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  1. I can confirm that I, ScotlandFanMuir am one of the rare breed who goes on tour with Scotland and also supports Rangers. I made it to a mere 8 games last campaign, failing to stump up the funds for Poland and Georgia away. Anyway. If I were hurled vicious abuse from fellow Tartan Army members - oh, I can imagine them now. 'Yes' wallpapers on their iPhones. St Andrews cross tattooed on the ankle. Nicki Sturgeon on the brain. If they were to approach me, foaming at the mouth, shouting - 'YOU, YA ORANGE, NO VOTING, SEVCO SUPPORTING, QUEEN LOVING, ZOMBIE , GTF' - I must admit, I'd have to look him/her in the eye, tip my vodka towards them and say, cheers. This thread is ridiculous. But funny.
  2. Hard to gauge at the moment. According to the current away points table there's only 24000 members. I'm sure one of the latest SFA emails indicates it's closer to 28000 now? Obviously it's just a guessing game to know if they're renewals (with away points) or new members. On a separate note, I contacted the SFA a couple of weeks ago via email to ask if Slovakia away points would be added and Nigeria points taken away before England sale and they confirmed that this would be the case.
  3. They play in Trnava against us too.
  4. Think the game being in Trnava could be a good thing for us. The atmosphere was absolutely terrible in their game against England yesterday, they couldn't sell it out against the best team in the group and little to no singing was heard from the home end for 90 minutes. I think in Bratislava they create a better atmosphere. If they draw their next game in Slovenia while we're putting 5 past Lithuania (ha) then it'd be a great start for us.
  5. I liked how we still looked hungry to score more, even after 4 and 5.
  6. The results in the group were nice to us for a change. The ref gave us some baffling decisions in our favour. Some LUCK. Strange feeling. But I'll take it!
  7. Can't see where the spark to score a goal is going to come from, so I'm going for 0-0. Strachan to start as many central midfielders as he can in his midfield 4/5. Hope I'm wrong...
  8. Regardless of the result or tonight in general. Does anyone think Ricky Sbragia is the man to take the National U21 side forward? I don't.
  9. Ah, lovely. Even the young guns have all the hallmarks of an aged Scotland side. After that game we'd be moaning about the referee. That definitely happens most Scotland games. Concede a poor goal? That happened too. Waste 2 or 3 guilt edge chances? Yep. Lack the quality and cutting edge to create even more? You bet. BUZZING for Sunday.
  10. The 2 CBs are still difficult for us aren't they? Most people are going for Hanley and Martin, they're probably our best 2 unfortunately. Russell Martin hasn't kicked a ball this season and Grant Hanley played 90 minutes on the 5th of August but nothing after that - worrying. That paves the way for 35 year old Gordon Greer who has started every game for whipping boys Blackburn - a man who Strachan seems to favour at times. Berra is also playing regularly with Ipswich. I predict Hanley will start with either Greer or Berra.
  11. For anyone wondering or remotely interested, you'll lose your Nigeria point (if you got one) before the England game. The reason I queried this with the SFA is because there's only 4 weeks between Slovakia away and England away and I wasn't sure if the Slovakia point would be added and the 10th last away game (Nigeria) would be taken off. A valid question I thought, seeing as the Malta tickets went on sale over 4 weeks before that particular game. But it seems the Nigeria points will be taken off and Slovakia points added as the SFA confirmed today. Given the Slovakia game is the 11th of October, I'd be surprised if Wembley tickets go on sale before Monday 17th October.
  12. The campaign was failure to qualify, but as I have stated, up 1 game is what has ultimately cost us. It isn't abject failure or indeed embarrassing in my opinion. For me, abject failure is the Dutch finishing fourth, Celtic not winning the league - or even the sheep fanciers not getting past Kairat Almaty. We were 4th seeds who finished 4th. No one is trying to dress this up as some sort of success, we just aren't as depressed about it all as you moaning faced s.
  13. I saw someone mention a complete overhaul from the SFA is the first step in 'fixing' this - I'd probably agree. Invest in grass roots. We need to start investing in our Youth. Only then when we're producing better younger players we will be able to ACTUALLY play them in Scottish football. It's a bit of a disease in our game, we'll take Celtic for example. I'd like to know how much money they spend on their Youth set up, to then spend millions on top of that to bring in the likes of GMS, Armstrong, Ciftci, their new £4million defender etc. The dominant club (cue the sheep-appreciators) in our league and the only one regularly playing in Europe are hardly bringing through 1 young Scottish player a year through their ranks. If James Forrest is the best they can do then I can see why they bring others in, but my point is - until they start spending £4million on developing better talent than bringing in a foreign defender then I feel we'll forever be stuck in this rut. I feel other Scottish clubs are now looking to their Youth set up and bringing more players through, instead of signing that 32 year work horse that the manager knows can 'do a job'. There's knock on effects all over the place. We stop qualifying for European competition at club level and we've then less money in our game, lower coefficient and harder to qualify. Start investing more in the young guns again and stop selling deep fried pizzas and we might produce better players again, actually play them and actually qualify for these tournaments. 11 players playing decent fitba in the SPFL isn't enough to qualify for the Euros for me. We need at 2/3 teams playing European fitba at club level with Scottish youngsters at the heart of each side. We're a long way away from that though.
  14. Don't take me home, Please don't take me home, A just don't wanna go home... A wanna stay here, And drink all yer beer, A just don't wanna go home! Song of the night!
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