Can Scotland do it...?

[Johnboy]

Nice to have a weekend away from ICT and all its problems....

Do Scotland have a realistic chance on Saturday or will it end in a glorious defeat - 90 mins of solid pressure with the Scots hitting the woodwork on several occasions and denied a couple of stonewall penalties... only for Italy to score after a Craig Gordon fumble during one of Italy's few attacks....?

I think they'll make it...

Who would have given them a cat in ****'s chance of beating the frogs home & away..?

Predictions and scores here please.....

[Scotty]

Can they do it ? YES !!! The two games against France show we can get results against the best in the world

Will they do it ? Thats the big question !!! I bloody well hope so and will be urging them on from in front of a screen somewhere with all my might ... but as much as we have seen great results against the French and others, we have also seen shabby ones like the loss to the Georgian youth team so anything can happen !!!

I will settle for an 87th minute goal with furious defending for the final 3 minutes of normal time and 3 minutes of added time .... Scotland to win it 1-0 and the country to be pished for a week !

[Heilandee]

Yes, they have a realistic chance ,the team, supporters etc will be right up for this and Tally footy is in a bit of upheavel presently,but can we do it ? wha knows? only time will tell. Anyways, next years holiday destination will be decided come 7 o clock on Saturday.Win and ehv promised weeDee we'll go to Austria/Switzerland for euro's,lose and MrsDee gets her choice of Canada,either way it's gonna be sair on meh wallet!  :019:

prediction? Scotland to sqeauk a 1-0 last gasp penalty winner.

[Yngwie]

A valiant 0-0  :007:

But then Ukraine beat France

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[Johnboy]

Win and ehv promised weeDee we'll go to Austria/Switzerland for euro's,lose and MrsDee gets her choice of Canada...  :019:

Hope you enjoy your trip to Austria/Switzerland, Dee....  :022:

That would be a better choice anyway, whatever the outcome - Some very strange folk in Canada...  :024:

[Beatonio]

I know we CAN do it, but I have a bad feeling about this one. A 2-1 defeat I reckon. Italy will turn it on for this game I'm afraid.  :019:

[Guest Aboynamedsue]

 

  2-1 TO US FADDY WILL SCORE FROM A HARTLEY CORNER IN 91ST MINUTE  :021:

[maimie]

what was that phrase the currants stole from us a couple of seasons ago??? 

BELIEVE!

[Guest TinCanFan]

Am I right in saying that to qualify Scotland have to win buy two clear goals?

[troublegum007]

Nope. If we beat Italy we're 4 points ahead of them and they only have one game left

[caleyblue]

2-1 tae scotland wee a macfaddeen cracker in the 90 min cooooooooomon

[ICTJackson]

with 50,000 fans supporting us all the way on saturday anything is possible

[clacher_holiday2]

IF all else fails we'll get invited back to Japan to win the Kiren Cup again  :002:

I'm sick of being a disappointed and cynical Scotland fan, its been 10 years, its about time we just went out a bloody did it.  We've won big games for years and qualified for dozens of tournaments bigger than feckin Austria 2008  :017:  Didnt we try to host the event when the bids were going around?  Lets get it up them and qualify, then draw Austria or Switzerland, take over their stadiums and knock them out on their arses.

[Alex MacLeod]

"From 8am on friday I urge, no demand, that the population of our dear land don the colours and support the team. TOGETHER WE WILL CONQUER"

And come 18:45 on saturday we will all book our tickets for EURO 08

WE WILL DO IT

[Mee]

1-0 to Scotland, Macfaddyen 86 mins  :001:

[Kingsmills]

Against the odds but why not !

[Johnboy]

Barry Ferguson could be a key man today... He's scored some terrific goals for Rangers, but I can't think of many for Scotland -

Remember our first league game this season..?  He destroyed us that day... If he scores one more this afternoon I'll almost forgive him for that...  :014:

[Johnboy]

Not long to go now.... What is everyone doing to while away these last few nerve-ridden hours..?

[ICT_Away]

I'm now suitably drunk and will sleep until 3.55am and get up and watch the game. I've been nervous all day so thank feck I've been drinking otherwise it'd be a sleepless night. Come on Scotland!

[Guest TinCanFan]

My prediction is that Scotland go ahead within the first 20 minutes with someone McFadden scoring.  But with 15 minutes to go Italy score one and then another with moments to go.  Sad prediction I know but I hope I'm wrong.

[caleyblue]

early goal and a late pen both to scotland both scored by mcfaden

[Johnboy]

Bestards feckin scored before we were ready.... Shame that - Scotland had a couple of decent chances - from Hutton's header - and the from the corner in the last minute of the first half headed off the line...

Not over yet though....  :024:

[Scotty]

C'mon Scotland. a good solid performance in the first half (barring the first 90 seconds) in atrocious conditions and a near goal just at the death ..... we CAN do this - 2 goals is all it takes ......

and the booster for me - tuned to TLN (latino) channel expecting to get satellite feed from RAI or some other italian channel but turns out its Sky Sports coverage direct from Hampden and in english ...... bonus (except for the Craig Brown co-commentary) !!!

[Johnboy]

How come you've got Craig Brown and we've got Davie Provan..? (Sky Sports)

[CaleyD]

A ball cleared off the line and unlucky that ref was unsighted for penalty claim.....I wasn't feeling too positive about this game, but despite being a goal down the stage has been set for a big upset and I think we're more than capable of pulling this one back.