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I don't know much about the relative merits of European teams so can someone say if the draw for the Ukranian teams looking potentially good for Scotlands co-efficient or would we expect them to likely be overtaking us?

One final point on this. I'd agree that the bounds of what is an NHS worker seem to have been overstepped/blurred with the above. If that's the biggest mistake we make in the vaccination programme then I can happily live with that.

Happened upon another example. Rangers also beat Valetta 10-0 on aggregate in 1990. May be others but the first two examples are ones that I remembered.

Which would be valid if the vulnerable hadn't been protected. They will have by the time we'd have thought about prioritising occupations so to me the point is moot. I have sympathy for them but as soon as you make something multi-agency, which it would have to be as the NHS won't have accurate records of anyone's profession, you introduce beurocracy and slow the whole process down. Also where do you draw the line? Is it front-line police, support staff, office staff? The fact you're talking about the moaning about types of NHS staff backs up the point it will just give another group of people cause to moan. JCVI directions so far have worked and NHS have done a great job with the programme. Probably better than anyones wildest dreams. Let them get on with it without putting obstacles in their way

I get their point. They may be more at risk of catching the virus but they're not more at risk of getting ill from it. Once the vulnerable are done the next target is surely herd immunity and for that we need to keep up and increase the volume (if we can). Prioritising any specific occupation will slow that down as it will be more data for the NHS to cross-reference.

Didn't Rangers years ago score a truckload against some Cypriot team? Seem to recall Chris Woods missing a penalty at about 9-0, back in the early days of the Murray era. I think Aberdeen once got double figures in the year the won the cup winners cup. ETA Aberdeen beat Sion 11-1 on aggregate in '82 Rangers beat Valetta 18-0 on aggregate in '83

Seems sensible. Anything that slows down getting jags in arms should be avoided and prioritising certain occupations would likely do that for very little to no real health benefit if 99% of the most vulnerable have already been prioritised.

Horizon on BBC2 has someone on from Edinburgh Uni that isn’t predicting the end of the world. She’s getting sacked in the morning.

That’s when they microchip you.

FFS. However no mens part time football is playing, no idea where the BBC got that from. Alloa and Arbroath. ETA Raith might have some part-timers as well. Sure they did last season. They might have ditched that now though.

Just read the email from Scottish Rugby. Toony said “It remains our position that we want to have all our eligible players available to us for that fixture, so we can compete to the level we would have done this weekend”. Can’t wait to see how this one plays out.

Rumours that it could be rearranged for Saturday 3rd July, which is the date of the first Lions test. When the only guarantee is that France won’t be missing any players. Sounds extremely sensible

Just checked the playing conditions. They explicitly state of you're using LED wickets then the wicket is deemed down in the first frame the lights are illuminated. Looks like one of the decisions may not have been so iffy.

All in all a bit of a farce. Home teams will always prepare pitches that help their bowlers but that's taking it way too far. Full expect nothing to happen about it though.

Not for LBW. For LBW the third umpire essentially re-umpires the decision with the aid of technology. The third umpire has to decide with a high degree of confidence that the ball hit the pad first. He clearly couldn't do that in this instance.

Once you get down from that high horse you seem to be permanently mounted on and can see your computer screen again properly try reading what I wrote. "FROM AN NHS PERSEPCTIVE".

Be surprised if you ever have to stop self isolating if you test positive. Once it gets to a low enough level there's no reason there can't be reasonable financial compensation for doing so in stead of the half arsed scheme there is now.

Amazed they overturned that. Very difficult to tell if it was pad or bat first. different angles contradicted each other. Batsmen is supposed to get benefit of the doubt though.

Completely irrelevant. The Prime Minister is an idiot, but that doesn't change the fact that in December we were in a totally different place. Him being an idiot does nothing to alter the fact that the vaccines are working. By the time the schools go back in England the cohort (JCVI1-4) where around 90% (I think) of hospitalisations/deaths occurred will have their first dose protection. A good chunk of 5-9 will also have first dose protection so something like 90-95% of those most at risk have been protected. There will be outbreaks but it's unlikely to lead to pressure on the NHS. ETA someone posted earlier that their kids entire class had been sent home to isolate. While I'm sure that's annoying for him in the grand scheme of things the rest of us should be sitting here shrugging our shoulders and saying "so what" from an NHS perspective.

It is a totally different scenario now. We have a vaccination programme in full swing and all the data is showing it to be a massive success.

You wouldn't have got very good odds on something like this happening, and even where.

Not everyone agrees with this approach. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56192048 Suspect he's trying to push water up a hill though.

I believe you. You certainly come across like someone who has wee man syndrome.

The woman who said she’d wear a mask for a few months to ensure she didn’t get covid. Do these people have no actual awareness of how this virus works?

The thing that would worry me about booking anything just now is quarantine when getting back to the UK, nothing to do with potentially losing the money. I wouldn’t want to do it and won’t book any international travel until I’m pretty positive I won’t have to. Having to spend 10 days at home for a week away puts me right off the idea of a holiday.