Patrick Noubissie
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This is becoming a team you can really buy into. They've looked great to watch at some points recently and just a right pain in the c**t to play against at others. A bit of everything you want.
Hickey looks like he could be an outstanding right back for us, for years to come. Hendry has really grown on me and Porteous did brilliantly tonight. For how isolated he was, Adams did well whenever called upon as well.
On Porteous, I suspect the massively over the top pile on he's been getting recently will soon be forgotten about. We'll see if fans across the country get themselves dutifully whipped up over the next character the weegie media tell them to get angry about, or if we'll ever learn our lesson on that one.
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I'm all for players/managers calling each other names. Forget SFA charges for that kind of thing, there should be more of it if anything.
Where Goodwin has had a personal beamer is this chat about showing footage of Porteous winning penalties throughout his career. It seems like the young Ryan has melted Goodwin's brain into coming out with some instantly disprovable spraff. If Goodwin can pop in that DVD at SFA HQ, he should have his charge lifted straight away.
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22 hours ago, The_Kincardine said:
Here's a reminder of my post on Saturday: A NatWit thinks an MSP should be tarred and feathered. Utterly chronic
How have the empty-headed iFannies on here responded? By taking issue with the chap who posted? By distancing themselves from a post like this?
Of course not! They do as they always do: Resort to memes, tropes and playing the man. As always.
ScotchNationalism is an utter blight.
Last time I was having a wee read on here, you were scattering off about eight posts in a row telling people not to talk about actual sectarian abuse at Hibernian v Rangers, in the Hibernian v Rangers thread. Meanwhile, you expect everyone who supports Independence to take ownership of a nameless, muppet-themed Twitter account. That's quite an inconsistent outlook on collective responsibility, I must say.
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According to this, Income Tax and National Insurance are the main sources of public sector income and 'social protection' is the biggest expense. For me the next argument for Independence needs to make the case for how being a proper country will shape the economy to our interests and eventually create a more advanced, higher wage economy. It's not the most simple argument to make but we (Scotland and the UK as a whole) are surrounded by countries whose people are earning more money each month and have healthier national economies to show for it.
We have something like a 3% unemployment rate and a shan pension system so that high spend on social protection isn't us sitting around in hammocks enjoying the glorious union dividend. It's evidence of an economy that lots of people don't get a fair shake out of; and whose employers are subsidised by the state. And to be fair, in terms of that sounding like a simple blame exercise aimed elsewhere, our government need to be more sophisticated in planning and articulating how that's ever going to change.
Lower down the spending list also offers various areas for improvement - some on us and some structural. We're apparently responsible for £4bn in defence spending, four times more than Ireland and proportionally way more than a bunch of small European countries. On the other hand, we could surely be a healthier country which would reduce public spending in various areas. Obviously GERS isn't an account of an Independent Scotland's finances in the first place but even the picture is does provide isn't as insurmountably scary as I think some want it to be.
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That post is a perfect summary of political opposition in Scotland. Whoever wrote that could've just used the three or four points that aren't some combination of completely mental, flat out wrong or nothing to do with the Scottish Government, and it would still be an expensive list of failures by a fairly lacklustre, unimaginative government. Whereas when I read that it makes me want to vote SNP more to offset the vote of the thicko who put that together.
Same applies to the Tories, Labour, Lib Dems and the BBC. Deserved criticism for the SNP gets diluted with their constant hysterical shite.
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42 minutes ago, Zing. said:
Won on Boxing Day at Tynecastle in 2019.
Seeing a few things from his time at United so far that he was guilty of at Hibs. Be interesting to see how he does after a very poor start.
It's interesting to read United fans in agreement about defensive midfield being a problem. I wasn't fully Ross out at Hibs but it was an area he never addressed with us. To be fair, most managers in my lifetime watching Hibs haven't managed to sign a decent DM either.
