slasher Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 2 hours ago, vanderark14 said: The worst home win I remember was Liechtenstein under levein. Now that was a shitty home win I took the car that night lol. I vowed not to do it again. I took the car last night....... I'm definitely not doing it again 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86glebestreet Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 2 hours ago, Caledonian Craig said: Yes. Did we not get the winner about five minutes into injury time? Think it was McManus who scored in 97th minute🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanderark14 Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 5 hours ago, slasher said: I took the car that night lol. I vowed not to do it again. I took the car last night....... I'm definitely not doing it again 😂 I took the car the night of the lichtenstein game. I watched that last night in a caravan in Newquay 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breeks_mctavish Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 What would be acceptable? Kumnio admitting he’s a total tit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kumnio Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 9 minutes ago, breeks_mctavish said: What would be acceptable? Kumnio admitting he’s a total tit Hiya whoever the fuck you are 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfieMoon Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 On 8/25/2021 at 9:22 PM, AlfieMoon said: 3 points (Moldova) is the acceptable baseline. 4 points (Austria) should be the minimum aim. Anything better than that represents success. We’re expected to lose in Denmark. I’m happy enough that he’s got a new deal. He’s made mistakes and has things to improve on but he got us to a finals (albeit narrowly and some credit to McLeish and also recognising poor opposition). Positives are that the players are turning up and wanting to play for him. If we can start punching a wee bit above our weight we’ll be doing okay if you we can find a style that gets the best out of our players. Well, got to be delighted with 6 points and how it sets us up in the group. Some frustration at not scoring more against Moldova but the performance was good and some steps in the right direction capped off with a brilliant result tonight. Can’t think when we last really upset the odds to win away against a rival at a similar level or above us apart from Paris. Maybe Norway in 2005? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceudmilefailte Posted September 7, 2021 Author Share Posted September 7, 2021 I'd offer Clarke new contract in he morning. Think the fact we had the two play off games for then Euro's then the Euro's camp has helped us big style. Really bonded the managers and players together. Maybe the SFA didn't jump the gun, and the 6 points proves them right. Hope so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, AlfieMoon said: Can’t think when we last really upset the odds to win away against a rival at a similar level or above us apart from Paris. Maybe Norway in 2005? Would beating a depleted Czech republic away on this day last year count? Edited September 7, 2021 by exile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfieMoon Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 14 minutes ago, exile said: Would beating a depleted Czech republic away on this day last year count? I wouldn’t count that given the strange circumstances. Similarly ruling out the away win against Croatia when we were basically out of the running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian Craig Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 Surely has to be againat Serbia in the play-off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mccaughey85 Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 Big result last night, Clarke was oddly taking a slagging from some sections of fans after the moldova but hes grinding out results. It isn't pretty at times but we are now in an excellent position to get 2nd place. Amazing how everything can change on the basis of one good result for a manager at international level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartan blood Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 1 hour ago, mccaughey85 said: Big result last night, Clarke was oddly taking a slagging from some sections of fans after the moldova but hes grinding out results. It isn't pretty at times but we are now in an excellent position to get 2nd place. Amazing how everything can change on the basis of one good result for a manager at international level. I also think the 2-0 against Denmark looks a bit better in retrospect. Obviously the first half was completely unacceptable, but we showed in the 2nd half that we can compete against good teams if we get the tactics right. This is the only time I can think in recent memory where a higher placed team didn't perform to what was expected of them. Why is it only us that has shock results? About time a team like Austria capitulates against a lower placed team. We've lacked luck for 25 years. If we continue to get the rub of the green, and have performances to match, we'll be in a great place going forward. A 2-0 loss to the top seeds away from home and 6 points from the other two games is more than acceptable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Pete Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 4 hours ago, Tartan blood said: I also think the 2-0 against Denmark looks a bit better in retrospect. Obviously the first half was completely unacceptable, but we showed in the 2nd half that we can compete against good teams if we get the tactics right. This is the only time I can think in recent memory where a higher placed team didn't perform to what was expected of them. Why is it only us that has shock results? About time a team like Austria capitulates against a lower placed team. We've lacked luck for 25 years. If we continue to get the rub of the green, and have performances to match, we'll be in a great place going forward. A 2-0 loss to the top seeds away from home