Jaggernaut

Let's say almost 50% of people are now leaving school and going on to further education. In many cases (e.g., nursing), these days it's an obligation, not simply a whim. So, 3 years at university in order to treat bedsores and empty bedpans. Most of the people that I know who are graduates are not in especially highly paid jobs, and those who are will be paying higher taxes in any case, so they're already paying back any advantage. The whole expansion of the university sector was actually so that the government wouldn't need to pay masses of unemployed youngsters, then they went further and further to the point where people have been conned into thinking that getting tens of thousands of quid in debt before you even start out in adult life will somehow solve not only their problems but some of the government's too. The argument is exactly the same for health care. Why shouldn't we pay if we want to get or stay healthy to improve our chances of getting or staying in a job? I suspect that a lot of people look on students and higher education as a soft target, but not health care, and yet there are millions of chancers costing the NHS billions every year through malingering of one sort or another.

Then why stop at education? Why not pay for all your medical services too? And I don't mean a token few bob here and there for prescriptions, I mean the full whack. Maybe once you've paid up front, if you survive, you can pay it back for the rest of your life.....

What's the crowd like?

That's right. I remember the H*n equivalent. But the material was definitely not silk. But there was a another kind of scarf that was also black with diagonal red and yellow stripes, spaced further apart, and with a thistle logo between the pairs of stripes. That had more of a silky feel to it. There are still quite a lot of thse kicking around too.

Anybody taken a look to see what Clyde supporters have to say about all of this?

Correct. Correct. And correct.

Maybe, if they want to play in front of nobody on a freezing Friday night!

That is indeed very interesting. But I wonder what they're aiming for, a Gretna-type "fairytale" financed by crazily obscene amounts of money, or merely a lower-division hobby club somewhere that's slightly less of a wilderness than the Croy/C'naud outback.

Scary, yes. See related thread on main forum.

Not really, but thanks for the alert!

Apart from maybe relocating the changing rooms and a couple of offices (goodbye to anything like the Aitken Suite, or a stand worthy of the name), when (if) anything actually gets built on the bing in god-knows-how-many years from now, how exactly will this be a significant boost for the club? Hasn't the club already received all the money that it was going to get from selling that part of the ground, and that money has already gone toward getting our debt level (slightly) more manageable? Have I missed something?

Wasn't construction (at least partly) financed by the OKI electronics company?

That's OK. Big WK has been playing well.

That's OK. Big WK has been playing well.

Broon is probably doubling his wages for laying with the sheep.

I really wonder where they would go. If it's back to Rutherglen, most of their old supporters will be deid, or no longer interested in football. Other folk there already have their allegiances or no interest. And any young supporters that Clyde do have are probably from Cumbernauld, and will desert if the team moves away (God knows, they've already deserted them in droves in the last few seasons). Also, where would they get the money to build a stadium? Personally, I don't see them going anywhere.

John Flanagan was a great wee player, one of my boyhood heros. Tommy Rae once told me that Flanagan was the most talented player that he'd ever played alongside. Here's a great photo of him (the other player is Rae) in a short-lived Thistle strip that I'd love to see revived: http://ptfc.fotopic.net/p5814655.html

So, what if Thistle sold up at Firhill, came into profit, and negotiated a great deal to lease Broadwood. Would you follow Thistle to Cumbernauld every other week? Edited to add: I tried to set this up as a poll, but failed miserably.

Front row, 2nd from the right: Martin Chivers. Who's the youth with the dashing moustache in the middle row?

That's not bad at all. Might get myself one of those. Err, where's the Glasgow Uni shop?----Found it online. £24.95. On second thoughts, I'd rather give that money to the Jags in one way or another.

I'd like to see McBeath get right back into the picture. Maybe as a sub to get things started.

Excellent news! Enough of pre-Christmas cold turkey! I really hope I can make it to this one.

At the moment I'm just grateful that the Centenary Fund and the Hall of Fame dinner were able to raise enough cash to keep things going over this difficult period.

Tres interessant. I wonder if this might be some kind of political posturing by Clyde to try to wrangle a better deal out of the cooncil, who otherwise will be left with a white elephant of a stadium on their hands. Devil's advocate: How about Thistle moving to Broadwood? Nah, we'd never move to a poxy 3-sided stadium, would we? Or a 3-way share of Firhill between Jags, Warriors, and Clyde?

That's exactly it! For the tartan scarves (both the fluffy kind and the smooth kind), I'd certainly go for replacements. By the centenary scarf I mean the modern one that's in Greaves. Do you mean another kind?