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If we get into the promotion play offs I will personally attend our play off matches dressed as a battery from the battery farm.

Being 100% honest, if you had to construct a "median" listener of Open Goal it would probably be someone with a sleeve tattoo, a gymshark tracksuit who loves banter and for A View From The Terrace it'd be a bearded hipster who likes making jokes about wrestling on Twitter. There's nothing wrong with both of these people - they all add to the rich, beautiful tapestry of life and I love and care for both these people very deeply.

I asked ChatGPT to describe the average viewer of A View From The Terrace I also asked it to describe the average listener to the Open Goal podcast

We have a friend who moved back with her parents about ten years ago to care for them - her dad was in end stages of cancer and he died shortly after, her mum is very frail and needs someone there to help her. She has several siblings, who have spread out over the world and have families of their own so don't see much of them. After a few years, her mum wanted to change the will to give her daughter the house outright when she died - it's her home, she lives there has done for years etc. One of her siblings objected, said that they need the money for long term planning. I don't know legally where they stand but it's just appalling behaviour IMO. There is a lot more they'll inherit rather than just the house but they want to squeeze every last few quid out of it, no matter the impact on their sister who has looked after their parents for years. The house is not some country pile, it's a completely normal family home.

Why does he not want his windows replaced? I looked up the story - he doesn't think new windows will look nice.

I would be amazed if this event ever happens. There are huge barriers to it - anyone involved will be banned from competing in normal sport and will thus have to sacrifice their career to compete in it. For athletes that means only has beens or never will be’s would consider it. It’s most likely that guys who have already been popped for doping will sign up. Not only will the athletes involved face sanction but the administrators, coaches, venues, medical staff would all be kissing their future livelihoods in sport goodbye if they get involved. So, again, rather than the elite you’ll likely get a load of already banned coaches or guys who have been suspended for other reasons. Most performance enhancing drugs are either outright illegal or subject to legal sanctions in many countries. For example, if you wanted to host the Enhanced Games in the UK then the main PEDs for endurance events (EPO) and speed/power events (anabolic steroids) are illegal on the UK. How can you administer them, how could anyone test them for purity etc? There are more practical concerns than that. There are a whole gamut of PEDs, do you just have a free for all or do you have a variety of races for people on different drugs, the way you have loads of different event for different disabilities in the Paralympics? The EPO 400m, the Nandrolone 400m, the Tren 400m? If you don’t do that you just say “it’s a free for all” then you encourage athletes to endanger themselves by taking large quantities of PEDs. That’s the final point about it - PEDs are dangerous and especially so if you take them in large doses. EPO is widely believed to have caused a number of deaths in cyclists; numerous bodybuilders have died as a result of steroids. As I said, I very much doubt it’ll happen and I hope it doesn’t.

I think it's more likely that people will just spend what would once have been an inheritence - one of those quoted in the article says that his parents took early retirement and are spending all their pension lump sum on holidays.

ScumPee PooShited 0 Invermess 5 (five own goals probably)

I guess he’ll just have to Roll With It.

We currently have a situation in my wife’s family where an elderly person is suffering from dementia but the process of getting them into a care home is being strung out partly because some of the people who have POA benefit from them not going in. Genuinely surprising to see people behave like this over a little bit of money. You’d think people would want the best for their family when they are ill but apparently not.

Saw this article earlier - millennials stand to inherit more than £2 trillion worth of property in the coming years as their parents die and leave their offspring the spoils. https://apple.news/AV6TvJxKeSWuLAeHABegPRg This giant generational transfer isn’t without hitches though - more and more wills are being contested legally and the increase of “blended families” with stepchildren due to divorced parents remarrying can complicate matters. Do any P&Bers stand to inherit generational wealth? Have the P&B boomers written up wills or will they leave their descendants to fight it out like rats in sack?

