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Magic! Shot to nothing on Wednesday night now. Anything a bonus. Hamilton and Dundee both with tricky away games, albeit ones they might target points from. However a Tayside derby for Dundee and Hamilton have to go to Livvy whose home record is pretty sprecial.

Wow!! That’s impressive. I assume Dundee have filled the away end?

Looks like Hearts v Aberdeen in the only Premiership stream on hesgoal.

Outrageously good patter!

It’s not something I generally indulge in. I tend to save such mockery for tools sorry trolls like you. Consider yourself corrected thicko.

I always think it’s hilarious when people spell sense wrongly. Especially when they are using it in the context of accusing someone else of not having any sense.

Has Dreyer done a single thing in his time with us to suggest there’s a player in there?

Are you listening to this Herman?

100% agree with B, C & D. On point A, are you suggesting that the fans don't have a right to voice their displeasure. The chants coming through on telly were clearly "f**k the SFA" and "Sack the Board" etc etc. And yes there was audible booing at half time, full time and on the odd occasion where San Marino made it into our final third. Jesus Christ, one minute the fans are being accused of being a bunch of pishheids who don't give a f**k about the fitba and only go for the party, to now being accused of being nasty boo boys. I wish folk would make up their minds what they want.

f**k the SFA now. These boys just aren’t toeing your line at all Herman.

Oh and booing now. Must be hearing things.

Oh look Herman. Would that be the Tartan Army you were talking about, singing “sack the board”.

Yes that’s right re the format, although you can’t say Bulgaria will step up for sure, as they may qualify themselves of course. Essentially the final participants in the play off are unknown until after the qualifiers, unless; all 4 currently in situ fail to qualify through the groups. On your second point, I agree with the short memories thing as the NL proved that we were capable of coming out on top in a group of our peers. However, there is no disguising or excusing how utterly horrific that result and more importantly performance was in Kazakhstan.

There is no play off from the group. It’s a straight top two qualify. We are guaranteed our NL play off by virtue of winning our NL group, if we don’t qualify through the main qualifying group. One off home semi final against Finland, winner plays the the winner of the other semi between Serbia and Norway, probably at home but not decided yet.

You been out canvassing addresses before home matches aye?

It’ll be interesting to see if the colt thing goes away next season. Now that the wider OF colt teams issue has been so unanimously voted down, they may take this view that this rather transparent Trojan horse has failed in it’s mission.

No beef whatsoever with your view of the team, but your assessment of the Tartan Army is outdated, lazy and clearly lacking in any recent experience. It’s a long time since the TA indulged in any such behaviour. But don’t let the truth get in the way of your mind numbingly boring patter.

I refer you to my earlier post about finding it hard to imagine a day when Scotland are playing on the telly and I’d rather be off doing something else. I now know when that day is. Sunday.

Two Irish colloquialisms. One I love, one I hate. For sone bizarre reason it always tickles me when Irish lassies call themselves lads. “C’mon lads! Let’s go.”. on the contrary, when Irish repeat what you’ve just said followed by the words ........is right. Me - “he’s a dickhead” Irish person - “he’s a dickhead is right!”

The Ring?

So does Vladivostok. Which is in Russia. Which is in Europe. Go figure.

I can only guess as to Oaky’s point, but I’m assuming it was simply that Kazakhstan used to be part of the Soviet Union and if we were happy for it to be considered Europe then, why would we not now as an independent country. Also for the reasons I mentioned, the geography argument doesn’t really fly either. I do know you were only half serious though.

Whilst you are indeed right to afford yourself a scoff at Dougie’s assertion , given that there’s parts of Russia that are thousands of miles further east than Kazakhstan, i have always wondered one thing, but always been too lazy to find out. How come Kazakhstan were so late to come to the UEFA party after the break up of the Soviet Union and also, why have none of the other “stans” followed suit?

I think there’s a fair few people on this thread who (a bit like me) are still desperately clinging to the idea of what international football USED to mean to players. Sure you’ll occasionally get throwbacks the likes Darren Fletcher who woud’ve crawled over broken glass to play for Scotland, but for me, players like him are a rarity now. In my view, if the national team start using the rules to throw their weight around, it’ll only backfire on them and if players are put in a “push comes to shove” situation, it’ll only end one way. So i don’t actually blame the national team managers for this phenomenon. I think their hands are totally tied. Also contrary to Cornwall’s earlier post, I think international football is becoming a bit like the Champions League (in as much that it can of course). All the big teams who are challenging don’t have the same level of issues as we do with call offs, therefore they continue to be successful as teams like Scotland continue to spiral. Sure you’ll get the odd wee blip here and there like Wales and NI qualifying for the last Euros, but they were both prominent by there failures to qualify for the last WC are their performances in the Nations League. Normal service resumed for another 30 years or more.

It’s the likely event, but bizarrely it isn’t guaranteed to work that way. ETA I think I’m talking bollocks. It is guaranteed that you play the same number of home and away games. I think what I was thinking about is that just because you might have played a team twice at home already, it doesn’t mean you won’t be playing them at home again after the split. Obvs knowing our luck though, that would only happen in the away sense.