WesthillWanderersFC Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 2 hours ago, slippers said: Back in Scotland squad. Fair play to the lad. The rumours about Stevie Clarke being a jakey bastard just ratcheted up significantly Link to comment
Ten Caat Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 3 hours ago, slippers said: Back in Scotland squad. Fair play to the lad. At first sight you immediately think "Fucking hell, that's an astonishing call from Clarke" Then, when you actually think about it....who else does he have to pick from that's fit? Hanley, Halkett, Souttar all injured. There's Liam Cooper of course, but despite seemingly being consistently decent for Leeds, any time he's played for Scotland he's looked decidedly less than international class. Stephen Welsh at Celtic? Not getting a regular game for Timothy and involved in losing a controversial goal against them at the weekend.....he was probably fouled but looked quite weak. Paul Hanlon?.....ffs it's bad enough Porteous getting called up. Gallagher has been shit for 2 full seasons for the club sides he played for but still got picked for Scotland the first year of that and never let anyone down when he played. I can't see him playing in either of our matches unless we suffer an astonishing run of injuries to the other centre backs (and McTominay too). But he probably is still as good as anyone else that's available for selection Link to comment
Zeus Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Bevis Mugabi at Motherwell would have been a decent shout Link to comment
Byrne Baby Byrne Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 7 hours ago, Ten Caat said: At first sight you immediately think "Fucking hell, that's an astonishing call from Clarke" Then, when you actually think about it....who else does he have to pick from that's fit? Hanley, Halkett, Souttar all injured. There's Liam Cooper of course, but despite seemingly being consistently decent for Leeds, any time he's played for Scotland he's looked decidedly less than international class. Stephen Welsh at Celtic? Not getting a regular game for Timothy and involved in losing a controversial goal against them at the weekend.....he was probably fouled but looked quite weak. Paul Hanlon?.....ffs it's bad enough Porteous getting called up. Gallagher has been shit for 2 full seasons for the club sides he played for but still got picked for Scotland the first year of that and never let anyone down when he played. I can't see him playing in either of our matches unless we suffer an astonishing run of injuries to the other centre backs (and McTominay too). But he probably is still as good as anyone else that's available for selection Cooper pulled out injured. very worrying for the future if we don’t have a player in their early 20s who would benefit from a call up. Surely there’s someone better than big declan. Man is useless Link to comment
Millertime Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Really? REALLY? wouldn't have made more sense to call McCrorie up? Aside from the fact he is keech, he is towards the end of his career Absolutely zero point in this 1 Link to comment
CCB III Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 9 hours ago, strachanmcgheegoal said: Bet Consi’s spewing. Och I'm alright. Mildly irritating as it'll somehow justify the nonsense he was speaking about being good enough to play for us. He's a solid penalty box defender when he's playing well. Much like I think Anthony Stewart is. Good in the air, will defend the box with their life, cut things out. Ask players like that to play expansive football, as we are trying to play now, and as we tried to play under Glass, and they are going to get shown up. It's telling the better spells in his career have been at the likes of Livi, Motherwell and now St.Mirren. As @Millertime says it shows a stunning lack of youthful talent. Harry Souttar is playing in the English championship, but rather than do what Wales and NI do and give young players caps early, he now plays for Australia. Link to comment
Byrne Baby Byrne Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 4 minutes ago, CCB III said: Och I'm alright. Mildly irritating as it'll somehow justify the nonsense he was speaking about being good enough to play for us. He's a solid penalty box defender when he's playing well. Much like I think Anthony Stewart is. Good in the air, will defend the box with their life, cut things out. Ask players like that to play expansive football, as we are trying to play now, and as we tried to play under Glass, and they are going to get shown up. It's telling the better spells in his career have been at the likes of Livi, Motherwell and now St.Mirren. As @Millertime says it shows a stunning lack of youthful talent. Harry Souttar is playing in the English championship, but rather than do what Wales and NI do and give young players caps early, he now plays for Australia. Have we been trying to play expansive football??? jesus that makes watching us feel even worse Link to comment
Ten Caat Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Harry Souttar snapped his cruciate late last year and hasn't played since......still rehabbing from that, is hoping to be fit just in time to make the Australia WC squad. Link to comment
CCB III Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 18 minutes ago, Byrne Baby Byrne said: Have we been trying to play expansive football??? jesus that makes watching us feel even worse ? Trying! Not always succeeding. Link to comment
aberdeen1970 Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 We've only got one regular starter who qualifies for Scotland now. Changed days. Link to comment
CCB III Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 10 minutes ago, aberdeen1970 said: We've only got one regular starter who qualifies for Scotland now. Changed days. But, if you look at the squad, we've developed a few of them. Fraser and McKenna namely, Jack plays fairly regularly when fit. Christie had time with us, never our player, but certainly we helped develop him. Should be a selling point to all domestic players for coming to Aberdeen. Link to comment
aberdeen1970 Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 44 minutes ago, CCB III said: But, if you look at the squad, we've developed a few of them. Fraser and McKenna namely, Jack plays fairly regularly when fit. Christie had time with us, never our player, but certainly we helped develop him. Should be a selling point to all domestic players for coming to Aberdeen. Aye I know but there's a wee gap in our development pipeline now. I don't see McCrorie or Mackenzie as realistic shouts for full international recognition. Barron probably the next homegrown player to hopefully kick on but the others haven't really broken through yet. We could do with supplementing our own youth players with a couple of choice young Scottish players from other clubs. Would help with the balance of young foreign players, lower league English punts and Scottish talent. We have plenty in the first two categories now Link to comment
CCB III Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Just now, aberdeen1970 said: Aye I know but there's a wee gap in our development pipeline now. I don't see McCrorie or Mackenzie as realistic shouts for full international recognition. Barron probably the next homegrown player to hopefully kick on but the others haven't really broken through yet. We could do with supplementing our own youth players with a couple of choice young Scottish players from other clubs. Would help with the balance of young international players, lower league English punts and Scottish talent. We have plenty in the first two categories now Early days for a lot of our youngsters. If he keeps playing Morris over Duncan though, he's a cunt. Link to comment
strachanmcgheegoal Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Im told that those that would know are happy with our pipeline but using the lad who's name temporarily escapes me (went to Sevco with his sister) you cant "sell" the top talents at 15 and still expect an exceptional through-flow thereafter as well. Id personally use the Scotland scenario the other way to kids. Why is it that there's not a centre half ready to come in? Because the ones that fucked off to the arse cheeks and beyond really young simply never made it and those that did emerge have sat on a bench so long they're not fit enough to take their big chance. Link to comment
aberdeen1970 Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 16 minutes ago, CCB III said: If he keeps playing Morris over Duncan though, he's a cunt. Aye, totally agree Link to comment
fine-n-dandy Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 If Clarke rates him then it MUST be the right call ? apparently Link to comment
Betty Swallicks Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 There are better options than Declan Gallagher. Clarke just picking the easy option at short notice. Gallagher is average to shit and I'm very glad he's no longer our player. Next! Link to comment
Don Fonte Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Shows the SFA bias that Scales isn't getting a look in. Link to comment
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