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I don’t know how many players are truly committed to the Club. Balogun, Barron, McAusland and maybe Butland. The rest will perform as professional wage earners but without the extra effort of, for example, a Ferguson. Tavernier had it for a while but for seasons now, he’s been paralysed by fear. Just look at his eyes.

It does

Fair point but I think if a couple of fixtures hadn’t been postponed the team would have had the momentum to win it. The fact that they couldn’t demonstrate mental weakness. The away goals stat tells us all.

My first thought was to agree but on reflection he was well thought of by those who matter, i.e. those who stand on the terracing - sorry, sit in the stands - but management had to offload him because of the daft rules.

The next manager instead of the usual squadron of backroom hangers on will have to bring at least fifteen players with hm.

That’s been a problem for a long time. New captain might help but who? The new Dutch guy who doesn’t get picked?

I’m supposed to record my blood pressure just now. I think I’ll wait until well after the final whistle to avoid anomalies.

Aye but the Lord doth other things too.

Tomorrow is last chance for Rangers. If they can’t stir themselves to win, they deserve nothing.

True but the relevant fact is that he missed the chance.

Euro cup final.

Of those I saw play at an age when I was competent to make my own judgement rather than rely on what my big brother said, Baxter, Law, Smith (Hibs) Dalglish, Caldow.

Aye. Better than Smith, more solid than Rough without Rough’s ability to make the occasional impossible save. Can’t remember what he was like at saving penalties but he was good at taking them. Absolutely.

Kent has more than one position. Maybe he just wasn’t playing well enough.

Here are the Scotsman readers’ twenty best uncapped Scottish footballers. Andy Ritchie, Morton. Chic Charnley, Thistle. John McMaster, Aberdeen. Neale Cooper, Aberdeen. Gordon Wallace, Dundee. Craig Brewster, Dundee Utd. Bobby Russell, Rangers. John Brown, Rangers. Alex Rae, Sunderland. John McGovern, Forest. Alan Gordon, Heart, Hibs. Kevin McAllister, Falkirk/Hibs. Alex Edwards, Dunfermline/Hibs Bobby Cox, Dundee. Stephen Dobbie, QoS. Hamish McAlpine, Dundee Utd. Ralph Milne, Dundee Utd. Jim Duffy, Dundee. Billy Stark, Aberdeen. Tommy Bryceland, St Mirren. Cox, Edwards, Russell and Brown were unlucky not to be capped. Some fine players among the rest, Bryceland in particular, but mostly old-style B International material.

That team almost has a settled look about it.

Yes. So, why ditch Kent? Why did they want another foreign player instead of him? Was it because he wasn’t performing well?

Why did they want to replace him?

No.

King’s great weakness was his propensity to litigate lost causes.

And still get stung by the little beggars.

The cleverest strategist, the most astute tactician still has a pool of moderate level players from which to pick a team so a new manager is unlikely to do any better. Clark is a very suitable manager for Scotland. A greetin’ faced moaner with the capability to be smug if the occasion arises.

I don’t think McLean and Russell were unsung. McLean was compared unfavourably with his illustrious outside right predecessors in his early days until we ignorant spectators worked out what he was doing.

Captain McColl. Master wing half.

Very good player for the Hibs but even better at Liverpool.