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Fantastic performance. Might have damaged my vocal cords on second.

The rocks are slippery as fuck. Also, at the bottom of the waterfall is many a submerged rock that has caused deaths/injuries. Alcohol is a one way trip to the hospital (or worse). I was a bit over the top when I said someone dies every years there, but there have been deaths every few years and many a time (at least once a year) that they have to get the rescue team up there.

Apologies my phone stopped working about 6pm and only working now on train home. Fucking great performance.

What a performance. Best this century. Just brilliant. Adams motm, but every single player was top class. Ran themselves into the ground. Phenomenal. Well done Clarke. Nae bookings either, because we barely put in a sliding tackle because we were so disciplined.

It's clearly deliberate too, to give the big teams a better chance to progress. Nobody would consider it beneficial from a sporting perspective. They'll have clearly considered it and assumed that the bigger teams that might drop into the playoffs will likely be less affected by missing a player or two. They probably also know that the bigger teams will have had less yellow cards over the qualifying. I understand that Clarke has to remain focused, but it should be called out publicly by someone at the SFA. I'd actually liked to have seen guys like McGinn, Adams, Gilmour, Robertson, Tierney be told to go and pick up a deliberate booking against Moldova to rule them out for tonight's game rather than the playoff semi. It's such a difficult balance, but I think that a seeding with one or two of our better players missing is just as difficult as being unseeded with no players missing, and there's a very good chance that we're both unseeded and have players missing. Not only that, but a suspension would have wiped the bookings count for the playoffs, which is vital. I could see McGinn or Tierney get through tonight's match without a booking, but I can't see them get through two games without picking up a single yellow, so I think we should have taken the hit and let a few of the fringe players like McLean, Nisbet etc have a free run at it tonight with the pressure very much off. To be honest, I wouldn't even trust Dykes not to pick up two bookings in two games!

Aye 18 in his last 2 games I'll take anyone getting one bar mcginn. He's basically become our fulcrum... to my eyes at least

As it currently stands (assuming Wales dont suddenly collapse) these are the teams in the playoffs along with their finals fixtures) Seeded Serbia (Portugal (A)) Switzerland (Bulgaria (H)) Sweden (Spain (A)) Croatia (Russia (H)) Poland (Hungrary (H)) Scotland (Denmark (H)) Unseeded Wales (Belgium (H)) Turkey (Montenegro (A)) Finland (France (H)) North Macedonia (Iceland (H)) Czech Republic (Estonia (H)) Austria (Nations league) Serbia, Switzerland, Sweden, Croatia & Poland can still qualify automatically and are guaranteed a playoff spot. If they all do Portugal, Spain, Italy, Russia, & England will take the playoff spots. Wales & the Czech republic are guaranteed a playoff spot due to nations league but can still claim a seeded spot. Finland need to match or better Ukraine's result to keep their spot likewise North Macedonia need to match Romania's result. Unlikely either of them will end up seeded. Scotland beat the Danes and a seeded place is guaranteed. Anything else means relying on Belgium, Estonia, & France doing Clarke & Co a favour.