Todd_is_God Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 1 minute ago, The Ghost of B A R P said: You have to be really, really good at football to play on the back foot. We’re not. He needs to change this, either immediately or by 60 at the latest. We need an easy out ball and we need to be 10 times more aggressive. We should have been on the front foot from the word go. Get their full backs turned towards their goal and press them. They are shite. Scotland make them look like a good side because we let them play. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 3 minutes ago, bernardblack said: This. We’ve seen them enough to know they’re a decent team Nah. We’ve seen enough to know they are better than a chronic Scotland team. That doesn’t make them decent, or anything close. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BukyOHare Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 (edited) At any level of the game if you sit off the opposition they'll eventually cause you problems. We've not had a shot on target while managing to make Israel look far better than they are. A huge 2nd half coming up to turn it round or this group's done already. Edited March 28, 2021 by BukyOHare 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacky1990 Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 3 minutes ago, bernardblack said: This. We’ve seen them enough to know they’re a decent team There is a difference between acknowledging they are decent and thinking that we have players on that park who are better than them. On paper, we have much better players. We need to ditch the inferiority complex and start controlling games like this because we have the players to do it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibsFan Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 If this drags Israel up to our pot and we never have to play them again I'd call it job done. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BucksburnDandy Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Anyone of us on here could have told you that what has killed us against Israel previously is sitting off them.So why can't Steve Clarke learn that lesson? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lofarl Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Just now, BukyOHare said: At any level of the game if you sit off the opposition they'll eventually cause you problems. We've not had a shit on target while managing to make Israel look far better than they are. A huge 2nd half coming up to turn it round or this group's done already. Thank god. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambomo Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 1 minute ago, BukyOHare said: At any level of the game if you sit off the opposition they'll eventually cause you problems. We've not had a shit on target while managing to make Israel look far better than they are. A huge 2nd half coming up to turn it round or this group's done already. Well we aren’t going to fling shit at them. We aren’t Celtic fans. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadwell Dog Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Terrible to watch . We're so defensive and yet we let in goals. Jack Henry might be doing ok in Belgium but he's just as bad as ever on these showings. We look just as bad as we did under mccleish. Clarke's now had 245 mins without us scoring a goal against this dross. Anyone worth their salt would've worked out how to play them by now FFS. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludo*1 Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Clarke got us past Serbia & Israel and into the Euros (without beating either in normal time) in a play-off situation that Alex McLeish led us to. He ballsed up the Nations League group in which we only needede 1 win from our final 2 games and we got beat by Israel and Slovakia (their only win in the 6 game group format) which would have been our back-up to the WC and had just seen the benefit of it as it's the reason we qualified for the Euros! If we don't win tonight we'll technically be winless in 6 (we won on penalties against Serbia, granted). This is far from good enough and isn't actually that much of an improvement than McLeish. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bing.McCrosby Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Just now, craigkillie said: We do have better players, and we're a better team than them too. That's why we're ranked ahead of them both by FIFA and UEFA, and have finished above them both times. I'd very strongly back us to do so again in this group too. However, it is also simultaneously true that their style of play is incredibly effective against ours and therefore they consistently come out on top in these head-to-heads. Whats your take craig? Still absolutely astonished that people would have preferred a different formation? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Kebab Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 So is this goal going to get disallowed if the goalposts are the wrong size??? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian38018 Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 9 minutes ago, Honest_Man#1 said: I’ve always been against doing it, but I genuinely would be begging shagger to come back for the Euros. McAvennie? Just a bit past his best - both on and off the pitch, I should have thought. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanMc99 Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 marshall and mctominay can do far far better on that goal, also i have no issue being negative against good sides, we are sitting far too deep against a bang average side , there is no need to be this negative, clarke will need to change at some stage. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossBFaeDundee Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Wha'd want to be Scotland manager? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 'Shagger' is an absolute cretin and thankfully will never play for Scotland again. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lofarl Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Get Boyd on 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyle Lanley Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 1 minute ago, RossBFaeDundee said: Wha'd want to be Scotland manager? Jack Ross said it was his dream. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staggie_93 Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Gone to a back 4? Thank f**k 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewan14 Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Do our players not know what it means to close opponents down ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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