Where does that end and Upper Middle begin?
Troon
Where is the word hate used ?? Hate is a big word and should never be used flippantly .
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And is there a Middle North as well, or is it just the Norths, Upper and Lower?
I’v never come across hateful atmosphere at a rugby game thankfully. Plenty rivalry on the field and a healthy respect off it. A gentleman’s game as they say mate 
The Conservative and Unionist Party went from holding 3 of the 6 constituencies in Edinburgh in the 1983 General Election to 2 seats in the 1987 general election and that with a much diminished vote - James Douglas Hamilton in Edinburgh West and Malcolm Rifkind in Edinburgh Pentlands would both lose their seats ultimately in the Tony Blair landslide in 1997 to complete the Edinburgh Tory wipeout in Westminster. Michael Ancram in the long standing Tory safe seat of Edinburgh South was one of the few casualties for the Tories in the 1987 landslide. There is simply no merit in your proposition that either the Lord Steel, Liberal voting Scottish Borders or Edinburgh in 1990 were bastions of support for Baroness Thatcher. Electoral results in the general election immediately prior to this in 1987 bear this out conclusively. You’re the one that’s time wasting here.
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The Rugger Buggers don’t like it up them.
Hi har
We were having a grand oul chat here about rugby before the pretend ra lads popped in spreading bile and bigotry
Time to hand over the lunch money
The Scottish Rugby set is pro tory mate
Edinburgh as a whole isnt
Pretend RA?
The only clampings here are the self clamping from @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy blissfully unaware of the existence of the Border Reivers and you for piggybacking onto him on a subject you know nothing about. The Scottish Borders didn’t have the population or the inclination to sustain a professional rugby franchise. There was huge opposition to professionalism in the SRU, none more so than in the Borders region. Hawick and Galashiels the two biggest towns would barely have populations of 15,000 each. Kelso, Selkirk and Jedburgh (Jedforest) would have populations of 4,000-5,000. and Melrose is a village/small town of 1,500. Amazing to think these six towns with a combined population of less than 50,000, provided 11 of the starting 15 that won the Grand Slam for Scotland in 1984 and in 1983 for the British Lions provided the coach and 5 of the 30 players that travelled to New Zealand.
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Ive dealt with this already
Stop making up arguments and then responding to them with inane facts
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Ive dealt with this very badly already
Fixed that there for you chief.
Nembo and TSG have had more clampings here than Dublin’s northside on all Ireland hurling Sunday .
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Good one
John Collins is another of the former Glasgow Celtic players unionist brigade. When the Scottish FA were a little tardy in cancelling an international fixture in the aftermath of the tragic death of the Princess of Wales back in 1997, Collins was particularly vociferous about the fact he wouldn’t be playing if it went ahead the day of the funeral.
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what did the other squad members say mate?