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Hello and welcome back to the Scots with a Mic podcast.
I am your host James Scott and I'm delighted again to be
bringing you another episode. We're in a good mood for this
one. Scotland have just reached the
halfway point in their World Cup qualification campaign and it
was a good one. It was a three one win against
the geeks, a bit of a roller coaster.
There was lots of highs and lows throughout the 90 and we've got
2, 2 speakers on to discuss it with me today.
Our regular on the podcast is Adam from Gorky Talk.
Adam, how we doing? Very well after that result,
James. Very well mate.
I definitely. And also we've got a special
guest coming on, someone that's not been on before, Gordon Shea
from the Tartan Scarf. Gordon, How are we doing?
Good. Very good.
Very, very good. Like you said, just good, good,
good to be sitting in this place where we are right now.
Yeah, halfway through the group. Good, good, good.
Yeah, I've known Garden for a while, so it's good to get an
old friend on the podcast with us.
So first of all, who was at the game last night?
Who was in the stadium? Yep, I was there.
I was there in my kind of a I've I've taken up a new spot this
for this campaign, some sort of South stand upper and get a
really nice view over the top of it and unfortunately the
opposite end from where most of the goals were last night.
You still got a pretty good view from up in the upper off the
South stand or pretty much class.
Even at the opposite end you still see it really well.
What about yard number are you? You're at home for this one, I
think. I was a first half, I was at
Porter Bell High School for my son's training session.
And so shout out for Muscle Browser for that.
And so I was watching out my iPad.
Between that and my son's training, the son's training was
probably a bit better, but we'll go into that in more detail.
And then a second-half, I was back home to watch a really good
second-half actually. And well, anything was better
than the first half. First half was pretty draft, but
we'll we'll get into that later on.
Fair enough. I mean, I thought you were going
to say you messed the first half completely, no.
No, no, that messed the first half well.
No, you didn't mess much, to be fair.
Yeah, it was a game with a good result and Clark said end
results are the only thing that qualify for major tournaments.
Which is true. I mean, I'll come to you item
first. Dead Scotland's performance
merit and deserve the one. It depends how you use the word
performance. I think like, I think like from
Clark's perspective, he is right.
That's the results business. And I think ever since he's been
at the helm, he's never really been someone where you know
you're going to get tech attack of football.
It's all going to be like all singing, all dancing, all
entertaining stuff, right? I mean, there has been spells
we've we have looked really good.
Then it has been good performances.
But he's right. At the end of the day, you know,
we'd rather play up, as you know, under par and get our
result, then play really well and get nothing.
So I think though, if you think about missed opportunities for
Greece and again, just take like picking up on chances and taking
the circumstances to work in our favour, then yeah, you could
argue second-half we've done really, really well and then
first half we've done what we could to contain Greece.
So I wouldn't say we don't deserve it.
Maybe say that obviously when you get the fee one and have it
happened, it maybe flattered us a wee bit.
Yeah, but I wouldn't say that. You know, it kinda looked like
it was heading for a draw at one point, especially when we sort
out the back and forth with the two goals that started in the
second-half. But yeah, I wouldn't say we
didn't deserve it. I thought we worked hard, we did
what we could and then the changes that we made, which
again we'll go into, and they made a lot of difference I felt
in the second-half. So yeah.
The change will come into the changes later but from me they
were definitely pivotal and shifting the game Scotland's
direction. Gordon obviously in the stadium
with me watching it last night, a similar take from you on that.
Yeah, I would say so. I would say so because I think
certainly pre match there was a there was a fair amount of
nascent growing optimism. Again, you know, obviously the
results in the last 12 months or so have kind of they've they've
come and gone a little bit. You know, obviously last
summer's EUR was obviously a real, real low point.
And then you go into a nation's league game where you start with
three losses in a row and you're thinking, Christ, are we ever
going to win again ever? You know, but then we rally
really strongly in that nation's league group.
We do really well. We, we beat Croatia, you know,
we get the draw against against Portugal, We beat, we beat
Poland out out there and then that takes us to the playoff.
And then again, a tale of two matches.
You you're just so devastated by that three nil game at home to
Greece. And certainly from the way the
game started, you thought this could be a similar story to what
the game was in March. And you, you think have what
have we learned here? What have we gained?
But ultimately, you know, as as as as you said there like the
the result is what matters here. The fact that we're sitting
halfway, halfway in this group with all of the power in our own
hands, all of our destiny in our own hands.
We're in as good a place as we could possibly hope to be in.
And again, let's let's not pretend that we haven't had
games, but in the past we've all been watching Scotland long
enough to know that we've seen games where we've played really,
really well in matches and not gotten the result we deserved.
So ultimately, this time fate shone on us a little bit last
night. Of course it did.
But that's that's something that's what you need and that's
what you need to get back to major, major tournaments like
World Cups. Yeah, I mean, 100% agree with
something you said there because as a Rovers fan as well, I feel
like I've seen a lot of this over the years where I mean,
there was a season we got relegated and there was games we
played well and we we just couldn't win.
And there will be, there will be some games and, and then and
there will be some teams who go on, win leagues, win
championships and they do have the occasional bad game, but
they still managed to find a way to win.
And for me that's a hallmark of a good team right there.
Good teams play bad at times but still find ways to win games and
I don't know if Geese are kind of feeling like the opposite end
that right now because the lack experience in their squad at
times with the younger boys. They played out last night.
They had chances and they couldn't put them to bed the
first half alone. I think we we we probably could
have gone in behind and Clark, but Clark, Clark acknowledged,
you know, the game in March, we went in half time.
The game was relatively similar, I'd say, But this time we didn't
go into no down. We went in, level came out,
second-half obviously still went behind after a bit, but it
wasn't by no means sort of similar to the game in March.
And then we got turned over and it gave us a platform to attack
and kick on, get something later on and they came out of it.
So yes, I mean, for me it was the first half was very poor,
but you know, the last half or more they made-up for that.
And again Clark said, what was that?
Sometimes you don't get what you deserve in football and
sometimes you get a little bit more than you deserve.
And I think free one definitely flattered us.
But like like many a time before with with with, there's been
games we've been involved in where the best teams not won or
not go what they deserved. Well, I mean, we'll touch on the
goals. Lewis Ferguson firstly, first
goal for Scotland in his 19th cap.
