Scotland going to smash up Slovenia

Armstong was immense.
Forest had his best game in a Scotland shirt.
Tierney just gets better and better.

and Martin saved the day (great substitution but should have played from the start, Griffiths isn't good enough).

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scandanavian_haven • March 26, 2017 9:32 PM BST
COME ON SLOVENIA

Get it right up ya , ya wee fànny .
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i'll be back

The a in fanny with the wee flick on top

Let's not get carried away, 1-0 at home to Slovenia is nothing to shout about, but how far can we go in the World Cup, quarter finals?, semis maybe ?

We need a battering ram up front. Snodgrass has no pace no point playing him out wide. Anya threatens much more. Armstrong is a star and Scott Brown despite his daft off the ball incidents is vital in that midfield.

Mar 26, 2017 -- 9:47PM, TheChaser wrote:

cricketnut2 26 Mar 17 21:43 Joined: 19 Mar 14 | Topic/replies: 3,068 | Blogger: cricketnut2's blogYes but Celtic raise their game in the Champions League, its the only decent games they get all season.Rate reply: | report block userYes heard this since 2001

well it is, Celtic have dropped 4 points all season, it shows you how mediocre that League is, take all the overpaid foreigners out of the EPL and that League would be poor as well.

is Chris Martin the most English Scottish player ever?

If we want to make WC QFS/semis etc Armstrong and Brown have to stay in for sure

Don't always need pace out wide...snodgrass got a great delivery and showed that first half..pace is no use if you can't deliver.... Armstrong proper footballer and agree about brown too.  I think anya has a role to play, just not sure he is a starter

browns gash, no idea how he gets into even the celtic side that i could probably play in and win games

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Mar 26, 2017 -- 9:47PM, TheChaser wrote:

cricketnut2 26 Mar 17 21:43 Joined: 19 Mar 14 | Topic/replies: 3,068 | Blogger: cricketnut2's blogYes but Celtic raise their game in the Champions League, its the only decent games they get all season.Rate reply: | report block userYes heard this since 2001

well it is, Celtic have dropped 4 points all season, it shows you how mediocre that League is, take all the overpaid foreigners out of the EPL and that League would be poor as well.



EPL is poor just now

Only get worse now

When a 35 year old signing for United is MASSIVE WORLD NEWS you know the league took a bit of a dive

Where have all the posters gone that wanted Stracham to resign half an hour a go

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browns gash, no idea how he gets into even the celtic side that i could probably play in and win games

Gives 100% innit

Scanda as soon as i hit the post reply the goal was in the net


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be as well taking in a new manager for the rest of qualifiers and the England game field the under 21s


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1-0 gooooallll

If you want to reach the World Cup quarter/semi-finals, you'll have to dream it, England can't even beat the likes of Iceland/Paraguay and the like. England only top of this group, because it has to be one of the weakest of all the European, World Cup groups.

We're still here, we knew he looks in at the forum so we told him how to change things and he listened

Open bus tour of Glasgow arranged for Tuesday.

How many times did Brown miss place a pass or send it out of play ? too many too mention,his passing is awful and gets in for his physical aggression

England next up, I predict a riot.

Scotland 1 England 1

whether strachan goes next game , end of campaign, on St. Andrew's day, I am sick of the negativity around managers, we have had a ridiculous amount of managers since wee pa broon left.  We need to make the right choice of manager and stick with and not through sticks and stones at him after a couple of losses,

Strachans surprise package

Mar 26, 2017 -- 10:00PM, akabula wrote:

Open bus tour of Glasgow arranged for Tuesday.

Who would that be though and would they want the job, its 10 qualifying games 2 or 3 friendlies and he'll go through all the same as any other Scottish/England manager.

Brown is in the team for his aggression nothing else. We need a player like that

Yep, can't argue with that cricket. But the pendulum has swung and won't swing back for him

Chris Martin booed and scores

Brown booed for misplaced passes

This is not the real Tartan Army is it

sorry, no more pictures, this thread could be around a while and i dont want to ruin it

"Kenny Dalglish, Alan Hansen and Gary McAllister used to get booed so Chris Martin is in good company!" Strachan!

spot on. Broonie doesn't give you much guile, but he's got plenty of dig, and we're short in that department.

