Bill

How many would you like? Only this one isn't about the SnP so perhaps the obsession is yours?

Thanks very much ? but it hardly takes a genius to see through shallow chimpery like separatism.

Did I complain? I prefer to think of it as celebrating another nail in the SNP coffin.

It’s all about grievance and any old grievance will do for a separatist. When there isn’t any, they make it up. They don’t care.

I'd love to see other clubs publicly supporting Clarke's stance on the whole compliance process.

I have to agree about Dorrans and it's been frustrating to see how ready some have been to write him off. It's going to be a long season and we'll need them all. I can't wait to get this international fluff out of the way and get the real show back on the road.

Could this be Rossiter's time at last. There's a great player there if we could just keep him on the park.

There was never any real doubt. The monkeys need their tree to be monkeys in and the SFA needs its castle to posture and preen from, especially as the merger between the SFA and Celtic reaches its inevitable climax.

Outstanding commitment. You're right to highlight their good work and generosity.

Simple. This Union is my country.

But Murrayfield is already there, so no capital investment would be necessary. The SFA would only be renting the occasional use of the stadium. The only requirement for capital would be if the SFA wants to stay at Hampden and buys the place then renovates it. The SFA clearly wants to retain Hampden but has no money reserves and precious little income. The national team in Scotland is very small cheese and you have to question whether anyone could justify owning a national stadium solely for use by them, instead of investing in the grassroots. Murrayfield makes sense for me all day long. It's there and ready to use. It has greater capacity for those occasions when you struggle to get a ticket to watch your own team in a final. And it doesn't impose a drain on scarce funds within the game. The only reason I can see for Haughey wanting to invest in Hampden is to establish a financial dependency between the SFA and Celtic (OK even more of a dependency)

Actually, I think it's a revenue raising scheme for UEFA.

As a mere spectator and paying customer of Scottish football, I would bulldoze Hamden tomorrow and build a supermarket. It’s a dump, it’s been a dump all my life, and it serves as the fiefdom of a ruling cabal of no-marks who have taken us to obscurity and beyond.

Let’s hope the injury to Griffiths is nothing trivial.

Can’t see what the fuss is about. 90/10 seems entirely reasonable. Gonzo has an unerring instinct for these things. What was the question again?

That’s a reasonable view, thanks. I didn’t make the post to do anything other than explore seriously the meaning of the phrase, which it seems to me is actually quite deep and complex. It also seems to encompass much of the essence of this wider debate. I think it’s far from facile or obvious.

Look, I’m an intelligent person and if all you can respond with is banal guff then let’s leave it alone. Sorry I made a mistake.

That’s the first really interesting thing I’ve read for several pages. The problem I have is that I haven’t the slightest idea what “for football’s sake” actually means. It seems such an innocent and obvious statement but, in fact, the more I think about it, the less I understand it.

Yup

To be fair, you come across as a real happy-go-lucky sort ?

What a dour, humourless existence it must be in the ScotNat world. But I think you've made that abundantly clear to everyone.

But but but ... where's your "evidence"? Show me where in the official SNP constitution it says you're not allowed to stick your head in the sand - and if you can't you're a unionist bigot.

The solutions I think the club should be pursuing don't involve the BBC.

What ... bored?