For a moment from him I would just open up to both you if he
was obviously man of the match. We see any of yours man of the
match or is there anyone else you want to pull and you think
was also very good on a day? I mean to be comment on my own X
page about Liz Ferguson today, actually I thought he was.
I know I think about Liz Ferguson.
I just think he's just really grown in our top football.
I think he's always had obviously the potential and
that's why he is now also over at Bologna, had some quick
success there as well. And then I just think the more
now that he's getting that international game team, just
the more you've seen him flourish.
And again, he's like, he's like a lot of midfielders now.
Our team, we have a lot of quality midfielders and a lot of
midfielders are quite fluid as well.
So like the Ferguson, they can play, you know, and A10 and A6,
whatever. Mcginn's the same.
He can move around. Obviously see Mcdonaldy playing
numerous possessions, albeit we know he's better, better and
A10, but you know, is starting to I think just get more
comfortable because obviously international football is all
different to anything else, right?
And I think we've all just been sitting waiting for him to get
an opportunity. And now that we've seen him get
a sort of running games, you're just starting to see him grow.
And I just think that again, he puts himself in the right places
at the right time in the box thinking that deep line
position. And Christie again, played
really well. I thought well at the chop and
change what he was doing last night, but he done really well
wherever he was put and and yeah, I just felt like it done
The Dirty work that needed done and I felt that Scotland
actually just looked a bit more the word I want to put on that
is like streetwise. I just feel like I've said this
on previous podcasts, but I feel like Greece are still that are
really talented squad and like you touched on they're quite
young and hanging with that that young side to them.
They are quite naive like they were given away silly fouls last
night. Scotland went out like nearly 23
kicks and and yeah, I just felt like Lewis Ferguson, McGann,
people at were were causing all that kind of havoc for them and
they were playing the game as best they could to match the
technical side to Greece. And I think as as the game went
on and things weren't going Greece's favour, our players in
the pitch were actually sensing that as well.
So yeah, I think Ferguson deserves a lot of credit just
for that progression he's making in a Scotland jersey and he
really looks like a proper starter.
Yeah, so big Showtime for me. Yeah, I think I, I would, I
would just want to build, build, build on what you say there,
Adam, about the kind of that streetwise nature of the squad.
And I think that's something that's really, really, really
impressed me, especially over the last couple of years as the
team has developed under Clark that, you know, again, we've,
we've all seen Scotland games in the past where we have been
arguably bullied by teams. You know, we've, we've been the
ones that have been sort of held at arm's length and they've,
they've mastered the dark arts and mastered the clock and
mastered the tempo of the game. And I just feel like we're
getting really, really good at that.
I think especially maybe slightly fortunate, but just the
fact that we were able to equalize so quickly after they
scored because obviously the atmosphere was turning quite bad
given that we'd we'd had a full hour of not very entertaining or
exciting or exhilarating football.
Then obviously you have the sucker punch of having Aaron
Hickey go off injured. Obviously a lot of the narrative
pre match was Hickeys in the squad, Ben Doakes in the squad.
They weren't there in March. So they're they'll be the
difference makers. Both of them go off at broadly
the same time and then we go one nil down.
All that combined in the stadium they except quite a negative.
Immediately I just remember feeling kind of numb.
A. 100% it. Felt the game was only going one
way at that point. And it's fun and it's funny as
well because obviously I got a hold of the game last night and
then I put the I, I Fast forward through the game and when you
see the Grease score, the commentary is so kind of end of
days. It was all a night of ignominy
for Scotland. And we've gone one nil down as
if it's been coming all night. And they weren't really, it did
feel like they were really hamming it up, though, how
terrible the conceding this goal was.
It was as as if it was we we'd conceded the fourth goal or a
fifth goal this night of ignominy.
But because we were able to get the get the equalizer so
quickly, that then suddenly put the massive mental pressure on
Greece. And I just don't think they
coped with it very well. And I think we did.
And what was really impressive is it we then were the ones
turning the screw, getting the pressure on, leading the press,
making them make mistakes. And you could see some of the
challenges they were flying into, the way they were going
down, looking for fouls, staying down.
I think collectively their heads went completely.
And from that moment onwards, it was kind of only looking like we
were the only team that was going to win the game.
Because you're seeing a bit master in the dark arts.
There was a, there's plenty of them rolling about in the ground
at points and you know, claiming for fails.
It looked very soft. But I think about how many free
kicks, especially down in front of me in the North Stand area,
we got a fair few and quite dangerous areas.
Free kicks at the I'd say they were softly given away just for
stuff that was like you said, not streetwise and it those sort
of errors put pressure on you. Balls in the box.
Things happen obviously quite quick after they score crusty
grabs at 1st and it just wasn't like when I spoke to Stephen
last weekend from the Greek side of things.
He did say the younger guys not known how to manage a game, not
know how experience at this level, qualifying for
tournaments, know what it takes to get over the line.
They did this kind of crumble and you know, and the crowd
really helped what I felt they were quite flat over the course
of the 90. Robertson did say he understood
the frustrations of the fans. He said for the 1st 60 minutes
they're clearly frustrated, which I can understand and I can
get behind. He's like, but sometimes it
doesn't help. But equally the players have got
to give the players something that players have got to give
the fans even something to to make noise about and especially
at home than it can. When it's quiet it really shows.
But as soon as that first goal went and even when we got the
free check to put the ball on the box for Christie, I really
noticed the rally and cry from the fans and you know it was a
joint effort from everyone in the Tartan Army and the boys on
the pitch to get us over the line.
I felt when I was talking about Ferguson been Mara much yeller
though I think one guy I wanted to touch on I thought was
brilliant for Scotland last night was Ryan Cresty getting
his goal as well. 100% passing rate, 100% successful dribbles,
0 times dispossessed. He was a 62nd cap and his eight
goal for me. I thought he was a man of the
match, one of the best players in the pitch and he, just like
you said, a lot of streetwise moments when he took the ball
and recycled that well, gave himself space, helped other guys
out and even helped drive us through the smaller gaps,
carrying the ball in the areas. I felt he was one of our best
players and I don't know if he if it's not because he's a John
McGann or Scotland comedy was last noticed.
But for me, I thought he was brilliant.
Obviously the goals from the boys got the crowd going.
When you look at the stats of the game, one thing I couldn't
believe because I think we could all agree could E dominate the
first half and the second-half felt more split across the two
teams, more even like contested. But for the possession stats
overall we were only 33%, but in the second-half we only had 222%
possession in the second-half, which is incredibly low.
