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7 hours ago, theabsentee said:
Let's just be a nation of losers then, let's get pissed & not even bother attending the game because we're only going to get humped when we play anyone that's decent, again if your happy with that good for you but I'm certainly not.
If we were incapable of picking 11 Scotsmen in a team without being losers then we deserve to be losers. As it happens we are quite capable so no need to go down that route like the rugby team
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I'd rather pick Scottish players for Scotland. or else international football is meaningless,its just like club football.
Just look at our rugby team, all English, South Africans, Aussie and New Zealanders with a minority of scots in the squad as our country can't produce rugby players anymore.
Fair enough the likes of McTominay with a Scottish Dad can reasonably claim to identify as Scottish but granny rule has always been a joke and I'd rather not see us use it. I'd sooner see the likes of Daniel Armstrong - who is performing well week in week out- get a call up than the likes of Harvey Barnes who are just taking us as a back up option because his national team doesn't seem interested. Where's the pride left when you're resorting to that?
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Well Athletic Bilbao's policy of only picking Basque players and Sociedad only Basque and a small number of foreigners creates that situation every year. Would be interesting to see how the OF teams, or indeed most the SPL would cope with that local player policy!
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That's a lousy angle to judge but from all the footage I've seen Hendry was pretty clearly offside and interfering. Definitely not a foul. Pity as Mctominay aced the free kick and Hendry didn't need to be where he was
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Clarke's just making himself look like an idiot now though as he had confidently proclaimed just a few weeks ago that Anderson had spent time weighing up his options and now decided to commit himself to Scotland and now he's contradicting that again by saying he needs time again to think it through! Basically acknolweding that the whole injury in training thing was a sham
He's already set his stall out with Adams and Gunn that he's going to indulge English players and long as they like until they decide they can't do any better so its inevitable you get situations like this, and will continue to do so. At least he's not going begging after Barnes now (not that he'll be available for a while anyway)
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That makes no sense
30 minutes ago, wanderer said:Keith Downie interviewed him earlier this week, and he said he is still very much making his mind up......
I suspect he tried a bit of what Aaran Hickey did a few years back, and skip the U21's to be straight into the main squad.... Clarke called him up to get a look, probably told him straight that he is not in his short term plans and will be a squad player for the next couple of years, and Anderson has probably thought that he will keep his options open for those couple of years.
Still think when Euros come around he will be back
That makes no sense at all. Why would Clarke call up a player who had been dithering for years over his identity and then make a big deal of how he had now pledged his allegiance to Scotland, then tell him actually he wasn't really in his plans at all so he can just wait and see if he gets a sniff in a couple of years?!? There's no chance that's how it went down.
Anyway those on this thread who insisted, due to their personal insight, he merely withdrew from the last because of an injury and is still fully committed to us (same as he did three successive under-21 squads whilst being fit to play for his club either side) clearly know better
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6 hours ago, ceudmilefailte said:
Pretty hard to get into a midfield that allready has four top half standard EPL players.
Really annoys me when Armstrong comes of the bench these days ahead oh him.
I'm not impressed by McGregor's form so far this season. Not sure its even lower half EPL quality, let alone top half. I'd prefer Ferguson in his place and then we've got a team to keep going for 2026 world cup. Can't see Clarke ditching Mcgregor any time soon though.
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Never made any sense his doing it over the last two years but still keeps happening!
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Anderson actually has plenty of form for this, if you've been following his international career. Almost always pulled out our under-21 squads and then was fit to play for his club either side, which is how he managed only a single cap at that level
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Could be the defensive Jack Harper for all we know. If TA board members picked the Scotland team Harper probably have had thirty senior caps by now because he used to play for Real Madrid youth team
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August 19:- Pretty emphatic:- "If I had to choose between Scotland or Australia, I'm choosing Australia," said Dykes.
