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Feel weirdly deflated after that. The initial game actually worked well and we got on top after Thistle's energetic start. Scored two really well worked goals and dominant at half time.
Obviously expected a bit of a Thistle resurgence after half time but actually thought we were dealing with it until the double sub/change of shape gave Thistle more width. Having said that, we defended our box well until losing a goal you honestly can't mitigate against.
Yet, we probably were slow to react to the shape change and I don't really understand why, when we are lumping the ball, we don't bring on the striker you can lump the ball to.
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Just now, stevoraith said:
That’s one question answered anyway- Matthews at right back.
I don’t mind that line-up to be fair, as long as we don’t start lumping high balls to Vaughan.
How many minutes do you give it?
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Looks like the plan is to sit in and play on the counter until we go 3 down then panic and fling Hamilton and Rudden on.
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1 minute ago, Beachbum said:
4-2-3-1 with Vaughan up top, Connolly and Turner wide, Stanton behind and a sitting two of Brown and Byrne. Fairly conservative.
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27 minutes ago, oneteaminglasgow said:
Absolutely gutted to not be attending this first leg, and also absolutely shitting myself. Honestly thought I’d be calmer as I’m not expecting much, but here we are.
Well, I'm deep into my "we're fucked" mood.
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26 minutes ago, Ro Sham Bo said:
I'm shocked anyone thinks any team in the Scottish Championship is anything other than garbage. There's virtually no quality on offer at all.
Anyhow, I turned on Barnsley v Bolton which was miles better.
Surely one of the most depressing things written on this website.
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16 minutes ago, Scary Bear said:
Using the Greens to prop themselves up will appeal to some ‘Progessive’ people, but I wonder how it will play with the electorate? Going on this current Parliament session, doesn’t look like it’ll go very well at all. The Greens are not for me anymore. Definitely not getting my unthinking ‘awww they like the environment and are pretty harmless’ list vote for the foreseeable.
Independence isn’t happening, so competent government is what people are after. Even that is probably a pipe dream these days.
Regardless of whether independence happens or not, the polarisation of the Scottish parliament down those constitutional lines negates any attempts at compromise 'across the isle'
So the queation of where you find someone willing to vote with the SNP even if they agree on the principle of the motion being voted for, remains open.
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9 hours ago, Trogdor said:
Swinney is catastrophically bald and has a ministerial track record to boot. He's better than Humza but it shows the real dearth of political talent up here. A safe pair of hands until some of the SNP talent from Westminster can be redeployed following the GE.
As for the scaremongering about minority government. The SNP governed just fine from 2007 to 2011 as a very small minority government. It means compromise and working with the other parties. That isn't something to be feart of it may well improve things.
2007 is a long time ago. The constitutional question has sunk any prospect of using the Tories or LDs to get a budget through. Even in those days Labour would demand and get budget concessions and still not vote for the bloody thing because the Bain principle is still the organising principle by which the Branch Office live.
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If someone isn't mocking up John Swinney and Kate Forbes in the style of the American Gothic painting, then there is a trick being missed...
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21 minutes ago, ICTChris said:
Interesting use of 'return'. When did the SNP stop governing from the mainstream?
Presumably a swipe at the Greens. The SNP will now try and pin literally everything that's gone wrong in the last 18 months (give or take an embezzlement charge) on the well meaning, but entirely naive shoulders of the Greens.
They need that to stick to have a hope.
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22 minutes ago, Salvo Montalbano said:
Mods, please. Heard enough of that non-word when Chuckles was getting his crown.
Aye, that's fair enough.
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You'd think they'll be trying to avoid another 4 week navel gazing job and just get someone crowned and in.
It's basically whoever the central belt MPs think can save their bacon, and continuity isn't likely to be high on folk's agendas.
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7 minutes ago, AyrExile said:
Will Swinney be the continuity candidates continuity candidate? Can't see many others who could hold the line and avoid an early election being called
Not sure continuity is so highly prized im the SNP these days.
They want a purposful reset, they need a line drawn under the last year and a bit and some fresh energy.
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11 minutes ago, RAITHROVERS84 said:
Where’s Easton??
