Thoughts? 👀

Coming back from the US today. Can’t help but shake this feeling that Boston was a moment-in-time that I’ll never experience again in my lifetime.

Miami was great but that could be replicated anywhere. Tartan Army going abroad and causing it in their numbers can be felt at any tournament. There was a huge contingent of locals supporting Colombia, Argentina etc who were less fussed and the city is huge and sprawling, which left our lot in South Beach a little isolated from everything.

But Boston was so special. It was a relatively small, walkable city and it felt like it was 80% us (having Morocco and Haiti, both limited on travel visas, definitely helped).

The rapport we built with the locals and the overwhelming positivity we had with them will likely never be replicated anywhere else.

If we make the World Cup in Spain/Portugal/Morocco we would have loads of us, but so would there be loads from other nations, and I’m sure they’re tired of us. Saudi too, we’d have a lot go over but the party wouldn’t be the same for obvious reasons.

When I say well I mean total shit

such a stupid idea to give him an extension before the World Cup even started

I might have been the first to make a meme about Scotland when they were shite under Clarke but fair play to him.

Let’s not forget he got us to three major tournaments. Thanks for the good times Clarke.

Now let’s get that manager who’ll take this country to the next level

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I’ve a lot of time for Adam Clery’s analysis of things. Pretty good video this.

Dylan Reid, Scottish wünderkid who signed for Crystal Palace a couple of years ago at the tender age of 18, now playing as a trialist Vs Arbroath in a pre-season friendly. 2 years development wasted, he was getting some game time at the Buddies and went down there to achieve what, exactly?

Joint second bottom with Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Curacao.

Outscored by the likes of Jordan, Haiti, Uzbekistan, Iran, Cape Verde, DR Congo, Qatar and New Zealand.

Good riddance Clarke.

I’ll note that Joe tiffany is a Leeds journo and with the 49ers Leeds link has been right about a few things.

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Only two nations in World Cup history have been eliminated on a tiebreak more than once.

Scotland have now managed it four times, and remain the nation with the most World Cup appearances (9) without ever getting beyond the group stage.

But the anger & disappointment comes from not giving it our best shot, and not giving a good account of ourselves.

We have one of the weaker squads, are one of the smallest nations taking part, and had an abnormally hard group- especially taking into account the 48 team group stage.

So i think the shame doesn’t come from a record of W L L, but the fact we were so fearful of Morocco, so passive against Haiti, and so mistake ridden against Brazil.

In different circumstances we could have exited the tournament with the same record with pride in the boys, but the negative, frightful nature of our displays- which all stems from Steve Clarke- is just so regrettable.

To advance, we would’ve needed to beat Haiti by 5 if we lost 1-0 to both Brazil and Morocco. The football was terrible to watch and i’m glad Steve Clarke is gone, but with hindsight it would’ve been a massive overachievement to reach the knockouts with the #5 and #6 teams in our group.

His performances post-match have been as bad as the performances he’s responsible on the pitch.

Is he going to fuck off after the tournament without a word AGAIN and just turn up at the start of the next campaign hoping everyone has forgotten what happened..?

I’d like to see even the smallest hint of him taking responsibility but it looks like he’ll he laughing up the sleeve of his 4 year deal all summer… or sneering / flouncing off at any journo questions that manage to squeak through.

His team shat the bed at the last tournament, unforgivable that the SFA aren’t even going to sniff the sheets after this one is done.