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  1. The Georgia players are in the tunnel now - hopefully that's them coming out...
  2. If the referee has decided to play the game and Georgia decide not to play - are they not forfeiting the game?
  3. FWIW, Norway are 3-0 up against Cyprus now.
  4. 21:15 is the new scheduled restart time...
  5. It's more than playable now. I've seen games go ahead under much worse conditions.
  6. Exactly. Regardless of whether the game continues tonight or is played tomorrow - it starts at 1-0 Scotland. There's no possibility of the game getting completely restarted.
  7. Apparently an abandoned game would be replayed at St Mirren tomorrow! 😲
  8. Looks significantly better. You can see the difference where people are walking; not as much water is being picked up.
  9. Tbf, their manager was complaining prior to the corner. Georgia would've scored if their attacker knew the ball would've held up as much as it when they had that opportunity after three minutes. It effects both sides equally.
  10. Christ knows how that game was allowed to continue - possibly only because neither side was complaining about the conditions. Most of the pitch by the South Stand was under a puddle in that game.
  11. Of the relevant groups for the Westminster VI: 2014 IndyRef: Yes - 15% DK; 7% WNV (combined ~80 people in the sample) No - 16% DK; 8% WNV (~108) 2019 vote: SNP - 16% DK; 3% WNV (~63) Lab - 8% DK; 3% WNV (~15) Con - 18% DK; 3% WNV (~39) LDm - 15% DK; 4% WNV (~13) Age: 18-24 - 9% DK; 13% WNV (~28) 25-49 - 17% DK; 19% WNV (~145) 50-64 -18% DK; 7% WNV (~65) 65+ -12% DK; 6% WNV (~44) In terms of certainty to vote (a score of 0 to 10) by demographic (against at Westminster): 2014 vote - Yes 8.47; No 8.37 2019 vote - Con 9.16; Lab 9.03; LDm 8.87; SNP 9.21 Age - 16-24 6.36; 25-49 7.07; 50-64 8.55; 65+ 8.91 Returning all the 2019 voters back to their 2019 party, leads to roughly: SNP 38 (+1), Lab 26 (-3), Con 18 (+1), LDm 8 (nc), Oth 9 (nc). That would be about 38 SNP seats (-10), 10 Lab (+9), 6 Con (nc) and 5 LDm (+1). Most of the Labour gains on those figures would be very marginal. 6% of 2019 SNP voters (of those giving a VI) say they'd vote Green at Westminster right now too. If half of those return to the SNP, that takes the SNP to ~40%, others to ~8% and the unionists stay the same as above.
  12. The games against England and France (if confirmed) are friendlies and the primary purpose, from the coaching staff's point of view, will be providing players with experience against top sides. With the England and France matches coming directly after important qualifiers, we'll probably not be playing a completely full strength side in either game which would allow for some players to get some game time against high level sides without the risk of failing to qualify - I'm thinking players like Lewis Ferguson, Nathan Patterson (assuming Hickey starts the qualifiers), Josh Doig, etc. will play a major part of those games, but might not play a huge role in the qualifiers. We'll also have six matches against high level sides in late-2024 with the Nations League and we'll play those sides if we qualify for any major tournament. It's important for our players to be comfortable playing against those sort of sides.
  13. I believe the Italians are focusing on Euro 2032, with basically all the stadia listed being either redeveloped or new. The fact they'll need to redevelop so many stadia is a major factor as to why they're looking at a later tournament. I think the Spanish have a joint bid for the 2030 World Cup with Portugal and Morocco.
  14. I'd be much happier if the English decided to bid on their own. They don't have any requirement to have the Celtic nations added on the bid, other than for political reasons. England had nine stadiums in the shortlist, with Old Trafford, the Olympic Stadium and the Stadium of Light all missing out. Other stadiums which they could've used include Leeds, Sheffield Wednesday, Derby, Coventry, Nottingham Forest, Brighton and Southampton. Some of these grounds could benefit from some redevelopment and this would've been the perfect opportunity to do it. I'd rather the SFA considered a joint bid with the Welsh and Irish, as opposed to tacking on to an English bid. We'd almost certainly have more than one stadium used. Millennium Stadium, Cardiff (74,500) Croke Park, Dublin (~70,000 seated) Murrayfield, Edinburgh (67,144) Celtic Park, Glasgow (60,411) Hampden Park, Glasgow (51,866) Aviva Stadium, Dublin (51,700) Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow (50,817) Cardiff City Stadium (33,316) New Aberdeen Stadium (~30,000 for the tournament, could be lowered to ~20,000 permanently - see the London Olympic Stadium for what I mean) New Dundee Stadium (~30,000 for the tournament, could be lowered to ~20,000 permanently) Swansea Stadium (Would need expanding from 21,088) Easter Road, Edinburgh (Would need expanding from 20,421) Racecourse Ground, Wrexham (Would need expanding from 15,500) Ireland additionally has multiple GAA and Rugby stadia with capacities around 30,000, which could be redeveloped to host matches. Some of the smaller grounds in Wales could also be redeveloped with some temporarily given capacities of ~30,000 - Llanelli, Newport, etc. Of course the big issue would be whether the funding would be coming from for the redevelopments - this is almost certainly why the SFA are willing to jump on to an English bid (funding to redevelop Hampden) - and having too many stadia in Glasgow. The latter point could be alleviated by ensuring one two of the grounds are used at any one point of the tournament. I think Turkey would make more sense, for various reasons, but I have a feeling the UK/Ireland bid will win it.
