Caledonian Craig

Embarrasing. Scotland's level of play that is.

The UFO's have often NOT been Earth-like crafts though. I know of no conical, spherical, pyramid-esque flying vehicle made on Earth. And as far as I know all UKO sightings have not been of ones shaped like your typical Earth vehicles with wings.

To be fair anything beyond the QF's was not going to be on so they just need to regroup and make sure they get back to basics and secure second place in this group.

Yes but Scotland are digging their own graves here. Gifting possession away through handling errors or poor decisions. Just amateurish.

Rank rotten so far. Trying to match the football team for rankness.

On the other side of the coin there are so many credible witnesses out there who had so much to lose by coming out and sharing their weird experiences. People in the air force, army, policemen etc. The reported UFO's (many of them) are nothing like any Earth-like flying machines either. Some are pyramid-shaped or conical or spherical - so nothing like anything on Earth. My reservations about aliens having visited is because of the vastness of space. The nearest habitable planets are thousands of light years away meaning even a ship travelling at the mind-blowing speed of light it would take thousands of years to get here.

As things stand now I cannot see the SFA even giving a moments thought to revamping Hampden. Firstly, they need to sort out matters on the pitch first. Secondly, it would be foolhardy to chuck millions in to increase the capacity at a time when attendances are falling. In short I cannot see them even considering any revamp untoil things improve greatly on the pitch.

Team-wise as a team they might be but considering the players we have available compared to those teams that should not be the case.

Perhaps the phrasing I should have said is potentially we should be far better than them. You could put it down to various reasons as to why they beat us such as better work ethic as a team, better organised defensively and more motivated.

Considering the players we have available to us then yes we should be considered as better than them. Robertson was in the Premier League XI team of the season and is widely regarded as one of the best left-backs in Europe. Ryan Fraser was up amongst the best for assists in the EPL. The likes of Kazakhstan and Israel do not have players like that at their disposal.

Excuse me if I am being naive but why have these marches been allowed for so long? Seems to me that it is no more than groups using them to do a bit of political chest thumping in public. Okay I have attended marches supporting Scottish Independence but that is a lot different in my view. It is a march to demonstrate the power of voice and will behind the push for independence but what is it with these other marches?

One thing that cannot be denied about the Brexit Yes campaign is that they never gave a thought about what would happen to the Irish Border. Quite ludicrous really. All the talk was about taking back control of laws and borders but Jack about the most important border of them all - the Irish one. Sorry but that key factor means that a No Deal Brexit was never a possible outcome without a Hard Border going up.

Hard core perhaps the wrong term then. But those inclined to vote No numbers more than those inclined to vote Yes - not by much but still a difference. The indyref polls tell us that. On top of that the election vote share tells us that with a fractionally higher percentage of voters voting for unionist parties over those backing independence.

I did say just under 45% perhaps 43%. It would tally that the figure is around that mark given that all indy polls never puts No vote anything under that in polls.

I have said it before and will say it again. As things stand you probably have a hard core 40% of Yes voters who will vote Yes whenever another IndyRef is called. Probably there are around just under 45% hard core unionists who will vote No whenever IndyRef 2 comes about. That leaves the Yes side to try to convince about 15% of voters to vote Yes. Many of those don't knows/waiverers/overly cautious voters (if we were to have a vote BEFORE Brexit) would want to know the outcome of Brexit before being converted into a Yes voter. They would still hold on to a faint hope that a deal would be signed on Brexit or that it would be cancelled and so would not have the courage to vote Yes. On top of that Bitter Together 2 no doubt would point out that this IndyRef was never really anything to do with EU membership as the Yes side could not even wait to find out the outcome of Brexit. That will only put more potential Yes voters off.

Lets remember the quality of the opposition compared to us - Belgium are world No 1 side in the rankings. We have not come close to qualifying for anything for over a decade now. Russia were World Cup quarter-finalists. Both sides are a class (or three) above us. However, my gripe is we are no longer seemingly tough to beat. Over the twenty odd years since we last qualified we have played the very best teams and been very tough to beat losing many games by an odd goal or even beating top notch sides. Sadly, we have drifted away from this level too which is my big worry. If I am being honest our chances of qualifying ended in Kazakhstan and its always been about the play-off route. Clarke realises that now too and hopefully he can use these next few games to beef up our defence and instil a little bit more confidence and self-belief with wins against the weaker sides in our group. We need to try to remain positive for the play-off route was always going to be the likeliest route to qualification. I do agree with those that say we need a ball-winner/retainer in midfield. A tough Scott Brown-type as the glue to make the ball stick in midfield. Somebody to build attacks around in midfield who can hold the ball and feed our attacking midfielders as we break. The problem is I don't see that type of player available to us at the moment. We also need to beef up our defence and hopefully the return of McKenna will help in that area and we need to re-examine our right-back options. Keep the faith.

All those cuts but it will still not stop yoons voting for her for their own warped reasons.

People are so gormless though. Did those in the audience (and others further afield) not stop to think that the UK has been in the EU for many years and it is not a Euro they have in their pocket.

Tactical yoon voting will see Swinson home.

It shows what clueless people they get on The Andrew Neil Show. This morning whilst talking about Brexit they then diversified onto the possibility of a General Election and what the results could be. Whilst moving onto Scotland the silly bitch said now that Davidson has gone the SNP could clear up. W T F

Pretty much spot on post this.

No composure is different to bottle in my eyes. Virtually same set of players showed bottle to come back in dying minutes to get winner against Cyprus.

I am not sure its bottle that is the issue. They need to find defenders with composure on the ball. Not ones who will hack the ball clear to nobody in particular and invite more pressure. That was the big issue last night. We sunk deeper and deeper because we were clearing the ball anywhere and when you defend so deep the ball is only going to come back at you.

Actually in 2014 IndyRef the polls were fairly accurate. Only one put Yes ahead a couple of days before the vote. This is when Brown shat himself and came out with his promises of rewards for a No vote which never materialised and tried turning it into a Devo Max thing.

We allowed ourselves to get pinned back and had no out ball. The goals were always going to come playing that way. Naive is how I would describe and very brittle at the back. Sure we have plenty of talent in midfield but that is immaterial if you canmot play out from the back through the midfield. To be honest since the Kazakhstan loss I always felt our only path through would be the Nations League play-off route.