WeeBud

The ferry taking longer on a day when you have other, and on the face of it better, options I can understand but don't give us all this nonsense about wife and dog walking before heading back to sea........you'll be in the pub watching the rugby, a pint in hand and a smile on your face!!

I agree with that IoBS.........can I ask, out of interest however, is it as a customer or as a supporter that you're not attending the game this Saturday?

Opinions are what they are but Iniesta regarded Scholes as the best he had played against at one point

There used to be that number between Shuttle Street and "The Wine Bar" alone. I agree about preferring pubs smoke-free but there is no disputing that Paisley Town Centre isn't the nightlife mecca it used to be although a good night can still be had.

It looks possible they may both be correct!!

Irrespective of whether Goodwin's yellow was deserved or not he had given the referee three other decisions to make, the next one he was off........where was the guarantee that he'd have got to half-time. If he hadn't you'd be the very fella to being screaming that he should have made the substitution because of the likelihood of a sending off.

I'm guessing that Murray hoped that Goodwin would get a gig elsewhere to free up the cash to bring in such a player...........Goodwin should be the kind of player you are talking about but unfortunately too often the wrong side of the referee to be effective (whether his fault or not is another discussion).

For the type of football we played last night Thommo did ok, unfortunately (again) he is winning balls in the air, making knock downs and flick-ons but there is no-one around about him to feed off any good work he does. There is way too big a gap between midfield and our main (in some cases "only") striker. We are really struggling for leaders on the park right now and when Goodwin went off the midfield was silent.............I may be in a minority but I felt Goody really let us down last night, I thought his early yellow was deserved (and stupid) and although Livi were obviously at it with their constant badgering of the ref Goodwin kept getting himself into situations where the ref had decisions to make. It could be argued that, for the last foul at least, the ref did us a favour by not sending him off and allowing us to make a sub before being down to 10. We need Goodwin for his drive and commitment but we don't need the nonsense that comes with it, he's old enough to have sussed that out by now. Once Jim had left the scene we were left with Langfield (our furthest back player) and Thompson (our furthest forward player) as the only vocal players on the park with 60 yards of silence, and no organisation, in between. Agnew may be a talker but as it was a defensive change required then he was never the answer to Goodwin going off. Webster, or someone of that ilk, is a must from a leadership and organisational perspective or we will really struggle to be strategically sound in any games we play but from a positive side if Goodwin can screw the nut we could have Langfield, Webster, Goodwin and Thompson right through the middle of our team communicating and organising and at least giving us some structure to our play.

We had the benefit of "RTE" on Tiree about 5 years ago............2 adults, three kids and a car is £145 return for a 3 1/2 hour journey each way through some beautiful scenery, it is unbelievable value for money!!

Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited owns the ferries and they are owned by the Scottish Government, the ferries would just be "re-liveried" to whoever wins the contract............at the moment that will either be CalMac (hopefully) or Serco.

Are you sure it's not the contract that CalMac currently run that's up for tender IoBS rather than CalMac itself??

I guess it's all about personal preference, my seat is two rows back and I love the view from it.............I have one of those Scotland season tickets too, my seat is sixteen rows back and I hate it!!

They represent our country and league so much that they both want to play in the league of another country.......... away and throw shite at the moon!!

That'll never happen for some!!

Read davidg's post again but this time in a voice dripping in sarcasm, then you'll get his point!!

Although that's a reasonable enough point surely we should be able to rely on a company, who make football tops, to know the sizes required for people to be able to wear their products!!

At the start of the "global recession" Greece had the lowest percentage of workers declaring earnings of 100,000 Euros or more for tax purposes but had the highest number of "Porsche" owners per head of population within Europe.....as always, in these situations, there will be winners and losers but I truly feel for the poorest in Greece who may struggle to see any pension at all in years to come.

It depends on what music you like HSS and I agree "whether you'll know a lot of these bands" is a valid concern. I also understand that these kind of festivals aren't for everyone. The Tiree Music Festival is £75 for the weekend and is sold out months in advance every year, it has also picked up various awards including Best Small Festival at the UK Events Awards last year (2014). Glastonbury or T-in-the-Park it certainly isn't but there is plenty to be enjoyed at ButeFest (over 40 bands over three days) and camping is free, I'd say that's decent value!!

Skerryvore will be on Friday night IoBS as they are playing Tiree Music Festival on the 18th and 19th..........they're well worth some of your time. Pity both festivals are on at the same time as I would have headed over to Bute for the weekend as it would be my most local festival of the year but it's Tiree for me!!

Maybe he's an optimistic kind of manager and foresaw the possibility his team could have qualified for the play-offs and maybe even to the play-off final.............now when was the second leg of that tie again??

I think you'll find there have been a couple of fairly serious "rammies" at Rugby League games in the last couple of years, the cricket too.

So you can't reserve a seat despite paying your money, for every game up front, yet it's ok to pony up 15 minutes before kick-off and "reserve" seats for your pals that aren't there yet...............sorry BuddieinEK but that doesn't work for me.