Reasonable point you did seem to be putting luck as a key factor while it may be a factor surely a proper plan is more important and then fine margins may kick in as in who we draw or who the manager is.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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10-09-2018 01:41 PM #181
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10-09-2018 01:47 PM #182This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Thing is our squad is full of guys playing in the premiership/championship and top of the SPL. That would suggest that we are producing some good players at least. We dont have that Star player a lot of other countries have but that apart our squad looks as good as a lot of other countries mentioned in this thread.
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10-09-2018 01:49 PM #183This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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10-09-2018 02:10 PM #185This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The game in Georgia again let us down. Ireland taking 4 points off of Germany didn’t help though.
Iceland would have got a play off place at least.
Sometimes in international football you have a golden generation. Iceland have had success in the last 5/6 years. They’ve been struggling this year. Humped by the Swiss. Maybe now their team is aging and they might drift away. Not sure who they have coming in.
For what it’s worth, I think we have a decent side. Centre backs aren’t great. Although, Soutar and McKenna have promise, so fingers crossed. Midfield looks good, Griffith’s will score goals against the lesser nations and that’s sometimes what we have lacked. Dropping points in those fixtures.
McBrunie will add to that and he’s only 21/22, so will improve.
McLeish wasn’t my choice like most folk, but he’s in the job and we have to support it.
He needs to figure out how we play Tierney and Robbo in the same team. Personally i’d go with Robbo at Left mid/wing and Tierney left back. I don’t think we’re good enough to play at back 3 that’s plays from back. Certainly against the top nations like Belgium.
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10-09-2018 02:11 PM #186This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Our weaknesses are in absolutely critical positions sadly.
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10-09-2018 02:35 PM #187This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Various other things are interlinked with that though. Rising affluence of the population relative to other countries/facilities for football/take up of other activities/weather
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10-09-2018 02:46 PM #188
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If we had just one or two decent players to build the team around, would at least be a start and maybe help drag others up a level or two. Wales is a bang average team excelling because of couple of great players. But in the last 20 years, cannot think of one Scottish player who would come close to an Arron Ramsay let alone Bale. Not one of the current squad would get into the England team.
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10-09-2018 04:24 PM #189
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Is Robertson knocking on the door of being "World Class"?
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10-09-2018 05:01 PM #190
Gylfi Sigurdsson is now 29.
I predict Iceland have one 4 year cycle left in their team before falling back into the also ran pack.
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10-09-2018 05:19 PM #191This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
As an aside, if you look at pictures of Fletcher before and after the ulcerative colitis, it's testimony to how good he is that he contained to play top level football afterwards.
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10-09-2018 05:19 PM #192This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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10-09-2018 06:11 PM #194
Over here the youth system is excellent. Kids normally start in teams between the ages of 4 and 6 but there's nothing stopping them joining later. All players need to have a player pass and their development is registered from the very start.
Each age group covers a period of 2 years so that the younger kids get to mix it with the older kids and vice versa. The rules of the game are kept very basic at the start and are increased every time the kids reach the next level. The pitches also grow in size every level until the kids are eventually playing 11 v 11 on full size pitches.
Another difference is that the football clubs themselves have a strong social aspect to them. Near enough every village has a football team and every football team has it's own bar/restaurant on site. This means that most of the kids parents get involved on a social level and identify themselves with the club their kids play for. My boy's team are playing Saturdays this year and most of the kids and parents hang around after the game to watch the first or second team play when we have home games. There's also the chance to sit outside the clubhouse with a pint and socialize with other parents whilst your kids are being put through their paces at training twice a week.
I used to play for a city team in Berlin before moving outside the city, my boy now playing for his local team has not only been fantastic for him in his development but has also played a huge role in the whole family integrating quickly into the local community. Any country would do well to look at the German way.
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10-09-2018 09:16 PM #195
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Decline? What decline? We’re flying high now.
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11-09-2018 10:50 AM #196This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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11-09-2018 11:34 AM #199This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Craig Brown and the like were used to waiting until 27 or 28 before giving good players their first cap.
Bertie was much maligned but he got some stuff bang on.
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12-10-2018 12:02 PM #200
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Based on last nights display, it's going to take a long long time before fortunes improve.
Over the last few years, we've had the odd decent display or even decent spell. But that only attempts to cover up the serious decline in the quality of the football played by the national team.
We've found our level in the 3rd tier of European Football and were comfortably beaten by team that looked to be heading the 4th tier. A defeat in Albania and a draw or loss at home to Israel might mean relegation to the 4th tier, where we'll compete against the minnows of European football.
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12-10-2018 04:08 PM #201
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Good piece from Tom English on bbc sport web site.
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12-10-2018 04:52 PM #202
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Vote for your worst 90 minutes as a Scotland fan?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45832167
Some horrific results in there, but I'm sure they missed a few. For example, Costa Rica and Iran - they'll be in the 'other'.
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12-10-2018 05:10 PM #203
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It bemuses me why anyone claims to be shocked by Scotland's ineptitude any more.
The 'decline' is not some recent phenomenon. It goes back decades, hence why we find ourselves in such a tinpot group in a tinpot tournament - and why we struggle even in such lowly company. Blaming McLeish is nonsense. We've been through about half a dozen managers since we last qualified for something and all have failed to get us to a major tournament. Even the dumbed-down Nations League, which is the equivalent of reducing the pass mark in an exam from 50% to 15% to try and give some of the serial non-qualifiers a much easier qualification route (quite how that's supposed to improve the quality of the football is questionable to say the least) seems too challenging for us.
I'm not sure what folk actually expect of Scotland any more. Whatever we once brought to the international stage is long gone. I gave up watching them more than a decade ago as it struck me there were better things to do with my time, which looks to have been a wiser decision with each passing year!
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12-10-2018 06:31 PM #206
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12-10-2018 06:32 PM #207This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
That's good to know
I go back to when I was growing up and living in Bruntsfield, on school hols we played on the links seven days a week, morning, afternoon then at night till dark, your parents always knew where you were and didn't worry
Until I retired recently I worked in Bruntsfield school and I never saw any kids playing football in the links in the holidays or any other time
Also, there is no primary school football league on a Saturday morning any more 🙄
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14-10-2018 05:50 PM #210
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Another embarrassing defeat. We can blame the manager. We can blame the players. But this has been going on for years.
When will those that administer Scottish football start doing something about it.
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