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Maswanhise scores for Zimbabwe, go on Tawanda!!

Yeah, but Max Johnston is "only" 20 years old. Probably just another of those young ones "that everybody wants to hype and push."

Totally agree with your comments David. Look at how Turnbull was and is still over looked or more recently Gauld. Players that are physically strong and can run are preferred over technically gifted players. I thought we had moved passed the big strong laddie approach. But when you have Gemmil (what's he done to merit his position?) and safety first Clark then modern and forward thinking coaching is not happening. Look at Northern Irelands and Wales approach. Playing young players and building for the future. Our dour faced manager only thinks about the coming 90 minutes and not getting beat. See how that's going. As been said there have been plenty of opportunities to give fringe players some experience but he picks the same players who have failed over and over. Guys like Max Johnstone should be playing ahead of Devlin and Ralston. Miller should be getting minutes at a higher level to get him learning. Playing with better players can only help him improve. It's beyond the time for a fresh approach on and off the field. But when you see how our outgoing chairman saw the world, then we can't really be surprised that others running the game are equally clueless and lack any intelligence or desire to improve things.

😆😆😆 It'll never last! 😆😆😆

After his performances at the euros,ralston should never have been selected again.hes a total bombscare that's never going to improve beyond that.max Johnstone took the step to move abroad and improve as a player and it should be rewarded but yet we have selected a dumpling that will be happy sitting on the bench at his beloved celtic every week.

Exactly, and you are quite right to draw attention to Clarke's contradictory statements. He's getting to be as thrawnly defensive/prickly and dismissive as Strachan was in his final phase as international manager. I also notice that he sometimes pushes Carver out to do his talking for him before matches now. I'm pretty sure Lennon Miller will be in a Scotland squad as soon as he's left Fir Park.

If Miller is good enough to play for the national team he should be selected. Many players have started their full international careers as teenagers. So do we regard Miller as good for an 18 year old or good in comparison to other players? I sometimes wonder if we actually do our young players a disservice by treating them with kid gloves due to their age.

Excellent goal.. Received ball just inside the box, made room and snap shot across goalie. Celebration was pretty good as well.

As I've said elsewhere, I'm not a massive fan of Clark, and I could have cracked his jaw if I had bumped into him in Germany in the Summer, but I'm a bit puzzled by your take on this, and others to be fair. Doak plays in a position that we are literally completely bereft of anyone playing at any sort of level, the fact that he signed for Liverpool suggests that he's a very exciting talent and the fact that he's ripping it up week in and out at Middlesbrough currently would back that up. At the time of Doaks selection, the convo would have been literally 'we need a bit of pace and width in the team, who have we got?' Doak and naebody else would have been the response...get him in and have a look. Miller plays in a position where we currently, literally do not need him, ahead of him are players that play in Serie A and the English Premier and Championship, players that aren't completely over the hill and players that the manager trusts, rightly or wrongly. Clarke will have watched Miller umpteen times and it's his job to decide if he adds something to his squad, and he clearly feels that at this moment he is right down the pecking order. Clarke uses the word 'hype'...could he mean 'over-hype' and he's not buying into the praise that's been heaped on young Lennon so far?

Don't think anyone is saying Miller is a first pick but you could have him in the squad and maybe give him some minutes of the bench. If you look at the three emerging young Scottish players this season, Barron, McCowan and Miller, none of them will get a look in under Clarke.

It wouldn’t be steelboy

He picked Ben Doak for Scotland after he had played 37 minutes of senior league football for Liverpool, and around 12 minutes of senior football for Celtic. Lennon Miller has played 55 games for Motherwell, including a semi-final and he's now captained the side as well. It's not about protecting players or selecting them when they're ready. Clarke will most likely have Lennon Miller in his full international squad the very minute the ink dries on a contract with a German, Italian or English side. That's why we see him constantly go looking for individuals who ply their trade in the lower reaches of the English game who have a hint of Scottish ancestry.

Some very civil posts. Am I on an alternate steelmen in line? 😂 No trying to convince each other that your viewpoint is correct. Just sharing opinions on individual perceptions of SK and his time here. I find it quite interesting seeing how each person views his performance and interested to see if people’s assessments will change/align as we go through the season and beyond and also to see if SK changes/learns as he progresses.

Exactly. I've got a leather jacket I still call "my new one" I bought it in 2003.

I still think we recently won the 1st division with Davie Hay in charge

Ian St John is my cut-off. Anything after his move to Liverpool = recent Anything prior to his move to Liverpool = before my time. (Although sometimes I split it between post SPL and pre SPL).

Not sure what folks are expecting from Stevie Clarke? Who does Lennon Miller displace in the Scotland squad. Gilmour, McLean, Christie, McTominay, McGinn, Armstrong? You could make a case for Connor Barron, but even he is further ahead in his development than Miller. Lennon isnt ready for the senior team yet. He clearly has the ability and if he had bossed it against Celtic and Rangers recently not to mention his last U21 apearance then the calls for his inclusion would have been harder to ignore. Folks can pick fault with Clarke for many things, this isnt one of them.

No argument here. We are far from perfect and SK still makes his fair share of mistakes. But he as a manager and we as a club are getting more right than wrong. The big test is going to be around the turn of the year when the majority of players are fit and available for selection. SK is going to have some serious decisions to make. Hopefully he makes the right ones. Oh, and hanging on to Lennon Miller until the end of the season, even if it is a loan back, would be good!

Do as I say, not as I do. Twat. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/nov/14/scottish-football-has-to-change-its-youth-development-warns-steve-clarke

That bloody idiot Kettlewell can't even organise the weather for a big game. It's not as if he didn't know this game was coming up. It's stupid mistakes like this that prove he's not going to have long left in this job. Ooot his depth !

Aye it was Hong Kong i'm getting mixed up between fake tournaments in Asia.