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Oh come on now ........... .. that would just be far too sensible for Strachan

Did anyone notice if Boyd and Cathro shook hands at the end of the game ?

Shame. Could still have been a handy player for someone. Looked a good player for Hearts a few years ago. Turned down Edinburgh City in November it seems. Didn't come across as being a particularly bright lad in interviews. Another one lost to the scourge of sausage rolls and pehs.

World Soccer Magazine did a feature on the greatest managers in football history a few years ago. It was voted on by a group of "experts" One "expert" actually gave a vote to Bob Bradley

Is he still a free agent ?

Alex Neil's future at Norwich is not looking too rosy. Future candidate for manager of Aberdeen or Hearts (if Cathro doesn't last long) ?

Aye right.

I'm not sure if a starting XI consisting purely of Scottish players based at English clubs has been put out since then. Will take a look. There have however been quite a few XI's in the last few years where no Scottish club was represented at all in the line up. Our starting XI for the game vs. France earlier this year was made up of players from English, Welsh and French clubs. Two of the subs were from Scottish clubs however.

Ladies and gentlemen, Enoch Powell has risen from the grave.

Rory Loy possibly leaving Dundee. Good signing for a team like Hamilton, Thistle or Inverness maybe ?

A pointless, trivial, timewasting thread for Christmas. Ever wondered when was the last time we put out a starting XI where all the players were signed to Scottish clubs ? Something we are, in all honesty, unlikely to see again. Anyway, it would appear that this was it: 0-1 friendly defeat vs. Germany (managed by Vogts) at Ibrox on March 24th 1993. Nicky Walker (Heart of Midlothian) Stephen Wright (Aberdeen) Tom Boyd (Celtic) Craig Levein [c] (Heart of Midlothian) Brian Irvine (Aberdeen) Alan McLaren (Heart of Midlothian) John Robertson (Heart of Midlothian) Dave Bowman (Dundee United) Duncan Ferguson (Dundee United) John Collins (Celtic) Jim McInally (Dundee United) Sub: Scott Booth (Aberdeen) for Wright (64) With rose tinted glasses removed - was that a fairly decent team or otherwise ? A fair reflection of Scottish football at the time or was the decline in quality already there to see ? Which players from that side would you take for today's team ?

Dear SFA Pay the feckin fine and never do any of this cringeworthy pish ever again.

FIFA have acted correctly. We deserve all we get over this. The wee outraged poppy fanatics on this thread When's the protest outside FIFA HQ in Zurich happening ?

Arden G46 Lovely locals.

Nah, not since the doctor prescribed me those pills, nice and soft and loose I am now. God bless the NHS. The straining was getting to be too much.

"Cuz wir British and wir pure dead proud tae be British, that's the bottom line !!!" Bunch of wänkers.

Inverness have an eagle, Peterhead a fish (cod or haddock ?) and Ross County a stag.

Denis Law, Alan Hansen (for club rather than country), Dave Mackay, Jim Baxter, Alan Morton, Jimmy McGrory and Gary Teale,

This one ? Couldn't find a big enough version of it on a tangerine background.

October 2005 all over again

I think Barrie McKay would thrive once he gets away from the pressure he is under at Ibrox. Hearts or Aberdeen would be good clubs for him, in Scotland anyway.

We've had a number of Australian born lads involved in the youth teams and they all chucked us. Targett and Gallagher can piss aff. We seemingly weren't good enough for them first time round.

No thanks.

You might not believe this RenfrewBlue but I am 100% in agreement with you on everything there

You can say that again ! They've got nearly forty players out on loan just now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_F.C.#Out_on_loan