Derek Johnstone: Lee Wallace Scotland snub is a kick in the teeth for Rangers captain

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That argument would stand up far better if the squad was full of untried and untested players. But when the likes of Mulgrew and Whittaker are in, players whom "Strachan knows what they can do", then it doesn't stand up nearly so well.

 

That's a fair enough point. Still suits me well enough that Wallace isn't picked up and if, as you might hope, his omission is as a result of a phone call between Warburton & Strachan all the better.

[colinstein 294]

McInnes on the wireless protesting Graeme Shinnie's omission. McInnes reckon's he's the best left back in Scotland

Edited March 11, 2016 by colinstein

[ian1964 10,761]

We don't need to worry about Lee playing for Scotland any time soon!

 

“We are actually well off for left-sided defenders. It’s not bad, if you look at it. With Lee Wallace, he would be getting a game if it wasn’t for Andrew Robertson and Kieran Tierney. Lee is a good player but I have to look at these two for the future.

 

Read more at http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/gordon-strachan-tony-watt-can-7535087#iuHyv4GmszdDZk5s.99

[RANGERRAB 3,741]

We don't need to worry about Lee playing for Scotland any time soon!

 

“We are actually well off for left-sided defenders. It’s not bad, if you look at it. With Lee Wallace, he would be getting a game if it wasn’t for Andrew Robertson and Kieran Tierney. Lee is a good player but I have to look at these two for the future.

 

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The future? What's Mulgrew doing in the squad then? Plus he's hardly played all season.

I wouldn't worry too much about Wee Chesney though. He'll be gone in about a year's time when Scotland fail to qualify yet again. It's overlooked we were fourth in our Euro2016 qualifying group - yes fourth !

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who could they get better than strapon

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The whole Scotland squad needs a complete shake up.

 

We have a good amount of young talent in Scotland who are doing very well @ club level, yet the likes of Brown, Whittaker, Hutton, Fletcher, Maloney & a bunch of others I've never heard of keep getting games. It's time to start picking the players who are actually playing well at the moment, rather than those who played well 5 years ago.

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"Gordon Parks: The stench of failure surrounding Gordon Strachan is now so strong it can’t be washed away .OUR sportswriter doesn’t miss the Scotland boss as he delivers damning verdict.

 

FORGET Brexit and Project Fear. Having already masterminded Scotland’s European exit, the signs are Gordon Strachan is already plotting our absence from another World Cup.

 

Thursday’s Hampden squad announcements had all the hallmarks of the US electoral campaign. Maybe not quite Donald Trump but it was enough to give you the hump.

 

There was comedy yet also embarrassment and downright terror as Strachan defended his picks ahead of Russia 2018.

 

It started with shock and very little awe. Asked what was required to become a Scotland player, with a straight face he said: “You have to be able to pass the ball and control it.”

 

Typically condescending or something more damning? Is he deliberately dumbing down responses in a belief that when it comes to the game’s intricacies we’re all ignorant simpletons?

 

The hefty wedge he picks up from the SFA should’ve ensured he laid out a positive vision for the future.

 

Instead, what we were served up was two squads packed with perennial failures, same old faces and the reward of a cap for a new batch of the mediocre.

 

It was the late, great Tommy Burns who said Berti Vogts handed out caps like sweeties. But this pick-and-mix is a gob-stopper beyond anything the German came up with.

 

Nine uncapped players have been chosen for the friendly double-header against the Czech Republic and Denmark, though it comes with a warning: he’s more than happy to go with “these guys have done a fantastic job for us” in recent campaigns.

 

Maybe it’s confusing living south of the border but would somebody – perhaps his boss Stewart Regan – remind him that the stench of failure surrounding his reign is now so strong that no amount of deluded superlatives could wash it away. Once again, who’s he kidding?

 

It’s never easy to fillet a boyhood hero but the hard truth is that Strachan has only delivered on one of the promises made on the day he was appointed. He said then that “the fans are more famous than the team at the moment and we have to try to get up there and together be as famous as them”.

 

Well, he certainly got his wish. The rest of us cringed as he took a selfie with his squad alongside the Tartan Army after the France 2016 dead-rubber in Gibraltar.

 

It’s time for accountability. He’s paid to build a side from the best players at his disposal, end of story. Dishing out caps to all and sundry only serves to devalue the honour of wearing the dark blue.

 

He needs to stop the psychobabble, bin the rubbish and start delivering results.

 

It’s already looking like a World Cup campaign of more Strachan own goals.

 

Maybe he’d be better off just building a wall. "

 

Read more at http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/gordon-parks-stench-failure-surrounding-7544800#z5h8IqQUyO7AJ63L.99

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Robertson should be the understudy to Wallace. Any football manager who thinks Tierney deserves a place before Wallace should find another occupation.

[limeburner 0]

Robertson should be the understudy to Wallace. Any football manager who thinks Tierney deserves a place before Wallace should find another occupation.

Strachan is the biggest bullshitter in football,when hes finally outed ,who knows what he will do?

Edited March 13, 2016 by limeburner

[MacK1950 2,399]

Why are we wasting our pages talking about Scotland they are just an extension of the manky mob with the manager so let's keep the forum talk about a real team