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  1. norsefox

    2nd Place

    100% harder. As badly as we play against teams like Slovenia, I know who i'd rather play
  2. In recent years against England, a positive result would be <5-0. Definitely looks like a better squad we have this time around.
  3. Unexpected but clearly shows a desire to take it seriously
  4. Of course we need Brown against Slovakia, but we also need to win tonight. No point resting everyone if it ends up 0-0 and the Slovakia game becomes pointless anyway. I don't envy Strachan tonight as it could easily go wrong no matter what he does.
  5. norsefox

    2nd Place

    Assuming we also beat Slovakia (by a minimum of one), we'd be +4 over them. Don't honestly think it would be enough. I'd sign up for it right now though.
  6. norsefox

    2nd Place

    Luxembourg are a better team, though capable of drawing 0-0 with France or losing 5-0 to a very poor Holland. We could lose this game or we could win 5-0. It's not a sure thing, but failing to win would be up there with the worst results in our history.
  7. norsefox

    2nd Place

    We need to treat GD as irrelevant now - unless we can get a 7+ goal swing AND Slovakia lose to england. We're on 11 points and Slovakia are on 15. Assuming we beat Malta and Slovakia don't beat England (as no one has done since 2000) we'll be on 14 points v Slovakia's 15 or 16. Given Slovakia's last game is v Malta, we have to beat them to overtake. Takes us to 17 v their 15/16. Sure we could draw against Slovenia and we'd both tie on 18, but we'd end up third (short of a huge swing in GD) and Slovakia would end up out as the worst placed second team. If we want to make the playoffs, we need to win all 3. Nothing else now matters
  8. We like discussions and papers but refuse take advice from anyone who has actually achieved something - "what the hell do the Dutch* know?" *replace Dutch with German, Belgian, Icelandic etc as appropriate
  9. Brave formation. Gordon at striker is a bit of a risk imo.
  10. Wins for England is hardly a forlorn hope! They haven't lost at home since 2000 in a competitive match. If we win all four games, it needs an unlikely set of results in every other group, or it requires Slovakia to beat England, to prevent us coming second. If we don't qualify from here, it's almost 100% our fault.
  11. norsefox

    2nd Place

    England have not lost a qualifier at home in 17 years. For us to not come second involves us dropping points and/or Slovakia beating England If either of the above happens then Slovakia deserve to make the playoffs. Simple For us to win all four games and make the play offs is very very unlikely. I'd put the odds at even more remote than us winning those four games in the first place
  12. I absolutely hate this sort of thing. We DON'T perform when games don't matter. It's when games do matter that our best performances happen. 'Not a must win' is exactly what happened in Georgia and at home against Lithuania. Every game from here is a 'must win'. A draw is crap result, and just puts unecessary pressure on the game v Slovakia or Slovenia. Wouldn't it be nice going into the final game knowing a draw was enough because we won tonight? We treat players like children. Start the game at 100mph, high tempo and don't let Lithuania into the match. They did it to us at Hampden and wrote off our entire first half. So often we're pedestrian in possession. I've never understood that approach.
  13. norsefox

    2nd Place

    Funny how we seem to be the only ones capable of such terrible results. The next two games could easily be a 12-pt swing for or against us. There is no doubt in my mind that Slovakia would get 100% if this weekend's fixtures were reversed. Anything less than 6 points for us is an embarrassment
  14. Good in the air? Perhaps at winning a ball no one else is competing for. how many headers have we conceded this campaign? Remember his free header against England??
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