A quick word? Velocity! Scotland under Gordon Strachan 2013-2016

ya it was a loss to all really

jeez, Best & Baxter together in that late-sixties team

... not to mention Law, Johnstone... pity about Greig and various RFC numpties

was more concerned about the boozing tbh, it could've gone either way

Yeah, would have taken years off both men's lives and possibly some of their teammates

ah those halcyon days of players being pished instead of pish

It's unfair to single out one player in all this shite but fuck Alan Hutton.

USA looking awful. Scotland looking tentative, like 0-0 is better than attacking and risking defeat.

One shot on target between them in an hour :(

well at least most everyone got a run in to work on fitness

Why does Lee Wallace wear L. Wallace on his shirt? Expecting to be dislodged by Ross any time soon?

enjoyed my first match at hampden as a resident of Glasgow tonight ;_;

It's unfair to single out one player in all this shite but fuck Alan Hutton.

Wee Gogs begs to differ

Gogs is not good at full backs :-/

Zzzzzzzzzzz.

xxxp what persuaded you to go to Hampden the other night?!

Why are we even wasting an international friendly to prove that Charlie Adam's still shite anyway?

lol how the fuck did we end up winning that

One in the eye for the Scott Brown criticisers (the half time pundits, and Keevins giving him gyp in the paper yesterday for having the audacity to have some Scotland caps, ffs, really, in a world where Alan fucking Hutton was our most-capped player on the park tonight, he lamps into Brown?)

What a shit game though.

Yeah really. I missed the USA game - was it similar?

God keevins is such a cunt

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/02/26/article-2568033-1BD5A01200000578-901_634x571.jpg

http://www.footballkitnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/New-Scotland-Away-Football-Kit-2014.jpg

good job we never qualify for anything where anyone will actually see us

It's the traditional colours, no? I'm all for it. Needs a traditional unicorn rampant on the badge though, the more weirdness the better.

stopped by cos i assumed this thread was about independence

That strip's not too bad. Reminds me (a little) of this one that was the best ever:

http://i.imgur.com/2gA9hvH.png

Looks less pink in that ad than the picture I've seen with Skoosh wearing it. In that it's the same colour as the salmon monstrosity.

I haven't quite decided whether I like it not yet. I'm veering towards "not" at the moment.

I kind of like it but am unlikely to fall over myself to buy one.

Scotland game only available to watch on the Daily Record website. Fuck that for a game of soldiers.

wtf, it's not on tv at all?

I've been biding my time and decided I quite like that strip btw. It feels like it wouldn't be out of place in the graphic design 1945-69 thread.

Scotland game only available to watch on the Daily Record website. Fuck that for a game of soldiers.

I have a window saying "initializing"

:(

Progress!

It now says "Error: Message: Stream not found."

I am instead amusing myself by watching the endless stream of invective being sent their way on twitter.

http://firstrows.biz/soccer/poland-scotland-frsd1782#

yay

So Scotland are actually a bit good now

They're better than they were but I think they still struggle with the notion that they're allowed to try to keep the ball. It's odd to see otherwise proficient passers of the ball struggle to do so when they're wearing a Scotland strip.

Cracking strike from Brown. I keep hoping, despite years of evidence, that there's a goalscoring midfielder in there.

Mulgrew-Berra-Hanley-Whittaker should do just fine compared to Maicon-Luiz-Gustavo-Marcelo. A gulf in quality.

How many more international caps would Kirk Broadfoot have won if he'd been Brazilian?

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jul/14/england-scotland-friendly-celtic-park

SURELY we can beat them this time?

quarter to eight, on a sunday, on sky sports bloody 5

ach

Well that was better than I expected

I missed it :(

That chance that Naismith hit the outside of the upright with...!

That chance that Naismith blootered into row Z...!

Pretty decent and massively heartened by the way we kept going for it right until the end, no pluckiness or settling for Strachan's Scotland. Though *surely* there's a better right back somewhere in Scotland than Alan Hutton.

I saw Hutton look averagely capable for Villa the other week, I think.

Lovely goal from Anya.

Horrorshow defending to allow Germany's second.

Much better in the second half from scotland though, a decent showing.

Can't help but think someone will take points off Germany.

Ireland will! Perhaps. Scotland really gave Germany a game. They were unlucky really and Howedes should have sent off too. Is there no European qualifiers thread btw?

Not pretty in parts, but a decent victory. There's probably a point to be made about the respective Celtic tenures of Strachan and O'Neill, but I can't be arsed making it.

hanley shouldve been sent off in the first half but in the interests of fairness, scotland played something approaching football and ireland didnt

Best goal.

Predictions for tomorrow anyone?

I'm just going to go ahead and say that I think Scotland will win it

Hard to call. Maloney's goal aside, we barely got a shot on target on Friday. I expect a quick start but once it settles down I think we'll end up defending deep and struggling to get out.

1-1 or 1-2