"Scotland have a great team and my parents are Scottish. Obviously if I had the choice I would always pick Australia."October 19:- wavering slightly:-
He said: “I grew up in Australia so I’d probably choose Australia if both of them came in for me.
“But it’s hard. My parents are Scottish and I have Scottish blood.
“If Scotland came and Australia didn’t come, then obviously I would like to play for Scotland.
August 20:- 180 degree turn:- "I always knew deep down I was going to pick Scotland, to be honest. Without Scotland, I wouldn't be playing football."
Footballers are so full of sh*t! 😄
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Can't believe people are still arguing Hornby should still be in the senior team, I thought he'd stopped being flavour of the month by now. Not good enough to get near the Everton first team and discarded by them having not even impressed in Under-23 football, mediocre performances for a mediocre Belgian team who he lost his place at, and looked poor in recent under-21 games. Yet because he's not played senior football in England or SPL people can mythologise about him being a lot better than he is , as nobody can see him in action to disprove it.
And James Scott as well?? Are we that desperate for strikers???
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15 hours ago, Taylor1996 said:
Groan. Does anyone want me to go through this, again?!?! I sure as f#@$ don't!!
Fine. Once more with feeling.
People bitch and whine about Andrew Robertson not being as effective for Scotland as he is for Liverpool. And they're correct. He isn't as effective for Scotland. Why? Because for Liverpool they usually dominate the ball and if you look at the heat map for Liverpool, he spends 75% of his time on the left wing. Whereas, for Scotland, he's either being pinned back in a left back position, because our ball retention is embarrassing, or he simply doesn't see the ball, as our ball retention is embarrassing.
Why do Austria play David Alaba as an anchorman? He plays center back or left back with Bayern Munich. They play him there because he's their best player and he can get the ball more often when he's in the middle and influence play.
As for McGregor, he reminds me of Lingard of Manchester United. He looks proactive and lively, without actually doing anything. As for Jack. No.
Our best football players are Tierney, McTominay, Robertson and McGinn. If they play in the middle, they'll see more of the ball. It's not everything, but at least it's a foundation.
Tend to agree about why Robertson looks impressive for Scotland but trying to convert him in to a midfielder (already our only strong part of the team) isn't the answer. Alaba can adapt to midfield as he has spent a significant amount of time playing there at club level for Bayern. That doesn't mean any left back can automatically adapt to being equally competent in midfield. Robertson has no familiarity with the role(nor TIerney) , he might be a disaster there and it could end up undermining our midfield, where we already have several proficient players, as well as nullifying out best player and turning him in to our worst.
Being blessed with two international class left backs could turn in to a curse if we get too imaginative in trying to find a way to accommodate the both of them.
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12 minutes ago, sbcmfc said:
I didn’t like to ask. 😂
Edouard is the only definite £10 million plus that instantly came to mind.
Could see Ajer and Mcgregor going for that sort of money maybe.
I’m guessing the 4th must be Forrest?
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Obviously not Forrest! Was thinking Ryan Christie actually
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I don't see Kent as being capable of making an impact in the English premier league. Still probably one of the top ten players playing in the SPL currently though, but that doesn't equate to being worth 10 mill. There's probably only five players in Scotland worth that, and four of those with Celtic.
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Sorry if you struggle with the concept of Roman numerals. Its an abbreviation of ELEVEN, as in the line up for a football team
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The vote they had on the BBC website was a lot more credible, no second rate jokers like Brownie up near the top and because they let actual people vote on it not of the Scotland Lesbian XI made the cut of course.... it was actually based on merit.
Naturally a awful lot of the top players were from the mid eighties when I started following football and we genuinely had a serious, albeit still underachieving, quality football team. The fact people vote for the likes of Brown and Mcfadden as the best ever shows how low standards and expectations have slipped the last couple of decades.
The vote they had on the BBC website was a lot more credible, no second rate jokers like Brownie up near the top and because they let actual people vote on it not of the Scotland Lesbian XI made the cut of course.... it was actually based on merit.
