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Good luck to his replacement.

the best manager in the world would have struggled with that awful team.

Burley is a quality manager but he couldnt polish a turd...

Scotland should just fold

so should celtic but you dont hear me going on about it

Goalkeeper - one of the best in the country
Def - Berra, Hutton
Midfield - Brown, Fletcher, Robson,
Fwd - McFadden

There's plenty quality to get started with, the new man just needs to fill out the team with better stuff than Fox or Cowie or Commons.

If your not interesated in your own national team, fine, stop being a ******* though eh?

Scotland having a decent team is probably not going to happen again - doesn't matter how many times they change the manager.
Expectations are too high, created by relative successes of days gone by.

They should be pushing to create a mainland britain team.
Give them a chance of following a team that has a crack at going deep in a comp.

Name of the team should reflect the characteristics of the individuals within it.............that'll be ENGLAND then!!
 ;D

dont think burley ever got to play with more than 50% of those listed above

but we have got quailty but injury prone players

there must be something in there training as kids that make our players prone for injury

would love to see webster/wilkie back in the def along side berra hutton and hammell

more chance of me breaking the WR high jump at the 2012 olympics than me suppporting a united british team called england

lol at this list...

you showed me.

they all play for premiership sides (and 2 for celtic) which is a good standard
they are all important players for premiership sides
fergie rates fletcher as a top play at man u

ok they are not all in the top 4 team in the premiership but very few brits are
and once you get outside the top 16 players for england you are going to struggle to find many english players (still wanting to play for NT)

i disagree, i would say you have 2 decent players there and the rest are poor to mediocre

gordon best british goalie
hutton top 3 british right backs
fletcher in fergies starting 11 need i say more
brown and robson are decent players who havent proved how good as they play in spl
mcfadden and berra important first choice players for there teams ok not quailty needed in a british team but quailty premiership players

lol

dave you would never rate hutton as he is a an ex ger
if you guys dont want brown i know many a team that would love him
faddy performs well on the big stages so cant be called a chocker but his consistancy is questionable

Can you not judge your players by our poor standards too?
Just because England have crap right backs and goal keepers doesn't mean yours become good enough.

nah but its a building block

Going back to OP.

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!

And not before time, shame on the SFA for giving him another chance but well played in growing some balls and fixing their mistake.

There are two stand out candidates for me but I doubt either will be take the job even if offered it.

moyes and who?

Sir Alex

he did it once before and has already stated acouple of years back he is too old

Neither Moyes or Sir Alex are serious contenders where as Walter Smith or George Graham could be. Doubtful whether Smith will be at  Rangers beyond January but equally doubtfull the SFA would want him back after leaving to go to Rangers. George Graham appears to be retired from football management altogether and may be too controversial a character for the SFA. Two best realistic candidates by a mile IMO.

lol @ hutton and mcfadden, they are beyond terrible.

there ar 3 realistic choices IMO mcalister,leviein and calderwood

and outsider might be darren ferguson

Levein is the best of these four for me but I think the most important thing is that the new man has the respect of the players, it is clear Burley didn't.

he is also the most unlikely as he is employed and sfa wont want to pay compo

Good point that I hadn't considered.

Gotta agree on darren fletcher,he's become a big player for man u and they miss him when he's out,in the big games especially.As for the rest, meh.As said previously, gl whoever takes it,they'll need it

dont forget kris boyd will come back now GB has gone

he might be useless everywhere apart from 6 yard box but he can put the ball in back of net
something we seriously lack

why ?

he has never been a regular pick for any manager since leaving kilmarnock.

kris boyd is not the answer to scotlands problems

because he cant play outside of the box

but scotland need someone that can finish

there is no point is hurring and hassling the oppos

if when we do get the ball into the box we are looking for flukes to score

oh yeah i dont think he is the answer to our problems but i think he can supply options we need espically against teams we should dominant

Boyd is never going to do well for scotland. At domestic level 90% of his goals come against bottom 6 opposition. Also when playing for scotland he isnt going to get the same number of chances he gets for rangers. all this pish about 'boyd just needs one chance to score' doesnt actually stand up to any close scrutiny.

bottom 6 oppostion is the kinda of teams we can score against

the moldovas ,farore islands ,icelands  of this world would be good to have someone that can turn our possestion into goals
i know the one chance is a myth but in these games we get 10+ chances and draw blanks or fluke a goal
boyd will normally stick one of them away

i dont believe he is an option that should be used in games where our backs will be against the wall

unfortunately for us, there are 'no easy games' anymore. even the faroes and moldova


btw i hear rumours that walter smith is in the running for the job. this would be scandalous.

yeah his contract is up next month

i would hate it if he came back as he left scotland for another job
and just because he is close to getting sacked/ no contract renewal he is offered job back

i want a scotland manager who thinks the scotland job is the best job in scotland
not one that thinks and old firm job is better

Levien is far to good to take the scotland job, if he did he would ruin his career and never be rated as highly as he does at present.

The scotland job is only good enough for someone at Jim Jeffries level, anyone better than him will only fuck up their careers.

Im preying to god above that they sign Mowbray tho......please take him away from us!

yeah cause celtic are really going to get someone better than mowbray while they are still in the spl

Anyone has to be better than Mowbray so yes they will


Did you know John Barnes had a better record as celtic manager that Tony Mowbray does. I found this out today and was nearly in tear's! it speaks for itself FFS

when you had him there were people calling for MON head, everyone was calling for WGS's head and now you want rid of TM all these guys had good reputations before going to celtic, you think it might have something to do with the board and the players rather than the managers?

i cant think of any manager who has a reputation as big as WGS or TM that would be willing to goto celtic
celtic would have to go for an unproven manager or someone like magee who they rejected in the summer

lol you think Mowbray had a good Rep before celtic?

