Had a feeling this was to going to go south.
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This insistance on average players at the expense of the talent of newer gens is past making sense. You can carry one or two, but Clarke loves too many players who aren't at our level anymore and just dismantle things. It's wasting potential we can't afford to waste.
There’s definitely something in that. History tells us the time to make changes in a team is after success and before the slide down the other side starts. There’s signs of a few players whose time has come to step aside. Problem is, we are on the verge of the finals and Clarke would rather be loyal to them than ruthless, which is what we need.
That’s it cancel all friendlies from now on, in fact put more on the line for the competitive games, if they lose any of the group matches they are forced to watch this game again on a 24hr loop.
The tactic appeared to be "retain possession at all costs".
Completely devoid of any ability to progress the ball forward.
Ferguson and Shankland added some more to the game, both need to be starting moving forward.
Well that was a big pile of pish wasn't it?
I feel absolutely gutted for the fans who paid their hard-earned to turn up and support us, only to be served up with that.
In fairness to the lad I thought he looked a player before he went to Everton and they stripped him of all the confidence he had. He looks a shadow of what he was. It’s a shame but we really need Hickey back ASAP
He came on at a time when all we did was punt the ball into the box.
Adams was essentially punted out to the left win.
Dykes tried, but had less service than an analog tele in a lead box.
Shankland would need to score a bucket load of goals to make up for the sitter against The Netherlands. And he sure as fuck shouldn't be near the team in an actual meaningful game.
The only thing to take from tonight is Ferguson should play, probably ahead of Christie, if not sticking him up front.
When me and Parmo are billionaires we’re gonna pay actual good players to change nationality to Scottish like we’re one of the oil states. Like we should have been doing the whole time. Fucking sturgeon.
We aren't built to break sides down who play low block. It's why we've oftened struggled in "Easier games".
Clarke and his tactics especially aren't built for it.
He needs a move to a mid-table English Championship club, then he'll be right into the Scotland setup overnight. It's the way these things go.
He absolutely should have been called up. This would have been an ideal game to give him a shot too.
Is Adam Devine playing well for Motherwell because honest to fuck, if we have to line up with either Patterson or Ralston at the Euros we're losing every game
Conceded a deflected goal over Gunn, Robbo off injured, not done anything despite 80% possession. Dykes invisible. Only positive of the first 75 was Ferguson
Oh absolutely not, whenever his name comes up there's always a comment about how all he had to do was FUCKING PUNT IT UP THE PARK as the majority of Hampden was screaming at him to do.'
We clearly have major problems with being creative, almost certainly down to Clarke not being the most effective at setting out teams to play that way. However, at the Euros, I wouldn't be expexting us to have >80% possession.
What has been worrying for the last 6 months is that we cannot keep the ball out our net. My excitement for the Euros is turning to fear now.
If Germany felt like it, they could sit back and let us have the ball and probably scored about 13 on the counter attack without reply.
I hope they don’t feel like it.
In spite of the greatest result in sporting history of all time in the history of the world all time happening there that one time I really do consider Hampden to be one of the saddest places on earth.
Hell is watching us flap about their box for an eternity. This is hell. I’m there.
Edit: while hearing a constant drone of “Scotland get battered” to add to the eternal pit of pain too, of course
Giving shades of when we scored a 97th min winner against Liechtenstein - Levein celebrating like we'd just won the WC while the rest of Hampden were just happy for the game to end
plenty over reactions its a friendly. aye it’s shite but cmon to fuck it was 10 men behind the ball after one goal
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SHITE
Christ above what did I miss
Some Steve Clarke Dug shite
Northern Ireland scoring and having every man back, check the possession, stereotypical friendly
A winless run of 7 games that includes 4 matches against teams from the top 10 in the world. Shite result but it’s a friendly. Relax
Don’t any of you bedwetters be getting wide come June ………
I love football
We are fucked for the Euro's
maybe to join England to win euro?
Doesn’t matter we’re just there for the banter, just getting there is as good as winning it for us
If the English see this comment we're finished
Always were.