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I don't expect the manager to come out and slate players in interviews but if Johnson's going to mention some of them not being good enough, he's having a laugh saying it's only two or three. Deary me.
I thought one of the only positives for us was Youan. I don't think he's a lone striker though, he seems to do his best work drifting around into space. A Doidge from a years ago type player with Boyle and Youan feeding off them would be nice. Emphasis on a few years ago because Doidge looks ready for the glue factory now.
In terms of a focal point up front, I'm slightly jealous of Livi having Nouble from what I saw yesterday. I was looking at his wikipedia there and I find it surprising that he's 26 and has played at such a terrible level before now. Congrats for identifying a late bloomer if that's what has happened.
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3 minutes ago, East Calder Lion said:
Salty Leith tears.
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Cabraja running into the guy was the only incident I could think of for the suggestion that we could've had multiple reds. Surely not a serious shout. The only other player who could've run the risk of a second yellow, by getting a first, was Boyle. Come on lads, it was a pretty straight forward pen.
You can get a wee rub of the green without making stuff up to counter it. At the end of the day, Livi executed the game plan well that works on us every single time. Overall we can't say we're unlucky when the same pattern repeats itself over and over again.
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On one hand we've been hard done by not getting a clear penalty but ultimately, there are too many players in this team who are either finished or never going to be good enough. Including two who chucked in soft as f**k goals there.
I ken we scored in Perth with one but the delivery from corners since has been excruciating to watch.
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9 hours ago, The_Kincardine said:
After the daft 2106 'leave' vote I said on here that Scotland should govern its way to independence as it was going in a different direction to the rest of the UK.
As I often do - I got that wrong. Scotland is going in exactly the same direction as the rest of the UK - towards a smaller-minded, more insular and more belligerent society.
As for 'governing its way to independence'? None of that has happened. ScotGov is a pathetic and slightly less charming version of Boris's Tories and HR is little different to WM in its sleaze, incompetence and mendacity.
You can barely separate WM from HR just as you can barely separate Scotland from England. So the question really should be, "Do you want the small jobby that is Scotland to be in a different location to the larger jobby we're all familiar with?"
If the UK is small-minded, insular and belligerent....what's wrong with being a belligerent disruption against it? Isn't meekly accepting that state of affairs the most small-minded and insular option available?
Other than perhaps towards the UK government, I can't think of many examples of the Scottish Government acting in an aggressive or petty way towards any of its neighbours. It would seem the famously separatist Welsh Labour Party and DUP now also have pretty strong grievances with how devolution works in practice. So the increasing tension you object to isn't unique to us jock partitionists.
You don't have to like Independence or accept is a solution to the UK's political malaise. But without an explanation of how intuitions like the Scottish Government ought to behave in the current climate, your jobby analogy is a massive concern trolling cop-out I'm afraid.
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49 minutes ago, oaksoft said:
I think that was a sensible position to take as well, primarily because a result of that magnitude would be utterly decisive.
For reasons best known to themselves, the SNP have decided they can't wait for the polls.
My fear is we get another vote and the result is still in that 55-45 band for one side or the other and we never break free of the potential for a neverendum cycle where one side tries to reverse the decision. We need a result which is decisive and 60% for one side IMO gives us that. And again IMO the SNP shouldn't be going near another referendum until they see that happening in the polls or 2030, whichever comes first.
That however is different from the debate about who should have the power to decide when the vote should be. That should be the voters, not WM and they've clearly said it should be Scotland's remit through Holyrood. No reasonable person can argue against that.
I'd say the opposite, that it was a stupid thing to say at the time. Opinion polls aren't elections or referendums (referenda?) for good reason. Not only are they inaccurate, they're sometimes not impartial either.
YouGov Forced To Deny Suppressing Poll Because It Was 'Too Positive' For Labour
Government policy should be based on the programmes that parties have successfully put to the electorate in proper elections, not justified by opinion polls.
