Monkey Tennis

Tough gig. They'll run around a Hell of a lot, but probably not achieve a great deal.

I'd thought that with Cascarino, FIFA adjudged that he would legitimately have qualified for Ireland via adoption. It all happened retrospectively of course, but I thought the big story that he hadn't been eligible for all those caps, was fairly quickly doused by some FIFA statement or directive.

Yes, I can see that being a big problem too.

He absolutely has been. He is a good player, and is a very important one for Scotland. I actually thought he had a decent enough Euros which can't be said of many Scots. However, the hope was that he'd have got further by now, that he'd have broken into that Chelsea team and become a major player for them. I know that this isn't necessarily the best benchmark, but you genuinely got people on here claiming he was already World Class and would soon be running the midfield of a side like Real Madrid or Barcelona. Currently, he's absolutely nowhere near that level. As with Gauld, it's not the player's fault that people went nuts about him early on. However, let's not pretend it didn't happen.

Just ask Truss who it will be then. It would save lots of time.

Yes, it would be better if his nutter gang wasn't about 70 million strong though.

Yes, their tournaments took slightly different trajectories. The last time Tierney got greeted like that by a player was because he'd just won a goal kick in the second minute of the whole competition.

Well that doesn't appear to be happening yet, despite your flawless logic in explaining why it would.

This from the guy who thought standing beyond the goalkeeper rendered an attacker onside.

Have you quoted the wrong person here? You seem terribly confused.

Yip, that's the point here. Trump might well still win. At least now it feels debatable though.

I loved the joke that when Orville learned of Keith Harris' death, he was described as speechless.

Less exciting than had looked likely, but fair play to him - a tremendous round. There were a couple of holes in the back 9 when Schauffele sank good putts while Rose missed similar ones. It was enough to make the difference. It was a good Open, even if it felt slightly flat at the very end.

He's backing Harris now. I hope she's electable in that mad place.

Why do you keep on saying this as if it's a startling insight that escapes the rest of us? It isn't, and it doesn't. We all recognise the truth of it. The fact is, however, that in reflecting on Scotland's latest tournament performance, the outcome was entirely in sync with how we played. It means that the criticism in evidence is not knee jerk or particularly disproportionate. It probably is true that if the outcome had been different, the response from many would have been too. However, we'd have needed to fluke a better outcome, such was the nature of our performance. That can of course happen (Oslo last year) but it is unlikely, and it's not really therefore worth giving the possibility of it, the huge prominence that you seem determined to.