Auchinyell Sox Change Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Ormond also selected a past his sell by date Denis Law in wc 74 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnpauls Posted April 25, 2015 Author Share Posted April 25, 2015 Ormond also selected a past his sell by date Denis Law in wc 74 A great tradition of Scotalnd Managers in World Cups: McLeod with Masson 78 Stein with McGrain 82 Fergie with Souness 86. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotts56 Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Brown and Roxburgh for me. Mocked by the Scottish media because they never played at a high level or pandered to the Old Firm, which I think unfortunately rubbed on off some of our supporters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotts56 Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 His Euro 92 team played brilliantly and were heartbreakingly unlucky, though, I still think it's our best three performances in a single tournament, but we were jinxed. With a couple of bits of luck we might easily have actually won all three matches against the strongest opposition we've faced in a tournament. Absolutely. We did well v Holland and were unlucky to lose 1-0, but we then absolutely destroyed Germany in our second game. We missed half a dozen gilt edged chances in the first 15 mins and should have been out of sight. Germany scored a scrappy goal totally against the run of play, we then proceeded to batter them some more, before Germany broke away late on and a cross took a deflection over Andy Goram and landed in the back of the net. To this day I still cant believe how unlucky we were to lose that game. Justice (a little bit) was done when we hammered Russia 3-0 in the final game to finish 5th out of 8 in the tournament, but that was a very very good team under Roxburgh who deserved a semi-final place, at least. We were certainly much better than Germany or the hosts Sweden, who both got to the semis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 A great tradition of Scotalnd Managers in World Cups: McLeod with Masson 78 Stein with McGrain 82 Fergie with Souness 86. Leighton in 98 too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Leighton in 98 too... Aye, he should have gone with one of the Gorams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argentina78 Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 A great tradition of Scotalnd Managers in World Cups: McLeod with Masson 78 Stein with McGrain 82 Fergie with Souness 86. By the same token, Willie Ormond strangely never played a bang in form Jinky Johnstone in any of the 3 World Cup games in 1974 just days after he almost single handledly destroyed England at Hampden in the Home International Championships. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 I think that had more to do with the fallout from the Largs incident... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 I think that had more to do with the fallout from the Largs incident... .....and hiding from the IRA by climbing inside his Celtic kit bag. He was absolutely shit scared that the IRA were going to shoot him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnpauls Posted April 29, 2015 Author Share Posted April 29, 2015 (edited) By the same token, Willie Ormond strangely never played a bang in form Jinky Johnstone in any of the 3 World Cup games in 1974 just days after he almost single handledly destroyed England at Hampden in the Home International Championships.Was actually Ormond's big mistake. McLeod reckoned his big blunder in Argentina was not playing Souness earlier. Stein would never admit to mistakes in 82. Fergie thought his was not playing Steve Archibald more in 86! Edited April 29, 2015 by mcnpauls Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimstroma Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 I remember going to a pub quiz attended by Craig Brown in a small pub on the outskirts of Falkirk when he was Scotland manager. Decent bloke who was really down to earth. I remember a work mate telling me Andy Roxburgh was his School teacher. Both were never great players but they got us to major championships, something we are dreaming of now. WGS will be a hero if he succeeds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the Sunnylaw Jag Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Craig might have never been a top player but he does have a Scottish League Champions medal won with Dundee. Not many can say that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Craig might have never been a top player but he does have a Scottish League Champions medal won with Dundee. Not many can say that. He also suffered bad injuries before he had a chance of becoming a really top player. He must have been a pretty decent player to get anywhere near that Dundee team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 He also suffered bad injuries before he had a chance of becoming a really top player. He must have been a pretty decent player to get anywhere near that Dundee team. I think he was also one of the most highly rated schoolboy internationals of his age group as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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