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It was mentioned on Off The Ball the other week that Josh Meekings and Annabel Goldie are the doubles of one another. A quick Google search reveals this to be scarily accurate! There must be a few others out there.

I always thought Steve Paterson looked quite like former SSP MSP Colin Fox.

Have to agree with Scotty - over the last 20 years he has been a lot of fun but a real pain in the erse at times.

Draper being offered a 3 year deal, which is great news. Looking to keep the Warren, Meekings, Draper, Tansey unit together will be a fantastic achievement by the club and in my opinion the nucleus of the team that we can build everything and everyone else around. Perhaps a sign JH is about to sign for a similar timescale.

Looking forward to Meekings scoring the winner by punching the ball into the net.

In the bbc gossip column:- Ross Draper offered a three year contract hope he snaps it up.

No Charles, instead we'll all whinge about the means of paying for the Tory U-turn. 5% cut in Scotlands funding and this http://www.thenational.scot/politics/axing-1bn-carbon-capture-contest-threat-to-600-jobs-and-environment.10468 Isn't it also strange that the claimed billions in losses from North Sea revenues would have had such drastic effects on Scotlands wealth if independent yet have no effect, and are never mentioned, in UK budgets?

Mutombo, Draper, Warren and Wedderburn all played in Dev game in midweek.

As many a 4 phones in Dingwall?

I know it's not nice to see the team at the bottom of the league but let's not forget that the whole idea is player development and game time for squad members. IMO if one youngster gets a first team contract then that's success.

I'll put this down to Alex suffering one of these Freudian states of denial where he can't even admit to himself that the obvious answer to his question actually lies in one of the fundamental reasons for Scotland needing to remain within the Union. In view of what the size of the Scottish economy would have been post-nightmare scenario, the disappearance down the toilet of North Sea oil revenues which we are now seeing would have been a pretty well mortal blow. On the other hand the UK economy is around 12 time bigger so can stand this and other similar changes a whole, whole lot better - which is just one reason why we are far better sticking where we are. Could you imagine the scenes of panic and angst if there had been a yes vote and then a few short months later the oil bubble had been shown to burst, despite the "second oil boom" and $103 a barrel predicted by Salmond? Well I suppose there's always Grand Theft Auto....... Everybody's funding is being cut, but Scotland's remains significantly above everybody else's because of that other benefit of the Union, the Barnett Formula. If the Nats want to provide services over and above what can be funded by current revenues, then why don't they use their powers to increase income tax and also scrap the Council Tax freeze, hence also releasing the partial compensation for that offered by Holyrood for other things? Intriguing that the link in the quoted passage should be to that unquestioning SNP soapbox The National. The other day when most front pages were reflecting on the likelihood that the 55 would become the 54, what does that National have? "It's our first birthday!!!!" Cracking stuff.

Getting back to the "Performance of SNP MPs in Westminster", I note that the SNP's foreign affairs spokesman didn't attend today's debate on the case for UK military action in Syria because he was instead occupied with important constituency business attending the unveiling of a portrait of himself. You couldn't make it up!