I know what you are worried about after last night’s Scotland performance, “He’s going to throw James Forrest in now.” My feeling on the matter is that James, Callum and Kieran all need to ‘work on their fitness’ a bit.
Since managing Scotland for a few months in 2007, a period that included a 0-1 win in Paris, Alex McLeish has been found out in five subsequent appointments, ending ignominiously in North Africa. He has the look of what he is, a man earning enough to make good on a tax bill that recently came his way, and nothing else. Nice gig if you can get it. He also selects players who are banned for life from the national team.
Scotland have the players to beat the 94th team in the world but were not sufficiently competent to fix up a manager who already lives in the country but manages in Belfast, or conduct an adequate search for an alternative.
The result of this, is that fans stopped caring, as do many players, by the look of it. I don’t know a single person who was upset last night, the Scotland international football fascination is over. The once great endeavour of football as a self-contained unit in Scotland is over, everybody knows it. Send our players back to Lennoxtown as soon as possible, please.
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Any manager who has ever had, Peter Grant as, assistant manager, has ended up on the broo!
Any manager who has ever played Peter Grant in their team, has ended up on the broo!
Anywye,…..
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
jimthetim53, hi pal did you see the photos.
Very disappointed in Paul’s leader. Did he really write –
“I don’t know a single person who was upset last night,“
Paul, you evidently don’t know your readership. Your post is an insult to all Celtic fans who proudly support the Scottish national side. Including those that travelled to Israel.
Or do you believe their were NO Celtic fans there?
I don’t always agree with Paul’s comments (he is definitely becoming, more and more, a mouthpiece for the board), but today he reached a new low, imo.
My despair at watching my national team’s performance last night has been matched by reading today’s blog.
HH
G-D
On Tuesday, and after explaining in detail how difficult the task of managing and running a football team is, P67 wrote “Be like Martin, not Alan.” and then followed it up with ” People who offer simple solutions to complex problems usually have a huge knowledge gap.”
Am I the only one who thought/still thinks that was hysterically funny?
9 hours down 4 to go – got a feeling with my luck it’ll be delayed
Thank you MIT I loved it.
Feel as if I’m in that film ‘the terminal’ sure I’ve just spotted Tom hanks
Paul67 et al
Disappointed but not surprised at the result. McLeish should never have been near the job, but someone at the SFA thought he could do better than Strachan, whose team performed creditably in tough groups in two major qualifiers. As for playing Portugal, wasn’t the new tourney supposed to replace friendlies, and didn’t Portugal beat Poland away last night? It just gets worse and worse. The FWA, McLeish and McGregor invited back after leaving in disgrace, the attempt at the hunification of the Scotland team and support, which will fail miserably by the way, and the knowledge that no matter who is put in charge at the top, Farry, Regan, Doncaster, Maxwell, McRae et al the masonic cabal that runs Scottish football will continue to live well off the sport while contributing the total sum of nothing.
enjoy your retirement sammi
mcLeaish seemd ok til he went to Ibrox then he transformed into e typical bowling club bigot. He was cast in blue the day Alex rae kicked a players head while lying on ground and McLeaish defended him…
Kinglubo nail on head there me thinks.
D. :)
THOMTHETHIM
I have posted previously that nothing good can come of Celtic players playing for the current Scotland coach.
All they can learn is defeatism, bad tactics/habits and scapegoating.
KEV
It seems Peter only points downwards.
for my tuppenceworth, I admire call me Gerry and jobo for sticking to their guns, but I cannot support the corrupt and bigoted sfa, plus I must admit, only been to a handful of Scotland games, but everytime a celtic player touched the ball, you could here the boos ringing round.very sad.hh.
MiT
” Am I the only one who thought/still thinks that was hysterically funny?”
I would guess a few found it amusing whilst some others may have smiled at the irony but `hysterically funny`? Maybe you were / still are the only one :-))
JJ
PS Is the `Fall` in your area anything like it is in Upstate New York? I had a year there about forty years ago and found it remarkable.
BP1
The fact that you `admire` two Scottish guys for supporting the national team speaks volumes about others` feelings regarding the SFA.
JJ
On a cheerier note, here is the one and only Muddy, some rare Delta Blues for you.
Hope you enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0_eRVroLqs
KINGLuBO
BP
the pup photos were sent on to me. Quite the little charmer. Cheers
Hot Smoked….. If, like I do, you spend your days reading dry legal tomes, it probably does mess with one’s sense of humor somewhat….
