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It makes me feel very old indeed to see something posted here by a granddaughter of Hugh Harra. He is an abiding memory from my youth watching the Sons at Boghead. Opposing players always had a tough time playing against him.

Except the English thought it was.

Neither of those will happen just because youth teams are in the league system. We should be thinking about what else do those other countries mentoned do that helps produce good players.

You seriously think fans of part time clubs want Scotland to fail? They don't. They also don't think youth teams in the league system will benefit anybody but the Old Firm. (Certainly not Scotland.)

Another Cal Gal, then.

You only have to look at the way Rangers and Cetic have behaved over the years to realise that they don't give a toss about lower league teams - the attempt to remove five teams from the Scottish League in the early 60s, the formation of the Premier Division in the 1970s (supposedly to help them compete in Europe - it had the absolutely opposite effect) the throwing of all except top division teams under the bus with the formation of the SPL (which Dundee's boss wants to repeat!) Now this proposal to shoehorn their B teams into the system by bribery. None of those exhibited any kind of duty of care towards clubs in the same league structure as them.

Well, I'd been thinking next year ended in 2 but keeping that thought resolutely to myself. As I did ten years ago until after the play-off final. Thoughts like those should not tempt fate by being uttered. And....... What's a party? (Btw, the year ending in 1 has worked well for Spurs recently hasn't it?)

But not 1962 or 1982. Keep the heid.

You've just jinxed it.

I can assure you I'm not an electrical component.

I do. Frequently.

There's nothing pedantic about wanting people - especially children - to be able to recognise when a word is being misused.

No. Just someone who prefers clarity in communication. And mistaking chord for cord is not a spelling error. Just because something shapes sound doesn't mean the word to describe it is the same as the one for a harmonious set of musical notes.

That'll be vocal cords. As in thin strips of cartilage stretched across the back of the throat.

Those great Hibbees ,The Proclaimers, lived in Auchtermuchty.

I think you meant piqued.

Or Chizzie?

FFS.

from English Grammar Today Get is an irregular verb. Its three parts are get, got, got. (You say potahto, I say potayto.) For the whole of my life 'gotten' has been an exclusively USian form - never, ever, spoken by any of my interlocutors in this country. (You say tomayto, I say tomahto.) Let's call the whole thing off.

pa. t. got, obs. gat; pa. p. got.

What has lexicology got to do with it? (Note, not 'gotten' to do with it.) Words change from their lexicological origins over time. In my Chambers dictionary the past tense of 'get' is rendered as 'got'. (Gotten is given as being archaic or USian.) Could of/would of are just solecisms due to 1) people not listening properly 2) not thinking/knowing about how verb tenses/moods work .

Has it? Or have those expectations been set too high.? I want to see Scotland succeed as much as anybody - but I don't see how packing top division Scottish teams with foreign players can do that in any way. Or how a one year experiment will suddenly make Scotland into world beaters.

'Gotten' is an abomination. the word is 'got.'

Surprise surprise. When the SPFL was set up after the Rangers collapse I said that when all the so-called big clubs got back into the top division - which with Dundee Utd, Hearts and Dundee now there they have - they'd pull up the drawbridge and cast the rest of us adrift again.

Cliftonhill is a fantastic ground to visit. (If you remember what most grounds were like in the 1950s.)