10-08-2015, 07:18 PM
Scotland to win tonight and Eire to draw with the Germans.
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(10-08-2015, 07:18 PM)dawyckstag Wrote: Scotland to win tonight and Eire to draw with the Germans.
(10-10-2015, 10:55 AM)frankthetank Wrote: Okay so a couple of days have passed since the poland match, what's people's thoughts on Gordon Strachan.
Should he be sacked/walk after the Gibraltar game on Sunday, or should he be allowed to continue and take us into the next qualifying group??
(10-12-2015, 06:42 PM)Forfinn Wrote: Alex McLeish is out of work, but better than Strachan? I think that would be hard to prove when you compare their career stats.
Alex Ferguson would be great, but I think we can safely say he won't be interested.
(10-12-2015, 10:57 AM)Forfinn Wrote: I would ask anyone who doesn't want Strachan to continue; who could we get in that's better?
(10-13-2015, 08:58 PM)frankthetank Wrote: I know what your saying and I deliberately didn't go into the subject of who i;d like to become the new boss.Did he not fail with Blackburn though ,
Is the lack of a decent replacement the one redeeming feature for wee Gord?
I want to look at what has just happened, where we now are and what we know that lies ahead.
Point one, what has just happened; we've failed poorly, i mean fourth behind poland and ireland and beaten 2-0 (without a shot in anger too) against Georgia!
Point two; We have an ageing mediocre team, we ARE a team which was more than could be said under Levein. Strachan's over reliance of celtic players has cost him in this last campaign Brown, Forrest, Mulgrew are all way over rated and should be squad players at best if indeed they are even playing well for their club team.
Point three; What we know the lies ahead, as in the World Cup qualifying group with england, slovakia, slovenia and lithuania. After failing to even get into the top three in the last group I just can't see how we can hope to get into the top two in this new group![]()
I just don't see the fact that there isn't an obvious replacement to Strachan as a reason to reward him with an extended contract, it smacks of rewarding failure imo.
Personally I'd like to see Steve Clarke offered the job, he's a renowned top coach and has done at the highest level and without the day to day club manager stuff to deal with like the buying and selling of players I think he could do a good job. A big plus for me would be that he has no old firm connection, so i'd hope he would pick players on merit not reputation.
(10-13-2015, 09:06 PM)Ross shire buff Wrote: Did he not fail with Blackburn though ,
(10-13-2015, 09:20 PM)frankthetank Wrote: With the Venkies or whatever they're called calling the shots at blackburn, i;d imagine it wasn't an easy manager chairman relationship. That's way i say without the day to day crap to deal with in club management Clarke could stick to the coaching and player management which he's made his name in.
(10-14-2015, 10:07 AM)frankthetank Wrote: I've nothing against Strachan and I'll fully support and wish the best to him or whoever else gets the job, I'm Scottish and been a tartan army member for years.
I've just never before seen so much apathy for our national team after a failed qualifying campaign.
If Strachan was in a job interview for the Scotland managers job, would his point of selling himself to his employers be that although he couldn't finish above Ireland or poland, he's the guy to get us above Slovakia and Slovenia. And there's no point trying anyone else as they're all rubbish?
I believe that we can and should be better than fourth behind Ireland and I'm not convinced Strachan can do that!