Gordon EF
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On 24/12/2023 at 08:18, KingRocketman II said:
Fortunately Lewis seems to have more than the combined IQ of his dad and his uncle
Wouldn't be difficult tbf.
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That ex-owner of yours is an utter balloon. I hope his fucking stupidity doesn't sink your club.
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Morrison at his peak, now, would absolutely be in squads and have caps. It's a fair shout to say there should be a way to get him in the side, but I don't think he's obviously better than the players SD mentions above, McTominay, McGinn, Gilmour, McGregor. Christie plays a different role for Scotland than Morrison did.
Edit: Ferguson would also, arguably, be ahead of Morrison in the pecking order.
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Weigh that up against a generation of fans, many of whom have barely ever watched the national team live.
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There's not one set level that determines how many Scotland caps you're going to get, for players in different positions. A 'good championship / crap premier league' player is probably good enough to get a game for Scotland now if they're a centre forward or centre half. It won't be good enough if they're a centre mid or full back.
Even when we were relatively pish, centre mid was usually a position of relative strength for us. Even if you take away questions about his desire or commitment to play for Scotland, it's hardly surprising that a player like Cairney hasn't racked up the caps, given the options we've had in his position.
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A shite Ben Doak IMO.
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Every pot (or potential teams from play-offs) in order of most wanted to least wanted.
Pot 1: Germany, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, England, France
Pot 2: Romania, Albania, Austria, Turkey, Denmark, Hungary
Pot 4: Estonia, Luxembourg, Iceland, Kazakhstan, Bosnia, Georgia, Finland, Israel, Greece, Wales, Poland, Switzerland Ukraine, Serbia, Italy
Key for each pot:
1: Avoid France, England, or Portugal. Chances of taking anything from these three is probably slim. Germany, Spain, and Belgium would be favourites against us but it feels like we'd have a significant chance of getting something from them as they've all shown some vulnerability recently.
2: Ideally Romania or Albania. There isn't much to seperate the other four. Romania and Albania won weak groups. Albania's success, in particular, was built on very strong home form. That might not translate to a tournament on neutral ground. Romania are probably the weakest of the bunch based just on squad strength. Realistically, we're capable of beating or being beaten by all of these teams.
4: Avoid Italy at all costs and hope we get one of the diddier teams who get through a play-off. Italy is nightmare scenario. Someone like Serbia, Switzerland, or Ukraine would basically be like having another pot 2 level side in the group. The rest kind of get easier on a sliding scale and I'd be reasonably confident of getting the win that would take us a long way to getting through against any of them.
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1 hour ago, Skyline Drifter said:
I'd agree with this. Brown is behind Adams and Dykes for the bringing others into play role. Shankland might just nick you a goal if given 10 mins though.
It is possible that a fit Ross Stewart in the 2nd half of the season gets that role though. He's also a goalscorer.
Yeah. Good shout, I was forgetting about Stewart but hopefully he's back into contention before long.
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1 hour ago, General dissaray said:
Okay since the posts have been delated I'm gonna play a luttle game with you name the players that I actually mentioned bet you canny?
None of them were worth remembering because they weren't very good.
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I'd take Shankland over Brown. Everyone being fit, Brown isn't getting ahead of Dykes or Adam for the "run around like a dafty up front for 70 odd minutes" role. I'd rather we take a potential "supersub" type player for the 3rd choice striker role, and Shankland is closer to that than Brown is.
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Especially when the vast majority of the potential players named are bang average, wouldn't improve our team, and are the kind of guys who'd have played about four games for us then dissapeared in the Gordon Strachan era.
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15 minutes ago, Hendricks said:
Strangely not so bothered about the Germans and would love to face them in the opener in Munich. Think they are under a lot of pressure and have struggled for some time now. Think we could given them a game.
Don't want France. Far too good and should be winning the whole thing.
For me not wanting England coms down to them being very good on the pitch when at it and because I want to enjoy the 3 match days (hopefully we might have 4 or 5 - we can but dream) and playing them on foreign soil will end up being anything but an enjoyable occasion. There will tens of thousands of fans of both in Germany and the host city on game day would be a complete shitshow. Nah, this promises to be a special tournament and there are far better options for us to face.
France and England should be the obvious two to avoid. Because they're probably the two best teams in Europe. Plus, the england game would become a circus I'd rather do without. Germany and Belgium are probably the best bets for actually getting something from. Spain are capable of being terrifyingly good or dreadful so might not be the worst to get.
