Madden a total clown. We are giving the ball away far too easily at times and in some dangerous areas. Erskine should've buried that chance earlier btw.

I've been a teacher for nearly 13 years.  You want to see/hear some of the stuff parents come away with to teachers.  The lack of support from parents towards what you are trying to do to help pupils achieve/improve is staggering as is the lengths some of them will go to defend their wee angels.

I'm generalising granted, but the point is politically, schools are an easier taget than hospitals.  The Council Tax freeze is starting to really bite on top of the wider Westminister cuts on budgets.

I was actually surprised the Smith Commission never recomended devolving Council Tax Benefit which could have enabled a fairer system of local taxation to be brought in in Scotland (Local Income Tax or a Land Value Tax for example).

SSP probably.  Whilst I voted Yes in the referendum, I have real issues with how the SNP have run certain things in Scotland, specifically the farcical (done at warp speed) implementation of Curriculum for Excellence in schools and the introduction of Police Scotland leading to policing effectively being a Strathclyde policy one-size-fits-all only dictatorship led by an absolute bastard of a man in Stephen House.  The anti-alcohol agenda is also starting to grate on me as failing to tackle the real problems with drink, drinkers and drunk drivers in Scotland and instead hitting the more responsible majority.  The NHS has also limped along (no pun intended) under their stewardship with little or no creative thinking, instead a 'throw money at the problem and hope it gets better' (which is not really making any difference) policy, to the detriment of other services such as education that are really suffering with cuts while NHS budgets are largely maintained for political purposes. The fact is the public hate schools and teachers so don't bother about cuts to us, whilst the NHS is the sacred cow. The sooner the SNP are not the only show in town in Scotland, the better because the SNP might say a lot of the right things, but what they are doing in practice is often quite a bitter pill to swallow. Never voting Labour again mind you.

As long as he doesn't name a daft team like the Motherwell league game with Paton at right back or something similarly ludicrous.  Bilate seemingly a week away from being ready for a game.  Personally I'd play him in the U20's first to see how he feels before risking him in the 1st team and having him breaking down again after 20 mins.  Possibly give him a few games in the u20's to build up his match fitness and hopefully get a few goals too for confidence.

Voted Noel last round, sticking with it.

Its all the marching powder, I'm sure.

South American commentators, you cannot beat them.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28075946

We do. But who is out there and available other than Clarkson???

RogerTheAlien wrote:

I thought he was good at centre back. A better Sean Dillon on our hands.

Roger, your new avatar with all the Funsters in the background is superb btw.
 

Fucking hell. This is a tough one. Victor was something else, but Hunty really done the biz for us and was a real personality too. Hunty.

Waffelz wrote:

Fojut for Watson, Connolly for GMS, Butcher for Telfer and Çiftci for Dow .

Agreed.
About time we fucking won on the telly on a Friday night. Since I got rid of Sky Sports and replaced it with BT we've lost both times we've been on! I should've stuck to watching online, I don't think we lost a single game when we were on BT last season.

Just seen the dive. Oh dear.

Gomis' challenge a yellow but can see why a red issued. Then again, if Brown had done it he wouldn't have been sent off.

Jason Scotland.