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1 hour ago, Butters Scotch said:
After reading this forum for a while, I get the Impression the guy thinks he's some kind of know it all but a lot of the time, he/she comes away with a lot of shite and speaks as if things are facts when it ain't.
I strongly suspect he believes he is Steve Clarke, or at least has a telepathic connection
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30 minutes ago, craigkillie said:
Barnes literally gave in interview about a week before that double header talking about how he dreams of playing for England again. It is a non-starter.
From the man who brought you.
Steve Clarke will always play a back 5.
Steve Clarke doesn't rate Ralston and wouldn't select him.
And many more including famously, Hickey cant play on the right.
Expect Barnes in the next squad
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5 hours ago, craigkillie said:
Has he? When did this suddenly happen?Quite a while ago, you may have missed it as you clearly don't have a scooby about about football
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On 02/04/2024 at 13:01, Central Belt Caley said:
Another jobs for the boys appointment inbound
April fools everyone, hes actually signed a new 10 year contract.
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4 hours ago, craigkillie said:
This is a wild and reactionary take, but of course not surprising given the source.I'm not really even sure what national team performances are being discussed here - his last six starts have been Northern Ireland, Georgia x2, Spain x2 and Norway and he played well in four of those, including both of the games against elite opposition (ie the nearest team to Germany). The last two were the poorest of the lot, but we know what he can do and we also know he can score regularly against decent opposition, which is more than you can say for any of the other strikers in the squad.
Adams started against England and France and made essentially no impact in either game. I'm not really holding against it since they were both friendlies, but we don't have much in the way of evidence that he's suddely going to step it up against Germany. Of his 5 international goals, only one of them has come against a non-minnow (Denmark at Hampden). In contrast, Dykes has scored against Czech Republic, Israel, Norway, Slovakia and Ukraine (2), all of whom are not miles off the quality we'll be playing in the other two games at the competition (I've excluded the goal against Austria since it was a penalty).
A poor couple of performances in a dead rubber qualifier and a friendly clearly shouldn't be enough to cancel all of that out, and it won't be.
Given the source
Your funny man, literally get everything wrong and still try and come across as an oracle
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40 minutes ago, craigkillie said:
Adams is undoubtedly a better all-round player than Dykes, we can't surely still be having that debate. What Dykes has offered, and in my view will continue to offer, is a bit of chaos and an incredible attitude which is more important than people think. I think he is being written off far too early - he's clearly not having his best season, but he has still started 25 league games for QPR, and today was the first game he's not appeared in since he moved there nearly 4 years ago - it's not as though he's rotting away on the bench.
I still think he'll start against Germany.
Give it up man, dykes is honking.
And the "Oh but he won a header and ran about against spain" defence isn't gonna cut it.
At this point looking at club and national team performances he shouldn't even be on the plane.
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8 hours ago, KingRocketman II said:
as it doesn't fit your narrative, sure.
What narrative?
I've barely said a word.
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On 27/03/2024 at 21:41, KingRocketman II said:
So you now agree there were some pretty wild takes. Got there in the end.
Hardly worth mentioning imo
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1 hour ago, KingRocketman II said:
this took a 2 min skim and just a flavour I Imagine.
If you think these are all reasonable reactions after a disappointing friendly performance/result that follows one of our best qualifying campaigns in decades, then fair do's.
Well I did say I must be missing them, I dont go thru every page!
In fairness "clueless clarke" is pretty tame stuff. Steve Wilkos is a constant wind up account as well. So wouldn't take that seriously.
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46 minutes ago, KingRocketman II said:
It is not nice to lose, particularly to pretty poor teams like Northern Ireland who just set out to defend. I guess that is the point of friendlies to test ourselves against such opponents and it is clear we still struggle against doggedly defensive teams and to a certain extent teams who initiate a high press. However the difference now compared to 2 years or so ago when we would more regularly turn in a performance like last night, is that we have the evidence in terms of numerous performances/results that can be achieved when team selection and tactics click.
We didn't have that evidence before - therefore am pretty relaxed about Clarke and remain optimistic about our Euro performances and chances. Plenty of lessons to be taken from and built on from last night. As most know, the path to improvement and making gains is rarely a straight line (:).
