Robbored Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 To world rated 94th Israel............. Meanwhile another small country, Iceland were unlucky not to beat World Champs France........conceding two late goals to earn an impressive draw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Dicks Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 Ah Iceland, not too bad if my memory serves me correct...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supercidered Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 1 hour ago, Robbored said: To world rated 94th Israel............. Meanwhile another small country, Iceland were unlucky not to beat World Champs France........conceding two late goals to earn an impressive draw. It's a :laugh: from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBobSuperBob Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 Job for Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterStyvarsRightFoot Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 Today’s edition of “ what could go wrong “ Malky Mackay travels to Haifa.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsofclay Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 Scotland had their best team, in recent decades, in 1978 and had they had a better goalkeeper, better full backs, a great centre back to partner Gordon McQueen, an extra two great midfielders to compliment Souness and Gemmill they would've been world class. They also wore a blue version of the City umbro kit at the time. It has to be remembered, however, that Scotland were consistently the world's number two ranked football nation for three quarters of a century from 1872. That takes some doing, although Wales and Ireland/Northern Ireland ran them close at times and the Isle of Man would've been ranked above them for most of that time but were banned from playing international football because they insisted on staging their home fixtures on a pitch which incorporated their flag in the design and the authorities didn't want to encourage the playing of international matches over three legs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 3 hours ago, Robbored said: To world rated 94th Israel............. Meanwhile another small country, Iceland were unlucky not to beat World Champs France........conceding two late goals to earn an impressive draw. Ah, you do love a wind up where Scotland is concerned! Presumably you are aware they were unbeaten in their previous seven meaningful fixtures before last night - winning five and drawing two? Including a draw vs England? Not too shabby...yet you mischievously say they lost ‘again’...you old tinker! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 What a joke this is. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45829386 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBobSuperBob Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 36 minutes ago, handsofclay said: Scotland had their best team, in recent decades, in 1978 and had they had a better goalkeeper, better full backs, a great centre back to partner Gordon McQueen, an extra two great midfielders to compliment Souness and Gemmill they would've been world class. They also wore a blue version of the City umbro kit at the time. It has to be remembered, however, that Scotland were consistently the world's number two ranked football nation for three quarters of a century from 1872. That takes some doing, although Wales and Ireland/Northern Ireland ran them close at times and the Isle of Man would've been ranked above them for most of that time but were banned from playing international football because they insisted on staging their home fixtures on a pitch which incorporated their flag in the design and the authorities didn't want to encourage the playing of international matches over three legs. Fair play You continue to come out with historical stuff I’ve never read or heard of Learn something every day n all that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coxy27 Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 1 hour ago, BS4 on Tour... said: Ah, you do love a wind up where Scotland is concerned! Presumably you are aware they were unbeaten in their previous seven meaningful fixtures before last night - winning five and drawing two? Including a draw vs England? Not too shabby...yet you mischievously say they lost ‘again’...you old tinker! Using the word 'meaningful' is a clever way to skip the fact that that's 4 defeats in the last 5 games. I personally enjoyed the headline that the BBC went with... "Ten-man Scotland embarrassed in Israel" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 2 hours ago, Coxy27 said: Using the word 'meaningful' is a clever way to skip the fact that that's 4 defeats in the last 5 games. I personally enjoyed the headline that the BBC went with... "Ten-man Scotland embarrassed in Israel" So you think friendlies should count in a club or country’s record? Good grief, you must go beserk whenever City lose a pre season meaningless game...Weston super Mare beat us in a friendly before our double winning season - presumably that was an important game to you so you were calling for Cotts’ head before the ‘meaningful’ games started? And back in 2010 we were thrashed 5-2 by Clevedon Town in a pre season friendly whilst also losing to Torquay, Aldershot, Exeter and Helsingborgs in the warm up games...and all that as a championship club...you must have been furious and undoubtedly you were howling for GJ to be sacked after such a disgraceful run of results in ‘meaningless’ games....so, Scotland’s recent record (World Cup Qualifying games and Euro Nations League) - Pd 8 Won 5 Drawn 2 Lost 1.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
22A Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 8 hours ago, Robbored said: To world rated 94th Israel............. Meanwhile another small country, Iceland were unlucky not to beat World Champs France........conceding two late goals to earn an impressive draw. Israel had lost their previous four home games. "That's OK lads; it's Scotland next"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
