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  1. I am seriously using the last two games of the campaign as examples. Part of the reason folk think that you’re a troll is because you start posts with things like “are you for real?” and "you can’t be serious about…”. You are also prone to hyperbole, literally no one thinks everything is "rosie", so people's heads can all stay exactly where they are. Another reason folk think you’re a troll is because you jump around and constantly move the goalposts. I was seriously using the last two games of the campaign to make a point out about the argument that Clarke doesn’t have a plan B because he hasn’t tried different style of play from the start of games. That’s a direct quote from you by the way “actually trying out a different style of playing before the match starts would help”. We lined up differently in the last two games of the campaign, compared to how we started the other matches, and lined up differently again on Friday in Amsterdam. To suggest that Clarke doesn’t to try out different styles of play is clearly false. We looked a bit shonky in defence in those last two games of the campaign because, as you rightly point out, we’ve got about 11 or 12 really good players, but if a couple of those players are injured or underperforming it really shows. It’s got nothing to do with Clarke not trying out different styles of play. Similarly, we lost the game in Amsterdam because we failed to take any of the multiple chances that we created (while playing a different style of play than usual) and then switched off at the back in the final quarter. Lack of depth to the squad also came in to play as The Netherlands improved their attacking threat from the bench, whereas our bench weakened us overall. TL/DR: our underperforming in recent matches has far more to do with lack of depth to the squad and very little to do with Steve Clarke not having a Plan B, which he clearly does – along with a Plan C and D.
  2. Hiya Scotty, nice to see you in a different thread. Do you mean like we did against Georgia away and Norway at home, where we started with a different formation to our usual 5-4-1? Or Amsterdam last week where Christie was up with Shankland from the start in a 5-3-2 or 5-3-1-1. Certainly caught the Dutch by surprise, till they figured out we were having a goal drought.
  3. Would a "Plan B" include changing formation by putting Lewis Ferguson on when Robertson goes off injured? Cause he tried that on Tuesday and it didn't have much impact...
  4. Takes designed to get a reaction include: - Crediting McLeish with our recent success - 'Everyone' expected us to get past the group stages in the 80s and 90s - Ferguson and Shankland got 'fuck all' minutes these last two games - We should try McGinn upfront, 'he could be the new Fabregas'
  5. So we didn't qualify for the World Cup in 94, didn't make it out of the group (and only scored one goal in three games) at Euro 96, but we were "favourites along with Brazil" to progress from the group stages for the first time in our history? Aye, very good. He thinks you're a troll with exaggerated zany takes intended to deliberately provoke a reaction. Are you?
  6. Kilt and a Scotland top on matchdays. Given the expected temperatures, talcum powder will also be a must. I'll stick the kilt on other days when I'm there, depending when the mood takes me. The day after a Scotland win I'll be likely to have it on.
  7. It's got some zingers in it. It's amazing what qualifying for a tournament with a couple of games to spare can do. What's your opinion on the Billy Connolly song 'Evil Scotsman' and how do you make roasted cheese?
  8. So you think it's fine that a home friendly before a major tournament wasn't a sell out and there is literally nothing the SFA could done to shift more tickets?
  9. You're just making stuff up now. In the run up to France 98 - Paw Broon said that we were the underdogs of the group. We had an ageing and probably the weakest ever squad we'd taken to a tournament at that stage (and we'd never progressed beyond the group stages with better squads). We had the reigning champions and eventual finalists in the opening game - a real possibility was a hammering that we'd never recover from and our World Cup being over before it started. Morocco were the top team in Africa (Pele had said an African team would win the World Cup before the end of the century) and the team's official song was "Don't Come Home Too Soon". The last time we were confident of doing something at a tournament was Argentina 1978. Since then, and including the 1980s, expectations when we have qualified have been tempered that to get out of the group would be an unprecedented success.
  10. Aye, there's always one of them with their arms out-stretched. 😂 And neither the police nor the stewards intervened, amazing.
  11. Your second sentence contradicts your first. Folk are saving for Germany, and they can watch the game in their house, which means folk need an extra incentive to got to the game. I wonder what incentive that might be? 🤔
  12. These are terrible examples of chants that are aggravating/confrontational Everywhere they go Scotland get battered - we haven't won a game in the last seven. Lost 4-0 on Friday and were losing to Northern Ireland at the time. At the moment it does feel like the team get battered everywhere they go. John McGinn - you're a wanker. Scotland fans sang this in Oslo to Haaland and its pretty standard to hear fans sing that about their opponent's best player. If anything its a compliment that a) they have heard of one your players and b) singled them out for attention. We've also got a song about Scotland having a party and Haaland being in his bed, is that aggravating/confrontational? Off to the Euros - you're havin a laugh. They're right - we're off to the Euros and are playing some pretty worrying football on the pitch, whilst losing to Northern Ireland. Fair enough criticising Northern Ireland for having GSTK and other bits and pieces that lean into the sectarian pish and alienate half their population, but the above examples are just standard football fare.
  13. Easy Logan, because you are a multi-millionaire Chief Executive of a publicly traded media conglomerate, you are not the typical football punter. 17,000 folk decide not to go to a football game. Aye, sure – they’re solely to blame. Also, you’re wrong. Top prices at both Fir Park and Pittodrie for this coming Saturday are £26 each.
  14. Yes mate, I am indeed “for real”. Shankland played two thirds of the game in Amsterdam, during which time this “natural finisher” missed the biggest opportunity to score at a crucial stage of the game. He tucks away that chance and he's undroppable, but he didn't, so he's not. He also had opportunities to score on Tuesday night that he didn’t take. Ferguson came on in the 69th minute in Amsterdam, during which time we totally collapsed. Not primarily his fault but hardly cries the “positive game-changer” that demands he should start ahead of anyone else. On Tuesday night he came on for a left back (somebody earlier in the thread says Clarke doesn’t have a Plan B, - that’s clearly untrue) for the guts of an hour. While he was pretty decent, he didn’t do enough to merit the clamour for him to undoubtedly start before any of our other midfielders. Ferguson will get his chance once our current crop of first picks start to fade, but starting him now only because he has the prospects to be our main player in the future is paradoxical thinking. Shankland got about 80 minutes over the two games and Ferguson just over 70 minutes – hardly “fuck-all”. As for playing McGinn as a striker – are you for real?
  15. The attendance on Tuesday clearly points to the SFA getting the price of the ticket wrong. I'm aware that the Portugal game in October is sold out, so it seems like the pricing for the Nations League games are fine. But the price of a friendly at Hampden needs to be rethought.
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