As for reactions to these friendly results, there have been some wildly spectacular takes on here. Too numerous to post or reference. I guess that is social media permeating its way to behaviours and attitudes - its is either fantastic or shite; black or white; massive win or a massive fail etc. Context and nuance as well as wider/mitigating factors are inconveniences as they take a view into an area that requires more thinking beyond immediate reactions.....
I must be missing all these wild takes? Im not sure there's been much of a reaction tbh. Its kind of expected a bit of criticism losing at home to N Ireland no?
1 hour ago, No_Problemo said:We were very unlucky not to get something from Spain away, the only complaint after the game and Clarke said this too was that we didn’t keep the ball well enough.
Since then we have played England, France and Netherlands and have clearly tried to go out and control games to a far greater extent.
Against Germany I think we will see more of a mix of the two styles, as I’m assuming that’s why Clarke has been working on it. If we can mix our best stuffy defensive work as shown against Spain, while being better on the ball at times then…
Last night was pish, but I don’t overly get the doom and gloom. I’m pretty confident we’ll turn up come the opening game - as long as we have close to our strongest team available.
Again im not seeing this doom and gloom. Were all I would think behind Clarke and the team for the euros.
Agreed some of those games within the 7 we could play 50 times and still not win. But 2 of the games Georgia and Norway we should have done better and last night was a shit show and no mistaking.
Winning builds confidence and thats what we needed last night.
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2 minutes ago, 2426255 said:
I think they've been within reasonable limits. You can't expect perfect, which goes back to the point about expectations. Steve Clarke is logical in his decision making, can be creative from time to time and that's all I'm looking for.
I suppose, it's only fair to ask you what more you are expecting from him as our manager - just better results?
Well yes, recent results certainly. Im looking for him to be more exansive and get us playing on the front foot in games like last night. And controlling and winning them comfortably. We looked clueless going forward against a very poor team.
He said himself its was a game they had to win to get the confidence back.
I was going into this euros thinking theres a decent chance we can do this and get through the groups. That confidence is definitely slipping away.
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6 minutes ago, 2426255 said:
It's not keeping me awake at night, but I accept no-one would choose for it to unfold in this way. I don't have huge expectations going into the tournament though. Not because I don't believe in this team, but because we're in against good teams and it's a 3 game group - maybe that's the difference.
I agree with Clarke that you have to play against the better teams in order to improve, so that boxes up the France, England and Netherlands games. I'm happy to write them off as us trying to get better although I think we did well in parts in those games. We were okay against Spain away and although I was underwhelmed with the results against Georgia and Norway we made a lot of changes in personnel and system and we played okay.
Last night was the first game that I thought there's no mitigation and the players were off it - so that's basically strike one for me, the rest I'd give Scotland a pass on. That's how I look at it in terms of our performances and results in recent games and the context around them. It's also set against the backdrop of the progress we've made since 2019.
So you think the last 7 games have been perfect in terms of management? Nothing we could have done just some players switching off.
Thats just unrealistic.
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22 minutes ago, 2426255 said:
So as a Scotland fan, just concerning the team and not Steve Clarke.
You have seen the last 6 games and last night and have no concerns at all. Or anything we need to improve on?
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Just now, 2426255 said:
Scotland.
I wouldn't be that interested in Steve Clarke if he took a job in the English Championship for example, maybe keep an eye on him - but not actively follow him. I'd still follow Scotland in detail.
Honestly that's not how it comes across.
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53 minutes ago, 2426255 said:
I support Scotland. I also support Steve Clarke - what he's done, what he's attempting to do. It's the reactionary and knee jerk elements of our fanbase that I've always taken issue with, but I accept that's just fans in general whatever team you support. I believe in the manager and the team, therefore I am willing to back them in adversity as I believe they'll come good and we'll get to where we want to go even if there are bumps along the way.
It's as simple as that. Not blind faith, we've strong evidence from the past 4 years. I also believe managers aren't always directly responsible for negative results even if it is their job to be accountable, so I'm more sympathetic generally towards them than most fans when results are going south even if I'm not a fan of the club.
Who do you support more?
