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beyond our ken

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  1. I defer to the knowedge of our physio team here, surprised but delighted to see him come straight in for a start. Is Olusanya injured, I suspect that is our best front two when available. On recent form, I'd like to see LJ get a decent run in the second half, he has been showing improvement and I think he is more direct than McMenamin so hopefully he is not far away from a starting slot.
  2. No game to be going to next week so I'm gutted to miss this one. I'll take us to win reasonably comfortably because close matches with Liv are such an unsightly scramble and when they score, expecially when they score first, it's hard to get back at them. I don't know if Ayunga is ready to play, I'd say it's the wrong match for him to come back in unless we are cruising in the last 15 minutes 2-0 or 3-0 to the saints, I think, or a very messy and hard-to-watch defeat.
  3. Just a wee mention of Ms O'Hanlon. She does her partne a hige disservice by referring to Warren as a "Dublin man" and the other guy as "the Brazillian man". Both are Dubliners who joined forces to end a murderous attack. Two strangers who took action for the good of others. Maybe she thinks the ill-advised gravy train that has been set up for Caio Benicio should stop at her door too and is willing to compromise evidence and stoke further racial discord in order to get on board? Surely though, that jumper is evidence that the police would want as it would be pertinent to further charges and show evidence of intent and malice on the part of the attacker? Just a thought.
  4. You seem to be making the massive assumption that the "non-Irish" are refugees, you can't know that. Ireland has a lot of immigation and repatriation from the so-called English-speaking world. You talk about mass stabbings in Europe, fair enough. There are few mass stabbings in the US where mass-murder is almost a pastime and that is because access to guns is so easy and many mass-murderers there seem to be targetting ethnic minorities. So maybe criminals in the refugee communities cant get access to guns so easily in Europe and maybe they'd do less stabbing if the opposite was true? And let's jut have that "controversial" point you have teased us with. No-one is going to judge you for a view any more severely than they have already. But if you think you can take the debate forward with this view then let's have it as you seem to be quite wedded to it.
  5. From the IT article you appeared to have gotten your information from "Palani, who is originally from Iraq and came to Ireland with his family when he was six years old, repeatedly insisted he was not gay despite forensic evidence showing he engaged in sexual activity with at least one victim." Hardly a failure of multiculturism or uncontrolled migration, is it? and it took me seconds to find that piece. So please, retract away to your heart's content.
  6. You should focus on the fact that a referendum in the early-mid 70s would have had a very good chance as support for independence was on the rise and the truth about the value of the offshore reserves would have swung the vote further towards "leave". Maybe not enough to secure independence at that point, yet that knowledge would have stoked support for independence given the behaviour of the Tories, who having successfully divided and conquered went on to ride a wave of support built on the money raised from oil. Successive westminster governments squandered the alternative vehicles for getting decent, but somewhat lesser, taxpayer benefit from the proceeds by dismantling BNOC and selling off BP. I am all in favour of independence, but I'd probably never have got to this point had it not been for Westminster's serial squandering and selling-off of national assets that made money for the taxpayer alongside the criminal failure to set up a national wealth fund based on the oil revenue. The money was used to prop up governments instead of securing our future and that of our children There is still enough out there to gove Scotland a decent pot to build on and my own belief is that we would see a steady migration of busineses from across the UK once Scotland was, in some form, back in the European fold.
  7. some recent games where the opposition were really up for it,hassled us for the whole match and we just didn't cope, Livi will be up to the same tactic. To be honest, we were lucky to get back into the game at Almonvale a few months ago so it will be interesting to see what the response to recent poor performances will be.
  8. With independence the opportunity for a far faster transition to Renewable energy would have gone hand-in-hand with the just transition away from oil.
  9. Yes, but if i wanted an answer to that question I would go to the person making the survey request, not asking a bunch of people who don't know the rationale. My only possible motivation for asking the forum would be a desperate cry for attention and I'm not that needy. And It's could have. You're welcome
  10. It's a perfectly civil request and all you had to do was respond to the survey or ignore it. No need to post it on here as I am sure all the other season ticket holders will have it and can make their own mind up about it.
  11. So instead of training and rehabillitation, long term sick will be forced to take "workplace placements" to allow them to continue to take benefits, no mention of jobs as a result, just placements. At the same time, after citing the increase in the living wage, he will supress wages for the already low-paid because the incentive to be a competitive employer will be taken away. A two-edged sword that will be unique in that both edges will be cutting the same people twice with the same swipe.
  12. As this process of de-industialisation continues, the effects become more fundamental and damaging, if this place closes in 18 months time then I really don't know where Scotland goes from here. Sunak happily announces that the new oil licences will provide energy security, although he knows the oil will go straight into the global trading system and very little of it lands in the UK. Let's see if he is truly committed to energy security by supporting the site, no doubt in my mind that it would be saved if it was in England. Ineos have been sweating the asset for decades and now that he has enough money to buy a football club, Ratface-Ratcliffe will be moving refinery operations to the far-east. I doubt that any part of the complex will be left in a fit state for a competitor to take it over and If north-sea gas stops flowing into Grangemouth then Mossmorran and Braefoot bay will be under threat, another 1000 jobs going when you include contractors. Maybe 5 times that in the local economy. If we were investing properly in biofuels, we would also have a relatively healthy future for petroleum in the medium term, but the UK just lets the far-east carry on churning out the carbon and offshoring our emissions
  13. "told STV News he has been forced to up his security including him being told to carry a panic alarm and to avoid public transport." So he basically got told by police to carry a whistle and be careful on the buses. But he reckons he has "upped his security". If he exagerrates that then how much of the "assault" allegation has been "upped"?
  14. You just need to look at that title page to know where it is from.
  15. I don't see how anyone can enjoy the "experience" away fans get at either if the big Glasgow slums. Those around have free-rein to abuse and harass, even thrown objects will be tolerated. I went to the first post-promotion game there in the Gus McPherson era and despite us getting a great result I vowed never to return. I don't see the point of paying good money to be treated like shit by these people just because they can.
  16. It's hardly a government responsibility to set up recycling plants for plastic waste
  17. The problem is you are just a troublemaker please go and annoy someone who gives a shit about what you think
  18. Hemming looked out of his depth today we need a physically assertive goalie
  19. no just a gutless bunch who think the only letters in team are m&e
  20. We are dreadful today we could easily lose 2 more goals
  21. From my position, i could see that the bulk of the problems we had defending, especially in the first half, were a result ofthere being no "out" ball for Gogic and Taylor especilly along the left. We continually lost possession on the left side due to poor positioning and I felt that most of the crosses were overhit I thought Baccus did dig in and his use of the ball wasn't at his usual standard. I was told he is carrying an injury so hopefully he won't be travelling to join his national team
  22. Hibs have good players in every position, some of whom are better than our corresponding first pick and they continue to play like Livingston. There is not much change between the style of their two managers and their stand-in this season. The latest excuse-making manager, who probably won't last any longer than Johnson, was bleating about decisions however you could see their spirit desert them as the match ran into the final minutes. Good players don't seem to like persisting with the gamesmanship and spoiling that these managers demand. Wasting time with 70 minutes left is guaranteed to feel like a burden on a player, unless you are a nasty git like Marshall, and rather than win a point i think we were there to catch one of the two that Hibs dropped Biggest positives were LJ's performance and Hemmings continued improvement. I don't think we had an open-play goal in us until LJ appeared and that's a worry. Mandron was flat from the start and Baccus looked like he is struggling, Kiltie & Tanser just never got going either.
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