steelboy

Why would we need Gogic on top of Shaw? We've just extended Maguire and Donnelly has started the last two matches so we have three players for that role already plus Slattery did well in that position at Easter Road which makes four that can cover it.

£100,000 isn't enough if we don't get a proper replacement in. If we get someone who can go straight into the team or someone to develop on a long term deal then fair enough. But if we are doing the usual last day of the January window routine with minimal quality available then we need to be well compensated to weaken the squad. We don't want another Harry Smith or Eddie Nolan situation.

You can't seriously believe that putting restrictions on the less than 2% of people who attend football matches, clubs and gigs for the handful of hours they do these activities in a week saved lives? They actually admitted there was no science or reasoning behind it and it was all signalling.

Brown lived in Troon. McGhee, McCall and Robinson all lived outside Scotland. Robinson eventually moved to Scotland for personal reasons. Not sure about Barraclough. Malpas commuted from Dundee.

Great news. We've often had managers living outside Scotland or away with international squads but Alexander seems committed to doing the job properly and it is getting us results.

Hopefully Drakeford will be dribbling about Scotland being an outlier tomorrow. This is the guy who made it illegal to buy underwear from a supermarket during the first lockdown. We are not talking about a great intellect.

Remember when Robinson started big Chapman ahead of Archer? How far we have come.

We never saw a lack of effort from Crawford but he didn't have any part of his game that was better than ok. Good luck to him.

It should be Tuesday.

I don't know about that. The small proportion of over 60s who have chosen not to vaccinated are far less healthy in general than their peers and would be likely to be badly impacted by the virus vaccine or not.

It'll be difficult to make sense of those figures now as the Scottish Government legally changed the definition of unvaccinated the other day. Unvaccinated now means 0,1 and 2 doses plus people who are triple jagged but had their booster less than 14 days before their positive test.

It's 20 days since Sturgeon said Omicron was dominant which meant taking over Delta which was widespread. All the signs are pointing to this being far milder, it's not going to suddenly change severity. The Scottish Government today finally put out figures separating out who is being treated for Covid and who has Covid in hospital for two health boards. It's 60% for and 40% with which translates to roughly 500 people being treated for Covid in the whole of Scotland which is good news.

You posted that you think 60% of the entire Scottish population have Covid today. The BBC story is the total number of infections during the entire pandemic.

Your fear isn't reason to put the football off though. That's a reason for you to stay in the house. We are now 20 days into our Omicron wave and there has been no spike in serious illness. This matches data from South Africa, London and Denmark. It is undeniably far milder.

You think 3 million people have Covid in Scotland today? Have you got some sort of disability relating to numeracy? Al B posted the actual figures for the last week of 2021 in his first post on this page.

If Celtic are giving him to us very cheap then it probably makes sense to take him. I can't think why they would do that though..... Slattery, Donnelly, Cornelius and Maguire all need games for various reasons and sticking a loanee who won't be here next season in the team ahead of them might hurt us long term. The guy should join the back of the queue.

Hospital admissions have run 10-14 days behind infections throughout the pandemic. The ICU figures from London show far fewer hospital admissions needing ventilation despite them having the lowest vaccination rate in the country.

100% correct Al. There has to be a reckoning over sending untested people into care homes at the height of the first wave. As he says cases are higher here despite the darts, football, clubbing, gigs and not wearing a mask to go for pish in England. If it's not full crowds from the next fixture I think there will be a serious backlash.

https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-daily-data-for-scotland/ Yesterday there were 11 thousand cases with 23% positivity. On Monday were there 20 thousand cases with 35% positivity.

Infections and positivity rates are dropping.

Who is wearing a mask in a pub?

They may have got a deal on The Thumb after the email stuff.

You could have said the same about ZFA, Page, Carswell and McHugh in Valencia.

Our new restrictions. England was higher than us before the new restrictions because London had more Omicron. The rest of England and Scotland are similar in those figures. The next update on restrictions is next Tuesday which will be almost 4 weeks since the Scottish Government proclaimed Omicron the dominant strain. If Omicron hasn't resulted in an ICU spike by then it never will. The figures from South Africa and London are very optimistic.