World Cup 2026

[Gloucester Saint]

More suicideball at the back nearly costs them again.

Has Russell Martin kidnapped Steve Clarke and is wearing a Clarke mask to impersonate? Because they are playing like Southampton FC autumn 2024 edition. 

[SNSUN]

Well Scotland haven't capitulated. Good for them I guess.

[SNSUN]

Cracking goal from Haiti. Back in front.

[John Boy Saint]

Haiti back in front with a missile

[John Boy Saint]

Blimey the other game is basketball 

[John Boy Saint]

Gunny grasping at air

[SNSUN]

Scotland concede a second in the eighth minute of six minutes injury time. 😄

[Gloucester Saint]

Great cross and header but horrific defending leading up to it, Gunn couldn’t catch Covid. 

[Suhari]

Terrible. They had a few chances to get that clear.

[obelisk]

Had the chance to clear it but no. Let's fanny around with it and concede another goal.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

Awful defending. Just couldn't clear their lines

[Gloucester Saint]

Just now, John Boy Saint said:

Gunny grasping at air

Like Bazunu, he’d drop it if he got anywhere near it.

Has his dad’s name but that’s about where goalkeeping abilities end.

[Gloucester Saint]

And nearly 3. More horrific defending and overplaying. Getting Saints autumn 2024 flashbacks, 

Edited 22 hours ago by Gloucester Saint

[obelisk]

What time is the flight back to Glasgow in the morning?

[Gloucester Saint]

Paying £13m for Angus Gunn, or whatever robbery it was, was pure early onset as a transfer and almost as bad as Bazunu. 

[SNSUN]

1 minute ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Paying £13m for Angus Gunn, or whatever robbery it was, was pure early onset as a transfer and almost as bad as Bazunu. 

It's ok, we won't make that mistake again of signing a shit keeper. (I mean after George Long...)

[Suhari]

Oh dear.

[Suhari]

Brazil really aren't what they used to be.

Unfortunately, Scotland are.

[SylvianSylvian]

Che & Loch Ness Drogs on to win this

[SNSUN]

I like hope the commentators keep saying things like "minus 3 goal difference might get you through..." Dude there are 30 odd minutes left to play yet. 

[pingpong]

6 hours ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Are Scotland through regardless because of head to head? Or are they actually using GD like normal?

The best third place race does include gd, and with only 3 pts and -3, it'll be tricky. They need to finish above 4 teams, so they need 4 of the 7 still active below scenarios to happen.

Group d - they need Australia to beat Paraguay  and USA to beat or draw with Turkiye

Group e - they need Germany to beat or draw with Ecuador and ivory coast to beat or draw with Curacao.

Group f - they need Japan to beat Sweden by 4 goals, and Netherlands to avoid a 5 goal defeat to Tunisia.

Group I - they need Iraq narrow win, or to draw with senegal

Group j - they need Austria to beat Algeria by two goals, Argentina to beat Jordan.

Group k - they need a draw between Congo and Uzbekistan, or a Uzbekistan win by less than four goals.

Group L - they need a Ghana win against Croatia by at least 3 goals  and for Panama not to win against England.

 

 

Edited 16 hours ago by pingpong

[SNSUN]

Would be sad to see Scotland scrape through based on one crappy win against a poor side but that's the nature of this World Cup. You don't need to do too much to get through. Cape Verde are far more deserving than Scotland of getting through and they may not yet. 

[Saint Pete]

If Scotland wanna go through they need to go for it in last 20 and try to improve their goal difference by at least 1 goal, maybe 2. Otherwise they will surely be out once everyone else has played. 

[Baird of the land]

Pathetic the way Scotland threw the game with 3 pieces of suicidal defending (with ref letting them off one of those). When you see way some so called lesser nations have got results through not gifting big team anything.

[HKsaint]

Time to unleash Stewart and Adams

[East Kent Saint]

4 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Like Bazunu, he’d drop it if he got anywhere near it.

Has his dad’s name but that’s about where goalkeeping abilities end.

Man U interested in signing Gunn apparently !

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

12 hours ago, Wade Garrett said:

Got to be honest, I don’t see it.

