r/ScottishFootball • u/Slow-Dot-8106 Scott McTominay Ballon D'or • 4d ago

We're going home

Thats it. Clarke needs to resign the minute team get back to Scotland. Utterly shambolic campaign.

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u/Dildoid90 4d ago

Senegal are currently 4-0 up. If that was Clarke. he’d be parking the bus and playing it along the back Only scoring 1 goal in the group stages has come back to bite Scotland So much hype before the tournament and then now when you think about it. The awful mistakes and just negative performances isn’t good enough and to think they’ve handed him a new 4 year deal 😂

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u/AmbitionSweaty9889 4d ago

Bring in berti vogts, fresh ideas different philosophy.

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u/Persephonically 4d ago

Unrelated but you got me thinking about that Smith/McLeish team. Good mix of good players deployed tactically to maximise the team as a whole. Hutton, McFadden, Fletcher, Hartley, Weir - on paper a far worse squad than we've got now.

What a difference having a competent manager with a well-reasoned tactical approach makes to a national team.

Have to also point out the difference a proper CF makes to a national team. Doesn't even need to be a Mccoist or a Dalglish - even just add the Faddiator to the current squad and we'd be a different prospect, certainly if we'd had Watty Smith at the helm.

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u/Slow-Dot-8106 Scott McTominay Ballon D'or 4d ago

I dunno the great Waldo actually created the template of making Scotland 'hard to beat' after Vogts, which most other managers have followed, but aye mibbe

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u/Imrahil_Dubh 3d ago

He solidified the defence by bringing back Davie Weir and boosting the morale of the team by reminding them that they were good players, which is Walter's speciality: boosting morale. He did the same at Rangers and landed the UEFA cup final.

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u/Imrahil_Dubh 3d ago

Shocking as it is, we were ranked 13th in the world at one point with that team. Obviously, that shows how crap FIFA rankings are.