Match Thread (International) Scotland vs Austria, Israel and the Faroes

[Henry]

3 hours ago, BitWait said:

The albeit poisonous ginger cunt was the best manager we had in past 20 years and things were looking real good for the future when those cretins at the SFA sacked him.

Things weren’t looking that great after finishing fourth in a group where two teams went directly to the championships, and a third went into the play-off.

[WesthillWanderersFC]

8 minutes ago, aberdeen1970 said:

They are still not like for like though. 

I'd say Turnbull is an 8 or a 10.

Christie is a 7/11 or a 10.

I'd have dropped Fleck for Turnbull and kept Christie in the squad. 

There’s no need for Taylor of Celtic to be in. 
You could drop both Taylor & Fleck & put Turnbull & Billy Gilmour in.

Other countries put young players in. Scotland seem reluctant to. 
Harder to get out of a Scotland squad than get in it. 

[redstrummer]

6 minutes ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

There’s no need for Taylor of Celtic to be in. 
You could drop both Taylor & Fleck & put Turnbull & Billy Gilmour in.

Other countries put young players in. Scotland seem reluctant to. 
Harder to get out of a Scotland squad than get in it. 

Those two deserve a call up

[strachanmcgheegoal]

30 minutes ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

These international breaks are tediously long. 

The only positive is you can usually find one on Sky that’s decent to watch (ie doesn’t involve us).

[aberdeen1970]

35 minutes ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

There’s no need for Taylor of Celtic to be in. 
You could drop both Taylor & Fleck & put Turnbull & Billy Gilmour in.

Other countries put young players in. Scotland seem reluctant to. 
Harder to get out of a Scotland squad than get in it. 

Aye, agreed 

[WesthillWanderersFC]

22 minutes ago, strachanmcgheegoal said:

The only positive is you can usually find one on Sky that’s decent to watch (ie doesn’t involve us).

I just don’t enjoy international football full stop.
I see it as a chance to catch up on something on Netflix 

[aberdeen1970]

I normally watch the games if I'm in, which is pretty fucking likely these days. 

But I generally see the international break as an unnecessary interruption to the domestic game. 

Apart from this year when it's been a bit of light relief from watching us fail to score on red TV. 

[starryfish]

Worth noting that Faroe Islands have beaten Greece home and away recently, we should beat them but they aren’t the minnows they one were.

[King Street Loon]

We'll win. Won't be pretty though.

2-0

[torry_battery_ram]

39 minutes ago, starryfish said:

Worth noting that Faroe Islands have beaten Greece home and away recently, we should beat them but they aren’t the minnows they one were.

Should beat them at Hampden but the trip up North has tripped us up twice in the past and is certainly going to be awkward especially on their plastic pitch.

[BitWait]

3 hours ago, Henry said:

Things weren’t looking that great after finishing fourth in a group where two teams went directly to the championships, and a third went into the play-off.

It was a very difficult group but we played some good football and were unlucky not to qualify. Strachan definitely imo the best manager we've had in past 20 years. 

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

4 hours ago, perthshirered said:

A different argument maybe but I think Strachan was largely responsible for taking us away from the prehistoric style of play we had. When you look at Ireland and their shambolic run, where Kenny is trying to bring them out of the dark ages, then Strachan's results were pretty decent in comparison. Arrogant little shit though. 

 

Strachan was generally the same as Clarke is now. Stubbornly picking the same players and formation when the whole country is shouting tell him what to do....

everyone can see this back 3 is completely shite and doesn’t get the best out of the players. Clarke has to change it. 
 

strachan was similar. Kept calling up guys like Barry Bannan and Chris Martin. By the time he started picking the team everyone was calling for it was too late. Wee cunt

[Sheepo]

Considine is another who shouldn't be in the squad, he is only there because he did them a turn last Year when many of the regulars didn't turn up. Clarke has no intention of playing him and Considine probably knows this also.

[WesthillWanderersFC]

1 hour ago, Sheepo said:

Considine is another who shouldn't be in the squad, he is only there because he did them a turn last Year when many of the regulars didn't turn up. Clarke has no intention of playing him and Considine probably knows this also.

I don’t think he’ll make the 23 man Euro squad.

On form, let’s be honest, he shouldn’t. 

Liam Cooper at Leeds has to come back from injury too, so that’s another one ahead of him. 

[BitWait]

14 hours ago, King Street Loon said:

We'll win. Won't be pretty though.

2-0

If we don't win , really should not qualify for anything by rights. Back to the basics and try to grow from there with younger players. Austria , whom we played the other night got beat by them and that's what they had to do. 

[shooftahmooftah]

If they don’t put 5 or 6 past the pyramid Faroes !!!!!!!!!!!!  tonight Clark and his team should join king tute in his tomb.   

[Ke1t]

Anyone have a link for this? 

[shinniesta1]

vipleague or hesgoal probably got one

[Simply Red]

22 minutes ago, Ke1t said:

Anyone have a link for this? 

Hesgoals.com

[Durrant Dived]

1 hour ago, shooftahmooftah said:

If they don’t put 5 or 6 past the pyramid Faroes !!!!!!!!!!!!  tonight Clark and his team should join king tute in his tomb.   

Scrappy 1-0 incoming.

[Ke1t]

Got one... cheers. 

[Guest]

Fairly fuckin brutal. 
 

Early goal made no odds to patterns of play. Just tedious, mind numbing stuff. 
 

Aberdeen playing on Saturday, should be exciting ? 

[Simply Red]

Seen a lot worse. Folk saying thats bad obviously havent seen a lot of Scotland over the years.

A lot of pressure on every Scotland game mainly because we’ve been so woeful for so long. This group of players seem to be starting to get a handle on the pressure. 

 

[G31DON]

Gordon nearly gifting the islanders an equaliser. 

[Poodler]

2-0!!!!! Hope all you Ryan Jack supporters are delighted with yourselves. 

[Guest]

Tierney is a much better player than Robertson 

[Ke1t]

Faroes arent terrible... I can see them posing problems for any side having an off night.

Keeping their shape welll.

3-0

 

They're fucking pish.

[Poodler]

Is that the first UD to score For Scotland?

[G31DON]

Goals galore. One for the Caribbean Englishman.

[aberdeen1970]

3 minutes ago, ConsiCanBoogie1903 said:

Tierney is a much better player than Robertson 

They're both good players.