Mark Connolly Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 No surprise to hear Willie Miller defending McLeish on the radio. Though he was at pains to point it it's not because he is his friend. Even that walloper David Currie was picking apart his argument. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmontheloknow Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 7 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Daily Record...lazy list of candidates...surely not. Sir Alex Ferguson...Gordon Smith...Tommy Docherty... Rhona McLeod! The ones in bold no doubt... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Malcolm Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Just now, Savage Henry said: Also the goalkeeping, passing, shooting and general composure wasn’t so hot. Haha true. I started adding stuff to that immediately after posting it. Shinnie had a terrible game, but Bain and Burke were not helping him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 17 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said: Burke is absolutely dreadful up front, I've seen four, maybe five, Celtic matches with him there and he contributes nothing other than pace on a counter, his "build up play" is laughable. Kind of agrees with my point, that Burke could have been just as poor but at least have meant we had someone in the team who could have contributed wide on the left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gc_smfc Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Find the criticism of McBurnie a bit over the top, considering we give our strikers zero service, I can't imagine any striker that's played for Scotland would fair any better.We're not getting the ball into positions for him to start being culpable of letting us down. The problem stems from our manager doesn't trust our players to actually build attacks or most definitely we've got a severe lack of real technical ability where we desperately need it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grangemouth Bairn Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 10 hours ago, Desp said: 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. Not sure what’s the worst part of this. Is is that you said Shinnie would be fine at left-back or that 6 people greenied it. Ffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 1 hour ago, Jeremiah Cole said: Got shouted down by a few earlier. Apparently, just cos you play in the English Premiership, doesn’t make you that good. For various reasons we were missing 10 English Premiership regulars today and we all saw what happened. You cannot miss out on quality like that and expect everything to be okay. The opposition were totally underestimated. We have a specialist defensive midfielder in McTominay. Good enough to help Man Utd win 5 games in a row and beat PSG away from home. But not good enough for Scotland. Says it all really. McLeish must go and he must go now. McTominay hasn't done anything to merit being in the team ahead of the midfielders who started today as he's basically a squad player for a pretty mediocre Man Utd side, other than that we had Armstrong (Premiership regular), McGinn (Highly rated Championship player), McGregor (Champions league player and very highly rated), Forrest (Champions league player and very highly rated) and Burke (multi million pound wonder kid) among our starters, so that SHOULD have been more than good enough to beat a Kazakhstan league select. I can only assume you're talking about Robertson, Ritchie, Snodgrass, Cairney & Fraser but after that I'm struggling. Should Ritchie or Cairney be in ahead of the likes of Forrest & Armstrong ? I think not, going by what I've seen of all of them. Robertson obviously would be in and I'd have Fraser ahead of Burke. A case could also be made for Snodgrass as he's playing well just now and has that bit of class, however I really don't think that today's team was a million miles away from our best available with only Barry Douglas being a definite pick ahead of Shinnie at LB, however that one could also be debated as Douglas hasn't been a regular in recent weeks and Shinnie has been receiving good reviews. The bottom line is that today's team should have been more than good enough to at least compete with a 4th rate Kazakhstan side but for whatever reasons it wasn't.................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossBFaeDundee Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Was away doing work while the game was on, and thank christ I was. Upon watching the highlights, this'll neatly sum up my feelings towards Alex McLeish, Graeme Shinnie.... f**k, anybody who played today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 How’s the P&B support group holding up, lads? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Nederlander Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 30 minutes ago, Detournement said: The genetics things is obviously true. Stand on a railway platform in Glasgow and stand on one in Hamburg and you'll see that Germans are bigger than Scots. We are a nation of midgets. It's because of the feckin German's that we're a nation of midgets, a generation of prime Scot's breeding stock is scattered over the fields of France & Belgium* *I dont actually believe that but it sounds kinda plausible-ish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szamo's_Ammo Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Kazakhstan looked very good to me. We underestimated them imo (in my opinion). The comments before the match were disrespectful to our hosts. Belgium and Russia will struggle over there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estragon Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 2 hours ago, IainMorton said: But why have players that play for Manchester United when you can have players from Kilmarnock and Aberdeen?! Why the f**k are you lumping us into their failure? Neither of our guys came on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 11 minutes ago, Ross. said: Kind of agrees with my point, that Burke could have been just as poor but at least have meant we had someone in the team who could have contributed wide on the left. I just dont see why Burke needs involved at all, one breakaway assist at Tynecastle aside, I'm not even sure hes even played well for Celtic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainMorton Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 5 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said: How’s the P&B support group holding up, lads? In the pub getting pished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 I just dont see why Burke needs involved at all, one breakaway assist at Tynecastle aside, I'm not even sure hes even played well for Celtic That's because he has the footballing ability of an above-average Sunday League player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Forrest was rambling in his shit interview but made mention of the pitch. It's obvious that the management got in to the heads of players about the pitch, among other things. McLeish saying that he wanted players to take as few touches as possible is a fucking disgrace and deeply moronic, not to mention exceptionally backwards. He's made the players shit themselves about nothing. More and more games will be played on artificial pitches so to keep on and on and on and on tearfully about them does no one any favours. Such stupidity and ineptitude. It's unforgivable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 26 minutes ago, Mr Heliums said: I don't know whether you're trolling, but Scots are on average taller than Frenchmen, Spaniards, Argentinians, Turks, Portuguese, Brazilians and Russians. I've never heard them complain. Scotsmen are also, on average, more than 15cm taller than Kazakhstanis. France, Brazil and Argentina are diverse nations. The mean average is irrelevant as long as you have loads of tall people playing football. Kazakhstan is very diverse as well, Kazakhs making up 60% but the majority of the team is ethnically European. In Scotland working class people who have provided all our best players are generally short arses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Just now, DA Baracus said: Forrest was rambling in his shit interview but made mention of the pitch. Forrest had to come off at one point due to skinned knees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Skidmarks Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 2 minutes ago, Detournement said: In Scotland working class people who have provided all our best players are generally short arses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iminavest Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 All well and good saying such and such would be in our ‘strongest 11’ but that group has to be made up of 11 players who can work cohesively as a team, not necessarily the best players. Mcleish has shown no indication he is capable of doing this or even a glimmer of something to work on. In the bin pronto pls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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