stactuso85

Nope.

True, wasn't intentionally singling out one club team, the idiots are everywhere unfortunately.

Those people aren't real football fans. I even wish we didn't have to share a country with them. Sadly such idiocy is trendy in some circles these days.

Today's Daily Record has the spin "great for Celtic/disaster for Scotland" on not one but three different pages. The media has always been at the forefront of pushing "club v country" nonsense although usually they are more subtle.

Why are they 'hilarious'? Are you not so bright? Wait, are you one of those deranged 'political' pretendy football fans who hate their own country/national team and loudly claim to do so while representing the club team they say they support even though that club team is of the same country you hate (and so are you)? Whether it's Old Trafford, Anfield, Ibrox, Celtic Park or Aberdeen Mad you cretins are one of the absolute worst things about modern football.

Pffft...

That's what I was going to post. Lack of energy and sharpness, lack of urgency until the end then no composure and blindly hoofing the ball up when there was time for a touch or quick side pass to a better positioned player. Lack of creativity and link-up play in the final third, lack of attacking options/movement so players were resorting to long shots. Something about the shape of the team/players picked was wrong. Hardly any chances created. Too slow to get forward; midfield not at the races; shite v shite in the first half but in the second they were good and we weren't. A sluggish performance like that in a must-win game and also the fact we did still go one up yet didn't dig in and force another to get 2-0 up or defend the lead...poor overall.

My first impression was Coventry City rather than Rangers.

Another pair of prats on that today. The fact that the Record always prints them is interesting. And I haven't read their sports pages for months, yet almost every time I do they are printed. The first one said Scotland should be called...wait for it..."Scot-tic" because so many Celtic players are picked. Comedy genius. Imagine the cheek of trying to inject some of the winning mentality of an in-form, Champions League group stage team into the national team. Criminal, I know. The second one says he calls the Tartan Army...again, wait for it..."the Bampot Army" because "they have more faces than a town clock, something about English players blah blah". Who could possibly compete with these great wits? Not me. Although I do wish this type of "person" would disappear from the football world altogether. It's not just us that suffer though, saw on twitter tonight (just checking results, I steer well clear of football twitter) an account saying "internationals should be abolished" - of course it was a Manyoo following professional northerner type calling itself "King of the North" or something. They're a cliche now.

That place is a joke, parody of itself. So-called Aberdeen fans driving everyone else away and posting anti-national team garbage worthy of the very worst of other clubs they supposedly hate.

Challenge the players to score before England did.

Ugh politics and football. Or just politics in general. No need. Sadly this kind of 'supporter' seems to have become more prominent in recent years. They're all over Twitter too.

So voting UKIP to get your country out of the nation-destroying "European" Union is ray-thitht is it? Imagine being that bigoted. Perhaps even worse than still believing you can still bully people by invoking "racist" in 2017.

TBF that decribes many fans behaviour at club games these days, especially at big clubs and more especially at big clubs in big leagues (EPL - Man Utd, Liverpool). They think the game should all be about them and SSN hysteria 24/7.

True. I don't believe any Scotland supporter doesn't want us to be top class and competitive. We get told we can't compete with big nations and must be realistic or we are told we celebrate and accept failure.

I don't know because your vibe reminds me of shopping centres being blown up and little kids being murdered. Kind of fogs my knowledge of history. Go away, troll.

If we had taken our chances we would have been in the game even allowing for conceding those simple goals. Ifs and buts...

"We have the best supporters. We love our supporters. We have the best supporters, believe me."

Outplayed? Nah. Just couldn't finish or defend. You don't know football. Go and troll somewhere else.

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Since the last campaign: - finishing, both foot and head, has gone to crap - defending simple cross balls and headers has gone to crap We know we already had limitations in both departments but we weren't as bad as now. Mostly the same players. If you don't take your chances and you leak simple goals, you are going to struggle no matter how well you play in general. For the second game in a row, our opponents didn't really have to work for their victory. England didn't impress me much more than Slovakia in general play. They didn't cut us to shreds with brilliant incisive passing football.

EPL/SKY media bubble bursting? Good. They deserve it for so many reasons including promoting this kind of attitude, this one courtesy of Sun Dream Team: "Dream Team - saving football fans from International Breaks since 1994" "Let’s play a game of would you rather. Would you rather have an International Break every week or have Michael Owen commentate on your sexual performance? Either way, it’s not ideal. The only thing that could keep you sane over this 12 day stint is tinkering with your team and getting it ready for when this dross is over. Remember, you can use three transfers in November." You're speaking for football fans, aye? Not narrow-minded EPL fanboys? Hope your precious foreign-dominated league crashes and burns. Modern football is rubbish.

Do it for the lulz

Have they chucked it? Or can't they take playing in a stilted, slow, players-out-of-position formation any more? Losing 3-0 to a team who have barely had any spells of pressure. Having the bulk of possession and pressure but not scoring and leaking goals. Seen club teams like that in the past, they end up relegated.

Despite not qualifying for a long time, I never felt we were not good enough. We either had a tough groups, wrong manager, bad luck, not taking our chances... Tonight for the first time I genuinely feel we are not good enough.