Slovakia v Scotland - 15/11

[Alert Mongoose]

Griffiths is nowhere near fit enough. Palmer a significant downgrade on O’Donnell. Pretty decent from the rest though. Tierney was excellent but just went backwards a little too often compared to Robertson. If you had told me a year ago we would go to Slovakia with a second string team and largely dominate then I wouldn’t have been convinced.

[Venti]

Mental to think that folk were questioning KT's commitment to Scotland not long ago. 

[Guest Bob Mahelp]

It's hard to criticise the team for actually being the better side (again) for 90 minutes. 

It was simply bad finishing that let us down. 

[Granny Danger]

Maybe if we had made the subbies 10-15 minutes earlier....

[Lex]

Real lack of quality in the final third. Should have buried a few of those chances but no cutting edge.
Hopefully Israel do us a favour later.

[Jim McLean's Ghost]

Just now, pandarilla said:

Way too harsh.

You could argue some of those points if we'd played poorly - but we've generally performed well.
 

Nope this could be like Georgia away in 2008 qualifying.

 

[roman_bairn]

Eight changes from a team that played 120 minutes on Thursday night, two of which were enforced anyway. There wasn't a noticeable drop-off in quality in the guys who were picked anyway, and the team that we put out was good enough to win and should have won.

But lost to horseshit,...

[accies1874]

First time the subs did well and it was the last kick of the game. If I had to criticise Clarke for one thing during his reign, it's that his subs have pretty much never made us better.

[Mark Connolly]

Just now, craigkillie said:

Eight changes from a team that played 120 minutes on Thursday night, two of which were enforced anyway. There wasn't a noticeable drop-off in quality in the guys who were picked anyway, and the team that we put out was good enough to win and should have won.

^^^This

We didn't lose that game because we played poorly, we lost because we didn't take our chances.

[DeeTillEhDeh]

McBurnie shouldn't be anywhere near the team again.

[TONTROOPER]

14 shots on goal

5 on target

Goals : 0

[cdhafc1874]

Normal service is resumed.

Jk, better team but never really looked like scoring though Rodak made a couple decent saves.

[HuttonDressedAsLahm]

How McBurnie was given the whole second half is beyond me.

That was a compassionate decision, not a footballing decision. He literally did nothing at all for 45 minutes.

[roman_bairn]

Mental to think that folk were questioning KT's commitment to Scotland not long ago. 

Maybe a chance to play in major finals has something to do with it?…

[Carnoustie Young Guvnor]

5 minutes ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:

8 changes to the team - you think they'd want to grab the chance to prove something - pretty disappointing.

Mate it was less than three days after a game that went to penalties, then was followed by a massive celebration inevitably. The only surprising thing is there weren't more than 8 changes. See the pish that fans come out with it Jesus f**k.  

[PauloPerth]

1 minute ago, Alert Mongoose said:

Griffiths is nowhere near fit enough. Palmer a significant downgrade on O’Donnell. Pretty decent from the rest though. Tierney was excellent but just went backwards a little too often compared to Robertson. If you had told me a year ago we would go to Slovakia with a second string team and largely dominate then I wouldn’t have been convinced.

Tierney’s performance and delivery was way beyond what Robbo gives Scotland. 

[Guest bernardblack]

Does a draw later confirm us as going through top of the group?

Assuming it would from head to head with Czech Republic?

[accies1874]

McBurnie carrying Griffiths at the end with an excellent flick-on. Griffiths really should've scored.

[GordonS]

Generally a good performance, we pretty much bossed a match away to a nation on a similar rank to us, maybe a little higher. We kept them to very few chances and just lost a goal getting caught a little open. But let's face it, we severely lack options up front.

McGinn and McLean did look the wrong way round, though.

Ach, who wants to play in a corrupt pile of shite in a backward Middle-Eastern dictatorship anyway.

[No_Problemo]

There really are some utter fucking morons on here. The players barely had any recovery after drinking all night following Thursday night - of course there were going to be numerous changes.