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Orraloon

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  1. Who is saying he should go?
  2. I think he knows exactly who his best 15 or 16 players are. I just hope they are all fit and available for the whole tournament but that's unlikely to happen.
  3. I think you and I are pretty much in the same place on this one. He is doing OK and certainly isn't anywhere near needing sacked. I don't think I've seen anybody suggesting that he should be sacked? But as you say, nowhere near legendary status yet. The next 6 competitive games could change that though.
  4. I think that getting humped at home by that Ukraine team was a worse result than the humping that we got in Dublin. If we had actually competed with them and got beaten in a close game, then that wouldn't have been so bad, but they ripped us apart in that game. We went out with barley a whimper. There's no doubt that our record in competitive games has improved, but the real test is our next 6 competitive games. If we win 2 out of the 6 and maybe get a draw here or there, then I would consider that a big improvement. We could easily lose all 6 though.
  5. You are forgetting the most important one. Ukraine humped us at Hampden.
  6. Christie has been one of our most consistent players over the past few years and you think he shouldn't be in the squad?
  7. Can't see Hungary and Switzerland deliberately playing for a draw in their first game. We will already have 3 points in the bag, as we play the night before.
  8. I wouldn't disagree with any of that. I'm not too bothered about last nights result. Results in friendlies aren't too important, IMO. I'm pretty sure our opponents in Germany won't be reading too much into it either.
  9. No, squads almost never have 4 keepers in them.
  10. I wasn't comparing them as managers. I was comparing their win ratios because somebody was abusing that stat to try to show that Clarkes record is better than it really is. I was merely pointing out that if you want to use that stat alone, and use it properly, then on that stat alone his record is no better than McLeish's
  11. 🤣 I think the rule says "minimum of 3" so you never know?
  12. Is that you just getting back from Georgia? Did you have to walk all the way?
  13. I don't think anybody is disagreeing with that. That bit is obvious.
  14. I should maybe have added a "yet"
  15. Should have stayed in the pub a wee bit longer.
  16. The final 23 man squad has to be confirmed on 8th June, the day after we play Finland.
  17. Ok, so you just repeated somebody else's selective stat. That's fair enough. That's what folk who use stats, to back up their argument, often rely on. They know that most folk will just take those stats at face value, and not bother to check the real significance of those stats. I think Clarke is doing a good job and I'm not too bothered about friendly results. I'm sure he will be learning from them. I don't really care whether folk are slagging him off, or think he is a god. I just like to point out when folk are manipulating stats to try to back up their argument.
  18. I think it's too late for that now. He has already selected his squad and it's now only going to change based on the injury situation.
  19. I was just pointing out that you had been very selective with your stats. I guess you hoped nobody would notice?
  20. It's also 16 out of the last 31 depending on how selective you want to be with your cut off date. Either way, his win ration isn't any better than Alex McLeish.
  21. Unfortunately most of the passes made by those 3 players were to each other. That sort of tippy tappy shyte does ma nut in. It's OK to do that if we are a couple of goals up and just trying to play out time. Or, if you want to give the rest of the team a breather but most of our players last night barely got past walking pace. All it did last night was to slow our game down which was pedestrian to start with.
  22. Tierney was our best player. Hendry is showing that he is becoming an important players for us. If we can get our best 11 players on the pitch we can be a decent side, and give most teams a good game. Our problem is that as soon as we lose a couple of our best players we will struggle. A lot or our fans can't be bothered with friendlies and tonight it looked like that applied to a lot of our players too. Patterson had a nightmare but at least he was putting in some effort.
  23. At least we didn't lose to Finland.
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