Sortmeout Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 Even though its a bad result (any defeat is) and maybe it’s purely because my own club had our own disaster a few years ago that I don’t look on this quite as harshly as some others. First reason is that I don’t think Irish teams (north or south) are as bad as they were 40 years ago and we know that our league isn’t in the same place either. Secondly, I‘ve been watching Scottish football since around 1995 and the feeling has always been that we should be hammering teams from smaller countries/weaker leagues. For people my age this has been taught to us and we’ve probably taught it to the next generation too. In my experience though we don’t have too much to back this up though and it’s not a new thing, I remember us squeezing through against Shelbourne in 1997 (3-2 on aggregate). The same team were then 3-0 up against Dick Advocaats Rangers EBT 11, admittedly losing in the end up. I can’t be bothered going through to check all of the Scottish teams results against the others in the British Isles since then right now but might do later. But I doubt I’ll find many results this century where teams (outwith the obvious 3) from Scotland have easily beaten others from our neighbouring countries. To summarize - a bad result but not one that is completely unexpected. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropy Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 1 minute ago, Arch Stanton said: I just heard it. Very disappointing, in fact it was fucking shite. I think that was the jist of it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kapowzer Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 3 minutes ago, thisGRAEME said: It felt very, very like we're about to get an interview with Keith Lasley saying "the players feel terrible we've let the manager down", yes. Who's gonna lead the singsong? Sol is no stranger to a megaphone 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willie adie Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 So well fans who's next Stephen Glass, Shaun Maloney, or yogi Hughes 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one m in Motherwell Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 O’Donnell slapping a picture of Alexander repeatedly with a shoe, like he was Saddam Hussein. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisGRAEME Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 2 minutes ago, Willie adie said: So well fans who's next Stephen Glass, Shaun Maloney, or yogi Hughes f**k Yogi is available isn't he. Stand down everyone. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kapowzer Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Willie adie said: So well fans who's next Stephen Glass, Shaun Maloney, or yogi Hughes Dud managers, Scotland centre-half's and shaved head strikers is a single direction sort of arrangement my Doric friend Edited July 28, 2022 by Kapowzer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
18May1991 Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 2 minutes ago, thisGRAEME said: f**k Yogi is available isn't he. Stand down everyone. I mean, Alexander’s not that bad…. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowsdower Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 Oh God, we're due a yogi-like appointment. Can we just not have a manager? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Handsome Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 8 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said: I just heard it. Very disappointing, in fact it was fucking shite. Where?? The people huv tae know! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one m in Motherwell Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 Oh come on to f**k! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superwell87 Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyX Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 (edited) 14 minutes ago, Sortmeout said: I can’t be bothered going through to check all of the Scottish teams results against the others in the British Isles since then right now but might do later. But I doubt I’ll find many results this century where teams (outwith the obvious 3) from Scotland have easily beaten others from our neighbouring countries. To summarize - a bad result but not one that is completely unexpected. Subtle stuff.... Edited July 28, 2022 by AndyX 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisGRAEME Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 Is the content plan written on stone tablets or something? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropy Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 McGinn and Sol found wanting for pace I think. Shields let another couple of balls pass him by in the six yard box. 3 balls fired out the park behind the goals in the first 30 minutes. Dont think their keeper had a save to make - I might be wrong I got distracted by p&b We didn’t score a goal, we were never recovering that tie after the first leg 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kapowzer Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 3 minutes ago, thisGRAEME said: Is the content plan written on stone tablets or something? The "fantastic performance and result" template is on a Windows 95 platform 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Handsome_Devil Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 Realistically I'd be amazed of we punt him before Sunday. It should be the Monday 8am appointment mind you. Ideally we'd just leave him in Ireland. I don't know if it's our worst result ever but it's a legitimate contender. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowsdower Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 We've had worse single results, but to not lay a glove on them over two legs is criminal and puts this worse than Mypa and Stjarnan for me. At least in those we scored and almost clawed it back. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropy Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 Hands up, I thought we would turn the tie around. I am currently having a long hard look at myself. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoF Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 30 minutes ago, virginton said: Are Irish fitba fanboys going to just keep cherry-picking the handful of results they've had in Europe and ignoring all the bleachings, aye? If only there was some sort of UEFA system that could weigh up all results in European competition to work out if the standard is any good or not. https://www.uefa.com/nationalassociations/uefarankings/country/#/yr/2022 28 minutes ago, virginton said: Ranked 39th - Kosovo Ranked 40th - Southern Ireland Ranked 41st - Armenia You might want to take it up with UEFA for counting all of your farmers' league pumpings then. Are we just ignoring the fact most of our ranking points come from Rangers and Celtic? In recent years Scottish clubs have been pumped out by Wales (ranked 50th), Kazakhstan (29), Azerbaijan (26), Sweden (23), Iceland (52). Scottish clubs tend to be shown up in Europe so let's not pretend we're not the ones with the record of farmers league pumpings. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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