Scotland International Football Team

GreiginFife said:
Chip on my shoulder..ha guid one. But naw. Your diskike of anything or anyone connected to the Rangers is self evident from your post above assuming greed as the determiner and your posts on the other thread.
I on the other hand dont reallly care about either OF side and was asking about ability rather than motive. How that puts me in the chip category must be something that only OF fans understand.
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Assuming greed? Tell me what other reason there is to drop to the bottom level off football when you were playing and scoring in Europe the previous night. Can't be for the football is it?

I want the players that play for my national team to be playing st the highest level possible not going through the motions and picking their Money in the bottom tier of football.
 
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chris661 said:
Assuming greed? Tell me what other reason there is to drop to the bottom level off football when you were playing and scoring in Europe the previous night. Can't be for the football is it?

I want the players that play for my national team to be playing st the highest level possible not going through the motions and picking their Money in the bottom tier of football.
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Bottom line is if your good enough you should play. Therefore why the hell are Webster, Caldwell and Kenny bloody Miller playing???
 
thecraw said:
Bottom line is if your good enough you should play. Therefore why the hell are Webster, Caldwell and Kenny bloody Miller playing???
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Never said I agree with them either. I still want my national team to be picking players playing at the highest possible standard they can.
 
Anyway the problem isn't really to do with the players it's to do with the way they are used. It seems to me that levien. Sets the team up not to get best rather than trying to win. As has been said before he will most likely look at this as a point gained rather than two lost. He is the biggest problem we have at the minute.....
 
chris661 said:
Never said I agree with them either. I still want my national team to be picking players playing at the highest possible standard they can.
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If you are good enough you should play. If your the best central midfielder and play for Brechin City or Manchester City it makes no difference to me.

Fletcher situation plus continued failings plus that 4-6-0 formation means Levein should walk in my opinion.
 
Scotland, no matter how poor we have been in the past, have always had a few classy individual players.
We seem pretty stong on the 'team ethic' thing but give me the flare players anytime.
I don't mind seeing Scotland lose so long as we have given it a go and tried to win the match.
Watched the highlights [!!???] last night and we were pretty awful. Mind you the team higher in the rankings were just as bad.
Looked like they both wanted 'not to lose the game'.
 
chris661 said:
Never said I agree with them either. I still want my national team to be picking players playing at the highest possible standard they can.
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Then why no critisism of Miller as well. He has run off to the MLS retirement home. Plenty other forwards now playing at a higher level. He could still be playing in ECL but he chose a big final pay cheque in a lower league thats season does not run in line with our international calendar
 
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Was at the game yesterday and it's time for this utter tit of a man to piss off,we deserve so much better.Avril has no track record as a gaffer so why he got the job God only kens.after 20 minutes the crowd were screaming for change yet this clown could not see it,thank feck am no going to wales or brussels but am due to go to Serbia in march so pray he is gone by then.We have the players but the tactics from this clown are a farce and any managerial team that includes Kenny fecking Black deserve the punt.Raging is not the word!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
One up top?????? Unbeloodylievable!!

Those in charge need to act fast asthe Tartan Army are walking,poor ticket sales for the 1st two matches says what we are feeling.Sack the clown and appoint a gaffer with tactical nous and do it fast please!!!!
 
Bacon roll and cuppa taken and I've calmed down a bit so here we go.....

The fact we have so many average players means we have to get every single thing right in order to qualify.


Nobody could ever convince me that playing our best defender in midfield, weakening the defence and midfield in one fell swoop, is the right thing to do. A holding midfielder needs to be technically good, and move the ball on quickly and well. Having a centre back in there slows the game down. Used to having the whole game in front of him, a centre back is far more likely to get caught in possession in the middle of the park.


Adam at times was dropping even deeper than Caldwell, to do the 'holding' midfielder job, leaving a huge gap in midfield. It is far too defensive minded and it backfires. Play midfielders in midfield! He is forever saying how strong we are in midfield yet plays a centre back in there, so it makes no sense whatever way you cut it.


It took Levein 3 corners to realise that they were leaving 3 men up... against 2 of us. That isn't good enough.


We bring everybody back at corners, yet when one of their players went to get it short, only one of our players went out. It felt that at every single corner they had the option of taking it short. Again, not good enough. Then, because we bring everybody back, when we clear it, the ball just comes straight back.


The subs were far too late in coming.


The tactics (4-5-isolated 1 again??), selections (Miller was neither fit or in form), substitution timings, and post-game comments ("we played excellent stuff today") have all done nothing to change my long held view that Levein is completely out of his depth and is in no way an international manager.

Yet again most of the players looked totally lost and confused with this system that "the whole group are really comfortable with".I wont post anymore today as I'm so sick of this that I'll just get angry.


The manager has influence no matter what standard of player, so has to take sole blame.
 
Berra and Caldwell were doing OK in the middle in previous games , why change?
I don't really rate either of them highly but the Caldwell somehow seems to have the confidence of the Tartan Army and the manager. I must be missing something!
The goalie seems to be the only 'Scotland class' player we have at the moment.
 
I don't rate Caldwell either but he is our best defender at the moment.

Only passmarks yesterday go to Dixon and McShagger and possibly Forrest when he came on.

Dire.
 
Dodger said:
I don't rate Caldwell either but he is our best defender at the moment.

Only passmarks yesterday go to Dixon and McShagger and possibly Forrest when he came on.

Dire.
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You are right, he is our best but that is why we need a holding midfielder to sit in front of the back 4 and protect them. Other mangers ( burley and vogts) elected to do without the holding man and our defence got ripped apart. By playing the 5th man in midfield we look a lot more secure at the back but it leaves us one up top and toothless. If we Play 2 up top and the man sitting in front of back four means asking the remaining 3 in the middle to do too much work and the midfield just gets dominated.

It's been that way since the Roxburgh days
 
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