HandofRhod

Good Points. I think Set Pieces could be key in the Serbia game and for the first time in a long time we had a pretty tall team playing last night. Great deliveries by Robbo and we were unlucky on a couple occaassions. A wee bit more work on them in the next 2 games and could be a real weapon agasint serbia

Very Much agree with you on this! For serbia assuming Clark is gonna stick with 352 then the back 3 should stays the same after last ngiht perfomarnce, robbo LWB - KT RWB Then depends how open you want to go in midfield - jack and Mcgregor did a good job defensively last night as holding midfieldsr but but maybe didnt retain possession enough or create to much if u want to keep that defensive security against a better team they probably both have to play. Dykes will most liley still play id say. That leaves 2 attacking places between, a whole host of players - top of the list is porbably - mcginn, christie, fraser, shankland, mcburnie This is not to mention armstrong,forrest, patterson,grithiths You could maybe be a bit more attacking in midfield if you replace jack or mcgregor with McTom or Mcgin. + had Christie or Fraser ahead Id be worried about having fraser and christe both pklaynig behind 1 strikers cos the 352 looked alot better with 2 strikers as opposed to 1 and 2 kind of wide attacking mids

Your right! It is nice that we have options in a previous problem position. Center Forward aswell we used to struggle but we now have options, Dykes,Mcburnie, Patterson,Shankland, and Griffiths to come back. Naismith said after the game that he thinks the squad is alot more competative as a whole now, which i agree with. There is now decent competition in most positions. Right back is the one position i think we are still struggling in, for all that I like SOD and think he tries hard and is a okay backup i dont think hes at the level required, neither is Palmer. I think KT is our best option out there, Hes a genuine wolrd clas full back, okay hes left footted but plenty right footers play at left back. KT has the footballing brain and the ability to do a good job there and would do a better job on the pitch there than on the bench if its between him and Robo at left back

Im not sure you understood my point. I didnt say football wasn't entertaining, I said that as a Sport its not required to be. Of course football is entertaining but comes from it being competative. If scooby doo is your alterantive choice of entertainment, it does explain alot! I love football and I very much enjoyed that game last night and was very Happy. We won and are through to the final of the play offs! Buzzing! I enjoyed it much more than beating Gibralta 6-0 or Malta 5-1 although those games had more attacking from us and more creativity and more goals. They were alot less competative and the wins didnt take us much closer to achieving anything great.

I think your right, especially in games agaisnt decent teams where we are going to be under pressure. He likes to be solid defensively and then try to find a goal from somewhere and i think after last night that he has got hem looking soild with 3 at the back i dont see it changing.

I absolutely agree it would be great to play with urgency, width and pace, but I’m not sure we have the players to play that way, I don’t think we have any genuinely rapid players at all. I think only McTom, Robbo and KT have realy high quality athleticism. Mcginn is a terrier and the rest of the midfield get by through sensible positional play on the most part. I would like to see more width. But we only have Forrest and Fraser as decent wingers. 1 was injured last night and 1 had only played a couple of hours since march. Playing both of them also takes away from our ability to be urgent, as neither are the most athletic. They do tho both bring creativity which we have lacked recently. I would have liked to have seen Chris Burke in this squad, i think he could be an option to bring a bit of width. With everyone fit I think my preffered team would be Marshall KT - Gallagher - Cooper - Robbo McTom - Jack Christie - Mcginn - Fraser Dykes

Football is a sport , but nowhere does it say it’s meant to be entertainment. Films, Music, theatre and books - this is where you should look if its solely entertainment you are after. Sport is meant to be competitive. Entertainment from sport is a by-product of the competitiveness. The joy of sport comes from winning at something which was competitive. If you can’t compete it’s not going to be entertaining, it doesn’t matter how much silky creative football is on show in a game if you get beat 6 – nil, your not going to enjoy it. When you have a squad of limited ability, like Scotland do now, then being organised and hard to beat allows you to be competitive. It gives us a chance to win games and get to a championship which is the main goal in this and the thing that will actually bring joy to the nation. Although I guess not to the miserable f**ks on here who seem to love us getting beat as they think it proves them right.

6 games unbeaten, 5 wins in the last 6, clean sheet tonight. Hes took us to the final of the play offs, 1 game away from getting to a championship for this 1st time in 22 years. Its Not good enough tho SC has to go. We are better than this. And we have a god given right to win every game we turn up to. These SPL / championship players are world class they deserve a manger with World class pedegree. I seriously think we should be trying to get Pep or Klopp, clear step up from there Diddy farmer club jobs. 🙄

Considerably better performance than last months 2 games, but still lacking a littel bit. Think were unlucky not to have a goal. McTom should have scored and mcgin had a good chance early on should have done better with his shot. Think we are lacking width from our wingbacks. 2 up top look decent and I think we'll get a goal from them tonight

