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If Russia had scored and not hit the post a minute earlier then this wouldnt be mentioned. Tough one to say. Would be great to see Hutton have him in his pocket for Scoland aswell :cheers:

Aye, its like the Leicester fans thanking bolton for taking megson away. He is a pish manager and always complaining. If Brum get a big takeover with millions to spend then Eck will be in frame for the job.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/birmingham_city/7100525.stm Bizarre decision again with the choice for a clubs manager. He hasnt done great with Birmingham, only made them a bottom 6 EPL club. I dont like Wigan, I dont like the chairman and i think they will get relegated this season and we wont have to put up with them again.

Aye, 20 million plus that ham Neville :cheers:

No surprise from the sunday papers: Eff off Awex he is ours :uzi:

So do we bring back the home internationals next summer? England are scared to say yes and they will be in Austria and Switz anyway due to some shocking russian defending. But would we welcome playing NI, Wales and Rep Ireland (although NI arent out of qualifying yet)? Personally id welcome playing a wee tournament. Id like to see Wales or Rep Ireland at Hampden and us give them a good going over.

Aye the latvia game did it. And agreed, if Sanchez stayed on they would have qualified - same if Smith had stayed on as Scotland boss we may have qualified :cheers:

Mate, i think ive maybe misunderstood the question but there is no doubt progress has been made. Im certainly not digging at Eck here but if he replaced Vogts (not W Smith) would we still be in the same position. I just think Smith deserves huge credit for scrapping us off the ground and getting us off and running. Eck has continued what Smith started and has a great 'A' team but the Georgia showed we dont have a 'B' team once our better players arent available. Eck doesnt deserve any critics but he did make a few wrong decisions. Playing an unfit Fletcher in Georgia was wrong and Miller should have been on earlier last night. But it take our certain circumstances compared to Vogts days. We are progressing and have a good young squad. It will be interesting to see if Eck stays on. We dont have a competitive game for 10 months and you have to wonder if Eck would prefer day to day management again.

Still in with a shout. They need to win in Spain and hope Sweden lose in the last game. But they have had a tremondous campaign aswell but shot themselves in the foot a few games ago. It would be nice if they could still make it, they have had a tough group also. Denmark, Spain and Sweden is a hard group. But England will still probably be the sole UK representatives after struggling through an easier group. :uzi:

Its hard to believe they would have chopped the italy goal off then. There was nothing wrong with it. I do think UEFA want certain clubs at the championships but scotland are an attraction aswell and with the fans we take we would make a lot of money for the switz and austrian economy.

Tough tough question. I think the squad has came closer together but Walter Smith did so well after Vogts' reign. Smith opened a massive platform for a successor and Eck has carried on the canter

CL betting: Im liking the odds for both Milan sides. Both 10/1 shot and could easy win it. I think il punt on both.

Gav you cant just pick faults out. Hutton was immense for me especially on the ball. He'd be my first pick for RB in any team right now.

I had a wee tenner on Mcfadden for first goal but nothing else on the coupon. I was tempted to back a draw in israel so luckily i didnt. I'll bet on croatia on wed now :cheers:

He is better than Alexander or Mcevely. Hopefully in the long term Stevie Smith gets back to fitness and he makes the LB position his own.

I do think corruption exsists in football but i dont think there was a conspiract to not let scotland qualify. What if Mcfadden had put the sitter away - we would have been up 2-1. People can say Fergusons goal was offside but he allowed the goal and he also chopped off Italys perfectly fine goal - so i dont think there was a conspiracy here. IMO conspiracys in football are at the top level with money etc and with so many foreigners buying into clubs.

Harsh mate. I like Naysmith. Ok he didnt have a great game but i didnt think he stood out as poor. I blame Bryan Robson. Naysmith was cracking at Everton now he is at Sheff Utd which is a strange one - he is better then that IMO.

Everyone knows i got on to McLeish when he was at rangers but i have to defend him in this case. He went with 1 up front coz we were up against the world champions. He is tactically naive at times but we have given France and Italy a run right to the wire so he had to get some things right somewhere. I do think Miller should have been on earlier and McFadden played deeper but it may have it may have went the other way.

Was about to start a thread about him aswell but more so on his future. Will he move onto a premiership club now or stay on for the next campaign? His stock has went up and he is being linked with jobs down south. I dont think he can be blamed for getting it wrong yesterday, but i do think Miller should have been on earlier. I actually think the rain and conditions played its part.

In an attacking sense he is probably our best threat at the moment. Is there a shout for playing Whittaker at RB and Hutton further forward?

Fook me Macedonia lead croatia 2-1!!! Is that a good thing or bad thing?? Croatia may try against england now

I bet my neightbours are glad they are italian and not spanish.

They have got back in thru the back door. However i suppose we will just have our usual celebrations when they got knocked out from portugal on pens again. :cheers:

As said before, its no worries coz i can still log on but its just a wee bit strange. :cheers:

Cant even log in with that!! Im still getting this