Billy Rubin Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 4 hours ago, Jeremiah Cole said: There is a 25 year old left back currently playing regularly in the English Premiership, cost £6 million and has over 200 career league games under his belt, mostly in the Championship who has previously been selected for a Scotland under 21 squad. I make that 8 players who are current English Premiership regulars, are eligible for Scotland and who, for a variety of reasons, aren’t in the squad. It’s a lot of talent missing, especially when we have so many injuries. Can you please stop the { Player A } must be better than { Player B} because of their transfer values or because they play in England. All good teams need balance. Balance over physicality, pace, technique, invention. Easily our worst performance from Strachan's last campaign was away to Slovakia. A team crammed with 10's of millions of pounds worth of "English transfer fees" but one of the most illiterate selections I've ever seen from any manager. Cumbersome, easy to defend against and it was absolutely no surprise we got beat. If we start with McBurnie tomorrow our chances of winning the game diminish. Because he's considerably worse than McNaulty at involving our talented midfield. He's considerably slower than Russell or Burke and hasn't the ability to beat a player or manufacture a chance. The ball won't stick, he won't turn their back 4 and the ball will turnover. Those that understand this basic fact have evidence on their side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkoRaj Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 Without Fraser surely one of Armstrong or MacGregor fills in out wide and the rest of the midfield picks itself? McGinn and McTominay sitting deepest with the aforementioned plus Forrest as the attacking midfielders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkoRaj Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 21 minutes ago, Billy Rubin said: LIf we start with McBurnie tomorrow our chances of winning the game diminish. Because he's considerably worse than McNaulty at involving our talented midfield Those that understand this basic fact have evidence on their side. That's not a fact, that's just like your opinion man. McBurnie's hold up play is good and he is proven at a higher level than McNulty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkoRaj Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 Plus there's an argument to be made that the dynamism and guile of our forward thinking midfielders is now our best attribute. We no longer need someone to run the channels and do the hard yards. Just get someone in to finish the chances they will no doubt create Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Rubin Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 39 minutes ago, MarkoRaj said: That's not a fact, that's just like your opinion man. McBurnie's hold up play is good and he is proven at a higher level than McNulty It's a fact if you watch these footballers play. Can you outline the games viewed that you've arrived at "McBurnie's hold up play is good"? In fairness I only have the Scotland games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster20 Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 Jon McLaughlin was the best keeper in Scotland last year and plays regularly for Sunderland, why would Bain start over him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagyar 2nd Tier Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 3 hours ago, Rooster20 said: Jon McLaughlin was the best keeper in Scotland last year and plays regularly for Sunderland, why would Bain start over him? Erm! Maybe because of the club he plays for??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gannonball Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Given how dog shit Scotland the defence will be Mctominay is a cert to start now surely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estragon Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 10 hours ago, Christophe said: Jesus Christ mate, you’ve been making this Niemi joke on various threads in here for about a fortnight. It’s was a funny one-off ladsbible type gag at the time....being regurgitated by yer da every time a Scotland squad gets announced....less so. Half-a-dozen times in the same sub-forum by the same user....barely a snigger. Wow. That's a clampin' alright... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergie's no1 fan Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Anything less than 3 points here and it is a disaster.Losing one of the best left backs in Europe and the other with potential to go on to be one of the best left backs in Britain is a huge blow. McKenna too.Add in our horrific results against similar teams, poor starts to qualifying campaigns, our strikers dont have any international goals between them and the fact this mob are rotten, it is safe to say i have the fear for this one.Don't care about the performance, a scrappy 1-0 win does me fine, preferably no more injuries and then onto San Marino. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alert Mongoose Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Is this on Sky or the BBC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 3 minutes ago, Alert Mongoose said: Is this on Sky or the BBC? Sky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alert Mongoose Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 11 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said: Sky. Cheers. I thought the BBC used to show away qualifiers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Jon McLaughlin was the best keeper in Scotland last year and plays regularly for Sunderland, why would Bain start over him?Because Bain is quite obviously the better goalkeeper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moonster Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 10 hours ago, Billy Rubin said: Can you please stop the { Player A } must be better than { Player B} because of their transfer values or because they play in England. All good teams need balance. Balance over physicality, pace, technique, invention. Easily our worst performance from Strachan's last campaign was away to Slovakia. A team crammed with 10's of millions of pounds worth of "English transfer fees" but one of the most illiterate selections I've ever seen from any manager. Cumbersome, easy to defend against and it was absolutely no surprise we got beat. If we start with McBurnie tomorrow our chances of winning the game diminish. Because he's considerably worse than McNaulty at involving our talented midfield. He's considerably slower than Russell or Burke and hasn't the ability to beat a player or manufacture a chance. The ball won't stick, he won't turn their back 4 and the ball will turnover. Those that understand this basic fact have evidence on their side. Billy Rubin here, absolutely begging for the egg to hit his face. Coming across a bit Peppino here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyril Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Not sure what to expect from this lot, yes we probably should be beating them but home draws with Romania and Poland would point to them being hard to beat in their own stadium, whether that is down to their organisation, the pitch being a leveller and the low temperatures not so sure. Astana were not easy for Celtic to overcome either. I would be happy with a 1.0 ugly victory if it means getting off to a good start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 The pitch being a leveller Utter, utter, utter bullshit! Only the astonishingly stupid believe shite like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Cheers. I thought the BBC used to show away qualifiers. Used to, not for a while though. UEFA now sell the rights as a job lot so Sky picked all the rights up (except the England games and one other game per round which are on ITV if it's the same contract they had for the World Cup qualifiers). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 13 hours ago, eez-eh said: Any idea how it compares with Strachan’s squads? Strachan was a wee bit more difficult because he'd regularly name pretty big squads, so it was hard to differentiate between who'd dropped out and who just wasn't selected. Anyway, here are the dropouts from his final six squads: Slovakia and Slovenia: 4 Lithuania and Malta: 4 England: 1 Canada and Slovenia: 4 England: 0 Lithuania and Slovakia: 1 It's worth noting that there was only one friendly in this period, which was also the first game of the break. The fact that a couple of the squads were only for one game also played part in fewer call-offs. I couldn't find anyone who pulled out of more than one of these six. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desp Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 10 hours ago, Bishop Briggs said: Could Matt Targett opt to play for Scotland again? He switched from Scotland U19s to England U19s a few years ago. He should be eligible to play for Scotland at senior level. That would be some sell. "Here random English fella. You fancy flying out to Kazakhstan for a wee game? The chances are you'll never play for Scotland again as we have many, many left backs that are much better than you, but we're stuck for this one qualifying game". Calm doon. Shinnie at left-back will be absolutely fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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