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  1. As I've said in another thread.. Throw money at Michael O'Neill to move from the north of Ireland. He will 100% set Scotand out to grind out results
  2. As an outsider looking in it always amazes me how Scotland in football just lack the belief and confidence required to get over the line. I'm convinced if you lot got a decent manager that played to your strengths then you'd start to grind out results. Scotland played responsibly well on Friday but there's zero chance Ireland or N.Ireland would've conceded three goals. I'm not saying we would've won but it certainly wouldn't have been 3-0. Scotland need a game plan that suits your strengths and you need to have a steely resolve. The outright hilarity of the TA's reaction to their Barcelonaesque passing the ball around against Germany and getting three points against us showed a weakness in the mentality. The job wasn't done. It was nowhere near done and then the collapse happened. I'm not saying this stuff to have a go but it's just a second set of eyes from the outside giving their opinion. We (Ireland) find ourselves in a fantastic position. Top of the group with Austria, Wales and Serbia all yet to visit Dublin and we're four points clear of Wales.. We're not getting carried away yet though. We don't play pretty but we're getting the job done. Scotland need to look at how we set up and how we manage results. If I was the SFA I would throw all sorts of Scottish Sterling at Michael O'Neill to leave N.Ireland. I'd have zero doubt he'd get Scotland back to the promised land. As a fellow football fan I'd urge you all to not stop believing. Three years ago we went to Austria and got humiliated 3-1 and the future couldn't have looked worse. Three years later we've since enjoyed a decent European Championship and automatic qualification is in our hands with four home games out of six remaining. If you cant believe in yourself Scotland then what's the point?
  3. To think this is the much hearlalded Scotland team of Sep to Nov 2014 which many Scots gloated about. How times have changed. Get a manager that plays to your strengths, changes the mentality and grinds out results no matter how bad the performance is. Simple
  4. Why always compare yourself to Ireland? Since 2009 Ireland have made a World Cup play off, qualified for Euro 2012, Euro 2016 (getting to the second round) and have beaten Germany, Italy and Bosnia in the past year. At the moment they're joint top in qualifying. It's quite clear they're better at the moment and have been for some time. Matches aren't won on a piece of paper by comparing which player plays for which club etc
  5. We got 43,000 in for the Georgia game on Thursday night. Cheapest tickets were €30 and the dearest around €80. Most empty seats in the premium section. How much do the SFA charge in Hampden?
  6. Ireland got 10 points from Germany & Georgia. Scotland got 3 points. There's the issue for you lads in the last group. All this despite Scotland playing incredible fluid attacking football with a better squad than Wales, Ireland & N.Ireland at their disposal. Dropped points to teams like Lithuania at home is the reason why you won't qualify or get a play off spot. In recent years Wales & N.Ireland haven't dropped many points at home & Ireland always find a way to beat lesser nations at home despite not playing well a lot of the time. Scotland need to change their mentality. It's simple as that.
  7. I think you'll find not beating Germany like Poland & Ireland did along with not getting 6 points against Georgia like Poland & Ireland did was also the reason for not qualifying.
  8. And Georgia were already out of qualifying when you lost to them. We play to our strengths. If you think our goals against Sweden and Italy came as a result of one dimensional hoofball then you need glasses.
  9. In the last 9 months Ireland have beaten Germany, Italia, Bosnia and should've beaten Sweden. They are now looking forward to a second round game against the hosts. Not bad for a lucky "pish" team that Scotland are better than.
  10. Thanks to all the decent TA who have wished us well. Wish you were with us travelling to France
  11. To put it into context if Scotland managed to find their way to France you'd be hard pushed to find somebody over who wouldn't be cheering on the Scots. Sadly that's not the case over with a lot of you in the UK
  12. Say what you want but there's an anti Irish sentiment in parts of Scotland which no doubt probably influenced Aidan and James becoming more proud of where their family came from. Twice I got called a "Fenian " on the walk home from Parkhead last Nov. I can only imagine the shite those lads had to put up with growing up in Scotland.
  13. Ach they play pish football, WGS has the TA playing 1970's Brazilian football. I cannae believe a pish team like Hungary are there and not the TA
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