Dave78

I first came across him about 25 years ago when he set up a networking event (called First Tuesday) for IT companies and startups in Scotland. He's been around the block and knows his stuff. Business for Scotland is vital to the Yes movement and doesn't get enough attention/support IMO. @Malcolm, BFS should be right up your street - https://www.businessforscotland.com/

Paul McGinn had crossed my mind too. He's filled in at RB for Clarke before. Could do so again?

BiS are the pro-indy organisation/party i fund, as they're the only ones that act like adults and try to rise above all the infighting.

There are only 2 people i can't stand to listen to, and immediately turn off what i'm watching / listening to. Her and Douglas Murray.

Always best to wait for the facts Mam, just the facts 😜

Are you calling me fat? 😜

Lewis Ferguson subbed off after 62 mins with an injury. Didn't see it, so i'm not sure what type of injury. Hopefully not serious

Except all these questionable policies haven't put people off independence, have they? At least not according to the polls. I ask again, exactly how does the SNP force Westminster to concede to indyref2?

Via what process exactly? Do you think the Tories, when faced with the referendum demand from the Scottish parliament, would have said 'Hmm, the SNP are running a competent non-divisive government, lets give them indyref2'? 😁

I listened to Alex Salmond's podcast on the way into work this morning. He was interviewing Wings re the HCA. I like Alex, and would have him back in charge of the SNP in a heartbeat, but it was quite something listening to the hypocrisy from him and Campbell, considering they both supported the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act, which was essentially the same thing as the HCA. In fact, comparing the response to both Acts from Yessers is quite informative. The unionist and media reaction was the same to both, as you'd expect, but the reaction from the indy movement very different. It really shows how divided and ruled we've become since the fateful Salmond/Sturgeon split. The People's Front of Judea were well ahead of the Yes movement. I mean, they even had a trans debate, look....

I honestly dunno what that means. Can you elaborate? Captured by who? Unionists?

I've noticed this seems to drive a lot of the frustration with the current SNP. Old men desperate to see indy before they die, allowing themselves to be manipulated by the culture war into opposing the main vehicle to indy, or even independence itself unless it's on their own narrow terms (as Wings and Thplinth (formerly of this parish) admitted to). The truth is there's no quick and easy way to indy so soon after bottling our opportunity in 2014. In fact history shows us it's hard to win independence. Like really fucking hard, and usually involves a war. True, the SNP might have secured indyref2 during the brexit turmoil. Doing a deal with Theresa May to get her brexit deal through parliament should have been explored. Might not have been possible, but it was an error by Sturgeon not to explore it. To me that was the problem with her: her tactical errors, not that she was a progressive. Another auld guy railing against the SNP. He's obviously an armchair Irish republican. Criticises Sturgeon for bowing down to the English monarch, then ends with an endorsement of the Alba party, led by long-time royalist Alex Salmond? Ok.... For someone so enamoured with the Irish republic, he'd hate it here, what with all the gender recognition reform that's been in place for years with no big hoo-ha. Or the new bottle deposit return scheme that seems to be working smoothly. Or the incoming hate crime laws....

Glad to hear that. I wonder though what it'll be like for a sell out. I queued for a good 30 mins at the Norway game (got in at 0-1 down), and asked a polis while queuing if it was like this for cup finals at Hampden. He replied no, just for Scotland games. Was he right, or....? Edit: It's an open question to everyone re cup finals. Obviously Squirrelhumper as a Killie man doesn't know much about cup finals 😜

When you're outclassed on paper against a higher ranked superior team, some managers park the bus and play on the counter to win the game. That's what Michael O'Neill is good at. He proved it when NI qualified for Euro 2016 and we didn't. Reverse the roles, and we'd be celebrating our team's great performance

Extremely limited players, that played out their skin.