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  1. The greatest impediment to the success of Brexit in regards to the fisheries sector are the SNP who are absolutely determined to stop it benefitting Scottish and UK fishermen. https://dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2021/01/snp-hindering-fish-exporters-to-score-brexit-points/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
    5 points
  2. Some observations on what I think *could* be occurring: 1) DK wants to sell his holding to the fans to protect his legacy having saved the club. His family appear not to be interested and that could potentially lead to them selling to non-fans when he is no longer around. Such investment is likely to be viewed as an opportunity to derive a return, which may or may not align to the interests of the support and thus may have a detrimental impact on his legacy. 2) C8172 are offered the chance to buy DK's shares but have knocked back the chance to take part in share issues in the last year or so, probably due to lack of significant cash reserves from donating members. Having seen the chance to acquire such a large shareholding which clearly aligns to one of the CIC's generally accepted aims/purpose, they hatch a scheme to tie in a commitment from DK to secure the shares, but also need to buy some time to promote the legacy scheme in order to drive new members and donations to fund it. The club however changed the goalposts at the AGM and subsequently afterwards, which has pulled the rug from C1872 and DK. They have then re-negotiated to maintain the commitment to acquire DK's shares, but allow them to participate directly in share issues over the coming months using the new legacy income and other donations as funding. As part of this negotiation, DK has sought a commitment from C1872 that they still are intent on acquiring his shares and this has led to the first £250k purchase announced this week. *If* this is indeed what is happening, I'm sure that it could be explained reasonably to members and would be accepted. However, my call for better and more transparent governance of C1872 remain. Until then, whispers and innuendo about the motives of the Board and associated helpers will continue to drive a wedge between C1872 and the wider support. The bottom line is that as a founding member and participant in the legacy scheme, I shouldn't have to be reading between the lines like this. We deserve better.
    4 points
  3. As our podcast continues to go from strength to strength, I've taken an opportunity to partner up with a new official club app which is on the way: RangersPicks.com The headlines from this are as follows: · The new official Rangers Pick’em game – ‘Rangers Picks’ – is now available to play for EVERY Rangers match. · Rangers will officially launch the game in the new club app (due in the next fortnight) but we can play now. · Rangers Picks is a totally free Pick’em game with a £1,000 prize pool – Powered by Low6* · The club makes money from this so the more fans that play, the more money the club receives. · To play today all you have to do is hit the link, complete 12 questions about this week's match and give yourself the chance of winning a share of £1,000. · You must be over 18 to play, T&C’s apply and please always remember to play responsibly. I'm conscious that this is advertising but monetising the site/pod likes this allows me to maintain the quality of our content going forward so I do appreciate everyone's understanding when it comes to this kind of promotion. If you can take part, then fantastic and going into next season we may well have a forum league table which we can use to give out our own prizes in conjunction with the Prediction League. * - Low6 are working with Rangers on the stadium WiFi, new club app and Rangers Pics.
    3 points
  4. Popcorn time !! ? Alex Salmond has launched an extraordinary personal attack on Nicola Sturgeon, calling her testimony to the inquiry into sexual assault claims made against him “simply untrue” In his submission to the inquiry, the former first minister said Ms Sturgeon misled parliament and broken the ministerial code which, if he is proven to be correct, would almost certainly spell the end of her political career. Mr Salmond said the breaches included a failure to inform the civil service in good time of her meetings with him, and allowing the Scottish government to contest a civil court case against him despite having had legal advice that it was likely to collapse. The allegations against Ms Sturgeon, who replaced Mr Salmond as first minister and leader of the SNP after the 2014 independence referendum, show how far relations have soured between the two most influential figures in the SNP have become. The ministerial code says that any meetings about government business should be recorded and that ministers must ensure the government complies with the law. A minister found to have knowingly misled Holyrood “will be expected to offer their resignation”. Ms Sturgeon “entirely rejected Mr Salmond’s claims that she has broken the ministerial code. “We should always remember that the roots of this issue lie in complaints made by women about Alex Salmond’s behaviour whilst he was first minister, aspects of which he has conceded,” a spokesman for the first minister said. “It is not surprising therefore that he continues to try to divert focus from that by seeking to malign the reputation of the first minister and by spinning false conspiracy theories. The first minister is concentrating on fighting the pandemic, stands by what she has said, and will address these matters in full when she appears at committee in the coming weeks.” Ms Sturgeon has repeatedly dismissed any notion of a conspiracy against Mr Salmond. In January 2019, the Scottish government admitted in the Court of Session that its investigation of Mr Salmond had been unlawful, unfair and tainted by apparent bias. Mr Salmond was awarded £512,000 in costs. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nicola-sturgeons-account-of-sex-assault-inquiry-simply-untrue-says-alex-salmond-s050xl3wg
    3 points
  5. Identity politics (people seeing themselves as part of a race/religion/ethnicity/minority, rather than seeing themselves as part of society as a whole) works wonders for division.
