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4 minutes ago, Caledonian Craig said:

Your point?

My point is people on here are renowned for having scapegoats. FFS people wanted Clarke out six weeks or so ago. Galagher, O'Donnell were pilloried as not good enough by people on here as were others who have dug in with good performances for us. And it goes back further than just recent times. McCallister, Iwelumo etc etc etc.

 

My point is your saying folk are scapegoating

But this is a guy who just missed vital chances in a game we should never have lost and could, likely will have, just lost us play off chance at a world cup!

Criticising him for those missed chances is hardly scapegoating, it's just pointing out that it was an awful performance which is going to cost

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5 minutes ago, weekevie04 said:

I'm baffled by that. 

Realy? They just beat Slovakia 3-2 last month away ; were pretty even-steven against us, if not slightly better in the semi final. They are very rarely scudded by anyone either. 

They will give us a tough game on Wednesday without a shadow of a doubt.

I've only seen them in their games against us and they've been honking each time imo

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5 minutes ago, weekevie04 said:

I'm baffled by that. 

Realy? They just beat Slovakia 3-2 last month away ; were pretty even-steven against us, if not slightly better in the semi final. They are very rarely scudded by anyone either. 

They will give us a tough game on Wednesday without a shadow of a doubt.

Agreed.

They play to a system that they are comfortable with that makes them tough to break down. Czechs are going to the Euros next summer and they are only beating Israel narrowly at the moment too plus Israel beat Slovakia (Euros-bound) last month.

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5 minutes ago, Marky said:

No no no. I said, go to Irnbruman’s profile if you want some fine examples. 
Are you sure you’ve read the rest of this thread if you’re saying there were no others? If you haven’t then why comment on my post in the first place. Go find them for yourself. 
Of course I know plenty have defended him. When did I say that wasn’t the case. In fact I even said irnbruman calling his defenders tossers and zoomers. 
You’re not being pedantic. You’re just being either wrong or lazy in not reading the whole thread.  

I have read it and I don't see anything (other than poss Irnbruman) that could be remotely construed as abusive towards the guy. 

You seem to be intent on giving yourself some sort of moral high ground here when there's nothing much to see here! 

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57 minutes ago, Bino's said:

We will definitely need to beat Israel to give us a chance

And rely on some other results

Glancing and I think
For us to stay in top 2 best rank---
We must beat Israel
Wales must lose last game
Finland must lose last game 
Want   Austria to lose tonight in Belfast 
Norway v Romania covid cancelled wanted Vikings to lose that.
So clutching at straws  Today has fucked us

It's not as bad as you seem to think. We don't need everything to go our way. 

It looks highly likely we will need either Austria or Wales (just one of them) to finish in the top 2 of their world cup qualifying group. Without seeing the groups I'd still guess the odds are in our favour for that to happen. 

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3 minutes ago, Marky said:

Is that supposed to be an intelligent response?

It was all yours deserved

A striker missing guilt edged chances doesn't have....

I can't even be bothered finishing the sentence

It's football

 

It's about scoring goals

Ever heard the phrase you're as good as your strikers

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7 hours ago, mccaughey85 said:

Can't believe he's giving mcburnie this game, he's seriously terrible. 

 

7 hours ago, Malcolm said:

Mcburnie has been brutal for us so far....   I struggle to reconcile this with his £20m price tag.  I keep hoping he suddenly evolves in to a £20m striker.

 

my biggest issue with him is he looks like a lazy disinterested fecker.

 

7 hours ago, mccaughey85 said:

Being a useless cunt is what he specialises in. 

 

6 hours ago, ProudScot said:

If McBurnie was a dog you’d be thinking about taking him to the vets to get him put out of his misery 

 

6 hours ago, Pocketrocketman1888 said:

mcburnie is so utter shite

 

 

6 hours ago, irnbruman said:

Are you trying to tell me he is a decent player. Fuck off McBurnie is pure mince. Fucking disgrace of a player.

 

6 hours ago, loanhead-tartan said:

We’ve played no bad their goal aside . Mcburnie needs to be burying those chances though , if he fell in a barrel of tits he’d come out sucking his thumb 

 

6 hours ago, irnbruman said:

How the fuck did McBurnie ever become a professional player? I dont think Ive ever seen a worse player. 

Just a small selection for you Slasher. 

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11 minutes ago, Bino's said:

It was all yours deserved

A striker missing guilt edged chances doesn't have....

I can't even be bothered finishing the sentence

It's football

 

It's about scoring goals

Ever heard the phrase you're as good as your strikers

No I’ve never heard that phrase. 
Would it be similar to you’re as good as your defenders or any other phrase you might have just made up.

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3 minutes ago, Marky said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just a small selection for you Slasher. 

If saying a player is shite is being abusive there's not one football fan not guilty, including you. We're not going to agree so I'm calling it a night 👍

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1 minute ago, slasher said:

If saying a player is shite is being abusive there's not one football fan not guilty, including you. We're not going to agree so I'm calling it a night 👍

What about calling him a cunt. Did you just conveniently ignore that one.

But you’re right. We’re not going to agree. 
So happy to leave it at that. 

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58 minutes ago, Marky said:

 

 

Boy has anger management problems. 

 

2 minutes ago, irnbruman said:

Why dont you go and tell teacher ya anal sadsack.

🤣😂

He writes all his own stuff you know!

Grow up or sober up. Or probably both. 
 

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Well, that feel-good factor lasted a whole two days...

Get things into perspective:

We made 8 changes and we still managed to outplay a team who are 37th in the world.

We created around 5 or 6 really good chances. From open play. We had 10 shots inside the box. When is the last time that happened?

We played some really good stuff.

I really don't get why anyone can find the negative in all that. Fine, we lost, but It's about the big picture.

Yes, McBurnie missed about 3 chances to score, but there's no point getting on his back. We should be supporting him, not berating him. His confidence is down.

He isn't a goal scorer. A look at his under 21 goal ratio will tell you that.

We can't just blame him for losing. Their keeper made a great save from McLean and Griffiths. Their keeper got motm. There's a reason for that.

For me, this was a worthwhile exercise and I'm taking the positives out of it. As will Steve Clarke.

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I’d love nothing more than mcburnie to start banging them in for Scotland and prove myself and a lot of others wrong . But the 15/16 caps and 2 and a half years he’s been in the fold he hasn’t done anything to prove he’s belongs at this level . Folk can continue to blow smoke up his arse as long they want but the fact is he isn’t good enough 

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10 minutes ago, loanhead-tartan said:

I’d love nothing more than mcburnie to start banging them in for Scotland and prove myself and a lot of others wrong . But the 15/16 caps and 2 and a half years he’s been in the fold he hasn’t done anything to prove he’s belongs at this level . Folk can continue to blow smoke up his arse as long they want but the fact is he isn’t good 

I haven’t seen anyone blowing smoke up his arse. 
I’ve just seen plenty of people criticising him in a totally acceptable way (like you just did above) and plenty others going way over the top in their criticism. 

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