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1 hour ago, Blaze said:

Kheradine Idesanne is an awful commentator. As irritating as Allan Preston on the radio.

It was so obvious he added his commentary after watching the highlights  and not live because he was all over Foley's faux pas almost before he did it.

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5 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said:

Last game shown count...

St. Mirren 2

Livingston 2

I’m not really sure it’s fair to count teams twice in the same weekend. 

A game that’s last on Saturday is likely also to be last on Sunday. 

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My thoughts are that O’Halloran’s first yellow wasn’t much different to Considine’s challenge and should have been a straight red.

Burke’s free kick was tremendous and Scotland should have capped Marty Boyle. I’d have Boyle over Dykes any day.

Ritchie Tait is a babe.

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24 minutes ago, Gianfranco said:

My thoughts are that O’Halloran’s first yellow wasn’t much different to Considine’s challenge and should have been a straight red.

Burke’s free kick was tremendous and Scotland should have capped Marty Boyle. I’d have Boyle over Dykes any day.

Ritchie Tait is a babe.

The strike from Craig was worth seeing too.

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1 hour ago, Gianfranco said:

Scotland should have capped Marty Boyle

....and Boyle would have preferred a Scotland cap - but for whatever reason (as we all know its because he wisnae playing for Celtic or Rangers) his rather obvious qualities were ignored because we had James Forrest. A criminal mistake when you consider the lack of pace we have going forward at International level.

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Asking Marvin Bartley to analyse the Livi performance is a bit of a waste of time. He’s hardly likely to slaughter his team mates or criticise his manager’s approach is he? And he’s never going to offer an honest opinion on who he thinks will go down either. 
 

Steven Thompson seems like someone making a best man’s speech - nervous,  flustered and rushing his lines till he gets the first couple of jokes out of the way, whereupon he settles down a little. Unfortunately he seems to reset to this default setting between every set of highlights. 

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....and Boyle would have preferred a Scotland cap - but for whatever reason (as we all know its because he wisnae playing for Celtic or Rangers) his rather obvious qualities were ignored because we had James Forrest. A criminal mistake when you consider the lack of pace we have going forward at International level.

 

It had f**k all to do with him not playing for Rangers or Celtic, given that his Hibs teammates Lewis Stevenson, Paul Hanlon, John McGinn and Dylan McGeouch were all called up during the same one-year period between Hibs getting promoted and him deciding to play for Australia.

 

In reality, he only had a single pretty good season of top flight football at Hibs under his belt by the time he decided to play for Australia, (plus two pretty poor ones for Dundee). He had apparently been considered for a call-up in the same summer tour where McGeouch and Stevenson made their debuts but was out injured.

 

Had he been desperate to play for Scotland as you described, he would have probably waited a little bit longer rather than deciding to play for Australia so soon. Instead, similar to others like Scott Arfield before him, he realised he would have more opportunities to become a regular for Australia than he would for Scotland where as good as he would likely only ever be a fringe player.

 

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23 minutes ago, craigkillie said:

 

It had f**k all to do with him not playing for Rangers or Celtic, given that his Hibs teammates Lewis Stevenson, Paul Hanlon, John McGinn and Dylan McGeouch were all called up during the same one-year period between Hibs getting promoted and him deciding to play for Australia.

 

In reality, he only had a single pretty good season of top flight football at Hibs under his belt by the time he decided to play for Australia, (plus two pretty poor ones for Dundee). He had apparently been considered for a call-up in the same summer tour where McGeouch and Stevenson made their debuts but was out injured.

 

Had he been desperate to play for Scotland as you described, he would have probably waited a little bit longer rather than deciding to play for Australia so soon. Instead, similar to others like Scott Arfield before him, he realised he would have more opportunities to become a regular for Australia than he would for Scotland where as good as he would likely only ever be a fringe player.

 

You’re right in saying it’s nothing to do with him playing for Hibs. However he was playing well for a top 6 side and McLeish basically told him that he wasn’t interested in him and if he wanted to play internationally then it wasn’t going to be for us. 

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7 hours ago, craigkillie said:

 

It had f**k all to do with him not playing for Rangers or Celtic, given that his Hibs teammates Lewis Stevenson, Paul Hanlon, John McGinn and Dylan McGeouch were all called up during the same one-year period between Hibs getting promoted and him deciding to play for Australia.

 

In reality, he only had a single pretty good season of top flight football at Hibs under his belt by the time he decided to play for Australia, (plus two pretty poor ones for Dundee). He had apparently been considered for a call-up in the same summer tour where McGeouch and Stevenson made their debuts but was out injured.

 

Had he been desperate to play for Scotland as you described, he would have probably waited a little bit longer rather than deciding to play for Australia so soon. Instead, similar to others like Scott Arfield before him, he realised he would have more opportunities to become a regular for Australia than he would for Scotland where as good as he would likely only ever be a fringe player.

 

He had been performing well for us for a long time, yes some of it in the Championship, but the performances against Premiership clubs in cup matches etc made it obvious how well he was playing.

As the post above calls out, he was effectively given the brush off by McLeish at a time when  the Scotland manager felt that we had "enough" in that area...............unlike fans who were calling out for someone rapid to give us options.

Not 100% sure why - when a player has 2 international possibilities - and one pursues him hard and the other pulls the rug from under him, that he should hang round waiting on a cap?

You kinda destroy your own point about Boyle by mentioning the other Hibs players called up on the back of playing in the Championship - he was playing in a high performing and exciting team, and would have jumped at the chance of playing for us.

Yep he was injured for that tour where Lewis (!!) got his cap but there were other opportunities - frankly, all it would have taken was a bit of willingness on the part of the manager, include him in a squad even if he didnt get to play (to show he was wanted) and he would be a Scotland player now. Even Hibs fans laughed when Stevenson got a cap, it was obvious to all of us that the ones we should have capped in that period were McGinn, Dylan and Squirrel.

The bit in bold - as far as I am concerned, had he been playing for one of those clubs this situation wouldnt even be getting discussed - positive chats would have been had, the Scotland manager would have made all the right noises in the press etc.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/16953749.alex-mcleish-says-what-will-be-will-be-over-hibernian-star-martin-boyles-scotland-future/

Article above was after Boyle came back from injury for context

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Might have been because I was in a foul mood but I found Saturday night's Sportscene crap.

There's somehting quite odd about Shelley Kerr and Jonathan Sutherland reminding us over and over again that it was the first Saturday Sportscene in years was just irritating.

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Some facts about the weekends matches.

Less than half the players who got game time were Scottish - 48%.  Think that's pretty alarming when you look at the quality of player most teams are bringing in.

Out of 140 players, only 6 were Scottish and under 20 years old.  3 of them were from one team - Accies.  Pretty pathetic from the rest of the sides.

Celtic had 15 shots on target.  The highest any one else managed was 4.  Aberdeen didn't have any and the average excluding Celtic was 2.6 shots on target.  Again pretty pathetic.

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