Isreal V Scotland Euro playoff

[Moomin]

Scotland was a nation that brought through some cracking footballers in the 70's and 80's

Sadly those days are long gone and they are the shame of the home nations these past few decades.

Can they qualify for a major tournament this century?? only time will tell and can they qualify by beating that European nation sandwiched between Egypt and Syria????

 

[Goat]

Stuart Armstrong, Kieran Tierney and Ryan Christie will all miss Scotland's Euro 2020 play-off semi-final against Israel on Thursday after the former tested positive for Covid-19.


Yikes.

 

[barneygumble]

Would love them to get through because I’ve got tickets for potentially Scotland Vs. Czech’s at the Euros and that would be immense in Glasgow.

But no way they’re winning away at Serbia or Norway, especially if the latter has King, Haaland etc up top.

 

[DanB90]

They stand a good chance if they can keep McCarthy fit.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

No.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Might be able to squeeze past these but the final maybe a step too far.

 

[Daz1878]

Will the draft-dodging rat play this time, though? The man Paddy Power reported as being "ruled out of Scotland's trip to Kazakhstan after suffering with a case of **** that" when he had a toothache last year. Always fit & able for the RS, naturally.

 

[barneygumble]

Don’t actually think any of the Home Nations will progress from the Qualifiers.

Ireland would have to beat Slovakia away and I’m not entirely sure Northern Ireland stand a chance at Bosnia, since O’Neill left.

Scotland can’t and won’t beat Norway. If Serbia beat Norway they’ve slightly better chances.

 

[number4.]

Stuart Armstrong, Kieran Tierney and Ryan Christie will all miss Scotland's Euro 2020 play-off semi-final against Israel on Thursday after the former tested positive for Covid-19.


Yikes.

& forced into 14 days isolation so Tierney will miss Arsenals next game (possibly two)

 

[Wat Tyler]

Hope they beat these snides.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Someone must be able to put a finger on why Scotland have been so bad since the late 90's?

How can it turnover so many quality players and then just stop.

 

[Moomin]

Someone must be able to put a finger on why Scotland have been so bad since the late 90's?

How can it turnover so many quality players and then just stop.

Ale and smack.

 

[number4.]

Someone must be able to put a finger on why Scotland have been so bad since the late 90's?

How can it turnover so many quality players and then just stop.

One major factor that has impacted on both Irish and Scottish football is the internationalisation (not a real word apologies) of the PL; there was always a route for Good Irish & Scottish boys to develop and come through at the English academies, but this route has a much wider pool making it harder for Irish/Scottish talent to progress through the YTS style model

 

[WA Toffee]

Someone must be able to put a finger on why Scotland have been so bad since the late 90's?

How can it turnover so many quality players and then just stop.

Few reasons. There was always a steady supply of Scotlands youngster to the English league where they developed into top players, but English teams have been looking further afield for cheaper top players.
Scottish teams themselves have also been signing cheap overseas players, or in Rangers case in the 90s, expensive overseas players.

I would assume there is also a major drop in coaching standards and structure which looks like it may be getting better as Scotland has been producing better players recently.

 

[bluenorsky]

it's a shame , I can go from the days of Bobby Collins, Gabby,Golden Vision, Gough,Weir,and others.
I always felt the Scots ,rightly or wrongly, had that little bit extra in aggression and skill.