No game for us tomorrow but here's the table and fixtures that could see Stenhousemuir join us on 26 points, but they face a tough game at East Fife. You can see that one on BBC Alba, kick-off is at 17:00.

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Nathan Shaw has put Morton ahead at Dingwall H/T 0-1

Cove beating Accies 2-1 at the interval

Other 2 games goalless

Ft at Dungwell 😄 Well pumped 3 -0 by Morton. Roy will surely be in meltdown!

Edited November 15, 2025Nov 15 by caley100

Great set of results for us today.

We strengthened our position without playing 😂

E Fife 1-0 v Stenhousemuir

Cove 2-1 Accies

Kelty 1-1 Queens

P'Head 1-1 Montrose

Pos.		P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PTS
1	Inverness CT	13	10	1	2	22	8	14	26 *
2	Alloa Athletic	13	7	2	4	17	8	9	23
3	Stenhousemuir	14	6	5	3	16	12	4	23
4	East Fife	14	6	4	4	18	19	-1	22
5	Queen of the South	14	6	3	5	19	17	2	21
6	Peterhead	14	6	2	6	21	23	-2	20
7	Hamilton Academical	14	7	3	4	28	12	16	18 *
8	Montrose	14	3	3	8	12	28	-16	12
9	Kelty Hearts	14	2	3	9	12	28	-16	9
10	Cove Rangers	14	2	2	10	11	21	-10	8

No ict today, but got my ict fix at Dingwall watching Nathan shaw. He had a very good game and his goal was typical RC this season. Got a corner, put the big guys up, had a shot easily saved by keeper, within a couple of seconds Morton were up the park, most of the county team chasing behind them, typical shaw dribble in the box and shot which luckily took a deflection past the keeper.( didn’t see it, but keeper dived to his left and ball crossed line to his right)

From KO, Morton were dominant and county couldn’t string 2 passes together, or even keep the ball when it was a hoof up the park, Usual Jordan white stuff. County bossed the game from the start of second half but created nothing. 2 counters later it was 3 nil.

Not sure if Morton were awesome or county just sh1t but well worth the 3 points.

That’s me seen 9 out of 10 championship teams this year. we have some major rebuilding to do when we win the league.

But then again maybe RC are making these teams look good.

Waiting now to see the big team park the bus in Greece.

“Waiting now to see the big team park the bus in Greece.”

God weren’t Scotland awful. 0-3 at halftime to Greece wouldn’t have been an overreaction to how far ahead Greece were!

At 3-0 I thought this is going to be five!! How we will now present the narrative we were unlucky to loose 2-3. Pure bull!!

We’ll now hear (a lot), how rotten Denmark were against Belarus!! Disguise quickly just how juvenile our team and tactics were, how inept the SFA and the manager is and our fans are to swallow the same tripe!!

bc

Edited November 15, 2025Nov 15 by big cherly

…and it’ll all end on Tuesday with Denmark equalising in the 95th minute and us screaming ‘we wuz robbed!’

21 hours ago, big cherly said:

“Waiting now to see the big team park the bus in Greece.”

God weren’t Scotland awful. 0-3 at halftime to Greece wouldn’t have been an overreaction to how far ahead Greece were!

At 3-0 I thought this is going to be five!! How we will now present the narrative we were unlucky to loose 2-3. Pure bull!!

We’ll now hear (a lot), how rotten Denmark were against Belarus!! Disguise quickly just how juvenile our team and tactics were, how inept the SFA and the manager is and our fans are to swallow the same tripe!!

bc

To be fair, this was our first final-day group match with automatic qualification on the line since 1998. For years we’d have bitten your hand off just to still be alive on the last night and hoping for a playoff spot. Clarke has us actually expecting to qualify now – that’s a massive shift from where we were.

Yes, Greece were better and we were poor in spells, but pretending it’s some sort of disaster ignores the fact we’ve come miles under Clarke. We’re not scraping around pot 4 anymore hoping for a miracle; we’re consistently in the mix and competing late into campaigns.

We can criticise the performance, but let’s not rewrite progress just because we lost a game. Clarke’s done a lot more right than wrong.

I agree that Clarke has done a good job. I think there will be some very nervous Danes at Hampden on Tuesday and I expect Scotland to win and top the group. The worry for me is the lack of a decent striker up top. In the last 5 years, McTominay and McGinn have been the top goal scorers. Scotland will need a striker who can score a lot more regularly than Dykes or Adams if they are to make an impression in the summer

Denmark supposedly have a virus in camp so that will give us more hope for Tuesday 😁. I just want ten times better than last night because it was abysmal for large spells!!

Though if you think that's bad, this afternoon at Murrayfield was ten times worse, to lose by 9 from 21-0 up is nothing short of ABYSMAL. I'm afraid to say, the boos at FT were fully justified and I can tell you now where they were aimed: AT THE COACHING BOX!

14 hours ago, ICTPaisley said:

To be fair, this was our first final-day group match with automatic qualification on the line since 1998. For years we’d have bitten your hand off just to still be alive on the last night and hoping for a playoff spot. Clarke has us actually expecting to qualify now – that’s a massive shift from where we were.

