Tony Wonder Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 If Jamie Walker keeps this form up he should be very close. But he'll likely be overlooked for McKay or Forrest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 It will be hard not to pick Walker, given he's better than both, and in great form. Strachan will still find a reason not to though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Simao Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Tom Cairney and Stuart Armstrong in midfield would be sexual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skippy2015 Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Cairney and Armstrong good players but McArthur ahead of both them. Cairney and Armstrong untested against top quality opposition playing in the Championship and Scottish Premier would like to see them both move to a top league so they can really test themselves. Fulham fans love Cairney but he's 26 now why have no top flight teams bought him? You can look amazing in Scottish Premier and Championship but when you move to a top league against technically better, faster and stronger players many players can't handle the step up. Same goes for Jamie Walker you can't put him ahead of the likes of Morrison Phillips Fraser McArthur etc as players he's playing against are much poorer quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearbuyerbell Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Bannan and Morrison have proven themselves very useful in the central midfield role. Darren Fletcher was particularly poor in the last campaign and is finished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skippy2015 Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 I half agree with you about fletcher he's nearing the end of his career but still playing at high level and worth having experience like fletchers in the squad to help younger less experienced players. We don't have that many leaders like fletcher in our squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Cairney and Armstrong good players but McArthur ahead of both them. Cairney and Armstrong untested against top quality opposition playing in the Championship and Scottish Premier would like to see them both move to a top league so they can really test themselves. Fulham fans love Cairney but he's 26 now why have no top flight teams bought him? You can look amazing in Scottish Premier and Championship but when you move to a top league against technically better, faster and stronger players many players can't handle the step up. Same goes for Jamie Walker you can't put him ahead of the likes of Morrison Phillips Fraser McArthur etc as players he's playing against are much poorer quality. You can't put Walker ahead of Mcarthur and Morrison because he plays a completely different position. Walker is barely older than Barrie McKay, and in much better form. There's absolutely no reason he shouldn't be included to help him "bed in", in the same way McKay and McGinn were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skippy2015 Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 I probably wouldn't have walker mckay or forrest in the squad we have much better players in his position. Burke Phillips Fraser snodgrass Ritchie miles ahead of walker. If he plays well might get picked up by a Premiership / championship team and then see how he does when playing against better opposition week in and week out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resk Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Bannan has been rotten for Scotland every time I've seen him. Don't see the benefit of having him in the team at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordopolis Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Bannan has been rotten for Scotland every time I've seen him. Don't see the benefit of having him in the team at all. I'd say he's been average, with a few very good games. Not really any other midfielders we have who have been turning in regular 8/10 performances in any case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resk Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Nope, don't see it. I think because he's wee and reasonably skilful that Scottish folk convince themselves he's good enough to play international fitba when he's not. He's just an average Championship player. Morrison, Brown, McArthur, Fletcher, and probably one or two others (Armstrong?) are better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearbuyerbell Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 41 minutes ago, resk said: Bannan has been rotten for Scotland every time I've seen him. Don't see the benefit of having him in the team at all. Thats fine Resk. What games do you think Bannan has been rotten ? He was clearly the shinning light for me in the last campaign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resk Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 He was fkin gash against Lithuania at home. And Slovenia away. And just about passable against Malta (played a couple of decent diagonal balls against some joiners). IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkoRaj Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 He's definitely not an average championship player anyway, given that he was in the team of the year last year.But wire in, I don't know why I bother responding to this kind of nonsensical argument tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resk Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Sorry, I meant Slovakia. Fair enough, it was unfair of me to brand him an average Championship player. Clearly, as has been pointed out, he has excelled in that league. My opinion is that he's been rotten in his recent games for Scotland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forameus Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 I seem to be in the minority, but I've never really seen what the fuss is about Bannan either. He's hardly shite or anything, but just...meh really. Like I said, it's the minority, and plenty seem to see more in him. Just never really warmed to him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearbuyerbell Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Noted that Resk has talked about this campaign. From this campaign I felt he was missed against England. We don't produce technical players. We talk about not being able to retain the ball - yet want to drop the midfielder who's best at it ? Bannan and Anya, and Maloney and Fletcher linked up really good. Bannan will find Burke or Phillips or Griffiths for a through ball. We lack vision and should be promoting the likes of Snodgrass and Bannan. I remember talking about the need to play Maloney centrally a few years ago and I was told I was nuts. Our best technicians at DMC please. Snodgrass at AMC. Pace on the wings and Griffiths up front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenny131 Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 14 hours ago, forameus said: I seem to be in the minority, but I've never really seen what the fuss is about Bannan either. He's hardly shite or anything, but just...meh really. Like I said, it's the minority, and plenty seem to see more in him. Just never really warmed to him. Bannan is a shite version of maloney...fraser plays the same position and looks 10 times the player Bannan is. So many players we have not seen enough of in the scotland team who are performing well at club level. Our starting line up should be much different this time around and it's needed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkoRaj Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Bannan is a shite version of maloney...fraser plays the same position and looks 10 times the player Bannan is. So many players we have not seen enough of in the scotland team who are performing well at club level. Our starting line up should be much different this time around and it's needed I don't think the word position means what you think it means Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Bannan and Fraser playing the same position is up there as one of the worst things I've ever read. Staggering Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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