I can’t say I’ve personally seen sectarianism really anywhere in Scotland, aside from a couple of football grounds and their surrounding areas on match days. Of course, I don’t go to places where you’d likely see it One thing that is slightly strange is the beginning of Orange / Apprentice Boys marches in Inverness, which didn’t exist until a couple of years ago. You hear people say that it’s because Glaswegians have moved up to Inverness in the last few years as the city has grown in size but I don’t really buy that, particularly as the march was set up by a bunch of guys from Perth. There was an attempt to hold one in Aberdeen last year but it was voted down by the council. I think I saw it said somewhere that the number of these matches taking place is increasing everywhere in Scotland, I guess this reflects that. ETA - The March in Aberdeen is actually in Stonehaven and has been banned by a sheriff this week.

Apparently some people are claiming you can legally refuse to pay tax to protest government policy in relation to the war in Gaza. Interesting part of the thread where they say that we don’t know how widespread these beliefs are but that most councils have included them on FAQs on their websites suggesting that they must be fairly common. I remember speaking to a policeman who said that most coppers encounter people using these arguments to try and get out of speeding tickets or traffic offences.

I don’t think I’ve ever visited a part of Scotland where I haven’t thought most locals were nice. Obviously you get individuals who are dicks and sometimes groups of people are unfriendly or cause issues but overall our country and countrymen are good.

Yep, I think that's the only way the sport could possibly be developed - there's a limited pool of adults playing rugby and some of them would enjoy playing league in the summer. Then try and develop the game in younger age groups for kids who play in areas where there isn't a strong rugby tradition. I do remember seeing reports of clubs in Elgin and the Highlands back then but if you look back, these clubs all folded when the RFL withdrew funding from Scottish rugby league. If you read rugby league reporting or forums there's a constant debate - should the game invest in the heartlands or try and push out into new areas. I can understand the RFL thinking what's the point in investing big money in places where there doesn't seem to be huge interest. Professional sport is a hard business to succeed in - just look at how many big rugby union clubs have failed in England in recent years.

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Getting relegated would be very bad for us. On the pitch, you'd have to assume Ferguson would leave if we went down and we'd need to completely rebuild with a new manager in a much weakened position financially. As noted above a struggle would be highly likely. Off the pitch, it would mean further losses, the people covering the losses have clearly reached the end of their tether with it and are more likely to say no more. It would most likely lead to the end of the club as we have it at the moment to be honest. The only way it could possibly be a positive is if it lead to a change in the board, or in the ownership of the club and I don't think that will happen.

I see that the International Rugby League have reclassified Scotland Rugby League as an affiliate member, along with Ireland, Italy, Lebanon and Russia. This means that Scotland cannot qualify for the next Rugby League World Cup, due to be held in the Southern Hemisphere in 2026. The decision is made on the basis of the strength of the domestic game, with countries that prioritise development of the game given membership. A parachute payment will be given to Scotland Rugby League in order to develop the game domestically as compensation. The issue is that international rugby league in these countries is almost entirely heritage players - I follow Scottish Rugby League on Instragram and they announced an under 16 team and just about every player is based in the North West England. As far as I can see there is no youth rugby league in Scotland, there are three or four amateur teams but nothing else. I'm just an armchair fan but I don't think the game has really been developed in Scotland at all.

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-st-patricks-day-dropkick-murphys-staff-shocked-as-revellers-camp-out-to-try-and-beat-the-queues-4558342 Utterly bizarre behaviour here.

His son was in the youth system a few years back but didn’t make it to the first team.

Propaganda clip from Izo, a gang leader who is a rival of Barbecue. Izo controls the port in Port-au-Prince which must make importing gear like that a bit easier.

If we stay ahead of Arbroath then I doubt there has been a group of players and manager in our clubs history I would have less confidence in in a play off situation than this one.

It’s Comic Relief tonight and no-one cares. It used to be absolutely massive - every big workplace did something, every school. Now absolutely f**k all. How much money do they raise? When can it be quietly retired?

I thought being anti-woke meant watching Jordan Peterson videos. Very glad to have it confirmed that it’s all about giant tits.