alexscottislegend

Clearly the art of sarcasm is not dead!

We won't expect too much too soon but if Liverpool in the EPL can give a run to a 17 year old winger who's 5' 6" then I'm sure that we should have no fear about blooding youngsters in the comparatively calmer waters of the SfL. Sure, they will have dips in form but I for one am excited that just as soon as we lose Temps we can actually have come up with young Aird who can give us an excellent alternative, maybe even play in the same team on the right with Temp. on the left. Seems all these youngsters have come through despite not because of the presence of Jimmy Sinclair who has plenty of detractors on here.

Charlie Adam but we didn't appreciate him.

And IIRC Greig had a win over Juventus to his credit;wish AM could say the same.

Taken me a long time to come round to your way of thinking but seeing the chance of a quadruple go up in smoke, I reluctanly agree. Hope Ally is kept as Director of Football or some such - after what he did in the summer would hate for him to sever all ties. One more name - Billy Davies.

"We don't do walking away."Maybe it's time now to consider just who are the candidates to manage us. I can only think of one - Derek McInnes but I fear we will have to wait till Bristol sack him.

Re-read Waddell's article:admit I'm wrong!

Just to add to that: "off the spectrum" actually originates from being beyond the colour spectrum - way before autism was conceived of. doesn't invalidate your fine writing though.

It's a great read Andy, especially the Shakespearean references, but the expression "off the spectrum" has been around for a while now and I'm not sure that when people quote from it that they are actually conscious of linking it to autism. I actually think Waddell is one of the more sane journalists around and he is not a Tim apologist; he gets plenty of stick from them for attacking for example Lennon's outbursts last year.

Just meaning that he bangs on about the Scottish thing a bit much when he's actually of Irish heritage. I agree with you re the British thing; I too love many things English but I've never felt English even after 40 years of living there.

Agree re Connery (of Irish extraction BTW) - everyone now surely knows Andy is both Scottish and British, and it just seems churlish to go banging on about being Scottish. But it does raise a question; if in 2014 the vote goes for independence where will we as RFC supporters stand? Will we still tip the hat to the Union Jack etc? For me it's a false dichotomy. I'm a Scot first, Brit second - GB team means sod all to me.

Maybe the SFL will outgrow the SPL and clubs will compete with each other to be relegated to the SFL. If no one agrees to be promoted then there could be a drip feed until Celtic are left in a league of their own? We could then becfome by default the premier league of Scotland!

So you'd be happy for us to be wound up and integrated with a GB side? Leve club loyalties out of this - the Scotland team is not the SFA and Ally agrees with me.

Love the Western imagery;great piece of writing.

As I understand it (and I can't remember where I read it) is that RFC erred by not declaring to the SFA that the EBT monies were for image rights, not payment per se. Now that is a technicality but the way we are being pursued is simply vindictiveness and that should be a matter for legal authorities. Could we not just go direct to the Council for Arbitration in Sport where the action of the SFA could be shown up for what it is. UEFA doesn't like clubs using legal redress but there is surely a precedent here in that we have already been punished for going into admin. - a far more draconian punishment than is normal, and our lawyers could argue that this latest threat goes against natural justice.

If only we could afford him. How the hell can RoI consistently out-perform us when they have players who just as ordinary as ours? They won their last game with 2 goals in the last 2 minutes! Keane is the only one they have who is better than our strikers.

Seems to be two-footed with a preference for the right. Not sure if he will be a starter or who he would replace. Cover for Templeton and maybe on the right in a 4-4-2? At least he's young and may develop here.

I admit it is disputed but it's not unusual for one name to apply to different animals e.g. a 'pup' is a baby elephant.

Actually a female bear is known as a sow and a male bear is a boar!

Never argue with an idiot: he will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

I'm sure I read some time before that, due to a freak accident, Dean has the use of only one eye. If so, GIRUY Paralympians.

I'd love to know who the other 14 clubs are....

Did you hear what Ally said? The SfA and Scotland should be seen as 2 different entities.

I think you'll find Fletcher has refused to play for Levein and has failed to turn up to a meeting arranged by Levin at Wolves.

But at least they generally make the group stages, they don't often fall foul of the Maribors and Malmoes. It's not ideal for them either but what is the alternative? I think RFC could when we are debt-free keep a group together long enough to give ourselves a fighting chance: we won't ever do that if we just rely on signing 'experienced' mercenaries.