    3 points
  6. They most definitely are and EU stock management has been an utter and total disaster. In sharp contrast among the best managed fisheries are Iceland, The Faeroes and Norway who just happen to be independent coastal states just as the UK now is. One of the first measures to improve the lot of our fishermen happened on the stroke of Brexit and it was a pure technical measure that had nothing to do with quotas and that was the banning of pulse beam trawling in UK waters in which Dutch beam trawlers used an electrical pulse running through their nets to catch flat fish (plaice, dover sole etc) a side effect of this was that any cod in the vicinity of the pulse suffered a fractured spine and eventually died a slow painful death. It'll be on technical measures such as this that the success or failure of the Brexit fishing policy rests not the headline grabbing quotas alone. The Dutch were only able to use pulse beaming by virtue of abusing a loophole that allows for "scientific study" however as soon as they discovered they could save 30% on fuel using this method the intial 2 boat study mushroomed to almost 100 boats and from a fixed 2 year period to indefinitely. Thank f*&k it's now banned.
    3 points
  7. It's impossible to watch that without a smile on your face. If Steven Gerrard ever needs someone to give squad morale a boost......
    2 points
  8. 2 points
  9. I've got some yahoos across the street but there definitely haven't been any parties there this week. ? Might report them anyway.
    2 points
  10. It's long been clear the SNP will sacrifice anyone and anything to generate grievance and further the narrow cause of independence. In every respect I can think of, the SNP in government has been a disaster for Scotland.
    2 points
  11. Worth noting the stats on the site/app are taken from OPTA so are usually interesting and helpful when making your picks. For example, I didn't realise that despite scoring two goals this season Kamara doesn't have any assists. I wonder if that will change on Sunday?!
    2 points
  12. Agree....if memory serves match screened live on the BBC.
    2 points
  13. We could do with a Durrant type player on Sunday
    2 points
  14. Durrant was only 19 when he scored that goal. Totally bodying Davie Cooper is pretty funny actually, particularly after one of the best 'assists' you'll see.
    2 points
  15. Cooper ddin't deserve to be planted by Durrant in the celebration ?
    2 points
  16. Agree that didn't seem to make much sense and the decision making should be more transparent. Again though, clearer communication/updates would be helpful.
    2 points
  17. Do I need to spell it out to you in alphabetty spaghetti? Or perhaps lead you to the truth like some pied piper? Sorry, I will not bother.
    2 points
  18. Names and addresses?
    2 points
  19. One of the ominous red flags that help you see a clear pathway to a dystopian future is the scale of size/reach/wealth/power that the big tech companies have been allowed to accumulate. After the US establishment lost control of the electoral process in 2016, (partly down to a changing media landscape that reduced the extent of the control), sustained efforts have been made to bring it to heel and not just in the US. You'll note that the direction of travel is about censorship, discouraging investigative journalism, getting journalists and media groups on board, very harsh deterrents for whistleblowers, better controlling the information flow. Another area that has to a great extent lost the supposed values regarding it's status as a pilar of the democracy is the media. Much of it at a mainstream level are basically towing the establishment line. There is a growing tendency to misinform by omission (think Pentagon Papers) and sugar coat bad stuff. In the UK there is an organisation called the Integrity Initiative that I talked about on here more than a year ago that is in the background to shape news as per how the establishment want. Back in Washington, I heard that journalists were being targeted in some way. Whilst you don't want anyone to get hurt, this is a natural progression. When politicians, pundits and journalists all come out with the line about you can't attack a democracy. They are basically circling wagons and telling half a story. The other half is that the democracy isn't working as it should, the media aren't doing their job as they should and if they continue down the same road then it'll be a race between the setting up of dystopian militarised control and a rebellious people. They are gambling on dystopian control and if they keep the people divided, they'll get it.
    2 points
  20. Couldn’t argue with any of that. I just feel it’s important sometimes to make a difference between making mistakes where mistakes are inevitable and ridiculing or condemning as incompetent people attempting to do an impossible job. The one thing I’d like to have seen from the start is a greater willingness tell people just how long and difficult this road was going to be. I think people deal with hardship quite well, it’s disappointment that’s hardest to take.
