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We have a couple booked...1 at Hyde Park...1 is a Euro 21 booking in a pub....both deposit free. We will choose which one nearer the time... Malborough Head, Mayfair 7 to 10 (near Hyde Park).....and The Half Moon in Putney area (slot for watching the game 7 to 11).... Although we are hopeful rather than optimistic on getting tickets for Wembley.

We are the same as you...2 of us with 12 points. Have the hotel booked...and waiting to book train.

We should just about get tickets as there are 2 of us on 12 points. We have a hotel booked that we can cancel...and will be looking to book train once allocation is confirmed. Not thought about pubs yet. I kinda had hoped that pre and post game there may be a Scotland fanzone? Similar to Trafalgar that is happening (will surely mainly be England fans)..and hope that does happen...Will see closer to the time.

So we leave out McGinn? Or play McGinn or Christie as a holding central midfielder? Not a chance......McGinn has cemented his spot as our man behind the striker now - deservedly undroppable. There is no room for all 3 - Fraser goes for me, until he shpws his commitment to Scotland........

Fraser just now. For me, due to his reluctance to pull on the dark blue shirt of late, he has to win his place back. By turning up consistently for squads AND improving his form at club level (it's not been great of late), then he can stake a claim again, but not until then.

I am. A Queen of rhw South supporter, and whilst he has some qualities, he should be nowhere near our squad. To those that say that players can improve, fair enough, but in half a dozen games for Livi he is suddenly Scotland material? Behave! At times he was not even an above average Championship player last season... No thank you! Sunday's goal aside... His finishing is usually woeful, trust me on that one. I wish him all the best, but I was not that bothered whether he stayed at Queens or not... .. That says it all really. Besides, I am pretty sure he said last year that he felt Australian and if he every got good enough to play international football (which I highly doubt) he would pick the Aussies over us. Forget about him as a potential Scotland cap.... It is not going to happen.

Monday night most places will be TA friendly and will be desperate for our business. The reverse is true for Friday unfortunately.

Agreed. Terrible venue. Enjoyed Campus but I think the venue for this has to be changed. It will never work in Mango. We ended up going to the Savoy the last time...they usually let TA in and it was infinitely better than Mango.

I got 2 x 50 euro tickets for the Hampden game on 23rd June - applied for 2 tickts for all 3 group games. One of my mates got FOUR tickets for all 3 group games at Hampden - jammy sod! He will have lots of friends until June - especially if we somehow qualify! 2 of my other mates got nothing!

My word. I never ever alluded to anything like that. We have decent players.....not world beaters. I certainly think that we have better players rhan Northern Ireland. They have qualified with worse players than us. We can qualify and be so much better than we are with a decent manager. I am not saying we will every be world beaters.....but we have quality, and enough to certainly qualify for the European finals.

Of course things would improve with a top manager. I am getting a bit fed up with the "does not matter who is manager as our players are awful" mentality. It is this very train of thought that is killing our game domestically and at international level. A more positive perspective from the press and the fans may well help us achieve more. Half of the time we are beaten before a ball is kicked. It is no wonder that we have so many players withdraw. Our attitute stinks at times...this must filter down to the players, who must think...what is the point, we are not good enough? We have very decent players. Our captain has been (including this season) instrumental to leading his club team to 2 successive Champions League semi finals, and has a shot of winning a league winners medal at one of the world's top leagues. We have Fraser too, who is one of the top assisters in the very same league with a bang average side, and being touted with a move to Arsenal. A slew of very deent professionals at our top Scottish team, the best of which (in my opinion) being Tierney, I do think he will be in one of europe's top leagues very soon. McKenna, whilst having a lot to learn, is very promising, and valued in the £10million bracket. Bates...getting rave reviews in Germany. McTominay, bossing games versus PSG, and playing for one of the world's top teams. We have the like of Gilmour, who I believe will be top quality, coming through. Possibily Dembele, although attitudes such as this will ultimately force him to chose England over us. In Griffiths' absense we do lack a decent striker. But if Northern Ireland can make Maggenis look decent, then the like of McBurnie and S Fletcher can be made into world beaters. It is not all doom and gloom, and what I guess I am trying to day is, given the right manager, we will be a LOT better. No more of this defeatist attitude that had plagued our game for too long. Anyway...rant over.

Of course he will leave. The maximum weekly wage he can expect with Celtic is £30k. He would easily command £100k+ in a top league somewhere. Whilst he is a massive Celtic fan, it will not be lost on him just how far Robertson has progressed by moving on (in exactly the same position). I think that Tierney is potentially as good as Robertson, but his career will stifle in Scotland. Sadly for Scottish football, he is better than Celtic.