I agree there was some (not much) over the top stuff in the match thread. Mostly it was just criticism of a poor performance.
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2 minutes ago, 2426255 said:
Steve Clarke would have to sign a renegotiated contract and you'd expect his terms would need to be improved to reflect the increased expectations of the job. Is that fair?
Why are you so concerned about this?
Genuinely do you support Scotland or only steve Clarke?
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Its great we have regular forum posters on to tell us how that was ok
If your not critical and concerned by that performance id question if your actually a Scotland supporter, or your delusional.
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Just now, eez-eh said:
Based on the last two games he’s a far better option than Dykes on current form.
Yeah I think so as well, both chances were difficult chances. Sticking either in would have been a good goal, especially the 2nd.
Overall though that was a tough watch.
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1 hour ago, Gordon EF said:
Obviously i've got no idea what the SFA's metrics success are but I think there's a danger of retroactively setting expectations. Before the Euro-qualifiers kicked off, it was far from consensus that we'd qualify automatically. Plenty of folk on here thought we'd either not qualify or it would be a real dogfight between ourselves, Norway, and possibly even Georgia for 2nd place. Anecdotal obviously, but I remember looking at international forums and the consensus was generally that Norway would qualify ahead of us.
Since we pished qualification and ended up giving Spain a bit of a run for their money for a while for 1st place, it's easy to look back on it all with an air of inevitability. That absolutely was not teh majority feeling before a ball was kicked. There was plenty talk of it being a good thiing we had the play-off spot in the bag, etc.
I'm absolutely confident that Steve Clarke will be given the next trournament cycle, no matter what happens at teh finals this summer. it would be insanity on the part of the SFA to ditch him any time soon.
I think your probably right, it would have to be some pretty bad results for that to happen.
I suppose the increase in expectations is directly linked to better results and qualifications. So its a good thing.
I dont think we should look back now and start lowering the standards.
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17 minutes ago, stressball said:
I’d like to see Shankland and Ferguson start If I’m being honest.
Theres plenty of time between now and Germany so it would be nice for some new faces to get proper run outs.
Yeah I'd agree with this. I think Shankland is our best striker, could be an important game for him to make his case.
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56 minutes ago, 2426255 said:
Interesting that you've resurfaced just now. You'll need to have upped your game if you're looking for another round of this crap. You came off badly last time and had to go away and lick your wounds so hopefully you've been busy behind the scene working on that. If that's the road you're wanting to go down then best of luck to you.
I might help you out again this time, just depends if I can be bothered.
Your taking things a bit seriously mate, its a football discussion board.
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9 hours ago, 2426255 said:
Our results at Euro-2024 are not what Clarke will be judged on as far as the SFA are concerned. Scotland could lose all three games and he will still be in charge for the first game of the Nations League unless he himself chooses to move on of his own volition. As a fan you might think that shouldn't be the case, but it is the case. That's your bottom line.
I think when it gets to the point where you think everything thats in your head the sfa agree with. Its maybe time for a wee break.
Why do you think we will lose every game?
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15 hours ago, Scary Bear said:
Maybe start with previous Scotland teams.
Its completely different teams with completely different players. Playing against completely different teams with completely different players. Its all irrelevant.
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10 minutes ago, 2426255 said:
I don't expect your pea brain to understand or accept it given you've been desperate for him to be sacked. Everyone can have an opinion. Good luck with yours, you'll need it.
Well yeah everyone can have an option. But the opinion Clarke will be judged on bringing in youth, and facilities?? Still not sure what that means. Rather than results and performances is a ridiculous one.
Not to mention the sfa agreeing with you
Personally I think Scotland and Clarke will do well at the euros. I can see us getting thru the group. And I believe we're certainly capable of that.
So im not scared for him to be judged on the results, I imagine he will also feel the same.
Is there maybe a lack of faith in Clarke to do well and get the best out of the team for you?
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I dont think were in a position to be throwing guys in the bin.
He's scored 6 in 19 in the league this season for the team at the bottom. I think that's pretty good to be fair. And he's playing constantly, so they must be happy with him.
Might not be "amazing" but if thats the bar are any of the current striker's playing amazing?