He was ok and Hibs
He was pure shite at west brom finishing dead last
then he came to celtic and has a worse record than our worst manager in recent decades.

WGS saved Coventry from Relegation (they shouldn't have been in that position in the first place)
Then he didn't do any better the standard and southampton.

hardly good reps before celtic.

Celtic a clearly a step up from what TM has been used to and just ain't up to scratch, WGS was good for the 2 years (when he inhereted MON's team), then started fucking up the team (signed Brown FFS), and just managed to win the 3rd league after rangers were terribly poor and threw it away, year 4 proved just how bad he actually is.



Oops we have just highjacked this thread, anyway, getting back to OP, Ha Ha Ha burley!

lol at didnt do any better at southampton

i am a saints fan bring back the glory days of wgs IMHO

look where we were when he arrived and where we finished each season

including an FA cup final and a top half finish in the premiership

all without money

strachan was a high profile manager BEFORE he went to glasgow

and was tipped as a possible successor to sir alex back then

WTF! Maybe in his mind.

lol wow is that classed as good these days???

you've just proven my point

for a small team like southampton with no budget and no way of getting in big players its a huge success


no straachan was tipped as a possible succesor to sir alex while he was running good at the saints just as mark hughes was being tipped when he was at blackburn

Early doors though, not really surprising John Barnes had a good start as Celtic manager then it all fell to pieces.  I think the players need to take most of the blame so far this season. WE WILL win the league this season and if he get the backing from the board the deadwood can GTF and mowbrays can build the squad he wants.

smith has to be the best option for Scotland, either that or a foreigner.  Couldn't bring myself to support a Scotland team led by souness!!!!!

FYP, to reflect my opinion!

dave as you said in a previous post that you couldnt support anything scottish why do you use the moniker scottish?
why not use something you do support like celtic dave or even just dave

seems odd that a guy who is so anti scottish uses it in his name

Ahhh ok I get you. The same press who tipped Mourinho to be Spurs manager, Curbishley to be England manager, and think Steve Bruce, Sam Allardyce and Harry Redknapp are world class managers.

For a minute there I thought you were serious.

curbishley wasn't a random press tip, he was actually interviewed by the fa for the england job

ferguson jr for the job!

i never said i COULDN'T support anything Scottish, i said i don't support anything Scottish, cos basically it doesn't interest me. You are correct tho, i did say i COULDN'T support the football team, thats down to Rangers reasons (cant possible cheer for a rangers player...ever, and cant see why other celtic fans could, that goes for rangers fans with celtic players too!!)

as for my moniker, when i first joined Blonde i was just 'Dave' but things started getting confusing when people were getting mixed up with me and original owner of blonde Dave Colclough, therefore i changed my name to Scottish Dave to save confusion.

I love being scottish, i just have no interest in any scottish teams in any sports really, doesn't mean i don't like where i live.

Yup and idiot members of the press tipped him to help his cause becuase they like him.

such a shame he has gone i liked him as the scottish manger  :D

not as much as i loved steve mclaren as an england manager

as hated as mclaren was his record as an international manager is quite possibly better than any scotland manager in history other than mcleish

isnt your wife / girlfriend a rangers supporter?

LOLOL @ Craig Gordon being the best British Goalkeeper.

He couldn't get in the Sunderland team for ages.

Darren Fletcher is the only genuine world class player you've got and that's only because he fits into the Utd system perfectly.

given the choice of gordon or clamity james i will take gordon every day of the week and twice on sundays

about time

nonsense

Even that is debatable. He is very good at what he does but didn't get a regular place until Hargreaves was injured and even then it took even Utd fans ages to warm to him.

Ossie Ardiles now quoted as wanting the job.

Could be entertaining if he adopts the 1-2-7 formation he had at Spurs!

cos man utd fans are definitely the most knowledgeable footy fans out there...

Craig Gordon is nowhere near Jaaskelainen, Given, Reina, Friedel or Van Der Sar, but then none of those are British, he is the best British goalie, and by a long way at present when England can only boast James, Foster or Green as their possible #1s.

You mean an England manager who couldn't even get his top seeded team to the finals? What an absurd suggestion. Better in my lifetime - Ormond, McLeod, Stein/Ferguson, Roxburgh, Brown, Smith, McLeish, in fact that is all of them for the last 30 years except Vogts & burley.

Certainly not by a long way. He's about Green's level. Nothing spectacular but not too worried they aren't world class. Worried me when he came to the Prem and said he struggled to adjust because they kick the ball harder and faster in England. If you offered to swap nationalities of Green and Gordon i wouldn't accept.

you seriously think ferguson has a better record as scotland manager than mclaren at england? I'm not talking about how good they are, simply their records and mclaren won, I would imagine, a bigger % of games than any of those you've named

doesn't change the fact that he's a cock though

having checked the stats every single manager you mention there has a worse record as an international manager than mclaren

Her dad is a Rangers fan, (he doesn't go to any games tho, cos he is a black scab bastard!)

I don't support him either.

I think you missed the part where I mentioned McLaren managed the perenially top seeded England, he should be able to gain a better  win record in his sleep, but he failed to qualify for his only shot at finals, whereas every Scotland manager mentioned didn;t, I would say they had far better records than McLaren.