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    The General Ross County Chat Thread

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    There's an argument that maybe, just maybe, he's changed and become a better person. Kick It Out and Show Racism The Red Card appear to be in his corner. However, he's not really shown any contrition for what happened. Not publicly at least. And there's the small matter of him pretty comprehensively covering almost all bases of bigotry: racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, etc. It's not that he's a stupid wee boy who made a mistake; he's a grown man and there was slur after slur. 

    He walked into a job with Wigan. Then into a cushty SFA gig. He's hardly been hounded out of football. So I don't buy the "second chance" redemption sorry arc that the club will inevitably push.

    Football is obviously very contradictory. Declan Gallagher gets jobs at Motherwell and Aberdeen despite caving someone's skull in with a baseball bat and not really showing any remorse. Luis Suarez still picks up hundreds of thousands a week despite being a known racist. That Leeds goalkeeper is still at Leeds. Jamie Vardy, of racism fame, continues to be one of the most celebrated strikers in England. There's a rogues' gallery of racists, sex offenders, thugs, and killers (okay, manslaughter-erers) who still pick up a wage from football. 

    But despite that above paragraph I'm just not comfortable with him being at County. The club don't see much money from me anyway but I won't be giving them any cash for the foreseeable future. They talk a good game about being a "community club" with "values" which makes this all the more baffling. I'm a bit scunnered by all this.

    Finally, two other things that annoy me:

    a) the timing of the leak - obviously trying to hope things die down by the time he is officially announced; it's cowardly

    b) the speed of the appointment - it's obviously been planned for a while

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    2021 Scottish Cup Final (Hibernian v St.Johnstone)

    in Domestic Cup Football

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    Fair play to Shaun (Sean?) Rooney. I thought he looked like a mediocre Championship fullback a couple of years ago. But he's really pushed on since going to St Johnstone. 

    Hibs look rubbish. Slow. Ponderous. No creativity whatsoever. And Jackson Irvine playing out wide on the left most of the time. Jim McIntyre tried that for a couple of games and it didn't work. On paper they've got a really good team but it seems to be a case of give the ball to Boyle and hope for the best.

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    Scottish currency to be worth less than pound.

    in The Politics Forum

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    13 minutes ago, The_Kincardine said:

    As a former steel worker in Lanarkshire - and going on day release in Bell College for an HNC in metallurgy - the process of deindustrialisation started LONG before Her Maggieship.

    Obviously. It started in the 1950s. However it's pretty much accepted by serious economic historians that the Thatcher government's decision to appreciate the £ was something that contributed to moving the UK even further down the road of deindustrialisation.

    No doubt you'll have some excellent comeback to this. Probably something about "natters" or maybe me being a Deliveroo rider or something.

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    Scottish currency to be worth less than pound.

    in The Politics Forum

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    Tony Mackay had been pretty consistent in this view on Scottish independence. He obviously doesn't support it but he's repeatedly said that it is viable but that there's risks. It's an objectively fair position to take.

    Whilst I don't want to go up against the big hitting economic minds of Terry Underscore Tibbs or Stormzy, arguing that "well the currency will be weaker than the pound" isn't that much of a slam dunk. They obviously didn't read the rest of the article either - specifically the bit where he says "initially". 

    Anyway a strong currency isn't necessarily a good thing. Thatcher's policy of keeping the pound overvalued accelerated the deindustrialisation process. 

     

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    General nonsense gaming edition.

    in The Gaming Forum

    Posted · Edited by yoda

    1 hour ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

    @yoda you got any tips for understanding the menus in Horizon Zero Dawn?

    It took me a few hours to get the grasp of them as they're a bit confusing to start with. 

    So, basically, in short. I've not really got any tips other than you eventually get used to them!  

    And I understand that this is not at all helpful.

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