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I’ve got high hopes for the next story being about these shitheads getting turned around at Dieppe for not having the right paperwork, due to Brexit.

Given we need a minimum swing of +10 gd to have any chance of making the top half, I’d like us to go back another 60 years* and go 2-3-5 at Livi. * (or at least to Jimmy’s last minute “bugles”)

Tbc. I've been optimistic before and it doesn't always end well.

This season's outstayed its welcome by a few months already

I read that as him admitting he was doing a bad job (or at least not agood one) and saying that's why he resigned. He seemed a dickhead and a mediocre coach, but i thought that was a fair comment. I have been wrong before.

Ghostbusters frozen Empire Evil spirit wants to end the world and ghostbusters have to stop him. loads of ghostbusters on the team now. Must be at least a dozen. Thoroughly enjoyable silliness throughout. At least as good as the last one. 7/10 Good Will Hunting wayward genius does therapy Been meaning to watch this since 1997. Was ok. Quite well done I guess. Robin Williams was surprisingly not very mawkish, but there was a lot of finding oneself and blah. Very American culture with the individualism and self-absorption. Very contrived elitist baddies too. 5/10

Brand power! take that Putin

Not buying British arms is naughty. Good guys buy at least two dozen anti personnel mines.

Weather can be engineered to a limited extent. Rainclouds can be "seeded" with silver nitrate to increase the likelihood of them dropping rain. It's a fair bit short of control. Last i heard of it was some region in the south of Spain (Andalusia maybe) wanted to do it because they'd a long drought and clouds kept goin over and dropping rain inland. The inland types didn't want the coastal b*****ds stealing their clouds. It's only a wee stretch from that to Davos making it foggy so that Hilary Clinton and Bill Gates can eat babies without being seen.

Any of the defenders on that list

Political views aren't a protected characteristic under the equalities acts so you'd have the whole rigmarole of defining and delineating the realm of the political. That's a lot of effort for a headline and could well have taken this past an election year. Politics is protected in NI. But society deems that it's ok to incite hatred for some reasons and not others. Alongside champagne socialists like yourself, it's still ok to incite hate against gingers, fat people (so long as they're not disabled by being so fat) and people whose names you dislike.

Apologies i thought i'd responded on this but apparently not. The point i was driving at is that we've got a lot of micro businesses with the kind of record keeping that goes with that. There would be extra costs for the smaller clubs just on compliance. There's also an increased chance of unintended consequences with the size disparities. I can easily imagine sanctions for small clubs for losing a carrier bag full of till rolls etc. Currently only Livi don't file audited accounts, presumably largely because they don't own their ground. Whether other clubs actually need to on the size criteria is less clear.

Up to €60m- I didn't think it was near that much. But that only kicks in above €5m a year. Gifts aren't counted in the losses before the €5m. Neither are capitalised loans. And if you breach the upper limit gifts or conversion won't help at all. €5m a year is above the turnover and gross asset value of a few premier clubs and probably most championship clubs. €60m probably won't even affect Celtic. We'd need our own thresholds and the sort of money that's been pumped into Hearts and Aberdeen recently would be beyond existential for most clubs outside the biggest handful. Not insurmountable i guess, but an issue. If you're right and gifts are inherently better than loan conversion , the current UEFA model doesn't distinguish between them (other than stipulating that gifts can't have conditions). So we'd need some agreed way to distinguish in the rules between altruistic noble philanthropists and reckless egotistical sugar-daddies. I can't see that being a point that gets agreed on in any useful way. In principle some sort of rolling loss restriction with limited ability to debt fund those losses is a good idea. But i just can't see it working well in practice.

I don’t. It’s probably marginally better than regularly capitalising soft loans but gives the investor less control. but ffp doesn’t allow gifts does it? In principle I mean. Obviously UEFA and EPL tolerance thresholds would make the whole thing pointless in Scotland.

You seem to approve of a very specific form of financial doping which only one club in the premier currently uses. Funny that. I don't think think that some sort of financial rulebook would be a bad idea but it would have to be well thought out and well run to do more good than harm. And that's not happening.

Promoting stability is a side effect of FFP that's good for PR. It's been introduced elsewhere to protect the status quo. Some of our top flight clubs don't even need to draw up audited accounts, and the authorities are woefully under-resourced to do anything to a decent standard. I suspect we'd end up penalising the wrong things and still not safeguarding clubs' futures, at a high cost with loads of aggravation. It's our MO.

Managers are over-rated.

Surely you've met a jaikie that thinks their funny before? Like that i'd guess.

^David Goodwillie found

Learning something new every day on P&B.

It's a peninsula twice a day, because of the causeway. Not a real island imo. Scilly can feel rightly aggrieved

Team GB, NI, Hebrides (both types), Orkney, Shetland, Thanet, Wight, Anglesey, Channel Islands and The Isle of Man is a bit of a mouthful though.

I think you're overcimplicating this. He intends to incite hatred.

Excellent, i love a hate fuelled rant