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Good to see Ryan getting young player or the month for Feburary.

Danny Alexander has called on voters to form a unionist alliance to stop his and other Liberal Democrat seats falling into the hands of nationalists, according to the Scotland on Sunday. Getting worried now!

Disappointed to have lost Ryan Christie to County. He's played well for us since coming into the first team and I wish him all the best on his move to County and attempting to help keep them in the Premiership.

Sekajja again scores for draw against Sevco

As a response to the oft repeated fallacy that the SNP wants to get down to Westminster to break up Britain, WGD has an article which explains exactly why so many pro-indy voters are not getting back in the box with the lid marked subservient BritNats, as was expected after the NO vote. From https://weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/the-ministry-of-dont/ We’re awake and we’re dreaming of a country where our voices are heard, where our demands are met, where our governments do what we tell them to do. Openly, in front of us. No back doors, no secret meetings, no duplicity, no underhand dealings. If we can't get that in an independent Scotland just yet...why should we not have the right in a "democracy" to try and get it in the UK, for once....a Scottish voice for Scotland, and the disadvantaged, instead of a Scottish voice for the UK and the continuation of the elite Westminster duopoly which cares more about the money in their pockets than the well-being of the people who vote for them.

I am facing facts, Charles. Methinks you are the one who isn't. All my remarks refer to Unionist rhetoric since the referendum, and mostly in the last few days. I challenge you to comment on the way Westminster and the MSM have reacted to the aftermath of the referendum,without actually acknowledging that there was a referendum. Instead of sneering at me, how's about you respond to my post.......say, maybe, the bit which says If I were a Unionist, I'd be reading the utter crap and bile being printed in the media and listening to the similar keech being broadcast over the airwaves, since Bitter Together "won" the election referendum...and I'd be fearing for the continuance of the Union they voted NO to protect for at least a generation. Or even How come, though, on the very rare occasions over the last 60 or so years when it was the MPs voted in by Scotland; who decided the Government of the UK, that that wasn't a problem to this almost paranoid extent? It couldn't possibly have been that it was because we voted for a party approved by, and an integral part of, the duopoly system which has effectively made the UK a dictatorship run by by the British establishment for the British establishment and not a democracy run for the people by the people Like Westminster, you are banging on about us still fighting the referendum....when we patently are not..........we are fighting the GE2015 campaign. In fact, logically, we are fighting the GE2015 in order to make it more likely that we will stay in the Union.......because, if we can get what the VOW promised us re as near as dammit Federalism and if, using our votes, we can defeat some of either of the two main parties more divisive cuts to the more disadvantaged, then it is quite possible that the result, in the medium term at least, would be that the UK would continue to exist, just as if Devo-Max had been on the ballot paper in the first place. Alternatively, if you don't like my take on things in the General Election run-up..you might prefer to read and comment on http://williamduguid.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/pigeons-meet-cat.html?spref=fb

If I were a Unionist, I'd be reading the utter crap and bile being printed in the media and listening to the similar keech being broadcast over the airwaves, since Bitter Together "won" the election...and I'd be fearing for the continuance of the Union they voted NO to protect for at least a generation. In fact, "Bitter Together" and their MSM lickspittles did a great job at sowing real division in the UK....a much better job than the YES supporters have done in dividing Scotland, methinks, despite the whimpering of unionists. It is reminiscent of the UK attitude to the Irish when they were ungrateful enough to try for Home Rule, or the view of us from England in the days and years after the Union of the Crowns and Parliament, even down to the vituperative, casual racism......but the difference is that now we know what they all think of us and our place in this "Union of Equals", because this time we have access to the English versions of the printed media, while in the 17th and 18th centuries, we didn't....and this time we have a voice, even if not one in the UK MSM...and it appears, not allowed one in the UK Parliament after 2015. From being sycophantically, mendaciously and cringingly love-bombed, between pointed threats and efforts to undermine any future for Scotland on independence all through the referendum, we now see the real Westminster, the real Union and our real place in it. We see that a democratically elected SNP contingent in Westminster, voted into place under the same rules as every other MP elected in the UK, possibly with a big enough voice to be able to decide vote outcomes, is viewed by the MSM, the Westminster government, most Westminster politicians, including Unionist Scots, and an element in the English population to be unacceptable......although they don't put it quite as politely as I just have. From the MSM, we get the likes of "Invasion of the Ginger Rats" (bliddy hell, just imagine a swarm of Danny Alexanders!); the incest and folk-dancing "cartoon"(and calling it a cartoon is dignifying it almost as much as saying George Osborne can count or Scottish Branch Labour MPs have intelligence); "The Terrifying Prospect of the Scots ruling England" and "Nightmare Scenario facing Britain" (so welcome to the world we have inhabited for the last three centuries, England); "Doomsday Alliance" of the SNP and Labour(though there won't be any Coalition and Labour policies will only be voted for on merit); "Seeds of Tyranny being Sown in Scotland" (as if being controlled for decades by one or other of the two cheeks of one bahookey, or just one of the cheeks and the bit which separates them from each other. but not from their purpose, isn't tyranny)<think this last bit in brackets after the last example is a bit convoluted.....it's hard trying to get round a swear filter. Happy to explain what I was trying to say including swearies, in a PM if anyone can't work it out. > How come, though, on the very rare occasions over the last 60 or so years when it was the MPs voted in by Scotland; who decided the Government of the UK, that that wasn't a problem to this almost paranoid extent? It couldn't possibly have been that it was because we voted for a party approved by, and an integral part of, the duopoly system which has effectively made the UK a dictatorship run by by the British establishment for the British establishment and not a democracy run for the people by the people. And before anyone comes in and says that the people elect their representatives......kindly bear in mind they elect the representatives the Political Parties, which have become the UK establishment, choose to stand in constituencies, even if that means candidates never clap eyes on the place they will represent until they turn up for the interview by the local party constituency panel before facing the Party members, who will choose one of them. Having been heavily involved in SNP politics in my time, knowing our membership numbers at the time, and having a pretty good idea of the membership levels locally of the other political parties, the representative for Moray in Westminster may well have been voted for by a majority of the people in Moray......but they were chosen by political parties who try very hard not to put forward people who are going to seriously rock the party boat, therefore each of them were chosen as candidates by relatively few (or less than that) of the population of the constituency. (But I am in danger of ranting about the political party system being as pernicious and power hungry as religions, lobbyists, and every other specific interest group which can see power/influence emanating from a relatively few committed people who have an agenda which will make them money, as long as they have a demography they can claim to represent who are too apathetic to even join them and have input.) But, just think....all this vituperation/nastiness/division could have been avoided.....and the push for independence set at the peep that the devolution settlement of 1997 was meant to set it.........if only Cameron had allowed the Devo-Max option in the referendum options. Where we are now is not because of the SNP, because if the SNP hadn't existed from the 1930's, it would have been any other party with Home Rule/Independence as part of its manifesto......something which both the Liberals and Labour used to include at one time. Where we are now, in this maelstrom of Unionist umbrage because we YES voters haven't folded our tents and slunk off to lick our wounds, before re-emerging as compliant BritNats like the NO voters, is down, imo, only to the belief of Unionists in Westminster, and possibly among unionists in the Scottish population, that Scotland ceased to exist as a nation when a majority of our Parliament signed the Treaty to abolish their institution....for money for themselves...which seems to be more important to people with that mindset than the future of the people who aren't them. If the Union breaks up, it will be Westminster's and ONLY Westminster's fault, because they refuse to cede any meaningful power.