I can't actually believe it was that low.
And along with that, we only had one expected goal and our goal
XG. But it's just one of those games
were really we made our own luck in the end.
The final goal came just after a save from Angus Gunn.
If you've not seen it in the highlights or didn't get a
chance to appreciate during the game like myself when I was at
the opposite end of the stadium, that save happened at 21 against
what was a very good shot from characters very similar to his
goal at the opposite end that he scored in the playoffs.
I mean, the guy that's not played much league football at
all since last summer because of his move to Nottingham Forest
and been down the pecking order there.
For him to coming out the cold and produce a moment like that
to arguably get the win for us, I mean, what a moment for him as
well. Yeah, I think you're right.
You've kind of touched on that. That is obviously not getting
game time. I think I did see an interview
actually on Sky Sports just a few days ago talking to Gunn
about how obviously didn't think it was going to be that way when
he went to forest and he seen it as an opportunity.
And obviously like he sees down the pick and order in the And I
think there we've kind of recognized in various media
outlets that as a sort of goalkeeping issue there with
obviously were maybe maybe not us not naive, but I suppose as a
nation naive. You know, we'll have McGregor,
Marshall and Gordon forever. So I think and before we know
it, nowhere came to, you know, putting Gordon back in a squad
just in case Gun can't make it because that's who Clark can
only rely on because it isn't really anybody else that wants
to rely on. So yeah, that's the kind of
scenario we're in. But and seeing that think that
where it's due. I actually fought watching Gun
last night and I was watching it at home.
But again, sometimes you get that a different viewpoint of
it. I felt like Gun for for someone
who's not got game time is still looked like someone who was a
regular on a team every week, if that makes sense.
He still looked comfortable. He still looked assured in the
position. He was confident.
He kept speaking at the back four.
Yeah, I felt like like he hadn't been away from my first team
action, whereas obviously he's saying he's constant on the
bench. I think it does help him having
like sickly Gordon the year I think he mentioned that himself.
He can learn a lot for people like Craig Gordon.
So know that that helps him in the camps and that may be
another reason why Clark still takes Gordon along as well.
And albeit because Gordon hasn't had any game time himself to
injuries and and whatever else. But yeah, the save itself, like,
like you say, James, at that stage in the game. 91st minute.
That that, by the way, that kid, again, I don't know if he stole
17, The commentators say yes. It feels like he's 17 forever
but I believe. Next month or so I'm.
Sure. Anyway, regardless, the grease
spend oak came on and was starting to cause us all sort of
problems. But yeah, top save it was very
similar that you say to the goal they actually got and see, when
you look at the stats as well, we're going back on that.
And like I say, watching it from home, I feel like we came to
more as like from commentators wise and things Latin in the
builder. I feel like we gave these a
little bit too much respect. Like, I mean that in the sense
of like, again, we're more focusing on, you know, that
they're technically good, that they can cause people problems
and things like that. But to be honest, last night
they did have OK, a couple of chances and whatever, but like
the XG, there wasn't very much difference.
We had a lot, they had a lot of the ball, but there wasn't like
there wasn't a lot happening. Like we did contain them quite
well. We cleared a lot of things away
with, like I said, we were streetwise in our approach.
I think the commentary mentioned like first half how the biggest
issues seem to be like we didn't know when to press and when it
set off kind of thing. And I think it's because of how
well Greece had to like kept the ball.
But I think we just bathed our time with that.
And then let's say in that moment, like I thought it went
and you know, guns, guns saved us there in a sense because
especially with the Cadets is coming on, he gets his goal just
like he did, you know, however long ago a few months back and
again caused that nightmare for us.
It would have been thinking of Deja vu.
It's all going to happen again. And then we would have been back
to. That point like you never know
where the game goes. Yeah, we deem backs to the wall
again, he gets equalizer and it's back to the wall.
So yeah, a big, big moment from a guy who has not seen any first
team action at all. So I thought Gun had a good game
and that was a great moment from.
Because he wasn't actually tested most of the game.
Like you see, I didn't I don't know, only he made a couple of
saves you'd expect them to make. There was obviously the Madison
Pavilidas first half, which I mean yeah, that's that goes in
99 * 100 years bet especially onto a striker has quali.
That was the first time I really felt gun was stretched and he
answered the call. It was you know, I was standing
a minute later. We then go up the park lending
dykes. I mean when I was in the car on
the way home the word luck was getting thrown around about the
keeper spelling it. But he doesn't exact, I mean for
me he doesn't spell it 5 yards. London Dykes made his own luck
there because he gambled and pushed a right in the keeper
when other guys might not have and let the large stages of the
game. I mean he's club football wise
things have been up and down from recently.
But for Scotland I personally feel like he's some dependable.
Were you glad to see him grab that goal?
Gordon? Apart from obvious reasons, it
was the one that put us we better daylight just to see us
over the line. Make it 3/1 How good was London?
And like I said, just making that happen there.
Gordon Canada Gordon can add a tongue in cheek question and
that Gordon, did he actually try and miss it?
London as well, course. I mean, yeah, I can't.
I can't. I can't believe like he could he
could have literally walked it in, but decides that he wants to
curl it into the top corner just for just for the hell of it.
I mean, how how much can you possibly say about Linden Dykes?
I mean, genuinely, I think he will rightfully go down as
again, maybe not one of the best, maybe not one of the most
gifted strikers Scotland has ever had, but certainly one of
the most effective and efficient strikers and rightly one of the
most beloved. I think you look at obviously
last night was his 10th international goal for Scotland.
And I was thinking back this morning about just like all of
his other goals, and I think borderline almost every single
one of them was either a winning goal, a goal to give us the
lead, a goal off the bench. Like he makes an impact almost
everywhere he does. I think I've, I've something
described him as sort of like the human embodiment of just a
fist in human form because he just is just a relentless
physical assault on a defence. And it's exactly what you need.
And again, James, you're, you're, you're absolutely right
in saying that like he gambles. He, he, he makes that run again
when when the ball breaks off him, it breaks off the defender.
I'm sure he'd be gutted that he hadn't taken in first time
properly. Yeah.
And as the ball's going to the goalkeeper, the defender is
between dykes and and and and and the ball, but he make, he
goes quicker than defender. He thinks quicker than defender,
then moves quicker than defender.
So when the ball does spill, he's the first there to react to
it and it's not the defender to just shepherd it out.
So he's absolutely brilliant and he deserves everything he gets.
