Scotland squad:

Goalkeepers: Craig Gordon (Sunderland), Jamie Langfield (Aberdeen), David Marshall (Cardiff City)

Defenders: Darren Barr (Falkirk), Christophe Berra (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Gary Caldwell (Celtic), Daniel Fox (Celtic), Alan Hutton (Tottenham Hotspur), Stephen McManus (Celtic), Steven Whittaker (Rangers)

Midfielders: Charles Adam (Blackpool), Scott Brown (Celtic), Graham Dorrans (West Bromwich Albion), Darren Fletcher (Manchester United), Shaun Maloney (Celtic), Robert Snodgrass (Leeds United), Kevin Thomson (Rangers), Ross Wallace (Preston North End)

Forwards: Steven Fletcher (Burnley), Steven Naismith (Rangers), Garry O'Connor (Birmingham City), Derek Riordan (Hibernian)

Have to say, I'm impressed with this squad; it's as balanced as any Scotland squad I've seen in the last few years and a couple of youngsters to get excited about... and Commons isn't in it (yay) :D

Really good news and well done Don!! Wish you were here dude!! Good luck and well done again!

Really good news and well done Don!! Wish you were here dude!! Good luck and well done again!

Totally agree, well done Don. Irrespective of call-offs 1st cap becons, well done.

IIRC that bloke Dorrans who's also in the squad, was nearly at ICT. Brew tried to sign him from Livvy , but he went to West Brom instead. I also, I think the reason Brew signed Imrie was because of his failure to capture Dorrans.

We are fecked, McManus is captain. That means he will be playing......

We are fecked, McManus is captain. That means he will be playing......

Or at least attempting to.

We are fecked, McManus is captain. That means he will be playing......

Or at least attempting to.

I hope he scores a hat-trick today................

Really good news and well done Don!! Wish you were here dude!! Good luck and well done again!

If he was still here he wouldnt be in the Scotland squad!!! Don has come on in 2nd half...

Great achievement for him, and he's playing well. Earlier this year he was bottom of the league with us.

Must be the first player to get a Scotland cap after playing for County? And the 2nd for ICT (Robson).

Edited October 10, 200916 yr by Yngwie

Cowie got 45 mins and had a good game.

Defensively he was very good, he put in some key tackles and pressured them well. He worked hard and although he didn't get a huge amount of the ball in an attacking sense his passing was still good, all of them were on target along one great pass with the outside of the foot. Also set up Scotland's biggest chance for Fletcher with a nice ball over the top of the defenders and in behind but it just couldn't be finished off.

Good performance from him and Scotland didn't play too bad, defensively the Scots were good but an unpreventable own goal gave Japan the lead late on.

Cowie got 45 mins and had a good game.

Defensively he was very good, he put in some key tackles and pressured them well. He worked hard and although he didn't get a huge amount of the ball in an attacking sense his passing was still good, all of them were on target along one great pass with the outside of the foot. Also set up Scotland's biggest chance for Fletcher with a nice ball over the top of the defenders and in behind but it just couldn't be finished off.

Good performance from him and Scotland didn't play too bad, defensively the Scots were good but an unpreventable own goal gave Japan the lead late on.

So why hasnt Blackie been called up yet?

Scotland didnt play so badly??? What game did you watch. Lee Wallace had a decent game but players like Whittaker and Ross Wallace had stinkers. I'd also give pass marks to Conway for his deliveries and perhaps Adam for trying to go forward.

We officially never even mustered a shot on goal. Steven Fletcher was too busy try to round the keeper while showing him the full ball instead of dinking it over a keeper who stood at 1 foot nothing. But hes got that hibs striker lack of composure thing going on. Riordan being the exception, though he just goes missing in the bigger games where people are looking at him to impress.

Cowie played well when brought on but Stephen Hughes was completely anonymous. Its not even as if we can blame the call offs. They had them as well and they didnt even play Shinsuke Nakamura. Long gone are the likes of Nakata, Ono and Takahara etc.

It was a drab preformance with no cutting edge whatsoever against a very ordinary team.