mrniaboc

Well. No-one was right, but a few people were very wrong I'm happy to say!

I read something about a decision on December 9th?

Haha I guess you left one out because nothing needs to be said about him?

Well, it is for me. Come on lads!

Just read an article on BBC about how tonight's match is "not about revenge". For me it is. I was so damn excited about this qualifying campaign. We had a free hit at qualifying knowing we had a playoff spot because we had won our National League group, and we finished our last qualifying campaign strong. Our opening three matches were looking like a solid 9 points from 9 and we'd be atop our group going into the Belgium away match. Then it happened. 10 minutes into the qualifying campaign it was over. We were done. A laughing stock one more time. A country with a fragile sporting mentality given a knock-out blow. The fears of most Scotland fans confirmed; "maybe we're just really really bad and we'll never qualify for anything ever again." These doubts flood in and take hold when you're at such a low ebb. It's so so hard for players and fans alike to shake them. This results in players calling off, and fans not turning up, in record numbers. I spend a lot of time thinking about sports psychology. This IS about revenge. It's not just a "dead rubber". it's not great preparation for the playoffs (they are ages away). This is about reminding the world and ourselves that we are not a joke. We are Scotland, and that still means something in football. It's time to regain some much needed self-confidence. Come on Scotland! 4-0 at least. Revenge. Cue a Kazakhstan win HAHAHA.

The good old days.

Talking of segues... I think you also have the wrong man here.

From the reports that came out wasn't he hardly over the limit and had like 1 or 2 beers and risked taking his car home? Not making excuses, as any form of drink driving is abhorrent, however I don't think that can reasonably equate to him being wild on the drink. If it does, then I'm an alcoholic as I drink on average 2/3 times per week!

That's the good stuff! Come on Scotland!

😂😂😂 That's fair enough. I'm a geek.

Awesome to see Munchausen's Trilemma make an appearance on the TAMB! You've slightly misused it here though, as Scotland having a 0.001% chance of qualifying isn't a ground truth, and has no underlying mathematical proof. But forget that. I get what you're saying. In your view our chances of qualifying are extremely slim. I think you're right about that. But I still think we've got a great chance at getting to the playoff final. Then it's a cup game. Anything can happen! Please don't give it a miss.

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Fair point! I genuinely didn't realise Romania were now ranked that much higher than us. Only know they were a Group C Nations League team and didn't win their league, so assumed they would be pot three for qualifiers etc.

Yeah, I think it was the point where he started running both of your messages through online grammar checkers that he made his bed on this one hahaha. A very small hill to die on though.

Finally! No, it's absolutely clear what you were trying to say. That's why it wasn't important! By why oh why oh why oh why did you spend three pages of a thread claiming you hadn't made a mistake, rather than just reading your message and admitting it?

Not trying to blame you, it's silly that you and TP got into the argument you did. But I find it funny you're missing your mistake.

Are you serious? This is amazing. Try speaking it out load or something?

Hahaha you crack me up.

Like the pots that would be used to seed European teams for things like the Euros and Nations League etc. We're in pot 3 just now.

I think that's even doing Scotland a disservice! We very rarely lose to teams below pot 1 and 2 at Hampden.

Haha yeah, it's as close as you'll get from the lad. In the last hour he has had a giant argument with Texas Pete because he can't admit he made a simple typo, and essentially told me I'm lucky he even got close to spelling my handle correctly, even though we have talked to each other almost daily for over a year 😂😂😂.

Mrniaboc Mrbiamoc backwards would be Mr Comaib, and that makes no sense at all...

Can't really see UEFA going for that. Think of all the money they will lose!

Congratulations on your marriage Mick!

To be fair, it's extremely rare to see any sort of apology from TDK, even if it's as much of a non-apology as that hahaha. Possibly explains why he has such trouble spelling the word 'apologies' 😂.