wanderer Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 6 minutes ago, syecosse said: No Elliot Anderson in the u21 first 11 or Bench. Is he getting called up? Injured. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Templeton_Peck Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 15 minutes ago, syecosse said: No Elliot Anderson in the u21 first 11 or Bench. Is he getting called up? Cancel that out injured apparently. And now considering switching to England as being reported today in the Telegraph. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
er yir macaroon Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 9 minutes ago, wanderer said: Injured. I fear that may be “injured”. Should have been in the full squad. Gut feeling is he’ll end up in the England first 11. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian Craig Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 I hate all this cloak-and-dagger shite. Anderson owes it to Scotland and England to be honest and state his intentions and pin his colours to the mast so to speak. I do not like being led on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErsatzThistle Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 I suspect that Anderson's agent is playing both ourselves and England off against one another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian Craig Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 1 minute ago, ErsatzThistle said: I suspect that Anderson's agent is playing both ourselves and England off against one another. Anderson has a mouth and it is his career. He needs to be forthright and honest and state categorically who he wishes to represent now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErsatzThistle Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 1 minute ago, Caledonian Craig said: Anderson has a mouth and it is his career. He needs to be forthright and honest and state categorically who he wishes to represent now. Personally I'd arrange for him to have a chat with McTominay who came under media pressure to choose England but shocked a lot of people (including me) by going with his heart and choosing Scotland. Btw still no word on those late call ups ? Noticed Conway is starting for the U21S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 29 minutes ago, er yir macaroon said: I fear that may be “injured”. Should have been in the full squad. Gut feeling is he’ll end up in the England first 11. Apparently it is legit, as it kept him out the Newcastle squad at the weekend. He gets one more switch and then he he tied down, so I suspect he will remain in U21's for time being as England have no real need for him any time soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian Craig Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 3 minutes ago, ErsatzThistle said: Personally I'd arrange for him to have a chat with McTominay who came under media pressure to choose England but shocked a lot of people (including me) by going with his heart and choosing Scotland. Btw still no word on those late call ups ? Noticed Conway is starting for the U21S. My guess is the players to be called up will be outwith the U-21 squad. Nothing adventurous. More like a Shankland/McBurnie-type or Ollie Burke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairbairn Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 Someone mentioned to me earlier that Declan Gallagher has been called up but I can't see anything to confirm it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syecosse Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 Leon King also not in U21s maybe him, good to see a youngster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Pete Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 Has to be the same 11 apart from Hickey for Patterson for me. I wouldn’t complain if Fraser started ahead of Christie but Fraser is a very good impact sub so I can see him coming on with 15/20 minutes to go again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 4 hours ago, Caledonian Craig said: I am fairly confident Ukraine will win V Armenia but they'll have to tread carefully. They have a heck of a lot of players on yellow cards and we know Armenia like to mix it physically so they could find themselves short of a player or two through suspension against us. I've had another wee look at the play off regulations and, if my understanding is correct???, then we have a decent chance of a play off spot even if we finish 2nd. So, I want us to go all out for the win against Ireland to increase our chances of being first in line for that play off spot if we were to finish 2nd. It would be a poor consolation to winning the group and getting a pot 2 place in the EURO draw but better than nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairbairn Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 1 hour ago, syecosse said: Leon King also not in U21s maybe him, good to see a youngster. I was quite surprised to see King wasn't in the U21s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romanticscot Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 At least Armenia have something to play for, and that is to avoid relegation. I was looking earlier for any info on the Ukraine team and ours on yellow cards, has anyone been able to find anything? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Pete Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 37 minutes ago, Orraloon said: I've had another wee look at the play off regulations and, if my understanding is correct???, then we have a decent chance of a play off spot even if we finish 2nd. So, I want us to go all out for the win against Ireland to increase our chances of being first in line for that play off spot if we were to finish 2nd. It would be a poor consolation to winning the group and getting a pot 2 place in the EURO draw but better than nothing. A draw against Ireland would secure second place in the group but aye the more points we get the better chance we’ll have of reaching the playoffs if we finish second in our Nations League group. If we finish in the top 26 in the overall Nations League rankings then we will have a decent chance of a playoff. We would finish 24th at worst if we finish second in our group. Hopefully we’ll win the group though and won’t need to worry about the permutations and can relax a bit in the qualifiers and secure automatic qualification. Wouldn’t that be good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 17 minutes ago, Texas Pete said: A draw against Ireland would secure second place in the group but aye the more points we get the better chance we’ll have of reaching the playoffs if we finish second in our Nations League group. If we finish in the top 26 in the overall Nations League rankings then we will have a decent chance of a playoff. We would finish 24th at worst if we finish second in our group. Hopefully we’ll win the group though and won’t need to worry about the permutations and can relax a bit in the qualifiers and secure automatic qualification. Wouldn’t that be good? It wouldn't be Scotland if we didn't have to worry about the permutations. 😂 If we finish 2nd in our group then the higher up the rankings we finish the better chance we have of a play off against League B teams. If we finish lower down we could be up against a League A team in our play off route, if one of them don't qualify automatically. But, aye hopefully we can qualify automatically this time so we don't need to bother about the play offs at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParisInAKilt Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 Consider resting Celtic or ex Celtic players because it’s Ireland. We need everyone wanting to win this game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Pete Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 3 minutes ago, ParisInAKilt said: Consider resting Celtic or ex Celtic players because it’s Ireland. We need everyone wanting to win this game. Behave yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 7 minutes ago, ParisInAKilt said: Consider resting Celtic or ex Celtic players because it’s Ireland. We need everyone wanting to win this game. I think you'll need better bait than that? 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Pete Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 37 minutes ago, Orraloon said: It wouldn't be Scotland if we didn't have to worry about the permutations. 😂 If we finish 2nd in our group then the higher up the rankings we finish the better chance we have of a play off against League B teams. If we finish lower down we could be up against a League A team in our play off route, if one of them don't qualify automatically. But, aye hopefully we can qualify automatically this time so we don't need to bother about the play offs at all. I don’t have the energy to look into it again but if we scrape into the playoffs by finishing second we’ll need to hope at least a couple of the league B group winners qualify automatically for us to be in the league B playoff path. If we don’t qualify automatically then I hope all League A teams (except England obviously 😂) do then there will be no League A teams in the playoffs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErsatzThistle Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 25 minutes ago, ParisInAKilt said: Consider resting Celtic or ex Celtic players because it’s Ireland. We need everyone wanting to win this game. I bet that sounded clever and witty in your head before you posted that. About as funny as a brain tumour. Anyway, what happened to these late call ups ? Has Clarke just changed his mind about them ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Pete Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 3 minutes ago, ErsatzThistle said: Anyway, what happened to these late call ups ? Has Clarke just changed his mind about them ? Might have been waiting for the u21 result before deciding? Should hear soon if he does promote/select anyone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 37 minutes ago, ParisInAKilt said: Consider resting Celtic or ex Celtic players because it’s Ireland. We need everyone wanting to win this game. yeah, definitely… get ryan jack in for mcgregor 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 21 minutes ago, Texas Pete said: I don’t have the energy to look into it again but if we scrape into the playoffs by finishing second we’ll need to hope at least a couple of the league B group winners qualify automatically for us to be in the league B playoff path. If we don’t qualify automatically then I hope all League A teams (except England obviously 😂) do then there will be no League A teams in the playoffs. Aye, If all 16 League A teams qualify automatically, then we could be in a play off route along with a League D team plus another two from League B. Knowing our luck though, there will probably be a couple of League A teams that do an Italy or a Netherlands and need to use their play off spot. I'm not sure if they have decided what to do about the group that Russia should have been in, when it comes to deciding the ranking of the 2nd place team in that group. Lots of complications and permutations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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