What did we think was going to happen? As soon as we were drawn in the Group of Doom, three points was the reasonable expectation, and that's what we got.
Of course we hyped ourselves up beyond what was reasonable; of course we did ourselves no favours by winning two warm up games and scoring our entire year's allocation of goals all at once. The 4-4-2 setup was obviously being tested for use in the only game which really mattered, and we decided that the best way to spring it on Haiti was to let them get a good look at it.
Scotland have never won more than one game at a World Cup and that was never going to change this time, so when it turned out that Haiti had worked us out after about 20 minutes of the first game, changing things up a bit might have been an idea. but it's not the Scottish way.
It's not as bad as it looks in the immediate aftermath, but it's also not as good as it could have been. We should never have cancelled the Norway game, incidentally - a cold realisation of "oh crap, this isn't going to work" was definitely needed at that point.
Anyway, let's send the squad out on the razz in Miami for a few days, then if we do by some miracle end up still in the competition, they'd be playing the round of 32 game in the natural state of the Scottish footballer - hungover to fuck and not caring about what happens. We're going to win the whole thing!
We've seen this film many times before. I reckon the Boss is a very lucky man as we could have lost all our games. Every time Scotland step up a grade we can't score, unless its a fluke or a penalty. I agree 100% with what you said about Neil McCann. He sees himself as an oracle but I find his analysis extremely boring and will instruct Alexa to change channel immediately.
My thoughts?
What did we think was going to happen? As soon as we were drawn in the Group of Doom, three points was the reasonable expectation, and that's what we got.
Of course we hyped ourselves up beyond what was reasonable; of course we did ourselves no favours by winning two warm up games and scoring our entire year's allocation of goals all at once. The 4-4-2 setup was obviously being tested for use in the only game which really mattered, and we decided that the best way to spring it on Haiti was to let them get a good look at it.
Scotland have never won more than one game at a World Cup and that was never going to change this time, so when it turned out that Haiti had worked us out after about 20 minutes of the first game, changing things up a bit might have been an idea. but it's not the Scottish way.
It's not as bad as it looks in the immediate aftermath, but it's also not as good as it could have been. We should never have cancelled the Norway game, incidentally - a cold realisation of "oh crap, this isn't going to work" was definitely needed at that point.
Anyway, let's send the squad out on the razz in Miami for a few days, then if we do by some miracle end up still in the competition, they'd be playing the round of 32 game in the natural state of the Scottish footballer - hungover to fuck and not caring about what happens. We're going to win the whole thing!
If Iād been Ms Barbour I would have smacked the dour bastard then booted him in the plums, horrible way to treat someone.
We've seen this film many times before. I reckon the Boss is a very lucky man as we could have lost all our games. Every time Scotland step up a grade we can't score, unless its a fluke or a penalty. I agree 100% with what you said about Neil McCann. He sees himself as an oracle but I find his analysis extremely boring and will instruct Alexa to change channel immediately.
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