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Ironic, considering most Rangers fans don’t even support Scotland.

Aye but the Roar won Scott McDonald part of the commentary team.

Fans giving up on us 7 games into the project is why we can't have nice things.

100% correct , Rangers along with the Tories killed a full scale rebuild, remember it like it was yesterday. Rangers lobbied the Tory Govt who just needed and excuse to back out as Rangers wanted Ibrox to be the home of Scotland games.

Correct , this game is huge for us. We will probably get a decent crowd but I just get the feeling some of our support are just ready to jump and start bitching if we don't get a win and Id hate to see the style we've adopted being undermined by fans turning against it because we don't win tomorrow. For me we probably need 7 points from our next 3 games to keep the all the fans on the same page.

The team spirit is awesome, can't dispute that. Ward's 25 birthday today, don't drop that cake!!!! ( just kidding Callum)

One for fans in the 80's but is it worth us starting Crawford Baptie tomorrow and then take him off after 10 mins after he has scored 2 goals! 😁

Id bite yer hand off for that right now! Mon the unecessary passes! 🧡❤️🧡

They absolutely aren't faultless. Particularly when some former office holders may have had a vested interest in the Ibrox plan. As usual, the murky world of politics never favours Scotland kindly.....

Some merit in what you say Joe, but the SFA received many brickbats, deservedly, for not doing enough and leaving it to others. Many positive suggestions were given to them, but as always they knew best.

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Really enjoyed watching that and listening to the players talking.

There WAS supposedly a deal in place to properly upgrade Hampden years ago, but the bulldozers were pulled away from the door by Thatcher in 1979 after an underhand deal was allegedly done to try and promote Ibrox as the new venue for internationals and Cup Finals. Just one of the many reasons she was booed roundly when she presented that years Scottish Cup. The SFA get a hard time over this but they have done what was possible with the money that they had. The FA didnt rebuild Wembley with their own money. Private enterprise did most of the work with significant input from the government and National Lottery. Same deal with the Millenium. If there is any blame to be apportioned at the SFA it would be in not being politically astute enough to play the game.

The defence have had another 2 weeks training with Ward to repair any confidence issues. I expect they will have his back. Its what good team mates do! 🧡❤️🧡

There are very few teams in Scotland that will be able to press us as high as Celtic did and get away with it. Thats pretty much why teams like Aberdeen, St Mirren and Hearts (second half) have backed off a bit. I hope Falkirk do go high. We have the better players, so we will play around them. If they sit off us, it could be a longer afternoon. Fingers crossed we can remain error free this week as we really need to start putting some points on the board! Has all the makings of an entertaining game!

Ironically I think teams being encouraged to press us theoretically helps. If we get through the press and turned then they are exposed to danger. Had Ward executed the pass v Celtic we would have eliminated 5 of their players who were all in a high press. I think we struggle a bit when, like Aberdeen, there is a 'lazy press' where they're relatively high, but sitting off, so less easy to play through.

It’s to be expected that Falkirk and every other side we face for that matter will look to pressure Ward as they will believe there is that error in him. And I don’t see us not conceding tomorrow so we need to help ourselves out by doing the business up the other end. These are 100% the type of games that we need to be winning and make home advantage and our good play count.

For all the plaudits we are getting we need to start getting some wins. Got a decent run coming up so need to turn the good play into points. I have no doubt Ward will start tomorrow but I wonder if defence will trust him as much to give him the ball, will also be nervousness from crowd every time he has ball plus I am sure Falkirk will try and exploit this. Though let Falkirk worry about us and hopefully we can get a fine victory COYW

Wee grumpy Chris Long playing for Brisbane Roar this morning ( or should I say evening)

It all boils down to the fact that the original refurbishment of Hampden in the 1990s was a cheap and nasty sticking plaster job. That said, finances were tight at the time (aren't they always?) but not nearly enough effort was put into fund raising. Ye reap what ye sow.

If the money had been spent on Hampden for a proper upgrade, ie bringing the west and east terraces closer to the pitch to improve the view then yes it would be worthy. But as the SFA have been a shambles for years, too busy making sure their own interests and expense paid jaunts all over the world are sorted first nothing ever gets done. So year after year thousands of fans are paying for a ticket at the front of the east or West stands to get a severely restricted view if at all of the game.

Oscar Priestman talks

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Mother in law and Sister in law just confirmed they have tickets for Hampden They are not Well regulars , and not Motherwell fans either preferring another club but do hold a soft spot genuinely for us . Must admit I was shocked but great at the same time people are taking an interest in this game and each to their own on this topic It is up to the likes of people like me to keep the interest going , and is definitely improving in that sense . Needing more converts 🤣