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Must be disappointing for you Sand dancer. Being a Dundee United fan and all that.

Not a problem, I believe James Tavernier has agreed to play for Scotland at Euro-2024

hipster appointment

Agreed. It was a very good steal from Furuhashi. I don't see any case for it being a foul.

I would like to also submit Luke McCowan, Blair Spittal, Mark O'Hara and Scott Wright for consideration.

Isn't everyone jumping the gun? Maybe it moves guys like Brown and Jack closer depending on how their individuals injuries are progressing. Maybe Ryan Fraser. Turnbull and Gauld are still a bit away from a call up as far as I can see. Clarke suggested he would need to trim the number of midfielders down anyway from the 9 regular picks.

He's also got Ryan Gauld, Ryan Fraser and SOD's in there with him.

Dykes is in form now he's got his goal. Adams didn't score so his confidence will have suffered, he's out of form one might say. Let's see how Shankland does tomorrow, but as it stands Dykes is showing he wants it more, is the man in form and deserve to start against Germany.

Hearts have let us down on too many occasions for me me to go in with any belief as a neutral. Hope, but no expectation from me.

Doesn't matter. Goalsh. Confidence. Fox in the Box. The man in form. Needs to start against Germany. Let's get this clamor started. Get him capped, tied down - let's see what he can do in the friendlies. Big Daddy Dykes. Goalsh, Goalsh, Goalsh, hungry for goalsh.

Just wait for someone to say that's your baseline. No, that's closer to your maximum than your baseline.

took the words out of my mouth. first class officiating.

Yep, spot on. The foul was on Johnston. No Penalty.

The Joe Hart semi final was a classic.

It takes two to tango. You can't hoodwink, coerce or manipulate players into being tied down for a National Team. Yes, fine put your best foot forward and all of that, but at the end of the day it's always the player that makes the choice probably in consultation with their agent and family members - all you can do is ask the question, make your case and accept their answer. Does playing in our underage teams make a difference to that final decision from the player? Not sure, I don't have a fixed view on that - but at the moments I'd lean toward saying no.

Good try, excellent try.

Spot on. The wee man loves to give it out - but can't take it. That's poor, isn't it? Worst kind of trolling IMO.

Yes a belated well done from me for Dundee for their efforts on Wednesday night. The subsequent meltdown has been dee-lightful viewing, superb content.

Strange hill for you to die on Sand Dancer. I've given you fair evidence why Ryan Fraser hasn't been included recently even when the intention was to use a back-4 (Nov-23), how we have been successful without Fraser using a back-4 via wide areas with balls into the box while chasing a goal. There's always that question of how Robertson and Tierney fit into all that too and is the cost of that worth it to bring on a guy like Fraser? Zoom out mate and think about what you're saying. Ryan Fraser isn't going to make or break our Euro's, is he now? come on SD - you're zoned in on this one.

He's part Scottish. John Carver needs to get the rusty thumbscrews out and 'make it happen'.

Who's going to say Livramento first?

Why can't we? We have previously. From Norway to Spain & Georgia to Rep of Ireland, Ukraine and of course Northern Ireland - the source of this. We've been successful too in changing the game on several occasions. The attacking midfielders in particular have directly contributed via wide areas. Christie (Ireland). Armstrong, McGinn and McLean (Norway) and Armstrong (Georgia). I like Fraser, I'd have him in the squad, but we do have guys who can change the course of a game via wide areas even without Ferguson. That's before considering what you lose in the form of Tierney and Robertson. Not the be all and end all for me.

I'm not too sure about the Netherlands game at the moment, but I think you were right about this wrt Northern Ireland. If you wanted to label our structure then I'd say it was more 352 than 343 before Robbo's injury (38'), particularly in build up. Christie was left sided, Dykes right sided and Gilmour was central and dropping deep helping to build the game. It looked very similar to how we played against Moldova and Georgia at Hampden if you can remember back to those games.

We don't play narrow and leave the wing-backs to it for width. Our primary route to victory are the wide areas - they're key to how we attack. Our attacking midfielders are always involved in those attacks in wide areas. They work with the wing backs and central midfielders to get into the zones depicted below. We attack via those routes as a team - not just via the wing-backs or any individual player. Playing with a back-3 facilitates the wide attacks, it's not just a negative defensive tactic - it's the platform to build our wide attacks. In the last camp that primarily involved Tierney, Robertson, McTominay and Christie on the left as well as Patterson, McGinn and Gilmour with help from Dykes, Hendry and Porteous on the right.