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We Global Football are predicting the pots to be:
1: Germany, Portugal, France, England, Spain, Belgium
2: Denmark, Hungary, Turkey, Albania, Switzerland, Austria
3: Netherlands, Scotland, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy
4: Czech Rep, Serbia, Romania, play-off winners
I don't think there's a huge advantage to being in either pot 2 or pot 3. Of the lot, Slovakia and Slovenia are probably the ones you'd choose to be with. But on the other hand, Netherlands, Italy, and Croatia are worth avoiding.
I'm not buying the whole 'everyone's just going by names, Albania are actually very good and Netherlands aren't what they used to be" schtick. All the teams in pot 2 are good and they'd all be tough opponents but there's none of them we should have too much fear from.
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23 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said:
Jon McLaughlin isn't getting a game at Rangers but I'd have him ahead of Clark and Kelly tbh.
I'd have Craig Gordon with his leg broken over Clark and Kelly.
The last two games have been largely fine from midfield on, the defence has been pretty honking. But we're missing our three best defenders and our two best goalkeepers.
The big takeaways are that Clark, Taylor and Brown really don't look up to it. I've been a bit ambivalent about Stuart Armstrong lately but thought he played really well tonight.
Still think 4-2-3-1 can be a useful shape for us. I think we've learned we should be going nowhere near it unless we have our first choice full backs available.
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1 hour ago, TheScarf said:
Yeah I think he plans to be a solicitor when he retires.
Imagine getting nicked and Stuart Armstrong turns up to defend you. That would be class.
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5 hours ago, eez-eh said:
Who’ll be the first arsehole to say that teams like Gibraltar don’t belong in the qualifiers?
Add North and South Ireland to that list.
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15 minutes ago, Life on Marrs? said:
After I typed that, I remembered I was at Links Park 10/12 years ago, when we won 5-0.
Probably had a few big away wins in the Dave Baikie promotion season?
Just checked and none more than 3. 4-1 vs Albion Rovers, 3-0 vs Dumbarton, and 3-0 vs Shire.
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37 minutes ago, Life on Marrs? said:
Can't think I've ever seen us win 4-0 away before and now we can start to look up the table, instead of what's below us, full steam ahead to Bonnyrigg next.
Can't have happened too often. The only one that comes to mind that was by more than 3 was the 6-0 away to Stirling Albion in the 2015/16 season.
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Some guy who you've vaguely heard of that used to play for Crystal Palace and now playes for Barnsley, or something.
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Ian McCall now knows how Simon Stainrod felt when he looked inside his shoe.
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On 07/11/2023 at 14:22, Michael W said:
Joined a meeting today, to receive a Teams message "I'll join in 10mins". Annoying as it can be when that happens, these things do happen.
But this was from the meeting organiser. The same meeting organiser who sent an invite this morning with a subject line and absolutely no context behind what she wanted to discuss. Great - just waste everyone's time until you can join, then. I left and told her I would rejoin when she's ready. Of course, it wasn't just the 10mins late in the end.
I admit that I get pissed off with people joining meetings late. That's probably sometimes unreasonable as there are reasons why this happens, but you often end up with:
1) time being wasted recapping what's been covered so far (usually for someone very senior), who may then take up more time asking questions; and/or
2) the meeting runs over due to the interruption/recap or because it didn't start on time. This may or may not result in other meetings being late.
Therefore, one person's tardiness becomes everyone's problem. As I said, sometimes things happen, but is it too much to expect the bloody organiser to turn up on time?
Sitting reading this 74 mins into a meeting where absolutely nothing useful or interesting has been said
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19 hours ago, craigkillie said:
Only one group runner-up ends up in Pot 2 - everyone else in that pot will have won their group.
But winning a particular group doesn't mean you're a better team than a team who finish 2nd in a different group.
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Very decent chance that Denmark and Switzerland will end up in pot 2 in place of Slovenia and Romania, which would change the way things look a bit.
Chances are there will be very little to choose between pots 2 and 3 when they're finalised.
Obviously everyone plays their way into these pots but not every qualifying group is equal. Much easier to play your way into pot 2 when the top seed in your qualifying group is Poland, as opposed to France, Spain, or England.
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13 hours ago, Alan Twelve said:
I wasn't a Porteous fan until recently, but he's been really good for Scotland. He's got a bit of swagger about him which is unusual in Scotland international centre-backs.
I think Porteous has been excellent through the qualifiers. He's not a player I've seen a great deal of outside scotland games but it's probably fair to say he's been one of the more surpirsing performers for th epast wee while. No idea if he's just screwed the nut, really taken a step up in his game, or Clarke's just managing to get the best out of him. But I think he's played his way into being a stick on to go to Germany and most likely a starter, even when everyone else is fit.
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The Strange Case of Tom Cairney
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Tom Cairney will not get another Scotland cap.