Lambies Lost Doo

Yes it does. It's only £10 a minimum donation and open to all.

England - £40 Scotland - £0 Australia - £0 New Zealand - £0 Ireland - £0 Other countries to be added - £0

A wee note to say "The Nomads" are trying to raise funds again to sponsor a player. Same thing will be £10 a pop and that will give one draw at end of season to see who can win the strip. Remember the more you put in then the more chance you have of winning. http://www.wearethistle.co.uk/forums/index.php?/topic/4016-player-sponsorship/ Please PM me for details and I will give you my paypal account. I've started the ball rolling so at the moment the country representation is England - £20. Scotland - £0 Australia - £0 New Zealand - £0 Ireland - £0 Other countries to be added - £0

I can offer my paypal account for people to place funds in. I will place the first £20 in for "The Nomads" Thistle fans across the world (and East Lothian). Please PM me for details as I don't like putting me details on the web and we can get this ball rolling. We will aim for a player born outside Scotland to keep in with the Nomads theme.

Last year "The Harry Wraggs" website sponsored 2 players. This is by far a better message board so we need to beat those young scamps. Lets get a bit of internet rivalry here.

I would like "The Nomads" to also sponsor a player if we can. Always liked to buy a program and see our sponsorship on the occassional trips back up. Lets others know there are more of us far and wide in the world and it's not all Old Firm ex-pats out there. I've paid for wearethistle donation but would gladly give money to the nomads efforts.

Is the website sponsoring another player or two this year? I would be up for donating money in the pot.

Because many are useless ********. They drink too much, they smoke, they eat bad food. It's personal choice. Best way to change it is cultural habits but that takes a long time to change in people. People blame poverty but how much does booze and fags cost? How much does an apple cost in respect to a packet of pringles?

If you were to compare Bearsden with say Tower Hamlets or Merthyr Tydril or (London)Derry or some areas of Teeside then you would see a gap there but why look at that fact and instead have a wee nationalistic myth.

Was speaking to someone yesterday , told me a few things about his time at their old job and was suprised to say the least , hopefully the future goes well for him , undoubtedly a talented guy.

Gerry is a great figure head for the youth scheme and Jackie and Simon are both intelligent young experience footballing men. Through in Ian Cameron who was a skillful player himself and the other youth coaches I am impressed at what the club is doing and how they are going about things. Thumbs up for the club. Positive overload.

Struggling for jokes. Trying not to use the usual jokes from the internet and would welcome any recommendations from people on the board.

For me I've yet to see any argument for other than the all promising vagueness of hope and deliverance. I don't think the Scottish psyche is any more progressive than say English people. If you were to say that about Indians or Africans then you could (and I am not accusing you before you jump down my throat) lead to accusations of gentle racism. Our psyche is good and bad as with all countries. Bad = sectarianism and you don't that in England who are bemused by it. Just look at the Chief Executives of SPL and SFA over the whole Lennon affair. Emigration is a "fresh start" no matter where you are from. For me NZ is expensive, far away and pretty boring but for you it means other things. I don't buy your romanticism that you had to leave from the tryany of Labour and Conservatives. The main thing for me which I find daft is if Scotland was independence you would have a SNP rump who would say "we are Scotland's party" you must vote for us and the other parties will be Labour/Social Democratic, Liberal, Conservative, Green.

Millions of people marched against the Iraq invasion in London, Scottish, Welsh and English. It was promoted by a government which was dominated by my fellow Scottish countrymen.

Hi Jaggeraut the quote and reply is getting a bit messed up but in reply to yourself. Who knows what the difference might be? If you never try, you'll never know. We've tried 300 years of London, and that's enough, thank you. So you want to divide a stable democracy where there are about 500 000 English living in Scotland and the same if not more Scots in England to basically "give it a go"? Again you use London. Geography. In England. Despite it being one of only two really international global cities where people from all over the world are attracted to (the other being New York) somehow as it's based in that far away land of England then it's bad. Oh, I forgot, the unionists in Holyrood blocked the only serious attempt to address alcohol abuse. Minimum alcohol pricing is a tiny piece of what is needed. Culture needs to change. Moving away from "getting on the bevvy" plus councils and police already have huge powers to control drinking via current laws which are never used. Yes, many people migrate, but it's usually because their economic and/or social situation makes their native country no longer attractive enough to keep them. We live in a globalised world. Populations move all the time. 100 000 Poles came to Scotland at the peak and the majority all worked. Where did these jobs come from and why did native Scots not take them? There is a over reliance on the state and a work ethic that has been diminished in many parts. The left leaning SNP (when it suits them) wont help that. Entrepreneurship and getting off ones arse will help. Nationalism does not promote openness but inward looking and accusing fingers of not being Scottish enough and being a traitor wont attract people, keep them or open up investment. I think the main reasons people leave is the weather and the sense of adventure. That will never end. Overall to me nationalism is a bizarre political viewpoint. By luck you are born in Scotland. If you were born in England would you be a supporter of the English Democrats? Would you want to give two fingers to people in Newcasle, Liverpool, Leeds etc and say I'm doing my own thing. Thanks for Welfare State, NHS, ability to bail ourselves out from the credit crunch but GTF anyway and look at Ireland and Iceland who were part of the once mythical "Arc of Prosperity".

