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Good to see a target man in Dykes be able to hold the ball up and do something with it. Could do with having a poacher alongside him. Or is it unfashionable these days to play 2 strikers

😂same, watching the second half thinking just that

Where has our creativity gone?? In the Euro16 and WC18 qualifiers at least we would be entertaining and create chances. We seem much more solid but are doing absolutly nothing in the final third. The amount of times we pass backwards in the last 5-6 games is very frustating. Steve Clarke has made us more compact, but we havent done anything offensively against Cyprus, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Russia or Israel. Very turgid to watch.

Shame the fans can't have a say in how they would like UEFA comps to be organized. Think the fans all across Europe would be for Champions League to be the Champs only!! The ridiculous situation was summed up last year by having two finalists who havent't been Champions for 29 &58 years respectively!! In the old format, that extremely limited Tottenham side would have been knocked out and we could have had a proper European final Could it not be something like this Champions only in Champions League Cup Winners Cup comes back but its played in separate weeks, so if the team is champions as well they get to play in CL & CWC (means a quintuple is possible lol) Europa League can be where the teams finishing 2-6 in their leagues play qualifying to get to a group stage The champions league and the CWC should be straight knockout. This way the CL & CWC get proper European champs and the Europa League can be all the 27 games between European giant clubs where endless games meaning nothing and keep the money men and broadcasters happy. So all of us who actually support teams can enjoy the ups and downs of our teams in Euro campaigns and the indian and Chinese markets and Agnelli get huge numbers of Europa league games to get excited about.

Just asking, but does anyone on here care who wins either European final this year? I mean I know in eng it will be very popular and hyped up. But does anybody living in a different European country have any interest in it? Always feel 2 teams from same country ruins the ethos of the old European cup. Ive watched every CL final since 92 but will give this a miss because you need to want one of the teams to win or lose. Shame they cant both lose.

I think both Clarke and McInnes are really good managers and get more out of their players than expected. Think Derek would be a great Scotland manager, he is a really proud scot, good man manager and could be our J.Low Unlike the other candidates he wouldn't be looking at it as a stepping stone to a bigger thing, I think he is a Scot first and foremost, unlike the others who all seem to regard the job as a way of getting back over the border...bizarre thinking.

I disagree in part. When did Strachan, Moyes, Bilic overachive massively? I mean what Clarke has done at killie is miraculous. The players love him, they seem very fit now and well drilled. But overall they are really hard to beat. I think Clarke is a better manager, just he hasn't got the big club cv, which really doesn't matter, ie ONeil with Brechin.

Id just like someone who is a great manager......ie gets more out of the players than the previous one. For example did Moyes, Bilic, Dickov!!, ever get more out of their players than their talent suggests. No! But these guys do.....Clarke (miracle work at Killie), Ross (He changed the buddies from absolute dross into a really good side), McInnes is a bit different in that he is a more consistent manager, probably would beat all the shite teams but lose against the bigger teams. Or is that his players at the dons? I'd like any of these three, know the game here, are good managers(most aren't), get more out of players(what we need)

Yeah you are right, Im surprised how low it is.....127million. What is all this guff in the papers and from MrBlarney then about Scottish teams being unable to compete?? Celtics wage bill was 60mill last year. I know its half of spurs but the difference isn't that much. They have been losing to teams in Europe with lower wage bills under blarney. If you think Aberdeen is about 10mil, that's 6times less!!

I think you have clicked on the wrong forum. English lovers.com is over there We have possibly the worst ever team to reach the CL final tonight. It used to take great teams to reach this level. Shame for football

What a sad day for football. This Ajax team have bucked the money trend of CL football with a stylish brand of football. And what happens the spurs spend 300 million on wages and play Oxford Utd boot it up to Lorente and hope for dumb luck. Well I guess they got it, but football lost out tonight. Now a final between two teams who were last champions when??? Such a bad advert for the European game, the less you play football the more likely you are to win.

These points averages should get better as the teams get worse. So the anomalies are the #2 & #6 seed away where we lose ground But most importantly the amount of points we are dropping at home to the #5 & #6 seeds

Average points gained against the different seeds over the last 20 years HOME #1 = 1.11 #2 = 1.29 #3 = 1.71 #4 = 2.57 #5 = 2.36 #6 = 2.40 AWAY #1 = 0.67 #2 = 0.57 #3 = 0.86 #4 = 1.57 #5 = 2.00 #6 = 1.40 Shows where we are losing ground on our rivals to qualify. Most notably how poor we have been away from home against the #4 and #6 seeds. But also against the our main rivals for qualifying the #2 seeds, we are poor home and away against them. I'm just trying to show, maybe we need to go into these games with a different mental attitude instead of looking at the whole qualifying picture. Play against the bottom seeds like its against eng and really focus on the #2 seed at home

How would the last 20 years been different if we could have just won our games against the 4th,5th and 6th seeds. Containing the likes of Macedonia, Faroes and Liechtenstein, not exactly teams we shouldn't be beating. 00 - Same - Playoff w/ Eng 02 - Same - still finish 3rd 04 - Same - but would have finished equal 1st with Germany/ Playoff w/Holland 06 - Different - Would have been equal 1st with Italy/ Playoff w/ Czech Rep 08 - Different - Would have qualified 2nd ahead of France 10 - Different - Would have been in Playoffs ahead of Norway in Group and knocked Ireland out of 2nd Place teams 12 - Same - Still behind Czech in 3rd place 14 - Different - Would have been in Playoffs ahead of Croatia 16 - Different - Would have been in Playoffs ahead of Ireland 18 - Different - Would have been in Playoffs ahead of Slovakia and knocked Ireland out of 2nd Place teams It just shows how poor we have been against the teams we should be beating. It shows with the right manager we are not far away from getting there. We don't need to suddenly be beating the Italy's, Poland's or even the likes of Denmark to qualify, just win when we are supposed to!!

Just for example, who are exceptional, generation type players? Messi, Ronaldo.....is there anyone else who could be considered a GOAT. But look at the 90's...….there was Romario, Bebeto, Hagi, Stoichkov, Maradona, Del Piero, Baggio, Maldini, Baresi, Klinsmann, Mattheus, Bergkamp, Davids, Seedorf, Schmeical, Laudrup etc.. Just shows how poor football is creativity and skills wise now. Scotland should be doing way better, I mean if that crap ROI team can qualify!!