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craigkillie

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  1. And don't bother with 18 pages (front and back) of flowery language either. Just keep it succinct and to the point.
  2. He's playing for his boyhood club and getting a good number of games every season, I don't think there's going to be any pressing need for him to move on.
  3. The SFA have already confirmed the kick-off time as 3pm.
  4. The Saudi league is obviously a bit of a pisstake in general, but Hendry is playing against good strikers most weeks.
  5. The standard in the reserve league is rubbish, performances in that count for absolutely nothing. If one of our youngsters isn't getting a game for a team bottom of League 2 then I don't think they're likely to get anywhere near playing for us.
  6. Shankland's positioning and movement is clearly designed to distract the goalkeeper and he's definitely standing between him and the ball. The only question is really whether his actions prevented Wickens from being able to play the ball. I think it's touch and go, but the free-kick is definitely in a saveable part of the goal, and at the time the ball is struck Wickens is having to try to look round Shankland which probably does affect his reaction times. Therefore I can understand why that is ruled out. What is absolutely certain for me is that the rules should be rewritten to make it absolutely certain that incidents like this are offside. There is one reason and one reason only for Shankland to stand there, and that is to try to deceive the keeper.
  7. Patterson has also not been very good for Everton on the several times he has played, it's not like it's Andy Robertson-style performances that are being overlooked.
  8. I think that could be bad news for him in terms of the Euros. His place is no longer as solid as it was before, and that'll be well over a year since he played for us by the time the squad announcement is made.
  9. I was looking forward to having two Killie players playing against us but they're both out injured.
  10. Taking away the host location, I think it's the right idea to have this every year rather than every single year, since a lot of players would have been missing out on the chance to play in it purely based on being unlucky to be born in the odd year. A lot of the comments I've seen online seem to be folk getting really worked up about an event they probably didn't even know existed before. It hasn't been hosted in Europe in over 20 years anyway, and has only been here once in the last 30. In terms of the timing, this has usually taken place in autumn or winter in previous years, and that would make sense given that they'll need to host annual qualifying now.
  11. I wouldn't be surprised if Gordon thinks he can keep on playing. He's signed a new contract at Hearts so he's going to be active in the SPFL until at least 2025 already.
  12. Harvey Barnes has an England cap and he still hasn't been "put to bed" as an option.
  13. We have performance schools where I'd assume our best youngsters are getting the majority of these things (hopefully without the wanky business speak language around it).
  14. That's good that the screenshot does suggest the ability to transfer tickets.
  15. The most recent friendly against England was on, and I think the Ukraine Nations League game recently may have been too. I'm also pretty sure the Mexico and Peru games in 2018 were on the BBC.
  16. There is absolutely no point in pissing off a regular squad member by dropping them for the final double header before the tournament. It's easier to keep them all involved and then only make a decision about which three to take if he actually has to. Any one of them could be unavailable come June anyway making the whole discussion moot. If one of the three forwards in the current squad got injured I'm not even 100% sure he'd definitely call up another (assuming Brown isn't back fit), because he'd have Christie in mind as being another option in an attacking role.
  17. I'm sure McInnes would agree in hindsight, but bringing in the clearly better player in Watson didn't seem like a bad decision at the time and I don't think many people would have disagreed with it at the time.
  18. The "Austrian second division team" being the reserve team of Red Bull Salzburg, the club known for signing the best young talents in world football, yes? Scotland threw Billy Gilmour into the last Euros as a teenager.
  19. What about Wales? As soon as their generational talent and other very good player packed it in they have dropped like a stone. The fact they have a bunch of Championship players with 40 caps by the age of 24 doesn't seem to be helping them actually win many games.
  20. Bigger nations can do that because they'll qualify anyway. We have still done it with several of the players in the current squad which is why Billy Gilmour will probably reach 25 caps in this double header before he turns 23. Patterson will probably do that before his 23rd birthday too.
  21. Doak has potential and nothing else at the moment. I think he'll come very good, but his performances for Liverpool in the Europa League were not those of a player actually ready to be playing at that level.
  22. This post reeks of FIFA style selection where Ferguson has a higher number than McGregor so you just pick him in the team. Either that or just basing it on the clubs and level people play at rather than their ability. Let's face it, McGregor could comfortably be playing for a very good Serie A team if he wanted to right now, but the fact he isn't will always count against him in some people's eyes.
  23. No chance I'd be dropping Findlay at this point, he had a poor game along with everyone at the weekend but he has been in good form since the turn of the year. I don't understand the clamour for Mackay-Steven, he's been brought in as an impact sub for 20 minutes here and there. He doesn't have the legs to play as a starting winger in this team. I severely doubt that a guy who was on the scrapheap after being binned by Hearts and barely playing a game in years is expensive in any way. If we want to go back to having two out-and-out wingers and Kennedy's not fit then it has to be Murray, even if he is obviously a bit of a downgrade in quality.
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