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2 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said:
I think if I had the money and young kids, I'd fly private whilst sticking the kids on a regular Ryanair* flight.
In Home Alone, the adults all fly business class while the kids are back in, to use the American term, "coach". They justify this to themselves by saying that flying is an adventure for them anyway and it's not really remarked upon. Clearly, this is by far the least concerning incident of child neglect in that series of films but worth noting anyway.
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Last night, a Tory source said the MP would be ‘getting help with personal issues’ in the wake of the claims.
You get caught hiring prostitutes and doing cocaine
I have "personal issues"
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I'm sure if Kate Forbes or Ash Regan were First Minister this pledge would be being met and more!
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Only 116 mass shootings in four months!!
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3 hours ago, stevoraith said:
I don’t think we’re giving enough credit to Inverness for having the second best defensive record in the league but yet still managing to be only 2 points clear of the relegation play-offs.
That’s some achievement, most clubs would at least be comfortably mid-table with a defensive record as impressive as that.
It really is. Only Arbroath have scored fewer goals, albeit only three fewer and they are 15 points behind us.
Every single one of our defeats in the league this season, bar the 2-0 loss to Airdrie in January, has been by a single goal. Only Morton have had more 0-0 draws (five to our four, Queens Park have also had four).
If you look at almost every other league, teams who have a similar defensive record to us are usually challanging at the top of the league - in the Premiership only the top four have defensive records as good, in our league only the top team, in League One and Two only the top two.
It's a testament to how utterly toothless we have been all season, completely lacking in goal threat.
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Just do that every game and then we'd be winning the league.
#motivation
#financialplanning
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Our attacking options are very poor, to be fair.
Aaron Doran, Nathan Shaw, Roddy MacGregor, Adam Brooks, Sean McAllister, Louis Longstaff in midfield - all of those players have spent time out injured this season, except Brooks, who is very young and raw.
Billy Mckay, Alex Samuel, Austin Samuels, Aribim Pepple, Harry Lodovica as strikers - is there anyone sitting out games there who you'd have in the team ahead of Billy Mckay or Alex Samuel? Not for me.
Cameron Harper has the most assists in our team, usually from the full back position. Not good.
I think the two players we have missed the most this season compared to last are Daniel Mckay and Jay Henderson. Both of them had pace to stretch the game and we don't have anyone like that now. I'm not saying they were both brilliant all the time, clearly they both had ups and downs and poor performances, but we didn't replace them at all.
ETA - Here are the statistics for those players (league only)
David Wotherspoon scored four goals and had two assists in ten games.
Cameron Harper has eight assists.
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As noted above, we need to take chances on players who are injury prone and Roddy MacGregor is worth taking a chance on IMO.
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ICT played Partick Thistle seven times in 2001/02 - four league games, cup tie with replay and league cup tie. We also played Dundee Utd seven times in 2018/19 - four league games, two play offs and a Scottish cup game.
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Late to the party
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Terrible story about a young man who had a cardiac arrest and died during an Aussie Rules game in Linlithgow. Ross McGhie was only 25 and played for the Kingdom Kangaroos, based in Fife. Awful.
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12 minutes ago, The Golden God said:
Dont know how they model this exactly but I just cannot see Labour winning that many seats in Glasgow.
I think it's that poll that had a margin for the SNP of low - 1, high - 56, which is a way of saying that the sample size in Scotland is too small to make specific predictions about it.
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Run a multinational drug empire
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Long term sick numbers rocket
Edited to add - a report from the ONS published last year on the details behind the increase in long term sickness.
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Only ever lost in title fights to guys at a very good level, won a few titles himself. By all acounts a good guy. Didn't realise he'd played a few games for Albion Roverts before boxing.
Has it been reported what caused the seizure? Haven't seen anything.
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43 minutes ago, Raidernation said:
//umm, maybe I'm being thick, but in what way does banning children "ban women"? Men are parents too I believe so they could look after the sprog(s) shirley?
I think childcare is more likely to be done by women.
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I think places that specifically ban children, have signs saying so etc get people's hackles up.
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Saw this tweet generating heated discourse on Twitter, reminded me that there's a thread on this subject on here
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Regarding next season, if Ferguson does leave then I really hope our illustrious board and senior management are aware this could happen and have been working diligently behind the scenes so we have a quick appointment. We need to completely restructure the team this close season and having to recruit a manager would complicate that hugely.
I'm sure they will! It's not like they are all massively incompetent. On the bright side, if Ferguson did leave, I wonder what sort of seething statement we'd get.
We currently have seven contracted players for next season - Nikola Ujdur, Remi Savage, Lewis Nicolson, Charlie Gilmour, Adam Brooks, Louis Longstaff and Billy Mckay. Of those out of contract, there's a few I think who are highly likely to leave - Cameron Harper for one - he has really grown as a player the past couple of years and has nine assists this season for a struggling team. He's only 22 and I'd be amazed if an English team didn't pick him up, he was linked with Charlton in the window.
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You can kind of split our season into sections I think.
When Ferguson came in we had lost six and drawn one of our first seven league games, lost three of our four league cup group games and been knocked out of the challange cup by Arbroath. Overall we had lost nine of our first eleven games, we were in a terrible position. From a completely blunt perspective, staying in the division from that position is a success.
After Ferguson came in we went on a good run - in his first eight league games we won four, drew three and lost one, the only defeat being to Raith who were flying at that time. I think that was partially due to a new manager bounce and partly due to have David Wotherspooon on a short term deal. We also seemed to hit upon a formation that worked for us but we persisted with that beyond the point where it clearly wasn't working.
Looking back the point where it was clear that we had just had a bounce and not a sustainable change in form was December into early January, where we lost at home to Arbroath and produced a risible showing at Airdrie. Our home form began to be a big concern as a winless run started stretching. Around this time we began to recruit players and there were pretty big concerns about signing a load of centre halves and letting go two of our best midfielders in Carson and Welsh. I understand the reasons why we let them go but don't think that it was a right decision, especially Welsh.
Around this point I started to really think we were done for, we couldn't get a win - blowing a two goal lead v Partick and then having successive 0-0 draws at home from games we really should have targeted for three points was a huge alarm bell. At the same time we managed some surprising away wins at Raith and Cappielow that meant we didn't get pulled away from 8th completely.
The hope has to be that the two successive wins we have pulled out (our first back-to-back wins in the league this season) start another section of our season where we finally start to drag out three points. I'm not getting too hopeful as single goal wins over the two worst teams in the league apart from us isn't too much to get excited about. Saying that, what I think both those wins shows is a bit of spirit and fight in the team, which I wasn't sure was there before. I'm sure I posted on here or elsewhere that we were the last team I'd back to get results in crunch games but the team have done that in the last two weeks which should give them some confidence. One thing about this league is that aside from the top two teams I think every single side can go on a run if they hit form and circumstances align - almost every side this year has had times when they've put together a few wins. If we can have our run in the next three games that would be perfect.
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The deep state forces Naomi Wolf to make a foundational mistake in her book to prepare for the pandemic, a year later.
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This thread is now being used as a source for Daily Record crime stories.
Might have appeared in the Daily express first - https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/blowtorch-killer-ian-macleod-leith-32545457?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target
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The reason we have loads of loan players is that just about everyone we signed from the summer of 2021 has been complete garbage. I posted a list of them earlier in this thread, appalling read.
Sadly a lot of the loan players appear to be complete garbage as well or at least injury prone, not what we are looking for.
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Nicola Sturgeon Arrested, Peter Murrell Charged
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Be funny if he joined Alba.