March 26, 201313 yr Gordon Strachan has made six changes tonight. Marshall, Whittaker, Bridcutt, Boyd, Naismith and Rhodes coming in. Good too see Rhodes being picked ahead of Miller for a change!
March 26, 201313 yr Author Set up like this Marshall Hutton Caldwell Hanley Whittaker McArthur Brudcutt Maloney Naismith Boyd Rhodes I like it.
March 26, 201313 yr 2-0 now. Dear oh dear this is poor. Absolutely comical defending for that goal as well! Edited March 26, 201313 yr by Renegade
March 26, 201313 yr This result makes Scotland the first European team officially out of the World Cup.
March 26, 201313 yr I was at the Under 21s game in Paisley last night and it was much more enjoyable than watching the first team! A 3-0 win against Luxemberg and some great build up play from the team.
March 26, 201313 yr We dont. Sad but true. Caldwell is far above Berra, Webster, Wilson etc. It was an experimental team and thats what we will need more of in the next few years. Building a team like Wales have done, is more important than winning games. Not gonna be great to watch though.
March 27, 201313 yr This result makes Scotland the first European team officially out of the World Cup. Even San Marino, the Faroe Islands, Malta, & Andorra are not mathematically eliminated ..... how embarrassing.
March 27, 201313 yr Author With our final four games against Croatia twice, Belgium, and Macedonia away, it looks like we will be going a whole campaign without winning a game!
March 27, 201313 yr Unless we pick up some results in the games remaining we will likely be in Pot 5 for the next draw! Still a pot ahead of San Marino though, so all good!
March 27, 201313 yr Come on lads lets keep up the blind optimism that we the Scottish national team supporters are renowned for. Lets not give up after a couple of trifling defeats to mediocre opposition. Lets continue to wallow, as usual, in our triumph of hope over experience approach to the Scottish team. It has stood us in good stead for over 20 years now and should last us another 20 years at least. It also provides such great entertainment for so many people around the world to see such blind faith in operation, game after game after game after game. If you feel yourself getting a little bit down you can always sing the following ditty to yourself ( inspiration for it was taken from the time of one of our greatest displays on the world footballing stage ) - "We'er on the road with Gordies Army, we'er all going to Russia, and we'll really shake them up, when we win the World Cup, Cos Scotland is the greatest football team". Keep singing the last line of the song to yourself for about a year and you will find yourself believing in the team again, easy. Och Aye the Noo !
March 27, 201313 yr Team desperatley needs a leader - where is the Gough/Hendry type characters. Not enough passion, not enough skill, not any hope. Bin off those who failed to deliver both last night and upto now and start blooding the U21's.
March 27, 201313 yr What i don't get is why most nations come on leaps and bounds, yet Scottish football stagnates/regresses. There is something fundamentally amiss with the game here. And another thing, in today's game in general...whatever happened to taking players on and trying to beat them. When i was younger, the ball was given to players who weren't afraid to run with the ball at their feet and try to bet players, and this would happen countless times through the game. Today...for the most part. Players, when faced with the opposition in front of them, would rather turn their back and pass their way out of the situation. 95% of the time this happens. No wonder my love for the game has waned over the years. I was spoilt as a kid watching Caley, a team who played with two attacking full backs, two wingers, two forwards, and centre halfs who loved to go on mazey runs forwards.
March 27, 201313 yr Watched the England game. It's been 20+ years since the national team were anything to get worked up about. As for the phrase 'international break' appearing in the calendar...what's that about?! Internationals should be Wednesdays only. Now, back to the best ever SPL.
March 27, 201313 yr alan hutton: spuds payed 9 million for him, villa payed 3 million for him. charlie adam: liverpool payed 7 million for him, stoke payed 4 million for him. english premier league clubs have forked out £23 million in total for those two? their both tragic, and arnt good enough in a scotland shirt imo. these two should be our two stand out players but are they feck. huttons 28, adams 27. i see no reason to keep including them, play whittaker at right back hes a much stronger defender imo, and give someone like stuart armstrong whos 21 this year, david wotherspoon whos 23, or our own shinniesta whos 24 this year a chance ahead of adam. their younger, more willing, and the all round better choice at this moment. id like to see bridcutt and hanley becoming fixtures in the side. hanleys a brute, hes only 22 this year and within 3 years he will be twice the player the likes of caldwell have ever been. liam bridcutt was, i thought, our best player last night, neat and tidy on the ball, and not scared of a challenge. i have to wonder why george boyd was called up. hes 28 soon, so he hasnt got much of a future, he didnt look great at all, would it not be better to give a younger player a chance? taking miller and burke on at the end was beyond me, burkes 29, whats he gonna do in a scotland jersey now? millers 105 or something. why not bring on gms? wheres the plan for the future? if the rest of the campaigns going to be using the same squad as this then we may aswell not try to qualify for euro 2016. Edited March 27, 201313 yr by lukemackay
Gordon Strachan has made six changes tonight. Marshall, Whittaker, Bridcutt, Boyd, Naismith and Rhodes coming in. Good too see Rhodes being picked ahead of Miller for a change!