Jump to content

Lorielus

Trust Member
  • Posts

    4,119
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    29

Everything posted by Lorielus

  1. Can't imagine why with a initial salary of ~£18.5k for army recruits, a mere ~£7k below the generally accepted poverty line for a single person in the UK (the phrase that comes to mind is "hawd me back"). Given it's not a role where salary is governed by market, might be an idea to pay a recruit a living wage if we'd like them to risk their lives.
  2. Normally he might get away with that, but his New York assets have already been seized so I believe it would be paid from the proceeds of the state selling them off.
  3. Depends if he appeals it. He's already had to pay the original $5 million settlement as the court requires it to be put in escrow as a condition of allowing the appeal, the same would apply here. Of course, it won't really be him that pays, it'll be crowd funded as there's nothing his supporters seem to love more than giving their money to a grifter they insist is a billionaire.
  4. I'm really not sure there's a better defender in the league than Findlay at the moment. Really hope SSC has been watching.
  5. Thank you - I believe that's the first thing I've ever won in a draw since 5kg of Lurpack in the Darvel Primary School chrismas raffle when I was 7, so I feel like I was clearly saving all my luck for this!
  6. I got some excellent luck - Scotland Hungary in Stuttgart!
  7. "burdeon" I believe it was. Like he fell from the top of the language tree and skelped his head on every branch on the way down.
  8. It's absolutely not, it's probably among the best pitches in the division at the moment.
  9. This issue really is the most myopic drivel in scottish football. The table is basically meaningless because grounds have been unplayable. The richest club in the country has a pitch with about four blades of grass managing to break through a couple of inches of sand; several others seem to be permanently underwater, the highland ones look like ploughed fields, the national stadium basically needs tire chains around your boots in order to run on it, and we want to ban the playable pitches. One day scottish football will stop putting the shotgun in it's mouth, but it looks like it won't be today.
  10. The business goes to another school, you wouldn't know it.
  11. Though the midfield three were all great with Rory the MotM. Mayo and Findlay were excellent too, as was Ndaba when he came on.
  12. That should put to bed any talk of him playing through injury barring some comment from the club I think. Plenty of options on the bench, a game that was won, and we didn't limit his minutes at all. Either we're hanging his wellbeing out to dry or he's not injured.
  13. I thought it was a perfectly comfortable performance. We just killed a game where we'd already done the offensive work required, albeit it we should have been free and clear after Vassell's chance. Think we've just got to accept at this point he'll miss a sitter a game. I don't think their midfield was better than our's at all, I think their forward pivot was miles better. Some of his touches and layoffs before moving into space were sublime, and I thought his following midfielders let him down badly or had their runs covered well by our three.
  14. But where does that come from? As far as I can see, it's just someone said maybe he is on here and it's just snowballed from there. I've no idea if he is, but we certainly don't seem to limit his minutes as much as we could if he's struggling.
  15. It's interesting when you watch that playback of Stewart's goals - Brophy actually manages to get in Stewart's way a couple of times. Definitely not the smartest footballer we've ever had.
  16. He doesn't have to go to the UN, all he has to do is open his mouth and condemn it publically, call for an immediate withdrawal, demand a peacekeeper force, or any number of other declarations of opposition. He has many options to condemn it, like he did Russian actions in Ukraine, where he referred to them as warcrimes. When asked about whether Israel is perpetrating warcrimes, he said it's not the place of politicians to take positions on whether warcrimes are being committed in conflict. Making him both a fool and a hypocrite. That's a toddler's argument. Rhetoric changes the zeitgeist all the time. The prospective next PM of the UK's words carry weight. Still what? What relevance do you think that has? Yes, 12k+ children murdered by state action to date, and it's the hurt to the sensitivities of Labour party voters supporting a coward and an appeaser that's repugnant.
  17. I don't think Jedi could be accused of supporting Sunak, but certainly applies to both. We don't really, doesn't mean we should support one for the sake of it. They should both be reviled for this.
  18. Some brilliant measured finishes in there and not a single speculative "put your foot through it" shot. Brilliant seeing wee Burkey doing his thing in there too.
  19. That is truly a statement of utter moral cowardice. One state is perpetrating systemic mass murder of children using a modern military force that has no regional rival even in combination. Starmer and Sunak should go down with Clinton, Major et. all as cowards, appeasers and accomplices. This isn't some police action, this is the Hutu killing the cockroaches in Rwanda - the dehumanisation, subjugation and extermination of a population of human beings. You should be deeply ashamed to want this coward as prime minister.
  20. Has anyone from within the club actually said he's anything but fully fit?
  21. If properly utilised, could be a real gauntlet thrown down to the rest of the teams around us. Hopefully he's allowed to roam off a forward rather than out wide, would certainly seem to be the best fit with Armstrong and Kennedy playing well.
  22. Should have been goal of the season in any league not polluted by the old firm.
  23. I know this year has not exactly been a high water mark for managers in scotland, but it must surely be between DM and Docherty for MotY so far.
  24. You can trust a manager while still thinking they're capable of human error and/or misjudging a player, or simply wondering about what their reasoning is. No one is saying McInnes is crippling us by not making Warnock the pinnacle of our attacking intent, just that it's a bit odd that he can't get off the bench even for cameo appearances.
  25. I actually think it'll be worse for the Tories as the polling never really accounts for tactical voting in close races, and I think there will be a good number who hold their noses and vote Labour. I'd really like to see some polling on projected turnout too, as I strongly suspect it'll be unusually low, especially in Scotland, with Labour winning a hefty number of seats across the UK simply by maintaining their base and the rest collapsing. To my eyes, the most disappointing thing though is that Labour's voters, who used to be activists by nature, seem to now simply be the same as the shortbread-tin nationalists in Scotland or the national identity UK voters who seem to just want their tribe to win regardless of how. The fact Starmer's approach to Palestine isn't a dealbreaker for the vast majority puts us in a really dark direction I think.
×
×
  • Create New...