Michael W

National Service is woke virtue signalling. Start a real war.

Some of those players are on seven year contracts.

I agree that Hamilton is much better in the air, although dropping Rudden to the bench would be exceptionally harsh given he's scored in our last two matches and assisted Vaughan for the second yesterday. I viewed his loan as very much the back up or replacement for Hamilton, but I think he starts if fit.

FA desperately hoping for a Liverpool winner to save yet another apology letter being sent out due to VAR.

Nice to know that you can annihilate your own player without consequences.

That's 30p Lee's future career after Parliament lined up then. He's been "cancelled", so off to milk the MAGA grift it is.

I really hate James Lowe and his gurning puss.

I don't think that's right. There's always (rightly) some suspicion when a politician's views change, but in the real world this is actually very natural - viewpoints can and do change. Liz Truss failed spectacularly on the biggest stage and she became a global laughing stock. I do think that at least most of the stuff she is coming out with are genuinely-held views as she seeks to paint herself as a victim and avoid the realisation that her downfall was entirely of her own doing. She obviously hoped that Kwarteng would have to carry the blame for it all, but she was the PM and not him; she can't abdicate responsibility when she was in charge and his actions were in accordance with her approval. The stuff about trans activists bringing her down is right out of the alt-right playbook and I don't think that's something that she does actually believe. Perhaps I've gotten that wrong, but it does scream of playing to a certain audience. I do however think her economic policies that were universally derided are genuine views that she possesses, and that she is authentic in her continuing support for them. She is convinced that she was right and that other forces, which she paints as sinister, destroyed her. Her failure has radicalised her.

As far as I'm aware, she's not standing down at the next election. A fine indication of where the Tories are heading in opposition. Lee Anderson and Johnson's "Red Wall" lot will be gone, but Truss, Braverman, Patel, Francois and most of the grey-faced lot will still be there.

Hopefully Ryanair: 1) cancelled their return ticket; and 2) banned them for life. Wouldn't be surprised if they did (1) and then happily let them buy an expensive ticket to get them home. People behaving like that on an aircraft should be banned from all airlines and maybe the message will start to sink in.

'Sammy Wilkinson' looks like a guy capable of handling himself as well. If he's getting knocked over by one of those brutes, then there's little hope for most of the population. It ought to be a warning. He's avoided the fighting pedigree stuff that some of the tossers breeding these things bang on about, but the advert tells you everything you need to know: this dog is a disaster waiting to happen. It even states that the dog is known to be aggressive! He should also have had it neutered, which would probably have reduced the aggressive behaviour.

All I remember was him hitting the bar when a cut back and tap in was available, and then fourteen seconds later the bottle job from 4-0 up was complete. That's enough to sour your impression of any player.

I'm always somewhat mystified that Badenoch is frequently touted as a future Tory leader. Presumably this is because she's on the right of the party and plays well to "the base", but she is incapable of taking any degree of criticism and all too easily gets involved in rather ugly spats. A very thin-skinned individual. Whoever is in charge of the party next will be a right laugh*. If you think it's bad now, just wait until it's in opposition and starts howling into the void. Reform might even decide they're too toxic.

Jayden/Kayden and other names rhyming with these. Alfie/Albie Mason Grayson Jackson (worse if spelled Jaxxon/Jaxon) You just know when you hear these names that the kid is a wee c**t.

Well, we managed our 14th league victory of the season* by a one goal margin, if we can call that getting our mojo back! The hard part is now stringing a couple of wins together again and seeing where that takes us. If we could possibly avoid giving Ayr the huge amount of space we provided in the last game at Stark's this time around, then that would be nice as well. *Yes, that's all of them. Every single league win has been by a single goal.

Dave Brailsford's jiffy bags have obviously been turning up at the training ground in big quantities.

Running at just over 2 an over and Duckett's just been run out. Edit: Crawley gone. 18-2 at tea.

That was a tremendous evening. Almost punched my ceiling light out celebrating the winner. An absolutely fantastic moment after a crap couple of months. I don't think that game was a "must win" as we could've coped staying 4 points back. It's distance that cannot be overcome in a single fixture round, but it would've kept us in it. 7 points back would've been a total disaster and would signal the end of our title challenge. Six defeats on the bounce and also would give Partick the opportunity to start really putting pressure on us. A prolonged battle to keep ourselves out of the first round playoff fixture realky isn't where we want to end up. From that perspective it was "must not lose". And we didn't. We won. Suddenly the gap is one point again and we are right back in it despite a woeful run of form. Stick a couple of wins together again and who knows what will happen? We needed that. Football, eh? Bloody hell.

A few more results like that and Jim Goodwin will be able to go and watch his beloved Celtic again at the weekends.

Definitely been having a break in Turkey.

We're we the better team? No. Who fucking cares. Yaaaaaaaas.

That's the Labour candidate suspended from the party. Handing it on a plate to the poisonous little c**t Galloway. Maybe try not picking a total idiot next time.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68244352

A Cabinet minister gets approximately £45k a year more than a standard MSP. The bulk of it will be taxed at 45%, so using the assumption that all of it is and plus the 2% NI payable, you're looking at an extra £23,800 after tax. In practice it'll be more than that as about 8k of it will be taxed at 42%, but I can't be arsed working out the difference. The story broke 3 months ago, leaving Matheson just under £6k up on where he would've been had he resigned then. That'll close the majority of the £8k gap between the £3k paid from expenses and the amount the Scottish Government was initially going to cover. With Sunak and Starmer both taking flak today he's probably tried to bury this one. Once again showing the strategy doesn't work.

Sam Stanton is our best player, so I expect that his return will have an impact on the team. It is too simplistic to say that his injury is the reason that our form has gone down the pan, but he is a big miss there and the midfield has just seemed to lack structure without him. We need him back in there - he puts in a lot of work and contributes a lot in both an attacking and defensive sense. The 4-1-3-2 was always gung ho and a bit too much, but it completely and utterly collapsed without Stanton. He was the one that held it together. What he can't do, is bring the likes of Brown/Easton/Byrne/Connolly back to their best. But having out most influential player back in there can only help them.