 hours ago, Lokloyal said:A terrible experience today at Gartcairn.A ground with no redeeming features and completely unacceptable that this is permitted in WOSFL.
Yes lets put this guy in charge of the west of scotland league… fans first eh? Aye but top notch social media!
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3 hours ago, BANKIEBILL said:
It's true ... try it
Its a filter that the mods set up. I wish i had his levels of self assurance.
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4 hours ago, wow-wee said:
As I've been told not to spoil the junior cup thread and move over here .
Why does the pro junior West club's need to press gang the club's who wish not to enter the junior cup by putting a motion forward at the AGM to make it mandatory that every wosfl must play in the junior cup?
What do they hope to achieve by this ? All it's going to do is cause unrest between club's and fans and all the good work the wosfl have done in its short history will quickly turn sour and we will end up back to where we were just before the old West region juniors folded a region full of infighting amongst club's which is not good for anyone going forward.
Run a raffle and let supporters play in it or something if they do. Cant see it getting through but they’ll continue the madness of giving it priority.
2 hours ago, Thejackdaw said:How can this be classed as a fully inclusive pyramid system when the SFA slam the door shut halfway through the season on progressive clubs trying to gain a licence?
No more licences being granted tough titty behaviour doesn't strike me as a proper pyramid structure as I know my own club in particular have been bending over backwards to achieve our licence .
Agree, Beith should be allowed to apply for a license, utter guff that the door isnt open yet.
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18 minutes ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:
I thought it might be worth sharing this - it explains what is and what isn't CoC in terms of social media (including website forums and blogs) - it is in relation to a Sarah Everard but goes on to mske general points about CoC.
In short, you can report on actual facts of the case but are not allowed to discuss the trial itself. You are allowed to have a wider discussion, for example, we can discuss wider issues such as political party funding and financial accountability within political parties.
Hope this helps.
Yep, anything which could essentially influence a potential juror and inhibit a fair trial. There are so many SNP/Yoon twitter users already riding roughshod over it.
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Just mind the contempt of court act is in play folks.
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3 hours ago, KnightswoodBear said:
Dubai isn't a place that folk you want to be friends with go. It's an airport you stop off at on the way to nice places.
Truly hope it sweeps away some influencers.
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7 hours ago, bobbydazzler said:
Anyone have any idea where the best place to get fitted for irons is? It's finally come to the time to get a new set and dunno if I would be better getting fitted or just buying?
Where are you? Most of the ‘big brands’ have regional centres. Id recommend asking your pro if they have any fitting days coming up, Titleist and Taylormade had fitting days at Gleneagles last year, free full fitting, lunch, goodie bag and round of golf, things like this are the premium experience, but happens on only a few dates a year. Besides that Scottsdale do fit build play at golf it, where they will take you through loads of brands and spec fit you and build it whilst you are there for a custom fit thats pretty cool.
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6 hours ago, 10menwent2mow said:
There's a couple that come into my work every Thursday to take advantage of our '2 meals for £9.99' offer. It's a limited menu but they will only order off of that menu. They will accompany that with two glasses of tap water.
We ran a promo a few weeks ago where if you booked online and quoted a reference with your booking, you got 50% off. They genuinely expected it to apply to the 2 for £9.99 despite the Ts&Cs clearly stating it couldn't be used in conjunction with another offer. These c***s thought they'd get 2 pub main courses for a fiver.
The other belter they had was when their daughter came with them once, she obviously didn't fancy tap water,so they ordered a 275ml bottle of Appletiser, with 3 glasses.
They drive a 60 mile round trip to our place in a fancy merc. Bizarre behaviour. Its not even like the other stuff on our menu is massively more expensive.
Maybe they just really like whats on that menu?
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WoSFL Premier Division thread
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Well some clubs prefer to not have their season disrupted by optional cups? Surely in the interests of fairness clubs entering the optional cup should have to play minimum of 2 midweek games (at home or away to another optional cup team) extra to make up for the loss of saturdays to the optional cup?