NewHope Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 14 hours ago, Mastermind said: Yep, their Englishers definitely not done as well as ours tonight. Definitely not. I am guessing Matt Ritchie having a Weedgie Da is slightly different from Effiong etc playing for Malta, right enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troopio Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Tom English is a clown, id like to know how on earth is he qualified to be such a prominent voice and presence on Scottish Football? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
die hard doonhamer Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Tom English is a clown, id like to know how on earth is he qualified to be such a prominent voice and presence on Scottish Football? Because he is one of the most balanced and sensible sport journalists currently working in the country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmothecat Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Tom English is a clown, id like to know how on earth is he qualified to be such a prominent voice and presence on Scottish Football? Seems to be loved by the football hipsters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrigtonClyde Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 27 minutes ago, forameus said: I've cut down a lot of what you post, as I don't inherently disagree, but would take an issue with the above. How long have we been playing this current system for? As far as I know it was purely under Strachan. So it's "failed" once. Not that a particular system can inherently fail, but I guess that means every system we've played since 1998 has failed. I imagine at least one of those would be similar to whatever you suggest. 4-4-1-1 was popular, that failed too going by your metrics. There is no dependencies on ending up in different pots. It's an absolute fact that if we are in a lower pot, we are going to be playing better teams. I don't need to think about how highly I rate the opposition for it to be relevant. I'd rather be in pot 3 and facing Lithuania this year than be in pot 5 and potentially facing Poland again. Can you not see how that is the very definition of things getting worse? For a long time we've had a "questionable" defence. OK, we all know that Various managers have tried various systems to cover that. In Smith's time he also knew they were slow, so couldn't play a high line It also depends what creative options we've had in front of that. So to be fair, for quite a while they were few and far between meaning all we could do was try and be as compact as possible and hard to beat...then hope for the best I would say our attacking options in midfield or up front are far better than previously, and is our strength. From what I've seen, with the exception of a handful of teams, England not being one of them, we have the capability of causing serious problems for any side if we're willing to be brave enough The point about pots again. Yes, understand let's say Poland being better than Lithuania - doesn't mean we should automatically regard either as better than us though. But we can resort to a more cautious approach, and as before narrowly avoid qualification, but be in a better seeded pot so next time we can narrowly avoid qualification, but be in a better seeded pot so next time....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewHope Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 14 hours ago, Elixir said: Trying to gloat about this. Oh ya f**ker. Playing against ten men here as well for a hilarious decision. You seem upset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DublinMagyar Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Off topic here but does anyone know if Skrtel gets a 1 or 2 game ban? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CM. Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 4 minutes ago, DublinMagyar said: Off topic here but does anyone know if Skrtel gets a 1 or 2 game ban? 2 yellows is usually a 1 match ban but when UEFA see his stamp on Kane I imagine it'll be extended Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Just now, C. Muir said: 2 yellows is usually a 1 match ban but when UEFA see his stamp on Kane I imagine it'll be extended I'm guessing it depends on the referees match report and what the second yellow was for. If it was for the stamp then I'm assuming the ref will have been seen to have seen it and dealt with it at the time therefore they can't change it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Algebraist Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 12 minutes ago, DublinMagyar said: Off topic here but does anyone know if Skrtel gets a 1 or 2 game ban? We want him to be playing. He is a walking crisis. We actually have some pace and physicality now which will get right up his nose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon EF Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 In the end a good result and a pretty decent performance. I think the same strengths and weaknesses were on show from the last campaign. On the plus side, the midfield looks good. Snodgrass and Richie were big threats and Burke looked raw but a promising player. The centre of defence still looks very soft. Malta exposed that and we'll need to tighten up when we face better sides. Not convinced by Martin either. We clearly don't have a forward who's going to be threatening the scoring charts so maybe we need more of a centre forward who's just going to bully, knock down balls and create space for the 3 behind him. I'd probably prefer Fletcher for that. England will win the group so I'm happy for them to have won in Slovakia. At least we didn't have the fucking infuriating situation of our closest rivals picking up wins against the big team so far. We should have enough to finish ahead of Lithuania and Slovenia so it's a shootout with Slovakia as I see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewHope Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 15 hours ago, 1320Lichtie said: If we left on Friday instead of yesterday we would've won by a couple more IMO Hah... Good point. A four goal swing in international football is not to be sniffed at, right enough. Unless it's Gibraltar of course. Did I mention they beat Malta? http://us.soccerway.com/matches/2014/06/04/world/friendlies/gibraltar/malta/1662384/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killienick Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 At the end of the game when the camera was on the subs, it looked to me like Craig Gordon was wearing his Celtic shorts - did anyone else catch this? I didn't record it so can't confirm. Really strange if it was the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aufc Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 I think we should continue to play Burke. Yes he will make mistakes but he can only improve and giving him game time will accelerate this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_14 Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 4 minutes ago, Aufc said: I think we should continue to play Burke. Yes he will make mistakes but he can only improve and giving him game time will accelerate this. IMO I don't think international football is the place to be affording game time solely so players can improve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon EF Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Yep, in qualifiers against better sides, I want the only factor in team selection to be the best side to win the game. That was the first I've seen of Burke so I can't say he does or doesn't deserve a spot in the starting 11 on merit. But games like Malta and sub appearances are fine for breaking him in if there are better player atm available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DublinMagyar Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 We want him to be playing. He is a walking crisis. We actually have some pace and physicality now which will get right up his nose. I was thinking the same thing, Burke our Anya running at him likey to cause all sorts of problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewHope Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 2 hours ago, C. Muir said: 2 yellows is usually a 1 match ban but when UEFA see his stamp on Kane I imagine it'll be extended Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 38 minutes ago, NewHope said: 'You know what this room says to me? Aqua. Which is French for water. It's like being inside an enormous Fox's Glacier Mint, which again, to me, is a bonus.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stair Park Stafford Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Was seething listening to Talksport earlier. The coral PR guy giving it big licks, England are 5/4 or something like that to go through the group unbeaten. We have been totally written off.Just need to keep within touching distance of them till the Wembley game then I hope we f'ck them rotten. Talk sport is a load of shite, especially that Orange haired imbecile in after 4. 00. Talk sport just employ twats who would say anything for a reaction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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