He deserves all the praise he gets.
Still broadly gutted that obviously he got injured before
the last EUR. That was absolutely
heartbreaking for him at least. Obviously he got to go to Euro
2020, which was a good thing for him.
But yeah, what a guy. And, and again, hopefully again,
I'm sure we might look ahead to Sunday and I, I hope he starts,
I hope he starts on Sunday and you can add to that tally.
No, it'd be good because I think he played well in Copenhagen,
you know, he did well, He was required of him there.
And obviously there's a chance. I felt like he could have done a
little bit better with maybe he wasn't the guy you wanted to
fall to. Because I do feel like a lot of
his goals are one touch finishes or ones like that where he makes
it happen. It's not like he's not someone
who's going to cut one and the edge of the box.
But I feel like he has been good for Scotland and he there has
been a bit of criticism recently around our strike force, the
options we've got. But Linden Dyke, so he doesn't
always give us goals. And he said in terms of the
human fest, he's a batter ram. He gives defenders problems and
he his work creates incredible. So yeah, for me I'd be I'd be
brilliant see him start Sunday. I'd love to see him get another
rerun the team because I think it does help when guys like
McDonald as well. She Adams is a different sort of
striker. He doesn't take up defenders
sort of attention the same way Dykes does.
And that maybe doesn't give guys like McDonald as much space, you
know what I mean? I think, I think that's, I know
you want goals from strikers, but I do feel there's more time
across. I mean, first half we didn't
play well and a lot of people put that down to Clark's tactics
More not, but Geese, we had a good side coming into the
second-half. Clark makes the changes.
For me, those changes were like the momentum swinger in the
game, bringing on Belly, Gilmore, obviously Ralston was
forced on for a hacky through injury.
Dykes as well coming on, such a good call by Clark there that
you know it was a material change in the game.
I felt bringing those guys on belly allowed us to control the
game a little bit more. And obviously Dykes just with a
hustle and bustle him up front, eventually getting his goal.
Clark, for all his Curtis, he doesn't know what he's doing.
Yeah, thank you. Let's just see the Scottish
chavi delivers again. Am I right, James?
This is a joke. Bella Gilmore.
This is a joke last a few episodes ago.
I think it might be one of the Belarus ones.
Adam described Bella Gilmore as the Scottish Chavi and been.
I don't know if it's just because I'm from Fife or what,
but when I heard that in my head I knew what you mean.
But the first thing I in my head it jumped, it was Chavi, he's
gone, he's gone. And he said he's gone.
You mean he's got to be in the team?
He's a Scottish Chavey. And I was like, I was like me,
they're all Scottish Chavey. That's why they play for
Scotland. I was getting absolutely torn
apart in the chat for that afterwards.
But yeah, I mean, he was like you said, he's just got that
ability to really help us out on the ball when we're under
pressure, get the passes gone. He controls the game.
I mean, I think like, don't get me wrong, there's like an
abundance of competition in that midfield data and that cannot be
an easy area for clocks to pick. It's a good headache to have,
right, But I just feel like belly Gilmore, he always
provides you with that bit equality, not bit assurance, and
he will just grab a game any midfield.
And this is a fingers bill, right?
It's not just like he needs to face certain teams.
So you know, like if you know, there's always like this talk
about how Chi Adams or scored against teams that are like like
Belarus, for example, they only scored against those type of
teams. If you put Bella go on a team
you then only put a man against, like I say, a Belarus, you came
on against Greece last night, takes the game by the scruff of
the neck. And it's just by like the sheer
technical brilliance that he has is somebody who we don't produce
players like that very often. I think even at the EUR where it
was no, no against England, all that talk about like England,
Smithfield and again Billy Gilmore was was a shining light.
So yeah, I think he really helped us.
So the move for Christie as well.
Christie was playing well when he was, but obviously again,
moving him around. I don't think I didn't see
should have been Duck went off. Somebody said he wasn't happy.
I seen online I didn't see that then.
I don't see that to know if he wasn't happy or if it was just
more, you know, that way where players can get be competitive
and they just want to stay on and they want to do something
about it. I don't know if it was that kind
of day. I didn't see it.
So I'm not not too sure what what people are meaning, but
that. Was for me, I mean, did Ben Doke
is undeniably best young talent. If you're not going to include
Gilmore now that he's a little bit older, he is the next big
thing coming through in that national team.
But I did feel last night, again, like you said, there's
anticipation coming back. Or maybe Gordon said the
anticipation coming into his faction was bad techie and Bad
Ben do come back. And two guys we didn't have in
March that were going to be big difference makers.
I really felt Ben Dook was miles off it last night.
I mean people might disagree but the time he got behind he didn't
really pretty much for us and for me.
When I got to half time I was sitting with my dad, my friends
and we looked each other and whose obvious change here and
all three of us agreed it was dog.
Yeah, I think like, I think you're right, James, like in the
sense like he was off at, he had a couple of moments, you know,
down the line, the sort of amazing runs you want.
And I think he at one point that maybe the he played off the guy
in a minute for a corner or each other moment.
And then he sort of fell down the patch towards the billboards
and was trying to like sort of seen a hand gesture at the code
to see like, come on, let's get in.
So, you know, he was he was trying to do, you know, the
things that he can do. But yeah, just wasn't, I'm the
same as what you just said there.
Like it had been. If we're talking about making
changes, it'd be one of the first people, if not the first,
like I'd want to go. And it's just because it wasn't
his night. And let's be fair, he's still
young as well. Like he's he's going to get
better, he's going to improve. He's got a good move to
Bournemouth now, you know, had an assessed just before the
international break there when Bournemouth got a win.
And so, you know, as long as you can stay firmly first team stuff
at Bournemouth at that kind of level, he's going to be huge for
us in years to come. But I just felt like end the
game at that time. Again, Clark something doesn't
get enough credit for this. Like he changes games at the
right time in the right moments. And it was the same with the
dykes thing as well with you know, we were talking about just
the earlier about how dykes and it's just like a nuisance like
something, even if you haven't got the goal, let's say, like
causes defenders like problems. It pulls some places they don't
want to go right. I think that summed them up
because Adams was like he was another one that was going to
frustrate me a little bit. But you're right is how he came
to place. The game isn't like Dykes and
when dates came on like I think I'm sure it was like within a
minute I'm coming on. I think like Gunn had maybe kept
up the patch looking for Dykes and the way dates leaped up, I
swearly jumped up like about 7 foot in there.
