loanhead-tartan Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 Seen mentioned somewhere there will be 4 friendlies . Would be good to see games taken around the Scottish groundsĀ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 Very unlikely, as imagine there will be enough hype around the build up to the Euros that the March, and (especially) June games would well outstrip demand that even the biggest stadium outside of Glasgow could meet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loanhead-tartan Posted November 20, 2023 Author Share Posted November 20, 2023 2 minutes ago, wanderer said: Very unlikely, as imagine there will be enough hype around the build up to the Euros that the March, and (especially) June games would well outstrip demand that even the biggest stadium outside of Glasgow could meet. Aye Iād imagine any games will be held at hampden . I wonder given the hard run of games weāve just come off weāll see the friendlies against so called lesser nations to build up confidenceĀ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 From what Clarke has hinted in the press, he wants to play teams who have qualified for the Euros, as he mentions waiting until after the draw to make a final decision.Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JandC Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 We should just play Israel 4 times and be done with it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLOSTA Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 (edited) With 4 games then a fair chanceĀ it will be 2 home, 2 away.Ā If only 2 at home SFA will want the revenue from Hampden. If we take advantage of the South America teams being over, one could be in London so they can get their UK based support to attend. Edited November 20, 2023 by GLOSTA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N4Footsoldier Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 Mentioned on another thread England will play Brazil in London on 23/3. It's hard to imagine the SFA won't have their hat in the ring for a money spinning friendly with Brazil after this. It would definitely get arses in seats. I'm afraid the days of voluntarily playing away from Hampden for home games are over. Every since the SFA bought Hampden, they will want to recoup that investment with as little overheads as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottincarlisle Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 48 minutes ago, N4Footsoldier said: Mentioned on another thread England will play Brazil in London on 23/3. It's hard to imagine the SFA won't have their hat in the ring for a money spinning friendly with Brazil after this. It would definitely get arses in seats. Ā Are Brazil not playing Spain in their other match? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YesTA Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 On 11/20/2023 at 3:08 PM, GLOSTA said: With 4 games then a fair chanceĀ it will be 2 home, 2 away.Ā If only 2 at home SFA will want the revenue from Hampden. If we take advantage of the South America teams being over, one could be in London so they can get their UK based support to attend. Yup, 1 home 1 away in March and the same in June for a final fair well the to 23 lads heading off to Germany! New strip out by then fingers crossed but the Adidas template look fairly uninspiring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProudScot Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 1 hour ago, scottincarlisle said: Are Brazil not playing Spain in their other match? Good. We donāt need more hidings off the top teams. Winnable friendlies a much better ideaĀ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N4Footsoldier Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 12 hours ago, scottincarlisle said: Are Brazil not playing Spain in their other match? Good call. Nothing on the official fixture list but it seems to have been confirmed by all the media. The only media I had was focusing specifically on the England game (obviously). I believe there are ongoing rumours that South American teams will play more games in Europe as it's the base for a lot of their players. Aside from that, we will probably look to play teams who have already qualified, who we don't get drawn against, or countries who would be borderline qualifiers. You can otherwise eliminate all the play off teams and all the guff teams who wouldn't ever qualify. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
From_Dundee_to_Ancoats Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 Think I read him saying a top level opposition and a pot three team. Reckon it could be someone lime peru/Costa Rica and home then Sweden away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirrelhumper Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 12 hours ago, ProudScot said: Good. We donāt need more hidings off the top teams. Winnable friendlies a much better ideaĀ We will be playing top teams in June, i'd rather we played these teams in the build up rather than picking teams solely to get a win.Ā We'll be playing at least one team from our pot is my guess.Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N4Footsoldier Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 8 minutes ago, Squirrelhumper said: We will be playing top teams in June, i'd rather we played these teams in the build up rather than picking teams solely to get a win.Ā We'll be playing at least one team from our pot is my guess.Ā Exactly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotlad Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 14 hours ago, ProudScot said: Good. We donāt need more hidings off the top teams. Winnable friendlies a much better ideaĀ I'm with you there. A team who'll pose a challenge - which most South American sides will - but who are potentially beatable. Play an Argentina or a Brazil and we'll just get tanked again. To my mind, that's about as helpful as playing a minnow that we know we'll most likely beat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProudScot Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 17 minutes ago, scotlad said: I'm with you there. A team who'll pose a challenge - which most South American sides will - but who are potentially beatable. Play an Argentina or a Brazil and we'll just get tanked again. To my mind, that's about as helpful as playing a minnow that we know we'll most likely beat. Yep.Ā Play good teams but ones we can actually play against.Ā Weāve just had a run of England, France & Spain and it was hard going. At the euros with the pots we wonāt get a group as hard as those three teams and us, so Iād rather we played 4 teams like; Serbia, Sweden, Germany, Albania. One very hard team and three we fancy ourselves against/should be around our levelĀ Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirrelhumper Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 Rumour is Argentina in the UK.Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfieMoon Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 2 hours ago, Squirrelhumper said: Rumour is Argentina in the UK.Ā That would be incredible.Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristolhibby Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, Squirrelhumper said: Rumour is Argentina in the UK.Ā But not Scotland? Away in London like Nigeria and Brazil?Ā Ā Easy game for me to get to.Ā Ā J Edited November 23, 2023 by Bristolhibby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfieMoon Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 56 minutes ago, Bristolhibby said: But not Scotland? Away in London like Nigeria and Brazil?Ā Ā Easy game for me to get to.Ā Ā J If it were to be in England , Spurs stadium would be class.Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 Would be shocked if its Argentina and in London. Imagine Argentina would have no shortage of options to play games that they would need to pay to play us, also England have two games at Wembley booked for the March games, and doubt we we would play in such a high profile match around the same date as one of those games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N4Footsoldier Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 On 11/23/2023 at 4:42 PM, Squirrelhumper said: Rumour is Argentina in the UK.Ā Any source for that? Would be top notch. Ā On 11/24/2023 at 9:13 AM, wanderer said: Would be shocked if its Argentina and in London. Imagine Argentina would have no shortage of options to play games that they would need to pay to play us, also England have two games at Wembley booked for the March games, and doubt we we would play in such a high profile match around the same date as one of those games. I think if they played out of the way and on separate days it would be fine. England playing at Wembley is a different prospect than if we played someone else somewhere else within 1 or 2 days. Honestly in London people have no idea football games are going on at times. It's big enough to handle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirrelhumper Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 20 minutes ago, N4Footsoldier said: Any source for that? Would be top notch. Ā Ā Saw it on Twitter, Argentine media suggesting we were one of the options.Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N4Footsoldier Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 3 minutes ago, Squirrelhumper said: Saw it on Twitter, Argentine media suggesting we were one of the options.Ā Brilliant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 19 minutes ago, N4Footsoldier said: Any source for that? Would be top notch. Ā I think if they played out of the way and on separate days it would be fine. England playing at Wembley is a different prospect than if we played someone else somewhere else within 1 or 2 days. Honestly in London people have no idea football games are going on at times. It's big enough to handle. True, but England have two home games on the 23rd (Sat) and 26th (Tue) of March, with theĀ 18-26 set aside by FIFA, so if a game is on the cards (and lets assume its at Spurs or at Arsenal), I doubt it would be any later than the 22nd, which would probably mean we are doing away game in London on the 21st/22nd, then a home game at Hampden on the 25th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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