YeOldeHamiltonian

What have Abu Qatada and Peter Andre got in common? Neither wants to go back to Jordan.

Not prone to defending Old Firm chunts who are the scourge of Scotland for not supporting their local teams,but I would expect England to have better players since it's 10 times the population(probably about 15 times if all the non census fillers and illegals were counted). The last 20 years Scottish football has went downhill rapidly which has many causes-one of which is the rise of the Premiership and the money it engenders. Prior to the Premiership,Scottish clubs like Hearts,Hibs,Aberdeen etc could compete wages wise with your Stoke's,Derby's and Fulhams.Now our SPL clubs can't-in the main-compete with League 1 clubs and further down,clubs like mine in The First struggle against Conference wages. The only good thing I can see is that the lack of finance is making our clubs field more kids rather than the likes of Kilmarnock or Motherwell etc paying 6-8k a week on wages as they did 10 or so years ago to foreign mediocre mercenaries. The downside is the fitba is too dear.A few weeks ago,I was on the way to Livingston to see the Accies(I rarely go now as like many others I've fallen out of love with our fitba for a variety of reasons...................was previously a season ticket holder for nearly 30 years)as it was a fiver admission and got talking to 2 guys I know on the train on their way to Hibs V Celtic.That game was £28 a ticket............no wonder our fitba's fcuked. Competition from the Premiership,1 or what used to be a 2 horse race,lack of play offs from the First Division,expensive admission and declining standards allied to the buffoons in charge have led to what we have now. FWIW,I feel only summer football and the right reconstruction can save our football.This 12-12-18 crap could well be the death knell of our game.Time will tell.

We are a poor lot at the moment Kev.Run by gangsters and with a Manager with a job for life.............sounds familiar in parts.We've lost 70% of the support due to the turgid football,fans being banned for various reasons and being one of the 5 clubs who voted in favour of the bigots. I was at a race night on Friday and there were more folk there than at most of the games. St.Mirren are a club who are currently well respected in youth football and have upped their scouting in recent years.That's something we were good at with McCarthy,McArthur etc but the current youth players are nowhere near that quality.

Twas referring in an indirect non libellous way to the sexual peccadillo's of the aforementioned Lord McAlpine...folks........allegedly which if true would I imagine bring an end to this government. He was the alleged paedo who took out the super injunction in relation to depraved sexual behaviour about to be exposed by Newsnight in relation to links to The Welsh care home where young boys were procured by leading politicians and High Court Judges. Hope that clears that up.

In Scotland we used to have Alpine ginger/pop.............Unlike Sir Mc,we never used to put it in a coffin and fill it with gravel.

Mrs and myself coming to enjoy the atmosphere at The Gallowgate End and meet some of the relatives.Like the Thistle guys,I hate the OF and have stopped watching my Scots team,The Accies due to the board's grovelling over The Rangers Yes vote. Quite a few Accies punters I know also support the one and only,although sadly there are a few Mackems.