AS a former player, who was proud to wear Ayr Rugby Club's pink and black hoops, it perhaps ill-beholds me to be critical, but, the new Scotland change strip is - so far on the extremes of bad it is: FUCKING AWFUL.
As a St Mirren fan once remarked when he first clapped eyes on the old Clydebank "explosion" change strip from the days when Wet Wet Wet sponsored them: "Who designed that - Stevie Wonder or Marti Pellow on a particularly heavy trip involving 'substances'?"
I worry about the design lecturers at our art colleges, when you see some of the combinations which today's fashion designers come up with.
Mind you, Scotland has previous on tasteless strips. The rot began with the notorious 'garter belt' shorts for the 1986 World Cup, and it's been downhill ever since.
For my money, the last half-decent Scotland strip was the 1978 World Cup one - with the Umbro diamonds down the sleeve seam.
Scotland's rugby team, regardless of the results, for me, looks more like a Scotland team when wearing this season's 'back in blue' home strip. Of course, that was Italian-designed.
We have to have a change strip, so, what was wrong with the old traditional Rosebery strip of blessed memory? Salmon pink and magenta hoops, over white shorts, with the time-honoured dark blue socks with the red band on top. Old-fashioned, but classy, just how I want my Scotland teams to be.
I SEE Dave King has again been spouting forth to a compliant MSM. This "convicted criminal" (copyright Mad Phil from Donegal) seems to see himself as the Keeper of the Keys to Ibrox, the Last Bastion of Decency and Dignity - didn't stop him fiddling his taxes though.
When you see a guy who has already donated and lost £20 million to the Rangers Brand trying to re-define himself as a sort of Young Pretender, trying to rally the Ludges, if not the Clans, to restore the old traditions - well, if you're me, you smell a rat.
I suspect the first thing DK wants is his £20 million back, plus a wee profit for his troubles. This, to me, makes him no better than the current spivs trying to help themselves to the seemingly bottomless pit of money from gullible Bears prepared to fund the lavish life styles of the men at the top at Rangers - aye, you too Alistair.
The SFA could do Scottish football in general and Rangers in particular a very big favour if they were to announce that, on account of his conviction for tax fraud in South Africa, there is no place for Dave King in Scottish football.
POOR we Michael Johnston is back in trouble from the Killie fans. Somebody has worked-out that the inevitable Celtic league triumph could be sealed at Rugby Park, so, the natives are bracing themselves for another MJ sell-out, as he hands over virtually the keys to the ground to the vast Celtic following he expects to want to be there to witness history.
The Killie fans will, not for the first time, be decamped to one small corner of their own stadium to witness the coronation, and, they aint happy.
Since football today is all about money, you can hardly blame MJ - I mean, it's not as if most of the seats inside Rugby Park have a bum parked on them, other than when either half of the Bigot Brothers turns-up to win the league there, so, who can blame him for seeking to cash-in.
That said, the one-horse-race which is the Scottish Premiership, hasn't exactly been a big drawing card for the Celtic Family this season. I expect them to turn-up at the ground for the trophy presentation, but, be little bothered about events there or elsewhere pending that date.
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