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It's all we've got, to be fair. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
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The ugly thumb has been in such 'form' Tony Watt gets a game ahead of him for Scotland. You forgot you've got big bomb scare Efe in there?
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He wins the game & you still slate him, yer a hard man to please Franco ? :confused
Never mind that tho, theres only one game tomorrow, the 'shire derby' C'mon the " WEE VER " ![]() |
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the keeper to thank for it. .
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He looked great in his all green strip, dont you agree ?
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Contrasting fortunes for the home nations ...
Scotland win away to the Czech Republic in a friendly and it is doom and gloom. England win away to Germany in a friendly and they are champions of the world. Who would be a Scotland fan eh??
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Contrasting fortunes for the home nations ...
Scotland win away to the Czech Republic in a friendly and it is doom and gloom. England win away to Germany in a friendly and they are champions of the world. Who would be a Scotland fan eh?? ![]() When it matters is a different story. This the opposite of how it used in the better days |
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We seem to have developed this habit of winning under Strachan when it doesn't matter friendlies and dead rubbers,
When it matters is a different story. This the opposite of how it used in the better days You don't hand a team the initiative but setting up with that formation - that is exactly what happens. |
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Contrasting fortunes for the home nations ...
Scotland win away to the Czech Republic in a friendly and it is doom and gloom. England win away to Germany in a friendly and they are champions of the world. Who would be a Scotland fan eh?? ![]() |
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Another 1-0 win "no football" type of game - I would only give pass marks to McGinn on tonights performance. So many passengers who shouldn't be anywhere near a Scotland squad figured tonight and none of them did themselves any favours ...
Pitch was just about as honking as the game itself and 18k has to be one of the poorest, silent hampden internationals for quite some time. Somebody is going to give us a right doing if we continue playing like this ... |
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[quote=crofter;81971310]Another 1-0 win "no football" type of game - I would only give pass marks to McGinn on tonights performance. So many passengers who shouldn't be anywhere near a Scotland squad figured tonight and none of them did themselves any favours ...
Pitch was just about as honking as the game itself and 18k has to be one of the poorest, silent hampden internationals for quite some time. Somebody is going to give us a right doing if we continue playing like this ...[/QUOTE Even in friendlies we sit on 1 nils we probably won't get away with it in competitive games |
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Strachan's football philosophy is dreadful to watch.
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Strachan's football philosophy is dreadful to watch.
I know people who had season tickets for 15 years and then gave them up during Strachans reign, he got results but it wasn't pretty, at times it was painful. Now it's the Scotland fans turn to find this out the hard way! TBF though we aren't exactly spoilt for replacements. |
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No shape, no purpose, no width, players out of position - simply 10 men chasing the ball around and when they get it punt it up the park or lose it within 2 or 3 passes.
I also heard he took Tierney off at half time because he wanted "more height", meanwhile up front we have the giant trio of Anya, Maloney and Griffiths ... On a serious note - how poor a player has Scott Brown become this season. Anonymous in the captain's role apart from getting involved in every bit of fisticuffs going. |
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Scotland don't really have the players to play good football though Mulgrew, Maloney and Snodgrass are the only technically good players who spot passes and are decent in possession all the other players aren't the best of footballers, so the team is going to be limited. If Scotland want to play good football then they need to produce better players to start with.
More guys like McNamara, Mulgrew, Robertson, D.Fletcher, Lambert, Ferguson, Snodgrass, Maloney, McFadden and less types like Hutton, Weir, Hanley, McManus, Dailly, McArthur, Anya, McCulloch, Boyd and Miller. |
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Scotland don't really have the players to play good football though Mulgrew, Maloney and Snodgrass are the only technically good players who spot passes and are decent in possession all the other players aren't the best of footballers, so the team is going to be limited. If Scotland want to play good football then they need to produce better players to start with.
More guys like McNamara, Mulgrew, Robertson, D.Fletcher, Lambert, Ferguson, Snodgrass, Maloney, McFadden and less types like Hutton, Weir, Hanley, McManus, Dailly, McArthur, Anya, McCulloch, Boyd and Miller.