I will say the 60% thing is maybe something the SNP should have kept to themselves as a sensible bit of internal strategy. I don't buy this 'but we started on X% last time' argument. We've been actively debating independence for a decade now and the don't knows are 100% folk who are going to vote no but feel a bit ashamed about voting against their own independence. The Yes side have some significant ground to make up and October 2023 is a big gamble, imo.
If I was one of these staunch unionists greeting about the SNP all day every day, I'd want the UK government to agree to this.
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14 minutes ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said:
How many pints a week do you need to neck before you can phone up the DWP and demand your "alcoholics allowance"?
Asking for a friend.
Only a few. Just make sure to leave your free DWP car at home when you go to spend it.
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On 22/06/2022 at 14:39, oaksoft said:
And independence won't fix it.
The SNP are driven by independence for the sake of independence.
They are asking for power but present absolutely no vision of what they want to do with that power.
It's power for the sake of power.
It's all about being anti-Tory but not really being pro-anything else.
On one side you've got lefties pretending to be on the side of the poor saying Tory c***s are to blame for everything and on the other you have Tories saying workshy scum are the root of our problems. It's blame, blame, blame and the extremists on both sides lap it up like ice-cream on a hot day. This thread is a great example of it. It's just wall-to-wall screeching, virtue signalling, worthless shite.
George Orwell was right. The left are just as scummy as the Tories. Both are just using the poorest on society to win power and when they get that power they do f**k all to solve the problems of those at the bottom.
I don't think these two things are close to equivalent in terms of extreme positions. The Tories are in power more often that and whenever they are, their peers enrich themselves through cronyism while wages stagnate and inequality increases. There are literally zero credible arguments for society ills being caused by workshy scum, to rival the hard data about what Conservative rule means for average people's standard of living. If I stump my toe and blame it on the Tories, it's an extreme position - but blaming them for how the country is run is a pretty reasonable point of view imo.
I do actually agree with some of your points about the SNP and independence. I've generally supported both for most of my life but we're at the point where being slightly better than the Tories doesn't hold up as an impressive track record for the former. I'm slightly concerned that after 15 years in charge, the SNP have run out of steam when it comes to long term strategy. If this campaign does go ahead, there will need to be some fresh voices involved (not Alba).
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Accusing everyone else of showering undeserving people with free things is a pretty hilarious defence of the Tories at the moment.
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The false flag stuff earlier in this thread is the dumbest shit I've ever read.
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4 hours ago, Albus Bulbasaur said:
Tartan Tories over Labour.
That's big sad.
30 minutes ago, Albus Bulbasaur said:I believe shifting to the centre and getting some centre right voters to be essential.
You seem to have a very specific window for where Toryism is acceptable.
I personally have some assumptions about where the current Labour leadership are politically based on the battles they're choosing and tabloid headlines they're chasing. But in terms of real issues, I have no idea what their position is on anything.
When it comes to elections, if they're willing to cooperate with other parties that they should have plenty in common with, it'll be an encouraging sign and I I'll definitely be hoping they win overall. If, as I suspect, everyone left of Jeremy Hunt is expected to do their social duty and get on board while he drinks pints of bitter in front of flegs and talks about executing terror suspects without trial or whatever, there isn't so much to care about.
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Motherwell players trying everything to get a red here
At least the Hibs calls were for decent shouts.
Feels like there’s at least another goal in this.
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Are most people here getting taking in by Miller’s slavering? Every team would’ve reacted the same way to that. Motherwell aren’t exactly hard done by to have ten men.
Hibs have been questionable against ten men for as long as I can remember. Need a few more here.
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I think most people would accept that there is a lot of progress to point to globally. Here and in many similar countries, I really don’t see how society is in better shape than in the few decades before it.
That is obviously a truly tiny sample of time in the big scheme of things but people should challenge barriers to progress where they see it. It hasn’t really been said here tbf but usually the point about how good we all have it is used to dismiss some pretty legitimate bigger arguments.
