Souttar and Boyle would have looked outstanding in this bog average Scottish team.I would love to see them do well but Switzerland and Hungary are no pushovers.

Roy Keane pointed out that this team needed to be more aggressive and  not let the Germans have so much room.Hopefully after that hard lesson they will give a better account of themselves in the next two matches.

I’ll eagerly wait for their next match for better judgement but you know it’s a good sign for Germany when they start a tournament with a big win.

I agree Scotland were poor and offered little in attack but Germany were very good and will ease some pressure as the host nation. 

Souttar and Boyle were deemed not good enough for this team, hence they jumped ship to the Roos.

If Scotland wrote Souttar off when he was 20 then that's their problem. An absolute coup for Australia. Boyle wouldn't have looked out of place last night. 

Smart boys.

Boyle has been done for about 12 months now, hence why he is now looking at the A league.

And when was the last time big Harry got a game for Leicester ?

australia might throw the t20 match against scotland today if they need a pick me up

wonder if scottish media is as weird as ours. Any talk of a panel of former scottish captains to grill the coach and fire them?

Boyle was fine last season and had a very good return against Palestine. His career is in twilight but a handy player.

You're on here enough to know Souttar was under a wanker of a manager. 

You're a Rangers fan, aren't you? I wonder if their players would make Scotland any stronger? 

I love their fans and their qualification run was great. It's the internet where the delusion is. 

The vast majority or fans and media are mad at the Scotland coach's selections.

Keane blasted Robertson's post game interview about his they came out with a plan. Germany were in first gear excellence. In hindsight Scotland should've played a 433 with pacey wingers and a stronger man up top.

In slight defence, Dykes is out as are the two very good right backs. Lots saying John Souttar would've fared better. You can't find much on twitter about Harry because Rangers fans basically live on Twitter talking about John. 

In our case it was one of our pundits haha

Competition is fierce after all. 

That too. Some of the stuff Souness has come out with. He used the population argument which has been debunked to death on here of all places. UK Football TV has been stuffed up with the next gen of pundits filling quotas across a range of categories with poor football knowledge reading off teleprompters and then the bunch of dinosaurs who've not been ousted unlike the competent and understandably more expensive bunch.

Thought u were trolling but gosh that turns out to be true!

Enjoy listening to Schwarzer and Phil Kitromilides. The latter has grown on me. A likeable, balanced, competent pundit with insight across a range of football matters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBcJpYFMEDU

Didn't realise Baumjohann had hung around in Australia.

Boyle had his mojo back against Palestine. He's not done just yet. 

Souttar's situation has nothing to do with his quality. Sometimes you just find yourself in shit circumstances. 

56/1 for 3 draws today. Can't split Croatia and Spain really and I feel a goalless draw beckons. Italy may start slow today against a dogged Albania. Switzerland Hungary on in 40. Good starting sides for each. London born Kwadwo Duah starting for Switzerland having made his international debut just 9 days ago. At Ludogorets in Bulgaria with a decent goal tally.

Fuckin Palestine ?

His brother John is far better than Porteous, McKenna, Hendry or Hanley, so yes, John would and probably Ryan Jack if he kept fit.

What's changed since Scotland's qualifications? Just the inevitable end of a form run? We'll know more once they play the other 2 teams. 

Imagine where Australia would be if their top score over the last 25 years at tournaments was a Real Madrid player  :) 

1:0 Switzerland early. 

Stranded post New Caledonia away with DFAT shrugging their shoulders. 

Many comment on here about Mat Ryan's lack of height, but Yann Sommer, the Swiss keeper, looks to be no taller than Ryan, maybe even shorter. 

it is kind of amazing that Scotland are stacked full of epl stars and seem to be worse as a unit than us (though they did look good last time we played them in a friendly a decade ago, they have also recently lost 3-0 away in a qualifer against kazakstan)

wonder why that is?

Kazakhstan was nearly 5 years ago, hardly recent.

Stacked full of what EPL stars ?

They are shite and have been since qualifying.

10700 minutes in the big 5 for their starting xi last night including solcidad, man united, aston villa and liverpool

Playing in the epl at makes u a star by our standards. 

To stop picking on scotland, hungary have over 9000 big 5 minutes in their starting xi today and look very poor. Is it easier to make it at club level if u are european? Or do australia just do better playing as a team to compensate for our quality?

Your manager is a lot better than any of you on this board give him credit for. As for Steve Clarke, just look at the last match.

I do agree with that

I think holger is the only poor manager we have had the last 20ish years, which has papered over some cracks

We have really been spoilt