Cowshed118 Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 These two Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 11 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said: Even in 1998, I think there was only one Rangers player in the squad. It's a shambolically silly argument. I don't mind Boyd too much either, but that is just utter bloody nonsense. Jock broon influencing wee Craig's selections? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Officer Barbrady Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 52 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said: Even in 1998, I think there was only one Rangers player in the squad. It's a shambolically silly argument. I don't mind Boyd too much either, but that is just utter bloody nonsense. For me there are two ways of looking at this.....Boyd either considers the 'dropping' of 1872 version as the start of an era of zero competition domestically churning out shite, unprepared amateurs (which is true, it has done); or, most likely, its being used as a deflectory tactic from the fact that like the rest, he doesn't want to upset the media muppets of the west coast, and tries to kill two birds with one very misthrown stone. In the event of scenario 1 from above, the SFA have a lot more to answer for by their failure to place any measures to counter it other than threatening every club with sanctions they've yet to break. If they faced the situation head-on, and admitted that things were very un-fucking-rosy indeed, we may have begun sorting the problems out, instead of burying heads in the sand worrying about 'social unrest' or other lies and myths that have been exposed time and again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DAVIDB69 Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 Darren fletcher hilariously stating in the press that if we win our home games and England win every game we can still get second . Conveniently forgetting that in our last 10 competitive games we have 3 wins two over Gibraltar and one over malta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordopolis Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 Darren fletcher hilariously stating in the press that if we win our home games and England win every game we can still get second .Conveniently forgetting that in our last 10 competitive games we have 3 wins two over Gibraltar and one over malta Exactly. I don't think I've ever witnessed Scotland winning more than 3 vital games in a row in my puff (sure it's happened but the point is it's rare as hen's teeth). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No_Problemo Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 To be fair to Darren he can hardly say that we are awful and out. If Strachan goes we are certainly good enough to win the rest of our home games (if the manager had time for freidndlies etc) but with him I would be surprised if we beat anyone other than Malta. With a competent manager, there isn't a game left in the campaign we shouldn't be looking to win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 I think we're all aware that Kris Boyd's interest in the national side begins and ends with the paycheque he's offered to write about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Officer Barbrady Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 10 minutes ago, Gordopolis said: Exactly. I don't think I've ever witnessed Scotland winning more than 3 vital games in a row in my puff (sure it's happened but the point is it's rare as hen's teeth). Last time was 2007, with four, beating the Faroes, Lithuania, France and Ukraine. In 2006 Fraoes, Lithuania and France. In 1997, Belarus home and away and Latvia. In 1995, Greece, Finland and San Marino. Before that, i don't believe we ever did it once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordopolis Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 Last time was 2007, with four, beating the Faroes, Lithuania, France and Ukraine. In 2006 Fraoes, Lithuania and France. In 1997, Belarus home and away and Latvia. In 1995, Greece, Finland and San Marino. Before that, i don't believe we ever did it once. Trust you to show me up Tho tbf I did say more than 3 games No coincidence that those 4 occasions were during probably our best runs of form in the last 20 years. Not a hope of turning out a run like that now that we're on such a a downturn of momentum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyerTon Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 Souness saying we will now not qualify and also Strachan is doing the best he can with a 'poor group of players' http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/gordon-strachan-not-problem-scotland-9251417 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 2 hours ago, bennett said: Jock broon influencing wee Craig's selections? Was it not soon after that, that some scorned woman released answer phone messages of Craig Brown singing 'Follow, Follow...' after Rangers won an OF game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandarilla Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 Souness saying we will now not qualify and also Strachan is doing the best he can with a 'poor group of players'http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/gordon-strachan-not-problem-scotland-9251417 I know I get hammered on here for a fairly similar view but there's a lot of folk that agree with this. Graham spiers certainly went along those lines on 'off the ball' yesterday. I watched the game with 6 other teachers in Friday and that was absolutely the consensus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyrExile Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 34 minutes ago, FlyerTon said: Souness saying we will now not qualify and also Strachan is doing the best he can with a 'poor group of players' http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/gordon-strachan-not-problem-scotland-9251417 Absolute shite from Souness. We might not have Gareth Bale type players to choose who would greatly improve the skills levels. Choosing form players, forgetting the old pals act, selecting players who are getting regular game time and removing celtic minded bias would be a good start. We could then decide if our player pool is really that bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Officer Barbrady Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 We might as well give up then, if thats what Spiers and teachers think. Whats the consensus on Northern Ireland easily dispatching Azerbaijan with SPFL diddies? Or the Republic turning over Austria with less EPL or CL players than Scotland have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 24 minutes ago, pandarilla said: I know I get hammered on here for a fairly similar view but there's a lot of folk that agree with this. Graham spiers certainly went along those lines on 'off the ball' yesterday. I watched the game with 6 other teachers in Friday and that was absolutely the consensus. Are you a teacher? Crikey! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 25 minutes ago, pandarilla said: I know I get hammered on here for a fairly similar view but there's a lot of folk that agree with this. Graham spiers certainly went along those lines on 'off the ball' yesterday. I watched the game with 6 other teachers in Friday and that was absolutely the consensus. I think you need more than 7 teachers to have a better than 50% chance of being in the presence of an inspirational character IIBH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 Once again, hopefully this is Souness admitting that he's nae chance of getting the job, and that the fruit on the vine was looking a bit tart anyway. What a pointless appointment that would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Malcolm Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 7 hours ago, pandarilla said: I know I get hammered on here for a fairly similar view but there's a lot of folk that agree with this. Graham spiers certainly went along those lines on 'off the ball' yesterday. I watched the game with 6 other teachers in Friday and that was absolutely the consensus. The thing about it is that we all know this is true, but it's hardly any kind of answer to our problems. I don't mind Spiers saying it but it's a bit rich coming from Souness, who had a lot to do with damaging our game and has rarely has a good thing to say about any aspect of it that isn't Rangers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyrExile Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 11 minutes ago, 8MileBU said: Think Souness has summed it up pretty well tbh. Charlie Adams comments earlier in the week were far closer to the mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No_Problemo Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 36 minutes ago, pandarilla said: I know I get hammered on here for a fairly similar view but there's a lot of folk that agree with this. Graham spiers certainly went along those lines on 'off the ball' yesterday. I watched the game with 6 other teachers in Friday and that was absolutely the consensus. It's quite clearly utter nonsense though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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