steelboy

He's available for the Serbia game then he's out for Slovakia and available for Israel. It's a shame we didn't get him from QOTS when we were linked before Livi signed him.

If Gallagher puts in another solid performance on Wednesday he will surely start in Belgrade. He looks far more assured for Scotland than McKenna. O'Donnell will be in with a shout as well as there's not much competition at right back.

They've sold the tickets already ffs! What you are saying is the equivalent of paying for a flight then turning up at the airport and the airline telling you that there's no plane because it would cost them money to fly you. (thinking about Boyle and Dempster did actually use that business model)

It doesn't change the fact that we didn't even try to bring fans back when Covid levels were low and Sturgeon was talking about zero Covid. Just like our licensing laws we are the most negative, small minded country in Europe. The Scottish Government aren't interested in whether football is safe or not it's just about optics. Socially distanced football attendance would be like pissing in an Olympic pool compared to schools and work places. Other countries are trying. We aren't.

1 nil Scotland. Great finish from big Hornby and brilliantly set up by Nathan Paterson.

Scotland need to beat the Czech Republic. Outfield Gemmell has started 7 defenders, Allan Campbell, Lewis Ferguson and Fraser Hornby. Turnbull is in on the bench.

Big Dec had a great game but as we've seen from Mugabi and McHugh in the past that central defender of three role can be easy to play. O'Donnell struggled early but he was up against their best player and I thought he recovered and done well.

Surely more than 20% of people had been in a cafe, bar or restaurant in the previous fortnight?

The two of them sold the jerseys in Israel two weeks ago. This is a good chance to redeem themselves and kick start their season.

The SFA and SPFL should be in contact with European leagues to get data about their experiences with distanced crowds. Sturgeon definitely isn't providing much information unless you are just looking for empty platitudes every day. The Scottish Government have decided give care home providers anonymity and are delaying releasing the report into Covid in care homes which should have been published last week. That's just one example. Today she also said that despite distancing, masks etc we are somehow only three weeks away from the levels of March. Two months ago she was talking about zero Covid.

That's the wrong way of looking at it. Every game that has no fans costs the club 1/19th of next year's season ticket income ie a four figure sum.

I've watched French events with fans. There were fans at the Racing Metro vs Saracens rugby match despite it being played in an indoor arena.

Why do you think things are so different in Scotland than in France, Germany, England or Holland? The Scottish Government have already shown with that they believe football fans are second class citizens with their OBFA.

Magennis has been pish when I've seen him with Scotland u21s. In terms of Nisbet whatever they have spent on him is worth it if he hits 20 goals.

The club that has had it's fans as Compliance Officer since the role was introduced. The club who's chief executive negotiates TV deals on behalf of the league. The club that caused the ref strike, allowed a movie to be filmed in their stadium about a conspiracy theory of SFA corruption and called a ref a cheat on their TV channel all with no punishment. The club who have been allowed to hold an internal inquiry which has never reported back about their employee paedophile ring. The club who's solicitors decided how to end the season. Celtic are the richest club by far and in Scottish football like the rest of society the richest get preferential treatment.

Having an investigation and hearing seems like a fair process that would have to be followed unless the team put up no protest to the forfeit. I'd guess that the SPFL are terrified to set a precedent in case it comes back to sting their favoured team later. They will searching their brains to figure out how to justify treating the cup and league differently.

Doncaster has confirmed that the Scottish Government cancelled the previous games. Aberdeen and Celtic were willing and able to play. Kilmarnock were not able to play. If their League Cup fixtures are awarded to their opponents we should also get the points.

We deserve the 3 points for the pricks bumping us over the fog game.

In Israel?

Hylton seems like a good guy. It's shite he has to spend a winter in Dingwall but hopefully he does well and gets back to civilization at some point. Cole seemed like he couldn't wait to leave last December so it's a strange one he's back. He will improve us.

He's signed some decent players but I'm struggling to think of many in the final third. Main is probably his best attacking signing and Cole on loan.

He inherited some good players and some even better ones came through the youth system. If we sell Allan Campbell this will be the first 100% Robinson team.

Robinson continually signs then plays players who aren't good enough. He's the one signing them. If he's the best manager we could possibly have the inference is that no other manager could sign someone better than Seedorf to come off the bench or Lamie or White or Robbie Crawford.

So by that logic are White, Lamie, Seedorf and McGinlay as good as we can get?

But having said that selling your best player for less than half a million while fighting relegation would be crazy.