Walter

Is that something which is available in supermarkets or just specialist shops?

I'm looking for some advice. We've had a small whip-round at work for a colleague's 50th and I've to buy him a bottle of whisky. He likes a single malt (not too peaty) but is no coniseur. I have £42 to spend. Is there anything special you would recommend, any great deals around?

I don't know why you're worried. If he's no use then we're no worse off. Anyway...his cheery wee face, chirpy personality and general joi de vivre is bound to lift the dressing room.

I presume Caldwell thinks he is a man who could improve the team and therefore make a contribution to us staying up. Sounds like risk-free post January window signing to me.

He'll only cost us a couple of months wages so well worth a punt I reckon.

That's an absolute belter. I've nicked it and now desperately scrambling around P&B forums looking for an excuse to use it.

Aye...who's cares right enough.

Then I would tend to believe your recollection rather than my son's alcohol-blurred memory of a bygone "gaff" as he calls it. Anyway, same shite just different colour.

I always liked the soor-faced wee nyaff as a player but you have to wonder if there is any gas left in his tank. I'd have thought he'd be quite happy with his feet up in the BBC home for the terminally tedious.

I have it on good authority (my boy was chatting to Maxwell's relation at a party) that he is in fact a sellick supporter. Maybe he's just not an arsehole sellick supporter. I've heard they exist.

If it keeps the boring wee tit off of the telly I'm all for it.

A big thumbs up to Sportscene for combining two of my favourite things. Partick Thistle and The Fall.

Gambling Forum for the last three pages of this pish!

An utterly soul-destroying and confidence-sapping 0-0 draw with a couple of injuries and a sending off each and both sets of fans turning against their teams midway through the second half please. The caterers to run out of pies before half-time too.

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Maryhill is never short of puddles. They'll be fine.

Firhill on the other hand nestles like a jewel in the setting of Glasgow's leafy West End with its many bars, restaurants, museums, theatres and places of learning and on the bank of one of the country's most beautiful waterways which is made colourful and vibrant by the pleasure crafts which bob by delightfully on the glistening, clear water.

There's some amount of work in that post and it does show that the other three have made their sides a little less shite than before whereas Caldwell has made us a little more. I wasn't really making any claims as you put it, more thinking aloud.

I suppose that may be the reason for the increased anger but last season's disaster was hardly Caldwell's fault. Anyway, just an observation.

We've found ourselves in the same position as Falkirk, Dundee and St Mirren in that their previous managers have blown the budget on a load of shite only to be bagged shortly after the transfer window closes. The new guy is unable to improve the performance of the squad he's inherited and gets criticism from the support but when you read through the threads of those clubs there is no nowhere near the same vitriol being being dished out to Mckinnon, McIntyre and Kearney as there is to Caldwell.

Buskers with amplifiers. Glasgow was was full of them yesterday and I could hear the noise of two young lads doing their X-Factor type pop pish on Buchanan Street from the moment I left Central Station and just as you get out of ear-shot of one another takes over belting out some Snow Patrol/Coldplay guff. I've nothing against buskers, in fact they can often create a nice atmosphere in the city centre but this "you will hear me from streets away whether you like it or not" pretend pop star pish really gets me wound up.

Positivity? [emoji1]