Kingsmills

I still fear that we will fall just short of qualifying from this hellish group but at least we're competing again.

I'm afraid that I tend to agree with Sophia.

It certainly helps.

Fit

I rather like the way they constantly set themselves up for a fall. Bring on the Russian bear !

Not a bad combination of results for Scotland. A point in Paris would set us up nicely. A tough ask but not impossible.

He wasn't a bad player for Dunfermline but, by all accounts, has being playing poorly for Sheffield Wednesday of late.

I remember that match, a very decent crowd who were fairly disappointed in the fringe nature of the Scotland XI. Ithink you might be right about the score DJS.

You forgot to include the Tesco lorry.

To be fair toBlckpool, tha probably says a lot more about Colin Hendry's managerial ability than bout Blackpool FC.

Yes.

Wouldn't argue with that, he may turn out to be an even better aquisiton from our friends overthebridge than Rankin.

Welcome, be prepared for a stormy ride !

I'm sure that the moderators wouldn't have taken the action they did unless the situation had become extreme. Let's hope that those concerned heed the warning.

I agree, there is a link between yobbishness and lack of dicipline. Physical force, however, is not the answer.

Most of us over a certain age were subject to corporal punishment either at school or at home or both and, while it may have done us no obvious harm, it doesn't make it right.

I agree that we should do all that we can to encourage responsible behavior and respect but there is, in this day and age, no excuse for a large human being in a position of influence assaulting another smaller more vulnerable person no matter what the provocation. I speak as one who has been sorely tempted to wallop my own kids and others on many occasions !

Clean.

He's a competent player who can play in a number of positions and he is still young and developing. A useful addition to the squad.

I know, it's a dilemma. It tends to be the same group of people who volunteer for school boards and other bodies who end up in positions of influence often quite unrepresentitive of those they purport to represent. Maybe there's an argument for approaching people at random drwan from the electrol roll or council tenants list.

I agree with tha last sentance but many of the issues which bring children and famlies before the systwm are rooted in poverty, relative or otherwise, and it would certainly help if those affected by those issues were dealt with by people more akin to their peer group.

Paragons

Didn't realise that Inverness was so far from England.

Bodes well for the future.

I encounter the Childrens Hearing system from time to time and while it tends to work reasonably well on limited resourses my concern is that, in this area at least, the panel members tend to be middle class and comfortably off whereas most of those children an parents appearing before it are not. In my opinion it's not just about numbers but reaching out to recruit members more representative of society as a whole than is currently the case. It seems to me that it's often difficult for even well meaning individuals to fully appreciate the difficulties faced by families from radically different backgrounds to their own.