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Nairn County streaming the friendly match tomorrow night for free.

Personally, I am very grateful to see extended highlights with commentary whatever the platform.

And that was just Kane Hester!

I agree that there would be something of an advantage to home teams playing in front of fans. However, even in normal times, the Scottish football authorities were prepared to sanction us playing Scottish Cup semi final against Celtic at a 'neutral venue' in their home city with 90% of the fans backing them and two successive League Cup semi finals against Hearts at a 'neutral venue' in their home city once again with 90% of the fans backing them. They were happy to give those clubs theoretical sporting advantage, even if 2 times out of 3 it didn't work out that way! So, now in these difficult times the possibility of getting some fans in some grounds where it is safe to do so in my view, far outweighs any perceived or actual advantage there might be.

No. There is a huge backlog of criminal matters due to the pandemic. The case is still live but unlikely to come to trial until the Spring at the earliest.

The sporting advantage may exist at the margins but, say that Covid was running rampant in the Highlands and Moray but controlled elsewhere in the country, does anyone seriously believe that the blazers occupying the fifth floor at Hampden would resist the idea of having fans in the grounds where it would be safe just because ourselves, County and Elgin City would be placed at a disadvantage? If the government and football authorities could be persuaded to follow the German model then, as I said before, about a third of the teams in the SPFL, all the Highland League teams and a good few Lowland League sides would be advantaged from a financial point of view at a time of financial crisis for the whole game and, leaving aside any marginal putative sporting disadvantage, those clubs not yet able to admit fans would be not a penny worse off than they are now.

Thanks, an interesting watch. Some speedy movement and some decent finishes.

Highlights online now: https://vimeo.com/462436456

@Moogthurso I've hopefully sorted this out now. Can you let me know if it works for you? Thanks. ETA: Updated links for everyone else: Apple ▶️ tinyurl.com/y5dd3tzn Google ▶️ tinyurl.com/yykxr4tn Podbean ▶️ tinyurl.com/yyjzw6fd Spotify ▶️ tinyurl.com/y359nj76

Has his gambling charge not come to court yet? Can’t find anything recent.

Of all platforms to upload it on, I really wonder why they chose Vimeo. Nowhere near as smooth as Youtube