Caledonian Craig

The report I saw had manager saying he was expecting Hickey back before the end of the season so that is a few weeks from now in my eyes. As for Patterson like I said if Everton continue to leak goals Dyche's hand could be forced especially if they slup back towards the relegation zone.

It is a situation likely to improve. Hickey will be back in the next few weeks and should be fresh for the Euros. If Everton keep leaking goals the pressure will be on Dyche to look at other defensive options so Patterson just needs to be ready to take his chance if and when it comes.

Being reported as an achilles strain.

Yes he pulled off a string of very good saves.

Shankland on the markagain with Steve Clarke watching in the stands.

Plus Murdo Fraser's remarks are just further confirmation that Scotland under Westminster rule is an archaic joke.

Frigging hilarious reading Scottish Tories spout their bile in Aberdeen over the last few days. Best of all was MSP Tory Murdo Fraser calling for the next election to campaign on the SNP government's shocking record in government and not on Westminster matters which he recognises the Tory record in power is indefensible. 🤣

And a goal for Che Adams for Southampton.

An assist for Dykes today in a win awsy to table-toppers Leicester.

Clarke's squads have always had four strikers - normally Dykes, Adams, Brown and Christie. Bown is out so Shankland is a shoo in. Christie is not a striker and shpuld (I hope) not be names as one so frees up a syriker slot and a chance to look at Cpnway or Hardie.

Guarantee that none of the media reports have nothing coming from Harvey Barnes though to substantiate them. Until I see him in an interview speaking of a desire to play for Scotland he remains an England international. Any other stance is wrong in my book questioning his commitment to a cause he has already chosen.

I have seen no indication anywhere at any time that Barnes is ready to or wants to or has even ever considered wanting to represent Scotland. Just now it is the figment of some Scotland supporters' imagination. Given too the Anderson debacle who is a team mate of Barnes at Newcastle and that Barnes has already commited to England (unlike Anderson had) makes it even less likely.

Yugoslavia did not have longevity of success that Croatia have had and on top of that Serbia have come into being who, themselves are a challenge for many teams so there you have two tough opponents instead of one.

I hope Clarke does not take the easy way out and name Christie as one of the strikers again.

I do gave to disagree with this. Out of the former Yugoslav state (Yugoslavia one country that never achieved much) have come Serbia and Croatia who have been there or thereabouts at the business end of numerous major tournaments. The break up of the Soviet Union (again one team who were not perennial tournaments contenders by any means) has seen banana skin teams such as Georgia and Belarus (who we know are no mugs) come into being plus many others that have frequently tested us. Also back in the 80s and 90s your pushovers were the likes of Greece, Luxembourg, Finland and they are no pushovers now. Portugal too were not the force they are today nor were Belgium. Today international football is far more competitive. I fully agree with you about our pitiful record at producing prolific goalscorers. It really is very poor. You can count on the fingers of one hand the amount of Scotland internationals to score more than 20 goals and the last one retired almost 40 years ago. Dire stats.

Well that opens up a striker slot in March as Brown is out too. Tommy Conway perhaps or Ryan Hardie?

Any ideas on when this Hampden Park Ticketing App is actually coming into existence?

Perhaps offer more rewards on less lucrative home games such as lowest ranked teams in groups which usually draws the lowest crowds. The diehards will be rewarded in that case and glory hunters (if we actually have them) will need to attend the crappy matches.

Well that wouldn't work either as, if the argument is people cannot afford to go to every home game then they certainly won't be able to afford away games and all the extra costs that go with them.

It would make sense to drop Christie back into the pool of midfielders for the squad leaving a space for Fraser's inclusion as a striker. I say this as Fraser has scored far more goals than Christie this season. If that were to happen though the question would become which midfielder gets left out?

But I reckon Clarke would not.

Yes I would take Gordon in a shot over Kelly and Clark but will Steve Clarke?

😂 Anyways Doig could not even force his way into the squad when Robertson and Tierney were injured so cannot see him managing it if both are fit.

Not according to the grand misinformation site wikipedia.

Ah yes of course....McKenna. He will go for sure in place of Souttar I would say.