HaarDon

We will definitely be playing for a draw which is pathetic! I fully expect Austria to score at least 2 goals. We must score at least 2 imo before they do to give us any chance of beating them. SCOTLAND: 'we can't afford to lose' AUSTRIA: 'we must win.' ^^^^^^^^^That's the difference in approach.

Baumgartner and Arnautovic are gonna be a handful ... to say.

We must treat this as a final and a must win game. Attack from the start and show our passion and intent. Play like we did against England. Make it THAT important to the players. Or we're fucked. A draw isn't good enough and I feel Clarke will look at a draw as a great result unfortunately.

Come on Rico...he's got a day to get there. Just go straight ahead towards the west and turn right at Croatia.

Totally agree Jute. He's inexperienced but so what. He's brilliant and level headed.

Ffs Patterson out. Bit of a blow for us that. Is Paul McGinn decent cover?

It's weird what's happened to Marshall after becoming a cult figure at the end of the last campaign. I think he's better than Gordon too who I still won't forgive for our draw against Engerlund as I've said before. Luckily, Austria's midfield maestro isn't playing but I don't think it will make much difference in the end result.

Sorry Rico but no chance. Israel scored 5 against Austria...5. They're way better than us currently and can actually score goals.

Just read that Israel had 9 shots on goal and 7 on target (with 5 goals)in their 5-2 win over Austria. Talk about clinical finishing. We just panic ffs. When we played Austria at Hampden last time we only had 40% possession. What's it going to be like over there?

2 of those involved the pass which led to the goal and another laid off a great ball into Gilmour who missed an absolute sitter. Dykes even mishit his tap-in from a yard out. We have very rarely been blessed with a great and prolific striker so I shouldn't expect too much. I read somewhere in the ENTIRE HISTORY of the national team we have only had 12 players (i think) who scored over 10 goals. That's fucking awful! How many times do our shots sky over the bar or go wide in games. The skill levels for strikes are terrible.What are our coaches doing??? Israel will qualify deservedly. They are a better team than us. I'm gonna go Austria 3 Scotland 0. That's how bad I think we are even if we show glimpses of skill at times.

Nisbet by far the best player on the park. Close to a hat-trick

Rico I'm not saying Nisbet will be the striker we have been looking for. I'm saying all the others mentioned below have had numerous chances and failed miserably. Nisbet hasn't , therefore Clarke by now should have tried and tested him as Dyke, the utterly shit mcburnie and Adams have all had enough chances and failed. We will not beat Austria next week and as a result fail to qualify sadly.

The one defining feature of Nisbet is ....wait for it...he IS scoring goals (every 2nd game at least.) He may not score against Austria but he has more chance than any other striker we have I would say. The stats for all the rest are clear as day. They cannot score after chance after chance. Nisbet needs more games in a Scotland shirt. We have no chance of beating Austria in Austria. Lucky if we draw with them. Mcginn coming back will help I believe but we just aren't scoring goals. Dykes is a shite goalscorer. We will be whipping tons of balls in against Moldova so we need either a big defender in there or a strike from a Moldovian clearance. Hope they've been practising both in training.

I reckon the insurgence of the Taliban has definitely something to do with it. Just because they don't have any club football in their country, no need to sabotage Dons talk. And their dogs are spies !!! You just watch the rise in Afghan hound sales in the coming months.

We should beat Moldova easily. We need a 4 or 5-0 game but can't see it. I think Nisbet is way better than Dykes for actually scoring goals. Dykes is very good at nodding down balls and has good presence but not a great goalscorer for us. Nisbet's game/goal ratio is 2-1 (a striker with confidence). Why don't we try both against Moldova and get Adams on later to replace Nisbet. Full on attack

We have some very good outfield players LA Don. What we don't have and haven't had for a decade since McFadden (who was brilliant), is a striker who can score goals for Scotland.

Absolutely this^^ Some of the so called minnows have flair players that can score goals out of nothing. We can't score out of something.

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We are shite!! No chance of making the world cup finals. We have no striker and che Adams is an England reject sorry. If Clarke had played Nisbet (an actual goalscorer with ability and confidence) about 10 games ago, we may have scored. Tierney world class? His defending for that first goal was atrocious. We must beat Moldova convincingly and beat Austria or we are fucked. Can't see one of those happening. P.s. this opinion ^^^is not based on the Denmark game alone.

I couldn't get on here for 3 days

I just think he's worth do much more than that. International and a very good attacker with neat touches.

I only saw the highlights but Samuels and Longstaffe had some nice moves/crosses. Samuels missed header was shocking though. Ramsay looks great!!! We really need to work on our finishing and shots on goal. I remember always being incredibly impressed by the precision of some of McGinn's finishing. Come on Russell...sort it out.

Watchin that game now seeing what the competition is. A draw is a good result for us atm.

So where is he? When's he coming? (No masturbate jokes pls^^)

That's a pretty decent team like with Samuels 'the bullet' to come off the bench too.