And one they had that they had, they went about 10 yards on the
next person and it was like an instant problem for a grease at
the back where they fought was not to deal with us for 80
minutes. So didn't know how to even
handle them. So, yeah, the changes were were
a really, really big deal in getting us that one last night.
And Clark again deserves credit for what he'd saved.
Is just just about getting the result right.
Yeah, 100%. I think I think the challenge I
had with them with Gallon Dog last night is that I wasn't
quite sure why he was on the left because obviously, you
know, he's he's predominantly right footed and really had
successful as last year in nations League.
You know, it was in that right wing position just being able to
take the ball in and burn past for the full back and keep the
full back on strings and get the byline.
And if that's what he wants to do, if he wants to drive the
byline, put the ball in, he's not really going to do that very
often on his left foot. So I just wasn't quite sure if
we were setting him up for success.
The most way to play the left and.
Again, that's all that was. That shocked me as well.
Because me again, whenever he's putting away position is always
on the left as well, Something tactically they're trying to do
different. But just for me it didn't work
because I think McGann was another guy.
I got touched on the radio and stuff as well on the BBC when I
was reading online too. He was just not absent for most
of the first half, you know? Especially.
Even if even if you say Gordon, like you said a bit like I'm
being inverted. So see, like they were, you
know, Mcgannway's left on the right and talk on the left on
the left with his right foot. I think you could see like a
clear part of them, like going in like on an inverted when you
could understand us daily play. But like you've pointed out, it
doesn't make sense when it feels like in the past all the
problems for Ganondo has always been when he's been on the right
and then all suddenly finished it.
And especially, especially with the with the way the game was
going in the first half where we were spending most of the time
in our own half with Greece having the ball.
I just kept thinking you you reference it there, Adam, about
Ganondoke's first assist for Bournemouth.
And if you haven't seen it, that was what the picture I had when
I. Went that's the right.
Frankly, I think I think we will see that quite a few times over
the coming years for Scotland where in that game, so basically
it was Bournemouth against Fulham and Bournemouth are
leading 21 and Fulham have got a corner and they've thrown
everyone up for it right in the last couple of minutes.
The game ball breaks, Bournemouth can hit a quick
counter and Ganondoke is just on his bike down the right wing and
the ball just gets sent right ahead of him into the channel
and he bursts through clear. But he's got the presence of
mind to look up, play the perfect ball across for Semenyo
to score first time. And I'm like, that felt like
with the way the game was going last night, I was like, that's
how we're going to score here is that if you've got someone with
that speed and pace down the wing, it keeps the defense
honest a little bit that they know that they can't just throw
everyone forward because we've got such an incredible speed
demon on the counter and then you take him off.
You did think, how are we going to score in this game?
Because we're, we're not, we're not spending any time in their
half. It was.
You think You think they've done
it? Sorry it.
Was the kind of moment when Ben Doke went off as well.
It was the kind of moment like when again we said, who would
you take off? Ben Doke and we're going, well,
who would you want to bring on? Right.
And I was like, probably Ben Doke like it's it was a sort of
moment in the game as you felt they were maybe going to be
getting more tired. You're like, this is actually
the point. You don't want to bring them on.
It was just, it was a shame as game materialized in that way.
Yeah. I think they've done it effect
they've done it to count our semicast on the left.
So obviously she's couldn't again on that side defeat like a
sort of in this sort of conservative sense of what what
robustness McGann can bring. And obviously hecky was slightly
higher and certainly looked higher and he was playing higher
for the first half anyway and was there that say to as well
maybe just to get offer that cover.
We'll just see how hecky and Duke on the on Ganondoke sorry
on the right then it's maybe too aggressive than that one side.
I don't know I'm just that ball and I suppose, but maybe it was
that, but it just either way, either way, that element Clark
frankfully for us to let you see you recognized and changed it.
Yeah. And I think I think as as as we
alluded to earlier, like definitely bringing on Billy
Gilmore changed that game 100%. I mean, he is like you, you, you
said it yourself, Adam, He is our a special talent.
He's a different talent. He's a unique talent.
And I think what we lacked with Christine Ferguson playing in
those sort of deeper midfield roles is that when they were
taking the ball off the defenders, they were very much
facing backwards and they weren't often able to take the
ball in the half turn and turn up field.
So, so much of our passing was purely from center back to
defender to fill back. Whereas Billy Gilmore, just his
absolute spatial awareness is just 2nd 10 on that squad, 100%.
He's all, he never looks harried.
He never looks worried. He never looks stressed and he
always looks like he's got more. He's got all the time in the
world because he knows the touch he has to take before the ball
comes to him. So he's always turning in space
and he can always open the game up and he just makes the pitch
feel bigger. And frankly, that that's
something that is, is what Grease was so good at in the
first hour. You know, there was the guy
sitting behind me and they kept saying it's like they've got an
extra man. Like how do they keep doing
this? How do they always have a free
man all the time? That same thing, he's like they
we don't 10 men in this game. Somehow you said we just we just
look, they just look like they have that one extra guy.
You know, we were setting to every ball.
You know, the game was they were just on top of us and they
couldn't seem there's the white sharks just felt like they were
everywhere. I mean, one last thing, I won't
touch one of us. We're saying Clark made some
changes there and during the game it really benefited US1
change he made back in August was to bring in set piece coach
Andrew Hughes along with bringing in Naismith as I think
he's assistant manager now that Carver's gone.
Both those goals that we scored the first two of the night came
from sort of set piece routines. We lost Austin McPhee last year,
I think maybe earlier end of last year and he was quite, he
would you could he was influential for us because he's
a very talented coach. There was definitely times,
especially like in the Denmark game at home when we got our
first one is headed back across the box to John Sooter, who
scores, you know, the corner that goes in.
It was night. I felt you really noticed the
effects of having a later stages of the game.
I think even when the ball was floated across by Robertson to
the back post for the second, he was out in the technical area
barking instructions onto the patch, making gestures about
what he was wanting to happen. I mean, it's good.
I really feel like we've got a guy we're seeing, you know?
Clark has made a change in his paying dividends already, even
in the small moments. Yeah, I think set piece coach is
not something you need to preach to me as a Hearts fan.