I am led to believe from a Hampden insider, that a friend knows, the reason behind Snoddy's absense is akin to a revolt against the management team. Allegedly in our last match Snoddy advised that he had a niggling injury. He was spparently then asked if he would take an injection to allow him to play, which he apparently agreed to. Then was not selected. The story goes that he was mightily pissed off as he risked further injury or damage through having this injection, thus a potential threat to his club fitness. Could well be total nonsense, however, if there is ANY truth to it, then it is an awful situation.

McLeish has lost the players and the fans. Time to get rid after these 2 games, regardless of results. We are going nowhere but obscurity.

I don't think we were that bad under Vogts. In my opinion, we had a FAR more limited squad then than we do now. But that was the last time that we reached any playoff. I think Vogts gets a bit of unwarranted stick, and I agree (at the time) I thought that he was awful.........but in hindsight with players like Crawford, Kyle et all at his disposal, it was a minor miracle he did as well as he did!

McGregor Tierney - Devlin - McKenna - Robertson McGregor - McGinn Forrest - Christie - Fraser Paterson

GO! I can no believe that he has any support. The team against Slovenia was crying out for McGregor or McGinn from the start....we did not have energy in Centre mid...he did not even bring one if them on! He talks about 'genetics' being against us, but he never even picked possibly our most athletic (And fairly tall) player in Burke for the squad. Some may say that he does not getting games...which is true...but neither does Anya at a lower level. Look at Northern Ireland...O'Neill picks players that are playing and on form regardless of the level they play at...Strachan barely looks outside of Celtic within our own top league. He is too loyal to too many. For all of the above reasons...he has to go!

http://tickets-scotland.com/venues.html?event_method=viewevent&event_id=19b3d089-f2c7-11e6-9ba4-22000b2080a0 It looks like there are tickets left...buy them from the ferry website and can be posted or picked up at the venue...

Absolutely nothing wrong with ambition, but he never did have the talent to succeed in the Sporting Lisbon at a young age. Fed up with players chasing the money and us losing years on outstanding quality (at our level). Take the reverse of this - Andrew Robertson. He was released by Celtic, he then built his career up gradually by making the correct choices - starting at the bottom with Queen's Park, Going to Dundee United and then Hull, all knowing that he had the relevant experience to make it at his new level - he is on the verge now of a £10m+ move to Liverpool, and I for one would not bet against him succeeding there if he does chose to move there - the difference? 164+ first team matches under his belt already at the age of 23 and crucially building his career and reputation along the way. Ryan Gauld's career has not developed at all whilst in Portugual, for this you need first team football.

He was never going to make it at Sporting Lisbon, the same way that Gilmour (who will now not surface again until he is too old to play for the Chelsea youth team and he will be farmed out to the likes of Brentford) will not make it at Chelsea. Getting fed up of players who have bags of potential moving to clubs that are too big for them (at that particular time in their career). We need our young players to stay at their parent clubs longer, get more games under their belts and build their career gradually, instead of chasing the dream at the first signs of promise. the problem that we have is the lack of wages that our clubs (outside Celtic and possibly Rangers can offer). We should look at our great masters in Doncaster & Regan to change our league structure, and attract more revenue streams into our game (I know with those 2 we are asking too much) - thus giving our clubs more money to keep a hold of their good young players for longer and allowing them to flourish withion our own leagues, before moving onto to bigger and better things. A pipe-dream maybe, but you never know.

I agree. This match is undoubtedly a must win. Even if we finish 2nd there is a very real possibility that we will be the worst runner up and therefore not even get into the playoffs. We need to take as close to the maximum points available to us to have even a chance of the playoffs.

I do have a horrible feeling that he will go with something down the lines of this though: Gordon Anya Martin Mulgrew Tierney Snodgrass Brown D.Fletcher Forrest Armstrong S.Fletcher / C.Martin <shudder> - that would be horrific. But it would not surprise me - according to Strachan we need height more than guile and pace.......and S.Fletchers has scored a few goals recently - he also has a ready made excuse to start Martin up front in that he scored the winner against Slovenia. I hope that my first team is more like it....but Strachan is stubborn enough to pick something along these lines....

Brown and Armstrong should certainly be the heartbeat of our midfield. I strongly disagree with McGregor though - I do not think he should be near our first team. I would personally put Morrison in there with Brown and Armstrong. My team would be: Gordon Tierney Martin Mulgrew Robertson Burke Brown Morrison Fraser Armstrong Griffiths A wee bit harsh on Snodgrass maybe? But he has not played very well for Scotland recently, and I would be tempted to go with the pace of Fraser and Burke down the wings........

He shouldn't be in the squad. .pure and simple. It has been Strachan's downfall that he does not select on form, and indeed selects players that don't play or play well . Loyalty is all well and good....but not at international level and not blindly picking players through faith alone. If a player is not playing or playing well he should not be in the squad.

Mulgrew is not playing at all well for Blackburn in his limited appearances for them. He is as slow as a week in the jail. he should not be near the squad on current form Playing him at left back would be suicidal against the pace England have down the flanks. A huge no for me.