DougieJones
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We’ll be looking for Rob Kiernan’s Scottish granny at this rate
We’ll be looking for Rob Kiernan’s Scottish granny at this rate
Hopefully Grezda will be up to speed and apply the killing blow in Albania. Hate to say it, but only even more abject humiliation will shame these SFA blazers into resigning, so keep the defeats coming please.
He makes Jack Hendry look like Franco Baresi.We’ll be looking for Rob Kiernan’s Scottish granny at this rate
Been saying the same think about that plonker Doncaster and he's still there ,they won't let go of their stranglehold no matter the plummeting depths our game goes to.Scotland as a football nation are long finished. Big Eck ffs. This squad are as ordinary as you’ll ever see. Malky the racist and his bosses are hilarious. Sooner or later the bheggar run SFA will have to go.
All joking aside, Danny Wilson is a better centre half than Hendry.
Thats the realityThe next euros feature more teams do they not yet Scotland will still not qualify as they are so shite
He is and I think that he will walk before the next game, but who replaces him another failed coach?McLeish is finished as a football manager.
he's a disgrace, I'm sure she's had words with him during the break, he is nothing but a wee d1ck
Alex McLeish is on a hiding to nothing in this farce.
He obviously took the job after a good few years of medriocrity in club football and the realisation that no big gig would ever come his way again. This is not a criticism of the man but the reality of the situation.
There’s only one way this will play out and it’s McLeish either falling on his sword or being hounded by the mentally challenged press up here and being sacked.
The Scotland managers job is a thankless task primarily due to the appalling standard of current Scottish players. Strachan, although being a little condescending prick tonight, banged on about this very fact.
Scotland have to go to Albania and win next month then come home and beat Israel 3 days later to top the group. Israel beat Albania 2-0 today. So if Eck cannot win the group he will have to go.
If the competition goes to a head to head a draw in Albania and a 2-0 win over Israel would be enough.Wouldn't a draw in Albania and a win over Israel do it?
Yep your correct. Jeez, how far we have fallen.Wouldn't a draw in Albania and a win over Israel do it?
... The only Scottish players we have now are Shagger, Jack, Middleton, McCrorie, Dorrans and Murphy. Get them all fit and play them in their rightful positions. Get rid of O'Donnel,and the rest of the Tims and we will have the core of a Scotland revival.
Just seen the Portuguese 2nd goal.
Decent header but Craig Gordon decides he's beaten before the ball leaves the guys head. No attempt to save it.
McGregor as we know is a far superior keeper.
I think you are right, the biggest single problem now is that as a country Scotland is divided. In the past the fans were always able to put who they support at club level to the side and get behind the national side. The game here has hated itself to death and I don’t see that changing
All joking aside, Danny Wilson is a better centre half than Hendry.
I said at the time (and got slated for it) that they should stick with Strachan.
I don't care about the national team so i didn't care who he did and didn't select but he was the best manager available to us despite his flaws.
But he failed in two qualifying campaigns including one where we finished 4th behind Rep. of Ireland and the other behind Slovakia. We couldn't even make the play-offs.
That's because we are sh*te. We were the 4th best team in that group and finished 4th.
We would kill for a player with the calibre of some Slovaks like Hamsik, Skrtel, Skriniar etc.
Even diddy teams like Armenia have someone like Mkhitaryan available to them and then we have us who go into National mourning when Scott Broon retires.
It's up to the manager to get the best out of the players. Strachan failed to do that, allowing Brown to dictate when he played. Why reward him with a 3rd campaign?
Armenia just lost to Gibraltar. At home.
Who was available that you feel could and would have had Scotland progress in to one of the Major tournaments?
My point was Mkhitaryan is a cracking player and playing for a diddy nation whereas we have nobody anywhere near that standard, the fact they lost to Gibraltar is irrelevant to the point i was making.
He's a horrible, horrible wee shite, he thinks he's a comedian, but he's not funny, just condescending.Strachan is a condescending wánk. I genuinely wouldn't have him on again as a pundit.
The way he talks to Haley at times. It's pure contempt for her and the viewers.
The point is that individual players don't necessarily make a successful team. Mkhitaryan/Armenia are irrelevant and I'm not sure why you introduced him into the conversation.
A number of 2016 qualifiers played and worked as a team, aided by a manager who knew how to best utilise the players at their disposal. Strachan didn't based on results, be it a loss to Georgia or a home draw with Lithuania.
He had his opportunity. I'm not suggesting McLeish is the answer either.
He's truly shocking, how anyone can rate him is beyond me, mind you, he's still slightly better than O'Donnell.McKenna still worth £10m?