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Probably bits of both to be honest. No expert in tarmac but it was the joints between sections failed in the last resurfacing. A lot of Paisley is similar to Seedhill Road and asphalt on top of setts so no real reason it should be worse- although there are a lot of lorries that use the bit near Mill Street. Full reconstruction is likely to be much more expensive and it would be a slow process.

Sort of. You can get a good surface onto cobbles if they are in decent nick but it's not ideal. Those old cobbles are a pain to maintain, paint doesn't stick well and they are very slippy compared to a modern surface. If you go down Back Sneddon out the back of RBS you'll see they are in a rubbish state. Despite that I have to say I do like cobbled streets. Part of the reason many roads are in poor nick is the use of SMA material. It just doesn't wear well imv.

We'd play Morton in the final anyway most likely! There have been years were the semi finals have happened after the finals if I'm right.

Only Sunday to Wednesday. 24hrs from Thursday morning to Sunday night I think.

He looked alright against Killie on the final day. Certainly looked decent enough to be challenging for a start and should have scored. However I think he was playing left mid rather than left back?

Nah, it's the climb outside Strathclyde University on Montrose Street.

The problem is whilst people at SPL/D1 level talk about regionalising the lower leagues there is little desire from the clubs to do so as they see regional leagues as a marginalising the wee teams and there is more 'prestige' in a national league if you understand. The junior clubs regionalise into 3- West/East/North because the simply North/South Highland and Lowland league can mean big trips due to spread of clubs- it is possible that an Alloa would be travelling to Elgin in the North or even Cowdenbeath to Stranraer in the South for 2 examples. Correct on the juniors- although some have expressed interest many haven't. Auchinleck may well be happy to play only 22 game and games at Cumnock, Beith, Irvine rather than head into a 36 game setup with longer trips. It is however right that the football league is not a closed shop at the bottom. People deride 'franchise football' but what option is there in Scotland if you want to get into the leagues- not like you could work up whilst clubs like East Stirling scrape along in place 42 every year. As for the other stuff- depends on your opinion on what the customer wants and what is achievable. I think we have a better league set-up today than we did yesterday, we've taken a layer of bureaucracy away, we've got a decent league format most are agreeable on and we've balanced the money better from top to bottom. It's not perfect but it is a start.

The club could have invoked the right to compensation- the fact we aren't... If you look at European sides at 18/19 years of age players should be right on the level of pushing for the first team place. I'd question some of our youth set-up, but that is a question Scotland wide for teams.

To be honest I think on the basis of the information out there it is the right call. Hearts have been very lucky over the timing, but considering the season ended Sunday and I think it went to court today, there wasn't much option. -15 for the start of next season would seem likely though!

Carey will probably haunt us now. I thought he would have been good if we gave him a run at left mid. Oh well onwards and upwards... Sent from my Nexus 4 using Black & White Army mobile app

Costs to build and the profits that the stores are making. The thinking is that the big supermarket race is done, they have built so many. It will mainly be smaller stores in key locations. In the Town Centre of Linwood.

The amounts of money that Tesco will have spent on the land, consultants fees and so forth is unbelievable. Probably over £20million? Unbelievable.

To be fair he talked us up from what I remember on Sportsound the day we won the league cup. He'll be off to the Championship, but a decent player who did well for us.

Oi Gilmour. Show us the title deeeeeeeeeds.

I agree with most of these. I couldn't believe we were killing time that way so early in a final. With less than 5 minutes to go then fine but with 10-15mins I was worried. Thommo going off was a real change in momentum. If we went into extra time.... I'm not sure Parkin can cut it to be honest. Newton was fantastic, always available, didn't hide and that goal was very Andy Dorman IMV.

Win or lose as long as the boys give 100% and I'm sure they will we'll have a great day. Just hope they have their nerves under control!

I'd have taken 3rd before the tournament started. We did well this time given the young guys in the squad and the new management. Hope for the future.

There is no need to do major works to the road as it's almost in a perfect condition for a shared space scheme which is traffic calming. I can't see what works you think are needed beyond sorting the tie-ins. Shared space could work excellently IMV would see vehicles traffic at low speeds. It's been done on much busier areas and I think would be an excellent addition to Paisley. Putting in dropped kerbs, humps and major delineation is out a 1970s traffic engineering book. Would not meet the sense of place and streetscape this is trying to achieve. Yes one way Southbound from County Square to St Mirren Brae (not through to Back Sneddon). Moss Street would be one way northbound between the High Street and School Wynd/Station car park which would be a vast improvement. Yeah it is broken up at Westway however and through Renfrew and at Braehead. Could work well as a light rail scheme but the idiots in Edinburgh that spent way too much have ruined that for everyone. The word tram is a bad word now! Edinburgh's scheme is IMV vastly over engineered- the depth of excavations is unbelievable. It may be used as a part of Fastlink bus scheme (was a tram until see above!)

I went to a small town in France a couple of years back it would be the size of Johnstone. It had a lot of businesses, parking was free for 3 hours in some car parks and all day in others. You could drive down all streets, but pedestrians/cyclists had priority so traffic slowly moved about until the outskirts. There wasn't a traffic light in the centre and all the streets and town square were well kept and tidy. However sitting on the outskirts of town were the supermarkets and a huge shopping mall with a multi-storey car park next to the motorway! The town centre in Paisley is embarrassing and doesn't help with it's reputation. Some of the buildings are falling to bits- the one on the High Street opposite the job centre has been like that for about 5 or 6 years and on Moss Street too yet it takes so long to get these things fixed. I'm sure we all know people who live just outside the town and barely go in it. Where are the Cinema, theatres and leisure things that attract people into a town centre? The fact it's cheaper for many people to keep a unit empty is wrong. Why can't local councils set business rates based on demand to encourage people to take a punt and open a business? High Rates/Rents and annoying parking and traffic systems kill towns. New Street is wide enough to allow parking on one side yet it's double yellows and disabled spaces only. I paid 80p on George Street and got a £30 ticket for being less than 10mins late back one day. It was a fair cop, however there was hardly another car in the street. The cost of a extra 30mins parking was 40p yet the council fine you £30 the same as if I didn't bother with a ticket at all! Things like that hardly encourage people to do business there or come in to the town.

Stopped too early. Finished NG Dragons 3 Glasgow 60! Fantastic result although Newport's defending was worse than shambolic.

I agree, they also lost Cain Healy for a stamp after he was cited. I know Scotland have had false dawns and let us down before, but I think we have one of the best chances with Wales and Ireland at home to win these games. We have come close before and won in the last game at Croke Park a few years back now. This side has flaws, but has a lot more talent than the sides of 2009/10.

Without getting carried away on one good performance v Italy it could come down to a similar thing to 1999 when Scotland won, if on the off chance Scotland can beat Ireland and Wales at home! This 6 nations is truely an 'anyone can beat anyone scenario'. Even the French who are 0 out of 2, would anyone bank against them not suddenly doing their usual and turning up against England? England with a tough last game in Cardiff. Lot to play for. Here is hoping it is Scotland's year, unlikely, but you never know. Heck we're the only one of the old 5 nations not to win the 6 nations!

I was told the Hogshead did alright compared to some other pubs. Used to give a season ticket discount too.

I'm on Android 4.2 using chrome and I can't get this fault. It did happen on older Android phone so it is down to browsers.

I graduated from there too and the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. I can honestly say, Coats Memorial is far grander and better! Wasted on students thou!