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A starting 11 you would be happy with


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as said in title what starting 11 would YOU be happy with

.......................Marshall..............................

Patterson.....Hanley.....Martin....Robertson

Ritchie.....McArthur.....Morrison.....Snodgrass

........................Naismith...............................

.........................Griffiths.................................

Thats unlikely to be the team or our formation but I would be happy with that.

Brown, D Fletcher, Mulgrew, Hutton, Greer, S Fletcher etc. have had their chance and p!ssed it up the wall 

McGinn, Burke, Kingsley, Shinnie, Anya, Bannan, Phillips etc. would be the type of player I would have on the bench as they still have plenty years in front of them

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.....................Marshall...................

Anya    Hanley   Martin  Robertson

           McArthur  D.Fletcher

Ritchie         Naismith   Snodgrass

                    McCormack

Subs

Gordon

Wallace 

Kingsley 

Brown 

McKay

McGinn

Griffiths

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We need to have our best technical players on the park. We're likely going to have a lot of the ball and need to be able to break them down. Let the full backs bomb on to support the forward 4 in doing some damage. So I'd probably look at something like:

                         Griffiths

            Ritchie Snodgrass Phillips

                D Fletcher Bannan

  Robertson Hanley Martin Hutton/Anya

                          Marshall

Big questions over the defence though, as it looks like Russell Martin has been dropped by Norwich, as was Hanley at weekend, and Right Back being the usual bone of contention.

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Would be good to see Strachan start with 2 up top to try and get the campaign off to a comfortable/positive start. I would like to see the following but can see him only playing with 1 up front.

                               Marshall

Hutton      Martin      Hanley       Robertson

Ritchie      Brown     McArthur    Naismith/Snodgrass

                McCormack    Griffiths

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I think we have enough going forward in our squad . I would go for

             Marshall

Hutton  Martin  Hanley Robertson

            Morrison     Bannan 

Ritchie                                     Anya

                   Snodgrass

                    Fletcher

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Would like to believe Strachan would try something (anything!!!!) new, but I really doubt he will and the usual suspects like Forest, Fletcher, Maloney, Mulgrew and Hutton will start in Malta.

I would like to see him try something like Matt Phillips and Snodgrass playing behind Fletcher or McCormack, as for a short phase in Prague earlier this year the 3 of them were linking up pretty well and when crosses were getting put in all 3 were getting on the end of them.

I would go with Griffiths up front given his form at the minute.

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1 hour ago, wanderer said:

Would like to believe Strachan would try something (anything!!!!) new, but I really doubt he will and the usual suspects like Forest, Fletcher, Maloney, Mulgrew and Hutton will start in Malta.

Does Mulgrew actually have a club yet?

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19 minutes ago, aaid said:

Does Mulgrew actually have a club yet?

Nope, but still training with Celtic apparently. Strachan has a real choice to make about this one, as its not really the same as when we have had the like of Hutton out the Villa team.

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2 minutes ago, Parsno1 said:

when is the squad announced?

Not seen anything, but he is in Scotland today for some Q&A forum about Sports and Politics at the Scottish Parliament this afternoon, so would imagine chance it is tomorrow (I think Wales and maybe England are announcing their squads this week).

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Possible team:              

 

                      Marshall

Undecided  Martin  Hanley Robertson

              McArthur     Brown

Snodgrass                            Anya

                       Ritchie

                    Mccormack

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-------------------------Marshall

 

Hutton---------Hanley-----------Martin-----------Robertson

 

-----------------McArthur--------Brown

 

Snodgrass------------------------------------Ritchie

 

---------------Griffiths-----------McCormick

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hutton is past it.

                       Marshall

   Patterson Hanley Martin Tierney

      Brown  Mcarthur Ritchie

       Forrest Griffiths  Snodgrass

Goals could end up costing us so we will need a few.

 

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                               Marshall

Patterson    Hanley    Martin      Robertson 

                             Brown

mckay     mcartthur snodgrass Ritchie

                        Griffiths

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19 hours ago, Geed said:

-------------------------Marshall

 

Hutton---------Hanley-----------Martin-----------Robertson

 

-----------------McArthur--------Brown

 

Snodgrass------------------------------------Ritchie

 

---------------Griffiths-----------McCormick

Now Brown has retired, would bring Morrison or Darren Fletcher into the team

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Marshall

Anya Martin Hanley Tierney

D.Fletcher Shinnie

Forrest Morrison Snodgrass

Griffiths

 

We need someone who can put a challenge in midfield with Brown gone and that's best played by Shinnie. The likes of McGinn, Bannan, Jack, McKay are not ball winners.

Also agree that McArthur too slow and I'm not sure him and Fletcher are a good partnership. Too similar.

I appear to be in a minority of two along with Brendan Rodgers who actually rates Forrest.

Griffiths simply has to start. 

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Minimal surprises I reckon, this is what Strachan will go with:

Marshall

Hutton, Martin, Hanley, Robertson

Ritchie, Morrison, Fletcher, Snodgrass

Fletcher, Griffiths

We'll be crying out for width and a bit of creativity when its goalless at half time

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