    2 points
  21. Thirty years ago Aberdeen beat Rangers 2-1 at Pittodrie. But that game is not remembered for any of the football played By Steven Pye for That 1980s Sports Blog Life was pretty good for Rangers fans at the start of the 1988-89 season. Seven wins out of eight in the Premier Division – including a 5-1 destruction of Celtic, who had won the title by finishing 12 points ahead of them the previous season – had catapulted Graeme Souness’s team to the top of the league. Rangers did suffer their first league defeat on 8 October, but that in itself was no disaster. Their loss at Pittodrie to an unbeaten Aberdeen side was hardly a shock. However, the events of that afternoon would have far-reaching consequences for some of the players involved and both sets of fans. With the emergence of Aberdeen as a force in Scottish football under Alex Ferguson, a rivalry developed between the two clubs – emphasised by two fiery matches in 1985 – and the antipathy showed little sign of abating when Souness arrived on the scene. The landscape of Scottish football was shifting; Ferguson had departed in 1986 and Souness, backed heavily in the transfer market, was delivering success to Rangers once more. Their great start to the 1988-89 season was the beginning of Rangers’ run to nine titles in a row. If the flames of the rivalry between Aberdeen and Rangers had been flickering before their meeting in October 1988, a huge barrel of fuel was poured on to that fire in the fifth minute at Pittodrie. Neil Simpson’s horrific tackle on Ian Durrant would cement the hatred forever. Be warned: if things like this make you feel a squeamish, it might not be best to follow the YouTube link of Simpson’s tackle on Durrant. Challenges had already been flying in beforehand, with former Aberdeen midfielder Neale Cooper laying down a few markers in a Rangers shirt. Sadly, Durrant was about to be on the receiving end of one tackle too many. With the ball loose in front of the Rangers box, Simpson and Durrant headed towards each other. The Aberdeen midfielder, went completely over the top of the ball and stamped down on Durrant’s leg, the full horror of the injury clear for all to see on the replays. Football during this decade was a tough business, but quite how Simpson remained on the pitch is a mystery. “Durrant’s exit after five minutes’ play should have been followed by the departure of his assailant, Simpson,” the Times reported. It was a sending off in any era. Durrant lay on the turf in agony, desperately in need of medical attention. Astonishingly, he had to leave the pitch on the back of physio Phil Boersma. “At the time, the medical service said the only available stretcher was outside the ground in an ambulance,” Durrant recalled later. And some people bemoan that health and safety has gone mad. The tackle did little to calm matters and the challenges continued to fly in, with both Alex McLeish and Ally McCoist suffering cuts in a match that the Times described as “blood and blunder.” Occasionally there was some football played, Aberdeen eventually running out 2-1 winners. Cooper gave Rangers the lead – no refusing to celebrate a goal against your former club on this day – but second-half goals from Jim Bett and Charlie Nicholas secured the points for Aberdeen and inflicted a first league defeat of the season on the visitors. Unsurprisingly, Rangers were furious. Skipper Terry Butcher was later fined £500 for kicking a hole into the referee’s dressing room door, with Souness unable to contain his anger. “We accept that every game we play is a cup final for the opposition,” said Souness. “But it’s very difficult to restrain my players under the provocation we experience on many occasions, such as Saturday’s match at Aberdeen. The whole of Scottish football should be concerned with the tackle that has threatened Ian Durrant’s future as a professional footballer.” With his cruciate ligaments in his knee torn by the challenge, Durrant’s faced a battle to play again at the top level. He had a four-hour operation the Monday after the match and, after another session under the surgeon’s knife, he went to the US for a second opinion and yet more surgery. “When I eventually went to America to get it fixed, they couldn’t believe what the Scottish surgeon had done to my knee in terms of how he had rebuilt it.” The midfielder, rated as one of the brightest prospects in Scottish football, continued to battle back to fitness and eventually made his Rangers return in 1991, when around 30,000 fans turned up to Ibrox to watch him play in a reserve match. It’s a testament to his character that he returned at all, but Durrant never shone as brightly again. “I was never going to be the same player,” he reflected later. “I went from being a runner breaking the lines to being more of a passing player. My whole game changed. I never had the spark that I used to have. I lost a few yards, which was a big part of my game. I had to adapt and use my left foot more than I did because of my injury. I was predominantly right footed. All I did in training was kick the ball with my left foot.” Durrant went on to win major honours after his comeback and starred in Rangers’ memorable European Cup run in the 1992-93 season. Having been robbed of almost three years of his career, he sued Simpson for £2m and later accepted an out-of-court settlement reported to be around £350,000. It is hard not to think of what might have been though. There was one certainty surrounding the whole affair: the uneasy relationship between the two clubs was now at the point of no return. Willie Johnston’s stamp on John McMaster in 1980, the rise of Aberdeen as title rivals, and Rangers’ resurgence under Souness all combined to add to the growing tension between the two clubs. The Simpson challenge on Durrant is often seen as the tipping point. With some Aberdeen fans singing about the tackle on Durrant and the two clubs continuing to contest for major honours at the end of the 1980s and into the early 1990s, there was no chance of the bitterness evaporating. The rivalry is still very much alive three decades on from that fateful day. https://www.theguardian.com/football/that-1980s-sports-blog/2019/feb/06/aberdeen-rangers-horrific-tackle-changed-rivalry-durrant-souness
    1 point
  22. Appreciate the reply mate, I only signed up (or tried to!) to give Gersnet the click through, things like this don’t really interest me so there’s no way I’m going to give passport and card details to a company I’ve never heard of and that I won’t ever use. I will do a few click throughs on the adverts on Gersnet instead!
