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  1. 21-02-2019 11:57 AM #1
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    Players who should have gained more international caps

    How come Jimmy Johnstone only won 23 Scotland caps? Surely on of the best players we've ever produced.

    Who else do you feel should have won far more?
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  2. 21-02-2019 11:59 AM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hibernia&Alba View Post
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    How come Jimmy Johnstone only won 23 Scotland caps? Surely on of the best players we've ever produced.

    Who else do you feel should have won far more?
    Alex ( Mickey) Edwards
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  3. 21-02-2019 12:00 PM #3
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    Pat Stanton, John Brownlie, John Blackley, Alex Cropley.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MB62 View Post
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    Pat Stanton, John Brownlie, John Blackley, Alex Cropley.
    Stanton only getting 16 caps is scandalous.
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  5. 21-02-2019 12:04 PM #5
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    I read more than a few times that Gordon Smith barely got capped because the SFA selectors preferred some inferior Rangers player.
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    Billy McNeill only got 29. That's a big surprise.
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    Derek Riordan only got 3 caps. Should have had way more imo
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    Quote Originally Posted by My_Wife_Camille View Post
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    Derek Riordan only got 3 caps. Should have had way more imo
    Great shout.
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    Alex Edwards.

    One of the most skilful and cleverest midfielders / passers of a ball in British football for several years. Not one full Scottish cap.

    Criminal.
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    Davie Cooper only got 22 caps. He was tremendous.
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    Jock Wallace once famously said to him at Shotts on the way to watch Scotland v Italy “ Your heids full of nonesense son! You should be playing tonight!”
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    Craig Brewster should have picked up a few caps.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hibernia&Alba View Post
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    How come Jimmy Johnstone only won 23 Scotland caps? Surely on of the best players we've ever produced.

    Who else do you feel should have won far more?
    From a similar era (Hibs ones mentioned above too) but Bobby Lennox 10 caps is a paltry amount too
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  15. 21-02-2019 12:19 PM #15
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    Duncan Ferguson springs to mind.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wakeyhibee View Post
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    From a similar era (Hibs ones mentioned above too) but Bobby Lennox 10 caps is a paltry amount too
    That really is.

    What's the reason for these players being overlooked? It's baffling. The likes of Johnstone, Lennox, Cooper were world class players.
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  17. 21-02-2019 12:21 PM #17
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hibernia&Alba View Post
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    Stanton only getting 16 caps is scandalous.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Diclonius View Post
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    I read more than a few times that Gordon Smith barely got capped because the SFA selectors preferred some inferior Rangers player.
    Absolutely true!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by 90+2 View Post
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    Duncan Ferguson springs to mind.
    Fell out with the SFA big time over the McStay Affair that led to a prison sentence
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    Quote Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS View Post
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    Fell out with the SFA big time over the McStay Affair that led to a prison sentence
    He played after this. Think his last game was the replayed away match in Estonia. Whole game we just punted the ball at him. 0-0 and he thought **** this.

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    Eric Stevenson and John Brown
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    It's worth remembering that, clear Old Firm/Rangers bias aside when it comes to selection, there were - unless I'm mistaken, less international games - both friendlies and in the qualifying process - back in the 60's and 70's.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby View Post
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    Re Brown, it was a bit unusual that a guy who was a mainstay of Rangers' 9 in a row team didn't even manage to get one cap.

    He was a good player.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hibernia&Alba View Post
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    How come Jimmy Johnstone only won 23 Scotland caps? Surely on of the best players we've ever produced.

    Who else do you feel should have won far more?
    Alan Hansen
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  26. 21-02-2019 01:02 PM #26
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    Never understood how Antti Niemi never got a cap for Scotland.


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    Alan Gordon and Donald Ford. The nearest Gordon got was to play for the Rest of the World team against West Germany in Uwe Seeler's testimonial.

    I think Ford only got one or two caps despite scoring consistently for Hearts.
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    Preferred McLeish and Miller. I will never forgive him for his mistake against Russia.
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    Erich Schaedler should've got more than his one cap.
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    If we are talking about out with the Old Firm All the Famous five .. Pat Stanton..Willie Hamilton..Alex Edwards.. Crops .
    ERIC Stevenson ..John Brownlie ..John Blackley.lots of players from provincial clubs also
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