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Aye. Unfortunately another problem is that there's still plenty of numpties firmly stuck in the past that would go nuts at the idea of mighty Scotland (envy of all the world) calling up two players from Partick Thistle and Scünthorpe Utd. Never mind the fact that they are two badly needed young central defenders. We have to give these players a go soon. One for the boards Motherwell fans, how is Zak Jules getting on ?

Steve McLaren booted out by Derby tonight for the second time. Any other managers that were sacked, re-hired and then fired again by the same club ? Doesn't count if they resigned or where poached by another club. "Mutual consent" is acceptable though.

WTF Definitely. Would call up Liam Lindsay and Murray Wallace too for the experience. Give them both 20-30 minutes off the bench against Canada.

Warburton would be a good appointment for Derby County.

Nah, the Church of Scotland only announced they were in talks with a man from Rome with a view to a merger.

Any reason why they can't get a keeper in on an "emergency loan" ?

Further to my earlier post I had missed out from my list of 1950s Scotland internationals who are still living - George Herd, Duncan Mackay, Andy Weir, Bert McCann, George Mulhall, John Grant, Mick Cullen and Tommy Ewing. Others who recently died are: Andy Paton (2014), David Herd (2016) and John Little who died just last month. It's unclear if Jimmy Walker, Jimmy McGowan, Johnny Deakin or Billy Campbell are still alive or not.

Aye rather depressing. That's a few Scotland players we've lost in the last few years. Fred Martin in 2013 then Bobby Collins and Alex Forbes died in 2014. Whilst John Hewie, Jimmy Murray, Graham Leggatt and Dave Mackay all passed away in 2015. Denis Law, Bobby Brown, Bertie Auld, Ian St John, Tommy Docherty, Ian McMillan, David Mathers, John McKenzie, Doug Cowie and Jock Aird are all Scotland internationalists from the 1950s who are still alive. There's probably one or two more I missed out. Might be wrong but I think Bobby Brown is also the last living Scotland internationalist from the 1940s but not too sure about that.

Was delighted when he got the job. Was willing to give him another go after the last campaign but he's since just completely lost the plot. His heart doesn't appear to be in it now either. He should resign now before things get ugly between him and the support.

Pretty sure that Jimmy Johnstone worked as a lorry driver and a bricklayer for a number of years after his career ended. Years ago when my Dad was a taxi driver he was frequently picking fares up from Jim Baxter's pub. Said that whenever he saw him, Baxter was usually working quite hard pulling pints, washing glasses, cleaning the tables. Ex-Celtic goalie Denis Connaghan sometimes delivers pharmaceutical supplies to my Mum's work. He also works with a football team for kids with special needs. A very nice guy.

He comes across to me as being generally rather bored and lacking much interest in management, only still being in it for the £££.

Excellent then I did stress that Hutchison's goal was a match winner (which it was) not a tie winner (which it unfortunately wasn't).

Aye, very good. Stewart's father was a Scot so that's good enough for me. The last man to score a match winning Scottish goal against England was an "Englishman" by some peoples impossible standards.

Typically charming post aaid. I wasn't alive at the time old bean so I'll defer to Irish rather than you ok ? Would you like to join me though in holding out hope that a foreigner (perhaps an Englishman) will succeed Strachan as opposed to the hopeless and undeserving native candidates.? You know I actually enjoy reading a lot of your posts on political matters as it happens, so why don't you let go this sad obsession with me there's a good fellow. I'm not going to give you the reaction your clearly after English fans ? In the Scotland support ? I'm confused.

Fair enough then. My Dad said big JC was top notch, very down to earth and at home with the ordinary supporters. They actually met him again at the airport bar coming back, had everyone spellbound with his stories about Billy Bremner and Peter Lorimer's antics. Charlton's appointment by FAI took a lot of balls too when you consider what a tense period in time it was for British-Irish relations with the chaos that the six counties were in.

Can you remember what reasons he gave for this unbelievable stupidity ? I feel sorry for the fans whose team Boyd eventually gets his first management job with and then proceeds to screw up. And he'll get a club, his pals in the media will see to that. "They may take our lives but they'll never take ma cheeseburger !"

