Apologies for posting this in the main forum ...

Ryan Christie, Ryan Christie, Ryan Christie ... there we go, now its ICT related 😄

Do users want a separate sub forum for the World Cup (and by extension the Euros in a couple of years time hopefully) or should we simply stick with the "Other Football" category? A separate forum would allow us to keep it all in place and not get lost with other stuff, keeping it in the general football category could also be done if we just prefix every world cup thread with a tag of "world cup".

I am not bothered either way as neither is a huge task.

I’m sure I wasn’t the only one to be delighted at only being 1-0 down at HT! Looked somewhat out of our depth initially, but had a much better 2nd half and competed well. I fear only scoring 1 v Haiti will be our downfall in terms of qualifying, but you never know.

Man - what a shitty ref! 2 penalty claims that could and perhaps should have been given and a clear last man challenge early on. Seemed to let a lot go but then not consistent. Definitely favoured Morocco. VAR ref I notices was also one of the worst refs in MLS so I knew we would get no benefit or consistency there either.

On the plus side, Gannon-Doak was good when he came on and I thought Christie also had a good game. Might have preferred Shankland to Dykes.

Definitely robbed of at one pen. Never really in the game until the last 20 mins or so. Hopefully you'll get an unlikely point against Brazil who seem to be turning on the style right now...even it was Haiti.

As it stands right now, 3 points might be enough. There's a spreadsheet someone created that works it all out in real-time.
https://hermann-baum.de/excel/WorldCup/en/

Scotland sitting 2nd in the 3rd place team table after last night's results. Calculations show a predicted last 32 game against Germany in Boston although results in all the other games will likely change that situation.

As one of the sides to play their 3rd game early, Scotland are at a bit of a disadvantage. Teams in the later stages will have a better idea of what is needed to get through. For instance, a team playing later on having, like Scotland, won one and lost one, might see that some teams finishing 3rd had less than 3 points and will know the goal difference of those finishing with 3 points. They will know whether they need to get at least a draw or whether a 1 or 2 goal defeat would still see them through. Scotland won't have that luxury. If they concede to Brazil, they will be in a dilemma of whether or not they push hard for an equaliser at the risk of conceding again and making their goal difference worse.

It's simple, we just have to beat Brazil