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Forest Green will not be long being above Leeds in the league at this rate. Still, at least Hockaday can get a pie at half time again.

YouGov is infamously Labour-leaning. It's difficult to imagine that you weren't aware of this.

I used to work with a guy who was absolutely mad for the 21s and he could not find a good thing to say about Bonhof. As for Vogts, the fact is that if he'd been kept on we'd have been nowhere near as close to qualifying for 2008 as we eventually ended up. Accordingly, binning him was the correct approach, even if the job were something of a no-win situation in the first place. He's still two hundred times better than Levein was.

Ah don't vote, right...

Is there honestly anyone in the country that isn't regularly bombarded with electoral registration forms? I get them about every two weeks.

Did you show him a picture of David Cameron's smug face? That's all the GOTV anyone really needs.

You were too busy sitting under the stairs insisting that you had something in your eye, I believe, following the revelation that you had no idea how political donations to the Yes campaign actually work.

Right: that's the conundrum. Low turnout: potential for hard voters to decide the result. More hard Yes than hard No. Win for independence. Moderate turnout: soft votes become more important. More soft No than soft Yes. Win for Maggie Thatcher and her mewling acolytes. High turnout: All hard and soft votes accounted for, undecideds hold the key. Undecideds typically break for Yes. Win for independence. Ultimately, Yes is the force for light and justice, and it wouldn't be democratic to try to stifle turnout, so they'll go for a massive GOTV campaign. Conversely, the profoundly undemocratic No campaign will want to keep turnout as low as they can given that it's likely to be high given the importance of the issue.

There's something of a contradiction there: when undecideds are pressed they generally break in favour of Yes, and so the more undecideds that find their way to the polls on the day the better the prospects for independence. Ultimately I think the Yes campaign will make a far greater effort to GOTV on the day. The establishment's scare campaign simply doesn't work on voters who aren't already committed masons Ukips Sevconians puppy-stranglers Unionists, so they'll be wanting undecideds to stay at home.

If No can only attract the votes of four in every five of the worst creatures ever to have inhabited this country then they're truly fucked.

McDermott binned. The Livingston of West Yorkshire keeps giving.

Presumably because housing prices, jobs and generic economic health and social welfare for those outside the M25 are nothing more than curious side-effects for the UK's present and future leadership, much as they were when Thatcher's experiments led to the demise of another generation of Scottish communities.

I'm a landlord and I'm getting married shortly before the vote. Time after time it's been shown that the biggest demographic gap between yes and no is the obvious one: yes voters are far more politically engaged and aware of the issues at hand. This is not coincidentally why the most common argument given for a no vote is "I haven't got enough information": because the people in question are low-information voters who obtain all of their data from the six o'clock news and the tabloids, both of which are owned in near exclusivity by a unionist elite.

Who the f**k needs scaremongering? Any idiot could draw a straight line between the shitty present and the shittier future under a continuation (or acceleration, as H_B and the rest of Maggie's spawn wish) on the present course. That's what No hates so much: that it has to go to the effort of making shit up for its campaign, while Yes doesn't.

Is the poll not from January anyway? Regardless, that would require the slightest degree of competence from Team No.

100k a day Leeds are fucked into a cocked hat.

In fairness, Ad Lib is a Liberal Democrat, which means that he's honour-bound to profess to supporting all sorts of nice things while engaging in the most unctuous toadying of those with diametrically opposite values.

So are two thirds of CONCACAF. It puzzles me why people are so desperate to deride the efforts of this one particular national team. They're never going to qualify for a major finals, but there's no obvious reason for the malice directed at them daring to even compete.

I'd give Frank Skinner a heart-felt sloppy kiss on the lips if it would guarantee independence.

Two bites in a row for this one! Th midweek seethe is strong with he-who-normally-hides-after-hidings.

From major trophies to the seaside league in a little over 24 months.

Didn't realise the SFA were in need of a new Communications Director right now.

The "challenge" of winning the Second with a full time team next season? I'd bit your hand off for that.

Reid gets an unfair amount of stick on here. He took an Ayr side that seemed determined to live in the Second for posterity up in his first full season, repeated the feat after relegation, and then had a squad in the First that the fans largely bonded with and who took SPL scalps left right and centre. He made plenty of mistakes but is far from the worst young manager to have competed at this level. That said, he's manifestly not the right man to keep Morton up this season, especially considering that right now he's in the Far East apparently losing a one-horse race. Novo player-manager. Now that would be hilarious.

"Yous" is valid Scots, and perfectly understood in the vernacular. And frankly, a distinct plural form for the second person is sorely needed in English: it makes clear the distinction between "let's all laugh at Greenock" and "let's all laugh at VT".