I want us to play better & was one of the moaners & groaners last night at times (though I didn’t boo a win ffs) but I’m annoyed as we know we can do better & I want us to do better. Performances have to improve in November and in Athens/home to Denmark we can’t just ride our luck but….

This is why I think the stock market in the US will crash, pretty much the majority of folk getting any use form AI right now are the utter weirdo’s and wrong-ins. That’s not a way to build a profitable business in the long run

The B team experiment in the challenge cup isn’t going too well, while the mighty Caley Jags are romping the first phase I wonder if this will bring benefits to the young boys of the 10 Prem sides, as they are being hammered by League One & League Two teams Championship teams arrive next round

This is a great win for the Caley Jags. Very poor match overall but it’s a long season and these are the sort of games we have to win if we want Inverness back to where we should be, at the very least, the Scottish Championship

Just listened to Roy Keane’s take on the Irish National team on the latest episode of Stick to Football & I just remembered a YouTube video that was recommended to me 2 years ago via the algorithm The golden generation secret is so secret that not only do the fans don’t know, neither do the players

This is very long and goes into many different threads but I starting watching it yesterday and had to finish it today, expertly researched and incredibly hard hitting video essay youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...

Listening to Hibs on Sportscene, sounds like a great game, really invested in wanting Hibs to go through, pretty sick of Scottish glorious failure. You could see this Hibs team getting through the league stage if they win tonight. David Gray has done some job

The latest GERS report coverage by The Fraser of Allander institute is good fraserofallander.org/gers-reactio... I do always think that the key to understanding Scotland’s fiscal position now is the acknowledgement that policy choices can (and would change) in the advent of independence

Seems insane this was 1 year ago today. It was such an anti-climax. I’m still a bit shocked that Clarke survived in the role tbh.

Scotland really could do with a convincing win tonight & if I was Clarke I’d use tonight as a way to try something new + send a message to a cohort of players who have been unconvincing, at best, for a while: Robbo, McGinn & Hanley, all should be dropped tonight as all have been pretty poor lately

Phew

Very happy that the assisted dying bill has passed first reading at Holyrood today. Liam McArthur deserves great credit for the way he has approached this subject & got this important legislation through. I believe people deserve choice but obviously there needs to be the necessary safeguards

This article moved me. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... We are really are not remembering the right things with the war. Sheila Hancock here has captured this beautifully

Not saying I support it but could easily envision Steve Clarke taking us to the World Cup in 2026 then leaving at the end of his contract & if Falkirk have. A good season in the top flight the SFA hiring John McGlynn. Would have had 3 good seasons in a row, crucially cheap & the SFA are also lazy

Some job John McGlynn has done at Falkirk. Back to back titles is insanely difficult to do.

I think Brian Leishman here is 100% correct in his analysis but this could be sadly clearly seen before Keir won the election. He’s a man who seem to hold no actual convictions, affirming positions that are convenient for the audience in front of him at the time.

SNP Cathcart & Pollok branch candidate voting opened today. My first preference was for Zen Ghani to represent the party in the constituency. May 2026 will come up fast and there is a pretty big chance that the SNP will retain the first minister position

There’s folk in Scotland that would happy see Holyrood closed down. There are significantly less children in poverty than would be otherwise the case if the SNP weren’t in government.

Could tell instantly when the teams were released last night we maybe in trouble, they’d changed half their team after a hard game on Thursday, we made just the one change. The lack of freshness was apparent, especially with our players who are the wrong age of 30. The defeat is on Clarke.

That YouTube caption couldn’t be better worded

Well on the way for this to happen . Pretty, pretty funny seeing all that paper wealth Musk has evaporate

Is Munich the go to place for western countries to screw over smaller states? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I’m sure Trump will declare these talks a success, that there will be “peace in our time”

Please, please please Steve Clarke play Ryan Christie next to Billy Gilmour. That would be absolutely class, Ryan providing the physicality, Gilmour doesn’t misplace a pass, we would have such, such a solid midfield base. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

I think Nazi salutes were the final straw for me. Had weaned myself of it for the last couple of months but glad to have deactivated my Twitter account. It was good but cannot associate myself with anything Elon Musk is involved with.

Steve Bannon is a vile horrible individual but that line on Thiel, Musk, Sachs et co being White South Africans “the most racist people on earth” having comment on what goes on in the United States is 100% valid & utterly hilarious. Let them fight!

This is why I think Arsenal will win the English league www.theguardian.com/football/202... As Liverpool have 3 of their best players all potentially leaving for pastures new; hopefully none sign a new deal & their team spirit falls apart completely due to Fenway Sports parsimony.

