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Aye, that's how it appeared from the Sportscene highlights. Anyway, Merry Christmas to you and to @antrin, @shull, @ALBIONSAINT, @Albanian Buddy, @pondsman, @Swiss_Saint, @BigYardsAndBasher, @elvis, @Slarti, @munoz, @djchapsticks, @St.Ricky, @DougJamie...and to everyone else, too (I was just seeing how many usernames I could remember without looking). 👍

That's a bargain, particularly if we score some goals and win!

I didn't refute what he wrote. I stated: 'I didn't see the game; I have only seen the Sportscene highlights. However, it certainly appeared that we were the worse team, so I appreciate what you have written.' The highlights appeared to show a one-sided game, but clearly didn't reflect the full 90 mins; I therefore appreciated @Swiss_Saint's post.

Thanks for this. Nicknames are interesting. I prefer Saints to Buddies, but then I appreciate others don't, particularly as Scotland has another Saints (AKA the Fakes). There's also Southampton, of course. There's also the Welsh club, The New Saints. Any other Saints? There must be some in South America, I'd have thought.

I ❤️ that kit! 😍 We should be playing in a modern version of that next season!

Aye, well the St. Mirren podcast is aptly named: https://miseryhunters.co.uk/ I'd rather be a Misery Hunter than a glory hunter, and when we do pull off a result - e.g. winning a trophy, or more recently beating Celtic 2-0 last season, beating Rangers in the League Cup with a last minute winner, it's very sweet. Expect nothing, savour the good times.

I didn't see the game; I have only seen the Sportscene highlights. However, it certainly appeared that we were the worse team, so I appreciate what you have written. Their first was clearly gifted to them and we couldn't have done much about the second, as you say. I saw that we had one cleared off the line, but besides that, it didn't appear that we created many chances. Shankland squandered a couple of very good opportunities, too.

To be fair to @elvis he's been predicting our slide down the table for quite a while, now...

Ach, I cannae believe I thought we'd get something today. So much for optimism. I'm now disappointed. @elvis, I will be taking a leaf out of you book. Expect nothing. EVER!

But when you have someone with Shankland's quality, that's all you need.

I'm listening to open all mics and it's almost exclusively been the Celtic game, which is 0-0 at half-time, btw.

It's been a while since I wrote these two magical words... Dot count: https://www.hmfckickback.co.uk/index.php?/topic/202735-hearts-v-st-mirren-dot-count-ticket-exchange-open/

I've visited Huish Park. Yeovil's a nice part of the world and it's a well-supported club. They deserve better.

Hearts are a decent side. Shankland and Kingsley's goals last week were class. Ordinarily, I would not fancy our chances tomorrow. But, for some inexplicable reason, I have a positive feeling about tomorrow.

'Santa' appeared at Ibrox today and paraded the League Cup around the pitch: Parody account, but it made me laugh. 🤣

Just a thread to display the weird, wonderful, paranoid and downright hateful Tweets from Scottish football fans. TheCelticBlog's 'paranoia' appears to have really upset JamieT:

Yes, exactly.

I think it would be awful. We may as well just have British leagues. Personally, I ❤️ the Scottish game, warts and all.

I imagine some on here get a buzz out of upsetting folk... 😆 Unrelated, I'm unsure why some folk apparently have a problem with my religious beliefs. I don't force them on anyone else and I have always failed to see how me attending church, reading the Bible and contemplating Christian doctrine is anybody else's business.

Why does my 'attitude' matter to anyone else? I'm voting in exactly the same way a militant, unappeasable trade unionist would do. Mine's a pragmatic view, I get an extra day's leave and the union gets my backing. I pay my dues and vote - and remember the union now requires >50% of members to vote for it to be valid - so both myself and the union are winners.

No. If there is a ballot for strike action, then I have always voted for it. The strike days often seem to be Mondays, meaning I get a long weekend, and even if they're in the middle of the week, it's nice to get an extra day off and break up the week. So, I'm happy to endorse industrial action, even when I don't agree with the Union's justification for calling for it. So there's nothing contradictory in what I have stated. I am essentially voting for a day's unpaid holiday. I thought all you militant trade unionists would support this action, and I'm quite sure my union selects particular days to strike. The last one appears to have been a Friday. Unfortunately, I only recall there being around ten strike days in the last sixteen years. I once voted for a man because his surname was Gunn, btw, which after an afternoon drinking session seemed funny (it isn't, I know). I tend not to take politics and industrial action very seriously. I think it's all a load of bollocks, actually. It doesn't mean I cannot question those that do.

I don't read The Mail or The Express, as their sites take too long to load. I haven't bought a physical newspaper, bar for the occasional train journey, for around ten years! My "understanding" of the industrial action in the 1970s comes from books, documentaries and my university education. 1. Assuming I'm a crypto-Tory on account of me offering an alternative motive for de-nationalisation, is presumptuous. Either that, or a strategy employed to try to besmirch me as a Thatcherite. Your claim that the Thatcher government's motivation for privatisation was so that Tories could cash in on selling off assets to their cronies is highly subjective. Whilst their may be some truth in it, it is a latent 'benefit' and the reality is Thatcher believed in privatisation for a number of reasons, one of the key ones being she believed private enterprises would be more efficient. 2. Some strike action is reasonable, but the idea that all strike action is reasonable and driven by legitimate concerns is not something I would agree with.

Possibly. I couldn't tell you as I don't know much about trade unions. I am a member of one, but never vote in the elections and have always voted in favour of strike action because I enjoy an additional day off work! 😆 When people attribute a motive to another person or organisation without proof, it is speculation. I understood Thatcher's motivation to de-nationalise was that private firms were more efficient (i.e. more ruthless) and that workers at British Leyland wouldn't be able to turn up with sleeping bags. I'm sure corrupt dealings occurred, indeed I would be surprised if they didn't, given the very low opinion I have of politicians. Personally, I'm in favour of re-nationalising key industries and approve of the Scot Gov's acquisition of ScotRail. I wasn't about in the '70s, though, but I understood folk had to buy candles because of strike action and of course there was the Winter of Discontent, with rubbish not getting collected.

Why would you assume anything? That's rather presumptuous. I thought it was common knowledge that public sector workers are more likely to strike than private sector workers: https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/publicly-funded-industries-account-for-96-of-strike-days-says-report

Was it not to also prevent strike action, due to the blackouts in the 1970s?