craigkillie

I would guess this is purely about making enquiries for the future, or maybe even for an under 21 call-up, rather than as a potential member of the Euros squad.

Did you report this terrifying behaviour to the police?

I'm particularly glad they've cleared up my lingering doubts about whether fast food would be available in major German cities and that Hitler salutes might not go down well.

As was mentioned above, I don't think there is any incentive whatsoever for Hawkeye to get involved in a lie here, their reputation is not worth whatever the SFA pay them. Therefore, MacDonald probably was offside, but there's still no way that decision should have been made without access to the technology.

I don't think that's absolutely certain. If the numbers go up I'm not convinced he'll use all the spots for extra defensive players. Taking five full-backs (even if you count Tierney as a central defender) would be overkill so I really don't see Ralston having much chance unless there are lingering doubts about Hickey. If you look at the squad for the last Euros, he had two extra attacking players (Fraser and Forrest) compared to what he's mostly been carrying in recent matches where we've had 23. I think Taylor is a nailed on certainty if it's a 26 man squad, but the other two spots might be up for grabs. My feeling is there's a good chance there would be an extra attacking player of some sort, maybe that would just be Jacob Brown, but I think it does open the door slightly for others. You can sort of do a direct like-for-like with the squad from the last tournament (I've just left any guys from the last tournament in by default, though there are probably questions about Gordon, Hanley and Cooper). Marshall - Gunn Gordon McLaughlin - Clark/Kelly O'Donnell - Hickey Patterson Robertson Taylor Hanley Tierney Cooper Hendry McKenna Gallagher - Porteous McTominay McGinn McGregor Gilmour Turnbull - Ferguson Fleck - McLean Christie Armstrong Fraser - ? Forrest - ? Dykes Adams Nisbet - Shankland Definitely you could argue that since McTominay played as a centre-back at the last one then you stick an extra one, but that would give you 7 centre-backs which seems a lot, especially when only Tierney can play another position. So I still think there's a chance that one of Souttar or Cooper gets cut (or Hanley or McKenna, but that seems less likely). Jack could be an option as something different and more defensive in the middle of the park, but he does seem to be in decline as a player now and doesn't get as much of a look in for Rangers. I think he would basically be a sentimental pick, having missed the last tournament and being a part of the squad for so long. Maybe he goes for one of the above options, but I think doing both would be a mistake. We should definitely have another attacking option. Fraser is probably ideal for it if he is up for it since he offers something different.

I think he's picked him because Deas came in against Dundee at centre-back and did well, and Ndaba had been a bit out of form.

There will be potential extra sponsorship income from the exposure on TV though, no idea how much that will be.

It's good for him to finally get back on the scoresheet, hopefully he can put a wee run together now.

Ireland women beat us in the play-offs and went to the World Cup, and have then put together a winning Nations League campaign (albeit helped by being in a lower tier). That will have made a big difference. If we hadn't bottled the last two qualifying campaigns I think our crowds would be massively higher.

That's called parallax.

It is in fact Dundee's fault for having a rubbish pitch.

Journalism's brightest mind there.

So that you don't have 5 postponements in a season.

Did they ever think of maybe doing more than the bare minimum?

Can people not just be normal in this thread?

Dundee would still spend it on their squad as they have done this season.

Tannadice has hosted football games before and they could make it work. It would have required Dundee to do a tiny bit of advance planning, but this should have been a very straightforward solution. If there are paper tickets, then there is no difference, and since Tannadice is a bigger stadium there would be no issue with space. If Dundee have to pay some extra people to do this, then so be it. If there are digital tickets, then one of the advantages of such a system should be that it is easy enough to assign a new QR code or barcode to each attendee which would work in the system at Tannadice. Transporting food and drinks would be fine given the distance. The police would have to waddle a few hundred metres down the street, I'm sure they'd cope. If hospitality was such an enormous issue they could literally host it at Dens and then just walk down the street for the game. Dundee United would obviously be paid for hiring out their ground, but these sort of arrangements are hardly unique. If Dundee fans "made a mess" of their ground then Dundee would be paying to fix it.

The calibration of the system is absolutely fine when it works, that is the least of the problems we have with VAR.

The Premiership has three fan-owned clubs (Hearts, Motherwell and St Mirren) and at least one more with a supporters trust representative on the board (Killie), so yes I would imagine that these clubs are going to take the opinions of their fans seriously. Not every club is owned by corporate types who are purely using them to make a quick buck.

I can definitely accept that point of view, my issue is more the ongoing suggestion that games are *always* scheduled for the earliest possible date which is not the case at all. Clubs are always going to have a bit of input on the date of a rescheduled match too, and I would assume both were happier to take the risk here.

Dundee are very likely to lose to Rangers, and I'd imagine all three teams will be playing Saturday's game under that expectation.

You could say that for any game though. The fault here lies predominantly with Dundee for having an unsuitable pitch, and also for their seemingly deluded belief that their pitch would go on to be fine and that there was no need to make contingency plans. I'd say the main criticism I'd have is that the SPFL should have possibly taken it out of their hands and built in a contingency at a different stadium tonight. There's always a risk that any game on matchday 33 could be called off anyway, and that's why the split is built around the Scottish Cup semi-final weekend. The post-split fixtures are usually out not out until Tuesday/Wednesday anyway, so as long as the SPFL are somewhat proactive I don't think there will be a delay of anything more than a day or so with that.

So there's approximately a 92% chance of 5th getting Europe?

He's probably away looking for another non-league side to latch himself on to for another wee ego boost.

This happens with a game being moved to Sunday (or Saturday lunchtime) for TV too.