Yes, Greece were better and we were poor in spells, but pretending it’s some sort of disaster ignores the fact we’ve come miles under Clarke. We’re not scraping around pot 4 anymore hoping for a miracle; we’re consistently in the mix and competing late into campaigns.

We can criticise the performance, but let’s not rewrite progress just because we lost a game. Clarke’s done a lot more right than wrong.

Clarke is too negative. Why wait to go 3 down then have a go.

remember euro 24, and all the hype about scotland qualifying, some of the lesser nations, Austria was one I think, had a real go, very exciting seeing them charging up field as soon as they got the ball.

Clarke was typical Clarke, keep it tight, scotland finished as below including a 5-1 pumping.

Clarke would be a hero if we qualify and play each group stage game as if it was the last 20 minutes of the Greece game. Now that would be worth watching.

13 hours ago, ICTPaisley said:

To be fair, this was our first final-day group match with automatic qualification on the line since 1998. For years we’d have bitten your hand off just to still be alive on the last night and hoping for a playoff spot. Clarke has us actually expecting to qualify now – that’s a massive shift from where we were.

Yes, Greece were better and we were poor in spells, but pretending it’s some sort of disaster ignores the fact we’ve come miles under Clarke. We’re not scraping around pot 4 anymore hoping for a miracle; we’re consistently in the mix and competing late into campaigns.

We can criticise the performance, but let’s not rewrite progress just because we lost a game. Clarke’s done a lot more right than wrong.

I hear what you say ICTP, however it’s up to each individual to decide what’s an acceptable level of performance and results for our national team.

For me, what’s being (and been) served up over this and previous campaigns is dross and shows no sign of any progression or development of the national team / game in way of :-

1) the ability of players (skill and attitude).

2) selecting the best (form) players over loyalty.

3) tactics employed and inability to act and change to influence the outcome.

I don’t blame Clarke as the core problem (I do for the past campaigns under his tenure), it’s the SFA and fans that accept the status-quo as our benchmark is good enough.

As long as the fans continue to turn up blindly and pay for the fare on show then the SFA will continue to maintain the product they provide (as failure is the accepted norm).

Using our opposition this Tuesday as a comparable country population, league structure and finances; Denmark has proved and have demonstrated IMO it is possible to develop and provide a high standard and quality of player and product for their national team resulting in better performance and results.

Scotland has simply stagnated for decades and we continue to accept poor fare.

I expect Denmark to win on Tuesday, simply because they are the better team. Hampden will be full of the expectant of course turning up in their numbers and tartan tat!

I will not be too demanding or expecting of our team!!

bc

Edited November 17, 2025Nov 17 by big cherly

8 hours ago, bishbashbosh said:

Clarke was typical Clarke, keep it tight, scotland finished as below including a 5-1 pumping.

I was watching that in a bar in Gran Canaria, where 90% of the punters were German. They had a good laugh at me when I walked out when Porteous was sent off at 43 minutes. I couldn't watch any more.

I'm safely at home tomorrow, but fully expect Scotland to get humped again. On the basis of most of the last three games, they'd have a hard time beating our KDM Evolution side.

Fifa have increased the number of teams to qualify for next years World Cup from 32 to 48.

That’s a 50% increase.

We should give up if we can’t be one of the 48 teams.

We should also give up once qualified, if we don’t get out of the group stage for the first time.

Come on stevie, let the boys loose.

3 hours ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

I was watching that in a bar in Gran Canaria, where 90% of the punters were German. They had a good laugh at me when I walked out when Porteous was sent off at 43 minutes. I couldn't watch any more.

I'm safely at home tomorrow, but fully expect Scotland to get humped again. On the basis of most of the last three games, they'd have a hard time beating our KDM Evolution side.

I may have had it worse.

Was on a training course in Harrogate for the then post office telecommunications, later to become BT, for a month in June.

We had a Glasgow guy on the course, nice bloke, but couldn’t keep his mouth shut.

4 of us Scot’s in a class of 20 made up by English boys.

He came in every morning singing Scotland chants.

Feckin embarrassing.

June 1978 it was.

Pumped 3-1 by Cubillas of Peru.

And still he came in chanting.

Drew 1-1 with Iran.

And still he came in chanting, but a little quieter.

Beat Netherlands 3-2, Archie gemmil game, as David Coleman commentated “ Scotland are in dreamland” only for Johnny Rep to put us to the sword.

Give the Glasgow guy his due, he went into overdrive the morning after that game. Gave it big style to the English guys.

All good fun of course. Didn’t stop us all hitting pub the last night for our course doo. ( I took a wrong turning coming out of the pub and a 10 minute walk to the digs turned into a couple or hours as I reached the outskirts of Harrogate and it started to become pitch black as the street lights disappeared behind me)

Ps… couldn’t get rid of the box below

***I couldn't find the buttons on the mobile either but easy enough on the laptop. Click on the box then a wee pop up tab opens with options, one of which is delete box.

PS: I watched the Iran game in the pub in Brora. Grim night that.

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This thread has certainly gone off topic, but…..

