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Clarke is responsible for a massive part of that, the SFA a wee bit and McLeish about 0.1%. McLeish v2 was an appalling time to be a scotland fan. You're repeatedly downplaying his achievements.

He needed to come top 2 in a 3 team group with Israel and Albania which yes, in fairness, he topped. Clarke then did the hard bit and actually got us to the Euros. And then he went and got us promoted to League A.

Christie Patterson and Adams will never play again after Euro 2024? I must be reading this wrong cause there is surely no way you can actually think that?

fuck me this forum and the TA in general is full of absolute negative nancies. We qualified with 2 games to spare and were the 5th team to qualify for the whole thing. Any other team scores 2 goals in a minute to beat Norway at home would be praised but no it is luck when it us apparently. Also wtf is this 'defender slip' pish? Hickey slipped to gift Spain a goal in spain after our goal was disallowed. We were closer to finishing 1st than not qualifying. Lighten up and enjoy our best period in over 25 years ffs!

very little competition at centre mid? stop being ridiculous. last night was dreadful and I would have liked to see some more tinkering such as christie deeper and McT further forward etc but at the end of the day I'd rather focus on a near flawless qualifying campaign rather than 2 friendlies. I'm late 20s and spending my summer going to germany to watch scotland - my main feeling is one of elation. and yet he has got us to 2 tournaments

Before Clarke came in we were getting pumped by Kazakhstan. How you can be so negative to not claim Clarke's tenure has been a massive turnaround I do not know. It's been a few friendlies and dead rubbers you numpty. We qualified for the euros with ease.

Look at where we were before that too. It is genuinely mind boggling the turnaround. But apparently the last qualification was lucky cause a spain players slipped and they gave up in 2nd half 😆

he has done very little to merit a call up when you actually look at it fraser has been selected many times and was never arsed. out with that we barely have any wingers

struggle to improve = not qualifying between 1998-2020 and then qualifying 2x in the following 4 years as well as getting promoted in the nations league. You have been proven wrong when you created this thread but yet here you are still talking shite

My point was actually comparing competitive games to friendlies and the contrast in the results.

Call it selective if you want but the point remains that a) we have a terrible record in friendlies and b) we have performed well in our last 2 qualifying campaigns under clarke

Obviously not. But we did deserve to beat Spain & Georgia at home didn't we. We were the better team. Yeah Norway was smash and grab but who cares. It's just ludicrous mentioning a spain player slipping in the build up for a goal as if that somehow devalues the result. The performance that night was excellent. You don't qualify like that due to luck. We did it cause we were the 2nd best team in the group over 10 games (almost best). If you're talking about luck - what about McT's goal being ruled out v Spain away.

I just took it from a tweet I saw earlier which stated 15/21 qualifiers we have won vs 2 in 19 friendlies. I know which ones I'd rather win. Here's a stat for you: last 2 euros= 2 qualifications, is that too selective for you? Tartan Army are the most negative people in the world. Cry for years we don;t qualify or bad luck blah blah, actually qualify 2 times and some want the manager sacked. It's ludicrous.

what a daft argument fs, we can't even qualify for the euros now without people being negative. We beat Spain, Norway and Georgia cause we deserved to beat them.

McLeish's first spell was only 10 games and second spell was a disaster. Also, who cares? Clarke has largely won when it matters- to get us to 2 Euros in a row. If you has said that would happen back in 2018 you'd have been utterly delirious with joy. Now seeing a load of revisionism about an emphatic qualification for Euro 2024 where we qualified with games to spare , again utterly unheard of.