4 hours ago, oaksoft said:Same goes for finding where rental accommodation is available. That doesn't of course make finding a job and a place to live easy but it gives you a wider net to cast into.
I’d disagree with a few of your points but this is maybe the perfect example of where convenience of information but less actual opportunity doesn’t make make things better.
I’ve looked at rental property recently and the situation is genuinely fucking grim. Is your contention that listing aggregators make for a healthier marketplace that helps renters find good opportunities; or that modern technology makes it easier to move somewhere with better housing? The first is just not true on any level and the second is pretty depressing by itself.
I’d rather have to pop down to a letting agent but be able to find some okay options there than pick up my phone and have it confirmed in 30 seconds that I’m getting shagged up the arse.
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4 minutes ago, Captain Saintsible said:
Twitter isn’t representative of the general public though.
Its representative of the well off, middle class, virtue signalling left.
Every time I see a statement like this, I become more convinced that big tech use their algorithms to get a sense of people's political opinions and then push the exact opposite on them. I guess people being wound up generates more clicks than consensus.
I constantly hear right wing people say that every big platform is only there to promote woke soy boy cucks and that conservatives are shut down at every opportunity. And yet I'm pretty much a part of the middle class, virtue signalling left and anyone seeing my recommended content would think I'm a card carrying fascist.
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3 hours ago, Clown Job said:
What a fucking shitehole the UK is
The obvious solution is to build a ring at Heathrow customs, hire a few British professional boxers for the day and if the applicants are able to slap them about, they're obviously Ukrainian.
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31 minutes ago, Florentine_Pogen said:
For those who ask: “Why does Ukraine matter? “
This is why Ukraine matters....
It is the second largest country by area in Europe by area and has a population of over 40 million - more than Poland.
Ukraine ranks:
1st in Europe in proven recoverable reserves of uranium ores;
2nd place in Europe and 10th place in the world in terms of titanium ore reserves;
2nd place in the world in terms of explored reserves of manganese ores (2.3 billion tons, or 12% of the world's reserves);
2nd largest iron ore reserves in the world (30 billion tons);
2nd place in Europe in terms of mercury ore reserves;
3rd place in Europe (13th place in the world) in shale gas reserves (22 trillion cubic meters)
4th in the world by the total value of natural resources;
7th place in the world in coal reserves (33.9 billion tons)
Ukraine is an important agricultural country:
1st in Europe in terms of arable land area;
3rd place in the world by the area of black soil (25% of world's volume);
1st place in the world in exports of sunflower and sunflower oil;
2nd place in the world in barley production and 4th place in barley exports;
3rd largest producer and 4th largest exporter of corn in the world;
4th largest producer of potatoes in the world;
5th largest rye producer in the world;
5th place in the world in bee production (75,000 tons);
8th place in the world in wheat exports;
9th place in the world in the production of chicken eggs;
16th place in the world in cheese exports.
Ukraine can meet the food needs of 600 million people.
Ukraine is an important industrialised country:
1st in Europe in ammonia production;
Europe's 2nd’s and the world’s 4th largest natural gas pipeline system;
3rd largest in Europe and 8th largest in the world in terms of installed capacity of nuclear power plants;
3rd place in Europe and 11th in the world in terms of rail network length (21,700 km);
3rd place in the world (after the U.S. and France) in production of locators and locating equipment;
3rd largest iron exporter in the world
4th largest exporter of turbines for nuclear power plants in the world;
4th world's largest manufacturer of rocket launchers;
4th place in the world in clay exports
4th place in the world in titanium exports
8th place in the world in exports of ores and concentrates;
9th place in the world in exports of defence industry products;
10th largest steel producer in the world (32.4 million tons).
Ukraine matters. That is why its independence is important to the rest of the world.
1st in being absolute hard c***s.
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Ukraine v Scotland (27/9/22)
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Good to see him getting a bit of praise up here but we don't need the English media getting involved at this point in his contract