    1 point
  23. Chuck the orange ones my way. It’s the coffee ones I hate.
    1 point
  24. Glad you brought that up as I meant to mention that. It is free but obviously they're bound by Gambling Commission rules. As part of that, I think random ID checks are made on a small percentage of players (I was one as well actually) so a few of us will be asked to submit some ID (which will be deleted by Low6 immediately after they do their check). I think it's something like 10% of players that might be subject to this check based on their algorithm. Your data will be well protected.
    1 point
  25. Tried to do this but it’s asking for debit card details ? Also just got an email from them wanting my passport, not a chance. I thought this was just a free bit of fun?
    1 point
  26. Marvellous .... but only if it destroys them both.
    1 point
  27. The overriding assumption behind remained rhetoric about markets is threefold.... 1 - That the EU is the only market capable of sustaining the UK. 2 - That Brexit has cut the UK off from its EU market. 3 - That the balance of the UK's overseas markets is fixed and cannot change over time. All of which they know to be wrong but since it serves their anti-UK agenda they publish it anyway. Fundamentally, the remainer campaign isn't about protecting the UK at all. It's about promoting another cause altogether.
    1 point
  28. When public institutions become embedded in and actively promote tribal divisions in society then there can be no resolution or compromise. Leftist ideology is determined it will shape the future of the UK and is effectively conducting a war against popular will.
    1 point
  29. You dont want him pleading guilty if it goes to a trial it all comes out names dates and times
    1 point
  30. Over to the BBC, with today's article on the damage Brexit is doing to the supply of Percy Pigs sweets at M&S. Apparently they are manufactured in Germany and once shipped to the UK, If M&S then ship to Ireland as they do they become liable for duty. Who knew!!
    1 point
  31. It's the kind of haircut that young professional footballers who think the world of themselves but who suffer from homesickness in Inverness, would get. ??
    1 point
  32. Ah crap, aye, i just signed up without any affiliate code
    1 point
  33. In Scotland, police are now forcing their way into homes on the basis of "information" received from neighbours. There are one or two SNP households around me that I'm sure I saw multiple strangers enter carrying booze and wearing party hats. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9123839/Coronavirus-Scotland-Three-people-charged-assaulting-police.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailUK
    1 point
  34. An absolutely fantastic player, he was class, yet in Scotland they celebrate that tackle that should have ended his career but it did stop him becoming a world class player.
    1 point
  35. Aye, about 65% of that goal was down to Cooper. I could watch that side step shuffle all afternoon. I had various favourites over the years, Parlane, Jardine, Russell but Cooper was the player that really excited me. I got in after my first ever week away from home with the school (Loch Tay) and my Dad had kept the newspapers to show me Cooper had signed from Clydebank. I was estatic, happier than at any point during that week.
    1 point
  36. No-one gets near to the Clancy level. We've been fairly fortunate to have encountered Aberdeen twice this season when they were powderpuff. Not to say we wouldn't have beaten them anyway, but it was made a lot easier. I don't know what condition their squad is in for this game but we are significantly weaker without Jack, Arfield and Roofe. Still, lots of decent options. I reckon on one change from last week, Hagi for Roofe.
