BraveheartGordon

Both the Daily Record and Sun are reporting that McLeish will be sacked tomorrow. not just because of Kazakhstan but unfortunately due to a “troubling incident” that sounds like a health concern before the San Marino game. I wanted him sacked too but I hope his health concerns aren’t anything too serious and wish him all the best, gave us some great memories in his first spell but just didn’t work out this time.

Let’s read my original post first then see how your own post ages. I don’t think international football should be played on AstroTurf but it’s not the reason we lost tonight. It’s a horrible surface to play football on.

If you asked a golfer or a cricketer to play on AstroTurf they’d tell you to fuck off. People like you seem to think football exists in a bubble where the surface of play doesn’t affect the type of game you’re likely to play. Tennis players might be happy to play on different surfaces but it always suits certain players etc.

If I’m honest I don’t think Kazakhstan are worst team we’ve dropped a result against. All fully professional players, on a horrible surface 6 time zones away, possibly our worst performance tonight but drawing with a fully part-time side like Faroe Islands was an even worse result IMO. Think a lot of ignorance was in play going into tonight tbh, Kazakhstan are a poor side but a huge banana skin and not a San Marino etc.

I want McLeish gone too but poor comment there.

Utter utter garbage, he did everything he could to make the flight. Unbelievable commitment when you read the story, he wasn’t allowed to fly with it so needed the surgery and can’t sort another flight at such short notice. Barring the tour he missed because he was playing in the champions league final Robertson has never been unavailable for a squad since his debut 6 years ago which is incredible really.

Don’t see any reason to change the Bates and McKenna partnership from the last 2 matches, try to keep it as settled as possible when we’re already missing players. They did fine.

And been beaten convincingly. I don’t rate Bain at all tbh.

Harry Souttar looked absolutely dreadful for Ross County last season, was excited to see him but seemed to turn in increments.

Anybody know what’s the situation with the kid at Rangers Matthew Shiels? Seems like he’s evoking the same rules as Dembele, was in the Northern Ireland squads but was called up to the Scotland 19’s squad today and seems to have switched back.

Any formation including the variants you’re discussing can work if it suits your personnel. Scotlands 2 most dangerous players at the moment though are wingers, so it would be illogical to me to play a system that prevents us from getting them on the park in their natural positions.

And what are you basing this on? Our top clubs all have modern set-ups and have made brave managerial appointments in the last few years to do the exact opposite of the nonsense you’re spouting. if you’re talking about clubs like Livingston or Hamilton then you’ll find these types of small clubs in every league in the world trying to punch above their weight by doing the basics well.

That’s the one, I watched highlights of the game back recently and we dominated them first half and in the second we dropped off and settled for a draw to save berti’s job.

2004 0-0 v Slovenia, Pretty much sums up all my years supporting Scotland since, decent start, ultimately disappointing and uninspiring without being embarrassing too often.

Good to see both Scottish clubs performing well in the Europa League, the better they do the more it improves our coefficient and gives Scottish players a chance to play European football which is the closest thing to international football.

I read Charlie Gilmour of Arsenal might play tomorrow in the Europa League as well.

I understand the week of football rules but does anyone know why N.Ireland have both had afternoon weekend kick-offs that don’t really fit the schedule and we never have? Would love a Saturday afternoon 3PM.

A lot of people commenting on the strength of the opposition forget Albania achieved something we only dream of and qualified for Euro 2016 when it’s been 20 years for us. Strong results for me apart from the bizarre debacle (hopefully an anomaly) in Haifa.

I wasn’t. I’ll put my hand up, was at every game for 3 campaigns in a row but was completely un-inspired by the insipid Football I was seeing in the last short while, the Lithuania 1-1 draw was a watershed for me where I realised I wasn’t enjoying it anymore and McLeish’s appointment and subsequent team selections didn’t help either. But I’ll be back for the qualifying campaign because I loved watching tonight and Saturday and it inspired me like I haven’t been inspired for years. Hope we can get hampden full again.

Something that crossed my mind tonight and Saturday is that our creative players in this team such as Forrest, Armstrong, Fraser, Christie etc have all been fearless on the ball and their first thought is to drive at players or play aggressive forward passes and it’s honestly been really fun to watch. Under Strachan a lot of these players would be on the park but their first thought was to play a 5 yard sideways pass instead of being brave on the ball. My common memory of Forrest previously was him taking a touch forward and either winning a throw in or passing it back down the line to the full-back and look how direct he is now. Driving with it every time he gets the ball and showing composure, aggression and confidence. I wonder if James McFadden’s coaching influence has had this effect on the team because this was exactly how he played. The sheer gallusness of the attacking players the last few games has been terrific. I’ve rarely enjoyed watching Scotland as much as the last 2 games and I hope our attacking players keep this mindset.

Really smart tactically. Great discipline. Easy to chase with a man advantage and let them play through us but we kept the block and countered ruthlessly.

Good. Awful performer for Scotland.

That bottom bit is garbage. We couldn’t get out because Ukraine were pressing us well and making it hard to play through the lines. Some of the football this 21’s and and the age groups below have played has been outstanding in recent times. The Scottish mantra through the development squads now is play out from the gk through the thirds through interchanges and quick movements. Having a physical striker means if we can’t break a unit we can mix it up by hitting the striker and playing off him, that’s not “launch it up” that’s playing an adaptable style.

I’ll give you my team and the team I think McLeish will play. my team: —————-McGregor————- KT McKenna Mulgrew Robbo ———-McGinn——Armstrong Forrest——C.McGregor—Fraser ——————Griffiths—— Subs: Phillips, Naismith, GMS/McTominay McLeish’s team ———————McGregor——-—— Hendry——Mulgrew—-Tierney O’Donnell———————Robbo ————McDonald——McGinn- ——————C McGregor—— Naismith—————Griffiths Subs: Russell, Armstrong and McKenna

Holland 6-0 for me. Was a watershed moment as a young fan at the time. After winning the home leg 1-0 and a relative of mine said it’ll never be as bad as that again. The really sad fact is that those were the glory days and that night was as close as I’ve ever seen us come to qualifying.