Clyde1998

Good start to the campaign! Comfortable 3-0 win.

Cyprus down to ten men - second yellow for smashing the ball away a few seconds after the ref blew his whistle for an offside.

3-0!! McTominay again!!

Five added minutes.

McTominay kills the game!!

Patterson coming on for Hickey - who appears to have a slight knock, but again doesn't appear to be too serious. Cyprus have been growing into this game in the past ten minutes - we need to be careful.

It didn't look too serious, so hopefully it's a minor tweak or an impact injury. No point risking him if we don't need to today. Christie and McTominay coming on for Armstrong and Jack.

Adams down injured; Dykes coming on. Hopefully nothing serious, as it's not obvious what the injury is.

There's been a lot of play in dangerous areas, but the number of defenders has made it difficult for us to breakthrough. I think a quick second would kill the game and we can start to think about taking players off ahead of the Spain game.

1-0 at half-time. Good first half performance; Cyprus haven't threatened at all and seem content to defend very deep.

McGinn once again!!!

To update on this, after 36 votes: Forbes - 53pts (23 first preferences) Regan - 33pts (6 first preferences) Yousaf - 22pts (7 first preferences) I can calcuate the total number of first, second and third preferences for each candidate: Forbes - 23/7/6 Yousaf - 7/8/21 Regan - 6/21/9 Unfortunately, I can't see the exact profile of the votes (ie. the number of Forbes voters who put Regan second, etc.). I would typically use Google Forms for something like this, which would give me that data, but to prevent double voting it requires the respondent to sign in to a Google account. From the figures so far, Forbes is clearly the most popular on here.

Happy voting! https://strawpoll.com/polls/Q0ZpR63rDnM

Aye, apparently the pitch at Oriam is unsafe. It looks a high quality facility - does seem odd the capacity will only be around 1,800 when finished (especially if Queen's Park do get promoted to the Premiership); I assume it can be expanded beyond that... Will be interesting to see if Lesser Hampden becomes the training venue in the longer term.

If that's a penalty, then I'm the Pope.

Italy seem poor rather than England ripping them apart. Their results since their Euro win have been poor (won 7; drawn 6; lost 5): D 1-1 Bulgaria H World Cup Qualifying D 0-0 Switzerland A World Cup Qualifying W 5-0 Lithuania H World Cup Qualifying L 1-2 Spain H Nations League SF W 2-1 Belgium H Nations League 3rd Place D 1-1 Switzerland H World Cup Qualifying D 0-0 N Ireland A World Cup Qualifying L 0-1 Macedoina H World Cup Qualifying W 3-2 Turkey A Friendly L 0-3 Argentina N Finalissima D 1-1 Germany H Nations League W 2-1 Hungary H Nations League D 0-0 England A Nations League L 2-5 Germany A Nations League W 1-0 England H Nations League W 2-0 Hungary A Nations League W 3-1 Albania A Friendly L 2-0 Austria A Friendly They did have a number of older players in that Euro winning side. Evidently the players who have replaced them aren't as good.

Tbf, prior to ~1990 it was only really Luxembourg, Malta and Cyprus who you could classify as (consistent) minnows during that period - possibly Albania and Iceland depending on the threshold. Liechtenstein became members of UEFA in 1974 but didn't enter a qualifying tournament until Euro 96.

Bazunu, I'd take right now but I think that's more a result of our current keeping situation. Ferguson will likely become a player I'm envious they've got in the future, but not right now. He'd maybe get into the squad though.

I'm looking at that Ireland squad and I'm not envious of any player they've got any more. The fact Mikey Johnston is getting in their squad and would be nowhere near ours is telling of that.

They'll be difficult anyway, as we've found out in the past, but their squad (player for player) seems to be comparable to Northern Ireland without that guy.

They're being sold through AFC Wimbledon [link]; £12 an adult. There's a section earmarked for Scotland supporters (along with one for Australian supporters and one for neutrals).

Looking at the squad, the strongest XI looks to be something like: Gunn Hickey - Hendry - Porteous - Tierney McGregor - McTominay Christie - McGinn - Robertson Adams Only a handful of outfield Championship players in the squad. Just a shame our goalkeeping options aren't of the same standard atm; attacking depth, as others have pointed out, is a concern too.

I've bought a ticket for that game at Wimbledon, as that's a ground I've been looking for an excuse to go to. I hadn't realised the reason it was a Friday lunchtime was due to it being Good Friday though; I'm supposed to be at another game that day (15:00 kick-off), so I'm not 100% sure what I'll do yet.

I'm not saying he's eligible under the current rules, I'm merely pointing out Tavernier would be the only player to become eligible if we had a five years residency rule. 👍 I only I was actually any good at the game! 🙃

I think when moving to a country, you have to live there for five years after becoming an adult (in most cases) in addition to having citizenship of the nation in question. As an example, if you moved to France aged five, without any other connection to France, you could only play for France once you reach your 23rd birthday; New Zealand got disqualified from an Olympic qualifer for playing a 20 year old who'd moved to the country as a young child. I think only James Tavernier would be eligible to play for Scotland under the residency rule (excluding anyone who's already played international football for another nation and didn't already have a connection to Scotland). It wouldn't make a huge difference to us for 'incoming' players at least. According to Wikipedia, there are 25 FIFA members who have a common citizenship with another FIFA member. In these cases, you still need to have lived on the territory for five years (previously two years; I don't think you need to be an adult mind), but the UK nations have agreed to replace this with a five years of education (under the age of eighteen) rule. The five years of education rule makes much more sense and should probably be applied generally where no lineage involved. For completeness, the shared citizenships between FIFA members are: American (5): American Samoa; Guam; Puerto Rico; United States; US Virgin Islands British (11): Anguilla; Bermuda; British Virgin Islands; Cayman Islands; England; Gibraltar; Montserrat; Northern Ireland; Scotland; Turks and Caicos; Wales Chinese (3): China; Hong Kong; Macau Danish (2): Denmark; Faroe Islands Dutch (3): Aruba; Curacao; Netherlands French (3): France; New Caledonia; Tahiti New Zealand (2): Cook Islands; New Zealand Anyway, I'm off to Anguilla for the next five years for no specific reason...