London, Brussels, Edinburgh. What's the difference? East coast good. Brussels good. London bad. Has our health and life expectancy improved during the SNP governance over the past 4 years? Health can be improved by social learning and promotion of better habits. A lot of our problems can be cured via families and people showing their children the right way to live. If people cut down on cigarettes, drink, ate less fatty foods and went and did some exercise then the stats would improve dramatically. You don't need politicians for that. As for people having to "abandon their country". What's wrong with moving, living a different culture, improving your job prospects or simply enjoying better weather? Sounds like your nationalism is showing through. People are individuals and can move if they want. Migration is used by politicians for political means. Germans and English moved to America in huge numbers but this is totally ignored by people for their own political hunger instead talking about poor Scots having to move to flee economic and political pain.

You have been watching too much "Trainspotting". There are god and bad things about the place much like every other country. I do hate nationalism of any kind no matter how it gets dressed. It is not Scottish people making decisions, it is Scottish POLITICIANS making decisions in a land grab situation. If Scotland was separate from the UK then it would be lowland v highland or east v west. Scotland v London or the South is just the same "them and us" mentality. People are disappointed about their life so they look at a promising future which could never the attained. This feeling of disappointment is as much to do with society, celebrity debt laden I want rather than I need culture when looking back at history with rose tinted spectacles. Separatism is not the answer especially when the SNP are advocating keeping the pound, keeping British armed forces in Scotland, Bank of England setting interest rates and weakening our power in EU (who make so many decisions), G8, UN etc.

BJ - I think with your union activities and political ideals you are not going to change your opinions but I think the NHS is more pish poor than good. So many times I've had relatives, mostly elderly, get poor treatment by people with worrying levels of empathy. Only because they had relatives there to stick up for them did they have to provide the basic care they were expected. Extra money does not mean better service. Also a good part of money would be freed up if people ate better, exercised and layed off the drink and drugs. A social contract should be signed by every citizen and every piece of treatment that could have been avoided takes money away from services such as maternity and childrens cancer treatment.

The Tories do not call the shots. There is a coalition of Conservative and Liberal Democrat which makes up the Westminster government and there is cross party work and private members bills. The SNP are in charge of the devolved areas so they need to stop blaming Westminster for these issues. They are very good at deflecting blame by blaming evil London - that multicultural, liberal, international city one hour away on a plane. I didn't choose the SNP yet they call the shots for me. The UK is stable and democratic. Watch the news and you see turmoil in places close to us like Greece. Look into the growing support for far right parties in surprising places like Denmark and Sweden. A politician is looking after their constituents but mostly their own back to climb the greasy poll in the party. Look at the history of Alex Salmond with the '79 group and his hard left policies and now he sucks up the business and dodges any real questions on independence. I am Scottish because I was born in Scotland but what do I have in common with a fisherman from Peterhead, a crofter from Skye, a privately educated lawyer from Edinburgh and a farmer from the borders? A Nationalist cannot answer this because they are obsessed with geography, national borders and "us and them". I can answer it. F all. I have more in common with mates from Belfast, Manchester, Cambridge and London. We live on a small island, it's better to work together.

It's not about "the Scottish people" making their own decisions it's about another set of politicians making the decisions. The UK is a stable, strong and democratic country. Nationalists talk as if we are repressed by the mythical English as if they are an exotic and different bunch of people. Already the SNP are changing their talk from independence to conferderalism. It's a power grab by people who are not good enough to get elected into Westminster.

Sounds like a bit of a stramash.

Voting Conservative x2. Would like to see Galloway get in as it would shake the parliament up. Salmond gets his own way too often and the standard of debate at times can be very poor. I would like to highlight that a vote for the SNP is a vote for the separation of the UK. They trumpted Ireland as Scotland's role model. They trumpeted Iceland as Scotland's role model. They are both bankrupt and bust.

Walter Smith ......

Gutted about this. Really like Ian McCall. Will make for an interesting close season now. Can't wait to find out the full story.