shug macdiarmid

Roughie was a magnificent shot-stopper and rarely lost one on ones. Also good a distributor who understood the game better than many goalies. Worse than dodgy on the cross-ball which is why he didn't get a big move from Thistle in an era when crosses whizzed in to big centre forwards with regularity. This was less of a problem in International football where some opponents relied less on crosses.

Gilmour's game intelligence and football instinct is such that the only moulding of his game will come from within. He now simply needs the opportunity to play with high quality players who can share his insight.

oops, I'll try again - Maybe Glass will mirror Clarke's system and go for a back three of McRorie, Gallagher and Considine with Campbell, Brown and Ferguson in midfield. Don't know who their strikers and wing backs would be but that's a solid unit.

We can only hope Clarke sees it that way...perhaps Tuchel's positive assessment of Gilmour may help.

It may be that Cooper is missing simply because he was absent through ''sickness'' for the last games, which would give Clarke another choice to make, but there seemed to be something iffy about his absence.

Clarke basically has his squad and it is listed on the SFA website. Of the 26 featured players only Jack is certainly unavailable although McBurnie is very doubtful. I have no reason to suppose there will be any changes other than replacing those two unless some others are victims of the end-of-season morass. As has been said by posters on here there is no obvious like-for-like replacement for Jack. From what he has said I am convinced Clarke plans to use McTominay in central midfield since 10 defenders are listed and McT is amongst the midfielders. He may well opt to fill the Jack gap by promoting from the under 21s. However he may turn to Campbell or Ferguson rather than Gilmour since those two have become regular essential picks for their clubs. Likewise Turnbull, but he has been in a more forward role for Celtic. I believe he will want Forrest reinstated and that could be a straight swap for McBurnie. Only if McB proves his fitness by playing against Everton on the 16th will Clarke have the uncomfortable choice of who to leave out to accommodate Forrest. My guess would be Nesbitt. I hope Gilmour is the choice to replace Jack and that Forrest does come in for McBurnie. I have no expectations that my own preferences of Patterson for Palmer, Turnbull for Fleck and Gauld for Nesbitt will be shared by the manager.

What became of them? CHAMPIONS became of them....

time to crack open the Talisker 18yr old

total football😜

What really bothers me is we still have to play them away. For years I had this recurring nightmare of wheezing up the hill to Toftir Stadium on a damp September evening and last night that awful dream returned. At the top we jostled impatiently at the slow turnstiles moaning that we would miss the first goal. Actually we did miss it but luckily just as we got inside Jakub Borg repeated the trick of skinning Stephen Crainey and laying it on for John Petersen to score number two. 12 minutes gone and life expectations, much less football ones, would never be the same again. Astonishingly our star strike force (Kevin Kyle and Scott Dobie) failed to rip new ones for the islanders and we limped back to Torshavn with a scarcely deserved draw. The 36 hour wake/celebration with new found friends didn’t quite camouflage the shame and sheer horror of the performance. I just want a win, any win, and not to draw the Faroes in another tournament. Whale meat never again..

Maximum positivity required McLaughlin (Marshall off it and need to test this fella to see if he's a keeper keeper.) McTominay Hanley Tierney (surely a great game for both McT and KT to forage forward from the back while Hanley has proven he can grab a goal) Armstrong McGinn Christie Robertson (Arm to concentrate on linking with Adams) Adams Dykes Fraser

Robertson and Tierney are beginning to dovetail well down the left. Tierney our best player on the night made the kind of forward runs that very few defenders can make. Could be very dangerous to our opponents, the more they concentrate on blocking Robertson's forward runs the more room there is for Tierney's surges. Could become a signature note of our team that few could match.

Dykes given the kind of gift you don't resell on ebay but they still did nothing with it

Austrians comfortable and much more dangerous. Poor from Hanley to get booked...