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He was a better manager for Scotland than Ormond who replaced him. He was a man the Tartan Army would have got fully behind if he'd stayed a bit longer. But why has there not been a thread for the other guy who died - the guy who should have been Scotland manager but the SFA didn't have the courage to ask him? (Parallels with the English FA and Brian Clough.) The guy who didn't suffer cheek from insolent BBC reporters. The one and only Jim McLean...

Turnbull has the balance and agility of a matador.

Che Adams is not good enough to play for England so this "will he, wont he?" story could run on for a long time. Nigel Quashie came in on the granny but he actively approached the SFA and told them he wanted to play for Scotland, as I understand it. I've got no problem with the granny rule but I'd like to see some desire to play for Scotland. A player holding off in case England come calling doesn't tick the boxes for me.

You're only going to get me interested in an English whore if she has a 44DD chest. Then I'd say, yes, she's welcome...

Harry Souttar could not be bothered working hard to improve his game and get a cap alongside his brother for the country of his birth. Bringing guys in whose attitude is not right has a negative effect on the morale of the whole squad. Lou Macari once said of the 1974 World Cup squad that he always knew someone would let them down. I don't care where a player was born - Goram, Rioch, Hutchison etc have been great players for Scotland - but I do want see a genuine desire to play for Scotland.

Players coming in for the wrong reasons (i.e. because their agents say an international cap will be help get new contracts) can destroy the morale of the team. The whole is worth more than the sum of the parts.

Vogts, Smith, McLeish, Burley, Levein and Strachan all failed to qualify for major tournaments. If the clubs are not coaching players to the highest standards, there is only so much a manager can do. Instead of changing managers, we should be asking why we're not producing players like Messi, Ronaldo, Zidane etc? MacGillivray, playing in the third tier of English football, has been in a Scotland squad. What does that say about the quality of player the Scottish clubs are bringing through?

Clarke can't pick Snodgrass

Who's this guy Magners who plays for Celtic? He's down in defence, then up in attack. He's everywhere.

Ritchie's agent will have explained that it's better for career prospects not to be capped because you have retired from international football instead of not being capped because you're maybe third choice.

If you are going to make these comments, then I suggest you do your research first instead of behaving like a Conservative Party MP and opening your mouth to expose your ignorance. People used to talk about having "all-tartan" teams in the 1960s and 70s and what they meant were Scotland teams comprised entirely of players who were not only born in Scotland but also playing their football in Scotland. These arguments surface when the national team is unsuccessful. The suspicion is that players from outwith Scotland do not play with their hearts on their sleeves. I think it's unfair and bear in mind that we're talking about Andy Goram, Stuart McCall, Richard Gough and Don Hutchinson, here. If you're not a cringing Scot, you won't be anywhere near the football on Saturday - you'll be in George Square. See you there.

If we're going to dilute the team, it's exactly because the current squad is awful. If you want an "all-tartan" team, don't criticise the manager if he loses a few games.

How long before he decides he'll make do with a Scotland cap, do you think?

McKimmie, Calderwood, Hendry, Boyd, McKinlay - good, hard-working players but I'm not convinced they were "superb"

They used to say Kenny Dalglish never replicated his club form at Liverpool when he played for Scotland. In reality, he was too good for the Scottish diddies he had to play alongside who did not have his intelligence and did not know how to play alongside him. McAllister, Collins and Lambert carried eight other ordinary Scots into the 1998 World Cup. Don't criticise Robertson who's turning up to play with English lower league players when he plays for Scotland. When we have players like Liverpool, he'll reproduce his Liverpool form.

A decision based on loyalty and patriotism... or on money, fame and an agent salivating over his fees?

Yes, it's embarrassing that this country has not been able to produce an international class centre-back since David Weir retired.

Don't you remember when Rangers fans were saying that Stephen Hughes was going to be better than Barry Ferguson?

Vogts failed to qualify for a major tournament, Smith failed, McLeish failed, Burley failed, Levein failed, Strachan failed - it's time to start looking beyond the manager and at player development.

This is why Levein launched the performance schools. Until the quality of player improves, we're asking managers to do the impossible. Clarke played Russia with a goalkeeper and centre-back coming out of English lower divisions.

Vogts failed to qualify for a major tournament, Smith failed, McLeish failed, Burley failed, Levein failed and Strachan failed. It's time to move on from blaming the manager and start addressing the fact that the players coming through are not good enough.

There are young centre-backs coming through; the goalkeeping position concerns me a lot more. I thought our three first-choice goalkeepers this season would be Bain, Kelly and Steer.

The truth is clubs do not have the patience to develop players.... Nor do they have the patience to wait seven years for a boy to progress through school.

Vogts failed to qualify for a major tournament; Smith failed, McLeish failed, Burley failed, Levein failed, Strachan failed. How much evidence do we need that the players the clubs are producing are not good enough? In the squad to play Belgium and Russia, we had three goalkeepers all playing their football in the English lower leagues. Closing down the performance schools is an outrageous act of greedy self-interest by clubs which want their hands on the money and do not care about the national team.

"Team GB will be England-led" - Gary Neville. Do these people understand that Great Britain was supposedly created in 1707 as a voluntary union of equal nations?