I think he’s away end of season.He may well be, but doubt it's got anything to do wiyh him being absent from the squad today. It's surely likely just being ultra cautious on any minor niggles (no Jack Hamilton either, for example)
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At the same time, do "Scottish" Labour really want to get into a Holyrood election now? Can imagine it'd screw up a lot of Starmer's planning and would prematurely expose Labour's GE positioning, as well as spending money they might need for Scottish seats in the GE later...
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40 minutes ago, ICTChris said:
Technically speaking, Yousaf doesn't have to resign if he loses the vote. He can just say "f**k it" and go on.
Anas Sarwar has now lodged a motion of no confidence in the Scottish Government. Douglas Ross' motion is in Yousaf himself so if Yousaf resigns then the motion will be dropped.
Yeah, Ross doesn't want to trigger an election that would see his party wiped out, so an interesting game of chicken foing on here, escalating from the notion that the Greens are shitehawks who'd take leaving government on the chin.
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3 minutes ago, lichtgilphead said:
I've not miscounted. As explained above, the presiding officer only votes in the event of a tie, and normally votes to keep the status quo, irrespective of her party affiliation.
64 each will mean that DRoss'sVONC will fall.
Having said that, the SNP haven't had much luck with parliamentary officers holding to convention of late....
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SNP would only need Regan + one other to join to win, but assuming they didm't it's hard to see how the Tories or Labour could coalesce around each other in a GE year to kick the SNP out, and if they couldnt find one in the time required before an election were called? Would Labour necessarily want a Holyrood election now to be followed by the GE?
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Just now, houston_bud said:
One thing I picked up on when Harvie spoke was that he said, the SNP members had rejected the right of the party. I mean, he might be technically right, but Forbes still picked up nearly half the vote, despite being quite open about her feelings on same sex marriage and abortion.
Yeah, for Yousaf it's a chance to reset and blame any amount of issues on the Greens laps. He probably thinks that he's mounted the kerb in terms of where Scotland lies socially and wants to avoid getting killed in a culture war with Labour.
He'll wait a while then convince Forbes to come back in, try and bump his numbers up a few pc and see how it flies. Not a bad gamble assuming the GE is this side of the next Scottish budget.
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I doubt Yousaf could have risked letting the Greens dump his government without having umpteen other column inches talking about weakness. Also, eaiser to reconcile the Forbes wing of the SNP now you'd imagine.
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Assuming we stay in the championship, a shopping list for me would look like:
New contracts for Easton, Byrne, Matthews
New LB, new RB, 2 x CBs*, 1x winger, 1 x forward.
*if I thought Watson had more in him I'd be happy to keep him around, but point is we need to be running with at least 3 specialist CBs.
The winger should be a proper speed merchant.
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34 minutes ago, philpy said:
I'm now wondering why we replaced Gullan with rudden. Gullan was always a good impact sub, and also scored a few important goals for us. Rudden on the other hand, I genuinely can't think of anything he's done that's been worthy of noting.
Scored one and set up one against Ayr, scored the opener against Dundee United back in February. Set up one against ICT in the loss at home.
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13 minutes ago, JS_FFC said:
Wouldn’t surprise me. Do we know if the Green grassroots are as socially conservative as their English and Welsh counterparts? My gut feeling is probably not because the thinly veiled transphobes would surely go to Alba instead.
The other question re Greens is would they be willing to put independence to bet for 5 years to help Sarwar become FM if they liked his offering on the climate? I know they’re technically an independence supporting party but I’m not sure they’re as ideologically wedded to it as the SNP.
Nah, the Scottish Greens are socially liberal. They'd have chucked Bute if Forbes had gotten the gig over Yousaf in the first place.
My guess is that the Greens would support a minority Labour government if they came out the biggest party, but it'd be a bit of a tightrope electorally to say that, given their principle vote comes from SNP constituency voters voting for them on the list. Mind you in a world where the SNP might need list votes for once, the Greens could well get squeezed anyway.
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2 minutes ago, JS_FFC said:
Binning off the Greens would surely open up the government to a no confidence vote which could force it to hold a snap election where the SNP would be expected to make fairly heavy losses and possibly lose the keys to Bute House?
It might be the Greens who bin it.
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Having said that, I thought Corr did really well when he came on.