Ian Black called up to Scotland squad

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Craig Levein might be an idiot or whatever we want to call him, but his gaffers are basically the same people at the SFA who've overseen our club getting completely shafted, dumped in the 3rd Division and handed unprecedented punishments, so I wouldn't really expect him to call up as many Gers players as he has previously. He probably wants to keep his job after all...

[Gribz 743]

Noticed this on another forum, that for me would be an instant withdrawal, guys an idiot. Its probably worse than the Broadfoot "limited ability" comment from Burley.

 

It is worse, at least Burley had the excuse of a bottle of Famous Grouse inside him when he made his comment.

 

Levein makes me cringe, what is with his permanent arrogance?

 

Like the rest of Scottish football there is no ambition and long term plan going forward with the national team. 5-1 defeat from the USA last time, I fancy Australia to bash us 3-1 in this game.

 

This upcoming qualifying group is the easiest on paper in a long long time, top seeds are Croatia and Serbia rather than the past decade with Italy, Germany, France, Holland, Spain....yet I fancied us more up against all those countries more so than this group with Levein.

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It is worse, at least Burley had the excuse of a bottle of Famous Grouse inside him when he made his comment.

 

Levein makes me cringe, what is with his permanent arrogance?

 

Like the rest of Scottish football there is no ambition and long term plan going forward with the national team. 5-1 defeat from the USA last time, I fancy Australia to bash us 3-1 in this game.

 

This upcoming qualifying group is the easiest on paper in a long long time, top seeds are Croatia and Serbia rather than the past decade with Italy, Germany, France, Holland, Spain....yet I fancied us more up against all those countries more so than this group with Levein.

 

It may be the "easiest" but it has the most depth Wales are bottom seeds remember. We are going to struggle and he will just deflect it away onto something else just like his 4-6-0

[the gunslinger 3,366]

now Levin has banned the record for daring to spag him over this.

[Blue Moon 1,118]

He has made an utter fool of himself by selecting Black and not Wallace. I am bitterly disappointed with Levein. I thought he would be good but he has been hopeless on and off the park. Tbh I am surprised I am even replying to this thread because right now I will be watching Corrie when Scotland are playing. That's how I feel.

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He has made an utter fool of himself by selecting Black and not Wallace. I am bitterly disappointed with Levein. I thought he would be good but he has been hopeless on and off the park. Tbh I am surprised I am even replying to this thread because right now I will be watching Corrie when Scotland are playing. That's how I feel.

Afraid Corrie's not on because Engerlund are playing.

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I'm probably in a minority of one but I've actually got some sympathy with Levein. To an extent I think he's been stitched up by the media over this. The omission of any Rangers players from the squad isn't that much of a surprise. Really only Wallace, Broadfoot, Alexander and Black are in serious contention for a call up currently. Broadfoot is just returning from long term injury so his exclusion isn't much of a surprise and Black has never been picked before so again no surprise. Leaving out Wallace and Alexander need explaining. His belief that Mulgrew and Fox are his preferred choices for left back is fair enough, we can disagree with him on this but it's not a ridiculous decision. For me leaving out Alexander is more puzzling. The specialist nature of goalkeeping and his ability to get into the squad when not in the Rangers first team previously suggests to me that he would still have a good chance of getting in despite playing in the 3rd Division.

 

But for outfield players there can be no doubt playing in Div 3 is going to hold back their careers. Even the most one-eyed of us must surely accept the drop in quality of opposition will affect performance. I've no problem with the Scotland manager saying that those playing at the highest level will be looked at first. His subsequent call up of Black is then surprising. But I think it's a one-off call up and will be his last for a while. It makes little sense just now but I can only assume it is try out a formation Levein has in mind and his preferred player, probably Scott Brown, isn't currently available to play in.

 

Some of the press have it in for Levein. For professional or personal reasons they don't like him and they have decided to make life difficult for him. This is simply something they have picked up on to beat him with. Wallace isn't Messi, leaving him out is hardly going to make a huge difference to the outcome of the match.

 

I don't think Levein is a great manager, he fell right into this tabloid trick which doesn't say much for him and his Scotland sides have been less than inspiring. Both Smith and McLeish proved that a bit of organisation and a lot of endeavour will see most of the population support the Scotland team. We know our limitations, we just want to see them compete, we'll accept defeat if we've at least done that.

 

But for me this smells of tabloid agenda driven stories, Rangers still sell papers and getting a Rangers angle in on this helps circulation. We're being used and in the end no one wins accept Rupert Murdoch and Trinity Mirror, I for one have no interest in helping either of them.

[Blue Moon 1,118]

Afraid Corrie's not on because Engerlund are playing.

 

Thanks for that. I don't actually watch Corrie. Will watch England instead. I would never do that but I am really angry still.

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But for me this smells of tabloid agenda driven stories, Rangers still sell papers and getting a Rangers angle in on this helps circulation. We're being used and in the end no one wins accept Rupert Murdoch and Trinity Mirror

 

Absolutely spot on. They've had a wee lull in Rangers related controversy and when they don't have any of that, they tend to manage to invent it or conjure some up. No surprise there.

[kuznetsov 0]

i actually hope scotland lose heavily tonight and finish bottom of the world cup qualifying group. heid was talking about topping the group on sky earlier. hahahaha