The Scotland Thread

[smokie36]

I'm hoping for an England win.

 

The cruelty of football! 

[smokie36]

Just give Sir Alex ten mins with the team before the Slovakia game! 

[owl sees all]

A couple of pals and myself had set ourselves a little teaser until we meet up again next Sunday.

 

01 Since WW2 pick an English team

02 Since WW2 pick a team from UK and Ireland

03 Any time foreigners (not 01, 02) that have played in UK

 

I have 5 scots to consider for #02.

 

Dave Mackay

Kenny Dalglish

Jim Baxter

John white

Denis Law

 

Any suggestions?

 

[Jockstar]

On 9/12/2017 at 4:37 PM, owl sees all said:

A couple of pals and myself had set ourselves a little teaser until we meet up again next Sunday.

 

01 Since WW2 pick an English team

02 Since WW2 pick a team from UK and Ireland

03 Any time foreigners (not 01, 02) that have played in UK

 

I have 5 scots to consider for #02.

 

Dave Mackay

Kenny Dalglish

Jim Baxter

John white

Denis Law

 

Any suggestions?

 

Davy Cooper

[owl sees all]

1 hour ago, Jockstar said:

Davy Cooper

Thanks for that JS. You know I could only just remember him. I looked him up on the fooball sites and read more. A very talented footballer.

 

"Dutch international Ruud Gullit played against Davie Cooper in a friendly match for Feyenoord against Rangers, after which he called Cooper one of the greatest players he had ever seen. Gullit later named Cooper in his greatest XI in football magazine 4-2-4."

 

The two that I'm inclinded to put up into my team are Richard Gough and Colin Hendry.

[smokie36]

Jimmy Johnstone...the Miller/McLeish partnership.

 

Alan Hansen...Graeme Souness.

[owl sees all]

16 minutes ago, RonniePickering22 said:

Jimmy Johnstone.

I saw him play many times. He played is best stuff at home. Rarely did it away.

[smokie36]

35 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

I saw him play many times. He played is best stuff at home. Rarely did it away.

 

Before my time really...I've only seen a few old clips.

[smokie36]

Davie Cooper btw such a great shout.

 

Could beat anyone on his day....just a fantastic winger.

[oldgit]

George Best, Charlie Cooke.

[Bredbury Blue]

John Robertson.

[Jockstar]

Mo Johnston and Ally McCoist for goals


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[champers]

Danny McGrain at right back?

[Jockstar]

Get that into you. About time we had a bit of luck. Totally deserved. Their keeper was outstanding.

[smokie36]

21 minutes ago, Jockstar said:

Get that into you. About time we had a bit of luck. Totally deserved. Their keeper was outstanding.

 

The dream is alive.

 

See you in Moscow I hope JS! 

[Jockstar]

 
The dream is alive.
 
See you in Moscow I hope JS! 

Are you paying?


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[mrbojangles]

21 hours ago, RonniePickering22 said:

See you in Moscow I hope JS! 

Must have a bladdy death wish

[smokie36]

7 minutes ago, mrbojangles said:

Must have a bladdy death wish

 

Hopefully England will be sent to play their group matches in Siberia.

[mommysboy]

Scotland appear to have a repertoire of failure that is seemingly inexhaustible when it comes to negotiating final hurdles.  Yet, it should be noted that this time the seeds were sown in the early games.  Indeed, a draw against Slovenia is a decent result, as they are pretty useful on their own mud heap.  Also, they drew with England and beat Slovakia- a work in progress perhaps!  It would be a mistake to lose Strachan!

 

As an Englishman, it's interesting to consider why the EPL based players have been eclipsed by their SPL peers: because of course England as a team draw from the EPL, and they too are woefully underperforming.

[3 minus 2]

  Words fail me... i 'de say 'unlucky' .. but we know its not  ?

 

 

 

[smokie36]

1 hour ago, 3 minus 2 said:

  Words fail me... i 'de say 'unlucky' .. but we know its not  ?

 

 

 

 

Belgium are a huge nation with 200m people...oh wait....!

 

No words for that apart from freck off you Eenglish barstids.

[3 minus 2]

3 minutes ago, RonniePickering22 said:

 

Belgium are a huge nation with 200m people...oh wait....!

 

No words for that apart from freck off you Eenglish barstids.

Yeah.yeah yeah if u included all the scot's that have left their homeland..  the 5 mil pop difence would probably b a lot smaller ?as 4 the quality disparity ... who knows   but one things 4

sure ATM your team is more than struggling its proper crap..and looks a long long  way from emerging as a force

[smokie36]

33 minutes ago, 3 minus 2 said:

Yeah.yeah yeah if u included all the scot's that have left their homeland..  the 5 mil pop difence would probably b a lot smaller ?as 4 the quality disparity ... who knows   but one things 4

sure ATM your team is more than struggling its proper crap..and looks a long long  way from emerging as a force

 

Sterling you gimp.

[Bredbury Blue]

Probably up until the end of 70s, maybe in to the 80s, Scotland used to produce great individuals and a lot of very decent quality internationals.
1. What's the theory behind why that stopped and in recent times there's no great or decent players?
2. Who was the last great player produced?

 

[Scott]

Troll post reported and removed. 

[3 minus 2]

7 hours ago, RonniePickering22 said:

 

Sterling you gimp.

Yeah i blame brexit.. its just  totally piss poor   exept gainst  brazil and mexican ..?

[Bredbury Blue]

^In an effort to answer my own questions (above) i had a read around and found this great long article from 2004, in which the reasons for the decline listed are many, the decline commenced around 1985 (seems to fit with my memories of Scottish players over the decades) and "...Lambert and Collins being the last world class players produced in Scotland, it is, of course, debatable as to whether they are that but, what is not up for dispute is that..." (Lambert i didn't see alot of but i was an admirer of Collins in that great Fulham footballing side).

The Death of Scottish Football
http://www.thefootballlife.co.uk/post/86426396656/the-death-of-scottish-football

[smokie36]

Can someone kindly post a link showing how to ignore a poster on here since one of them is utterly deserving of it.

 

Thanks.

[mrbojangles]

8 minutes ago, RonniePickering22 said:

Can someone kindly post a link showing how to ignore a poster on here since one of them is utterly deserving of it.

 

Thanks.

Hover above the username of the member you want to ignore and a window opens up. At the bottom is "ignore user" click on that

[smokie36]

43 minutes ago, mrbojangles said:

Hover above the username of the member you want to ignore and a window opens up. At the bottom is "ignore user" click on that

 

Thanks mrboj....now I shall not have to read the ramblings of an utter buffoon.