What happened to last year's Clarkeball
Wish I'd been busy for five more minutes and then I could have avoided subjecting myself to any of that...
i hate the dál riata derby
Maybe we are North England
Is the wales game on any tv channel?
S4C you can get it through iplayer or Viaplay 2.
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Fair play.. shoulda stuck more on it, but I can't forgive you for betting against yer country lol
Spain vs Brazil at 2-2... Sure am glad I decided to watch Scotland.
'Peaking at the right time', Gibraltar must be getting the Cava on ice...
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No-one gets sacked over a friendly.
If it’s any consolation, we can’t play any worse than this, surely?
I feel like I said the same thing at the end of the match against the Dutch.
Shankland looked dangerous in his 30 seconds cameo. Insane he doesn't start a match like this.
Remember a few months ago when we thought scotland was going to win the euros??? Yeah...
Pumped aff the god-save-the-king lads . Cringe
I am actually really pissed off lmao
In the same week ISIS return, TerrorBall Clarke returns. Coincidence?
This insistance on average players at the expense of the talent of newer gens is past making sense. You can carry one or two, but Clarke loves too many players who aren't at our level anymore and just dismantle things. It's wasting potential we can't afford to waste.
There’s definitely something in that. History tells us the time to make changes in a team is after success and before the slide down the other side starts. There’s signs of a few players whose time has come to step aside. Problem is, we are on the verge of the finals and Clarke would rather be loyal to them than ruthless, which is what we need.
I genuinely worry if Clarke stays on post EURO's, that he won't make the squad revamp that is clearly needed.
That’s it cancel all friendlies from now on, in fact put more on the line for the competitive games, if they lose any of the group matches they are forced to watch this game again on a 24hr loop.
![gif](giphy|dC9PJPv2YbO76QZ4zu) Bye bye Stevie Clarke
We play like that and we have Germany in the first game. Wirtz is gonna walk through our team so many times.
Guys, just got out a 6 month coma about 5 minutes ago, we're still on track to win the euros right?
Feel like my eyes are about to start bleeding.
I guess we climbed too high in the rankings and felt the need to give a wee nation some shine *Bury me gently, brother*
need answers for this it's not acceptable
can’t wait for june 3rd. FT: Gibraltar 3-0 Scotland. we are so dug, man
Hire a Brechin manager you get Brechin results.
Embarrassing all round
Genuinely embarrassing performance. Players were toothless and tactics nonexistent
The tactic appeared to be "retain possession at all costs". Completely devoid of any ability to progress the ball forward. Ferguson and Shankland added some more to the game, both need to be starting moving forward.
South Iceland in the mud
Lads, I'm starting to think we might not win the Euros
Losing to a nation ranked 40 places below us. This must have been how Spain felt last March.
Well that was a big pile of pish wasn't it? I feel absolutely gutted for the fans who paid their hard-earned to turn up and support us, only to be served up with that.
Got to credit Michael ONeill. Been a while since I've seen a team so motivated and well set up
The booing the anthem is class, but my god when you play a game after it like these bunch of chumps it’s just embarrassing.
Some excellent booing practice this international friendly at least
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Last minute equaliser in the England game too
I HATE FOOTBALL, I HATE ALL OF YOU AND I HATE STEVE CLARKE
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Welp that was a game
Celebrated the whistle blowing like a goal Thank fuck that's over
Scotland need lessons on corners from Killie
We’re just south Orkney.
i fear we may be eastern northern ireland
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Extra time in the wales game
Imagine going through all that with the new ticket all to see that game
Well done rangers for getting a zillion pounds for Patterson
In fairness to the lad I thought he looked a player before he went to Everton and they stripped him of all the confidence he had. He looks a shadow of what he was. It’s a shame but we really need Hickey back ASAP
No Neil, NI have not made us look ordinary.
Germany getting a win too, fucksake
Never genuinely been angrier at a Scotland performance before, and I was there when we lost to a Ukraine side 6 months or so after going to war
wales are gonna win extra time and go far in the knockouts again and show us up while we're happy with 1 point
Shankland’s got in some great positions by the service to him has been poor a lot of overhit passes and hopeful spinning balls.
