Morrisandmoo

Agreed the criticism is over blown rubbish. His performance across both matches was significantly better than what Snodgrass had been offering. Room for improvement? Obviously and so what. We have another player who has proved himself capable of fitting into the squad and performing well. That is nothing but a positive thing.

Slovenia win. England draw. Lithuania win. Malta win. There's no half a bunch of zoomers on here needing to stick their dummy back in and wake up to the fact that we're winning games and have every chance of winning more.

It's only 3 games now. I've already booked flights to Russia.

Not yet. Calm down.

Yes, agree with this. Gordon is off the rails. Forrest and Ritchie are close, but Ritchie looked at the top of his game at the weekend.

He actually looks strung out. Something is not right with him. Looks like he needs a lie down and a cup of tea, not a must win international on his plate. I am very worried. Hopefully we pull off a Slovenia-type performance and keep the pressure off him.

Finished starting for Scotland, I think folk are talking about. Playing in the English Premier League doesn't give you an automatic pass into the Scotland starting 11. Every objective measure? I'm not sure about that one. Going forwards - I can't remember the last time he contributed a goal or an assist for Scotland. Defensively - an increasing number of short comings are creeping into his game (weak tackles, slack passes and poor tracking) for example he was culpable for England's third at Wembley. His recent objective performance for Scotland has been the very opposite of where I would rate him 10-15 years ago. It has been poor-average I'm afraid. If there are reasons to maintain his inclusion in the Scotland squad they are subjective eg his professionalism and positive influence on younger players. Like I said I have an open mind. But you need to back up you claim of having every objective measure in Fletcher's favour. Because I think that is an exaggeration and untrue.

Can you elaborate on what he did that was influential? No doubt will see on highlights tonight, but would be good to hear from somebody that has seen the whole match. I am in the camp that he is finished, but have an open mind to compelling evidence to the contrary.

Agree. He will cost us a goal, if not the match, if he starts. Simple as that.

Yes he did

Snodgrass needs to be dropped. He has been v poor since Malta. Gordon will cost us if he starts vs Lithuania. McGregor in. Aside from that I agree with going heavy on Celtic squad

You need to live in the real world mate, where eveybody and their dug is paying 100 quid for sky every month. Probably paying for that daft fight next weekend as well. We need to charge something at the gate. I agree with Hannibal. £125 is good value compared with other sport/event products. And I doubt many other national teams reduced pricing year on year following supporter feedback. The cost of attending club football week in week out is the problem.

Spot on mate.

What pricing structure would you suggest? Bearing in mind we sold out England, which was the most expensive game in the campaign. Pricing seems about right to me. If anything we should be charging more.

This is not relevant to my interests. Or the topic in discussion. Reported to moderator - off topic.

I use all of the above. As often as possible. Albeit, mostly to get a bite from the sensitive type, petal. I say mostly, because I like it too.

That's an interesting thought....if by some unlikely turn of events we make the playoffs and qualify...it could, in no small part, be down to Stevie G.

Let's be honest, it's not exclusive selfless commitment that drives the majority of folk to travel abroad. The experience, beer and company has a lot to do with it as well. If it truly was commitment they would be at hampden no matter what, but it's not usually as compelling an experience so they don't make the same effort (which is absolutely fine / not a criticism). They'll still get 20pts as well. Folk are being rewarded for attending home games. Which is absolutely right. Not getting a reward isn't the same thing as being punished. However, the fact we dont all stay in the same house does means we dont have equal access to the reward (home or away points). Moving home games about the country is a decent way to partly mitigate this.

This.

Sky is part of the problem not the solution. We need to find a way to get folk attending games without selling our soul (or anything else) to Sky. If you think football on tv is part of the solution, and I don't know if it is, then it's the BBC that needs to be showing much more of the Scottish game. Anyway I don't agree with the argument. Sky buys a ton of products at market value (EPL, SPL, athletics, badminton etc etc et ) package that up and sell it as a combined product to consumers. I don't get the argument as to why they, vs any other company, ought to then reinvest their profits based on consumer nationality/interests. The profits belong to the shareholder who has used their capital to manufacture and sell the product. Any redistribution of this profit should be via general taxation and not on a company by company basis (which would be impossible). I do agree that corporation tax is a mess though and imposing some kind of turnover tax on foreign companies based on location of sale/consumer might be an option to address widespread tax avoidance. But this is a much wider conversation/problem than how sky's profits are taxed (and has its own issues).

100% agree with this. All things considered, he's our best midfielder. He is also our captain. To have some Scotland fans on here decrying him as s thug and nothing else is embarrassing and a crying shame.

Your exact statement about Scott Brown was, 'he's a thug and that's it'. You've since went on to talk more shite about him not being good enough at retaining possession etc. And have been absolutely schooled. Either you are stupid and unable to assess the facts. Or you have a personal problem with Scott Brown which manifests itself in you talking shite on football forums and making false claims that are contradicted by the facts. Seems pretty clear to me sunshine.

The reason I assume you have a personal problem with Scott Brown is because otherwise your statement is unbelievably stupid. To say the Scotland captain is a thug and nothing more is plain daft or biased, or both. You are quite rightly getting shite because you are talking a load of shite.

True story. When he retires we will struggle to find anybody to fill his boots in the near term.

Fine, but I wouldn't get so worked up about it.