Yngwie

Phew, delighted to get a win today.

He certainly seems to do better when he doesn't have time to think.

It seems to depend on where the goods are despatched from. If it is normal online grocery shopping that gets delivered from your local supermarket, the new laws apply. If however it is a wine club that delivers from a warehouse in England, they can still do whatever offers and discounts they like.

I think that was Nostradamus. It's incredible that someone centuries ago could have predicted The Simpsons.

I'm hoping they get kicked out of the Euro because I've got some left over drachma at the back of a drawer somewhere. Only a few quids worth but the way things are its probably enough to buy Crete.

Dougal's questions focus on the capabilities of individual defenders, but the other key element of a good defence is of course working as a unit, building an understanding. In that regard, the constant changes mean we are effectively still at the pre-season stage.

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About the same as ICT keeping a clean sheet!

Respectable result, and possibly our best defensive performance away from home this season?

0-0, then Golobart comes on......

I should add that there are new laws which come into effect a week today. It becomes illegal to offer quantity discounts on alcohol. So if a shop sells a particular bottle for ?1, a 6 pack has to be ?6, and a box of 24 is ?24. This obviously pushes prices up for us, because at the moment that box of 24 is probably less than ?16. Shops will work around that particular rule by delisting single units, which ironically means that consumers have no choice but to buy larger quantites! The new law also means the end of alcohol BOGOF offers, 3 for 2, 3 bottles of wine for ?10, buy 6 bottles get 20% off etc etc etc This only applies in Scotland. Salmond is obviously keen for us to follow his healthy lifestyle.

I think the proposal is that the tax is applied to supermarkets with rateable value greater than ?300,000, which I think would only really impact the first 4 names you mention. However, as with most taxes, you can see how the scope would increase over time and it is likely to end up being applied to every registered seller of alcohol and cigarettes which would be very damaging to wee shops. CaleyD is spot on that the cost will just get passed on to us anyway. The SNP are waging war on these products and they are also introducing minimum pricing on alcohol which again will push up the prices we pay, and lead to a big increase in profits for the likes of Tesco etc. There are some social benefits from making alcohol more expensive, but it will just boost the illicit trade and duty evasion that is already rife. If petrol wasn't so expensive we'd see booze cruises down to Carlisle. Football fans will certainly be hoping for more away matches v Berwick.

And the winner of this week's "most interesting phrase" award.....

He doesn't like the commute, unsurprisingly, and doesn't plan on being there much longer. Scotsman:

Butcher pleads for patience

Dull dull dull. BBC picked the wrong match.

The clubs are currently checking that the proposed date meets with Dougal's approval.

For kids nowadays the opposite is true.

Thought we were very good in the first half, controlling the midfield and looking threatening on the attack. But poor defending cost us this game. Not for the first time, and not for the last, I'm sure.

The fundamental problem is actually that people are living longer. For some of these defined benefit pension schemes the contribution levels were set decades ago. If in that time life expectancy increases by 10 years and you expect a pension of ?10,000 a year, then someone somewhere has to find an extra ?100,000 to fund your retirement. Do these public sector workers not think it is reasonable that they put in a little bit extra, bearing in mind that they are the ones who will be getting the extra years of income at the other end? Or do they think that other people (me and you) who donm't have the luxury of a guaranteed level of retirement income, should fund it all for them? On this particular issue the strikers will get no sympathy whatsoever from me. Reality check needed.

It's ridiculous because of the inconsistency whereby students from all over Europe (except England) can come to Scotland and get a free university education, even though they would have to pay fees in their own country.

Cool, only ?15 to get in. The Gerry Kerr stand is the old, wooden seated bit just down the touchline from where we normally are.

Aye, and Lennon can consider himself very lucky I wasn't there at that point....cos I'd have issued him with a strongly worded letter.

I think the match referee is assumed to have made the right decision unless there is clear evidence that he got it wrong. Which he did. I had a great side-on view of the incident and there was quite a few inches of daylight between the two players heads. I was so angry about it that I wrote to Martin O'Neill telling him what a cheating, lying ***t his club captain was, but to this day he still hasn't replied

Surely he didn't have any say in the matter, the keeper kicked the ball off Ross's legs and it rolled out to Tade.