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  1. I don’t think this is accurate. How on earth would they know if it was your phone or not?
  2. Our best bet is probably if our opponents underestimate us to be honest but yeah it could work either way. I’m pretty sure Serbia thought they would breeze past us in the playoffs. I hope that Croatia are taking 3 points against us for granted and get complacent. I’m certain England will be thinking this way.
  3. Absolutely. I doubt Clarke would leave the Scotland job for any job in Scotland. He prefers living down south so would be looking for a job I the EPL I think. If we do well this month and he’s tempted away by a mid table EPL club then so be it but I think it would need to be a decent club and good offer to tempt him.
  4. I think that’s unavoidable I’m afraid and the price of success. I would rather do very well at this tournament and risk losing Clarke than go out at the group stage. Hopefully we do well and any offers Clarke receives don’t tempt him but whatever happens happens. If we do fantastically well at this tournament and Clarke gets offered a top job then good luck to him. We should at least be able to tempt a high calibre manager to replace him as the job wouldn’t be the poisoned chalice it has been of late.
  5. I think a few beverages may have been consumed by that 21% at the bottom. 😂 Quarter finals isn’t ridiculous though if our potential last 16 match is at Hampden. Probably best not to get ahead of ourselves though. 😊
  6. It certainly can’t do any harm. The more time a coach can spend with his players the better.
  7. Doesn’t necessarily mean there are any tickets available for our games although there was a rumour that the SSC turned down a further 800 tickets. Hopefully there will be some available for all 3 matches but if that rumour was true the SSC are a disgrace.
  8. Surely the stewards can’t come within 1.5 metres (or whatever the distance is now)? If they are going to use metal detectors as someone else suggested then a plastic bottle would be fine I guess. Or you could just go a few hours without booze I suppose? 😂
  9. You’d think they would but who knows? Tweet/email UEFA and suggest it. 😂
  10. Yeah absolutely but false confidence is a dangerous thing. Clarke and the players won’t be getting getting carried away though and yeah we can also improve and wouldn’t have been going full tilt either last night. My point was you can’t really rely on warm up matches to gauge how we’ll do at the tournament.
  11. They won’t necessarily be in bubbles though but it would have been good if you could have advised of that in the application process. A lot of people may have just lied though I suppose.
  12. I doubt the seats will be roped off or anything so you could probably sit next to each other and explain to the stewards that you are married if they say anything. Not sure if they will use common sense or insist you sit 4 seats apart. It would make sense to let people who live together sit beside each other because you would then be further away from strangers. Although you might be closer to the people in the rows in front and behind I suppose.
  13. Agreed but won’t the other teams also benefit from the extended time together? It’s all relative surely? Unless Clarke is the best coach of course.......
  14. Could we also get pumped 3-0? Unfortunately this is also Oh yes. I’ll be delighted if you’re right though.
  15. I would say Croatia are currently slightly better than the Netherlands but yeah there’s not a lot in it. We do need to remember that last night was a pre-tournament warm up match though and not get carried away. I’m sure the Dutch would have been better and played with more intensity last night had it been a qualifier or finals match. We will be playing Croatia and the Czechs at Hampden though which must count for something. We are also undefeated over the last 4 games against the Czechs and Croatia have never beaten us in 5 attempts so we have a great chance.
  16. I have seen Dykes play a lot better for us to be fair to him. He wasn’t great last night but that doesn’t mean he can’t go a job for us.
  17. I’m not sure how much of an advantage it will be since most of the other squads will be spending the same amount of time together but it certainly won’t do us any harm.
  18. Here comes the “a draw against England will never suit us” brigade.
  19. Yeah I know how good Hansen was for Liverpool but I’m not sure how often he replicated that for Scotland. The same could be said for a lot of people over the years. I do know that Hansen didn’t get as many caps as a player if his class should have but yeah the McLeish and Miller partnership would explain that.
  20. If you are referring to the world rankings the Netherlands aren’t a top 10 side but it was still a good performance and decent result. If Clarke had been desperate to beat them he would have kept Robertson and Tierney on the park but it was far more important to get other players some minutes and keep those two fit and fresh. We shouldn’t concede penalties like that at that at the tournament as VAR should hopefully intervene but that won’t stop dodgy free kicks. If I was Clarke I would be telling my defenders not to touch players in that position at all as they will drop like flies to get a dangerous free kick as soon as they feel hands on them. Having said that the ref was clueless last night and was obviously a big Depay fan.
  21. How can the SSC process a refund if the ticket was bought directly from UEFA?
  22. Most of the panicky defending came after Tierney, Robertson and Cooper went off although Tierney did make an arse of one cross (one blip in an otherwise very good performance). A good performance against Luxembourg and a couple of goals would do. Not expecting to batter them as they are a lot better than they used to be but we should have enough to beat them. Not that a win is essential but it couldn’t hurt. I wouldn’t read too much into their game tonight as Norway (Haaland aside) are not a great team.
  23. Fraser could probably have done a wee bit better to close the ball down but the fact is if Depay doesn’t go down like a sack of spuds to fool the referee we would have cleared the ball. The ref had a shocker.
  24. He certainly caused us to lose a few though. We’ll certainly one anyway, maybe I’m being unfair to him. I’m far too young to remember him playing for us. ☺️
  25. I’m not sure what else could have been done to prevent that free kick. It was never a foul.
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