vanderark14 Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 (edited) Leigh Griffiths came on and scored over the weekend for a club who must win every domestic game when that team were at nil nil A good point made by liam mcleod on sportsound Id be in favour of griffiths being on the bench for scotland considering we have absolutely nothing upfront Edited October 7, 2020 by vanderark14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PASTA Mick Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Armstrong, Christie and Tierney are all out of the three matches. Massive blow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
er yir macaroon Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Armstrong, Tierney and Christie out. Armstrong tested positive and the other two close contacts. It’s all gone to shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Pete Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 12 minutes ago, er yir macaroon said: Armstrong, Tierney and Christie out. Armstrong tested positive and the other two close contacts. It’s all gone to shit. If it stays like this we have got off lightly. We could have more positive results tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Pete Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 24 minutes ago, PASTA Mick said: Armstrong, Christie and Tierney are all out of the three matches. Massive blow. Had to be three of our better players didn’t it? Hopefully it doesn’t get worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
er yir macaroon Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 2 minutes ago, Texas Pete said: Had to be three of our better players didn’t it? Hopefully it doesn’t get worse. I fear it could well get worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
er yir macaroon Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 4 minutes ago, Texas Pete said: Had to be three of our better players didn’t it? Hopefully it doesn’t get worse. Does that mean players are still rooming together? That would be crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 nighmare… lets hope we don't have to forfeit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 or pick an entirely new squad like the czecchs!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariokempes56 Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Think the nations league should be scrapped. Becoming farcical now and will probably get worse.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PASTA Mick Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Scott McKenna, Liam Palmer and Oliver Burke will miss all three Scotland games due to injury. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyBlueScot Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 This is so depressing. At the minute it's not the end of the world but we're on the edge now. Guess that means O'Donnell at RB. Dykes, shankland and McBurnie cover the front places and in midfield we still have a choice of Fraser, McGinn, McTominay, Fleck, Jack and McGregor. Definitely not 3 at the back now, surely? Will he call up replacements? Still looks ok. For now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PASTA Mick Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 1 minute ago, SkyBlueScot said: This is so depressing. At the minute it's not the end of the world but we're on the edge now. Guess that means O'Donnell at RB. Dykes, shankland and McBurnie cover the front places and in midfield we still have a choice of Fraser, McGinn, McTominay, Fleck, Jack and McGregor. Definitely not 3 at the back now, surely? Will he call up replacements? Still looks ok. For now... The biggest issue is that Clarke will have been working on a strategy which probably included 3 or 4 of the 6 players that we have lost. He's got just over 24 hours so re-think things. The other issue is when a squad suddenly loses 6 players, it changes things. I'm sure other players are also worrying about whether they might be next to be infected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 It wouldn't surprise me if Armstrong turned out to be a false positive, but nothing can be done about it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Templeton_Peck Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 This is a total disaster.. Biggest game we have had in years and about 30 hrs to initiate a new game plan with a depleted squad. Although big opportunity for the guys remaining to pull one out the bag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariokempes56 Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 What about the other teams ? Israel was in total lockdown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraemeTA Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Seeing 6 players out now has took the wind oot my sails a bit 😵 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weekevie04 Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Huge blow -Tierney, Christie Big blow - McKenna, Armstrong A bit of a blow - Burke Meh - Palmer. We've still got some decent players available, but we should be looking to beat Israel. The other two games is call up the 21s and fringe players. Nations League should be scrapped, TBH. Its a non Euros year too. Work out an average PTS system for the relegation/promotion and use that for the next one in three years. These playoffs should have been played at a neutral venue over a week since Covid happened. The home advantage is gone to a certain extent so why trape the likes of Israel back and forth to Scotland in a month. A neutral venue with first class facilities ég Germany, Switzerland Norway, Serbia, Scotland, Israel. All play each other once and the winner goes to the Euros. Could have done it like now Thu ; Sun ; Tue with squads being allowed 35 players Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotlad Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 20 minutes ago, weekevie04 said: Huge blow -Tierney, Christie Big blow - McKenna, Armstrong A bit of a blow - Burke Meh - Palmer. We've still got some decent players available, but we should be looking to beat Israel. The other two games is call up the 21s and fringe players. Nations League should be scrapped, TBH. Its a non Euros year too. Work out an average PTS system for the relegation/promotion and use that for the next one in three years. These playoffs should have been played at a neutral venue over a week since Covid happened. The home advantage is gone to a certain extent so why trape the likes of Israel back and forth to Scotland in a month. A neutral venue with first class facilities ég Germany, Switzerland Norway, Serbia, Scotland, Israel. All play each other once and the winner goes to the Euros. Could have done it like now Thu ; Sun ; Tue with squads being allowed 35 players Good post. I can't believe they didn't explore the possibility of playing these games at neutral venue. Actually, even if Covid hadn't happened, playing the playoffs at neutral venues would have been fairer than simply determining the home side by the luck of the draw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clyde1998 Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Assuming we stick with the formation we used in the past couple of games, and based on the remaining players from the current squad, you're basically looking at: Marshall O'Donnell/Paterson - McTominay - Cooper - Gallagher/Porteous - Robertson Jack - Fleck/McLean - McGregor McGinn Dykes/Shankland Unless you start doing things like playing Taylor at left-back, putting Robertson in defensive midfield and playing Jack at right wing-back our options are very limited. Perhaps McGinn will be dropped deeper and Fraser will go behind the striker, but by moving players out of their primary position - you may as well change the formation. At least, if we do get past Israel, the final will be next month when we've hopefully got these players back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JECK Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 In theory is there time for more positive cases in the squad? When is the last testing done ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clyde1998 Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 1 minute ago, JECK said: In theory is there time for more positive cases in the squad? When is the last testing done ? Based on the BBC article, it appears they're doing them daily. It said the players were tested on arrival Monday and have been tested again since - with Armstrong having to self-isolate from Tuesday (I assume yesterday). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirrelhumper Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Arsenal don't seem overly concerned about tierney. Seems OTT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romanticscot Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Seems like our hand is forced we need to play 4 at the back, which I feel is a positive for tomorrow. I know my head is only focused on tomorrow but it is imperative that we call up more players for the other two games. I agree with the assessment above on who we will miss the most. We still have McGinn and our attackers are intact so its not lost IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian Craig Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Armstrong may not have started in any case. McGregor will play there. Tierney would have started probably the left of three central defenders so hopefully that crap formation will now be binned so that will work in our favour. Christie would have started and will be a miss but there again in recent games he has been a bit meh. All is not lost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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