Somehow we’ve done it and turned what looked like being glorious failure (again) into qualification.

To win in stoppage time and then seal it with the last kick of the ball makes it more special.

And three wonderful goals from McTominay, Tierney and McLean (plus a tap in by Shankland). McTominay’s was the pick for me and I had McLean as our MoM.

Losing Gannon-Doak could have been our downfall, but credit to all involved for the win and qualification.

Edited November 18, 2025Nov 18 by Robert

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Qualifying from this group has increasingly felt like destiny, no matter how hard we’ve tried to screw it up. So bring on Brazil, again, coz this time you never know…

And that’s three out of four major tournament qualifications for Clarke.

On 11/17/2025 at 10:07 AM, big cherly said:

I hear what you say ICTP, however it’s up to each individual to decide what’s an acceptable level of performance and results for our national team.

For me, what’s being (and been) served up over this and previous campaigns is dross and shows no sign of any progression or development of the national team / game in way of :-

1) the ability of players (skill and attitude).

2) selecting the best (form) players over loyalty.

3) tactics employed and inability to act and change to influence the outcome.

I don’t blame Clarke as the core problem (I do for the past campaigns under his tenure), it’s the SFA and fans that accept the status-quo as our benchmark is good enough.

As long as the fans continue to turn up blindly and pay for the fare on show then the SFA will continue to maintain the product they provide (as failure is the accepted norm).

Using our opposition this Tuesday as a comparable country population, league structure and finances; Denmark has proved and have demonstrated IMO it is possible to develop and provide a high standard and quality of player and product for their national team resulting in better performance and results.

Scotland has simply stagnated for decades and we continue to accept poor fare.

I expect Denmark to win on Tuesday, simply because they are the better team. Hampden will be full of the expectant of course turning up in their numbers and tartan tat!

I will not be too demanding or expecting of our team!!

bc

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Denmark were the better team (with 10 and 11 on the park) but if you can't beat Belarus at home, well then you can't expect to top the group😄

Second best for most of the game, but 3 terrific goals and a great striker's tap in to book their place in the finals. Well done Scotland!

A big "well done" to Wales too for thrashing North Macedonia 7-1 to secure a play-off place along with the Republic of Ireland. Northern Ireland will, apparently, also be in the play-offs by virtue of their performance in the Nations league. So potentially we could have all 5 teams from the British Isles going to the finals next summer.

The World Cup qualification is getting a bit farcical though. Sweden also have a play-off slot by virtue of their performance in the Nations Cup, despite the fact that they only got 2 points from their 6 games in the their World Cup qualifying group against football giants, Switzerland, Kosovo and Slovenia.

3 Excellent goals but if it happened to Scotland and we lost we would be moaning about it for ever……. The second booking for the Denmark player was never a booking and VAR can’t get involved for a second yellow.

With 48 teams qualifying I expect nothing less than Scotland getting out of the group stage for the first time.

When I first tuned in to the game the cameras were scanning the supporters. Think the supporters trust chairman mr moodie was in full view. Or it was a lookalike Keir Starmer. 😀

A glimpse of our club grandad 10cc too.

Pwoud, vewy pwoud 😂

9 hours ago, bishbashbosh said:

3 Excellent goals but if it happened to Scotland and we lost we would be moaning about it for ever……. The second booking for the Denmark player was never a booking and VAR can’t get involved for a second yellow.

Fair comment but losing Gannon-Doak was a massive turning point as Dorgu was only able to get forward after that.

10 hours ago, tm4tj said:

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I’m digging oot my Andy Cameron’s 45 record “We’re oan the march wi Ally’s army, we’re gonny win the World Cup”.

On to the game. Up front, Credit due where it deserved. On a wet night of drama in that old bucket Hampden, Scotland won the match. I stand by my position however Denmark were the better team and had the player of the match in Isaksen.

That said, it was a fantastic goal by McTominay. The Englishman’s awareness and athleticism was something to behold. It will be talked about for decades.

Scotland thereafter fell into there normal stout defensive brand for the remainder of the first half.

In the second half Denmark got a decision (wrongly IMO) that awarded them a penalty (and equaliser).

This was the opposite where Kirstensen was wrongly sent off IMO. The game flowed on with Denmark the much better team (with 10 men). Fair play to Clarke here, he changed out the ineffective Christie and Dykes for Shankland and Adam’s. Shankland scored the type of H Kane goal we lack. A euphoric hampden was uncontrollable in it’s excitement. The damn Danes however quickly brought that ability, skill & control to score an excellent equaliser. (Much fingernail chewing begun).

In the extra time Tierney scored an excellent goal against the Dane’s to send Hampden alight. McLean lobbed in a half way fourth when the Dane’s were all out chasing a third.

Scotland’s night to be sure. The sending off was critical to the night. Without it I have the view the outcome would have been different. Fortune favoured Scotland last night.

Give Clarke a night-hood and four year contract extension now before we reach the americas!

bc💿

11 hours ago, tm4tj said:

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11 hours ago, tm4tj said:

Now then. Let's check out some of these comments

Edited November 19, 2025Nov 19 by big cherly