We got we got Ross, we got Ross Grant and in the summer and
we've made a lot of signings, but he's up there as the best
signing for us. Like Hearts have been corner
King's champion since I've probably been about 8 year old
so but we're probably the Champions in not scoring them
either. So this season's seen a massive
turn around. We haven't like a set piece
coach. First time we've ever really had
one. Obviously we had ultimate fee
for a bet for Ross Grant. What will estimate fee at the
national team. And again we've let's say we've
got the new set piece of coach and I just think that they are
actually a really good thing to have in the game.
I just think they all for you a different outlay, an edge
sometimes in games as well, clearly an edge based on what
happened like you say last night.
And it's really different as well to see someone that's not
the head coach, like given instructions to players that set
pieces and stuff that's, you know, it's not head coach, not
the assistant. It's like another coach.
It's like, for example, the striker coach stunt in the other
linesman to give like the, you know, somebody to show not to be
off site. It's that kind of thing, you
know what I mean? It's it's different to see.
But it's yeah, like I say, it's working for me certainly at club
level. And again, I'm seeing at the
national level and I can't, I can't be put off it.
Like it seems like a really, if you obviously, if you find the
person that's, you know, good enough for the role, which it
appears to be like, I think it's a really good thing to have.
And it's like I say the word I've put on is it's like giving
you an edge in a game. And let's say it helps us in
both boxes, not just not just going forward, but again, the
threat that least has given us. We always seem to have good
positional awareness, I would say.
So for all the ball Greece had, they were, they were limited to
their chances. They only had three shots on
target. They only managed to get four
corners, which I think both of those starts were the same as
us. And then let you say we only had
22% possession second-half. Yeah, I think we were.
We're a lot more tactful than Greece, a lot more composed at
times as well. Like when the game was going our
way, we used the quality that we had.
I mean, when I was looking for the players as well, like I felt
like we've got a lot of Premier League players over the Cdr
players with Premier League experience.
It looks like Greece team, it's not quite the same and they do
have a couple that have been in the Premier League or at that
sort of level and the rest maybe aren't there yet.
And it showed. And the set piece factor to that
really helped as well I felt. So, I mean, I don't know if
you've got any more comments, Gordon, about the game last
night before move on to the Belarus game.
And I think, I think I think that was about one of my like
70th odd Scotland games that I've been to in my life and I've
probably not been to a more bizarre football game.
I just absolutely I still can't quite wrap my head around how
and why it happened, but the fact is it did, it did and the
place it puts. And again, you know, we you you
referenced the we referenced earlier that say from Angus gun
and that that could really be the real sliding doors moment of
this entire group because that's it more or less the exact
halfway point. If that goes in, it's two each.
Do we then just all say, right for fine, we'll all take a draw.
We're two points behind Denmark. We've got Greece snapping at our
heels. And then we've got a trip to
Athens, which would be miserable.
And just the whole complexion of the group completely changes
with that moment. And then Dyke's going up to make
it safe. So, yeah, let's look ahead
Sunday and and the the the opportunity that that brings
because it's it's massive. That's just at the halfway point
now. Three games, I know six were
joint top with Denmark going to Sunday, both on 7 points, Greece
on three, Belarus on none. Denmark obviously winning six
nil against Belarus while we were playing at Hamden on
Thursday, On Sunday, slightly different.
We kick off a little bit earlier than the game in Copenhagen.
It will be Denmark against Greece over there.
We've got Belarus at Hamden. What we're thinking for the game
at Hamden, obviously it's a must win.
It's a game we expect to and but we can definitely make it easier
for ourselves by how we go about it.
So for me a nice yearly goal to ease attention because I don't
want to enjoy another half a football with the the crowds
getting quite as restless as they were on Thursday night.
Yeah, for sure. I think I think it'll, it's
obviously going to be a very, very different challenge.
Obviously when you go to a game like that where the expectation
is you're going to win it, the expectation is you're going to
score a few goals. The expectation is they're going
to sit in and put 11 men behind the ball and we have to deal
with a low block and how to get past them.
That it's going to be, it's going to be a whole different
challenge to what it was last night.
But again, that that's OK. And again, we have a fairly deep
squad now. We've got players that can come
in and I think Marine saying Ferguson and Chris are both
suspended. So there will be naturally
changes to come. And again, like, like you said,
the only thing that matters here is that we win.
I think. So looking ahead, obviously we
know that the first tiebreaker if if teams are level is goal
difference. The fact that Denmark have now
got a five goal advantage on us in goal difference, I think that
ship has sailed personally. So I don't think we really need
to worry about, I don't think we will run up a cricket score.
We're not the kind of team really that's going to run up
678 goals against the team. So let's just win.
Let's just win. And then like you say, we get to
put our feet up. We see what happens in
Copenhagen but a wind again just puts us in an absolutely
unbelievable position to then to then qualify next month.
Providing me when as long as Denmark as Denmark beat Greece,
that'll take both of us and Denmark on to 10 points.
I know we're talking about like the different permutations of
what could happen, but that would create a 7 point gap
between US and Greece with only two games left.
So if you do the maths there that guarantees us a playoff and
then we means we'll definitely in March still have potential by
World Cup. We might already qualify by that
point depending on how the November window goes.
But you know, come Saturday, we could be guaranteed to have a
fighting chance at going to the States, Canada, Mexico next
March. What I'm curious to obviously we
can't control what goes on in Copenhagen.
How would you 2 rather see that game goes providing me when
would you rather it was a draw for both sides?
Obviously getting a point means more chance of us finishing top,
but still, no matter how narrow, leaves the door open for Greece
to still come to Athens or prayers even for the game next
month. No one beating us Put the same
on, you know, sort of back in the hunt.
Or would you just rather Denmark clean the floor with them and
we're home and drive for 2nd place at least?
I think for me, the, the situation that I've been mulling
over in my mind today, and I think the one that feels most
attractive, like obviously we've been through playoffs before.
We've, we, we went through playoffs to Euro 2020.
We obviously went through playoffs, the World Cup last
time and also got beaten by Ukraine.
I think playoffs are dangerous because you don't it's just pure
luck of the draw who you're going to get.
Again, in both of the playoff situations that we've had, we we
haven't actually where we still haven't done the situation where
you play the two games in a week.
I think that's a really, really difficult thing to do to be able
to play like a one off semi final and a one off final.
I think that's not something that appeals to me.
I think the most attractive path here, and I think this, the more
I think about it, the more realistic I feel this is, is
that if Denmark were to draw on Sunday against Greece while we
beat Belarus, we then go to Athens or to to to Greece.
If we can take a draw there, that would effectively guarantee
that the final game at home to Denmark is a winner take all.