Other nations cast off such ridiculous xenophobic attitudes and started hiring foreigners because they are foreigners and actually started making a success of it. We should do the same. Again, You've conveniently ignored the success of Jack Charlton across the water. They even made him an honorary citizen he did such good a job. It's been pretty much an open secret for the last few months that the SFA are considering Michael O'Neill as Strachan's successor anyway so might you may have no choice but to accept a non-Scottish manager soon. And besides the present Scottish candidates for the job are extremely uninspiring - McInnes, Moyes, Freedman, Clarke, Irvine........ Also, anyone who seriously thinks for a split second that Alex Ferguson, Walter Smith or Alex McLeish would want to take charge of Scotland again - is in need of a brain transplant. Fantastic post there Irish Unfortunately some in Scotland today kid themselves on that the world still regards us a major player (they haven't for 40-50 years now and with good reason) and that we are due some kind of entitlement because of our history (precisely zero people outwith Scotland care about that). Then there are those who have the rose tinted specs on with regard to the teams of yesteryear and refuse to remember the mistakes, the calamities which these teams were involved in - "och, we were just unlucky ! ", "aye, but the ref was blind !", "they dirty foreign cünts have it in for us so they dae" ......... Maybe if we'd had a little bit of foreign influence during the 1950s, 60s and 70s when we really did have some truly gifted, top quality players then we might have bloody well got beyond the group stages at least once. We've been stewing in our own deluded, self important juices for decades now. Wake up Scotland and embrace new people, new methods, new ideas. My Dad actually met Charlton at the 1996 World Cup in Mexico, not long after Charlton had started off as Ireland's manager, couldn't speak more highly of him. Charlton had got caught up in a big crowd of Scotland fans outside one of the stadiums with the rain pouring down but was happy to sign autographs, pose for pictures and have a bit of banter about the 1966 World Cup Oh dear God........... What country is the "South of Ireland" ? Can't find that on any map. The Republic of Ireland is it's proper name

I hate everything about the Premiership and what it entails but we have to live in the modern world. Can't remain stuck in the past, trying the same old methods, with the same old people, and getting the same old results. What did you think when a former England World Cup medal winner took charge of Ireland during an extremely sensitive period in Anglo-Irish relations ? Also quite frankly your opposition to an English manager just comes across as outright Anglophobia.. Scotland is not some sort of sacred special case. The world doesn't give a feck about us either. Sorry, but it's the truth. We either adapt or die.

Enjoy mediocrity then. I'd have no problem at all with an English manager.

We can attract a decent foreign manager if we actually bother to look for one for a start. Charlton and Trapatonni were good for RoI, build half decent teams and got them qualifying. They weren't lumbered by outdated attitudes. Plus as I pointed out, they had confidence and worked out good systems for their players. Vogts was neither confident or smart enough to work out a system that would have helped get a wind away against the Faroe, Lithuania and Moldova. Don't care about Butcher. We should be considering English managers in future. What's wrong with having an Englishman involved ? Why do we have to the special exemption to every other nation and always without fail appoint a mediocre native to be manager purely out of "tradition" ?

Bonny, we are truly blessed that a man (or woman) of your supreme eloquence and wisdom takes the time to converse with everyone on the TAMB. I salute you.

Ooohhhh, my "type" ? Please tell me more about my "type".

Even if you take away his record with Iceland, Lagerback's record with Sweden and Nigeria was very good. It may hurt some people to read this but Scotland are not a unique nation. We are not respected throughout the world anymore, hard as that may be for some people to accept. Nobody gives a flying feck either about "oor role in inventing the game" and rightly so, it was a bloody long time ago. Our pathetic FA always has to think small and appoint "one of our ain" to the job. There is too much of this damaging insular thinking, it's been holding us back for ages. It's time for us to go out and meet the big bad world. Fück the crippling, outdated traditions. A foreigner for me. And I'd be over the moon with an Englishman managing Scotland for a start. And what happened to LeGuen or indeed any other Old Firm manager is irrelevant. Another issue entirely. The Republic of Ireland did alright with an Englishman and then an Italian in charge of them. And I very much doubt whether Jack Charlton and Giovanni Trapattoni "understood" the Irish national team's players, mentality, traditional tactics and history when they took charge of them. In fact being "outsiders" probably helped them. The difference between Berti Vogts, Jack Charlton and Giovanni Trapattoni is that the latter two had confidence in themselves and worked out good systems to suit their players. Vogts in truth was never confident and had a scatterbrain approach to team selection and tactics. It's just about choosing the right man. Because we got burned once before doesn't mean we should never again consider a foreign manager.

At this rate, "Send the Buggers Back" by "Half A Shilling" will be the alternate national anthem. Aye. Interesting game to play. Count the amount of times the SNP are labelled nazis and how many times they are labelled commies. Bonus points for someone from a rural area complaining about how "the Muslims have taken over".

Take good hard look at myself Aye very good. And the poppyfest is puke inducing. It's now a disgusting celebration of militarism. I take heart from the fact that in the last few years more and more people have been voicing their opposition to the whole ridiculous circus act. And it's for that reason that the SFA were fecking stupid to put such a divisive political symbol on our national teams shirts and even more fecking stupid to contest FIFA (completely correct) fine against us.