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I'm enjoying the IRE-ENG game. Rice and Grealish have both scored after being booed at every touch. This pleases me.

Portugal have been mauling Scotland for about fifteen minutes. 0-1 though.

Fuck NAWWWWWW.

As bad as the Scottish team is they would still hammer Rangers

Scotland are the Rangers of international football! Ronnie Yeats died yesterday; only got 2 caps because he was competing v McKinnon, McNeill and Ian Ure for example. Now we cannot produce centre halves.

Still waiting for them to tell the fans how much admission will be on European nights .

Shanklys famous quote to the pressmen was taken a walk around him gentlemen

Albania won 2-0. Bajrami was not one of the goal sccorers.

As above pic from today at 3:15pm I'm liking the look of the disabled area. Betcha they have heaters in there in the winter.. good for them.

So how did the human traffickers, sorry Albania, do against Ukraine?

A younger version wearing an old shirt. They should have stuck with that.

At least Kent was seldom injured & always available for selection.

I thought Kent was a cracking wee player for us tbf. Both footed, creative and a good finisher at times (awful at others). We miss his graft more than anything - idk if it was his relationship with Gerrard or just his inate application but his work rate was immense. Still wouldn't sign him though.

Just on the Danilo omission - the paranoia being built up online I've seen in relation to the club withholding information and him seemingly never kicking a ball again is unreal. He's just off of a serious long term injury and has suffered a setback. Let's say he's 'out' for 6 weeks and then takes another month to be match fit - I can see the logic in withholding him from the Euro squad. Purely from a player welfare and game management point of view, let him build his fitness up in the less intense domestic games. A lot of our fans still don't realise that this season is going to be like the Seville run if we make the KO's of the UEL and go far in the cups in terms of the schedule intensity. Tbh I think Celtic are in for a shock in that regard too. We've just seen Chelsea leave Palmer out of their UECL squad for those reasons. This decision is in a similar vein, if anything it's more understandable. Clement, to give him his credit, has always tried to use the squad in a holistic manner. I've got no qualms with this decision tbh.

Tavernier is just the latest in a long line of players to be retained a bit too long. You can say the same about Morelos, Kent and Kamara. If he is going nowhere then the manager always has the option to replace him in the first team while keeping him as an expensive club captain.

The Tavernier situation is arguably a no-win one. We lose an influential player with minimal opportunity to replace him or we keep him knowing his influence is rapidly decreasing. It's arguably best he moves on which completes the reset and move Kasanwirjo/Sterling to right back. I'm unconvinced there will be a huge amount of genuine interest and, even then, certainly at figures smaller than we apparently turned down over the summer. However, with support split on his contribution, if we can organise a move/loan then it it might suit us and the player. It's a real pity the debate around Tav has become so toxic. He has always split opinion to various degrees but he's a player who has contributed positively in the main despite his lack of success. However, I don't think he'll find that level again so time now right to leave.

2nd top scorer this season and top assist suggest otherwise.