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I really think she is a very good ref, but that was a red all day.

She is genuinely a terrific ref, but that was wrong.

At the same time I agree with TOTM, the refs have obviously been told to mitigate as much as possible.

I know you guys look at things through a "Scottish" prism at ...

Hal Jordan wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 10:25 am Can't upset the developers, they can make healthy contributions to the party coffers if you treat them right.

And this might distract them from delivering limited numbers of small, expensive, poor quality dwellings.

It does seem we're bloating out the squad with guys who may or may not make the grade - no disrespect to them, but these are not Venter/Goosen/Boff level signings

Richardson aside, he will be a great addition

Piers O'Conor is a decent enough signing as well.

Most of the signings seem to ...

It does seem we're bloating out the squad with guys who may or may not make the grade - no disrespect to them, but these are not Venter/Goosen/Boff level signings

Richardson aside, he will be a great addition

Piers O'Conor is a decent enough signing as well.

Most of the signings seem to be ...

Edinburgh embracing a strategy of hoovering up the young development prospects.

It's a shame that they had to scale it back due to the giant jobbie hotel though.

The second order of consequences being the lack of self awareness to believe that the brown female candidate might be better than the white guy from the good school who has always had good grades, always got a good job - "totally self made" man?

Do we have 'positive action' in the UK or ...

This is just silly and of course, we get back to Thatcher. A total refusal to engage with the second order consequences of policies.

The second order of consequences being the lack of self awareness to believe that the brown female candidate might be better than the white guy from the good ...

Having worked across the public and private sector I have never come across any examples of any organization not picking the best person for the job.

I have to say, this is nonsense. The UK is absolutely rife with class prejudice but suddenly becomes a pure meritocracy when it comes to other ...

Tichtheid wrote: Mon May 19, 2025 12:43 pm 6N 2026

R1 Ital - Sco Sat 7th Feb

R2 Sco - Eng Sat 14th Feb

R3 Wal - Soc Sat 21st Feb

R4 Sco - Fra Sat Sat 7th Mar

R5 Ire - Sco Sat 14th Mar

The Grand Slam decider in Dublin is going to be tough.

Paddington Bear wrote: Mon May 19, 2025 11:45 am
Slick was not hallucinating- kick off is on a Thursday to avoid a clash with the winter olympics opening ceremony. I am going to vomit

Well, that sucks balls.

Can we begin to believe that Starmer is possibly playing a very good long game? Shit stuff out the way early on and slowly actually getting on the the real meat on the bone?

He is managerially competent and it has been a long time since we have seen that in government. There are probably more ...

Oh and one more thing, a quirk of the scoring system, I guess, but last season we won 11 games, earned a total of 5 BPs to give 49 league points and 11th place on the table.

This season we've won 8 games, 1 draw, 15 BPs for a total of 49 points and 7th place on the table.

Can this be counted as ...

Buyers remorse big style
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Also had had ten years of leave voters dying , and ten more years worth of Yoof now entering polling age. Doubt whether many who ...

Big deal with the EU incoming. There will be screaming about Brexit betrayal from the usual cavalcade of fucktards but we need this.

What this is all about is Russia. Aggressive and expansionist, with the US pretty much telling them to carry on and they won’t fulfil their NATO obligations. The ...

Sleepy Joe GOOOOOO...ing!

Diagnosed with prostate cancer that's spread to his bones. :cry:

And that's why it was a risk to persist with him as a presidential candidate at his age.

We might see it with Trump before his term is out but having an incapacitated leader of a superpower is not a ...

Slick wrote: Sat May 17, 2025 7:10 pm Ref then tried to make it up with an utterly bizarre knock on call

He touched the ball on the ground in goal, right? How is that a knock on?

Charlie Savala to Warriors

Scottish-qualified utility back Charlie Savala has become the second new addition to the Glasgow Warriors squad ahead of the 2025/26 campaign, after the 25-year-old agreed to make the switch to Scotstoun from English champions Northampton Saints.

Looks like a ...

https://twitter.com/EdinburghRugby/status/1922970226854953376

Ritchie on the bench, none of the young guys are listed in the 23, bar Harrison I suppose but if Cherry were fit...

Must win game for Edinburgh and Everitt does make it more risky to play Douglas.

Making the playoffs shouldn ...

Apparently this is really a thing

A known terrorist offers Trump a tower, and suddenly the sanctions disappear.

This isn’t diplomacy. It’s corruption in plain sight.

https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/1922327936645906875

To be fair, the sanctions on Syria are senseless given that the ...

