The Original 59er

Sorry, a second alias

I've never ever thought of creating an alias.......................... Is there any merit in such folly? Give a slating and take a slating is what I have always followed and expected!

I'm not so sure that on Saturday he looked like one of the Proclaimers, I thought he looked a little bit more like one of the Pretenders!

Compared to a number of other players on the park at that moment, I thought he was playing "reasonably"! Nothing better than "reasonably", but certainly better than a few others!!!

Well Saturday just served to show you what it is to be a Saint's supporter! Terrible performance in the first half with my favourite player completely out of touch and giving the ball away at every turn (probably not for the first time this season, has he struggled to win the fans' hearts). The new players were a mixed bag. Lyons looked ok until his two aberrations (especially the 2nd yellow), Tansey looked as though he needed a few more weeks and games to re-gain his confidence, Popescu looked the part for just about the whole game as did Hladky who couldn't really be blamed for either of their goals. However the game changer was when OK made two good substitutions. When Cooke came on for Flynn I had my doubts as Flynn was playing reasonably well at that point and I couldn't quite see the logic of that change, but I was wrong. Cooke became the target for high balls and he won more than he lost plus he showed the natural predatory skills of a good striker by being sharp and following in on Jackson's shot that was fumbled by their keeper to score the first goal. The second change made the real difference with McAllister replacing Tansey who hadn't really made that significant an impact, but McAllister began attacking their defence and running at them with the ability to glide past their players and set up the 2nd and scored a great goal for the third. I saw a bit of Morgan in him, but with probably a greater ability to go past players. So overall, I gave a 6.5 out of 10 for the collective new signings, but a 8 out of 10 for the substitutions!

Being at the match I thought that his first yellow was totally justified and you can see why the referee gave the 2nd yellow. When I saw him going down I immediately said dive and looking at the video I haven't changed my mind. Yes there is contact, but it comes after he has left his feet. Maybe he anticipated a sore one in a collision with the Alloa defender, but I too err towards a blatant attempt to go to ground early and try and get a foul awarded in an advantageous position. What I don't get in many cases why don't players just try and stay on their feet and if they get contact then stumble or at least make an honest attempt to keep going, THEN they might just see a bit more sympathy from the refs. As an added comment, I find it incredible that games are stopped so easily by refs for apparent head knocks, when clearly (a) there has been no contact with the head and (b) if you compare the impact on a player compared to rugby, the footballers are just a load of nancy boys who go to ground over the smallest incident in order to get the game stopped. The rules should allow a medic / sponge man to come onto the pitch when that happens and the game continues until such time as it becomes obvious that the player is really injured, or interferes with play. (minor rant over)!

There was pressure on the UK to join the EEC at the time, as it was there as a trading platform and for many years it performed in that role, however the pressure from both Germany and France to make it a unified body eventually won through and the UK decided to stay in and semi-reluctantly joined their party. For many people they probably saw that as the tipping point as the UK has historically been wary of the French and obviously the Germans, and now they saw the dominance of these two dictating how the changes were to be made to the trading platform. The emergence of the bureaucracy that prevails in the EU and the addition of countries that will constantly require large amounts of cash to aid their economies and to bring them up to EU standards added to the general feeling of unease, probably enabled the 'Leave' vote to reach the point of being in the majority. I'm not sitting here in the West of Scotland remotely ringing my hands over the rising tide of immigrants. That having been said I don't live in the south of England, and in the past 20 years the population of the UK has grown from 58 million to nearly 67 million a rise of 14% , whilst in that same period in Scotland the population has only risen 7% so we haven't seen anything like the same pressures placed on our various services compared to the south. So I don't place any kind of argument at the feet of the 'Leavers' on immigration grounds in this part of the country, but more at the resentment that the EU is an almost untouchable, undemocratic beast that is running out of control, sets its laws and tries to make a single currency the most important part of its strategy. France knows very well if it gave the people the vote, they would probably vote to leave as we did, so you could argue they as a country are not prepared to pander to the democratic rights of their people. If you stand back for 5 minutes and just look at the form of the EU and how difficult they make it to leave their cosy club you might just wonder why people voted to leave! We now can't find a formula that allows us to leave. Basically no one knows what is right and what is wrong and I don't think Theresa May's attempts to find a solution across the House will result in too much of a different story than what she has already attempted. If she takes 'no deal' off the table then it ties us to the EU in a form that is probably being a member of their club but having no influence. If she panders to a 2nd referendum vote, she probably then alienates voters from all sides who voted to leave, so I see the resistance to a second referendum . In fact if she acceded to that, she runs the risk that the result is the same and then she is well and truly in the hole as the country has resoundingly told her to leave under any circumstances. The clamour for a 2nd vote comes from the 'Remainers', but they blandly assume that a 2nd vote will give them the vote they want, I'm not convinced it will, as the EU's performance throughout this entire process has probably pi**ed off more voters than you think.

