JamesM82 Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 I take it all of the folk who are moaning about the Belgium and Portugal friendlies "ruining our world ranking" are aware that the ranking system was changed in the summer? They now use an ELO system where you gain more by beating (or lose less by losing to) a stronger opponent*. Basically all the old dodges like "play fewer friendlies" or "play diddies if you have to" are now out of date. *Speaking of which, the result on Thursday was an absolute disaster in terms of the new system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 I take it all of the folk who are moaning about the Belgium and Portugal friendlies "ruining our world ranking" are aware that the ranking system was changed in the summer?NoBut the games mentioned Belgium aside all took place before the summer The point about picking friendlies for cash instead of helping the team out still stands anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 3 hours ago, tree house tam said: Any c**t that pulls out more than 3 times should be struck off. Even if we get down to 35 year olds like Dobbie could they do any worse? Is that why Tommy Burns didn't get more caps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staggie_93 Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Those replacements will have the Portuguese quaking in there boots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-MAN Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Lower-half donkeys like Devlin getting called up now McLeish should be investigated as his clear pro-Aberdeen bias is hugely damaging to the national team. Have you watched Devlin this season ? He’s been excellent. Obviously only there for cover. He’ll start with Hendry [emoji31] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Have you watched Devlin this season ? He’s been excellent. Obviously only there for cover. He’ll start with Hendry [emoji31]Too slow for international football and not a good enough player to make up for that in my opinion. Not the most physical either, although we are so bad in that position he probably deserves a go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingjoey Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 1 hour ago, Staggie_93 said: Those replacements will have the Portuguese quaking in there boots. If you’re going to post nonsense, at least get your spelling right. “their” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 3 hours ago, RandomGuy. said: Who else could they have played on this date? Netherlands, Belgium, Croatia, Slovakia, Sweden, Austria, Denmark, or someone non-European (e.g. Jordan) could've been played between tomorrow and Tuesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DAVIDB69 Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Did kierney injure himself with his og Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 It will be a very dull 0-2 defeat for us tomorrow. 3 at a push. It will mean nothing but McLeish will spraff some pish about an improved defence performance after the sends the team out to be massively defensive and barely commit to attack. It will be 90 minutes of Portugal just passing it around us like some training match. They'll barely break sweat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddies1877 Posted October 13, 2018 Author Share Posted October 13, 2018 [emoji23] was clearly worth the extra repliesNice you went to all that effort too[emoji23] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewan14 Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Well at least we will have an Aberdonian central defence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewan14 Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 6 hours ago, sjc said: Match prediction: Scotland's chances to disappear faster than an unsupervised child in the Algarve........ Sick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesM82 Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 7 hours ago, gastropod said: Double it up with Germany ,,evens to win in Holland ..Really tempting Hopefully not too tempting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 That's McTominay out now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DAVIDB69 Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 That's McTominay out now. No great loss but I doubt there is much wrong with him.Problem started when allowed players to start pulling out of the Peru , Mexico games .Players are just taking the piss now, kierney as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 No great loss but I doubt there is much wrong with him. Problem started when allowed players to start pulling out of the Peru , Mexico games . Players are just taking the piss now, kierney as well How would you know? Did you not say same about Fraser? Which turned out to be a load of shite, or was that someone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjc Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 2 hours ago, ewan14 said: Sick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieThomas Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Sorted out a VPN so I could get right on that free money 10/11 Portugal train. Now watch Scotland somehow grab a draw and Skybet disappear with my cash like it was an unsupervised child in the Algarve... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 They now use an ELO system where you gain more by beating (or lose less by losing to) a stronger opponent.It's actually Elo, not ELO, named after Arpad Elo who devised it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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