and 6 points from the other two games is more than acceptable. I think some people need to remember that Denmark are very good team at the moment. They haven’t even conceded a goal in this campaign and were a bawhair away from the Euro 2020 final. Apart from the first 20-30 minutes in Copenhagen we did pretty well I thought although I’m pretty sure Denmark would have went up a gear if we had scored. We have taken 4 points from the second seeds in the group and if we can do that against the fourth seeds then we should get second place comfortably. We were never going to win this group after dropping 4 points in our first 3 games so to be in second place after 6 games is actually pretty decent and with 3 winnable games coming up we have every reason to be optimistic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Pete Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 9 hours ago, Caledonian Craig said: Surely has to be againat Serbia in the play-off. We didn’t win that game in 90 minutes although we came damn close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian Craig Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 1 hour ago, Texas Pete said: We didn’t win that game in 90 minutes although we came damn close. We won the tie. Does not matter how and if anything (given how the match played out) winning on pens was an even more impressive achievement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Pete Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 (edited) 43 minutes ago, Caledonian Craig said: We won the tie. Does not matter how and if anything (given how the match played out) winning on pens was an even more impressive achievement. That’s debatable but it officially counts as a draw over 90 minutes. If we had held out and won in 90 minutes it would have been a better result than winning on penalties in my opinion. Was certainly our best performance in years though. Edited September 8, 2021 by Texas Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceudmilefailte Posted September 8, 2021 Author Share Posted September 8, 2021 1 hour ago, Caledonian Craig said: We won the tie. Does not matter how and if anything (given how the match played out) winning on pens was an even more impressive achievement. Failing to win a game in 90 minutes isn't impressive. Not sure were the current psyche of the Scottish population has come from, the education system or the wishy washy nationalism that has been around for the past 20 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 1 hour ago, ceudmilefailte said: Failing to win a game in 90 minutes isn't impressive. Not sure were the current psyche of the Scottish population has come from, the education system or the wishy washy nationalism that has been around for the past 20 years. Beating a higher seeded team away, in a do or die tie, with the pressure of getting to a first major championship in decades, is pretty good for Scotland standards. And arguably coming back to win the tie through a penalty shoot-out after conceding a sucker punch last minute goal in normal time is 'more impressive' than holding on to 1-0 lead had the Serbs not scored. Which was the point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceudmilefailte Posted September 8, 2021 Author Share Posted September 8, 2021 4 minutes ago, exile said: Beating a higher seeded team away, in a do or die tie, with the pressure of getting to a first major championship in decades, is pretty good for Scotland standards. And arguably coming back to win the tie through a penalty shoot-out after conceding a sucker punch last minute goal in normal time is 'more impressive' than holding on to 1-0 lead had the Serbs not scored. Which was the point. Pretty good is a far better description than impressive. We really don't set ourselves very high standards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 Just now, ceudmilefailte said: Pretty good is a far better description than impressive. We really don't set ourselves very high standards. What would you say was Scotland's last impressive game/result? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceudmilefailte Posted September 8, 2021 Author Share Posted September 8, 2021 Just now, exile said: What would you say was Scotland's last impressive game/result? Last night was pretty impressive in as much as the execution of the game plan was performed to a high standard. Make sure they don't score but at the same time create chances to win the game. To be honest I think our last really impressive performance was the 1-0 win against England in 1999. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 (edited) So... we beat Austria and Israel. 😀 Can you fucking believe it. Now we have the dreaded Faroe/ Moldova double challenge. In a way I love this. We are facing all our demons here. Edited October 9, 2021 by thplinth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartan Chris Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 No demons with Austria from what I recall...indeed actually good omen they're in this group given that was case for France 98 qualifiers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Pete Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 16 hours ago, Tartan Chris said: No demons with Austria from what I recall...indeed actually good omen they're in this group given that was case for France 98 qualifiers. Beating a higher seeded team away is a rare thing for us. Austria are hardly world beaters but it is a monkey off our back. Pity we didn’t beat them at home as well or we’d be in an even better position. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Scot1 Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 1 minute ago, Texas Pete said: Beating a higher seeded team away is a rare thing for us. Austria are hardly world beaters but it is a monkey off our back. Pity we didn’t beat them at home as well or we’d be in an even better position. 4 points out of 6 against Austria and 4 points out of 6 against Israel. Gotta be happy with that return. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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