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  1. On 27/04/2024 at 22:20, Juanhourjoe said:

    2 weeks of work since last week. And made a somewhat adventurous start on Monday. Climbing stob coire sgriodain and chno dearg. Stopping off at the little lochan in between to sit and have a couple of cans.

    Camped in the valley on the other side, before taking on being na lap in the morning. A nice walk along loch Ossian, before getting the train back to the other end at corrour.

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    I had a minor freak out coming upon that loch in the thickest mist I have ever walked in, I was almost in the loch before I noticed it. The wind was so strong that there were huge waves coming towards the shore and because of the mist you couldn't see the other side which gave the impression the water went on forever. 

    I thought I had somehow come to the edge of the world half way up a munro.

    I have a strong suspicion I didn't actually summit SCS but I won't be rushing back.

  2. 8 hours ago, virginton said:

    I think it's giving Yousaf too much credit as opposed to an adult political advisor who has been able to apply Politics 101 over the past week.

    The same applies to Forbes' public vote of confidence: she doesn't need to try and play 4-D chess when Yousaf's genuine authority is pretty much toast already. He might well get lockstep MSP support but absolutely none of it is for him personally.

    Beholden how exactly? Last time I checked, the memo wasn't that the SNP would create a new BHA with Ash fucking Regan. 

    The SNP ran the country with nowhere near a majority at Holyrood for four years. While they're now on the other side of the government cycle, offering either a compromise (e.g. Budget items) or staring down other parties who don't actually want a collapse of government and election (Greens) is entirely viable IMO. 

    You might be correct but his personal authority is shot.

    Interesting if the Tories would actually want a general election given there is every reason to expect they could go back to 4th party status.

  3. 1 hour ago, D Angelo Barksdale said:

    Would it be giving Humza too much credit to suggest that this is the start of him doing similar and attempting to distance himself ? (A full year down the line tbf)

    Maybe not but he has fucked it up spectacularly. 

    He has form for making impulsive decisions eg ripping up the Verity House agreement 5 minutes after signing it with COSLA by announcing the council tax freeze and not consulting his cabinet.

    It's now clear he can't stay on. I imagine he will he sold sooner rather than later, if he hasn't already, that being beholden to Alba is intolerable. 

    Whilst the likes of Forbes might like him to own a WM defeat I think there will be enough MPs in the central belt thinking there is enough time to turn it around or the Humza effect hasn't bottomed out yet.

  4. The much maligned Beinn Bhuidhe today along the "ugly" new access track.

    Have to say I throughly enjoyed it. The track has bedded in, at least as far the hilltrack and i would believe you if you told me it had been there 50 years.

    Had summit views of mountains, lochs and islands so absolutely nothing to complain about.

     

     

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  5. 56 minutes ago, kennie makevin said:

    Very few Scots would now recognise a sport that's exciting, technically excellent and which hasn't been totally dominated for nearly 40 years by two secterian hatebuckets who've an obsession with the island of Ireland. Totally alien. Utterly unfathomable. How do they tolerate such a thing ?

    We all hate the OF mate. You aren't going to get super fan points for extra hating them.

  6. Hard to know what to make of the season.

    Objectively a very good points haul and a very good number of goals scored. It didnt feel like a lot of fun though. Some of the home games especially were turgid to watch.

    Goodwin and the club obviously had zero goodwill and credit from the fans so everything that went wrong seemed heightened.

    Players playing poorly were kept in the side too long and conversely (I don't have the stats) I'd be surprised if we went two matches with the same XI before last month. Injuries haven't helped with that and we are a much better team with Docherty than without.

    It seems very old firmy to whine too much when you win the league though.

     
     

    In most seasons that points tally would have been a much more comfortable winning margin so credit has to go to Goodwin for that also to Raith for keeping it tight.

    I'll also patronise the rest of you before I go. For all the talk about it being a poor quality championship I think there are 8 good teams in this league - Arbroath and QP were garbage. But in at least one game I have seen every other team play good football. 

  7. 39 minutes ago, 1320Lichtie said:

    Tbh I am just biased and think McMillan is the best RB in the league. Him and Lawless always give me the fear. LB I think McMann been excellent whenever I’ve seen him and it was an easy decision but interesting to see you go Strapp

    Could have gone McMann but wanted to spread it about a bit. McMann has looked effective but his stats are meh.

    TBF Strapp is maybe a reach but thought he was excellent when I was at Cappielow recently and if not for injuries I think could do something. Mind you on that basis maybe Harry Milne a better shout.

  8. I got aspire lounge access free through credit card and its not like many lounges I have ben in before. There didn't seem to be any discernible difference between there and Spoons.

    Not that it bothers as I'm not too good for the Walter Scott and its where I would have been quite happily if not for the freebie but surprised if people are paying money to sit amongst loud groups of golf groups and stag dos.  

     

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