A lot of people seem to struggle with Ciftci's name. Allow me to help. You won't be too far wrong with "Chief cheat".

Friars Bridge apparently but does it not look like Austria / Switzerland ?

Aye, and Brother Walfrid was a card carrying member of the Orange Lodge Lighten up mun! You're beginning to sound as if you've been for a two month holiday with that queen of PC Harriet Harman. Interesting feature of modern living though. Say or do something somebody doesn't like and you instantly get denounced for crimes against Political Correctness or Eflin Safety. I'll get ma coat now and head for the Lubyanka to save you sending the NKVD round

Football is not an olympic sport. The end.

surely that applies to 'England' too Charles? or are you being selective in conferring the right to be the main FIFA member within the UK on the English FA with the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish being happy to pick up the scraps from the table? However, you are also fundamentally wrong .... at last count there were 23 non-sovereign 'countries' who were members of FIFA and 7 sovereign ones who are not ! (and before anyone comments on the list below, Gibraltar are not FIFA members, just UEFA) Non-sovereign nations that are current FIFA members American Samoa (USA) Anguilla (UK) Aruba (Netherlands) Bermuda (UK) British Virgin Islands (UK) Cayman Islands (UK) Chinese Taipei (China) Curaçao (Netherlands) England (UK) Faroe Islands (Denmark) Guam (USA) Hong Kong (China) Macau (China) Montserrat (UK) New Caledonia (France) Northern Ireland (UK) Palestine Puerto Rico (USA) Scotland (UK) Tahiti (France) Turks and Caicos Islands (UK) US Virgin Islands (USA) Wales (UK) NON-FIFA members that are associate members of continental Confederations AFC: Northern Mariana Islands CAF: Réunion CONCACAF: French Guyana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Martin, Sint Maarten OFC: Niue, Kiribati, Tuvalu Sovereign Nations that are not members of FIFA or their continental Confederations Federated States of Micronesia Marshall Islands Monaco Nauru Palau United Kingdom Vatican City

A little reference to his debut in an article by his Dad on the Courier site: http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/Sport/Football/Scotland-showing-gives-cause-for-optimism-11092014.htm It is always pleasing when one of the players at Inverness Caledonian Thistle are selected for their national squad and even more so when it is one that has come through the youth ranks at the club. There are now new financial incentives from the Scottish Football Association relating to ‘home grown’ first-team players and those who are selected for Scotland at the various age levels, so there is now an added ‘bonus’ for clubs to try to produce quality from within. It has been great to see ICT show progress on this front in recent times. What he didnt say at the end of the first paragraph but you know he felt it was the proud moment it must have been for his parents !!! So happy for the lad and just a wee bit chuffed for Charlie too even if it makes him feel a wee bit old. Hoping my young one can play a bit as he gets older and pulls on both TFC red and ICT stripes during his career leading to him having the choice of Scotland/Canada/Nigeria for his international future .... I think he would look good lining up at Hampden in the right shade of blue !