Boyle, Dodd and Crosbie have all signed extensions. A bit disappointing to see Boyle is only a year whereas the other two are for two years. Disappointed because he hasn’t really kicked on (albeit he’s been injured a lot this year) like I thought he would.

Matt Scott is also retiring at the ...

Boyle, Dodd and Crosbie have all signed extensions. A bit disappointing to see Boyle is only a year whereas the other two are for two years. Disappointed because he hasn’t really kicked on (albeit he’s been injured a lot this year) like I thought he would.

Matt Scott is also retiring at the end ...

One of the things I've wondered when you hear the "we need to import more Kazakhs to offset our elderly population" is why no-one proposes policies (economic/social) that would encourage more people to have kids.

It seems like a strangely defeatist position whereby you are coming to terms ...

Worth pointing out, again, on the ‘we need immigrants to work in care homes’ point that on average each care worker since 2020 has arrived with three dependents, therefore making our dependency ratio substantially worse.

Ponzi schemes are great though.

There's also something broken with the ...

I agree with this, he can't just ignore it and he has to look like he is taking it seriously. The only way to get people here into care work is to pay them some decent cash instead of care homes raking it in and paying nothing, but that doesn't seem to have been addressed - unless I missed ...

100% correct. But it's probably best ignored to preserve some sanity.

The pathway is now clear. He's going to copy the entire Tory/Reform playbook, wouldn't be surprised if another massively expensive failure like Rwanda happens. Whatever he achieves, the right will then say that isn't good ...

At some point Dobie is going to need to decide if he's a 9 or a wing. Now approaching 30% of his pro starts on the wing. It's not letting him be the best 9 he can be.

I think that it's been decided he's a winger. Starts more at wing than 9 these days, and he's starting at wing over front ...

Scotland have also only lost twice, and both times by one point. Finn Russell didn't play in one of the losses. We've also given them a couple of drubbings, and have conceded a lot fewer points in our games as well.

One drubbing. Besides the 2017 53 -24 result, your next highest margin is ...

Free speech defender Elon Musk's Twitter platform has now blocked the account of Erdoğan's main political rival in Turkey. Spineless prick.

It's not, but the other parties have been around long enough to broadly know what to expect from them even if you haven't checked their current manifesto and people have the actual evidence of what they've done when in government with the main two.

Am sure that Reform voters are entirely ...

Being the son of a SCOTS soldier is good enough to me (even if it was 1 SCOTS), being embra born is an added bonus.

Looking like Boff is off then? Goosen and Paterson the incumbent FBs.

It's a shame but I don't think they can give Boff a new contract when the outlook must be uncertain on his ...

Tichtheid wrote: Wed May 07, 2025 2:11 pm

I was at that game... it really was a tremendous finish and is possibly my greatest sporting memory.

My favourite highlight of Godman's is this one:

I wasn’t getting excited about it. As you say, the last one didn’t turn out all that well

I was referring to myself probably getting over-excited about the Healy move which I thought was going to be transformative for Edinburgh! The international class 10 that Edinburgh hadn't had since ...

Seem a yougov link that shows polls for a GE now this minute with reform winning by a landslide ! wtf ?!

Ref 369
LD 87
lab 86
SNP 44
Con 17 (lolz)
Green 7
Plaid 6

I don’t think Tories or LD will get that many , but it’s clear Reform are coming up and perhaps need to have no other slogan than ...

Double contribution agreements work and make sense when you’re talking about similar sized countries with similar levels of wealth and people moving both ways. None of which apply here which makes it utterly bonkers.

Time will tell and no science behind this prediction, but expect inter ...

The backlog of asylum cases is about 90000 so I don't think that's correct.

My mistake, having looked again it was Glasgow

In Glasgow, the population of asylum seekers supported by the Home Office was approximately 0.66% of the total population in December 2024, totaling around 4,193 ...

I reject that, Scotland in particular needs immigration.

Maybe people have a point about immigration being mismanaged then? 'Scotland needs immigration' but receives comparatively few asylum seekers (I think there is only about 5000 or so in Scotland) and is apparently not attracting ...

Edinburgh being really handicapped by a non-functioning lineout today.

I reject that, Scotland in particular needs immigration.

Maybe people have a point about immigration being mismanaged then? 'Scotland needs immigration' but receives comparatively few asylum seekers (I think there is only about 5000 or so in Scotland) and is apparently not attracting enough ...

I did.

And it's just the usual shit of English journo's saying that the English system of private benefactors (with some RFU money) funding is fairer/better/whatever than the Irish system of IRFU funding (with some private benefactor money).

Given the number of 'quotes' from 'insiders ...

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