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From early reports, it looks like Clarke is going to revert back a four. Not confirmed, though.

That wasn't me. However, if it were me, anyone would take it as "banter". Not you, though? You even claimed that I called you an alcoholic when I cited a quote from "Cheers". Be yourself. What did Kurt Cobain say? "I'd rather be hated for being myself, than loved for someone who I'm not".

I said " that's my pet name for you"? Evidence, please. I very much doubt it. You really are morphing into the mob here, aren't you? Great. Good for you. Don't have many friends? Yes. It shows.

Ryan Fraser agrees terms with Newcastle. Will sign for them today.

Yes. I'd miss it like syphilis... And no, I don't put people on ignore. It's a pretty savage 360 to go from "I'd miss our banter" to calling me a "A fucking deluded nugget". Are you going to apologise for saying that I called you syphilis? Probably not, as you would've did it already. How's your modus operandi of "making friends and finding a community" going for you? Good? How's the conforming going? Good? How's the PhD coming along for you? Good?

Wrong. If that's the case then why do 90% of people here want to go back to four? In an ideal world, we'd play four at the back, as we have two brilliant center backs. We'd have a strong midfield, creative attacking players and strikers of supreme talent. It's not an ideal world.

Only 2 players out of the 24 players in the Czech Republic team have caps.

When have we ever looked comfortable, against half decent opposition?

So, just stick to a failing formula? Last week, before the Israel match, people were saying that we have a strong midfield. They'll say the same after the next match, irrespective of the result. And there's people wanting to switch back to. 4-2-3-1 even now. I'm not sure if it's stubbornness or stupidity. It's like a person trying to open a tin with a spoon. They try and fail. Try and fail. Instead of switching to the tin opener, they stick with the spoon. It makes no sense.

It wD It was incredible. I didn't like his conduct when he was discussing it with the powers-that-be. Apparently, when he was pleading with them, he was making all about him. Not a mention about the poor woman, apart from a sarcastic "The woman isn't going to hospital". There's a reason why tennis fans prefer Nadal and Federer. I'm not Federer's biggest fan (I think he's too cold), but I doubt Nadal of Federer would ever make it all about them or spend 12 minutes trying make them bend the rules. I'm a fan of Novak, but he should've immediately held his hands up, shook hands (or touch rackets with Carreno Busta), packed his bags and left the court and then do his post-match interview. Instead, he spent 12 minutes trying to make himself exempt from the rules and left the building without the interview.

Apart from a spell under Smith and McLeish, we've been an unequivocal disjointed shambles, for 20 years. No one can dispute that. In the world according to TAMB everything is rosey.

Not qualifying, looking like a disjointed shambles?

We'll go back to 4-2-3-1. We'll then beat a weakened Czech Republic team 0-1, by aid of a penalty of an OG. People will then say that that's our best system and that we have a strong midfield.

Czech Republic B - 2 - 0 Scotland

So, it's Czech B vs Scotland. They must think they can win, otherwise they wouldn't have even bothered, and just forfeited the match.

Manager irked by the fuss made of his formation ‘tweak’ in the draw with Israel Clarke wants us to be flexible. What's usually said about me is "Are you more qualified than a real life manager?". Clarke used 3-4-2-1 during an "important" match. And there's people telling him that he's wrong for doing so. So, my question to these people who are telling Clarke that he is wrong to experiment, are you more qualified than a real manager? Don't bother answering, I don't care. This isn't an important match. The Nations League/Cup is a glorified friendly tournament for Scotland. People talking about "it's important for seedings". If you put us in Pot 1 for the next European Championships and World Cup qualifying, we'd still labour against teams like Cyprus, Israel, etc. Put us in Pot 1 and we'd still finish 3rd or 4th in our group.

McBurnie works better in a two, so, when everyone's fit, a pairing of McBurnie and Dykes would be a good fit.

*Deletes the "still"*

I view the Nations league as a friendly competition. People bitch and moan about friendlies by being, this, that and ths other, but it least it gave teams and managers a chance to experiment. Therefore, we should experiment during the Nations league. Maybe this isn't the best place to talk about change and experimentation. If it was up to a certain mob in this place, we'd still be hunting animals with rocks and sticks and living the best neanderthal life we could.

John McGinn on our formation against Israel: "It was different, it was one we'd been working on all week." "It's sort of alien to a few of us but I think it worked well, there are things to improve on and get better at but we've got the players in there capable of doing it." "Whether the manager sticks with that on Monday or in the future who knows, but we had a lot of top players on the pitch and we need to start bringing out qualities more."

Forest played there on Friday. And who knows where Burke's best position is. McTominay isn't a defender, and yet he was centre back on Friday.

McTominay is a ball-carrier, he's excellent at taking the ball forward, also he's our best passer. United fans generally don't rate his passing, "woeful" is a word that I read a few hours back. But regardless, he's the best we have. He should be in midfield. And it's a coin flip for who gets the centre back spot, Tierner or Robertson. Tierney has a great spring, so I'd go with him: Marshall Cooper. McKenna. Tierney Forrest. Burke Robertson McTominay Fleck Dykes. McGinn

Seriously? *sigh*

Which is? I'm 100% serious. Our most recent matches, we've manage to struggle to beat Cyprus 1:2, lost to Russia 4:0 and 1:2, scraped a 2:1 against Cyprus at Hampden, only beat San Marino 0:2 and got thrashed 3:0 by Kazakhstan. If these are all achieved by "what our players know best", then God help us. There's a valid reason why our previous three managers have experimented with a back three. If a four was working, there would be no need to experiment.

People keep saying that we have good midfielders. Wrong! Good midfielders create chances in open play. McGregor passes either back or sideways, same as Jack. We played this two as our sole midfield duo, and you saw what happened.