Texas Pete

I haven’t seen anything as bad as that for years. Them losing a goal in the stoppage time they caused was sweet. Pity it wasn’t the 97th minute but still good.

That’s my point though. By definition you need to be international class to play international football. Lots of international players aren’t very good though which is why the phrase should be crumpled up and put in the bin.

Doesn’t it depend on the country you represent though? At least half of all international teams are absolute dross. Are their best players international class? They play international football so the must be. The phrase has no meaning for me. I’m probably just being pedantic but it really annoys me for some reason.

I don’t think anyone should be considered undroppable but I certainly don’t think McGinn should be dropped any time soon. He would need to be seriously shite for a few games in a row for his position as a guaranteed starter to be in danger and his good performances for Scotland far outnumber his poor ones for that to happen.

Adams is a good player. He’s had some average games for us recently but that doesn’t mean he should be nowhere near the team. Dykes is clearly Clarke’s preferred striker at the moment but he didn’t play very well on Thursday night. Should he be nowhere near the team either? We are not exactly overrun by excellent strikers so I don’t think we can be choosy enough to leave out a player of Adams’ ability.

I really can’t stand this phrase. What does it even mean? Are the Gibraltar players international class?

Channel 4 doesn’t show Wales games. Viaplay owns the rights to their games the same as they do ours but they have an agreement with SC4 which allows them to show the games with Welsh commentary (at a fraction of the price Viaplay paid for the rights I would imagine). I doubt Channel 4 would have any interest in showing Scotland or Wales games because the viewing figures would be nowhere near as high as the figures they get for England games. I don’t think anyone will be asking them to justify this anytime soon. It will be interesting to see what happens when the rights come up for sale again since Viaplay won’t be bidding again. Sky will probably get the rights back but hopefully it will be a free to air channel instead.

Aye but we’d be more likely to get Croatia or Netherlands knowing our luck.

The chances of all 3 being injured in 7 months time are very low. We are cursed if that happens. Tierney has twiglets for legs so I wouldn’t be surprised if he missed out but the other 2 should be fine.

How many times have you been banned? I feel another one coming on. 😂

We certainly didn’t play well offensively (at least until the 86th minute) but I think Clarke had set us up to get a draw. If we had lost 1-0 we’d probably have been moaning that Clarke was far too negative but we won the game so we can’t really complain. We had exactly the same number of shots on target as Norway did (and one of theirs was a penalty) and we had more corners than they did so for all their possession they didn’t exactly do much with it and got exactly what they deserved in the end.

They are a shadow of the team they were 2 years ago. Incredible really. I still think they’ll finish second in their group though. They need to beat North Macedonia at home and avoid defeat ‘away’ to Ukraine in Germany. Even the other way round would do it. Still very much in their hands. Would be typical if they did need a playoff and ended up being our pot 4 team though.

Beat me to it 😂

Some assist from Camavinga

I don’t miss getting whapped in the face by flags. In my smoking days a guy once knocked a fag out of my mouth with his flag at Hampden and had the cheek to moan at me about the fag burn.

We are still ahead of Austria on goal difference (only by 1 goal right enough) so 4 points will be enough to finish ahead of them as long as we match or better their result and score in Estonia in the game we win. Estonia are bottom of the group but Austria only beat them 2-1 at home so hopefully they won’t beat them too heavily in Estonia.

An automatic dick maybe.

Better to be without them now than at the start of the campaign or next June I suppose.

Probably means we’ll get them in our group.

A lot will depend on what happens with the new manager at Ibrox. If he likes Jack and plays him regularly and if (it’s a big if in all honesty) he can stay fit then there’s no reason he won’t still be in the squad. Clarke picks Jack just now when he’s not playing that much for Rangers so unless some other midfielders stake a claim then Jack has every chance.

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Agreed in general but what have they done now?

What about Denmark/Slovenia?

I think there would have been a good few whiskies sank last night all over Scotland and beyond. Spain wouldn’t be the worst draw in the world. At least we know they’re beatable if the grass in Germany is long enough. 😂