As I have stated previously, I don't watch national teams. Your remark about my interest in the sport shows clearly that you are not paying attention.
If my interest would somehow go beyond that, I certainly would not choose to watch Scotland vs Poland. No one cares about a game like that aside from people from Scotland and Poland.
Those "opposite arguments" state my position. That's different. More on your faulty logic as we go along.
Here we go. You're arguing against something that I didn't argue for. How great Scotty was or wasn't, is not the topic at hand.
Delusional, ok. Do you know what that word means? Let me explain:
Your position is that before the game started you would have picked McTominay over Casemiro.
You're saying that among those two players Scotty is the better choice.
You're implying that you knew that Casemiro would have a very bad day and therefore Scotty starting would mean that Scotty would have delivered a better performance.
What recent Scotland performances? When was that, months ago and that is your argument that his "recent performances" would put him ahead of Casemiro?
That is pretty delusional.
I don't like the player, I don't care about the person. Useful players don't have to be the best in the world. I didn't say what you're implying.
My issue with Scotty is moreso what he, Maguire, Lingard and the other useful players stood for. Mediocrity. Failure. Embarrassment. Lack of everything. They symbolised our downfall. They marked our new level.
Yes, I talk about standards. Specifically the ones we lost along the way.
SAF had standards and he had useful players. I believe Park was a level above the ones you mentioned, but I'll take the others.
They weren't great players but they worked in the SAF system. What was his system? To make the team stronger than the sum of it's parts. That's one of the most important things that set him apart. That's what we're lacking today (among many other things).
Under *********** Ten Hag the team is weaker than the sum of it's parts. Ten Hag is a disaster.
It's really interesting, fascinating even. SAF thinking of Fletcher is what, an absolution?
It's meaningless. Meaningless because McTominay reminded me of Fletcher right away, too. A limited player, not starter material, an option from the bench in cup games. That's it.
It could have worked under SAF and I mean that. Darren Gibson and Tom Cleverly worked under SAF. They started CL games.
In reality *********** Ten Hag is not SAF and therefore
a) I don't trust the *********** and
b) Pele McTominay never worked out.
I'm glad he is gone.
I get it though - people like you had a vision right before the Liverpool game and would have picked Scotty ahead of Casemiro, based on merit.
Yeah, standards. Some have them, some don't, some lost them and some are just confused about the world we're living in.