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My great grandfather was Spanish, I might use that loophole.
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10-09-2019 04:19 PM #391
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10-09-2019 04:24 PM #392This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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10-09-2019 04:47 PM #393
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10-09-2019 05:05 PM #394
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10-09-2019 05:06 PM #395This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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10-09-2019 06:22 PM #396
I’ve been thinking a lot about this today - would it be unreasonable to suggest that the SPL trying to get sky to give them more money is where the cracks start to show?
It’s a long time ago but the malaise around the Scottish national team really started around that time, and what we’re seeing now is the general decline of the standard of the Scottish game because we can’t compete with England to hold on to the best Scottish players. As a result a lot of them will go down south, bumble about for a few years and come back again or stay in Scotland playing lesser opposition. So we then have a situation where all we do (or this seemed to be the case a few years ago) is look for anyone who is eligible and playing in England and offer them caps.
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10-09-2019 06:32 PM #397
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10-09-2019 06:35 PM #398
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10-09-2019 06:53 PM #399
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10-09-2019 07:08 PM #400
Here's my tuppence worth. Two things need to change or we will be stuck in this decline.
Firstly we need to coach kids properly at youth level. They are being taught all about fitness and pace and are not coached in game awareness and touch.The russians looked like they had an extra man such was their movement but they are an average team. The bigger youth setups just hoover up the best players and win trophies.
You only have to look how few guys we are producing for the hibs first team. The talent is there if coached properly and countries like Croatia have shown its nothing to do with population.
Secondly we have to make the spl competetive. Its no coincidence we struggled internationally since tbr bigot bros stopped having fetgie to deal with. I know it wont happen but unless we have hibs, Hertz snd the dons up there then the bigot Bros will just have teams full of non scots.Im not optimistic at either youth level or spl so im afraid we are in for years of turgid stuff im afraid.
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10-09-2019 07:40 PM #401
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10-09-2019 09:22 PM #403
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I listened to the podcast about Belgian football that was put up either on this thread or one of the similar ones. The bits about encouraging dribbling instead of passing at a young age was quite interesting, because it's easy to pass, but more difficult to learn to dribble. That was something I'd never thought of.
Also listened to the podcast with a Croatian coach. A Croatian grass roots coach needs to go through nearly 200 hours of learning to take a team. For a Scottish coach it's only about 6! No wonder their coaches are better than ours.
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10-09-2019 09:38 PM #405This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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10-09-2019 10:25 PM #407
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10-09-2019 10:26 PM #408This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
A good player by all accounts.
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10-09-2019 10:28 PM #409
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11-09-2019 06:30 AM #410
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Scotland u21s beat Croatia away last night. Perhaps there are decent Scottish players coming through now...?
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11-09-2019 06:54 AM #411This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
A far better indicator is how many under 21’s are in the full national squad. On the face of it beating Croatia is a great result but how many of the best Croatian under 21’s are in their full set up? I’ve no idea if the answer to that question by the way, it could be none, as a general rule though I don’t think results for the under age groups is really a pointer either way. I’d rather we lost 10 nil last night but had 4 under 21 players making a positive impact in the senior side, same applies to the younger age groups at Hibs.
That said, still nice to see Scotland winning at last and won’t do the confidence of the youngsters any harm.
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11-09-2019 07:27 AM #412
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11-09-2019 09:51 AM #414This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I wonder how much time those on here who are castigating the PlayStation generation spend glued to a mobile phone or laptop themself, quite possibly arguing the toss on this site?
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11-09-2019 10:24 AM #415This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Vlasic, Brekalo, Katie, Benkovic, Caleta-Car and Palaversa.
I wouldn't use a fluke u21 win to say the game will improve any time soon.
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11-09-2019 10:33 AM #416This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
the history books won't show that, the score stands
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11-09-2019 10:35 AM #417
we do appear to be a bit of a hoodoo to the full croatian team over the years
P5 W2 D3...........can we play them every week :)
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11-09-2019 10:39 AM #418
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11-09-2019 10:42 AM #419
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In fact our under 21s, who are unquestionably part of the social media generation just beat Croatia on their own patch last night.
What the answer is I don't know but blaming screens isn't it.
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11-09-2019 10:50 AM #420
shut off streets from traffic and let the kids play football....with a tennis ball, that's how we honed our technical skills back in the day
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