:)
Paul 67…
Good article.
I’m one of those that went to Scotland games but to be honest I stopped when the SFA tried to keep sevco in the premier league.
I did watch the game last night and at halftime I put a couple of bets on an Israel win
Seeing how poor the team was set up.
Cashed out with 8 mins to go £160 up.?
Hot Smoked …
P67’s post the other day got me to pen a Derrida-inspired post that had me chuckling… but didn’t bother posting it, because, as you suggest, my sense of humor may be a bit different…
and today’s post and Maradominic’s post above had me going in a different Nietzchean-inspired direction … but old Frederick is definitely a bit less humorous, so, not sure that one (if I write it) will see the light of the CQN day….
just trying to freshen things up, as last night, my number 1 fan, TimmyHorton said that I am becoming too repetitive…. got to keep it fresh for my fans, ya know
MiT
Well you have retained yours as your droll reply confirms :-)). Nice one.
Kinglubo
An excellent number but not sure I would go along with the `On a cheerier note` description!
I`ve got an album `Great Blues Recordings of the 50`s and 60`s `and, surprisingly, very surprisingly, Muddy Waters is not included.
JJ
MiT My 4:29 was in response to your 4:18.
As regards this:
` just trying to freshen things up, as last night, my number 1 fan, TimmyHorton said that I am becoming too repetitive…`
You have said that already .
JJ
Just one quick word before I go.
Speaking to Jobo the other week, I said that I thought that the anti-Scotland feeling was really an anti-SFA sentiment. I would guess that the majority of those who have turned their backs on the Scotland Football team still favour Scotland in rugby, for instance, and support Scottish sportsmen and all other sports ( Huns excepted, of course).
Cheerio for now,
JJ
and women
Down to 2 hours – wait a minute back up to 3 – losing the will to live
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MARADOMINIC on 12TH OCTOBER 2018 3:37 PM
mcLeaish seemd ok til he went to Ibrox then he transformed into e typical bowling club bigot. He was cast in blue the day Alex rae kicked a players head while lying on ground and McLeaish defended him…
*he was cast in blue the day he rolled his trooser leg up and bared his breest.
GENE on 12TH OCTOBER 2018 5:03 PM
Down to 2 hours – wait a minute back up to 3 – losing the will to live
*could be worse Gene, oot walking the dug this morning and people were wearing parks, effin roddy mcdowall over here.
Gene- nothing worse than hanging about an airport….
Jimthetim53
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EDIT
I’m quite sure when the players get back to their respective clubs their managers will say something along the lines of “see everything McLeish said to you? Forget it!”
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…. and therein lies the problem.
Club managers have to eradicate the combined tactical know how of Eck, Pointer and Fad, then rebuild their confidence.
Even Robertson complained of being played out of position, but he will escape any criticism
Scotland jerseys should carry a health warning.
!!BADA BING!! on 12TH OCTOBER 2018 5:09 PM
Gene- nothing worse than hanging about an airport….
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Depends if the bar is open or not???
Airbräu Bar Munich airport
Pog, genauso! HH
TTT…
Scotland jerseys should carry a health warning.
Ask John Kennedy.
Ooh
Driving if I ever reach Manchester
Pog- fairly decent ?
Friesdorfer – less than €17 the lot. €2.75 for the Weißbier (500ml) that you wouldn’t get cheaper anywhere else.
Ps, Don’t even get me started on Brexit ?
Gene
If you drink all the water in the sea
then, You can walk all the way to Stoke on T.
HH
Scotland being the Scottish national team is a myth.
It was never thus.
It was a winter extension of the Bowling club mentality and demography.
As far back as the Jimmy Mc.Grory days and probably before, a Celtic player in the team was a last resort for selectors.
As far as the support was concerned, tickets for the bi-annual game at Wembley were not available to Celtic supporter groups, unless you drank in a non Celtic pub.
This was a true blue weekend away.
It was for this reason that the Celtic support adopted the away game in Aberdeen as the weekend trip. Of course the hun hoardes put an end to overnight stays after the game.
Then you had the constant barracking and booing of Celtic players who did get selected and became number one scapegoats for the media.
For anyone to then state that the SFA’s selection is a Scottish National team, deserving of universal support, is delusional.
That logic begs for every Scottish person to line up behind the Scottish Conservative Party or even the Scottish National Party and every other organisation with the word Scottish in front of it.
Wise up.