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  1. 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.
  2. 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?
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. And this! Although I don't think Christie was actually fouled when he won the free kick...
  7. 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.
  8. 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?
  9. By the way, do Northern Ireland still have God Save The King as their pre-match anthem? 😬
  10. I understand the desire for the same starting eleven with minimal substitutions, especially in defence, but do we really want injury-prone Kieran Tierney playing the full ninety minutes?
  11. Who is this defensive midfielder you seem reluctant to name?
  12. As I've said previously in this thread, we played 4 at the back against Georgia away and Norway at home and shipped 5 goals! I'd also be loathed to play players out-of-position, centre half as defensive midfielder, like you are suggesting.
  13. Our strongest back three is Tierney-Hendry-Porteus. Hanley has been out for a while, from a Scotland perspective, so not relevant.
  14. A bit of chat in this thread about going to a back 4. We played a back 4 against both Georgia away and Norway at home at the end of the campaign and looked a lot less solid and shipped goals. I prefer us playing with a back 5, even if Tierney isn't playing, it provides decent cover for both fullbacks to push forward. Also hope that McKenna is fit for June, he's just cemented second choice Left Centre Half on the back of Soutar's performance last night.
  15. With The Granary there's also other options nearby in case there are any issues. The James Tassie, Georgic, Linen 1906 and Sweeney's on the Park are all on the same road and pretty sound Plan Bs before games at Hampden. Would recommend getting there before 5pm though if you can, particularly if the match is a sell-out.
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