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“The big winners here seem to be the Tartan Army who have really been the story more so than the team”! It looks, for all intended purposes the tartan army has supplanted the Scottish football team as the main feature of any tournament the team manages to qualify for. ie A friendly, colourful, noisy engaging mass of people that party on the whole with the residents of the city or area they base themselves. They have become an extension of presenting and representing our country much better than the Scotland team or any political office. I did not watch any our the Scottish matches, primarily due to the time they were televised. That said my views on our nation football team, manager and those running our game have been mostly critical as we continue to fail that great support. The SFA appears incapable of having the whereabouts to address the malaise and slow decline that afflicts our game. Maybe I (we) have to accept we are unable to copy equivalent second tier European countries in raising the standard and quality of our national team performance? We may scrape through by some mathematical formula having dispatched the mighty Haiti, but it would be a hollow success in my mind. We would most certainly loose (possibly badly) against strong opponents. It would also just plaster over the shortcomings in our game IMO and allow the SFA blazers off the hook, ie they would claim it as some sort of improvement by the first qualifying national team (even though it is easier), and simply continue the status quo. I do feel for all the small children, mums and youngsters that dressed up sporting the Scottish strip and other garb. Certainly they and the Nation got full behind the team. The tartan army turned out in strength and for the most enjoyed the occasion and presented our nation and people in its best light. I just wish our team could have given them more to recognise the super level of support they had. Maybe next time. bc

Phew! Dodged a bullet there. Jordan White signs for Cove Rangers on a 2 year deal.

Chalky chalky hes our man, If he cant find out noone can....

Don’t forget that when teams in 3rd lose, the team currently 4th may well overtake them! We are going home and deservedly so.

Plenty of effort but not enough quality and too many mistakes. Not good enough.

If Scotland was a dog you would have it put down to end its suffering. Please god don't let us proceed any further in this competition with this farce of a team.

Sadly outclassed tonight, and how the BBC commentator thinks we still have a chance of qualifying, goodness knows. We can’t gift rap goals like we did on Friday and tonight.

What a shambles up to half time. Why the *%(£ are we playing the ball back and across our own box constantly. It's an absolute horror show.

I’m not convinced there was any interest in bringing Jordan White back. He was strongly rumoured to be joining Aaron Doran at Strathspey when someone said they’d heard we were looking at two County players, then the Cove story started several weeks ago. I liked the 30 minutes that Bates was on the pitch last night. I know it was only a pre-season friendly, but he could be a handful for defenders and an asset to us, as he looked to be good at bringing other players into play. We also had the tall striker on trial last night so we are clearly working on getting strikers in.

Those players under 18 had the logo covered over last night.