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  1. Lol this made me chuckle. You should never expect us to beat a team like Ukraine 8/9 times out of 10 at home. You shouldn't even expect us to beat average/poor teams 8/9 times out 10. We were outplayed on the day by a team who have a similar standard of player to us. It happens and can always happen no matter who's in charge. Not sure where this crazy delusional expectation is coming from. Where have you been the last 20 years?
  2. I mentioned the Israel game. So overall theres been three bad results. Not exactly terrible. I didn't say the three games at the euros didn't matter but we were playing top opposition in England and Croatia and the Czech republic are easily capable of beating us.
  3. Eh? Ukraine have a much better squad than Ireland. Ukraines squad is probably better than ours. Yes it was disappointing losing our play off to them but it's hardly a massive upset or a really bad result. Can you name the competitive games we lost under Clarke where we were heavy favourites or were expected to win comfortably? I can't think of many.
  4. Ukraine are a decent side and are easily capable of beating us. I am talking about games that we are expected to win. We won't always beat sides like Ukraine. The best we can hope for is that we beat sides like Ukraine more than they beat us and that we consistently beat sides that are weaker than ourselves. Clarke has mostly done that.
  5. This place is mental. It's amazing after what Clarke has achieved that this thread is getting trawled back up as some kind of 'justification' and ppl are greeting that Clarke isn't good enough or we got lucky in qualifying. We are lucky this guy bothered his arse taking the poison chalice that was the Scotland job. Not only that but the fucker has actually stayed loyal to Scotland unlike ppl like McLeish or smith who fucked off as soon as a 'better' offer came in. Qualified for 2 tournaments, world cup play offs and won our nations league and ppl ain't happy because we lost a few friendly games to top opposition. Jesus wept. As for the argument of having better players these days. If you consider strikers who can't score in the English championship or defenders and a goalkeeper who play for average championship sides as much better than our previous options then sorry but you are talking shit. Our squad today is only slightly better than the previous ones of the last 20 years. I would even say our squads from 2007/2008 were probably equal to todays one.
  6. How many bad results has Clarke had in competitive games? I can only think of Ireland away. I think we lost to Israel as well but thats all I can think of.
  7. It's unbelievable to say the least. Maybe ppl in here would prefer another 20 years of not qualifying. I was surprised Clarke took the job and I am very thankful he did regardless of what happens in Germany. A reality check is needed with some ppl in here. The pinnacle for Scotland is reaching major tournaments, if anybody in here expects much more than that then sorry you will be massively disappointed.
  8. Lol our manager has us qualifying with two games to spare and you think he should be sacked. Fuck me this place is laugh at times.
  9. Lol come on now, he's gotten us to two tournaments, any country who hadn't qualified for a tournament for 20 years would be overjoyed by his success and wouldn't be looking to get rid over a few bad friendly results especially considering the opposition. Ppl never learn in here. Clarke will have ups and downs but it's mostly been good results under him and he has more than earned his right to guide us into the euros. Even if he completely fucks it up in Germany he will still have deserved it.
  10. Why would they be laughing at us? They have a squad full of really average/poor players and will likely get relegated. Most of their players wouldn't get a start for us.
  11. Shankland plays spl and Adams and dykes play in the English championship. If he's good at that level then he's good enough to play for us, especially when you consider his age.
  12. I think we all know that we are second choice to guys like Adams, cooper, Barnes etc. that's obvious or it should be. It's all about wether the player improves our squad and shows good commitment to turning up and trying their best. Fair enough to Gordon, he's made it clear that he wants to play for England and doesn't really want to compromise on that. Saying that if he wasn't getting picked by England and wanted to use us as a back up option then personally I wouldn't have a problem with that. Regardless of what Gordon says in that interview if he wasn't getting picked by England by the age of 26 and it wasnt looking likely he ever would then theres a good chance he would be considering us as an option.
  13. I think we all know that we are second choice to guys like Adams, cooper, Barnes etc. that's obvious or it should be. It's all about wether the player improves our squad and shows good commitment to turning up and trying their best. Fair enough to Gordon, he's made it clear that he wants to play for England and doesn't really want to compromise on that. Saying that if he wasn't getting picked by England and wanted to use us as a back up option then personally I wouldn't have a problem with that. Regardless of what Gordon says in that interview if he wasn't getting picked by England by the age of 26 and it wasnt looking likely he ever would then theres a good chance he would be considering us as an option.
  14. If theres an injury to McLean or gilmour then Cairney should be given a chance. Guy obviously wants to be involved going by that quote and he's a decent player doing well at a high level.
  15. Fair enough. I agree Fraser needs to be in our squad. We don't have many players like him and he could be useful even if it's just him coming off the bench late on.
  16. No Ryan Fraser. Maybe Clarke has had enough of him and doesn't want to give him another chance.
  17. Exactly, perhaps a few orange lodges up in the north east might push the independence vote up. I would guess that the orange walks in the west of Scotland tend to harden ppls attitudes towards being pro independence. Lol maybe the orange order are really undercover supporters of independence.
  18. I am actually quite amazed by that. I thought Kilmarnock would be rife with orange walks and orange lodges. Any idea why this is?
  19. Not sure what the issue is, the north east is as staunch unionist as they come. Perhaps all the towns up there should have orange lodges.
  20. He won us the game v Norway away. He deserves his spot in the squad. Guys been excellent for Scotland and thats all that really matters.
  21. And rightfully so, guys been immense for Scotland.
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