Scotland v Ireland - Saturday 24 September

Them it’s the managers fault. Regardless of the talent pool at our disposals.  We have posters on here saying Scotland are sh*te, yet they have players at Liverpool, Man Utd, Arsenal, Celtic and Aston Villa,  not to mention One in Serie A and others at Newcastle and Southampton coming off the bench.  We are a team of young championship players who may make the step up like Collins and Bazunu and then older players on the bench who are bench warmers at Premier league clubs.  That’s why Kenny is working with and her is going for youth and youth let’s you down in the short term with poor decision making etc. ironically enough it was a 30 year old and a player in his late 20s who messes up defensively tonight.  

They did get to a World Cup semi final

And euros final in the last two major tournaments.  On a bad run of form currently in division A.  Generally the higher standard of team you are playing for is a reflection of your ability as a player.  The more players playing at the highest level is a reflection of the individual abilities of the members of the team.  The manager then turns them into a collective.  It is a far harder to turn lesser players in a really good team than it is with players of greater ability.  The biggest determining factor of whether a team will be successful at international level is the ability of the players.  That is is 90% of the reason why teams win. There are exceptions like Greece and currently Hungary but players ability is the main driver for success. Scotland have better players than us.  Simple as that which is why they are playing at a higher level. 

Ferguson is 18, so i'm not going to be too harsh, but he was pure sh*te last night despite the goal, he has a long way to go yet despite the hype, time will tell. Connolly is a young lad who earned a 25k a week contract and then lost his way. To dismiss him is pure stupidity! He's a very good footballer if he gets his head right! Idah will hopefully get fit again, super prospect, only 21.

E2016 wrote: There are some utter whoppers on here to be posting pathetic gifs and telling people to f*ck themselves because they've mentioned one of the best Irish managers of the past 20 years potentially managing the national side.  Some proper losers.

"Proper loser" for posting a gif?

Suggesting Hughton take over is either a joke or flat out trolling. His level in management over the last 20 years is irrelevant. He's a dinosaur, the game has left him far behind.

While you're at it why not argue for Mick again, since he actually got us to a World Cup (in his 3rd time of trying, with a fantastic squad at his disposal)......... OH RIGHT because that was 20 f**king years ago and he's a dinosaur too!

I think the physical side to Smallbone's game is under rated because he is a "creative" player, he's a big enough unit and he can put a foot in from what I've seen. Maybe he just needs a little more time to regain the confidence after the illness and the bad injury, but I think he could end up being a really good "8" rather than a "10". He's also quicker than he's given credit for. I'll be amazed if he isn't starting games for us in the Euro qualifiers, injury permitting. He's a proper footballer!

I agree 100% with this. The hype around these young lads does them no favours and it's kind of sad when lads start getting on the likes of Connolly, Idah or Parrott's case just cause they're not the 2nd coming! They all want to wear the green and win games, it's not easy!

I don't really rate Coventry btw, but there's a paucity of options there, so maybe he gets promoted by default.