Claudia Gentile Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 I don't think I have ever seen him kick a ball but I am all aboard the Ben Doak hype-train. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyline Drifter Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 Just now, Central Belt Caley said: What’s the script with if someone gets injured whilst at the tournament? Is there a cut off that a replacement can be drafted in? You can't replace an outfield player once you've played a game. If they get injured you cope without them. You're allowed to replace a keeper though and I think you can replace an outfield player after official squad naming deadline but before you kick a ball if they are medically certified as injured. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Belt Caley Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 Cheers lads! Thought it would be something like that 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vietnam91 Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 (edited) 11 minutes ago, craigkillie said: 18 of the guys in that provisional squad aren't on Sportscene every weekend, unless they've started showing FC Copenhagen, Real Sociedad, Al-Ettifaq and Bristol City on there when I wasn't looking. Yawn ....... you get the gist. He's been away from eyes regularly on his game for near enough 10 years minus a loan back for half a season. Edited May 22 by Vietnam91 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 Chuffed for Doak and McCrorie would have liked to see Johnstone also in the mix but decent squad. Kelly and one of the injury prone Rangers players to be dropped surely. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 I don't have an issue with a fit Ryan Jack being in the squad. The issue is he's never fit, so I would think it will be him and A.N Other that gets binned. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Belt Caley Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ampersand Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 11 minutes ago, Skyline Drifter said: Why would Hanley need to prove fitness? He's been on Norwich's bench the last 4 or 5 games. He's certainly closer to fitness than Doak or Jack. There are question marks about Hanley's level at the moment, not about his physical fitness. Aye, my wording wasn't very clear. Match-sharpness/level in doubt for Hanley of course, as it is for the others you mention. I doubt Clarke would pick Doak at this point if he wasn't set on him making the final squad. Why bother with the media questions otherwise? It just seems to me that CB is the position that looks most oversubscribed other than GK, and Hanley's the one there who hasn't had much game time. Cooper perhaps as well, but there's always talk of how influential he is. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC92 Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 Jack looked miles off the pace when he came on against Norway. Doubt that's improved given he's barely kicked a ball since. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alert Mongoose Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 6 minutes ago, BFTD said: Outrageous. Real Ceefax would've had us staring at the goalkeepers' names for ages before moving on to the defenders, half of which would've been corrupted by a poor signal. We'd have needed to wait for the page to come around the horn again, exacerbated by several pages of needless commentary tagged onto the end. ^ ^ Never worked out how to 'pause' the page on Ceefax. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 2 minutes ago, Skyline Drifter said: You can't replace an outfield player once you've played a game. If they get injured you cope without them. You're allowed to replace a keeper though and I think you can replace an outfield player after official squad naming deadline but before you kick a ball if they are medically certified as injured. Scotland's doctor for all medical certification requirement's... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 5 minutes ago, Vietnam91 said: If Hickey and Ferguson were fit who'd drop out? Ralston and Jack? I saw what Max Johnstone did for us last season as a rapid RB I'd have him in, 3 years ago Gilmour got a nod off the back of the Dutch friendly and was a standout. He showed what limited game time at your club shouldn't always be a thing. It's for that reason I have no issue with Doak too. Feel a bit for Ryan Gauld, seems he can't cut a break when you're not on Sportscene every weekend. I'd have Ryan Fraser but as mentioned, seems there's more to it. Out of that lot, for the two to be jettisoned I'd drop Kelly (even if we are due a kickback) and Jack. Souttar because he was beyond woeful in Amsterdam for Max Johnstone. Gauld very much needs to give up and embrace Canada. It's clear he's not considered good enough for Scotland, and playing for his adopted country at a World Cup would be a real career highlight when (one way or another) he won't be there with Scotland anyway. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jives Miguel Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 8 minutes ago, Vietnam91 said: If Hickey and Ferguson were fit who'd drop out? Ralston and Jack? I saw what Max Johnstone did for us last season as a rapid RB I'd have him in, 3 years ago Gilmour got a nod off the back of the Dutch friendly and was a standout. He showed what limited game time at your club shouldn't always be a thing. It's for that reason I have no issue with Doak too. Feel a bit for Ryan Gauld, seems he can't cut a break when you're not on Sportscene every weekend. I'd have Ryan Fraser but as mentioned, seems there's more to it. Out of that lot, for the two to be jettisoned I'd drop Kelly (even if we are due a kickback) and Jack. Souttar because he was beyond woeful in Amsterdam for Max Johnstone. Death, taxes and Ryan Gauld discourse at every squad announcement. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chripper Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 (edited) Kelly has made the career decision to retire on the Rangers bench and Armstrong's career highlight is setting up Kane for a last minute equaliser at Hampden. Those two should be cut. Edited May 22 by SlayerX -2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagar Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 Just now, SlayerX said: Clark has made the career decision to retire on the Rangers bench and Armstrong's career highlight is setting up Kane for a last minute equaliser at Hampden. Those two should be cut. Clark a Rangers player on the quiet? Sack him now! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insert Amusing Pseudonym Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 1 minute ago, SlayerX said: Clark has made the career decision to retire on the Rangers bench and Armstrong's career highlight is setting up Kane for a last minute equaliser at Hampden. Those two should be cut. Dearie me 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vietnam91 Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 1 minute ago, Jives Miguel said: Death, taxes and Ryan Gauld discourse at every squad announcement. I'd rather have him than Ryan Jack who hasn't had a good game since Dortmund away in the Europa. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 2 minutes ago, Alert Mongoose said: ^ ^ Never worked out how to 'pause' the page on Ceefax. Sorcery! Reveal your secrets! TBF, that doesn't exactly help when the page has been received as a bunch of ASCII gobbledegook anyway. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyline Drifter Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 8 minutes ago, Jives Miguel said: Really don't think Doak is anywhere near the level to be able to contribute, but I'm fine with him being there, it's worth taking a punt on giving him experience on the chance he ends up being a good player. As someone else said above, a pacy option to play in the front 2 is nice too. I don't really understand the Doak pick unless either the sparse info coming out from Liverpool about his fitness was just miles wrong and he's way ahead of what they were saying or Clarke's fully expecting everyone else to be fit and is just bringing him along for the ride for the friendlies and will jettison him from the final 26. A fit Ben Doak makes a lot of sense in this expanded squad regardless of whether he's playing first team football or not. A player who hasn't played a game in 2024 and has supposedly done one training session, does not. 6 minutes ago, Vietnam91 said: If Hickey and Ferguson were fit who'd drop out? Ralston and Jack? I saw what Max Johnstone did for us last season as a rapid RB I'd have him in, 3 years ago Gilmour got a nod off the back of the Dutch friendly and was a standout. He showed what limited game time at your club shouldn't always be a thing. It's for that reason I have no issue with Doak too. Feel a bit for Ryan Gauld, seems he can't cut a break when you're not on Sportscene every weekend. I'd have Ryan Fraser but as mentioned, seems there's more to it. Out of that lot, for the two to be jettisoned I'd drop Kelly (even if we are due a kickback) and Jack. Souttar because he was beyond woeful in Amsterdam for Max Johnstone. If Hickey was fit McCrorie wouldn't be there. That's obvious surely? Ralston's been in squads consistently, McCrorie hasn't. McCrorie's in that squad as a right back, not as a midfielder. I suspect either Doak or Forrest if Ferguson was fit rather than Jack. The only reason Jack's a doubt is his own fitness. Personally, as someone who watched Max Johnston at 17 stand out for us at Championship level for a season, I thought then he'd play for Scotland one day and I've seen not a thing to change my mind since. I'd have him ahead of McCrorie but in reality that's just personal bias as I haven't really seen much of McCrorie at right back so not in a position to properly judge (neither have I seem Max since he moved to Austria for that matter). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post eez-eh Posted May 22 Popular Post Share Posted May 22 Nothing screams intelligence like wanting Armstrong out of the squad because a mistake from 7 years ago. 21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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