Jocky Balboa

I think Dugdirt's carpet-muncher Jenny Gilruth will be lined up... Unless certain legal proceedings run their course. Angus Robertson also ruled out for same reasons. I don't think it would be a bad thing if the SNP get thumped at the GE and/or the 2026 election, to not only bring them back down to earth, but to also remind the people of Scotland just what a shower of cunts Labour are (not to mention the fact Starmer is just a Tory in a red tie). It would sharpen minds on both sides of the divide for a future independence debate around 2028-30. Either way, it won't be long before England tires of Red Tories and reverts to type and restores the real McCoy to power, against the wishes of 75-80% of Scotland's voters.

He is understandably (if you know, you know) keeping a low profile while certain legal actions take their course. I think Clydeside Sheep alludes to some relevant points though, the SNP/YES movement have lost their way since 2015. Whatever you think of Salmond, he took Scotland to the brink and bequeathed a party and movement in great health, primed to bounce back from 2014's agonising defeat. Since 2015, the Sturgeon and Murrell regime had every perfect storm; the broken "Vow" and fudge of the Smith Commission, more Tory governments we never voted for, the EU vote (though an inconvenient truth is around 35-40% of SNP/YES supporters voted Leave and have been all but ignored since), the Corbyn collapse, the Red Tory Starmer and now a Tory implosion... yet still they can't move the dial beyond a few % points! I think a defeat for the SNP and subsequent clear out may be the best thing for a party drunk with power, complacent and full of careerist chancers and pension grifters - not to mention the nonce brigade of Harvey and co. acting as the tail that wags the dog.

That drum fill in Tom Sawyer is fitting of a fine performance, was Hoilett really that good today? Hats off to him. Ay.

I see CSI Vegas has been cancelled again, this time after 3 seasons. I still haven't checked out the comeback series, but the old stuff was great, if a little played out.

A self-made man, kudos to you! 👍 As I said above, I think society places too much on academic qualifications, as opposed to real world applications.

Here's a thought; assuming we cash in on Miovski in the Summer, why don't we try to entice Danny Ward back on a deal, either loan or permanent? I hear he's been short of first team football in recent times, which seems a criminal waste of a very good goalkeeper, so why not...

I dare say it isn't just the league position, the drawn-out managerial farce, nor even the kick-off time, that's done this. I think the fact we've laid down to Rasellick so many times in recent years, especially after talking a good game in the press in the build-up, has been a contributing factor. That said, if we did upset the long odds, how many would come crawling out of the woodwork for a ticket?

It's sad how his career has gone since leaving us, but how many times have we seen this scenario; promising youngster makes a big move too soon, long before they're the finished article, then struggles to make it in the game... The next part, whether he salvages his career or fades into obscurity, remains to be seen. He's still a young lad, so hopefully he'll turn it around.

Clearly an accidental mistype, as is common when we use mobile devices. Your persistence in playing the keyboard commando is impressive though, I'll give you that. One can only wonder what you're compensating for... 🤔🙄

For a pea brain with the attention span of a gnat, I'm it surprised that triggered you. Your post is duly noted.

I'm sorry, you have read far too much into that. Firstly, I'm not referring to people "promoted over me", rather the older generation who are already above me. I am happy with my lot overall. I'm simply saying the changes to education and the engineering profession (among others) after 1999 made it harder for our young people to succeed. As a father of young kids that concerns me greatly. It's not sour grapes to point out the bounties enjoyed by the post-war generation and baby boomers were unprecedented - and may never be seen again. A wider issue is that, since the late-90's, too much prestige has been placed on higher education, to the detriment of skilled trades and vocational work, whether it's good old fashioned British snobbery, or other factors.

Same here. If I had my time again though, not sure I'd go the same route. I was among the first generation to pay tuition fees, but it was the abolition of grants (and replacing them with loans) that really screwed the working class over and created a debt mountain that doesn't always justify the investment. Also interesting how the goalposts moved twice in 1999; first with tuition fees and again with the UK SPEC criteria for Chartership, going from a BEng (Hons) to Masters level (MEng or MSc) requirement. Many of us millennials have been Chartered a long time, but are behind bosses who not only benefitted massively from free education, with a grant they could practically live on for 3/4 years, but who only needed a Bachelor's degree (and jumped through fewer hoops) to get Chartered.

Kenny Minker is irrelevant these days, but yes he parrots the parochial lines about the 'natural order' of things. Exactly, a ludicrous suggestion. While I acknowledge Stewart's "Aberdeen is a great club" compliments, like Kenny Minker and co. he perpetuates the parochial mentality of Scottish football, which sees the same old dinosaurs in charge, with the same outdated methods and thinking, which only entrenches the uncompetitive backwards that is our game.

Nothing unusual about Masonic refereeing, as we all know. Especially when it's at Ibrox AND the hegemony of the Weegie duopoly is threatened. That shows you just how good our 70's and 80's teams were, to overcome that.

They would indeed.