When the river runs Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 5 hours ago, handsofclay said: Scotland had their best team, in recent decades, in 1978 and had they had a better goalkeeper, better full backs, a great centre back to partner Gordon McQueen, an extra two great midfielders to compliment Souness and Gemmill they would've been world class. They also wore a blue version of the City umbro kit at the time. It has to be remembered, however, that Scotland were consistently the world's number two ranked football nation for three quarters of a century from 1872. That takes some doing, although Wales and Ireland/Northern Ireland ran them close at times and the Isle of Man would've been ranked above them for most of that time but were banned from playing international football because they insisted on staging their home fixtures on a pitch which incorporated their flag in the design and the authorities didn't want to encourage the playing of international matches over three legs. That was in the days when they had true Scotsman playing as well. Nowadays they just take Englishman who can't play for they're first choice team and qualify by way of they're great great Nan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coxy27 Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 35 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said: So you think friendlies should count in a club or country’s record? Good grief, you must go beserk whenever City lose a pre season meaningless game...Weston super Mare beat us in a friendly before our double winning season - presumably that was an important game to you so you were calling for Cotts’ head before the ‘meaningful’ games started? And back in 2010 we were thrashed 5-2 by Clevedon Town in a pre season friendly whilst also losing to Torquay, Aldershot, Exeter and Helsingborgs in the warm up games...and all that as a championship club...you must have been furious and undoubtedly you were howling for GJ to be sacked after such a disgraceful run of results in ‘meaningless’ games....so, Scotland’s recent record (World Cup Qualifying games and Euro Nations League) - Pd 8 Won 5 Drawn 2 Lost 1.... International friendlies count towards a nation's world ranking. If, as you seem to be implying here, Scotland simply don't try in these 'meaningless' matches, then really they're shooting themselves in the foot. Moreover, statistics show that around 50% of matches taken into account in the FIFA world rankings are friendlies (granted, this will change somewhat going forward for European teams given the formation of the UEFA Nations League). So, you (and indeed the entire nation of Scotland) may not consider these friendlies to be meaningful, but it seems like they are to me (and those who run football). Perhaps sitting a little prettier in the rankings would lead to more conquerable qualifying draws (avoiding the might of nations such as Israel!) and perhaps even an appearance at a truly meaningful competition... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glen humphries Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 5 hours ago, BobBobSuperBob said: Job for Lee I’ll drive him up there ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshtonPark Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 Not city related or England don’t care Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 2 hours ago, Coxy27 said: International friendlies count towards a nation's world ranking. If, as you seem to be implying here, Scotland simply don't try in these 'meaningless' matches, then really they're shooting themselves in the foot. Moreover, statistics show that around 50% of matches taken into account in the FIFA world rankings are friendlies (granted, this will change somewhat going forward for European teams given the formation of the UEFA Nations League). So, you (and indeed the entire nation of Scotland) may not consider these friendlies to be meaningful, but it seems like they are to me (and those who run football). Perhaps sitting a little prettier in the rankings would lead to more conquerable qualifying draws (avoiding the might of nations such as Israel!) and perhaps even an appearance at a truly meaningful competition... I finally got around to reading the “Friendly Cup” rules last night. Had no idea you could qualify for the Euros through it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 5 hours ago, BS4 on Tour... said: So you think friendlies should count in a club or country’s record? Good grief, you must go beserk whenever City lose a pre season meaningless game...Weston super Mare beat us in a friendly before our double winning season - presumably that was an important game to you so you were calling for Cotts’ head before the ‘meaningful’ games started? And back in 2010 we were thrashed 5-2 by Clevedon Town in a pre season friendly whilst also losing to Torquay, Aldershot, Exeter and Helsingborgs in the warm up games...and all that as a championship club...you must have been furious and undoubtedly you were howling for GJ to be sacked after such a disgraceful run of results in ‘meaningless’ games....so, Scotland’s recent record (World Cup Qualifying games and Euro Nations League) - Pd 8 Won 5 Drawn 2 Lost 1.... I think you`ll find that @Robbored`s views on friendlies are well documented on here - no interest, don`t go, couldn`t care less blah blah blah. Unless of course, he needs to include them to make a point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sticks 1969 Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 Went up there for the 2.2 game and the play off in 99 with england and both were top weekends . The noise they made when going 2 .1 up last summer was absolutely deafening and somthing I’ll always remember, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 4 hours ago, Coxy27 said: International friendlies count towards a nation's world ranking. If, as you seem to be implying here, Scotland simply don't try in these 'meaningless' matches, then really they're shooting