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Read this in the voice of that guy that used to do all the movie trailers.

Hope @Rb123 put some money on my advice. Christ, if we could sort the first 15 minutes of the 2nd half....

Aye, you can take an equaliser in the first 15 minutes to the bank.

No, i'm content to shite it for tonight.

Thistle ran all over the top of our 4-1-3-2 at the start of the season, albeit without a recognised sitting mid at the time. Doolan's Thistle teams really do attack quickly down the flanks and I think I saw a stat about goals vs xG that gives you an idea of how good they usually are at getting the ball into Brian Graham between 6 and 10 yards out. Really could see us dropping points tonight. Defence should hopefully look a little more settled than it has against Dunfermline and ICT at least. Byrne has been different class since he came in and should hopefully stem some of the Thistle flow, but think this is the best attack we've faced outside of Dundee Utd by a long shot.

Regardless of what you think of the GRR act itself, this ruling effectively gives the SoS for Scotland an extremely broad remit to veto anything the Scottish Parliament comes up with. Any law at Holyrood, even if within devolved competencies that confers any status referred to by any other reserved law is automatically within the scope of being vetoed. Any administrative or operational changes proposed by ScotGov would fall in that remit too. The ruling seems to me to state that the principle judge of whether there is sound reason for interfering is in fact the SoS themselves. What's to stop the UK Gov passing "UK wide" laws and then using that mechanism to force alignment?

That has fairly wide ranging implications for how devolution is operated (or not). Basically, the SoS for Scotland can veto naything they damn well please for any damn reason they like with no route of appeal for the Scottish parliament.

Aye, that's the kiss of death.

He's gone

We werent exactly flush when we signed him tbf.

I stand corrected. What a team.

I can't see a defence in that team.

This is like one of @TxRover's nightmare lineups....

Millen, Brown and O'Reilly as CBs?

Can he play defence?

Not a chance with our defence tonight.

Is that Aidan Connolly at left back, christ.

Said it on the Rovers thread, but feel like this fixture is a game too far for our threadbare defence. Not having Byrne available should force a change in shape else we will get over run in midfield.

Suspect this game may be one too far in terms of injuries and suspensions. The three options I can see are: 1. An entirely unfamiliar and untested CB pairing of O'Reilly and Corr, with Brown moving into midfield 2. Keep Brown at CB and O'Reilly beside him, creating a gap in midfield. 3. Move Brown into midfield, move Dick in beside O'Reilly and McGill to makeshift left back. I think option 2 is most likely, but would prefer we didn't keep the 4-1-3-2 shape as we were badly over run using Stanton in that role. With Jack Hamilton back fit, going 4-2-3-1 and moving McGill in besides Easton or Stanton would be my preference.

Aye, Dowds. He must really have pissed on Doolan's chips...

Still their player, they might need him yet. Well within their rights as annoying as it is for us. Hence the O'Reilly signing.

Not convinced of the merits of having that phrase on the badge, given Falkirk's popular nickname.

I believe it also made various appearances in UK Government and Ofgem publications over the years. Political value can still be derived from a percentage basis of how much of Scotland's energy comes from renewable sources, from absolute terms of how many jobs created, supply chains secured. And if the 25% value is ridiculous so is the Muppets at these islands contention that this is a disaster for the case of Scottish independence. We still have the same potential capacity today as yesterday, the North Sea is still a prime location and Scotland is still an early adopter and leader in installation of offshore wind. None of that has changed and is still relevent within the context of Scotland's industrial and engineering future.

So? The quote as far as I can discern was based on the number of EU countries in 1993, subsequently not checked and allowed to remain in various publications in increasingly abstracted and incorrect ways. Im not saying it isnt a poor and wrong statistic. I'm saying it's irrelevent. The only thing that matters, surely, is the modelled absolute potential. Unless i'm mistaken that hasnt changed. The economic benefits Scotland potentially stands to gain from renewables is the same today as it was yesterday. If it were the case that all the modelling was wrong, that Scotland could only produce a fraction of the power, that the costs sunk into supply chains would never pay back or produce jobs, and that it was all because of the Scottish Government, then I could imagine that being a proper scandal. I just cannot get annoyed that they divided a set number by one number but should have divided it by a bigger number for some literature.