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Agree. Big Eck is so uninspiring

Christ...Sadiq must truly be god awful...

There's plenty of time for the wee man. Better players than him have gone on loan and went onto reach the heights.

Will be a tricky game due to the lack of an obvious striker. Maybe SG might surprise everyone and throw big Sadiq in there?

Scotland qualifying for anything seems like 3 lifetimes away tbh

Fair enough but that's a lifetime ago. Football has moved on so much since then. What I should have said is that this squad is the best we've had in the last decade or so.

When did our squad have higher end EPL players?

Horrific is a bit OTT. Alan McGregor, Teirney, Robertson, McKenna, McDonald, Cairney, Armstrong, Fraser, Jack, McGinn, Callum McGregor, Forrest, Ritchie and Naismith are all operating at EPL/Championship or SPL level. Recently qualified teams like NI and ROI would love those players IMO. The problem is not the squad, it's the prehistoric managers we choose to employ.

Fantastic read. Thanks for that mate

Did wee Spence bring the subject of Malky McKay to the morality table?

I disagree with regards to the squad. I think this is the best squad we've had in a while. We're short in some areas but there are some decent players there (especially midfield). Many of our squad play in the EPL and on paper they are superior than NI and ROI and on a par with Wales (outwith Bale). They just need a proper coach to shape them, not a guy who is living off success from 12 years ago.

I'm not invalidating votes. I'm just not sure of the voting process tbh. Are the names put forward by the SFA and then the public vote on them? Or do you the public just vote from the outset? If it is the latter then surely the nominations could be influenced by larger fan numbers? Rangers and Celtic have thousands more fans than every other team in Scotland so surely it would be easy to mobilise fans online and vote/nominate any player? If it is the former option and the players were put forward by the SFA, then I stand by original point about 70 games not being enough to get you in the HOF. And finally...can you please complete a post without labelling other people or their views as stupid?

I've just seen McLeish's post match interview. He said it was a game of 2 halves. I agree. Both halves went to Israel

Sorry to dwell on the details but they mention racist and sectarian controversies in the press articles. I remember the flute playing thing (which seemed more naive than anything) but what else are they referring to?

I'm not sure if Paul was a valid nomination considering he only played just over 70 games in Scotland but the way that this has been handled is shocking.

McLeish should never have got the job in the first place. Israel (94th in the world rankings) had over 30 shots at goal and McGregor saved us from a hiding tbh. There is a decent bunch of young players there but they have given the job to the wrong man. To think there was talk of him coming back to Ibrox not long ago?

To be fair to old Shug, he stated at the weekend if we are looking beyond footballing abilities for the HOF we could be opening a lot of uncomfortable doors.

I know I will get accused by some of being too reasonable but their actions also impact on opposing teams fans to. For example, Hearts have a sizeable fan base that were also denied any coverage of their team's trip to Ibrox for the match of the weekend in Scotland.

Very nice indeed

Hardly blinkered. Like it or not they are a barometer for our immediate ambitions. They are the current champions and we haven't beat them in years therefore if we want to win the league it's pretty nailed on that we have to perform better against them.

Spot on

If he can sink a few goals against them this season and that will help his confidence

How's sell-out saturday working out?

Fantastic pod as per usual. Thanks to all involved

I read somewhere that Katic no carrying a knock that he picked up at Livingston? He didn't even play in that game. Maybe he picked it up in the warm up? He's also pulled out of the Croatia U-21 squad by all accounts.