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  2. Reports Liverpool are now saying that there is nothing serious with Robertson, and its only going to be weeks he is out and no operation required
  3. So you think it's fine that a home friendly before a major tournament wasn't a sell out and there is literally nothing the SFA could done to shift more tickets?
  4. The president of the Polish FA literally said when asked in a interview 2 weeks ago about the venues stated that one game will be away from Warsaw, but would not make a decision until after the Euro play off's
  5. Anyone ever tried ferret racing?
  6. No it doesn't. A number of people didn't want to fork out travel, food (drink if applicable), days leave from work - its not just your match ticket pal.
  7. That's because alot of Scotland fans get carried away and become delusional like you are doing right now. Most of the experienced Scotland fans who had followed Scotland for years knew that we were not remotely guaranteed to get out of the groups. They had seen Scotland fail at major tournaments with much better squads and it was always a case of if trying to get a results against Morocco and norway. We arrogantly thought it was a poor group but Morocco were African champions and Norway were a decent side. The hope was a win and draw coupled with a bit of good luck would see us through. Having experienced euro 96 and WC 98 I know that any Scotland fan expecting us to get out the groups needs a reality check. We can do it but it's not a certainty or even a 50/50. Also I have never been upbeat about our group. I think it's deceptively tougher than what ppl think and we will need a good bit of luck to get out of it.
  8. I think this post was created when Clarke lost in Dublin a few years back. If he lost in Armenia he was on a shaky nail. But we won in Armenia and went onto qualify for two European Championships in a row. Of course it would have been nice to beat Northen Ireland but that's football. SC has been round the block and has worked with best, HAVE FAITH.
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  11. You're just making stuff up now. In the run up to France 98 - Paw Broon said that we were the underdogs of the group. We had an ageing and probably the weakest ever squad we'd taken to a tournament at that stage (and we'd never progressed beyond the group stages with better squads). We had the reigning champions and eventual finalists in the opening game - a real possibility was a hammering that we'd never recover from and our World Cup being over before it started. Morocco were the top team in Africa (Pele had said an African team would win the World Cup before the end of the century) and the team's official song was "Don't Come Home Too Soon". The last time we were confident of doing something at a tournament was Argentina 1978. Since then, and including the 1980s, expectations when we have qualified have been tempered that to get out of the group would be an unprecedented success.
  12. Heard Lisbon was confirmed but I can't find it anywhere.
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  14. There's a big difference in believing in yourself and being delusional. It's not a weak mentality to be able to make a good analysis on our chances of doing well at the euros. Our history at major tournaments factored in with squad strength and current form will tell you that expecting us to get out of the groups is not likely. Regardless of FIFA rankings Ukraine are a good side and have achieved far more than us in the last 10/15 years. We will be doing well if we can have a 50/50 record against them. They are a strong side and are capable of beating us at home which is sadly what happened in the play offs. Also our squad isn't hugely better now than previous ones from the last 20 years. We still rely on guys who play English championship and often line up with 3 English championship players. Clarke has managed to get the best out of guys like dykes and porteous who play for average championship sides. It's Clarke thats the main difference and few bad results in meaningless games shouldn't change that fact.
  15. Clarke is responsible for a massive part of that, the SFA a wee bit and McLeish about 0.1%. McLeish v2 was an appalling time to be a scotland fan. You're repeatedly downplaying his achievements.
  16. The point being that it wasn't just one person getting us there but a culmination of events
  17. Minor point, but they did intervene at half time. Stewards were placed to maintain segregation between them and the lower south stand, so keeping those taunting back. Re. national anthems, I had to watch the timing wee lass signing ours so I knew when to sing, as I couldn't hear a thing for the baying NI mob.