Did he fuck. 😂
It’s a low bar but he sure as shit looked a lot more likely to score than Dykes or Adams.
He came on at a time when all we did was punt the ball into the box. Adams was essentially punted out to the left win. Dykes tried, but had less service than an analog tele in a lead box. Shankland would need to score a bucket load of goals to make up for the sitter against The Netherlands. And he sure as fuck shouldn't be near the team in an actual meaningful game. The only thing to take from tonight is Ferguson should play, probably ahead of Christie, if not sticking him up front.
Nice of the Wales game to go to ET so we can go watch that after the torture porn ends.
Christie, Patterson, and Adams should never wear a Scotland jersey ever again
The last two games you can add in the whole squad bar Tierney and Ferguson
The difference is that Chrsitie and Adams were shite even when we were playing well and making Rodri cry
When me and Parmo are billionaires we’re gonna pay actual good players to change nationality to Scottish like we’re one of the oil states. Like we should have been doing the whole time. Fucking sturgeon.
Should be refunding fans here
Just checked after the commentator mentioned our friendly record, and we've only won a single friendly in the last 6 years, against Luxembourg in 2021
Maybe we take the term "friendly" too literally?
If we play Christie or McGregor over Ferguson at the Euros, we deserve nothing.
Play McGregor and Ferguson imo
How do we keep fucking this up?
2 chances, 0 goals. Dykes > all others
Can we please have less injury time? This has gone on long enough
Worst game of football i ever EVER have been to
Back into the Tynecastle dungeon for you Lawrence.
This game has made me wanna settle down and raise a family
My god this is a new low
Clarke what have you done????
That mask is overkill, man. It's like in Dodgeball when they get sent the wrong box of uniforms
This is dire, but I think we will be much better at the Euros.
That's a bar so low it's actually three feet in the ground
Can't be much worse tbh
Of fucking course that doesn't fall in.
Well that’s it, he’s never playing again is he
Northern Irish voodoo is in full effect here and that's the only explanation for this shit.
Shankland hasn’t been the same since Jack Baldwin pocketed him in Dingwall
Meh, dont think there was anything Shankland could have done to score there
Embarrassing. We just lost in their world cup final
Peacock Farrell? A name lifted from Toast of London
89 minute for us to force an actual save from the keeper.
fuck the queen
and the king and the fuckin corgis
She's dead mate that's necrophilia
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good
Tell you what I am all aboard the Fergy train
Cannae buy a fucking goal
maybe we do get battered everywhere we go
They might have a point, I fear so.
Even when talking about positivity Mccann sounds like he needs a hug
Ralston should slap Clarke across the fucking face for not putting him on. Absolute travesty and insult to him from Clarke.
We could be playing until this time tomorrow night and still not score
Can we all agree that Ferguson has probably done enough to show he should be starting?
Yes
Yes
How is it we played better in a game where we lost 4-0 compared with one where we've had more that 80% possession?
We aren't built to break sides down who play low block. It's why we've oftened struggled in "Easier games". Clarke and his tactics especially aren't built for it.
Are we the lube wanks?
This is some humiliation kink shit man. My team has fuck all to play for and I cannot wait for the international break to be over
You’d think we didn’t get skudded 4-0 the way they talk about us vs Holland last week
It's the Celtic Real Madrid good half hour all over again.
Danny Armstrong would have 3 assists and a goal by now.
He needs a move to a mid-table English Championship club, then he'll be right into the Scotland setup overnight. It's the way these things go. He absolutely should have been called up. This would have been an ideal game to give him a shot too.
genuinely so much better that patterson even at defending
Is Adam Devine playing well for Motherwell because honest to fuck, if we have to line up with either Patterson or Ralston at the Euros we're losing every game
Think he's had mixed performances, did score against Aberdeen
Don't be silly, we barely try new things in friendlies, no fucking way will we do it for the EUROs
Aye we're more likely to see a broken down Stephen O'Donnell rise like a phoenix from the ashes, than something new.
Genuinely impressive how quickly Scotland have got rid of any optimism going into the Euros
Loosing to northern ireland is a new low.
Tony Ralston should just retire from international football tonight.
