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You seem to be approaching the issue thinking of what you prefer as a fan, not thinking of it as if you were a player. By your own admission the performance was good, so the stadium and lack of atmosphere as you percieve it wasn't having much of an effect on the players by the sounds of it.

It's not like St Andrews is tiny and a couple of cowsheds is it. It'd still be way better than most of the stadiums players could expect to play in at a L1 level.

Yes, it will and it will be affected no doubt. But having just football played on it is really very different to rugby. Much heavier players playing in much closer proximity in more concentrated areas of the pitch is much more likely to wreck it. Plus as the ball is largely kept in the air the...

I really don't think you can lump all the tories or labour in as Brexit parties just because their 2017 manifestos supported Brexit. Their previous ones from just a couple of years before that had both party policies as hardcore remain. Main reason they were pro-Brexit was due to political...

Apart from Bright or Thomas, who were here last season and know the Ricoh, a different ground won't be any more alien to a new signing than the Ricoh. If the groundshare is at St Andrews the playing surface may well be better than the Ricoh without rugby on it, which would appeal to the...

I believe the point they're making is that the poster believes that Leave would win in another referendum, and probably by a larger margin. If that is the case what is there to fear from another vote? If you're that confident all a second referendum will do is confirm the leave position and give...

To be fair I don't think you can call one of the primary industries of the country irrelevant. It's got far more clout and influence than I'd like but the fact is it is a major part of the economic make-up of Britain's biggest economic region.

Even leaving won't stop the civil war. Remainers will look for every opportunity to show how Britain has become worse for leaving, Leavers will look for every opportunity to show it's better. It'll still be civil war, just it won't be stopping leaving it'll be we should go back in. People won't...

It's certainly far from a foregone conclusion but it'd have every chance of doing so. Last referendum was very close and the consensus is that leave voters came out in force while many who preferred remain didn't due to apathy and overconfidence as they felt it highly likely that remain would...

I agree entirely, but at least it would give a definitive set of rules we would be trading by and could focus some of those who are under the impression leave means "cherry pick the bits we want and get rid of the rest", especially those in the business world wanting Brexit of exactly what it is...

I was going to put that in too, but the furore of MP's voting for remain against the previous referendum results would just see the likes of Farage et al getting more traction. To get remain it would have to come from the people, hence the second referendum with remain and no deal as the...

I guess we could do it like voting in a GE in FPTP. Usually the party that gets 30% of the vote from 30% of the population gets to form a government. So lets get all the option down at once - second referendum, May's deal and no deal - and then whichever gets the most MP's voting for it, that's...

I'm not arguing that the Leave campaign was massively ambiguous and economical with the truth about what could and would be achievable. But it should've been set out as a clear two step process: 1. We leave the EU entirely and trade under WTO 2. After leaving we begin the process of negotiating...

But people like the ERG will say they haven't moved the goalposts. The referendum stated remain or leave, and leave meant no deal. Whether we later renegotiated a trade deal as a non-EU country is a different matter entirely. There was nothing in the referendum that stated we had to get a trade...

Exactly my point. Take out the people just moving to Brexit from UKIP and and you get 7.4% more votes than last time. Twice as much as Change, but with the Farage cult and his savvy media coverage they got far more exposure than Change, who got most of their coverage as the Independent Group...

So you're quite happily ignoring UKIP's performance, who themselves got absolutely mauled?

But they don't use the same constituency boundaries. And even though the map is pretty much totally coloured Brexit to believe that a GE would have the same result you're in a fantasy land. If you don't believe me look at the previous EU elections and the performance of UKIP. Then look at the...

Martcov: Bollocks! Angry people vote. Brexit parties got 5 more seats than 2014, remain got 20 more than 2014. Remain are angrier. Most people don’t want the snake oil salesman and charlatan as leader. Evo1883:No the fact is turnout in leave voting areas was down. That's not me making it up...

There is something that I didn't get with the PR voting system for EU elections. Why, when allocated a seat, is that parties voting percentage halved? It just seem massively arbitrary and not proportional. If you did that in a general election you'd get very skewed parliaments. If it's...

But doesn't that prove his point? If leave cared so much they'd have gone out and voted Brexit if for no other reason than to make their point they want to leave? Leave not turning out would also support the swing towards Remain parties from the established two being three times greater than...