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I think we've delayed this till after the fixture announcement to avoid the absolute certainty of Chelsea away on the opening day!

How can Portugal have Pepe AND Ronaldo and Scotland are still the oldest squad at the tournament?

So we have a squad featuring Kenny Mclean and Grant Fvcking Hanley compared to your Jude Bellingham and John Stones yet you are bitching that we have one extra day to prepare?

You're not wrong but I think the nature of the PL is such that you are generally going to have a rough run of games at some point. Not having it at the start or end of the season is probably as much as you can ask for. Particularly the start of the season. If we got a tough run of games in the first 3 months with us likely to be starting the season a few games behind, it could have been disastrous for a new manager coming in. With this, how it is, we should be able to get back into positive points and hopefully get a bit of momentum going before that rough patch hits. Then after it, we can assess where we are before having a right go in the last month with some winnable 6 pointers.

On reflection, I'm quite happy with the fixtures. A concern I had was us potentially starting the season 6/9 points behind and having a nightmare start fixture wise that would put massive amounts of pressure on the new manager. Only playing 2 of the top 6 in the first 3 months will potentially give the new man the chance to get a bit of momentum before the tough runs of games come.

Can't really grumble... Monday night first game, and Liverpool/Man City Xmas fixtures isn't ideal but as a trade off for that run in, I'd take it all day long. That's potentially a winnable 12 points against teams that are likely to be around us. That's huge.

Unfortunately.

The "10 German bombers" crap is utterly pathetic.

Vk looks good good, calm on the ball but he doesn't look like a wingback. He isn't that creative, nor is he going to run past his man with the ball. Solid fullback.

I've been a fairly good sport. I've just watched my team getting pumped, I've taken the banter on the chin, in good spirits, but that's just not on. Totally uncalled for. You're getting reported!

We were unlucky.

YAAAASSSSSS!!!! GET IT ROON YI YA BAMS!!!!

Fvck this! I'm watching love island!

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Sending off all day long.

We are getting pumped here. I thought we'd atleast be up for it.

This is already horrendous!

Nothing you've said is a lie... We aren't very good and we do have a habit of losing. Those average players that are missing, ARE some of our better players so chances are we'll be out before England fans actually start supporting their team but here is the rub... WE DON'T CARE. We are just happy to be involved and we will enjoy it for what it is... we won't be throwing tantrums OR garden furniture around, we won't be racially abusing our own players for missing penalties. We are just happy we don't have to pick a team to support for it.

Che Adams starts.... best we can hope for is 0-0!

The two oldest squads in the tournament playing tonight. Scotland edge it but both have an average age of just over 28! .....You'll never sing that!

I'm OK with either Potter or Corberan.

I'm not holding out any hope for tonight. A decent performance, don't get embarrassed and no injuries would be a good result.

The most Scottish thing in the world would be a draw against Germany that we could have won, an unlucky defeat against Switzerland, go into the game against Hungary full of hope and get goosed!

This is true but it's also been over 3 weeks since we knew he was going. That's when the process should've started, and it might has well have but I wouldn't be surprised at all if we just started our search in the last week.

Nah, they got Lopetegui.