Naturally a awful lot of the top players were from the mid eighties when I started following football and we genuinely had a serious, albeit still underachieving, quality football team. The fact people vote for the likes of Brown and Mcfadden as the best ever shows how low standards and expectations have slipped the last couple of decades.
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I think its actually ridiculously easy to qualify for the Euros since they expanded it to include half of Uefa. I don't have a problem accepting that there have been 34 Uefa European countries better than us this century, though I think Latvia's qualification was a little unrepresentative.
If European international football were the equivalent of the Scottish domestic league system we'd be something like Brechin.
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12 hours ago, dohadeer said:
They wouldn’t be sitting sixth in the league, and he wouldn’t have 24 appearances if he was a poor player. They’re not a good enough team to carry passengers. Every single one of their players must be having a good/great season for them to be sat where they are.
That's just the same as saying that a team fifth or sixth from bottom all their players must be bad and performing badly. Its just not true and doesn't make sense. Bad teams still have good players and good teams bad players, its always been the case. Sometimes they just happen to be the best available in their squad. Overall Sheffield United do well because the positive contribution of the overwhelming majority of the team (maybe nine players) makes up for the lack of an effective centre forward.
Just look at our national team, there is a massive diversity of quality across different positions. We are an average to poor team overall but that doesn't mean we don't also have talented individuals in certain areas of the pitch.
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Maybe just because they have invested all that money in him and have no one better to use as an alternative? Doesn't mean he's been any good. He's only scored in one in six of those games for instance. Mcgoldrick who never scores at all has actually been picked ahead of him most of the season.
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Maybe its not a case of the commentator trying to make us sound bad, maybe we just are. I mean you can mute that volume but its still a pretty far stretch of the imagination to try and perceive us as a quality football team. You'd have to be incredibly biased or just have very low expectations of us to try and put a positive slant on our performances this campaign. Not even the most sychophantic nationalistic ass licker could get away with that with any amount of credibility.
At least tonight's result in Moscow gives lie to the assumption that Russia are somehow a top class team. They are not, mostly very limited talent but still far too good for us.
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1 hour ago, killiefaetheferry said:
I'm actually with you. Didn't make my sarcasm or disdain obvious enough. Fucking typical of us. All other small countries who have a talent on the fringes of a big club first team will fire them into the big squad. But oh noooooooo......not us, not Scotland.
What is clearly being ignored here is the fact that we happen to already have a decent quality midfield, best for over two decades so that makes him surplus at the moment. If he was a centre back, forward or right back, even goalkeeper it'd be a different story
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So this is how he is setting out his argument and defence :- I don't want to be part of the Scotland squad as I wish to rest up and relax so I can be fresher for future Arsenal games which are of greater importance to me' And actual Scotland fans are swallowing this? If every player had this attitude to international football (basically that its not in their interests to play it if they have been injured within the last two months) then it would be extinct in no time.
Really better to have left it at no excuse at all than that, yet many will persist in denial and ass-licking as they ever do for certain of our players with bigger reputations.
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I'd have Marshall number 2 on the list as the other options are so desperate. How's he not make the list yet Oli Burke somehow does? Crazy saying Tierney is irreplaceable when he is replaced every match in the starting line up by our best player Robertson. People seem to be confusing the concepts of ability and irreplaceability.
I voted for Mcginn as my one and only selection but the remainder of the midfield are about as good as each other , we've got plenty of decent options there. Defence (other than left back) and attack though nobody actually deserves to be starting, its a question of filtering the least undeserving.
Scotland v Northern Ireland Match Thread
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Lots of talk about us needing wingers all of a sudden but when Robertson and Hickey are fit and on the pitch they do the job perfectly of providing offensive threat from the flanks, and actually are our main attacking weapon. Unfortunate they were (mostly) absent tonight and it showed.
Patterson was pish tonight but Ralston is never going to make an international standard player so its not really an option to start him.