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Strachan managed to set up and disprove his argument in one sentence.

I'd go further and say that a much larger proportion of our 1st team should be youngsters picked on form. Then at least the senior Scotland squad would have a purpose by encouraging, rewarding, and showcasing emerging talent - the same as the national youth squads do, but as the highest level they can play at. We're never likely to win the world cup, so let's give real meaning to the "reward" of being called up.

Yay, glorious failure. The sooner we get back to club football the better.

Is that his preparation for the Christmas fixtures?

Do the No Kingsford have any actual grounds on which they think the council have acted unlawfully? That's a pretty serious allegation. Or is this just a threat to initiate a lengthy and expensive bit of last-gasp obstruction against the council if they don't get the decision they want.

and.... right now we're top of the league - Hibs beating Tic

hat-trick rooney

Just got mentioned on RedTV that the club has broken 11K season ticket sales for the first time in its history

Welcome back Adam You've now scored more goals than Duncan Shearer

Good fucking god, the ball just came off one post, ran down the line, came off the other post. If we were to somehow win this (we're not) McInnes is going to have to change his name to Deek Turpin

You're not missing much, this game is brutal, the ball will have enough airmiles by the end of the night to buy its own plane.

Tansey on. Good, we need to get hold of the midfield.

FFS. Off the line. edit - oooooft. Christie.

BTSport saying the last time we came back from 2-0 at HT was 11 years ago? That's one depressing stat. Although with the caveat that we have rarely been 2-0 down in recent years.

Lewis was the difference in the last couple games, as unfortunately he is in this one. This is the sort of game that we sorely miss Hayes and McGinn for, maybe Wright is the change we need? Also can see Tansey coming on. also, GMS has been fucking murder, he deserved to be hooked after 30 minutes.

HT. Time for Deek to earn his rowies

Cometh the hour, cometh the Rooney.

Seeing lots of comments from Tic fans on BBC complaining that money is creating an unassailable gulf between teams.

Was reading the BBC interview with May today, looks like we did indeed go in for loan of him, then just kept prodding http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41206057

Good on them, always like to see community programmes geting a bit of recognition (sidenote:please nobody turn this into another stadium bickering thread)

Either there's an entire fishing fleet in your post, or you need to tone down the scattergun vitriol in your posts when you encounter a view you don't agree with, as you are (rightly or wrongly) coming across as a bit of an angry self-righteous dick. My issue wasn't that the team came from Celtic specifically, but that the impression given was that the players were being picked as a ready-made block from one team rather than on individual merit - that doesn't send a great message to Scottish players in other teams. However, as i get the impression that a measured response is unlikely and you seem determined to hijack what was a general observation made to all, i'll just leave it there.

Calm down, you seem awfully upset - it's only a forum, and I was only commenting on your last handful of posts to me. ...although (and i'm going to regret asking this i'm sure), what do you mean by "biased ignorance"? Actually, no, don't worry about it, don't want to inadvertently set you off again. Enjoy the match

Just out of curiosity, are you capable of posting a response without throwing a random insult in? Or is this some kind of digital Tourettes?

I take exception when the reason for selection is given as familiarity rather than merit. Thought that was obvious from the last time I said that, 1 post ago. Don' want to overexcite you any more than you already are though, so don't worry about it.

I do, when they are selected en masse with the main justification for this being they make a handy off-the-peg team. Difficult to look beyond it as anything other than a lazy selection by the Scotland manager.