  15. Whether we could've won Euro 92 is debatable, but the Euros back then were very strong; you'd never get a Euro group with the world champions and both previous Euro finalists now. Given the circumstances it was probably one of the most respectable tournament performances we've ever had. Getting to that Euros was an achievement in itself, as you mention. I think that Denmark side was underrated at the time. They got knocked out in the qualifiers narrowly by a Yugoslavia side who could've won the competition themselves. Their squad would've featured a number of Red Star players who won the European Cup the season prior and would've made two successive finals had they won their final match in the European Cup groups that season. Even if they hadn't been banned from the competition, they would've likely been without any Slovenian, Croatian, Bosnian and Macedonian players who would've been in the squad though.
  16. From what I've heard, the loan was made during an election campaign for cash flow reasons as opposed to keeping the party solvent. There'll be a things that cannot be reported at this stage due to the potential of contempt of court of course.
  17. Greater context is needed for those figures: Year Income Expenditure Net Assets Net Liabilities 2002 £972,976 £1,039,091 £115,575 £486,304 2003 £908,200 £1,394,090 £86,822 £972,362 2004 £1,305,775 £999,141 £518,139 £747,263 2005 £1,085,446 £1,186,867 £135,264 £885,778 2006 £1,836,405 £1,384,154 £232,995 £577,219 2007 £2,562,970 £2,803,560 £327,838 £912,652 2008 £1,768,384 £1,700,401 £260,006 £776,837 2009 £1,842,127 £1,737,609 £372,893 £785,206 2010 £1,861,995 £2,167,720 £280,920 £998,958 2011 £5,030,916 £3,453,882 £1,458,931 £599,935 2012 £2,300,459 £2,656,059 £887,419 £384,023 2013 £2,038,245 £2,776,898 £300,100 £535,357 2014 £7,048,050 £7,297,545 £381,691 £866,443 2015 £6,010,002 £5,454,507 £1,434,547 £1,363,804 2016 £4,873,386 £6,174,393 £1,036,310 £2,266,574 2017 £5,800,371 £5,098,383 £1,035,800 £1,564,076 2018 £4,748,450 £3,629,097 £1,834,876 £1,243,799 2019 £5,290,815 £5,609,024 £1,513,312 £1,241,396 2020 £4,427,421 £3,337,000 £2,383,456 £1,021,119 2021 £4,510,460 £5,262,032 £1,630,454 £1,055,689 It's almost guarenteed a party will spend more than its income in an election year - only in three election years (2011, 2015 and 2017) has the party had a net profit. 2011 appears to have been boosted by early donations for a referendum, 2015 was likely a result of the membership surge and 2017 was perhaps a result of the unexpected nature of that election. A big issue has been there's been very few years since 2014 where the party hasn't been contesting an election of any sort - the party hasn't had an opportunity to build up cash reserves for a few years. Assuming the next general election is in 2024, that would represent the biggest gap since 2014 without an election: 2014 - Euro elections, Indyref 2015 - General election 2016 - Holyrood election, EU referendum 2017 - Local elections; snap general election 2018 - none 2019 - Euro elections, snap general election 2020 - none 2021 - Holyrood election 2022 - none 2023 - none 2024 - Likely general election
  18. I got ten - missed the former Celtic captain, Motherwell/Wigan/Rangers midfielder, midfielder who played in England/Scotland/Australia and manger in English Championship.
  19. That win tonight, coupled with Norway drawing with Georgia, takes a huge amount of pressure off of the June matches. A draw in Norway would be a good result with the three bonus points we've picked up; a win would mean we've have to collapse not to qualify automatically (realistically). A draw against Georgia wouldn't be the end of the world after Norway dropping points against them, albeit it would need to be compensated with a win against them away - something we already know is not straight forward. The guarenteed play-off spot is hugely beneficial too. While this is clearly a Spain side in decline, Norway's 3-0 defeat in Malaga perhaps shows we're ahead of Norway in ability right now (even if you add Haaland back into their squad). With Hickey, Patterson, Ferguson, Gilmour, Doig, Ramsay, Ralston, Turnbull and Campbell all having time to improve as players - even Tierney will only have just turned 26 by the time of the Norway match. There's a possibility our strongest squad will be stronger come June. This feels like a squad which can qualify automatically for the Euros; our World Cup qualfiying performance would've been good enough to qualify automatically for the Euros. This is the second qualifying tournament in a row where we've beaten the top seeds at home - and I think the Spain side we've just beaten are better than the Denmark side we beat. There's still the banana skins of Georgia (both home and away) and Cyprus away, on top of both games against Norway and a trip to Spain, so we can't be too positive yet. However, we're in a position we've not been in since Euro 2008's qualifiers - and in that campaign we were battling with the two World Cup finalists (Italy and France) and a World Cup quarter-finalist (Ukraine) for two spots. In this campaign we're battling a declining Spain, Norway, who remind me of the mid to late 2010s Wales (a decent squad with a couple of world class players), and an improving, but still outsiders, Georgia for two spots. There's the potential now we could be qualified by the time we travel to Georgia in November and a real possiblity of us being on the plane by the time we face Norway at Hampden in the final qualifying match as a result of our win tonight. I think the result, and performance, tonight proves the last qualifiers weren't a fluke and we can seriously start to consider outselves as part of that second tier of European nations (with Serbia, Switzerland, Denmark, the Czechs, Poland, etc.) It's just a shame we have to wait until June until our next game now!
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