Texas Pete

Unless they change their minds in the next few days the food and drinks kiosks will be open at Wembley and there should be beer available although I haven’t seen this confirmed anywhere. I have seen it mentioned in a few news articles recently that Hampden will be the only stadium where beer won’t be available. That was before it was confirmed Hampden will be the only stadium where no food kiosks will be open at all. 🙄

No I woke up back in Glasgow one day and Bobby got out the shower. The last time everyone thought we had a great chance of winning our first game it didn’t go well. Mind you we badly underestimated Costa Rica. There should be none of that against the Czechs.

Since the European Championships changed to 3 points for a win in 1996 a team has only finished third in a group with one point once. That’s once in 26 groups. If it happens three times in this tournament I’ll eat my own scants as well as my hat. You’re right though it would be just like us.

😂 In my defence I haven’t lived in Texas for 6 years. This is the most positive about us getting out a group I can remember being and I’m not sure I like it. The last 3 tournaments we’ve been to we have opened our groups against Netherlands (twice) and Brazil so had no real chance of getting off to a good start. This time we are at home to the lowest ranked team (apart from us) in the group. Third place might be enough to get out the group and we are actually playing pretty well at the moment. Something makes me very uneasy about all this.

Almost impossible now I’d say. There would need to be that many draws that the tournament would be unwatchable. It would be pretty funny if we did get through with 2 points after being unlucky a few times with goal difference etc.

Unless he goes on loan to Hearts there’s no chance he’ll go there. Hearts (or probably any other Scottish Premiership club apart from Celtic) couldn’t afford him.

It certainly hasn’t happened in the Euros as I think they only introduced that rule in 2016 and it didn’t come into play. At least we know we’re quite good at penalty shootouts if it does happen.

Highly unlikely but yeah as Ceudmilefailte says, possible . At least 2 other groups would need to have teams finishing third with 2 points and we’d need to have a better goal dIfference. If we (or any team) get through with two points I’ll eat my hat. I’ll need to buy a hat first though.

Most goals scored between the three drawing teams. Hopefully we’d have drawn our 2 games 3-3 and Croatia and the Czechs draw 0-0. Would possibly come down to who lost to England least heavily though. 3rd and 4th place would be eliminated.

Unlikely. Unless he sets the Euros alight and attracts some big offers.

I doubt he’ll play more at RB next season than he did this season for Rangers. He had an extended run in the team with Tavernier being out which is what brought him to people’s attention. I also doubt he’ll play anywhere else for Rangers unless they have injury problems in other areas of the pitch that he could cover. Even if he does play the odd cup game or come on as a sub that’s unlikely to make him first choice for Scotland. I would imagine Tavernier will move on from Rangers in a couple of years and Patterson will replace him. If that happens then he’ll definitely be a starter for Scotland as well.

Yeah I pointed that out in another thread as well. He won’t be our first choice RB or right wing back next season unless he goes out on loan (doubtful as Rangers would need to replace him) or Tavernier leaves Rangers which is also unlikely or if Tavernier picks up another serious injury. Most people want Clarke to start Patterson ahead of O’Donnell on Monday but Patterson hasn’t started a game since the 18th of April. Patterson is really in the squad as back up for O’Donnell but he does of course have the chance to change Clarke’s mind on that.

Aye and they lost the racist Kudela as well. I’m pretty sure he started their qualifiers in March.

I’m pretty sure he was ruled out of the Euros with a knee injury.

Yeah I think Patterson is definitely a more attacking full back but when you are playing as a wing back you have no choice but to get forward when the team is in possession. I think O’Donnell will definitely start on Monday but if we are dominating the game and O’Donnell isn’t making an impression down the right then we may we’ll see Patterson come on in the second half.

I’m not sure if Dykes club performances are only driven by the competition he faces in the Scotland squad.

Are you Bonny in disguise?

This is misleading. You can drink alcohol anywhere in the City of Westminster. All the PSPO states is you must surrender your alcohol to the police when requested. It’s so the police can confiscate booze from pished people making as arse of themselves. Anyone behaving reasonably and having a few beers in public will be fine. This is how it should be everywhere.

I vaguely remember the flag incident but it was good to get the full story. I thought Burley was funny in it. I usually can’t stand listening to him.

I think he played 14 times for Rangers last season. I watched all of them. As a fellow Rangers supporter I thought you might have as well. I would’ve said that 14 appearances was a bit more than “cameo”. Capisce?

Aren’t you a Rangers supporter?

I wouldn’t worry too much about McTominay’s performance on Sunday. He’s a big game player and they don’t come much bigger our next match.

Whatever happened to them?

I just don’t see the benefit to be honest. We'll potentially need to queue twice and there won’t be anything to do outside the stadium once you’re through the security check. Hardly a big deal but it seems odd.

Griffiths?