Texas Pete

Adams scores for Southampton.

I genuinely can’t remember enjoying a single friendly in the last 20 years. Brazil in London maybe but that’s about it (and even that had nothing to do with the actual game). Don’t know why I bother going to them.

Depends how much money you’ve got and how desperate you are to see a football match I suppose.

£301 and a lighter. It’s a Colibri. Refillable.

It really is crazy. Anything over £100 for a game of football is obscene.

They (and a few others) are all the same person.

I only put Chripper on ignore and you have just made the list. See ya.

Again, that’s not what I meant. You are free to reply but you misunderstood my point because it wasn’t aimed at you or your points.

Mate you’ll be banned (again) shortly. I’m not the one who has a problem. Catch you on your next incarnation.

That’s not what I meant. You were inferring a meaning from a reply which had nothing to do with you or what you were asking. Are you hard of understanding?

I wasn’t replying to you Chripper.

Grow up.

😂😂😂 I have many problems. I’m also not that wee.

Mate you’ve just proven you’re Chripper. Nobody else would say this. You’ll be banned in a day or two.

😂😂😂 I’m perfectly calm and I’m not that big. Maybe you should just fuck off?

Chripper’s spelling and grammar were very good and he made a lot of good points. Are you mixing him up with someone else? You better be careful or people will suspect you of being him as well.

Nobody on here is saying he needs sacked (as far as I have seen) but I have seen people say it elsewhere and have heard it with my own ears at Hampden. Unless anyone on here is a football manager I’m not sure we can convict Clarke of not using the games properly. You’d need to ask the man himself what he was looking out for in these games.

A very long shot indeed. Especially since a lot of the tickets for this game are just under £600. Lots of people who were actually entitled to tickets have paid that already.

He was an annoying bastard that got right on everyone’s tits. Much like yourself. Must be just a coincidence.

I actually didn’t think you were Chripper but you’ve obviously been disguising yourself and now I do. How have you been old chap?

Jesus

Should really be TDS. The Dark Shite.

Yeah but this thread seems to have been resurrected because of the last 2 games. The players and formation used by Clarke on Tuesday should have been more than enough to beat NI but we lost and ultimately it doesn’t matter. If Clarke had been desperate to get a result against the Netherlands he wouldn’t have made the changes he did in that game. Some people (I’m not suggesting you are one of them) seem to think that we need to win friendlies at all costs and if we don’t we are in some sort of crisis. Clarke has made and will make more mistakes. If he was a perfect manager (there’s no such thing) he would likely be managing Real Madrid or Bayern Munich and not Scotland but the fact is he has got us to the euros without even needing the playoffs and we are in League A of the Nations League. Anyone who would want him sacked now because of some poor friendly results would need their head examined.

We had to play someone but aye tournament warm up games are always a bit flat. I’m just glad we are not warming up another team to go to a tournament which has pretty much been the case for the last 26 years.

I’d rather he made mistakes in meaningless (result wise anyway) friendlies than qualifiers and Nations League games where he has done exceptionally well overall. Clarke will ultimately be judged on his qualifying record and what we actually do at tournaments when we get there and not on bounce games against Netherlands and NI. He didn’t exactly cover himself in glory at the last tournament but he has a chance to put that right in June. As long as he learned something in the last couple of games then those games should have some sort of benefit ahead of the Euros. If we beat Gibraltar (surely) and Finland (or at least put in a good performance) we can forget all about the March friendlies and go to Germany with the confidence we should have after our qualifying campaign.