Positives from tonight / Friday Obviously - 5 games undefeated (4 wins) and Top of Group B having ticked off probably the hardest fixture Team performance GK - Marshall looked good in both games DEF I though McKenna was good in both games Tierney excellent on Friday I through Robertson was better today. We defended set pieces pretty well We tried out a new formation with limited success. I think with McTom’s physique, athleticism and passing ability both Clark and Man Utd would love if he could play CB at times, so we have had a fairly free shot at testing him out there for 2 full games, with very little is riding on the games. I’m not sure it worked or that he will play there again anytime soon but at very least he now has some experience in there if he does play there. Midfield Jack played well on Friday McGinn looked good in both games Attack Lyndon Dykes has been excellent. Really good 1st goal tonight , good build up and finish His hold up play was pretty good aswell Christie took both his pens well and played pretty well in both games. Patterson also looked decent in both boxes when he came on tonight We created more tonight that some people seem to remember 3 solid goal scoring chance Christie shot from robbo cut back just before the pen Patterson shot Christie / McGregor breakaway We were on top after they scored right up until we scored and again the start of the 2nd half until we scored. Areas to improve We started slowly tonight and we let them come on to us after we scored. Midfield is meant to be our areas of strength but ti think they were a bit over run at times tonight with is a bit of a worry, oi though jack played well on Friday and id expect him to return. I’m not sure the formation entirely worked and id expect use to revert to 4 at the back in the play off. Forrest struggled as a wing back covering the distances, he is much better in short bursts of speed around the box. I think u would still get the width from robbo or Tierney as a full back in a 4. My preference would be to play KT at right back, plenty right footed player play left back. Clark is always going to be a pragmatic manager, so not expecting expansive football, I think we look more solid than we did before he took over but there is still work to do and really need to be pushing for those clean sheets. Overall I think we should be pretty positive 4 points from 2 games against what is our level. Ok that was a c team today, but they were still decent and we have struggled against worst teams. We were on a hiding to nothing but we won and go the job done, something we have failed at in the past. A 3rd goal on he break tonight would have killed the game and put a much more positive spin on the game, Looking forward to the playoffs and think we have a very strong chance of winning.

The negativity on here is utterly ridiculous. From reading this feed you would think that Scotland got pumped tonight and hadn't won in years. If you want to know the problem with Scotland this is it here in a nutshell. No wonder some of the players struggle to bring a positive performance or replicate club form. Mentality is such an important factor in international football, you just have to look at some of the "rubbish “teams that have massively overachieved to see that. The negative reaction on here is massively over the top and is just wild! One muppet even said he didn’t want to qualify for the Euros in case we get beat there. Pathetic! What a pathetic mentality to have. If that is how you think then maybe following competitive sports isn't for you. Maybe try plane spotting.... This negativity will be picked up, echoed, and exaggerated in the press and feed back to the players. Any positivity, confidence or feel good factor will be attacked and destroyed. These guys are not superstars with personal media teams to shield them from these comments. Some of them will be on here themselves and if not their friends and family certainly will be. Remember Scotland is a small country. Of course, there are areas we can improve and things we can do differently We started slowly in this game and took our foot off the gas after we scored both goals, letting them back into the game. But there were some real positives to come out of this, · 5 games undefeated (4 wins) · Top of Group B in the nations League having played the highest ranked team away. (If we win group B and are promoted to Group A, then okay we might struggle in group A but because most of group A will qualify to the Euros through normal Qualification, even finishing bottom of group A might be enough to guarantee us qualification to Euro 2024 (I need to check this is correct)) · Dykes looks like he can do a job in the no 9 position, an area we have been struggling with. · Christie has been solid at taking penalties · Marshall has looked solid in goals · Clarke has tried out a new formation and now will know where it does and doesn’t work. · We showed good character to come back from a goal down to win. At the start of Clarkes reign losing the 1st goal killed us. · We were the better team after they scored the 1st up until dykes goal and the again we were on top at the start of the second half until our penalty. · We did create chances, Christie shot blocked just before the pen, Patterson through near the end and Christie breaking away unfortunate not to either get a shot away or square to McGregor Going into the Israel qualifier game there should only be immense positivity and a real feeling that we will beat them.

Team i can see against Belgium Think mclean and Mcgregor done well Marshall O'Donnell McKenna Mulgrew Robertson Mctominay Mclean McGregor Mcginn Burke Fraser

Agreed, it was a stuid throw. I really like mcginn, think he uses his body really well and adds bite and strenght to our team and is calm on the ball. Id def have him in the team, it is just a little bit of a worry that he does seem to have a that 1 bad mistake per game in him. I think he done something silly in the 1st half aswell but cant really remember. Must have got away with it. Although they both played well i can see forret or fraser being dropped for an extra midfield prob mcTom agasint Belgium... Also would imagine Burke will start.

Will he? Most players who have a mair in them never really lose it.

I thought we done pretty decent. Good structure. Controled the game. Cyprus are a team id expect us to beat but are no walk overs and thats exactly how it went. Still a few things to work on. Defending set pieces. And bit more decisive in the final third. We created chances. Fraser and SOD probably should both have scored. It made a difference when we had the hieght and speed of Burke when he came on. Confidence is key, and wins build confidence. Negative idiots who just want to put the team down no matter what dont help. I think some of them want aston villa and Kilmarnock players to play like Barcelona or Man City. Solid structure and good organisation is so important in international football. Thats where teams like iceland and northern Ireland have playd above them selves and if thats the way we are going im happy with it. Great goal from Robbo and a good 3 points to build on