Having been around goalies most of my life Dave, the absolute baseline for any keeper is shot stopping,close second is organisation and communication after that commanding your area, comfortable with passbacks and distribution.
We have 1 on that list, he's decent at that but he gives me the fear at times, have to hope he comes good, he's young for a keeper.
I love your gatekeeping take on the regulations that allow most international players to be selected only matter because someone chose a path open to them playing football for a country they are eligible for a passport for.
He didn't wander into Hampden and demand to play for Scotland, he had eligibility and was selected, obviously good enough to be selected by England throughout his youth career, international GK seem to be an institution so he would have chosen Scotland as we were in transition at that position.
It's funny how we trust every other national team selector but our own when it comes to being capped because Vogts was handed a hard shift from Craig Brown and just threw everything at the wall in terms of team selection to see who would stick, it doesn't just apply to Scotland. Would describe the whole thing as a promising failure, good/bad/mid, he's gone.
JBA brought him in, I'm sure he thought he would do a job, needs a run in the team to see if he's any good though, feels like he's never had that kind of run
Conceding the way we did was obviously a huge red neck, and the efforts we had in their box were underwhelming, combine that with the hysteria before the game and you get embarrassed disappointment, don't think the ref was bad or good either, we have the look to be better than last year once we hit stride.
I think we have selection headaches now, which is good, Whyte would have to be better than Lennon Miller to get into the midfield ahead of Hodge,Fadinger,Priestman
We're still not as dynamic in the final third, but you can see the potential if we start making better decisions around the box.
2 cracking goals and a very good 3rd.
Impressed with Lowry