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The Housemartins - Me and The Farmer

That’s just cos of his accent though. Even when they’re being nice they sound angry. But like Germans.

Just one of the many things that shits me about the anti assisted dying religious argument - when they say ending someone's life peacefully and with dignity is playing god, all whilst the patient is hooked up to machines, being artificially kept alive; all because someone decided we need to preserve life at all costs. It's the most valuable thing and not for us to decide when to end it! My folks were (mum) and are (dad) of the mind that they would rather be allowed to pass peacefully with assistance at the point they become unaware and there is no realistic hope. I share that view - but I do understand the emotive nature of this and how people disagree. I see this from three key points: If I am going to have no quality of life, and going to be a burden who needs constant care, I don't want that. As soon as I lose my faculties I don't want to be a burden to others. There is a great cost to prolonged life when there is no hope (mostly emotional but to an great extent financial too). I don't want my family to have to suffer while I suffer. They still have lives to lead without worrying about my constant needs (my mum hung around for 2 weeks before she slipped away and we all agreed it was best for everyone as she had no hope of recovery. My dad could never have coped if she had gone home, and she wouldn't have wanted to be cared for 24/7. She was 'lucky' to go so quickly and peacefully) It puts a massive burden on our care services to keep people hanging on. I don't think we should be able to choose willy nilly when we go - but if we have made our wishes clear whilst compos mentis we should be allowed to go when we are in a position where we will have no quality of life and need support to be kept alive. Even the god fearing USA has assisted suicide in certain states. I want that choice. My choice. Not some god fearing politician. And not only within 6 months of dying - I don't want to be shitting my pants in a home for 10 years. Let me decide what's best for me.

I don't know an awful lot about Scottish football. But I know an awful lot about football. In every country where there are 2-4 dominant teams with big stadiums, good sponsorship, annual Champions League/Europa League money, these teams also build state of the art academies producing top players every year. The league most similar to Scotland is the Portuguese league. Three teams have dominated forever and had the time and room for a permanent oligpoly to take shape - same thing could be said for Celtic & Rangers (who may be the second worst club in the world). The difference is in Portugal they did something useful with that domination. Portugal got 2x the population of Scotland, yet they always have ca 200 players in the top 5 leagues while Scotland generally have ~35. Similar things could be said for Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands etc... all of them pump out players, through great acadamies as well as modern scouting. All of the produce a lot more talent per capita. Scotland should have at least 75-100 players in the top 5 league as well as some reasonably competitive teams in the CL/EL. The clubs needing to lead the way for Scotland are antique. Any time I tune into a Glasgow derby I get shocked by how clubs with these resources are just filled with dross who are at best going to play in some bottom half PL team at their peak. Both player development and scouting is clearly on a very low level and has been for twenty years or so, when the football world moved on and your giants didn't. This is a football thought I have had for a long time, and just taking the opportunity to get it off my chest... I think a somewhat football mad country like Scotland just deserve better. On the bright side of everything, mr Tony Bloom has entered the chat and I think he will have a massive impact on the entirety of Scottish football.

Cheers min SF

Dundee United look like they're doing a lot of research into whether their signings are a good culture fit for them, hence signing someone who looks like he already lives in a caravan.

Possible - I personally know very little about Scottish football. But Peter Leven was the one the agent meant. No idea what the players think of the Robinson guy but I can ask next time we speak.

Yes, this is referring to Leven. Left some dull parts of the larger context out and didnt realise it became a bit vague. We did not talk about the latest beyond "they brought in a new one now, maybe things get better."

It's fairly obvious that Robinson is a very angry man.

Surely “the new guy” can’t be Robinson and would have to be Leven, Robinson hasn’t known the players long enough for such a specific complaint.

This is the concerning bit, which is why the club's strategy needs to set the targets. A 25 year old might be a better player, but an 18-20 year old might have the potential to be significantly better than the 25 year old if given the freedom to develop. It's the easy option to go out and buy a new right sided defender, rather than get Jack Milne to be the player we should know he can be, for example. The 25 year old he speaks of, won't be a player that's already in the squad and has patiently waited their time to play first team football, it'll be a player that we've only just signed to replace the need to develop the young player already available in that role.

Nilsen is the only one erudite enough for such an opinion.

Or relegate Hearts?

Spoke to the agent of one of the Scandinavian players and came here to tell a quote you might find interesting: "Jimmy was the scapegoat. The players, not only [his client], felt they had let the manager down. After that title they won and all the European travelling... they were tired. Only weeks before Jimmy was sacked, [client] said he was worried about it because any energy they had left they got from him. He knew that players who aren't used to winning titles and going to Europe are hard to energise and he did what he could. The players knew it. The new guy is an angry one. The players can't breathe. They need support and motivation, not blame and worries. [The client] is fine, managers come and go at most clubs and he has seen too much of it to really care, but he thinks they are in trouble as a team. You know that when players and staff no longer speaks in terms of "difficult" but only terms of "bad"."

Here's my take on it good and bad: The woman asking the questions was horrific The sound quality was hit and miss, with one minute loud and clear and the next no audio at all Robinson's opinion on the best player he ever played against was Steven Gerrard Kept referring to "the football club" as a top six club......needs to re-think that part Now for the better parts in my opinion: Honoured to be manager. Praised the fan base and the facilities at AFC Preferred formation 4-3-3 but only if he has the players to play it, otherwise happy to be flexible. Not adverse to playing youngsters but only if good enough. If he has a 25 yr old and a 18 year old both playing same position and the 25 year old is the better player then he plays. Keen to work on set pieces and may look to add someone for that to the coaching staff. He has the final day on signings but obviously others do the leg work in identifying. Anticipates a lot of movement in the squad over the summer. Absolutely hates VAR with a passion and says it ruins the game for fans in particular. I actually quite took to him and am potentially a bit more comfortable with him BUT talk is cheap and he knows he has to deliver

Fitba tournaments should be decided on the field, not in the courts. The fair thing to do would be to replay the final.

anywhere to find some info / detail on how the Q&A went anything said of any significance blah blah blah

Wondering if article 84 deals with receiving large brown envelopes stuffed with cash. Going to have to find time to read up on this further as think this was an appeal after their original complaint was rejected.

The religious have no place in parliament, as they answer to a higher authority than their constituents. This topic is a minefield. I think you should be able to choose your exit but you just now that some members of the Great British Public will kick the hole right out it. What I do know is that it’s a decision well beyond the capabilities of people like Paul Sweeney & Annie Wells etc

MSPs vote against the Assisted Dying Bill I personally believe things like this should be decided by a referendum and not by at shower of shyte in Parliament. The result may have been the same or worse, but shouldn't be decided by politicians. I know it's an emotive subject, but I do believe you shouldn't be allowed a vote on the matter if you believe death by suffering is Gods* will. I remember someone said that to me whilst I watched my mother dying. I am not a violent person, but I really wanted to kill that woman that day. *For the benefit of doubt, the god in question is the fake one who supposedly bides in the heavens above us and not the real one, who wore a number 6 AFC jersey with such aplomb.

Nothing surprises me about AFCON. This is bonkers isn’t it?

So along with, A(moneybags)FC's (spit) Randall joining from the A-league, the arabs have apparently sign Lauchie Rose, who is a decent striker and whose team will hopefully win the league in a few weeks. interesting that they're persisting on the A-league though.

Blue Rondo à la Turk - Me and Mr. Sanchez

Bit more here. https://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2026/03/06/three-professional-footballers-appear-at-edinburgh-sheriff-court/?amp=1 Not the first time McNulty has been investigated for this either.

Think it’s linked to this https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/former-scots-footie-star-accused-35320386