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    Scotland Vs Northern Ireland

    in Tartan Army Ramblings

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    8 minutes ago, BB_Bino said:

    Yip, fair point

    That said, someone born in England supporting the opposition at Wembley will probably be doing so due to their ancestry rather than the club they support. I think that is likely to be unique to Scotland.

     

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    Scotland Vs Northern Ireland

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    23 minutes ago, Dunfermline Don said:

    I was only there last night because I have bought the five match package and after that game am seriously considering whether to just go for the individual matches in future and avoid any friendlies (especially ones that see the Govan songbook brought out).  
    It seemed the flattest atmosphere pre match that I have seen in a while and I feel that the SFA missed a trick in not reducing prices for this game to get a full house. The fans have spent plenty recently on tickets, travel & accommodation for the summer and it would have been a great gesture to give the supporters reduced admission. The best seats in the stadium (South Upper) were not even available for sale and that section was empty last night.

     

     

     

    A few of my mates took out the 5 matcher (as I have previously) but when this fixture was announced I had a feeling it would be an awful experience on and off the pitch, so was happy to save 30 quid and sacrifice the SSC point.

     

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    Scotland Vs Northern Ireland

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    16 minutes ago, kennie makevin said:

    Indeed...insanely optimistic, cheerfully deluded, and if you think that wriggling out of the group (which we won't do anyway) would make this Scotland team better than the 1928 Wembley Wizards or the 67 or 77 Scotland teams then that's an opinion alright..

    In 1992 we finished 5th at the Euros.

     

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    Scotland Vs Northern Ireland

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    2 hours ago, Monkey Tennis said:

    Yip, totally agree with this.

    It's a year since we beat Spain and there's a good argument that we've been in decline ever  since.  That win in Oslo was tremendously exciting, but it wasn't deserved; it was absolutely freaky.  It was the decisive match in qualifying, and we made heavy weather of it from then on, even before this run of friendlies.

    The rogerings from England and France weren't pretty, but at least mealy mouthed excuses were available.  We've run out of even them now though.

    We look like a team that's past the peak, similar to Scotland at Argentina 78, although if we were to get the same results as then we'd probably qualify out of our group.

     

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    Is infidelity genetic?

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    6 hours ago, TxRover said:

    Because when I asked my kid how terrifying that picture was as the mouth of a penguin, she said “thats a leatherback sea turtle’s mouth”. Turns out she’d done a project on turtles last year. Being a typical parent, I didn’t believe that and tin eyed it, and it confirmed that’s what it was. Tin eye is sweet…matches pictures across the internet, great for busting faked stuff.

    Teenage student she know turtles.

     

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    Steve Clarke

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    6 minutes ago, Scary Bear said:

    You could pretty much write it now. Plucky performance in the opener with the hosts, where we lose to a late goal, but put in a performance that has everyone saying “do that against the other two and we’ll be fine”. Spirited draw with Switzerland. Unlucky defeat to Hungary. 

    From experience the first two will be right, but we'll take a bedshitting horsing in the must win final game.

     

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