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    In terms of direct routes from Scotland, probably best two are to Dubrovnik or to Budapest, and then get onwards travel from there to Zagreb (there is no shortage of internal flights from Dubrovnik to Zagreb, and you could probably get a early morning flight up to Zagreb on the day of the match). Budapest is something like 6 hours by train, and the scenery is stunning as you pass Lake Balaton, but boy does it get mind numbingly boring once past there, and a journey that probably takes 2.5 hours, feels like it takes closer to 6! Ljublijana probably your best best, and you can actually get a really good price with Swiss Air (using their low cost arm, Edelweiss Air) from Edinburgh to Ljublijana via Zurich.... from there its only something like 2.5 hours to Zagreb. I am Edinburgh - Dubrovnik with Jet2 on the Wed, and then Edelweiss Ljubljana-Zurich-Edinburgh on the Mon.
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    Re: McGinn, he has certainly got more "bulky" since the new year, but being at a club like Aston Villa who probably have a whole teams of specialists, and any other specialists that McGinn has on call away from the club, he is probably trying to put on muscle mass, but it appears as he is looking rather tubby. Back on topic, Sky Sports Italy saying Napoli are to make another improved offer for Gilmour
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    He is apparently still missing from training this week when Brentford came back from their pre-season. Apparently Pep is a big fan of Hickey, and there is actually some murmurs that over a year ago Man City wanted first dibs on Hickey should he ever become available to buy.
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    Brentford's boss has came out and rubbished recent reports of Aaron Hickey is to be sold to Man City
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    Back in the Spring there was talk of Southgate to Man United, but I think that was just talk..... I could see him being a prime candidate for the Newcastle job if/when it become available, but on the whole I think he will slip in to relative obscurity for a long time, and pop up down the road when he gets an appointment in North America or the Middle East/Asia. I would be very surprised if he jumps straight in to a club job in England any time soon in the next year.
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    Yep, we had far to many players running on empty (especially McGinn) and no ready replacements there that we could make the changes were needed (v Hungary towards the end Clarke's sub choice got very strange that he just seemed to be randomly chucking players on and asking them to play out of position). Paterson was very poor in the March games, but not on the levels we had with Ralston at the Euros. Fair to say Dykes would have most likely started v Germany, and at very least v the Swiss, but against the Swiss he would have probably brought Adams on just after half time.... but I just do not think Clarke has the faith in Shankland as he does in Adams and Dykes. McGinn since the new year has looked very bulky, and I am not convinced he was anywhere near fully fit going into the tournament. Think main thing for Nations League is Clarke needs to find a formation that works for us when Tierney is not available, as we really struggle when that happens as we have just became for to reliant on it
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    As long as we can get the players who have been injured back (epsecailly Hickey) and can maybe start to blood in some new players like Doak (you would hope Clarke saw enough of him that he will give him a chance after missing on the Euros.... way Daryl Broadfoot was talking on Off the Ball, Doak was going to the Euros), we could potentially be getting all 3 right at the sweet point when they enter a period of transition when a lot of their aged heavy hitters call it a day. If we are going to stand a chance of avoiding relegation back to Pool B, we have to win at least two of our three home games.
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    The official media tag line is he played his last "European Championships game for Portugal", but nothing has been said yet on will he quit out right, but if you go by murky rumors, its unlikely he will go to the States if Portugal qualify. Daryl Broadfoot was talking about this on Off the Ball on Sunday, and gave it the "from a financial point of view" the SFA would be hoping Portugal bring Ronaldo and Poland bring Lewandowski. The only real record he has to break with Portugal is Eusébio's 9 goals in a single World Cup, which even if he does hang around for the next World Cup, he will not even come close to equaling let alone breaking (he may break the Portugese record for in all World Cup's) Chances are he will play one more game in Lisbon as his "farewell" and then call it quits
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    I think injuries cost us big time, and maybe peaking a year early. It feels like there has been a steady decline since Cyprus away last year, and the team switched off after that thinking the job was done..... first half performance in Amsterdam gave us hope (far to many rolling subs in that game ultimately cost us).... and like a lot of teams at the Euros have shown, far to many players in our team went in to the Euros looking like they were dead on their feet after a long season at club level.
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    I think Clarke has always had on his mind he will step down after the World Cup, as he has got us to two Euros and just missed out on a World Cup. Southgate I suspect his intentions were always to step down after the last World Cup, but he was spoken out of it, but regardless of how England did in Germany he was stepping down (and its clear the players were aware of this).
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    While the media and fans are giving him some love just now, once he goes back into club management, he will be found it very fast and will probably end up being ridiculed more than Graham Taylor was. Klopp effectively called the FA corrupt when he questioned what they did with his £75k fine just before he stood down from Liverpool..... He will take the USA NT job for a World Cup, before heading back to Germany after that
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    Was meaning more along the lines of the reason's behind the scenes why the Euro 2004 team did nothing, rather than the individual players. Euro 2020 they were happy to show all the behind the scenes stuff like unicorns in the swimming pool etc.... as it showed the team being a complete unit, but that has been completely missing from this squad, and its clear their is a number of ego's in the team that Southgate has been trying to stroke to please them, rather than what was best for the team. Unless they can appoint a strong character, I think we are going to get quite a lot of traction on "England the banter years" for a while.
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    Southgate is leaving England in a total mess, as when you compare the club mentality he installed at Euro 2020, this Euro 2024 are going to probably go down in history as giving the Euro 2004 team a run for its money on "why did this team win nothing?"...... Talk already Poch or Klopp, but chances are FA will appoint Lee Carsley for the Nations League in hope they can get Howe on the cheap in October if Newcastle bin him after a slow start, knowing they have Potter on stand by to take over for the World Cup.
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    From the Sun (so probably worth nothing.....) but Che Adams to Torino is being spoken about
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    Robby McCrorie just signed for Kilmarnock on a permanent deal
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