Snobot Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 Baffling from Clark. The last few games we’ve been playing through teams and looking really tidy. So we rip it up and spend the first half chipping balls up to Dykes while bypassing the midfield. We let them walk up to the half way line unchallenged, yet whenever we had the ball Hickey was getting pressed into the corner flag. It was the worst aspects of Clark’s time with none of the good bits. Christie should have started to lead the press but instead we were completely passive. Unbelievably shite. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 This, absolutely this, and let's throw in John Souttar warming his arse on the bench whilst Grant Hanley, centre-back for a Norwich team which recently conceded about 513 goals, roams the pitch like a buffalo without GPS. Forget the emotion of the occasion this was an abysmal selection and performance in a game of such magnitude.Been a problem for a long time - players might be playing in England but it's usually (bar Tierney, Robertson and McTominay) for teams in the Championship or the lower reaches of the EPL. If they are repeatedly battered at club level is it any surprise that the same happens for Scotland? Football is as much about confidence as it is ability. Sadly we lacked both tonight. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vimto90 Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 The callings for Clarkes's head are daft. But I stand by my view he's not done anywhere near as good a job as is made out by a lot of people. We are what we are, a team who can sneak into a tourney through the back door winning pen shootouts. Watching game with folk who can't see anything but a Scotland win, no Idea where this blind optimism is coming from. A long way off these countries, especially when it really matters. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binos Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 Just now, Snobot said: Baffling from Clark. The last few games we’ve been playing through teams and looking really tidy. So we rip it up and spend the first half chipping balls up to Dykes while bypassing the midfield. We let them walk up to the half way line unchallenged, yet whenever we had the ball Hickey was getting pressed into the corner flag. It was the worst aspects of Clark’s time with none of the good bits. Christie should have started to lead the press but instead we were completely passive. Unbelievably shite. The system never worked without Tierney As we get no step on ball from defence into midfield, exactly what happened v Czechs 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Briggs Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 6 minutes ago, Ayr23 said: In all seriousness, at what point does Clarke lose his job? I'm not saying he should get sacked, genuine question. Unfortunately, jobber Clarke got a new contract last year. It runs to 2024. so we're stuck with him for the Euros. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donathan Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 8 minutes ago, Ayr23 said: In all seriousness, at what point does Clarke lose his job? I'm not saying he should get sacked, genuine question. I would think he is given the euro 2024 qualifiers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagar Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 Time for Clarke to stand down. Dreadful at the Euros with home advantage and now failing to get us to Qatar. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virtual Insanity Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 Not really sure what Hickey did wrong tonight, and certainly far from the worst offender. Had some decent deliveries into the box with both feet. Started nervously but was clearly told to push up on Mykolenko and Zinchenko exploited the space in behind well. Not sure why we were so determined to play wing backs so high up the pitch, were constantly leaving two of the slowest centre halves in the country exposed 3 v 3. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewan8472 Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 20 minutes ago, Cardle is Magic said: Not sure if you watched the same game but we were shite and second best in both halves. I watched it. I thought we were significantly less shite in the second half 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 We were comfortably outclassed from start to finish there but some lessons to be learned. McTominay at centre back should be a last resort and only a last resort when natural centre backs are unavailable. Hickey on the right, until such time as he has played regularly and consistently performed there for his club, should be a last resort and only a last resort when natural right backs are unavailable. We might have got away with one of them if Hickey had Souttar/Hendry to cover his arse, or McTominay had O'Donnell for his, but with the two of them together there was an area of the park Ukraine could comfortably overload and knew they would find acres of space in attack while knowing we also had no attacking threat there because Hickey was incapable of going outside his man. That in turn made the whole midfield and rest of the defence worse. Hanley did have a mare, but he also spent most of the first half with three men to pick up because the whole right hand side was effectively left to be his responsibility by those two. How often has Dykes and Adams together worked? I can't be arsed checking right now but I'd be surprised if we had a better record with the two of them than with one and Christie/another off them. Denmark should be the template for how we play against teams on a par or better than us - we threw that approach out the window tonight. Maybe we'd have been taken to bits the same way regardless if we had put our strongest team on the park, but that team selection made it much more likely. 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Briggs Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 Clarke's post-match interview on Sky was equally dreadful. He was utterly clueless and didn't seem bothered by the result. A real manager would have been seething with rage by that mauling. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raidernation Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 She should get the f**k off Twitter and give us all peace after what she out us through this last 2 years. We've had quite enough of her hand-wringing, virtue-signalling pish to last a lifetime.By Christ you’re boring and repetitive as fuckkk, take it to the politics forum 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raidernation Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 Big problem was we didn’t have a pre-game Super Bowl stylee performer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coooombe Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 15 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said: Not convinced by this. To be honest, we really didn't press them very successfully. Their first goal did come from a ball over the top, but it was allowed because pressing was absent. The other goals (and numerous other chances) came from us being cut open by decent passing. We were the side launching aimless balls towards players without a touch. Nah it was obvious. They literally sat with their centre backs with the ball at their feet on the 6 yard line while their forwards went 3v3 against our centre halfs. As soon as our midfield moved forward they hit the big striker and, as our midfield never tracks runners, were 4 or 5 on 3 numerous times. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewan8472 Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 1 minute ago, Virtual Insanity said: Not sure why we were so determined to play wing backs so high up the pitch, were constantly leaving two of the slowest centre halves in the country exposed 3 v 3. Because we started with two up front ? It did not work that well on the RHS ( first half ) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Briggs Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 Just now, Raidernation said: Big problem was we didn’t have a pre-game Super Bowl stylee performer Who did you have in mind? The Proclaimers or Amy McDonald? Simple Minds would have been appropriate. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 Saw someone on Twitter earlier saying McGinn had a performance to match his face. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binos Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Coooombe said: Nah it was obvious. They literally sat with their centre backs with the ball at their feet on the 6 yard line while their forwards went 3v3 against our centre halfs. As soon as our midfield moved forward they hit the big striker and, as our midfield never tracks runners, were 4 or 5 on 3 numerous times. They also played zinchenko and yarmalenko high in midfield in the pockets of space they knew our formation would leave In short they did a number on us Or we let them Appalling Edited June 1, 2022 by Binos 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Tunbridge Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 1 minute ago, Bishop Briggs said: Who did you have in mind? The Proclaimers or Amy McDonald? Simple Minds would have been appropriate. Ronnie Browne sings flower of Scotland and we that game IMVHO. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raidernation Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 Who did you have in mind? The Proclaimers or Amy McDonald? Simple Minds would have been appropriate.Nazareth, Hair of the Dog 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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