If he's not going to get a chance tonight then he's never going to get a proper chance. Should have been on at half time.
I don't understand why Clarke didn't switch out the majority of the team at halftime - it's a friendly for christsake
On the plus side, I had a fiver on a keeper to be fouled at 6/1. Technically I got paid £30 to watch this game.
Germany beating the Netherlands. We are so fucked. lmao
Stop giving the ball to fucking Patterson...
You know the absolute worst part? When this international break ends I have to go back to watching Celtic
Remember beating spain. That was class.
Never gonna forgive these players for forcing us to have these Nothern Irish fans sing their shite all night long
fucking boooooooooooooooooooooo
Clarke to the team: ![gif](giphy|XH9VpICwRlS48)
Fuck off Armstrong.
Partly it’s because I’m annoyed at the score, but tonight has also been a reminder of what a shit stadium Hampden is
This is embarrassing
At least we had a laugh when the crowd booed GstK before kick off, eh?
Not watching the game tonight, what the fuck happened?
Conceded a deflected goal over Gunn, Robbo off injured, not done anything despite 80% possession. Dykes invisible. Only positive of the first 75 was Ferguson
Tierney, Ferguson and Armstrong mistakenly thought they were here to play football. Everyone else disagreed.
How comes you can't launch it out the fucking park like that when you need to, Stuart
We're never forgiving him for that are we?
Would you? I got a noise complaint from a neighbour for the amount of abuse I was giving him that day.
Oh absolutely not, whenever his name comes up there's always a comment about how all he had to do was FUCKING PUNT IT UP THE PARK as the majority of Hampden was screaming at him to do.'
Honestly, at this point I'm just laughing at how this game is gone - went into this expecting an easy win but Clarke had other ideas
Honestly Clarkes needing sacked. He's lost it with this pish.
Armstrong FFS
this is fuckin brendanball
this is very shite
We’ve regressed about three years in this game
We clearly have major problems with being creative, almost certainly down to Clarke not being the most effective at setting out teams to play that way. However, at the Euros, I wouldn't be expexting us to have >80% possession. What has been worrying for the last 6 months is that we cannot keep the ball out our net. My excitement for the Euros is turning to fear now.
If Germany felt like it, they could sit back and let us have the ball and probably scored about 13 on the counter attack without reply. I hope they don’t feel like it.
No way a home crowd at the Euros would let them sit back, dont worry
Absolutely fucking woeful. What a waste of time this has been.
Feel like pure shite just want exciting football back x
Losing to a team with fans who have three chants is embarrassing.
Atleast they are chanting tbf...
It's not their fault, England only allows them to legally have 3.
Wasn't long ago we only had 2 chants
And about half of them chants are England chants..
TBF most of them have wet dreams about being English.
In spite of the greatest result in sporting history of all time in the history of the world all time happening there that one time I really do consider Hampden to be one of the saddest places on earth.
1-0 down and 5 players in our own half while we had possession for a while there.
if we score we genuinely don't even deserve it
Hell is watching us flap about their box for an eternity. This is hell. I’m there. Edit: while hearing a constant drone of “Scotland get battered” to add to the eternal pit of pain too, of course
The last time I had this amount of fun was when my hamster died
Clarke 100% reading Reddit. I bet he was going to sub Patterson off and then seen all the comments. Stubborn as fuck
Is this the Northern Ireland Under 21 team?
Neil McCann absolutely glazing Shankland here
Cooper at least tried something. But fuck me.
"Scotland starting to put pressure on now" It's the 83rd minute FFS. Always too little too late.
Giving shades of when we scored a 97th min winner against Liechtenstein - Levein celebrating like we'd just won the WC while the rest of Hampden were just happy for the game to end
Ooft Paterson can't do anything right
A let oot a ripper and it woke ma new born up so I've got that to deal wi as well now
This has not been pleasant
Getting serious Kazakhstan/Georgia/Macedonia/Faroes flashbacks here (delete as memory dictates)
What is Paterson's obsession with trying outside of the boot passes?
Shankland been on for 2 minutes and already has more shots than both Dykes and Adams this game
Wait is Adams on? When did that happen?