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  1. 3 hours ago, BB_Bino said:

    Is he....is he really.....I'm not sure I think the same way. I do like Adams, however I have also watched him be totally ineffective in games. I wouldn't argue that he shouldn't be in the squad, in fact quite the opposite, however would I go as far as to say he is our best striker? I'm not sure I would you know.

    To look at it really simplistically, would any of our other strikers get near an English Premiership club? 

    I imagine Adams will be back there next season, after spending the last few years in that league. 

  2. 3 minutes ago, MarkoRaj said:

    Leigh Griffiths was never that good even at his peak. Revisionism to suggest he'd be any better than the current crop, Shankland is a better player now than he ever was imo

    Well, that just isn’t close to being true…

    Griffiths could finish as well as Shankland. while also having athleticism and the ability to link play. 

  3. 38 minutes ago, Jaggy McJagface said:

    I’m not sure we’re guaranteed to turn up for the opener.

    In the Hampden games at the last Euros, the Ukraine playoff and the England friendly (although I appreciate this wasn’t a competitive match) it felt like we were playing the occasion as much as the game and it got the better of us. Hopefully that’s the type of performance that’s behind us but I’d be wary of another big game disappointment.

    You can’t guarantee anything, but you can still be confident based on what you have seen from the team. 

    The England game wasn’t anything like a big game for us, our big game was a few days earlier. 

  4. We were very unlucky not to get something from Spain away, the only complaint after the game and Clarke said this too was that we didn’t keep the ball well enough.

    Since then we have played England, France and Netherlands and have clearly tried to go out and control games to a far greater extent.

    Against Germany I think we will see more of a mix of the two styles, as I’m assuming that’s why Clarke has been working on it. If we can mix our best stuffy defensive work as shown against Spain, while being better on the ball at times then…

    Last night was pish, but I don’t overly get the doom and gloom. I’m pretty confident we’ll turn up come the opening game - as long as we have close to our strongest team available. 

  5. 1 minute ago, Skyline Drifter said:

    I didn't notice it then. He certainly didn't touch the ball for about 10 minutes when he first came on as I was watching him fairly closely in that spell. It was harder to tell the extent to which Dykes may have done that for me as I was at the complete other end of the stadium whereas we were attacking the goal right in front of me when Adams appeared.

    I can’t overly remember at what time it was, but it was noticeable at a certain point that we were moving the ball better and Adams was central to that - it didn’t exactly get us anywhere though. It was possibly when Shankland came on tbf so he played a bit deeper. 

    In fairness to Dykes you can’t tell on tv to what extent he was trying to move and not getting the ball, but he just didn’t seem involved at all. 

  6. 2 minutes ago, Skyline Drifter said:

    Am I the only one who thought Ferguson added virtually nothing to the game when he came on? 🤔

    Genuinely can't recall him changing the game one bit. He his this "energy and forward runs" pretty well considering he was playing right in front of me for much of it.

    Clarke said all along he intended to give all the strikers an hour or so across the two games. In the event Shankland got more minutes than the other two having been added to Adams last night. I don't see that as an issue. I don't even think Dykes played particularly badly to judge whether he was in or out of form. We didn't get him any supply to work with.
     

    I'm not sure how it "wasn't suited to him"? Genuinely. Packed defence not venturing far up the pitch. Physical game largely. Adams barely had a kick in the time he was on and the first thing he did of any note was win an unexpected corner in the 95th minute!

    Adams dropped in and linked up several times when he came on, so that just isn’t true. 

    Something that Dykes just didn’t do in his entire time on the park. 

  7. 2 minutes ago, BukyOHare said:

    We'll have to agree to disagree then, Adams should never be the answer to goalscoring or playing striker at international level.

    While we're expecting strikers to just "chip in" we're always going to struggle I'm afraid.

    I’m not sure who the answer is then tbh…

  8. 9 minutes ago, eez-eh said:

    Aye, but this is true for just about any Scottish based player. In this very argument, except for some exceptions like your good self, it’s Hearts and Ayr fans defending him the most, then Morton, Hibs, Dundee and Killie fans berating him the most. Spot the club allegiances.

    There isn’t really anything to berate him for tonight either, so some pretty blatant bias on show there - I said it after the Netherlands game but it’s tragic behaviour. He got thirteen minutes to try and turn things around. 

    Writing off Adams is just about as bad though. 

     

  9. 2 minutes ago, BukyOHare said:

    Neither can be the answer and is probably the right answer.

    You want your lone striker to be far enough up the pitch to get on the end of moves first and foremost, heaven forbid get in behind or have shots on goal. If he drops off to link up the play all the time nobody is getting in behind as was glaringly exposed tonight.

    Bigger picture stuff but it's pretty scandalous that we're even discussing Adams or Dykes as starting strikers at international level anyway.

     

     

    The entire way we play is built on midfielders running beyond the striker linking play though. 

    Adams is a lower end English Premiership striker, who basically gets a goal in four/five at that level. He certainly isn’t a goal scorer, but with the right midfield set up can be effective while still chipping in with goals occasionally. 

  10. 6 minutes ago, BukyOHare said:

    Strikers need to score though. That should be their main job. He scores more than Dykes is hardly strengthening your argument either.

    Let midfielders and fullbacks link the play.

    Well, it is an argument given Dykes is one of his main rivals to start.

    Considering his lack of starts he has scored plenty this season. 

    You quite clearly need your lone striker to act as a focal point and link things though. 

  11. Just now, BukyOHare said:

    If you're starting Adams we're highly likely to be needing a goal.

    He runs about and works hard for the team, I get it. But so would everybody on here if given the chance.

     

    He also links play, holds the ball up and has eight more goals than Lyndon Dykes this season. 

    Suggesting he only works hard just isn’t true. 

  12. 1 minute ago, 18BAIRN76 said:

    Nothing grinds my gears more than labelling fans legitimately criticising a bogging performance as 'knicker-wetters' etc etc. A complete non-argument which doesn't engage in any meaningful discussion.

    There’s legitimate criticism, which is fair enough and there’s making outlandish negative statements after a friendly defeat though. 

     

  13. 1 minute ago, MacDonald Jardine said:

    I'm not sure how anyone's takeaway from that game could be Shankland isn't good enough.

    Yeah - he came on in the 78th minute FFS. 

    I still think Adams should start and he showed why when he came on with how he linked the play, but Shankland should be first sub if we need a goal and then Dykes after that if needed. 

  14. Just now, Ludo*1 said:

    Must admit, I quite like Dykes as an out ball against the bigger nations.

    Tonight was never going to be his night. A target man that's not insanely mobile against 3 CH's is always a hiding to nothing and we barely changed it from that all night.

    That's on Clarke regardless of the quality or lack thereof of our strikers.

    Yeah, it was never going to suit him tonight. 

    Unless we are going really direct though, I don’t really want Dykes near our starting side. 

  15. Just now, Ludo*1 said:

    I love Neil McCann but f**k off if you don't think a professional footballer that is supposedly one of the best in his country (and I love McGinn) doesn't deserve to get a boo when kicking a corner straight out for a goal kick as we are getting beat by fucking Northern Ireland.

    How the f**k does one of our best players in recent times deserve to be booed by his own fans for a shite corner in a friendly. 

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