 

Fair enough. The issue is that he's had injuries and form challenges but in my opinion when he's fit, defensively and getting forward at times he is great. 

[Whitey Grandad]

8 hours ago, CB Fry said:

Get Ross Stewart on FFS.

 

Is anyone secretly hoping that he gets injured?

[Lee On Solent Saint]

5 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Is anyone secretly hoping that he gets injured?

Waste of time him going to be honest

[Whitey Grandad]

3 hours ago, East Kent Saint said:

Man U interested in signing Gunn apparently !

Would that be Ben Gunn?

[Saint Fan CaM]

Scotland were pretty much toothless - Brazil were not even playing at their best and trounced the Scots sadly.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

1 hour ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

Scotland were pretty much toothless - Brazil were not even playing at their best and trounced the Scots sadly.

Hindsight and all that, but they really needed to make the most of playing Haiti first game. I bigger win might have had them more comfortably placed for the farce of 3rd place qualification.

[East Kent Saint]

3 hours ago, Lee On Solent Saint said:

Hindsight and all that, but they really needed to make the most of playing Haiti first game. I bigger win might have had them more comfortably placed for the farce of 3rd place qualification.

At least the media can stop going on about how fantastic their fans are etc 😃

[Saint Mikey]

6 hours ago, Lee On Solent Saint said:

Waste of time him going to be honest

The club will be getting paid by FIFA for his services, like all players still registered to clubs, so not all bad that he got in the squad.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c893ndl18y9o

c.£120k for Stewart if they go out in Group Stage. Should pay a chunk of his wages until the end of his contract.

It looks like Bremen would get Sugawara's FIFA money, as he's temporarily registered there. Whereas we would get the Larin money as he's been permanently transferred.

[Badger]

15 hours ago, East Kent Saint said:

Man U interested in signing Gunn apparently !

Think it’s the ‘George Long’ role isn’t it ? 

[Badger]

5 hours ago, Saint Mikey said:

The club will be getting paid by FIFA for his services, like all players still registered to clubs, so not all bad that he got in the squad.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c893ndl18y9o

c.£120k for Stewart if they go out in Group Stage. Should pay a chunk of his wages until the end of his contract.

It looks like Bremen would get Sugawara's FIFA money, as he's temporarily registered there. Whereas we would get the Larin money as he's been permanently transferred.

I didn’t think Stewart was registered to us at the moment. 

[Sheaf Saint]

4 minutes ago, Badger said:

I didn’t think Stewart was registered to us at the moment. 

Football contracts usually run to 30 June I think.

[Badger]

19 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Football contracts usually run to 30 June I think.

Thanks. 

[die Mannyschaft]

Can Germany keep a clean sheet, not with Rudiger he's a liability. Should walk this no pressure, an average team but expect to to QF. I expected Ecuador to be much better so they will defend and catch Germany on break. Is Wirtz really a £110m player, think Liverpool over paid.

Ecuador 1-3 Germany 

[obelisk]

That decision is just plain corrupt. This ref id going to lose control.

[Saint Pete]

What are VAR thinking not giving a foul for that?! It's a head high foot and he clearly made contact with defenders head. 

[pingpong]

That's the worst decision of the WC so far, maybe the worst in the history of var.  That's exactly what it's there for and they didn't use it...

[obelisk]

Get in there. Try and disallow that ref.

[saintant]

Justice for Ecquador after they were clearly cheated by VAR on the German goal.

[die Mannyschaft]

Dodgy Germany defence, a but like Saints just keep the ball away from own box. 

[saintant]

Which part of Bavaria does this ref come from?

[die Mannyschaft]

3 minutes ago, saintant said:

Justice for Ecquador after they were clearly cheated by VAR on the German goal.

Boro have just lodged a complaint for Ecquador. 

[obelisk]

Ref is even wearing green. FIFA obviously happy to pin their colours to the mast.

[saintant]

Germans currently being given a chasing here.

[Challenger]

Anyone know the best combination of results required in order to send the Jocks home ? Just asking for a friend.

Edited 43 minutes ago by Challenger