Big fan of this decision as after I get round to deactivating my twitter, I need to deactivate my Facebook. Facebook is dead anyway, for years it was the place where older folk communicated but even by 66 year old mum is now coming off Facebook. She’s in big in the YouTube comment section

This is crazy. I remember seeing some of these articles haven’t Blake Lively at the time, and it goes to show how manipulated a lot of what we see on social media & online is.

It’s likely Portugal will beat Denmark so our group may be: Denmark Greece Scotland: Land of the Scots Belarus I’ll take that. We can beat all those teams at home, and Denmark isn’t as scary a pot 1 team as it could have been. We can win that group, Greece & Denmark will be thinking the same

I don’t really understand why group 2 teams need to be moved also? Poland got drawn and moved to group G but Greece after them were fine for Group C. I don’t really know what’s going on

Watching the World Cup draw in spite of myself Dearie me, they’ve tied themselves up in knots, incredibly complicated. I’m a fan of the Nations league too but this could have been avoided if they didn’t introduce quarter finals & just have group A winner win it, then you could have an open draw

If you are that grass who turned in this guy while working at McDonalds, you should be ashamed of yourself.

Would have McBurnie back in our squad & id be 100% starting McKenna over Hanley

This headline is exactly the argument why I argued before Starmer was elected that he was going to be a terrible leader. My worry with the last election wasn’t that Labour would win, it was that they would win & then be insipid. This will lead to a far right backlash in to all of our detriment

Scotland’s figures are pretty fascinating her, 14 oldest team on average on 2024; but on the over 30s category for minutes, we are ranked 49th. On first glance then, gave me more concern than otherwise should be the case, there’s only a few players who will be retired by Euro 2028.

Tbh on a strategic level, as a Nationalist, this is the way that we want Unionism to go, more right-wing/ more extreme. Opens up a larger window for soft europhile liberals to explore independence, puts the city of Edinburgh, East Renfrewshire & East Dunbartonshire into play in the long run.

Been a big fan of Drew Gooden for years but his latest video in particular is really important. I’ll do the occasional bet but a lot of folk struggle with addiction. Young folk in particular, need to understand that the constant sport marketing of betting, is horrible. youtu.be/DlMLfxxvKD8?...

I’m excited to see KT back I love him as a left back, think he’s brilliant as a left centre back Big if, but if he can stay fit, does he get back into both the Arsenal team & the Scotland team? If he’s playing left back for Arsenal, hard for Clarke to ignore (but I think Scotland suit 4-2-3-1)

Those 4 teams in the relegation playoff don’t fill me with confidence. Pot 3 for the World Cup too 😞 Wales get a World Cup playoff safety net too for winning their group. We would have been better served not getting promotion to league A - top league benefits are only really seen for the Euros.

I feel sorry for Dumbarton FC if the rumour of their administration is true. Hope as many people as possible keep their jobs & that the club recovers in the future.

That was a stunning ball from Souttar and a tremendous header from Robbo. We did our bit, in a frantic/crazy game. Cut out the daftness that we showed in the first half of this league, and defensively we’ve been pretty sound since, and we are a good team.

John Souttar is having a heck of a great game here. Still can’t believe he didn’t make the Euros squad, guy is class.

This has been some game. And breath 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Hanley getting hooked at half time & then starting the next game is wild. McKenna did really well on Friday & I like balance of him & Souttar. Dykes for Conway was always going to happen. Not a fan of Christie being dropped, he could play the McLean role (though McLean has been playing well)

When I read this yesterday I became more convinced that the US in particular will see a pretty significant stock market crash (>20% drop - S&P at c.4,500) in the next 18 or so months Valuations are becoming completely unlinked to reality. Elon Musk is not worth $320B🧵 www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/11/...

I’ve done this, haven’t deleted twitter (yet) but placed it on tye last screen. Out of sight, out of mind

That’s a huge result today for Inverness Caley, a few weeks ago we had the 15 point deduction, immediately followed by a defeat to the team closest to us at the bottom, looked bleak. Two weeks later & it’s successive wins against the team starting the week top of the table. We’re still fighting 👍

In my view, the Twitter experience got a lot worse when so called “content creators” began to be paid by the platform based on a ratio of engagement. It just lead to nonsense, folk (or bots) just saying rubbish for a reaction, killed any sense of real life interaction. Too many bad actors.

That moment when you finish work and boost it to the train station to start the night. 😍 First game in a while on a Friday night, Hampden I am on my way (few shawlands pints first though 🍺) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This is intriguing, I love the civ series and I wonder how this will work on Netflix. How will you control the game, with your remote or your phone? www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...