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I wouldn't actually mind if Smith got it. I might be alone in that one. When we won the Kirin cup in 2006, including a 5:1 win against Bulgaria, it was the best football I've ever seen Scotland play.

Big picture, we'd be where we are today. Our FA doesn't care about the development of Scottish players, nor do our domestic teams.

Plus apparently he had seven assistant managers at Al-Ittihad. I think he may be a wee bit precious for the Scotland job. I mean, what where the assistant doing? One to do his laundry, one to drive him, one to fan him as he lays on his hammock? etc.

Let's just say I think they'll be tons of leg room. I hope it's below 10k. I hope it is. That would be hilarious.

Is everyone talking about the comments about the ref? I only read about it. Isn't that pretty much what most managers say when they aren't happy with the performance of an official?

No manager would make us exciting. We don't have the players for it. The only team who are exciting when Scotland play are the opposition. If we can make Kazakhstan look exciting then we truly do have a gift. In fairness, the list is that bad that I'd take him over most of the names in the frame. I mean, Levein?!?!

Of the non STD variety. Nah. Someone could say that it would be hiring two coaches for the price of one, but mental illness is nothing to be laughed at it... Unless it is...

He should quit Stoke asap, as he isn't really getting much of a look in. In the future, though, I can see him being a top coach or a top manager. He has that aura about him that you can't hep but admire him and listen to him. In terms of pundits and commentators, he speaks with more eloquence and more sense than pretty much all of them combined. Plus he loved playing for Scotland, through wellness and illness.

You hear manager saying that they have an "itch to scratch" with regards to a league, usually the EPL, but I think the experience with WBA scarred him to such an extent that he would rather have a fulfilling job than a well paying job in an environment with prestige. I remember how he reacted when WBA fired him, he was hurt, and I'm sure the hurt still lays with him. I might be wrong, but I see him with Kilmarnock next season. If he joined Fulham he's get promoted to the EPL in his first season, finish 8th in his second season and probably get fired.... it's not a bad assumption, as he got fired from WBA for finished 8th... the morons. I'd love to see him as the next Scotland manager, with Darren Fletcher beside him. I can't see it, though, it'll probably be Gemmill as manager, flanked with Mark Burchill and Ian Durrant...

Actually, I agree with Leighton. If there was a choice I'd take Leighton 100 out 100 times. As a manger McCoist was awful but I think as a specialist striking coach he would definitely bring something... plus he's an infection character, he'd be an asset for sure. Since Smith we've always have a manager flanked by two coaches, so If it were to choose the coaches I'd take Darren Fletcher and Ally McCoist with Steve Clarke as manager.

I wouldn't bring them in as general coaches, because they don't have the ability. But as far as specialist coaches, I would. Who better to coach goalkeepers than one of the finest Scottish goalkeepers? And don't England have a striking coach? I think McCoist knows more about the art of finishing than what's the guys called? Allan Russell?

I actually think Clarke would take it. He doesn't have an itch to scratch where it comes to the EPL. WBA treated him abysmally, I think that soured him off the EPL. When he joined Kilmarnock it was because he wanted to do something special, and he has. He's turned a perennial relegation fighting team into a team into a top 4 team and a team that can compete against the Old Firm. Being the Scotland manager would be equally a big a task. I think he'd be up for it.

Steve Clarke is too much of a malcontent (In a good way) for the SFA. There's no way that they'd be able to pull his strings. The SFA won't appoint Steve Clarke for the same reason that the FA didn't appoint Brian Clough. Also, they probably aren't even aware of him. They're THAT clueless.

Who said this? The SFA made a turnover of £76m since 2017.

Fantastic post.

It doesn't. The EPL have a homegrown rule and look at their youth international sides. They're winning world cups left, right and center. See? This is yet another idea that we have had and yet the SFA continue to have little ideas.

Yep. We're in a mess.

They're definitely worse. It's like he's new to football entirely. It really is. McDonald and Cochrane were actually looking like future internationals, and in the recent future. In fairness, though, those two look like classy footballers who play their football on the deck, whoever watched the game this afternoon (I watched 30 mins of it before I got bored) would see that Levein has one tactic, and that's hitting it up aimlessly to the big striker.

She's a troll. She got banned recently and now she's back. Weird, if a forum didn't want me I wouldn't re-register. Pathetic, much, going back to a place where she isn't wanted. I still remember when she accused me of being a heroin addict. That's usually the go-to insult of English people to Scots, so I'm guessing she's English. She's another person who peed their pants whilst butting heads with me.

Yay! We're saved. With every year it's getting worse. The SFA must put a restriction on how many homegrown players are in a squad and in match-day squads. *Correction, there was actually four. A Hearts foreigner pulled up in the warm up.

Three eligible Scots in the Hearts vs Rangers match. Great.

All of the former manager have tried to organize us, none have managed it.

Tom Boyd for Celtic TV. I liked him as a player but I genuinely think that he has mental issues. Every single time I watch Celtic TV he's talking about the refs being against Celtic. I don't know when he got so bitter and paranoid, or why he did. How can Celtic be so successful and win pretty much everything with everyone being against them? If the officials really were against Celtic they'd get every decision going against them.

We've been trying to that for god knows how many years, where has that actually gotten us? It's time to rip up the tried and failed script.

The French Football Federation has 12 elite academies located in and around France. Players who are selected to attend Clairefontain stay and train at the facilities from Monday to Friday, they're then given the weekends off to visit family and to train with their parent clubs. They're required to meet educational requirements. Players aged 13-15 attend a local college. They work on movement of the players, making it faster and better; linking movement; using the weaker foot; working on general weaknesses; psychological factors; medical factors; technical skills; skill training; tactics, etc. Clairefontaine has 56 hectares of land, containing 66,000 square metres of turfed grounds. It was established in 1988, ten years later France win the world cup with a European championships win a couple years later. Coincidence? I think not. Meanwhile, 21 years after the French open Clairefontaine we establish a couple of meagre football schools. Great. We'll catch the world up in no time. I'm not exonerating the Old Firm of any blame, of course I'm not, but at the end of the day the SFA are in charge and they could've implemented rules that required clubs to play the players that they brought through their youth system. They didn't, and they won't.