Scotland

[Virgin Don]

No he's not. U-21 caps don;t prevent full caps for another country.

 

Brian Howard is Ineligable. He played in U20s Toulin tournament which is FIFA recognised tournament. He hasnt given up hope of playing for Scotland and is looking at any sort of loophole. David Weir was rested thats why he not in squad what a farce he should have retired by now.

[Guest LondonScottish]

Barry Nich needs to be getting in that squad, also I think Lee Miller would do well at international level.

 

 

Nice one!!!

[Proud9]

Still no McNaughton

[Maryhill Mo]

I'd have Naysmith ahead of McEvely any day; he has looked the weakest link in the Derby defence on numerous occasions I've seen him, which says a lot.

 

Give it til next season before Kirk Broadfoot is in there...

[vanderark14]

Berra any better choice than Diamond ?

 

Why is David Marshall in the team ?

 

Graham Alexander too should be nowhere near the side

 

Dailly is past his sell by date as well

 

apart from that though ... can't se who has been left out might merit a call up

 

agreed.

 

Diamond should be in ahead of Berra due to his European experience this season. at least thats what the press said when pressley was picked ahead of anderson.

 

David Marshall - still living off that game in Barca. seriously though its like sacotland managers are afraid to drop someone.

 

Alexander - gettin too old but he always seems to put in a good shift for us.

 

Dailly = ***.

[sheep_shagger]

Surely Murphy playing week in week out in the premiership at left back cant be far away from a call up, McNaughton is another one but think he was out injured at least at the weekend there.

[davieb]

god i hope so.

 

he will be way too old by the time the world cup comes along and i always think Cueller is carying him

 

Kenny Miller = rich Darren Mackie.

 

FFS he was too old before our last qualifying campaign began, f@cking useless.

[vanderark14]

FFS he was too old before our last qualifying campaign began, f@cking useless.

 

agree. but unfortunately scotland managers dont.

[K-9]

Allez allez allez

[uni_don]

Surely Murphy playing week in week out in the premiership at left back cant be far away from a call up,

Second time I've done this in this thread... he's English.

[fatshaft]

Brian Howard

apologies, hadn't seen that

[fatshaft]

From the squad, I'd start with:

 

Craig Gordon (Sunderland)

 

Russell Anderson (Sunderland)

Alan Hutton (Tottenham Hotspur)

James McEveley (Derby County)

Stephen McManus (Celtic)

 

Scott Brown (Celtic)

Barry Ferguson (Rangers)

Darren Fletcher (Manchester United)

Lee McCulloch (Rangers)

 

James McFadden (Birmingham City)

Garry O

[Sonoftherock]

Second time I've done this in this thread... he's English.

 

A great pity that, he's miles ahead of Naysmith & McEveley.

[vanderark14]

Ferguson, Mcculloch and Dailly have all with drawn form the squad

[Dynamo]

Ferguson, Mcculloch and Dailly have all with drawn form the squad

 

Shock.

[vanderark14]

Shock.

 

yup. like we didnt expect it.

 

have to say i dont agree with this pulling out when it suits themselves but i also think this was a stupid time to arrange a friendly against a side that nobody really cares about.

 

friendlies in general are just stupid.

[K-9]

And bet Burley doesn't have the balls to invoke the rule that they do not play at the weekend!!

[K-9]

Aren't rangers playing Partick again soon, though?

 

Or is that a fair distance away?

Think they play their quarter replay day AFTER our semi final now

[vanderark14]

And bet Burley doesn't have the balls to invoke the rule that they do not play at the weekend!!

 

to be fair to burley he is in a now in situation. if he did the above he would be slaughtered by the weegie media and there pals at the SFA. Rangers know Burley wont invoke anything and thats why they always have these mysterious injuries appearing.

 

i remember Hutton and Brown were injured for the Georgia game (a competetive game too) but were giving it their all for the OF game 3 days later.

[moat pervert]

yup. like we didnt expect it.

 

have to say i dont agree with this pulling out when it suits themselves but i also think this was a stupid time to arrange a friendly against a side that nobody really cares about.

 

friendlies in general are just stupid.

 

Scotland have no choice on friendly dates, which are set by FIFA:

 

http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/documentlibrary/calendars.html

 

Count how many friendly dates are available before the Macedonia qualifier. Burley needs to get as much "game time" under his belt as he can before the real stuff begins, which IMO means it was essential we booked something up for Wednesday - and Croatia are as strong a side as we could have expected.

[Virgin Don]

I would expect the Celtic conection to do the same soon as well. Having a hun as head of Sfa was always going to lead to this sort of thing. Before Dailly joined Sc um he would never have pulled out of a Scotland squad.

[K-9]

Burley must either come out publicly and say he is letting Rangers withdraw players from teh squad or has to invoke this clause, since his job is soley to do best job possible for Scotland and not for the old firm!!

[vanderark14]

Burley must either come out publicly and say he is letting Rangers withdraw players from teh squad or has to invoke this clause, since his job is soley to do best job possible for Scotland and not for the old firm!!

 

again i agree but we both know that the SFA dont even look at it this way. our game will always be dictated by the old firm unless someone at the SFA says enough is enough we dont need these *****

[vanderark14]

i see Dailly has a broken toe but according to sky sports he will be fit for the OF game on Saturday. he must have employed Marvin Andrews the miracle healer

 

Macgregor has now pulled out of the team too.

[Bamber]

Surely now with all these playes withdrawing from the squad, rangers could nopw pay one of the fixture pile up games they keep moaning about

 

after all if it hadnt been an international date they would have had to play this week injuries or not?

 

Going back to the cup game they are missing SFA ave bent over backwards and sh1t canned their own rule for rangers by playing it the weekend of the cup game as the cup rules state that the cup has priority over the league hence there are THREE dates to play the replay

[Sonoftherock]

frigg the huns, they've proved consistently over the years that they can't be relied on...

 

Anyword on replacements being drafted in?

[redtillidie]

frigg the huns, they've proved consistently over the years that they can't be relied on...

 

Anyword on replacements being drafted in?

 

 

GAVIN RAE! WTF?

[paulkaneatemyhamster]

Anyword on the replacements being drafted in?

 

now that would be awesome

[archiemacdougal]

Ferguson, Mcculloch and Dailly have all with drawn form the squad

 

I have no problem with Christian Dailly not being able to play for Scotland whatsoever.

[1903don]

Barry Ferguson, Alan Magregor, Christian Daily and Lee McCulloch should never be allowed to play for Scotland again after pulling out of the squad!