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  1. Kilt and a Scotland top on matchdays. Given the expected temperatures, talcum powder will also be a must. I'll stick the kilt on other days when I'm there, depending when the mood takes me. The day after a Scotland win I'll be likely to have it on.
  2. It's got some zingers in it. It's amazing what qualifying for a tournament with a couple of games to spare can do. What's your opinion on the Billy Connolly song 'Evil Scotsman' and how do you make roasted cheese?
  3. So you think it's fine that a home friendly before a major tournament wasn't a sell out and there is literally nothing the SFA could done to shift more tickets?
  4. You're just making stuff up now. In the run up to France 98 - Paw Broon said that we were the underdogs of the group. We had an ageing and probably the weakest ever squad we'd taken to a tournament at that stage (and we'd never progressed beyond the group stages with better squads). We had the reigning champions and eventual finalists in the opening game - a real possibility was a hammering that we'd never recover from and our World Cup being over before it started. Morocco were the top team in Africa (Pele had said an African team would win the World Cup before the end of the century) and the team's official song was "Don't Come Home Too Soon". The last time we were confident of doing something at a tournament was Argentina 1978. Since then, and including the 1980s, expectations when we have qualified have been tempered that to get out of the group would be an unprecedented success.
  5. Aye, there's always one of them with their arms out-stretched. 😂 And neither the police nor the stewards intervened, amazing.
  6. Your second sentence contradicts your first. Folk are saving for Germany, and they can watch the game in their house, which means folk need an extra incentive to got to the game. I wonder what incentive that might be? đŸ€”
  7. These are terrible examples of chants that are aggravating/confrontational Everywhere they go Scotland get battered - we haven't won a game in the last seven. Lost 4-0 on Friday and were losing to Northern Ireland at the time. At the moment it does feel like the team get battered everywhere they go. John McGinn - you're a wanker. Scotland fans sang this in Oslo to Haaland and its pretty standard to hear fans sing that about their opponent's best player. If anything its a compliment that a) they have heard of one your players and b) singled them out for attention. We've also got a song about Scotland having a party and Haaland being in his bed, is that aggravating/confrontational? Off to the Euros - you're havin a laugh. They're right - we're off to the Euros and are playing some pretty worrying football on the pitch, whilst losing to Northern Ireland. Fair enough criticising Northern Ireland for having GSTK and other bits and pieces that lean into the sectarian pish and alienate half their population, but the above examples are just standard football fare.
  8. Easy Logan, because you are a multi-millionaire Chief Executive of a publicly traded media conglomerate, you are not the typical football punter. 17,000 folk decide not to go to a football game. Aye, sure – they’re solely to blame. Also, you’re wrong. Top prices at both Fir Park and Pittodrie for this coming Saturday are £26 each.
  9. Yes mate, I am indeed “for real”. Shankland played two thirds of the game in Amsterdam, during which time this “natural finisher” missed the biggest opportunity to score at a crucial stage of the game. He tucks away that chance and he's undroppable, but he didn't, so he's not. He also had opportunities to score on Tuesday night that he didn’t take. Ferguson came on in the 69th minute in Amsterdam, during which time we totally collapsed. Not primarily his fault but hardly cries the “positive game-changer” that demands he should start ahead of anyone else. On Tuesday night he came on for a left back (somebody earlier in the thread says Clarke doesn’t have a Plan B, - that’s clearly untrue) for the guts of an hour. While he was pretty decent, he didn’t do enough to merit the clamour for him to undoubtedly start before any of our other midfielders. Ferguson will get his chance once our current crop of first picks start to fade, but starting him now only because he has the prospects to be our main player in the future is paradoxical thinking. Shankland got about 80 minutes over the two games and Ferguson just over 70 minutes – hardly “fuck-all”. As for playing McGinn as a striker – are you for real?
  10. The attendance on Tuesday clearly points to the SFA getting the price of the ticket wrong. I'm aware that the Portugal game in October is sold out, so it seems like the pricing for the Nations League games are fine. But the price of a friendly at Hampden needs to be rethought.
  11. Both Ferguson and Shankland got enough minutes over the two games, and I think we know how good they are. Decent, not amazing, neither guaranteed that they'd start against Germany. That's on Ferguson and Shankland, not Clarke. The right back position however, Clarke needs to consider calling up Max Johnston from the Under 21s, currently playing in the Austrian Bundesliga.
  12. I keep reading on here that Clarke doesn't seem to know what his preferred formation is and first eleven are - which I'm just not seeing. 5-4-1 is the preferred formation, but he can change it during the game like last night or in Oslo to four at the back. When all fit, the 5 are Robertson, Tierney, Hendry, Porteus and Hickey. And the 4 are McGregor, McGinn, Mctominay and Christie. There's only two doubts: who is the one up front out of Dykes, Adams and Shankland and should Billy Gilmour start if McGregor gets back to full fitness. Why do folk think Clarke doesn't have a settled system and preferred personnel? He's even consistent with using Armstrong and McLean from the bench most games.
  13. And this! Although I don't think Christie was actually fouled when he won the free kick...
  14. Strong disagree that we got lucky in Oslo. Both teams cancelled each other out for the majority and it was essentially a 0-0 game with a soft penalty. Norway thought the game was won with 80 minutes gone and were incredibility naïve to think it was wrapped up at 1-0 - it's one of the oldest clichés in football "You're never totally safe at 1-0". We totally dominated possession in the last 15 minutes and took advantage when the opportunities came along. You also don't win games 2-0 (against Spain) solely by being lucky. Yes, Spain had chances that they didn't take, but so did we - Christie should have hit the target at 1-0, Dykes was one-on-one with the keeper at the end of the first half but couldn't keep his shot down, McGinn hit the bar, and Shankland could have made it 3-0 in injury time. Where we were fortunate was how the games fell. Norway's first two games were Spain away then Georgia away, our first two games were both at home - to Cyprus then Spain. If we'd had Norway's run of fixtures we probably wouldn't have qualified with games to spare.
  15. This. Tonight reminded me of Dublin, where player-for-player we were by far the better team, but on the pitch soundly beaten by a team that wanted it more. God love Steve Clarke, what does he do now? And how does he bide his time between now and June?
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