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I don't think anyone who doesn't live in or near Edinburgh quite gets how difficult it is to want Hearts to win I'm not particularly proud of myself but it is a very basic gut reaction

I get you. Although power and control are pretty universal in the animal kingdom and so no system is ever born in a vacuum. There are attempts to change some of that. Believe it or not HM Treasury is committed to well-being as an alternative metric to GDP. I’m not holding my breath though.

This is the issue for me. Morrison looks like he’s getting comfortable in a 3 but Robinson has said that his preference is to play a 433. If he has designs on moving to that once he’s stopped the bleeding then Morrison is a big risk in that.

You might not be missus, but I certainly am proud of you

You may be onto something! Boomers don't really understand the internet so when right wing (Gen X) influencers post something they may not have the skill set to decipher it?

It’s not entirely a trope. There’s good polling data on correlation between population characteristics and voting patterns.

I work for a large oil services company and safe to say that over 90% of the folk in the office are university educated. Most of these folk are right wing, with quite a few reformers amongst them. I'm a qualified accountant, but not university educated, but very much on the left politically. Id say a reasonably educated person would vote, whilst folk from poorer backgrounds tend not to bother. I think it's a right wing trope, that the 'educated' are all wokist, lentil munching, left wingers. Social Media has to take a large share of the blame for the rise of the right wing nut jobs.

Morrison has some big flaws. It's fairly clear that we have to play a back three if he's in it, to make up for those. That's fine, but it then means that wingers won't be a thing either. I think Milne has the potential to be better than Morrison over time, and I'd be inclined to stick with him as the development player.

People can just be cunts.

Ok, bit of a sweeping generalisation, point taken. As Mason says, correlation between education and informed voting decisions is pretty well documented. Education isn’t necessarily about schools or higher education and qualifications, it’s about world views, understanding of different cultures, awareness of the impact to others, exposure to life beyond your own bubble. The more of that you get, the more likely you are to vote in a collective, humanitarian way. You only need to look at a political map of the US to see the effect.

There’s been studies done on this. People on the right of the political spectrum are thicker than those on the left. You can see that played out in countless real life examples. Then you get the folk who think we’re all fucked anyway so theres no point

There is a significant population of conservative minded Scot’s who are pro-union and if they think Reform is a better option than the Tories they’ll switch sides without blinking. Add to that the uneducated who drink the populists kool-aid and reform will secure between 8-12 seats I suspect.

The turbo prods would vote for the drown a puppy party if it was best placed to beat the SNP

Fuck knows who thinks voting for Reform in Scotland is a good idea. Fucking wallopers who will do absolutely fuck all apart from look after themselves.

To be fair to Tommy, everyone in the country knew he was a prick for the best part of 25 years. Alba was a party born out of people not knowing what Twitter troll farms were. It was doomed to fail, which was kind of the point

I am still holding out for the orange skinned man child turning the world to ash before any of three win the league.

I'd like to think after two wins in a row, the confidence will rise and we'll skelp them. But I'm not sure we have that in us (although, the last time we did do that, it was against Livingston). Would be nice to just get through this split unbeaten, if anything to just lift the pressure on Robinson, who hasn't been cut much slack at all since arriving.

Should these things not already he absorbed into the ticket price? Like I say, Aberdeen banked a few million from guaranteed group stage football yet we still tend to charge more than other clubs for play-offs/qualifiers. Let's not also forget Cormack's madcap idea to build a 16,000 capacity stadium to "drive up the demand", which sounds chillingly to me like a US-World Cup style dynamic pricing model.