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  1. Armstrong again tonight was excellent, surely he can't be far away from a call up
  2. Matt Phillips had an excellent game tonight especially in the first half
  3. Morrison,Fletcher and Matt Phillips starts for West Brom with Phillips scoring inside 5 mins
  4. Why? He's not any worse than Hanley that's for sure
  5. Never said that I would play them all at centre half, but I certainly wouldn't hesitate to play Barry Douglas, Phil Bardsley or Stephen Kingsley in defence. Tom Cairney and Stuart Armstrong should be considered for future squad selections, definitely involved for a friendly or 2 anyway. You could actually make a decent squad with players that are not involved with Scotland McDonald, Douglas, Anderson, Considine, Bardsley, Armstrong, Adam, Cairney, Shinnie, McCormack, Rhodes
  6. Phil Bardsley, Tom Cairney, Stephen Kingsley, Barry Douglas, Stuart Armstrong
  7. Playing guys who are regularly starting at their clubs might help, change the formation to accommodate the defenders. We have to work hard to create chances, the opposition don't. That's what needs to be addressed
  8. To break into a winning team in the bundesliga is hard enough, granted that we would prefer him to be starting though. If he continues to develop his potential then I see no reason not to build a team around him, but we should be laying the foundation's just now
  9. Stuart Armstrong with a goal and motm v K**lie, RB Leipzig make history an are now top of the bundesliga with Burke coming on as a sub. Scott Brown issues a "we'll see" when asked about his international future
  10. What other national football side would accept this constant disappointment
  11. I don't really think Scotland are in a position to turn up our nose to anyone, but to play devil's advocate apart from 3 players in the NI side 2 centre halfs and Steve Davis the rest of them are made up of lower league players and none of them look out of their depth
  12. 5 at the back with the lb and rb attacking when on the counter. Tierney Berra Mulgrew Martin and Bardsley. Make the defence stubborn and our team hard to beat, might not be great to watch but the opposition don't have to work hard to score goals against us at the moment. Write this campaign off and start again and build up momentum. For friendlies use guys like Kingsley, Hendrie and Anderson
  13. Do they? 3 headers lost in the box at Wembley suggests that they don't know their job. 3 goals lost in Slovakia. Ok 1st goal was on the counter but Scotland had a total of 9 men defending in the box and 7 in front of the ball! Second goal lost in Slovakia our defending was terrible almost like they were taking part of the mannequin challange. 3rd goal lost in Slovakia was another header, this time in between 2 defenders So tell me again about the benefits of Scotland using zonal marking?
  14. Zonal marking is terrible, I hate seeing it and I hate losing goals because it's used. It should be man for man and then everyone knows their job
  15. We haven't tried anything different in the friendlies. Gordon Greer (no harm to him) for instance isn't going to improve us in the next 2/3 years so why call him up for Italy and France? Why let's say not start with Kingsley and Anderson or use Stephen Hendrie, Tom Carney and Rhodes from Blackburn and let them put themselves in the shop window for us? We keep pissing in the wind and expecting something different
  16. Get Ian Cathro and Gary McAllister in pronto and lay foundations for years to come
  17. If there is a change in management and team selection/formation I would back us to finish 2 points off the playoffs
  18. Would Wales or ROI lose 3 headers which resulted in goals for England? Not a chance, would any other nation applaud a manager in Faro after another disappointing campaign? We get what we deserve
  19. I really wouldn't fancy our chances against the Faroe islands unfortunately that is our level under Strachan
  20. Wipe the slate clean and start again. If nothing has changed by the time our next home game comes along then it's time to vote with our feet and stage a boycott
  21. girvanTA

    Oli Burke

    Play him from the start, tell him to be direct and to run at the English defence, he will smash them on the counter attack
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