Barney Rubble

Even by your recent standards that is nonsense.

Awful from Celtic last night. Theresa May could do worse than call Brendan for advice on how to exit Europe.

Ah well - normal European service resumed.

Red was my impression too. Guardiola lost the plot with an opposition player earlier this season, didn't he?

Hearts were utter junk from start to finish today. Lucky to take a point.

Delusional. But I'll indulge you - why do you think he deserves a second chance?

We have different views of the game - it happens. You enjoy your weekend, and I hope to share a beer with you in Peru, Mexico, Israel or Albania.

Whichever way you dress it up it means we lost when we needed to win. I call that a gubbing. Your view may be different, and you are entitled to cling to it.

Whether it was 1-2 or 1-6 we lost a game we had to win. So we got gubbed - no two ways about it.

I don't think that anyone has said on here that they will boo the new manager - I stand to be corrected though. Having said that, it is already evident that he has minimal, and I mean minimal, margin for error. He has to win the opening two friendlies to give him slack for the ill-considered jaunt over the Atlantic. He's toast anyway if he fails to win the home games v Albania and Israel.

Handing a team - any team - a goal in the first minute and claiming you held your own against them and still got gubbed is stretching credibility. Using your measure, my team (Thistle) more than held our own against Celtic last Saturday from the 10th minute onwards. But we still don't feature in the next round of the cup as far as I can see.

CC, it's not an OBLIGATION to take the Scotland job, which is what you seem to be making it out to be. The SFA and the rest of us have no right to expect that SAF, KD, GS will take the job just because it's available It's up to the SFA to make it ATTRACTIVE for someone to take it on. There's a reason Michael O'Neill didn't bite, and it's very likely the same one that SAF et al haven't done so either in the past.

You do get it that while Kenny, SAF, Graeme Souness et al are candidates and may even have been interested in the job, it has to be on their terms? And you better bet your life that the SFA wouldn't have been willing to accept those terms. Doesn't mean they didn't want the job though. As for Joe Jordan, it is incredible given his CV as a coach at the top level, alongside his record as a Scotland player, that he has never part of the coaching staff at some point.

Your memory is being selective. It was a good performance, but one that was full of holes. Italy did what THEY had to do in that game, ably aided by Davie Weir handing Luca Toni the initiative within a minute. After that they ran the show, and were denied a legitimate second goal from Di Natale. We got a dodgy equaliser from Ferguson, and then the supposed chance that Faddy missed which has grown arms and legs and ten years on has become a sitter. It wasn't. And let's draw a veil over the last couple of minutes, where Kris Boyd made no difference at all at any end of the park.

Dalglish may have been interested in taking the job on anytime 2000-2012, but a financial deal could not be struck - Joe Jordan also put himself forward so many times over the same years and was constantly overlooked, and I'd still take him today over McLeish. Ferguson has never been a serious option after 1993.

What age are you? Ferguson oversaw Scotland in WC 1986, so your statement about him is blown out of the water by that plain fact. Dalglish has never, ever, ever been offered the job despite having the perfect credentials for it on every aspect for the last 20 years. Why wasn't he offered it? Because Gordon Smith always was/is/will be a fanny that didn't fancy someone who has a better standing in the game on his patch. So it was given to Craig Levein instead. And now it's too late for Kenny. He doesn't need the challenge, the hassle or the money. George Graham? Don't make the entire board laugh. Moyes - he's like McLeish - likes to be touted for jobs but when push comes to shove what's best for David Moyes' ego and bank balance comes first. And where there are other options................... Which leaves us with McLeish. Not in a job and therefore no compensation required. He's clearly not an upgrade on Strachan, who had at least found the right direction to take us in. It's a shambles.

Thank fuck for that, anything to get that prick away from Sportsound. Hopefully he'll appoint Billy Dodds as well.

'I see it as a bit of fate and it's meant to be.'

He managed Genk, not Gent.

This in spades.

Wow - unpreeeeecedented demand - how many got killed in the rush to sign up?

They've mysteriously omitted to mention the criterion/a for that...........

The spurious point for the overpriced home games is an attempt to create a false demand for an uncompetitive product.

Yes.

Hurry and grow up, then it'll be even cheaper for you!!