themselves in the foot. Moreover, statistics show that around 50% of matches taken into account in the FIFA world rankings are friendlies (granted, this will change somewhat going forward for European teams given the formation of the UEFA Nations League). So, you (and indeed the entire nation of Scotland) may not consider these friendlies to be meaningful, but it seems like they are to me (and those who run football). Perhaps sitting a little prettier in the rankings would lead to more conquerable qualifying draws (avoiding the might of nations such as Israel!) and perhaps even an appearance at a truly meaningful competition... I’ve never said they don’t try in friendlies - but countries are more likely to play untried and unproven players in those games to have a look at them....they are pretty meaningless games in the grand scheme of things. I only pointed out that Scotland had not lost in their last seven qualifying /euro nations league games before last night....and as you mentioned appearing at a meaningful competition, the little nation of Scotland blew England out of the water in qualifying for five consecutive World Cups from 1974....we couldn’t match that .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 41 minutes ago, Red Right Hand said: I think you`ll find that @Robbored`s views on friendlies are well documented on here - no interest, don`t go, couldn`t care less blah blah blah. Unless of course, he needs to include them to make a point. Luckily no-one takes the wankpuffin seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 4 hours ago, AshtonPark said: Not city related or England don’t care But cared enough to read the thread and post a reply...pretty obvious from the thread title that it wasn’t related to City or England... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 10 hours ago, handsofclay said: Scotland had their best team, in recent decades, in 1978 and had they had a better goalkeeper, better full backs, a great centre back to partner Gordon McQueen, an extra two great midfielders to compliment Souness and Gemmill they would've been world class. They also wore a blue version of the City umbro kit at the time. It has to be remembered, however, that Scotland were consistently the world's number two ranked football nation for three quarters of a century from 1872. That takes some doing, although Wales and Ireland/Northern Ireland ran them close at times and the Isle of Man would've been ranked above them for most of that time but were banned from playing international football because they insisted on staging their home fixtures on a pitch which incorporated their flag in the design and the authorities didn't want to encourage the playing of international matches over three legs. I do love that first paragraph. Basically if they had 6 more good players they’d have been much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshtonPark Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 27 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said: But cared enough to read the thread and post a reply...pretty obvious from the thread title that it wasn’t related to City or England... It was more in reply to robbored... seeing as he doesn’t care about anything that anyone else posts about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 13 minutes ago, AshtonPark said: It was more in reply to robbored... seeing as he doesn’t care about anything that anyone else posts about. Oh right, sorry....I didn’t get that....apologies mate... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordie Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 6 hours ago, BS4 on Tour... said: So you think friendlies should count in a club or country’s record? Good grief, you must go beserk whenever City lose a pre season meaningless game...Weston super Mare beat us in a friendly before our double winning season - presumably that was an important game to you so you were calling for Cotts’ head before the ‘meaningful’ games started? And back in 2010 we were thrashed 5-2 by Clevedon Town in a pre season friendly whilst also losing to Torquay, Aldershot, Exeter and Helsingborgs in the warm up games...and all that as a championship club...you must have been furious and undoubtedly you were howling for GJ to be sacked after such a disgraceful run of results in ‘meaningless’ games....so, Scotland’s recent record (World Cup Qualifying games and Euro Nations League) - Pd 8 Won 5 Drawn 2 Lost 1.... To be fair I think many were calling for Cotts head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCFC11 Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 13 hours ago, Super said: What a joke this is. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45829386 Agreed, what an absolute farce, Gazza was unreal in a Rangers shirt, yes he’s had his fair share of health issues but astounded that the SFA are doing this due to his health issues off the field. They should be ashamed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe jordans teeth Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 18 minutes ago, BCFC11 said: Agreed, what an absolute farce, Gazza was unreal in a Rangers shirt, yes he’s had his fair share of health issues but astounded that the SFA are doing this due to his health issues off the field. They should be ashamed. He’s in a real bad way at the moment by all accounts so I think it’s the right decision to keep him out of the headlines and let him get himself back together and hopefully it will happen next year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
22A Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 And this evening they're losing at home to Portugal's reserve team! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
22A Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 Oh Dear; now it's 0-2 with ;less than fifteen to go. Elsewhere a Maltese player was booked or time wasting in the 51st minute! He was looking round for an unmarked team mate to pass a free kick to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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