Whoever wins that game qualifies for the for the World Cup on
that night. And the more I think about that,
the more I think that that might be the thing I want most in my
entire life. Because the last time when we
qualified for year 2024, well, when we qualified for year 2020,
we were all locked in our houses and it was incredible.
But let's be honest, it wasn't what we wanted when we qualified
for year 2024. It was because Norway didn't
beat Spain and couch your. Home again.
In a couch or in a pub, in a quiet random pub and watching
that. And at the end of the game I was
like, Oh yeah, Hooray, we did it.
But there was no moment of togetherness.
Now just imagine. Imagine exactly imagining your
mind's die home game at Hampden. And again, like like I said, I
think that whatever way it comes out into that final game, again,
if we if we go into that game level on points with Denmark,
they will have the advantage over us because the head to
head. So we're going to have to win
that game. We're just going to have to win
that game in the final one against Denmark.
I think we've got more of a chance of doing that than we do
of going through a playoff against two potentially quite
tough teams. So and that like you say that
there that fight. I'm just imagining my mind's
eye, that final whistle, fool Hamden to say you've done it,
you've qualified for the World Cup.
I just I can't shake that image out of my head, so that's what I
want. What be Adam?
Are you sitting on it? Yeah, I think, you know, I
figured whenever you get an opportunity like especially
Scotland, they think all the years where we've we've been
nowhere near and obviously we have been keeping ever closer
and now we're getting to finals again.
We've put ourselves in a really good position to be honest.
And I think when you put yourself in a position like this
and you look at how we went about that one last night and to
be honest, how we go about our business.
A lot of times I think even if you look all the way back to the
Nation's League, right, if you look at us when we're in league
with that awful start to league, nobody finds this at all.
And then with a really good finish to it and obviously
didn't go away, we got relegated and that's what happened.
But again, it showed that we could actually go to tool with
top teams all the time. So yeah, we are maybe missing to
see world class players that put us like way up there.
But I think the point I'm trying to make is there's not too much
really between US, Denmark and Greece.
We all have our like, for example, I said earlier on about
the differences between US and Greece being that experience,
right? And obviously Denmark, you know,
they probably match us on that, maybe even better some would
say. But if you look at the game at
Denmark, they looked like they had no clue what to do when they
were going forward with the ball.
They had no ideas and they would have the options and Scotland
held them well. And we've got the nil nil.
And I think we should be. I'm similar to what Gordon SIM.
So I'm in the main set of get the one against Belarus and then
hoping that it's a draw between Denmark and Greece.
And then that gives us a 2 point cushion for whatever happens
next, but also puts us in a pole position for automatic
qualification. I don't think we should be.
I think we are quite bad as a nation for being like, oh, you
know, we can get to the playoffs, only get to playoff.
Yeah, but how what's our success rate in playoffs like?
It's not good. So if we have an opportunity.
On about this and you know, there's a list of teams that
could be in the playoffs. One of them is Italy.
And I was like, imagine, imagine we get to our first, you know,
World Cup playoffs since, well, apart from the, the, you know,
the World Cup 2020. 2. It's been a while and you know,
there's a team following a bit like Gateway in there.
I just thought it'd be our luck to go and Draw Something like
that. And then I mean, they're
beatable, but I'd far rather there's an easier way to go
about it and it's topping your grip.
Yeah, and I think to be honest, I think they will go for it.
Like it's not it's not I'm not saying this in the sense of the
players. I just think it's maybe it's
maybe not us on the call, but just genetically as a nation we
are came to quite bad for like saying like, Oh well, you know,
if we get result in spellers in Denmark, one more guaranteed
playoff. Yeah, but that's no, it's not
guaranteed to go through the wizard.
So you really want to put yourself in the best place.
I am. I am slightly different for
Gordon. It's maybe just more optimistic
than anything else, but still, it's still realistic in a sense.
But I think like the idea should be to go and hunt down that goal
difference because obviously if we get the result we want for
Denmark and these, which is a draw and that would leave them
off in the airport +9, is it Gordon or something like that,
+9? We have +4.
So I mean, realistically, you're obviously you need to get five
goals to match them right now. Again, obviously anything can
happen in the remaining two games, but if you can get there
or there abouts that like four or five, no, shouldn't be an
unreasonable ask. It feels unreasonable, like
Gordon said, because we're know that kind of nation with again,
we don't have like an abundance attack and players to 'cause
that kind of threat. But it could happen at home when
when people for the first ever last night were the more than
the performance itself and the players after the match were,
you know, quite vocal about like less than we know the
performance was nowhere needed, but we're really happy we got
the 1. So I think they're back in the
dressing room. And again, for that experience
thinking we need go out there on Sunday and put a performance out
and we need the goals anyway. We need to be ruthless and we
need to get this one so that we are, you know, like you say,
maybe going at that last game at Hamden against Denmark level on
points and thinking right, you know, again, it's very
optimistic. But if you're matching them for
goal difference, see, like, and it could be anything, you could
end up going through on goals 4 or whatever.
If you've got matching goal differences, another null or one
one or whatever. So yeah, I just think we should
be given our all. And who's to say we can't do it
in Greece? You know, I know we lost to them
at Hampton, but we beat them in Greece in the first first leg.
So as with an US to beat Greece. And I think, I think, I think
there's a level of frustration with Greece as well.
I think they we are not their most enjoyable fixture and
they'll know that they lost us there before.
They'll not be happy what happened last night, but we are
in their heads a little bit I feel as well, so that that might
play in our favour of Amigo Athens depend on what happens
again on Sunday. And especially especially the
other thing I was thinking, Adam, was that obviously if if
Greece were to lose on Sunday, then as we said, while while we
beat Belarus, then obviously they're done.
They they can't get the playoffs, they can't win the
group they're. Where's their heads then?
And then our our game over there is their first game in front of
their own fans since they've effectively thrown away the
group. So like, that's hardly going to
be the most welcoming atmosphere for a home team, you know what I
mean? So like again, it can sometimes
be difficult. You never quite know when a team
has nothing to play for. Sometimes either they just don't
bother or sometimes that gives them freedom to actually just
let the hand break off and they actually completely even better.
So you never quite know that. As we've said, you never quite
know, you can't control how how the other teams go about it and
go about their business. Obviously for us in Denmark,
we've both got a game against Belarus left.
So ultimately it's what do we do in that other game against
Greece and then we play each other on the final day.
