Diego10
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8 hours ago, Tartan blood said:
The "surprise" Clarke referred to pre-match was obviously the Christie/Shankland partnership. I can see the logic. Christie's movement and tenacity takes the pressure off Shankland and allows him to focus on what he does best. Against weaker opposition it'll probably work.
It did mean McTominay and McGinn were marginally deeper tonight, though. Which is possibly not a wise sacrifice, considering they are our most clinical players at the moment.
Tbf, both McGinn and McTominay still got chances they should do better with. Shankland's chance was the clearest and one you'd expect him to take 9/10 but we manufactured good chances most of the night.
I would wager Clarke will have been very happy with how the set-up worked till the subs and that includes Shankland's contribution
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3 minutes ago, Lion Rampant said:
I trust Clarke to find the solution with Ferguson. He did it with Tierney and Robertson, got the best out of McTominay and I think he'll do the same with Ferguson.
Aye, wasn't meaning he won't get it right but atm it's like he feels he should use him but hasn't worked out what he is good for yet.
He just seems very uninvolved when he comes on atm. But going into the last Euros he was playing big Scott at CH and now look at him
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Sitter aside, i thought Shankland made us look a more threatening side. He isn't going to chase long balls down which placed an emphasis on us passing the ball into the final third and helped us keep possession. His link up play was very good.
For 70 minutes that was a very good performance. The last 15 was a shambles as we went chaotic and out of shape
I'm not sure Clarke knows what to do with Ferguson
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U21s
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Tbf to Gemmill, the 21s have been very good tonight. And very good as in playing actual football.
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U21s
in TA specific
We're never going to do anything at age group level until we appoint competent coaches.
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One of the worst ever if accurate.
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1 hour ago, Haggis_trap said:
I had similar issue.
Delete him from friends and family then re-add (he will need to re-approve).
Should hopefully solve your problem.
It is a cr@p website for sure!
I'll give it a bash, cheers
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I'm as yet still unable to buy my son a ticket despite him having an active account and being in my F&F network. Now unable to sit with the rest of our group and with a very poor selection of seats assuming I'm ever able to actually buy any.
The customer engagement on this has not improved my mood on it
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12 minutes ago, dan cake said:
So you get no points up front when you purchase the 5 match package just as you go along
if that's the case I'll no be bothering. I already know I can't attend 2 of the games
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got three emails (me and my two kids) - when I tried to register myself if logged me into my son's account and now any attempt to reset password goes only to his account.
there's nothing like good user testing and this is etc etc. I see the comms on twitter are the usual high standard of customer focus
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1 minute ago, TDYER63 said:
Can someone remind me where you add to sit next to someone i cannot see anything obvious like ‘my tickets ‘ in my account but i have confirmation of the tickets.
In My Acccount under Order History, though good luck getting it to work
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Clarke, Lambert, McLeish, Muck McCarthy?. We'd be better keeping Strachan if those are the kind of options we've got.
Big world out there.
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33 minutes ago, Caledonian Craig said:
Yes but this is a player fans reckon is the bees knees so that should be enough. After all Chris Martin is the devil incarnate and has 2 goals in 10 games (four starts for him) and Griffiths in 0 goals in 9 games (two starts for him) but that worrying stat of no goals stands.
Griffiths has started 3 games. Away to Croatia, where we got a brilliant result and he played very well and was involved in the goal.
Home to Belgium, where we got absolutely chased and he got an hour chasing shadows.
Home to Denmark in a friendly where he had a pretty average hour before being subbed. His other appearances have been a succession of 15 minute cameos in games we've largely been chasing and created very little in. 5 competitive appearances totalling just over 180 minutes in a period where he has about 100 club goals.
Martin has started against Gibraltar, Malta and Lithuania, contributing a header from 6 inches and a virtual tap in against Malta. His last two starts have come during a period where he hasn't scored a club goal in about 7 months. Generally he's a complete carthorse.His only other contribution was a complete sitter against Ireland at Celtic Park.
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14 minutes ago, Ak91 said:
Alex Neil would be my choice
Not a chance he'd be interested.
