Rab The Crab

Read the guide from ATAC tonight and the Slovakian FA are fully aware that there will be 100's of us in the home end and have no issues providing we don't act like pricks.

So did you ban me, or have your Facebook groups been removed?

I'm liably informed he may be talking pish.?

Among other pish, a smug post saying that he'd been kicked off here and had put TAMB in its place by threatening legal action. Reading between the lines he's not content with owning the Tartan Army but also wants to own facebook. My most recent spat with him involved me arguing with him after he questioned why myself and my mates were staying in Trnava. Bless him, there's still plenty that value his 'exclusives' 10 minutes after the SFA have posted them on Twitter.

I'm inclined to agree with this. His responses on Facebook last night were hilarious.

We get in at 1930 on the Sunday night so after we've dumped our extensive luggage at the digs we'll head to the boozer.?

While it's a retro reproduction it's really good quality. I got the very same one from eBay a while back and it's much better quality than the ones Score Draw did.

Ive not seen much of McDonald, I was more making the point that Dorrans was a better player.

Totally agree, Fletcher was written off and is now an ever present for West Brom and reinstated as our captain. If playing every week I'd certainly have Dorrans back in our squad ahead of McDonald. We can't really afford to write anyone off.

Dorrans back in first 11 for Norwich, scored a screamer yesterday. Always rated him, just been very unlucky due to personal issues and injuries.

Yeah, I tried to register on the site to save a couple of mins for Monday but it said an account is created when you submit an order.

With the quality we have going forward and the limitations of our centre halves, I think that has to be our best tactic in most games.

I was initially quite surprised with Strachan's selection last night. Very surprised to see Bannan, Paterson, Burke and Chris Martin start. Bannan was excellent, I think him and Fletcher worked very well together and I'd certainly advocate that being our centre mid against Lithuania. I have never been Chris Martin's biggest fan but he did a job last night and if anything should prove to be decent back up for this campaign. For Lithuania I'd have same team with the exception of Griffiths in for Martin.

For me, it was the only negative of an otherwise excellent evening that Hanley and Martin looked so ropey. They are however our best combination at centre back so all we can hope is that the two of them get some game time between now and Lithuania. Cooper and Souttar could maybe do with a call up just to get them in and around the squad during the campaign.

What ones do Copa do? I've never seen them.

Yeah, they no longer have the license from the SFA to do them.

Hoped to see a couple of potential full squad call ups tonight but that was dire. Souttar looked OK but seemed to be dragged down by the mediocrity around him as did Gauld. Its very fashionable to slag off Sbagria but there was no cohesion and the buck has to stop with the gaffer.

Interesting chat from Alan Rough tonight re Ross McCormack, asked why he thinks that he's not a favourite of Strachan-he stated that McCormack has had a couple of dubious withdrawals from squads in the past and as a result Strachan doesn't trust him. Roughie went on to claim he was told this and believes it to be fact.

Excellent news.?

Excellent news.?

Where did you hear that mate? Does that mean they got 2700?

A week after Brown retiring.

Of course, I appreciate its must be a bit of a headache to organise. Am I right in thinking myself +2 are first reserves?

Still looking at potentially adding a few more numbers to this or will you be keeping it to 40?

I can only imagine Strachan doesn't rate Cooper as he was one of the very few if not the only one not to get any game time in the Denmark/Czech friendlies. I think McCormack deserves to be in every squad and I know he's had the occasional injury but his Scotland career has never really got going. I'm surprised big Matt Smith at Fulham hasn't been mentioned, similar style to Martin but can actually move.