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Everywhere I look around me, friends, colleagues and family I see only YES. There are many many no's but I am quietly confident. Though I do live in the YES city!

I agree there are a few smaller councils who will declare earlier and give us a good indication of the national picture.

Forget sleeping. We are going to have a very good idea which way the wind is blowing by 3am and I cannot imagine many of us are going to sleep after this point! I have taken the day off but am wondering if I am going to be a drunk man in need of a party!

The Casino in Dundee has a 24 hour licence and lots of TV's.

Meaning?

The consequences of our not been granted membership are calamitous. All the trade agreements coming to an end would be a nightmare. Freedom of movement also. So do we expel all the Spanish who are here and do all the Scots living in Spain return? How would they establish who is Scottish and British? The British Gov does not intend to try and is offering a ongoing passport to all of us for life. Sense will prevail because this would not just apply to Scotland and Spain. All the nationals from around Europe would be in the same position and their governments also disinclined to deal with the mess it would create. We will not be out of the European Union for a second.

Good point! Maybe deep down CALMAC MAN had feelings for Scotty? More limey though he felt like this !!

Watching you two going at it hammer and tongs was always worth a read!

As the end nears for the union I think back over the journey I have been on personally. As a lifelong nationalist I grew up thinking that we should have our own government simply because we were a country and that is how proper countries are governed. My love for football drew me to this board probably not long after it started and for most of the time since I have been a satisfied lurker, enjoying the debate and banter. I remember a poster called CALMAC MAN (or similar) who opened my eyes to lots of other reasons for our need to self-determination and articulated a case for a prosperous more equal future. He left the board a long time ago, saying that he was spending too much time on it. (He probably was)! If anyone knows him please pass on my thanks. He helped to 'arm' a man who had been able to lead lots of others to a YES.

Allow me to indulge with a short account of day.. I was in the City Square today and had 10 mins or so with Mr Sarwar. I had been speaking to one of the Better Together leaflet girls. Asked her about the benefits of the Union and to be fair she gave it a fair go. Talked about solidarity with others but looked uncomfortable with my observation that I feel a sense of solidarity with the poor in lots of other countries. She tried really hard to be positive but at each point had to concede that the Union as it was was falling short, wars, economy, benefits etc. She really seemed like a socialist that did not know which way to turn. Then I caught Mr Sarwar's eye and he came over. Was actually much more pleasant in the flesh than the caricature that we see on the TV. I asked him to give the positive case for the union. He said he could give me five points. I stopped him at four to observe that they all sounded more like a case of 'if you leave this will stop' and therefore not too positive. He said that it depended on the spin! During the rest of the conversation he talked an awful lot about Alex Salmond (think he is obsessed) to the point that I noted that we are not being asked that question. He then started on pension companies and how they would all have to leave Scotland due to EU rules. I pointed out that EU rules are more than flexible when required (i.e. German re-unification and entry). He asked if I thought Standard Life were experts on matters about pension, I said that I did not doubt this but that they were going to leave the country if we voted YES for devolution in 1997. This point he choose to ignore. If I asked any awkward questions he would ignore and keep talking or lapse into politic speak. We then went on to the oil, he asked what the oil tax base was. I told him that our GDP is 99% of the UK average without and approx 107% with. (Think that is right). He told me it is projected to be £3.1bn in 2015 and that this was only enough to cover school education. My response that this seemed an awful lot of money and that I thought the reason for this was due to the increased investment reducing the profits was probably the point that he realised I was a lost cause. So in summary, not as much of a nob as I thought he was totally unable to state a positive case for the union.

Was that parked up on the the path by the Kingsway? Sitting twenty meters down there was a flatbed lorry with billboard size YES. Seemed to sum up the difference in the campaigns. Interesting that the no car had it's driver in it.

I feel exactly the same. Still think it will be a YES though.

Excellent, nothing better than posting about someone being missing to then be told that they are national TV!! I am glad though, he is a total liability.

Gone missing? Benched? Sacked? Lost? Seems to be notable in his absence from the debate the last couple of days. Has he been quietly moved aside and is it co-incidence that that every time I turn on the TV or radio I seem to get Douglas Alexander?

There is more than a HQ?

From who?

I truly think that 60% is possible. No-one is moving toward no and I do not believe that the pollsters can accurately account for both the nature of the question and the huge turnout.

I am yet to buy for this game and will do in the net few days. Price has been a major factor for me. I am waiting to see how the referendum goes for the other matches though. My appetite for Scottish football would be severely diminished by a no vote. (Though I am becoming increasingly optimistic about a YES outcome).

Does he think I will storm the school that I go to vote in? Hassle people outside to vote YES? Throw eggs at the NO voters? Scream 'FREEDOM' into the faces of the 'NO's'? It is a ballot that is done in private you muppet. We have managed to not intimidate the Tory voters for over 40 years who are a smaller minority than the NO voters are likely to be, pretty sure we can do this without incident. I have no more idea what a Tory looks like than a No voter.

Not how it worked out in Spain a few years ago. Different circumstances I know.