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On the grounds that literally no other manager in the world would start Chris Martin at home to a team like Lithuania, I'd happily sack him tonight.
We're not good. We lack a good defence which a lot of the teams who qualified for the euros based their success on, but we are better than he's currently getting out of us and setting us up defensively without the players to do it is absolutely mental. Griffiths would have ran beyond Skrtel all night but instead we give him the easiest night of his career. As for a central midfield 3 with no one getting up in support, I know that's not a recipe for success.
He should go now before everyone forgets he did a good job to start with.
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That's exactly what would have happened if we'd drawn with Holland under Burnley.
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In defence of the under 21 players, Sbragia isn't a managerThe more I reflect on the overall campaign, the more undecided I am towards a change, which is quite a leap from being staunchly in favour of Strachan staying a few days ago. I don't think it can be disputed that we have improved since he took over however the same old deficiencies remain, both in terms of quality on the pitch and mentally. We play reasonably well against the big guns (but generally lose) and struggle against apparently inferior teams (Gibraltar aside, who are completely hopeless) and are always prone to throwing in a nightmare against the likes of Georgia (again), Belarus, the Faroes etc. Quite simply, similar sized nations to us, such as Ireland don't do that. Barring one draw against Liechtenstein and a last minute winner against San Marino, I can't recall Ireland ever blowing it to the degree that we always do. Our home record, once proud, is average at best these days too.
If Strachan is to stay, then he has a year to start introducing youngsters to the fold prior to the world cup qualifiers because surely the likes of Hutton, Brown, Darren Fletcher etc. can't go again? That said, I heard that the under 21s were awful the other day too so goodness knows where he'll get the players from. Arrange a few friendlies and start experimenting a bit because something needs to change on the playing front if not necessarily in the dugout.
Personally, I think he'll go.
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Broadly happy for him to stay. Needs to start looking to longer term, whether he's going to be manager or not, and bring in some succession planning.
He's been better than his immediate predecessors but plenty room for improvement
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Will be unless Ukraine beat Spain. Every chance right enough, Spain already won group.Just noticed Hungary are likely to finish best 3rd place team so they may be available in November.
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Paterson is still very raw defensively, in particular up against tricky players. Gets squared up very easily and can be a bit rash in the tackle.
He will be there or thereabouts soon,as he's phenomenal in the air which is a huge boost at set pieces where we struggle and can run all day plus he's a big attacking threat.
Hutton has to still be right back for now though.
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Fletcher is, for me, our best bet in a one up front team. Holds up the ball well, links play well. He is prone to missing chances, sometimes sitters though.
He's the number one guy and that's fair enough. The problem comes behind that, because Chris Martin seems preferred as back up despite being,to my eyes, far worse than Griffiths, Rhodes and about 4 others.
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We absolutely have to take 12 points off the two minnows. We hardly ever do it, and it always ends up being crucial.
Malta and Lithuania are both poor. If you take 12 points from those, 10 points from the other 6 games almost certainly gets you a play off.
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Albania will be top 2 barring a Denmark win in Portugal.Is it really based on the UEFA country coefficient? Isn't that based on club performances and therefore bears no relation to how good the international team is?
Ah - hang on. There is also a UEFA national team coefficient.
Ukraine 10th
Russia 20th
Hungary 21st
Turkey 28th
Israel 29th
Scotland 30th
Albania 32nd
Estonia 36th
Looks like all to play for. Although that was only up to middle of June.
Slovenia will overtake Estonia.
Losing to Georgia has cost us any chance of being seeded bar a truly miraculous set of results.
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Where are you getting that list? The one I've got is totally different but might no be right.OK, so based on the current UEFA Coefficient it's as follows:
7. Russia
8. Ukraine
11. Turkey
21. Israel
24. Scotland
33. Hungary
39. Albania
47. Estonia
So it's been of Russia, Ukraine, Turkey or Israel with the latter being the only one I'd fancy us against over 2 legs.
Netherlands V Scotland Match Thread
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It'd look like it sounds, awful