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Those 15 include. 1 goalie who won the Scottish cup,1 goalie at the Euros, our strongest back 4 with Tansey and Drapes in front, a winger on each side, 2 strikers with Polworth and Vigurs behind and a back up winger/ defender. Looks like an effective 15 instead of an ineffective 25, with the promise of more and youngsters stepping up to the plate. Glad I renewed my season ticket.

This chart from BBC, based on Ashcroft's poll of over 12,000 voters is quite revealing and explains why we've ended up with this outcome. Old people are more likely to vote Leave (and let's face it, are more likely to be racist as well!). Crucially, old people are more likely to vote. The areas with the oldest population had higher turnouts than the younger areas. What's somewhat galling is that the vote was swung by pensioners, who basically don't have to face the same consequences that the rest of us do. They don't need to worry about redundancy or their future job prospects. They have a guaranteed income that is also guaranteed to increase every year whatever happens. They pay little income tax so don't need to worry about the fiscal consequences of an economic downturn. They don't have mortgages, so don't need to worry about possible increases caused by our worse credit rating. They are, however, the heaviest users of the NHS, and would no doubt have been tempted by the claim that leaving the EU will free up £350m a week for the NHS, which Farage admitted mere hours after the polls closed was a false claim. What a mess.

The good news - the new design will be unveiled by being body-painted onto a model. The bad news - the model is CaleyD!

Someone, anyone please ban this trumpet Bannerman from the forum. The man is an utter dick on every conceivable level.

I'm in the 55-64 age bracket but voted to remain. It seems that social media is alive with youngsters having a go at us oldies for ruining their future. But before folk get too carried away with criticising us oldies, I think there are a few points to bear in mind. Firstly, if the young want to have a pop at anyone, how about starting with those in their own age group who couldn't be bothered to vote. They could also have a pop at the Government for not allowing 16 and 17 year olds the right to vote in a referendum which so clearly affects their futures. Secondly, whilst a referendum on such a big constitutional issue clearly does have more implications for the future of younger people, older people are likely to have children and grandchildren and will be well aware of the implications for them when deciding how to vote. Thirdly, older people obviously have more experience of life and will look at issues in the light of that experience. If you have lived through all our 40 years in Europe as an adult, you have a bit more experience of the project to know how it has delivered on expectations over the years. Fourthly, the kind of angry reaction there has been displays a real arrogance. There is almost an assumption that remaining in Europe was the correct choice and all the 17 million who voted to leave are either selfish or stupid. The fact is, there is no right or wrong about this. Nobody can possibly know whether we will be better or worse off in 20 years time by leaving the EU. Finally, and linked to the last point, everyone is entitled to their opinions and rather than vilify people for having different views, the constructive thing to do is to engage in civilised debate. Rather than having a pop at the pensioner leavers, it would be better to criticise the Remain campaign for failing to appreciate and to address the extent and depth of the concerns people have regarding the EU (and immigration in particular). Recriminations won't help. We are where we are and the road ahead is not going to be easy. What we need now is for folk on both sides of the debate to work constructively together to make the future work.

I see where you are coming from and, remembering voting patterns in September 2014, if any second Scottish vote were to go "Leave" (the UK) you could actually take the quoted passage and replace "pensioners" with "benefit recipients" and it would largely still hold. Then for "£350m a week for the NHS" read "$113 a barrel".... except that, nearly 2 years on, Salmond still hasn't even had the grace to admit to his totally false claim. (OK.... I wonder whose post will be first to cause Serial Offence? Yngwie's or mine?)

Charles, some of the points you make in your posts are very valid, but the validity of them is lost as a result of all the utter sh*te you post as well. Your point earlier about euro-sceptic SNP voters abstaining was a very interesting point and worth further discussion, but all this nonsense about a Cybernat contract etc seriously harms the credibility of any argument you have. I appreciate that there is an element of tongue in cheek but it is perhaps worth reflecting on the fact that for all its faults, we live in a democracy where we can be very critical of the party of Government and have absolutely no fear of any repercussions on our civil liberties. Unless we treat the democratic process and our political opponents with respect, that may not always be the case. The serious political point that both of us are making is that there is a significant silent minority of SNP voters who do not follow the strong pro-EU line of the party membership. The implications of that can safely be discussed without fear of a dirk up the jacksie. It is now a serious possibility that Scotland could become independent following a second indy referendum called on the back of "being dragged out of the EU against our will". Presumably, if an independent Scotland applies to join the EU, we would need yet another referendum to confirm the will of the people on this. Having gained independence, that is when those nationalists who believe that having control of your own destiny means being independent from both the UK and the EU, will come out of the woodwork. We might vote to stay out of Europe! So having voted to stay in the UK and to stay in the EU, we might end up in neither! Best just to accept the will of the people in the 2 referendums we've just have. This will then allow the SNP to do what they have been elected to do - govern the country for the good of the country rather than pursue a goal which the people have already emphatically rejected.

You are wrong...it's 18. Jason Brown, Cammy Mackay and Ali Sutherland are all on pro contracts now. Still more to come though.

Nah, we're just waiting for our signing targets to return from the Euros.

Was it the day we entered the World's Worst Away Kit competition?

And then along came

It is a free add on to the u12 season ticket now. Last season members got invited to a welcome event, a christmas party, easter party and the kickabout.

Laura Kuenssberg on the BBC has just said that she has had a number of anecdotal reports from across the country of turnout being high. In Gibraltar, it's 84% but I don't think anything at all can be drawn from that atypical voting region.

I take it that your desire to suppress opinions which you don't like indicates a Nationalist leaning? Perhaps you also take politics - and in particular politicians - just a little bit too seriously?

DD - this is bang out of order! You are denying the Nats their orgy of selfrighteous indignation. Shame on you! "Pure Dead Bilin', Drumchapel" and "Aghast, Aberdeenshire" - along, of course, with "Seriously Offended Failed First Minister, Strichen" will all have a Cybernat contract out on you. By the way, they normally attack first by lifting the kilt from the back before inserting the dirk - so be sure to wear trousers!

DD - I'm really not worried at all about what anybody who is seriously interested in politics thinks about what I think about politics. As far as I am concerned, politicians are almost universally beyond contempt (except that the SNP are further beyond contempt than the rest) and deserve any and every source of ridicule that comes their way. Most of them only differ from the Ceaucescus in that the Ceaucescus got put up against a wall and shot. These self seeking chancers deserve to a man and woman every opprobrium we can confer on them. Politics in its current form really has no right to be taken seriously at all. That is partly why we have political sketch writers (aka p!ss takers) in our newspapers. The seekers after sexual self gratification who con their way into being elected need to be held to account by way of ridicule. It goes right down to local level where, for instance, local councillors, faced with almost unprecedented austerity and Inverness degenerating into a slum city, seem to occupy their time with a proposed diving board for drunks at Eden Court.