    1 point
  37. If those on the traditionaly democratic side think the current Democratic party have their back, they might as well believe in Santa Claus. The Republican party do what the Republican party tend to do. The Democrats try to portray an image that is false. Broadly speaking..... - Two parties - One way of doing politics - Money buys a more equal share of democracy Sanders should have led a revolt within the Democratic party when it came out the party machinary were actively cheating to ensure Clinton's nimination. Note, The leaked Podesta e-mails that exposed the cheating were a product of a changing media landscape that became more difficult to control/influence.
    1 point
  38. I see the SPFL/SFA are upping their game, giving cheatin Beaton the big game this weekend. Oh well, we will have to be extra careful and overcome 12 men as is usual up there. I was amazed they didnt give him or Clancy the OF game.
    1 point
  39. I agree with your last two sentences and we could derive some assurance from that. I would add, though, that the main driver for change could come from the organised US working class, or labour force if you prefer. Look at the number of wildcat strikes there have been in the States in recent years, including on Google HQ. Once the labour unions have shaken off the vestiges of Hoffa-style corruption and formed a genuine workers' party to challenge for power then real qualitative change will ensue. Until then they will have to endure Bernie Sanders-style illusions (he crumbled quickly -twice- once the Establishment pressurised him.)
    1 point
  40. it's only a rivalry when they are any kind of threat to us. they still are a bit but it's waning. Sunday is a huge game again.
    1 point
  41. Sunday - 10th January 2021 - 3 p.m. Scottish Premiership Pittodrie Stadium v Referee – John Beaton ? Assistants – Graeme Stewart and Douglas Ross Fourth Official – Alan Newlands Missing: Nikola Katić (cruciate knee ligament), Ryan Jack (knee, back soonish), Scott Arfield (ankle, mid February), Kemar Roofe (quad injury; 2 games) Live on Sky Sports Football and Rangers TV NB: Some murmurs about the weather.
    1 point
  42. Half-way through,....and he's a bit of an evil bastard ! Actors portraying Charles and the Dutch investigator play good parts. Was a year on the old Asian/Australia route 4 decades ago (late 80's) and watching this made me go through my diaries. My average spend whilst in Asia (6 months) was just over a Fiver a day (for everything) !!! I'd like to know what it would be today. Even a frugal and thrifty Scotsman would probably need to multiply that figure by quite a bit.
    1 point
  43. Sturgeon and the Scottish Govt. regularly get a verbal kicking on here for mistakes/incompetence (inevitable or not), or the perception of such. In social media, the UK Govt. and advisors will come under similar criticism, deserved or not. On here, it's mostly a one-way bubble of sorts and the reverse target(s) will be true on other sites. Generally, the lack of solid political leadership and competence levels is a major problem. The way the media have handled Covid is another area worthy of criticism. I went down the wrong direction and posted a pic of Laurel and Hardy (Hancock & Johnson) the other day and I think they have given me more than sufficient grounds to be able to comply with the rule of satire that requires a solid argument behind it, that one has license to exaggerate a little. We shouldn't pretend that either administration and individuals involved don't deserve some of the criticism that will come their way. The world isn't perfect and the media at pretty much all levels is very far from it. So the interpretation of (perceived) mistakes will mostly come with a loaded slant when we could do with objectivity. As for the long and difficult road, they don't really know how long it is, but have bet the house on a vaccine(s). ----------------------------------- Jonathon Pie has a go......
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  44. Such an important point. However, despite all the many mistakes I find myself reluctant to join the excessive criticism of a UK govt that was unprepared and ill-equipped and has probably done a better job than most when faced with a challenge for which there was neither understanding or precedent.
    1 point
  45. Liked a bit of Oi back in the day and like yourself I missed the early first wave of Punk but got the 2nd wave. Didn't get metal apart from the obvious like Motorhead, ACDC and Iron Maiden. Rave was the first cultural revelution I was around for, so enjoyed that for a couple of years until it got too popular and the scene changed for the worse. Now I appreciate almost all types of music and can't wait until the gigs start again!.
    1 point
  46. Maybe. I don’t think this will be the last word on fishing, put it that way.
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  47. Hawl you. Boats is my patter. Any more of that and I’ll reserve you a one way ticket to Brigadoon.
    1 point
  48. You'd think they'd cured most of the common causes of death given the way they're reporting the deaths. Flu appears to have vanished off the face of the earth this winter. Wait a year or so when the increased deaths from preventable and treatable diseases materialise and when it does we'll realise far from being an unimpeachable national treasure saving us all that it is infact a massive failure and unfit for purpose.
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