And, and yeah, like I said, I, I just, I just can't help but
think that that is going to be a winner take all scenario.
I just, I'm so excited. Yeah, The other point I was
going to make, as well as say it doesn't exactly go upon the
other reason I was hoping for. If like I say, we get 3 or 4,
let's say against Belarus, right?
Obviously, don't get me wrong, we just need to one.
But if we get 3 or 4, that the safety net of that, of course is
if if they do, Greece and Denmark do get a draw and Greece
are 6 points behind us. And then obviously the
permutations of that as Greece will be looking to be us if
they'd be us. Then again, we're stuck against
Denmark. They're playing Belarus
permutations of that as gold, most of any good score or
whatever. Not to be the the killjoy here,
but again, that's another key factor to trying to put on a
good performance from the fans perspective, but also can get
that few goals. It does give you like again and
maybe the equivalent of an extra point in the sense of getting
those goals to just bump up that goal difference to what is
already a positive campaign. Yeah, because I mean, I would
it's been a while since Scotland's kind of put someone
away in that fashion. Like scored the handful of goals
made at a four nil or something. Even had more Dover a couple
years where they were the bottom seat.
I think it was only two nil at home.
Kazakhstan might have been the bottom seat set of somebody over
that actually campaign with with a quite a few passing.
Obviously Sam, you know, I would just like to see a score a
handful. There's there's guys like McGann
and McDonald. I don't know if they've had
twenty goals yet again. They might be close, I think.
McGann has, I think he has had 20.
Mccomnies and definitely not then, but these guys are chasing
them back. I mean, Mcgann's past 20, but
Mcgann's actually he's he's he's in there or they're about to be
like one of the all time goal scorers.
All time so. Like, you know, I'd like to just
see these guys getting a better and like you said that we early
go just to calm the nerves in the stands, calm the nerve from
the patch even, you know, give us that lead because bellows
didn't look like they offered much at all.
Once we got our lead over there. It would definitely it would
definitely just it would finish off what has been a great week
for the national team. Like, I mean, I don't I still
don't know what I said about the game in Copenhagen.
I know you've can the two snipers are obviously a draw or
a win for a draw or one for Denmark.
There's a third which I don't really want to talk about
because that's there's so many other options that warms up if
Greece somehow managed to get a result.
But I mean, for me, the bottom line is we can't control what
happens over there, but we can next month.
And that's where that you know, there's a lot of football to
still be played by only halfway the game and not the game over
at Olympiakis is going that that's winnable and it'll be a
hard game again, I don't I don't buy into too much about if these
are thrown away. Well, that way the heads be at
not not that they won't be somewhat a bit looser and you
know about not not scrambled, but I bet disheartened by what's
happened. But they'll definitely they'll
definitely want to put us to the sword because they'll feel hard
done by. But what happened last night?
But I just feel like it's winnable and I don't, I don't
care if it's a Denmark when or a draw on Sunday, We've still got
a draw in the bag from Copenhagen.
So surely even if Denmark, when we went in, if we went over
there next month, we come home to Denmark and no one, if we
went, we top the group now no matter what.
Yeah. So I think, I think I think as
well, just like it's always a good thing, something to take
that big sort of step back and get a wee bit of perspective.
Because I think people over the years have been very, very, very
harsh on Steve Clark and his side.
And I think partly that is down to just purely raised
expectations because which is a good thing because performances
and results have been good and we have good players and
therefore expectation rises. People expect more of the team,
which is a really good thing. But I think it's so easy for
people to forget that in the 20 odd years between France 98 and
EUR 2020, like we were in the deepest of darkest of
wildernesses. I mean, we went qualifying
campaign after campaign, getting basically nowhere near like we
would get the amount, you remember, the amount of
campaigns that we would have where in the last three or four
games you'd be thinking, well, we need to win every single
game. We're in the last chance saloon
and we need that team to drop points there and that team to
drop points there. And then on the last day we
might have a chance to get a playoff.
You know, whereas you look now, you look at the campaigns we
have now. I mean, the last World Cup
campaign, we lost one game away from home against the top seed.
You know, the last EUR campaign we started with five wins.
No Scotland team have ever done that.
This campaign we've started, we've barely dropped a point.
Like our destiny is in our hands and we're in such a, we're
getting ourselves in such strong positions in groups like this
isn't normal. This has not been normal like
for Scotland this century. So yeah, we we just have to
enjoy it. We have to very much again.
Look, there's a lot of fortune last night and there's, you
can't shy away from that. There's a lot of good fortune to
win that game. But there was also a lot of
character. I mean, you look at the way that
you look back to that Nations League game in March against
Greece, like when Greece scored the first goal, the team kind of
wobbled a little bit and maybe kind of collapsed a little bit.
But last night Greece scored the first goal and they bounced
straight back and they didn't stop and they didn't stop and
they didn't stop. And I think ultimately that is
the greatest credit from last night, that the quality might
not have always been there for the full game, but the
commitment and the passion and the belief in each other 100%
was and that that could well be what takes us to the World Cup
next year. You could be 100 and Cent, even
though the football did lack a little bit at times.
Not a little bit I've been kind to, but they worked hard.
They worked so hard for us. And Clark said that again at
full time you went, that's what this group of players are all
about. I've talked before about the
character of this group. They never know when they're
beat. And that was, I mean, we know
going into the setting to have this campaign, they'll certainly
look like they're up for the fight.
So I think, I think we'll wrap up there.
I hope you'll enjoy the episode. I'm certainly looking forward to
Sunday. I'm travelling through to
Hamden. It's going to be a good day out
in Glasgow. It's nice to get a weekend
fixture at home. Gordon, you headlong to this one
as well, I'm sure. Absolutely, absolutely.
As I'm saying, some folk the last couple of days I have this
really annoying thing that we've actually not missed a
competitive home game that we've been allowed to load to go to,
obviously discounting COVID since 2009.
So that is just. Unfortunately, that's a run I
can never bring. Yeah, you're stuck.
Forever. I'm stuck.
We'll be Adam. Worst places to be stuck?
I'll not be there guys, I'll not be there, but I'm sure you'll
cheat on enough for. Me.
Yeah, no, definitely. Well, I'm just it's been just 24
hours tacked over since the game finished last night and fine
find my voices seems to have covered with aid of many cups of
tea and water for the day. Just in time till to the court.
What has been a good hour long episode almost.
So I'd just like to thank you both again.
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