Al, yes, I stayed up to watch the first results and during the umpteen news items, there were a couple that I only partly heard. One was that Salmond wasn't going somewhere, didn't catch whether it was the Declaration of the result or his "victory" party and the other was that at one of the (at that time) undeclared results, the "Yes" campaign were conceding defeat before the count was even completed let alone declared so defeat was on the cards from early on.