We need to make the England game into a battle. We can't outplay them so have to get in their faces. Get tore in.

Yep, remember being at Parkhead when mcallister was being booed, chinned the guy for it, just a drunk clown tbh, should have left it at that, at least he had an excuse I suppose.

sadly i agree we do need some aggression in the middle of the park but i feel like we need more in there, there must be other players who can put a tackle in AND make a 10 yard pass in a straight line?

cricket saying who will manage Scotland

Does he know who manages England

Stick to cricket

Platini
spot on. Broonie doesn't give you much guile, but he's got plenty of dig, and we're short in that department.

Scott Allan seemed the perfect replacement for Brown but he's went off the radar.

John McGinn , Liam Henderson , Calum super MacGregor all be in the team soon enough

Cummings from Hibs

Players are coming through

The Golden Generation

Strachan just said on the radio i don't undestand cricket tell me the rules

lets settle for bronze generation...after all Ally did only say we would get a medal in 78, he didn't say what colour..

ryan frasers looked good at bournemouth, surely hes a better option than forrest or snodgrass

Wee crickethead in here put in place with WGS

not sure why he's never played

wait until hes 28

U not like snodgrass clacher? I get u with pace, but he can put a ball in, not sure we have much of that in the team

Mar 26, 2017 -- 10:17PM, TheChaser wrote:

cricket saying who will manage Scotland Does he know who manages England Stick to cricket

Of course I know who manages England its Gareth Southgate, who followed that moron, big fat sam.

Fraser was injured, I'm sure if he keeps up his good form he'll be in the team

ryan fraser can put a ball in, if we had ibrahimovic up top id say we need somebody who can be spraying balls around more than anything else but i dont think he offers enough as a player.  its not like hes good enough a player for us to carry him, frasers got a tackle in him, closes down faster, plays smarter passes.

maybe he'll play his way for next time who knows

Turn on BBC scotland radio

They all seem to be talking like someone died

^ didnt realise he was injured

Still zero caps

Another strength of Fraser is he is tiny with tremendous pace and is pushed over easily. He must of earned Bournemouth 4 or 5 penalties already this season.

Not sure I have seen enough of Fraser rgds his delivery, seen snodgrass when at hull this season and at West Ham, and his set piece piece stuff is right up there. He had some issues with temperament but seems to have calmed down.

Remember Fraser against Liverpool and he came on and changed the game, hopefully he does kick on, but if u are looking to switch players I would leaving out Forrest for him. Just think when u r lacking goals in the team, (and we are) u need a strength in set piece. Look at the those corners going in, we had one disallowed and a couple cleared off line from good deliveries. IMO the teams who punch above their weight typically are well organised and are strong at the set piece.

Celtic used to be the set piece masters in Martin O'Neils era

The UK way

Agreed I'd drop Forrest before Snodgrass.  Still plenty of time before the next set of games for my opinion on any of these players to change.

And to be fair, Armstrong is an option for set piece as he looks a proper player with two feet as well.

Probably fair to say o neill teams hallmark is physical and strong at the set piece

Couple of his boys were very handy with elbows on Friday night!

I'm not sure you can pick a player just for his set piece delivery. His inswinging balls were dangerous low pacy and flat but his outswinging balls are a total waste far too high easy to defend. At Hull I don't think he delivered great balls in he just had player like Dawson and McGuire attacking them which made them a threat. If he gets space ie Griffiths sitter he can put it on a plate but too many times he gets the ball out wide and faced up with a defender has to play it back as he has no pace or a trick.

So, we're still innit?

Forrest burst onto the scene at Celtic but hasn't really improved imo

Rodgers seems to get more out him

Also not much high crosssing now so he get's of with low passes as his crossing was sh1te

In it? We've won it

Who's booking the Betfair Forum flights to Russia ?