I don't think the voting public are even foolish enough to hand power to such a left wing thinking party, no matter who their leader is.

The reality is that the Labour Party is split as much as the Tories over Europe, the only difference being that Labour would probably never have asked the question of the public.

Labour has been high jacked at the grass roots by the far left leaving perfectly good, well-meaning traditional labour party supporters with virtually nowhere to go. What may come out of all this after the next general election is that some new party will spring up representing the middle left ground, but we all know what happened to the Social Democrats!

Considering this is pretty close to the flight path, I hope the operator was well insured!

There you go! ......................... sorted for the boys!

In these days you could charge the goalkeeper so he had to be very fast on his feet!

Keeps misting over, just like my eyes!

Britain’s net contribution last year was £8.6 billion, up from £4.3 billion in 2009. A major cause of the increased contributions was Mr Blair’s decision to agree to a 7 per cent cut in the rebate during negotiations on the last EU budget deal. If you aggregate the added contributions since 2009 probably cost the country several billions on op of our 'normal' contributions. So not quite everything that Captain Charisma negotiated was an advantage to us!

Whilst Neil Young and Crazy Horse probably are the best at this I've always had a great liking for this version.................... By Govt Mule

It's the general lack of action on the signing front that allows minds to wander to such subjects as bulging waistlines.

Personally I just use the 5:2 when I feel that I need to lose a few pounds but I'm not a nazi about it and don't get hung up on the whole weight thing. I can still get into my 34 waste trousers without too much of a problem, sometimes I'd like to think comfortably!

Go on a 5:2 and then you can occasionally succumb!

Jam Roly Poley for me. - Comes highly recommended.

The overall general question (I think) that emerges from these 7 pages on the departure of Cammy Smith is exactly who in last year's team was good enough to step up to perform at Premier League level? The subject has run to these 7 pages because people disagree on this point. As previously stated we went to Aberdeen and got royally thumped, which must have scared the proverbials out of JR. Some will argue on this thread that Cammy was able to cut it at this level, but Aberdeen let him go. Undoubtedly he was more than good enough for the Championship and that came through loud and clear, but this season he has failed to impress. Of last year's team I can say that Lewis Morgan was good enough and maybe two others Sammy (just) and big Mac, other than that I struggle to definitively say that we had many more that can cut it at this level. Others might have a different opinion, but it would be interesting to hear.

Westminster and Holyrood are now generally filled with individuals who have studied politics, politic science or some other politically based degree. Some have done their bit of working their way up the ladder, others have jumped the queue in that department. Historically Westminster and various constituencies around the country attracted individuals of a broad spectrum. We got leaders of industry, ex-military people, trade unionists, successful business people and some party faithfuls who worked their way up the long ladder to have their moment in the sun. No more I fear, mostly all are programmed to follow the party line and bask in their £77,0000+p.a. plus expenses etc. We lack skill, leadership and an educated focus to help lead us out of this mess, and I don't mean May, Corbyn, Cable (though I'm told he is quite bright) or Sturgeon. I do fear for the long-term with the calibre of individuals that now run both our country and the UK. I don't want useless Council members who I hardly ever have a good word to say about, or party faithfuls who simply toe the party line. I yearn for talented individuals who fight for their constituents, have the audacity to stand up to the whips and fight for the rights that we in Britain have strived for over many long and hard years. ......................... and don't just tell me that we get what we vote for, - what is put before us nowadays is what the various parties want us to have, not the wide choice that was once attracted to Westminster.

calm down jesus hes not good enough for the premiership The main problem of last year's promotion winning team was that many were good enough for the Championship but certainly not capable of stepping up to the next level. Livingston showed us last year just how limited our squad was. Overall they were a better side than us, certainly in the games between us, though the results were slightly closer than the form on the pitch. Almost the entire squad would have had to be overhauled which is exactly what is happening. Allegedly AS informed the players very early on that just about all the players could send their championship medals to Lewis Morgan as he had essentially won the league for us. Perhaps, if true, it was harsh in the delivery, but maybe not too far from the truth. I said at the time that when JR left his stock was never higher than when he won the league. He knew that this year was going to be a major challenge. The performance and result at Aberdeen gave him a clear message that the squad was not up to the Premiership standard. Perhaps his skill was being able to deliver the league winning team with the players he had.

He's 27 today! P.S. Welcome to our madhouse Mihai

We might agree to disagree on the semantics of the referendum being "badly run". My comment was based on the basic fact that the actual vote and the democracy of the process were straightforward and correct. The simple fact that the question was inept, as was the person asking it, doesn't make it badly run.