Johnboy

Bitter?.... Maybe... Twisted?.... Possibly.. Jealous?.... Of you? :015: :thumb04: :018: ;)

You mean like IHE?

And it's not feckin' worth it...

I was merely stating the bleedin' obvious. You've started early tonight....

Well that's how they lined up against Rangers... apart from starting with Rooney befor subbing him with Imrie...

1st thing, whilst I agree he tends to be a fat lazy pie eater, Boyd is always in the right place at the right time. He's alot like David Healy - not very good, but invaluable at getting goals. Rangers fans are unbelievably right in that respect in that goals win games. Obvious yes and fairly simple. For me Burley has made all the rookie mistakes. 1. Allowed friendlies against teams we had little chance of winning and thus damaging our rankings (and confidence) which is important when it comes to seedings for qualifaction. Even if our top 20 status was a little flattering it was done through shrewd management in only arranging winnable friendly games to test players (ie Nigeria, USA and likewise) 2. He also decided to ignore squad regulars in favour of people like Clarkson and Teale. Neither of which are even Scotland international quality. 3. He has changed our philosophy to a footballing team apparently. Taking away from our attributes in set pieces and alike. Anyone who is honest will realise that Scotland are limited and need to play to strengths. Also from what I've seen, we've never played such awful football since Vogts darkest days. There doesnt appear to be the same belief or organisation as under our previous two managers. 4. Where it may be a childish point and he (TB - lord and saviour) is a great motivator, he was never going to win any fans by appointing an Englishman regardless of who he was. And to allow him to have his own war of words about a friendly with which Diego Maradona was involved was a further error and undermined his authority. It became a circus. 5.Broadfoot and Magregor. One is a very limited player and the other is niave. Two public slatings on their playing ability. Maybe the KB one was used to fire him up and in a sense it worked as he scored. I think it was more an honest assessment which a manager shouldnt say. He then says certain players were niave and shouldnt allow themselves to be blocked. Te moment in question is Van persies goal. a) Dirk Kuyt is a high quality player who knows how to be a nuisance. Its part of his job. even Van persie thought it was obstruction. Burley the rule that Fergie never does. Dont slag off individuals. Its a team game. 6. This Boozegate situation (the most overblown hoo ha in world history) is making him look the fool. 1st he allowed players to go the the bar for a quick drink and got taken advantaged of. Then HE banned the two idiots for life. Last week it was his decision. Gordon Smith doesnt know what the official line is. Neither does Peat. Today, he says he gave no permission and banning was nothing to do with him. If I was the manager and that decision on player staff was taken away from me I wouldnt be happy. It SHOULD be his decision. He has been further undermined. At the time i felt Burley was the right guy for the job but it's one mess after another and his superiors are not helping. I am not totally sure what type of respect there is for him. Constant contradictions (he only plays people who are playing then plays Gordon) and mismanagment of individuals have hampered him and I question whether he is able to manage at this level. He appears out of his depth. But I will support him along with Scotland to get the results we require. Wins against Norway and Moldova and something against the Dutch (who will have qualified by then) I agree with most of that but playing Craig Gordon was surely one of his better decisions - whether he was playing first team football or not.

I wasn't at Pittodrie yesterday, but by all accounts they had a decent 1st half then fell apart in the 2nd... Kind of makes me wonder what the differences were between TB's and JC's half-time team talks.

That is so outrageous it might just feckin' work!

The hospitality at TCS is absolutely superb.... the food, served up with as much alcohol as you can drink, is top quality. I'd no idea half-time Scotch pies could taste so good... real meat in them - totally unlike these ghastly things they serve up to the plebs.... The only downside of the hospitality was that you were compelled to sit in the best seats in the main stand and endure the sight of 22 grown men trying to kick the stuffing out a football - and occasionally each other too... "Ugly" would be a polite way of describing it.

There's quite a bit of sorting out to be done during the week before I'd be confident of taking 3 points off Hamilton... Somehow I can see that one finishing up as an ugly 0-0 draw.

I'd prefer to see a draw...

Like Julian Clary perhaps?

One man's nightmare can be another man's wet dream.

I have nightmares about being gang bang raped by Michael Barrymore and Freddy Mercury, then tossed into a swimming pool. Does that make me homophopic?

Even more so if Kris Boyd had been on and buried that chance...

It might not be broken, but I wouldn't exactly describe it as being in perfect working order.

So who'd replace Proctor? Don't worry about D.C. He'd laugh at a wummin shaking a duster oot a windae!

Who would you like to see replace Tokely?

The minutes silence will be announced over the tannoy so everyone - including fans making their way to their seats will be aware of it. I would be very surprised if this silence wasn't observed by every single supporter - irrespective of which team they might support. Does anyone know if a minutes silence has been requested at every Scottish ground?

Not at all, Absent Friend. However there is a time and a place for everything.... Now is not the time and TCS is certainly not the place for the broadcasting of any message in the Gaelic language.

Slight problem with you wanting Burns, he is dead. Tommy can communicate from beyond the grave.... I believe he picked the side that played against Iceland. It was definitely his decision to drop Ferguson and McGreggor.

Me too.... I wish Burns or Souness had got the job.

CD.... I sincerely trust you will treat the suggestion above with the contempt it deserves.

A good footballer should be capable of playing in more than one position. I would like to see him tried in a cental midfield role alongside Blackie. His distribution/passing is good, he is good in the air and tackles pretty well. I don't think he should replace Munro in cental defence.... not yet anyway.

It was a horrendous tackle and could easily have broken Iwelumo's leg... I thought it was a good game. Brilliantly taken goal by Gary O'Connor - couldn't believer Tevor Francis saying you would expect any striker to score from that position... Don't recall seeing him score many goals like that in his playing days....