One way tickets after the final we will become Russian nationalists and be welcome in all strip bars and saunas for free

Would agree u can't pick a player on that alone...but...when u / we are at a certain level, a level of pragmatism comes into it. I suppose in terms of hull, u can look at that way (great physical targets ) and / or great delivery.

I think the whole set piece emphasis in football did get raised with (sir) David B. I used to get fed up hearing how great his was, and used to get fed up hearing how great he was because he could ping a ball in, but I do think in the modern game there is a lack of quality from wide positions...maybe it's better set up from defensive team but I genuinely think there is a lack of it in the modern game and it's more important that it was in previous eras

Big Dunc in the end was just used as a last ditch target man

Done it from a young age i guess also but a bit more

i actually really liked beckham as a player after he went to madrid and started playing in the middle behind zidane.  at united and for england theyd stick him out wide so he could play in looping diagonal balls but when given some space as an outlet for the back line he was imaense as a playmaker.

snodgrass shouldnt be uttered in the same breath

Clach has stocked up

How will the Riskias take to us drinking their national drink with Burning Juice

Ruskias*

Can't remember who it was that said it, but someone on motd I am sure did that recently

Beckham was respected a lot for his work rate at Madrid

Last to leave the pitch a lot going over to the fans etc

He is a d1ck of the field though and i never rated him that highly on it but was a good crosser

Done what on MOTD ?

Snodders and Becks on same levels

Just to be clear, I wasn't making the comparison, was using it as a very general point...!

Yeh, some reference to snodgrass and him being a game changer, might have been jenas on motd2

Definitely when you are a team of limited ability set pieces can be a massive weapon, maybe even your main one. West Brom and Tony Pulis are a great example. By all accounts they work tirelessly at their set pieces and with Brunt's flat pacy delivery they threaten no matter who they play. But they have the huge threat of McAuley as well as Dawson, Evans and Rondon etc. Sadly for Scotland we have a team of mostly midgets as Strachan strangely keeps mentioning.

Pulis at Stoke with Delap and Towels

That's a fair point, maybe the team is not setup ideally in that regard. If Fraser does continue to improve and gets a good injury free run then u have two different styles on the left side to pick from and that's definitely a good thing.

Mar 26, 2017 -- 10:42PM, Geesyerdosh wrote:

In it? We've won it

Dang rootin' tootin' we won it!  Especially wi them new Irn Bru tinnies!

Fair play for keeping trying but what a soft goal in the end! Most sunday morning goalies would have saved that.

Keeper had a decent game to be fair should have been a few more

Gordo had nowt to do

A PROPPA seeing over we give em

trilby22
In it? We've won it
Dang rootin' tootin' we won it!  Especially wi them new Irn Bru tinnies!

Winning it aint the issue trilby it's retaining it in 2022 that we should be thinking about.

What has happened to Scottish football. Being of a certain age foreign players were Jocks and were top players. Now ????? I saw a better standard of football yesterday watching the Scunthorpe and Doncaster games

Scotland have to bring on Englishman to win them games nowadays

England beat Slovenia 3-1 at Wemberley

Scotland won 1-0 going on 5

Chris Martin has a Scottish Grandfather so he's a True Scot now after that goal

But he should find out where to home fans sit next time and not go to the away end

£40 a ticket

£42-£57 for England game

£60 briefs in there

Bet they will be on ticket tout sites for around £400

http://www.livefootballtickets.com/fixtures/scotland-v-england-tickets-world-cup-2018-qualifiers.html

190 euro to 356 euro so far

price probably doubled after the final on sunday night

Should have snapped up some season books at the start of campaign for the family like 

I would be selling the lot

Get 50% back on the qualifiers then keeerrrching on the England game

Nicola Sturgeon put in her place by Ruth Davidson today, which is exactly what England will do to Scotland in June

Its a pity the game is not one of the last fixtures in the group when we will have too many points as we might have let you beat us so you could qualify