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My hopium copium is that impact injuries tend to be more painful at the time than muscle tears

Humza bizarrely seems to have expected the Greens to be totally fine with being punted out of government here.

I assume the young lads mentioned on the last page including Filip Skorb are guys who were born here after their parents moved to Scotland when Poland joined the EU?

I would be absolutely delighted if we sneak through in 3rd place. A year ago I genuinely thought we’d be in the quarter finals and a bit of a sneaky dark horse to even do a Greece 2004, but now I think getting to the last 16 would be a tremendous achievement.

Yousaf will survive for now, but it’ll be a pyrrhic victory. Both the upcoming GE and the 2026 Scottish election will produce roughly “joint winners” like the 2007 election did and Humza will be punted after the GE. Whoever takes over from him will probably decide that a “period of reflection on the opposition benches” is best for the long term future of the party and Sarwar will be FM.

Had a fairly recent one of these. I went to the pub for the birthday drinks of my best mate from school. We left school over a decade ago and have gone down our own paths in life but are still good mates and catch up several times each year. Anyway, I’m in the pub with the guy who’s birthday it is, our other best pal from school and about 8 other friends he’d met through uni and work, some of whom I’d met once or twice before and others I was meeting for the first time. This one guy who I’d met once before knocked over my pint by accident. He then goes up to the bar and buys me a half pint because, in his words, “I’d already drank some of it” I mean technically not wrong. But still tight arse behaviour IMO.

The 5th sub rule is no longer an optional thing. It’s been added to the laws of the game.

Clarke and the sports science guys will know better than me which players will benefit from a kick about with some fishermen in potentially seering heat and which will benefit from a rest but I can’t imagine many of those who played on the last weekend in May will be risked. Instead, I see that game as an opportunity for those who last played on the 18th/19th to keep fresh, whereas the Finland game will probably see us move towards a tournament XI of sorts. I think the final squad will probably be announced on the day after the Gibraltar game.

I read somewhere online last week that he’s expected to announce a “long list” in mid May. Putting two and two together, the final squad would need to be some time after that. Most of the squad will finish their club season on the weekend of 18th/19th May unless anyone is involved in play-offs or cup finals. At the moment we have Ralston, Taylor, Souttar, Jack, McGregor and McTominay playing domestic cup finals the week before the Gibraltar game. Norwich (Gunn, Hanley and McLean), Southampton (Adams, Armstrong, Fraser) and Leeds (Cooper) are all in playoff spots at the moment. John McGinn’s Aston Villa are one win away from the conference league final on 29th May which would also mean we’d be without our set piece guru Austin MacPhee for a lot of the pre tournament training. Jack Hendry’s Saudi league runs right up to 26th May, as does Tierney’s La Liga, McKenna’s Danish League and Josh Doig in Serie A. I think you might well see a bit of a make shift team for the Gibraltar game as Clarke prioritises giving minutes to guys coming back off injuries and resting guys who had extended club seasons. For that reason I think you’ll see a bigger squad for that game and then the final squad against Finland. something like Gordon Hickey - Porteous - ??? - Robertson Gilmour - McTominay Armstrong - Brown - Christie Dykes The 2nd CB would be whoever out of Hanley/Cooper isn’t in the playoff final

This is exactly what’s going to happen. Hes naming a larger squad in May and then trimming it on the June 7 deadline.

It’s 100% true. Here’s what happened last year. Mental.

My current plane, based on the assumption that Hickey and McTominay will be fit enough to go but Armstrong Ferguson, and Patterson will not. The guys in brackets are the 24th-26th men that get in if the squad is expanded: Goalkeepers: Zander Clark, Craig Gordon, Angus Gunn (3) Defenders: Liam Cooper, Aaron Hickey, Jack Hendry, Scott McKenna, Ryan Porteous, Anthony Ralston, Andy Robertson, Greg Taylor, Kieran Tierney, (Grant Hanley) (7/8) Midfielders: Ryan Christie, Ryan Fraser, Billy Gilmour, John McGinn, Callum McGregor, Kenny McLean, Scott McTominay, Ryan Jack, (Tom Cairney) (8/9) Forwards: Che Adams, Lyndon Dykes, Lawrence Shankland, (Jacob Brown) (3/4)

Speaking of scum abroad, I find it genuinely bizarre that in this day and age there are hundreds of Sevco fans that congregate in Benidorm on 12th July and hold an orange walk. wtf is that all about?

Time for Ryan Fraser to stand up and be counted for club and country

Who the f**k is Jane East?