  18. Oh come on, even level headed fans were expecting us to qualify from a really poor group at 98 WC. Before the recent frendlies, people were very upbeat about the group we had and thought we would do well. Since the downturn in form then things have probably changed again. I do agree it's a tough group and shouldn't maybe said 'expected to get out the group' but i "expect to be challenging to qualify out the group", if it's anothe repeat of the last euros then i will be extremely pissed off. If so, then I wouldn't be saying to get rid of Clarke or anything but I would want him to at least show that he's learned from the experience. My expectation comes from not wanting us to waste this team that we have at the moment and losing big games (like the one against the Czechs or Ukraine)
  19. He needed to come top 2 in a 3 team group with Israel and Albania which yes, in fairness, he topped. Clarke then did the hard bit and actually got us to the Euros. And then he went and got us promoted to League A.
  20. That game was a reality check for playing a motivated team and increasing frustration as the game went . Though the chances did increase at the end . not shutting up the banter rich visiting supporters did not help. introduced to football in the 70ā€™s I must admit to numerous hate offences in the company of hundreds sometimes thousands of other offenders. my first trip from central to mount Floridaā€™78. The train fair bounced along to ā€œif you hate the fukin English, clap your handsā€ The songs at Elland road about the Yorkshire ripper and the adaptation of Brown Girl in the ring , not to mention the Munich ditties. The banter did prefer the ā€œlie down if you hate England ā€œ and ā€œyou can stick your fukin hating up your arseā€ from Franceā€™98 . what were the possession figures! And as the Dutch coach said , it was ā€œunbelievable ā€œ that we hadnā€™t scored in their match. Whatā€™s like us , eh.
  21. Depends what you mean by 'expected'. The expectation level in 98 was that we had a 50/50 chance. Obviously you had some eternal optimists who always think we will make it out the groups but your level headed fans knew it was roughly 50/50. I wasn't old enough to remember the 70s and 80s but we had amazing squads back then so it was a given that fans expected to do well at tournaments. Don't know where you are getting this idea that alot of ppl will be expecting us to get out of our group this year. Our chances of making it out of the this group is probably less than 30 percent. I base that on the fact we have never been out the group stages and our recent results have been poor albeit against top level opposition. I might have put us at 40 percent (or more) before our recent run of games but we have looked poor and I think we are in a tougher group than most ppl think. Either way I just want to enjoy that we are going and Clarke has delivered what every manager since craig brown couldn't. If he fucks it up in Germany then I won't be too critical and he can leave with his head held high knowing he at least broke the curse of not qualifying for 22 long years.
  22. I don't understand why you are harbouring on about no qualifying for a while? We have failed to qualify as our team has been stinking as well as our youth teams. Things have changed since then. McCleish was a big part of why we actually got to the previous Euros and the SFA have made big changes to the development programme which has helped bring through a lot of quality youngsters which in turn has aided Steve Clarke whilst manager of Scotland. More of our players are going abroad to the likes of Italy, again furthering their development for the better. The Fifa world rankings are not exactly a full proof rating of how good or bad a team is. If you are beating fodder then you will jump the rankings for example so I wouldn't pay too much attention to this. Ukraine are on par with us as proven by recent matches but at home, I would expect a narrow win as we have one of the best squads we've had in decades and should be expecting wins against these types of teams. Switzerland have been doing very well to reach recent tournaments but did you see any of their games or results even in their last qualifying group? They struggled BIG TIME. We are good enough to beat them... Hungary are a very good team but again and will be a tough game but they are not good enough where we should be fearing them. There is no reason why we can't beat them as we've beaten better oppposition in recent times. I have no anger for Clarke, I just wish he would be more flexible in his tactics and try out players on form especially in freindly games. He is going with the tried and trusted and I fear this will only end one way and we will see a repeat of the last Euros we were at. We are way too predictable at times, you could see how well NI defended against us recently, it will be the same if we don't change something. You need to have some more belief in this team rather than have a weak mentality about it all. This country has this attitude and it gets right on my tits as we are always playing down everything!
  23. I don't think they have although She's Got Balls did cross my mind at one point!
  24. First point in bold, in 98 everyone expected us to get out of your WC group, in the 70's and 80s again everyone expected us to get out the groups. Again this year a lot of people will be expecting us to get out of our group. If we get to KO's and get a lucky draw then there's a chance we will get further. It's not "delusional" as you say, it's called having belief in the team to do well as the quality is there to do so. I believe Clarke will be thinking similar, just not stating anything publicly.
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