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  1. 10 minutes ago, Scotty2Hotty said:

    Bale certainly carried them through a number of games but even still, it's a team effort in order to win any game and they were getting to the latter stages of major tournaments.

    More solid defenders? I don't believe they had any better defenders than us currently tbh. They bled in the likes of Bale, Ramsey, Davies etc from a teenagers and built up a lot of experience and caps by their early 20's that made them successful for a long period of time. We end up waiting for players to turn early 20's before they start getting regular game time if they're lucky.

    England/Spain/Brazil - Maino/Yamal/Endrick all teenagers starting games for their national teams. These are just three examples I can think of off the top of my head but there has been plenty more. 

    Doig - Probably would be warming the bench but he would of got on at LB once Robo went off and could of been used in previous games in place of Taylor who is bog standard. But nah, Clarke will play him as he's a loyal servant and turns up!

    Doak - Should of been picked in previous squads before he was injured. Drop one of the many CB's or we have or Liam Kelly. Again Clarke, far too safe in what he does, does my tits in as he could of been a wildcard pick. If not Doak then why hasn't Fraser been selected as a much needed winger? We are crying out for them...

    Conway - A lot younger so has a higher ceiling potentially, why not try him out and see if he is our future no 9?

     

     

     

    so in reality Clarke has three potential teenagers he could've called, none of which are particularly deserving of a call up more than their competition except they are younger.

    Mainoo - a revelation for Man Utd lately. any nation would call him up

    Yamal - a once in a lifetime 16 year old with 29 appearances for the Barca first team since April 2023

    Endrick - again e is a regular for Palmeiras, the Brazilian champions. 

    The only teenage sensation we have come close to is Doak who hasn't done what any of the above did. Gilmour was started at Wembley by Clarke at the age of 18 so there is evidence that Clarke will give debuts to speciall talents, patterson also started age 19. 

    until looking into the above I thought Clarke was very stubborn and the whole Doak, Doig and Conway argument only arises when we perform poorly because everyone on here thinks they know the answer

  2. 1 hour ago, ProudScot said:

    Anyone not worried about our form or what’s coming out of Steve Clarke’s mouth is in denial.

    He says he needed picked up by the players after Friday night & after last night he’s said it wasn’t our night and peaking now doesn’t matter it’s about peaking in June…

    30 mins in last night we went 451 but we don’t have a single winger in the squad so we had no width or penetration. The ability to see issues and change things - I don’t see any of that in any of our last… 5-10 games.

    The make up of the squad for June should have changed following these results; less Kenny McLeans & Greg Taylor’s & more Ryan Frasers & hopefully someone who can create, breakdown & be effective in the final 3rd ie Ryan Gauld potentially? Surely we try these guys in the next friendlies!

    I am not in denial, not sure why you think anyone who disagrees with you is in denial. Clarke will be telling the players different things to what he tells the media and he will be backed by the captain and vice captain

    we did go 451 and it worked to a certain extent, Patterson was in acres of space at least 5 times down the right wing. He did get any crosses into dangerous areas, he was clearly struggling last night. on another night he wouldve whipped is some great crosses. Tierney also found a lot of space down the left with armstrong

    Fraser could make a difference, there several balls through to Patterson and two to Shankland which in my opinion were tailor made for Fraser. The question around him is whether Clarke believes Fraser will upset the team ethic within the squad

  3. 3 minutes ago, Malcolm said:


    shankland may well be but I suspect he will be loyal to dykes and Adams unless shankland has a great game in the remaining friendlies.

     

     

    I'm convinced shankland will start. I haven't been on board with the screams for him to start because I felt he was just a finisher and that type of player isn't suited to the way Clarke plays however he is winning me over with these last two performances. He needs a goal against but he didn't slightly better than dykes and adams

  4. 4 minutes ago, Malcolm said:


    what’s wrong with them being Rangers fans and Northern Irish?  One of my friends was in the crowd last night and he is a massive Rangers fan and was wearing a Northern Irish scarf in their end.  He has lived in Scotland for 35 years.

    absolutely nothing wrong with their fans behaviour last night and thought they backed their team well and looked like they were having a great time doing “the bouncy”

    in contrast, I witnessed a hate crime from one of our own fans, who dressed in comedy fashion of a kilt, Scotland top, and one of these funny hats shouts “fuck off back to Ireland you proddy cu4ts”.  He continued with various other anti Protestant shouting.  What a charmer.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    I don't think anyone has a problem with them being Northern Irish and rangers fans, there are plenty of other teams fans in northern Ireland. 

    I'm guessin the problem is with scottish rangers fans being in there.

    I'm sure you are right, they looked to having a great time acting like plastic English fans, booing celtic players despite there likely being celtic fans from northern Ireland in their end. 

  5. 17 minutes ago, Scotty2Hotty said:

    Wales have been performing well above us fot years now and that is in part due to them blooding in a host of quality teenagers... 

    England, Spain and Brazil have all been playing teenagers in recent games so your argument doesnt hold any weight. 

    Why are we still picking the likes of Greg Taylor or Ralston for frnedlies or sqauds who we know what they are capable of/unlikely to ever play when we have youngsters like Johnston and Doig waiting to come through and take their chance. 

    Wales performed well because they had a global superstar in their ranks who scored for fun and they had more solid defenders, it wasn't down to just blooding teenagers. I'd also argue it was down to them having a lack of depth. 

    Which teenagers have England Spain and Brazil played recently? 

    At the moment we have 3 names often mentioned on here.

    Doig - he will only sit on the bench like Taylor. Is it better for him to continue developing with the U21s or sit warming the bench? 

    Doak - currently injured and since being back hasn't been in the Liverpool squad. Who do we drop for him?

    Conway - there's an argument for him to be called up as he plays at the same level as dykes and adams but he is not much more prolific.

    I guess a a goalie could be left out for any of the above. We don't need 4 GKs.

    Who else is there?

  6. For those going on about Wales and Northern Ireland playing teenagers. 

    Neither of those nations are going to the Euros. 

    Wales may have been unlucky but they ain't going. 

    Looking back on last night, Northern Ireland are fucking pish. They played out of their skin in a friendly but they did absolutely nothing, scotland beat themselves. I reckon if we played them again on Saturday we'd batter them or if it was a qualifier we'd batter them.

     

  7. 4 minutes ago, Ally Bongo said:

    Would any "top" nation stick with a manager after a run of results like that ?

    The answer by the way is no.

    We are no longer a top nation and as has been shown over the last 30 years - failure is acceptable to us

    Yes - the 7 games without a win have been "meaningless" - That's one way to look at it i guess going forward

     

    I'm not sure why you refer to top nations. Nobody argue that we are and IMO we never have been top Nation 

    No nation at our level would sack their manager after qualifying the way we did. 

  8. 5 minutes ago, Ally Bongo said:

    In fairness not many countries would hang onto a manager after the string of results like that

    We will - failure is acceptable

    Failure? Are you honestly this fucking stupid. 

    We qualified with games to spare, the rest of the games have been dead rubbers and friendlies.

     

  9. 5 minutes ago, ProudScot said:

    Shankland 100% should have started.

    Team played with about as much charisma as one of Clarke’s interviews.

    We need wingers not Kenny pointy pirate hat wanker McLean subbed on to do hee haw.

    Just gash.

    Oh well nevermind 😂🤦🏾‍♂️

    McLean won the header to create shanklands best chance. 

    Shankland has now played in both matches and has done his chances no harm but he needs goals in the next against finland. 

     

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