Super_Scotlandfan

Does no one think that Ralston’s best position might be right centre back? Particularly in the Scotland system, similar to Tierney’s role. He’d be half decent at stepping forward, has lots of energy and he’s really strong in the air. Although realise he does have mistakes in him but they should be less frequent with age. He’d be back up just now but a good player to cover RCB and RWB. He’s a very obvious replacement for O’Donnell, hopefully this switch will happen next year assuming he’s still playing for Celtic.

Yeah good point on Gallagher, could end up being brilliant. He’s got the choice of Ireland too. We’re stacked in his position at the moment but might not be in 5 years time.

Smart from Southgate. He’s got strong connections to Scotland and Portugal. Neither his parents are English! So clever move to suggest that Livramento is in his thinking. Probably the kind of thing we could do with Scottish guys that qualify for other countries. Seems like Harry Souttar’s mind was made up with Australia because he didn’t think that he’d be selected for Scotland any time soon.

Wonder if he considered Siriki Dembele, 4 goals in the championship too as a winger/striker. Has a wee Scottish accent too if that pleases anyone. Got a feeling he’s more confident that Brown can fit in the 352, and has the work rate required for Clarke’s system rather than being of a higher quality than Dembele, Russell, Ross Stewart, Watt etc.

Problem for Russell is thats he’s a forward that strictly plays off the right as part of a three. He doesn’t really fit in to Clarke’s system. However, Gauld could easily be back up for McGinn or play a Christie type position behind the number 9. He really should be called up…

And one for Aaron Pressley too. Not sure why neither him or Joseph were in the last under 21 squad.

No, he’s potentially back next week. Gilmour was also carrying an injury, so must have played a part in him remaining on the bench.

I’m pretty sure it’ll be Armstrong in for Gilmour. Probably would have been Fleck but I don’t think you can bring him in cold. McGinn will probably sit deeper to allow for this. McTominay is massive for us at centre back. And wasn’t great in midfield last week. Armstrong gives us a better first 11 but slightly less balanced.

99% chance of going through with any type of win now! And should hopefully be 100% by tomorrow!

2nd place will play an in form Italy, it might be better to finish 3rd. Although I do agree mostly, I just think the situation will lead to a draw. Particularly if it’s even mid way through the 2nd half.

Why risk a 99%+ chance of going through for a slightly better draw. Although, I do think it’ll be a relatively normal game up until 60mins ish. And if it’s a draw at that point we won’t see much attacking for the rest of the game. will be interesting but probably a very frustrating watch for us..!

I think Group B is fine but Austria and Ukraine will both be more than happy with a draw. Austria will have a 99% chance of going through with 4 points. we probably need an early goal but they’ll both be unadventurous. Bookies have a draw at evens.

Using bookies odds and rough calculations I think the probabilities are: if we win by one goal v Croatia: 85% of going through if we win by two goals v Croatia: 99%+ of going through Or can anyone see where I’ve gone wrong?

Doesn’t sound TOO bad... See quote below. Ralph Hasenhüttl on Che Adams: "He has a little bit of a groin problem. He gave us the signal that he could not go on. He was also tired. He played Saturday and Tuesday against two strong teams."

I thought the same, but I’m in the same position as you so probably biased. It wouldn’t have been hard to link up bought tickets to SSC members. Would have likely negated the need for a ballot and would have guaranteed genuine Scotland fans. But I’ll need to get over it!

My category 3 tickets for the Croatia game are being refunded. Gutted. Get the feeling that the higher priced tickets were far more likely to be retained.

His goal today was very much a tap in! But his his other recent goals have all been quality finishes.

I like Dykes and probably would start him against England. I just wouldn’t expect him to win much against Maguire. Both Dykes and Adams would be interesting. Pace and directness on a counter attacks will likely cause Maguire more problems. And why not include Dykes as an out ball and extra aerial threat at set pieces.

This is one game, everyone has poor games. Over the season Maguire is top 5% of all EPL players in aerial duels won and aerial duel win %. He’s obviously not been ‘constantly bullied in the air’. Stop making things up to suit your argument!

They play again on Wednesday. Likely he’ll start there. Dykes also didn’t start 3 in a row in March. But has come out firing once back in the team.

Yeah maybe not a full season actually. He has the advantage of these remaining games and a full pre-season. Mad that he played Premier League football when he was 16. Massive talent.

Was promising to see John Souttar start for Hearts last night. Hopefully he gets a full season in the Premiership after the summer to see if he’s fit/still at the ability to play for Scotland.

There’s quotes from 3 years ago saying he’d like Portuguese citizenship so assume he has it now. Don’t see any reason why he wouldn’t be eligible for them if he is a citizen. Obviously he’ll want to play for Scotland though.

Netherlands in Faro. Stars are aligning for Ryan Gauld.

Yeah, I hope someone creates a video of his highlights from this game. I guess because he’s out of contract in the summer. And covid means clubs don’t want to pay transfer fees. I doubt Farense would have accepted a fee either, there’s no chance they’re staying up without him. And Gauld himself is probably happy to stay till the Summer - he must want guaranteed minutes and chance of the Scotland squad.