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A young Dailly, Weir or Miller would get in ahead of any of the bollocks like Mulgrew and McGinn or Fletcher. Strachan is leading us nowhere with this turgid football and friendlies where he caps the same old shite. He was pacing about waiting on the whistle like it was taking us to the Euros. It's depressing seeing him in charge and knowing we are going to blow it in Slovakia or Slovenia and Strachan saying 'ach well it wasn't must win'.
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where he caps the same old shite. '.
away for a kip ya numpty
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A young Dailly, Weir or Miller would get in ahead of any of the bollocks like Mulgrew and McGinn or Fletcher. Strachan is leading us nowhere with this turgid football and friendlies where he caps the same old shite. He was pacing about waiting on the whistle like it was taking us to the Euros. It's depressing seeing him in charge and knowing we are going to blow it in Slovakia or Slovenia and Strachan saying 'ach well it wasn't must win'.
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He gave Kieran Tierney his first cap, the youngest player in 53 years,
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Think the real issues are he persists with the same old players despite multiple tournament failures .
We are very close to being able to field a team of 30 somethings . Fielding players who aren't fit or haven't seen club action for months , he said this was going to stop but it's not. This is now championship level players who are not getting selected by their clubs. The ignoring of spfl players outwith Celtic who are in form The calling up of complete randoms because they are a big lad etc and then never seen again. Players playing at u21 level not being allowed to progress This will end the Craig brown way where the team was about 35 and they all needing to be replaced at once and no one to replace, yet vogts got the blame for this |
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A young Dailly, Weir or Miller would get in ahead of any of the bollocks like Mulgrew and McGinn or Fletcher. Strachan is leading us nowhere with this turgid football and friendlies where he caps the same old shite. He was pacing about waiting on the whistle like it was taking us to the Euros. It's depressing seeing him in charge and knowing we are going to blow it in Slovakia or Slovenia and Strachan saying 'ach well it wasn't must win'.
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Think the real issues are he persists with the same old players despite multiple tournament failures .
We are very close to being able to field a team of 30 somethings . Fielding players who aren't fit or haven't seen club action for months , he said this was going to stop but it's not. This is now championship level players who are not getting selected by their clubs. The ignoring of spfl players outwith Celtic who are in form The calling up of complete randoms because they are a big lad etc and then never seen again. Players playing at u21 level not being allowed to progress This will end the Craig brown way where the team was about 35 and they all needing to be replaced at once and no one to replace, yet vogts got the blame for this Mulgrew, Brown, D.Fletcher, Morrison, Naismith and S.Fletcher are probably still needed though because theres not much other options in their positions. Only problem is there isn't that many good younger players to actually get a game, Tierney could play right-back even though he's left footed unorthodox but it could work. McGinn should stay around the team, hes a solid midfielder - probably the only player in Scotland I would sign for Celtic. Liam Henderson is promising but still needs a full season at Celtic or in the SPL or a decent League to prove himself more. Other than them I can't think of anyone decent or deserving of a game. There's Tony Watt as well although he needs to screw the nut, I could imagine him being a good Scotland striker though, quick, strong, skillful but he could also not amount to much as he seems a bit wild and stupid off the park. Also Gauld and Christie who look to have very good talent technically, watched the U21 game the other day and Christie played very well, not really kicked a ball for Celtic yet same with Gauld at Sporting. Maybe could include players like Tierney, Henderson, McGinn, Christie, Gauld and Watt in the squads all the time though not as if there would be any harm in leaving out guys like Cooper, Whittaker, Bridcutt, Dorrans, Forrest, McCormack, C.Martin and guys like that who've done nothing and don't get a game anyway |
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He gave Kieran Tierney his first cap, the youngest player in 53 years,
away for a kip ya numpty ![]() ![]() How a midget like Strachan can make a decision like that must peeve every young shortarse in the land ,,, Out of these 2 games we have learned very little from what seemed like a cast of thousands. |
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away for a kip ya numpty