maybe now we can get some decent football and pick some deceny YOUNG talent instead of the vrap that got so bad i didnt bother to go today.

Best of luck in the future for good ole Sco'lend! :D maybe we'll see a certain Dennis Sharpe with the nr.1 jersey in a few years? :cool: :eek: :D ;)

and he may be up against a certain Croat Dragan Tucakovic in the world cup final in 2006???:D :D :cool:

nah seriously he's an annoying d1ck is pa Broon.

good riddance.

Originally posted by Jambo Den
and he may be up against a certain Croat Dragan Tucakovic in the world cup final in 2006???

that would be impossible for two reasons:

1) At that time i'll probably have a danish passport and citizenship and I'd be ineligeble (spelling :D ) for the Croatian Team

2) Unlike you, i don't play football for a club, only in my sparetime with friends and stuff, so i'd never be good enough to play for even the San Marino squad LOL :p :D

Well you might come up against me Denis when I play in the world cup with Northern Ireland...........how unlikely it may seem:D

sad to hear this
coz Craig Brown is a great bloke !! and deserved better.
It was just time ot move on. After so long in charge of da national team.
Well a fresh start up ahead for the Scots

Sad to see Craig Brown go.. he was a real character but Scotland's game was dull and they deserve better.

I think it was time for a change in Scotland, Scotland had reached all they could under Craig Brown and a new coach was probably the best option to develop the scottish team more.
It will be interesting to see who will replace him....

i'm surprised how many people liked Pa Broon cos I certainly didn't.did any of you hear the stroy 2 years ago where he was TRIPLE timing his missus and having affairs with women half his age.

Originally posted by PhiLLer
I think it was time for a change in Scotland, Scotland had reached all they could under Craig Brown and a new coach was probably the best option to develop the scottish team more.
It will be interesting to see who will replace him....

hmmmm.....I wonder what Sir Alex is doing these days??:D :)

Brown quits as Scots go out

Craig Brown has resigned as manager of the Scotland national team following the embarrassing World Cup qualifying campaign, which ended with a poor performance against an average to poor Latvian side at Hampden Park.

Brown was an unpopular appointment when he took over from Andy Roxburgh 8 years ago and despite taking the country to Euro96 in England and the World Cup in France in 1998 he was never a popular boss. This was mainly due to his negative tactics, failure to give youth a chance, affairs with women half his age and the singing of bigoted songs into his mistress answering machine.

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Wee Craig and his backroom staff inspire
their team in typical fashion

The only surprise with Browns resignation is that it never took a gang of burly security guards to drag him from his Hampden hot seat kicking and screaming as he desperately tried to hold on to a job he neither deserved nor could do.

This particular World Cup campaign has highlighted Browns failings. Only a victory in another glorious failure against a very poor England side saved his job at the end of the last failed bid to make a major finals but this time there was no hiding place for wee Craig.

Failure to beat either Croatia or Belgium in 4 goes has proved to be his downfall, however, every performance outside the away game in Croatia were mediocre at best.

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Wee Craigs fans turn out to see his last
stand against Latvia at Hampden Park

Few if any will miss the annoying little character that did little to improve our national game in 8 years in charge and hopefully this will herald a new beginning for Scottish football. With players such as Steven Simmons and even, dare I say it, Tom McManus coming through the ranks hopefully the new boss will have more success than Brown did.

Here's hoping that the SFA dig deep in a bid to get a manager in place who can truly inspire the general Scottish public and restore the national teams now dented reputation.

maybe you can have gordon strachan as the new scotland manager
i read in the paper that craig brown is going to take over at leciester goes redknapp dont want the job

maybe Peter Taylor as the scottish manager.......hmm though and englishman as scottish manager....nah:)

Maybe George Graham...

Scotland are in a dip at the moment, they do not really have all that much youth coming through. ith the players that Craig Brown has had to select from, i think he did bloddy well!

Scotland(while Brown was in charge) didn't have many options to choose from, they also didn't have any youth in their team(I'm surprised that brown didn't call up Ally McCoist:p)
Now though the future for the Tartans looks bright, theyve got United's Michael Sterwart who looks very very very promising and then there's young Alex Notman who I think plays for Aberdeen now(used to play for manutd too).
There's also some more young scots up n coming from over the UK

No, Alex Notman is still a Norwich City Player

I heard he was at Aberdeen, or maybe he was supposed to go, summink like that....

Right, Craig Brown then.

The SFA must be in tears, for a number of reasons. Firstly, Brown's performance over the past few years. Superb. Yes, the Jocks may complain that they've not done enough, but facts must be faced. The current crop of Scottish talent is as poor as at any time in previous history. Ask most European football fans who was the best Scottish player of last season, and the answer would be...

Gary McAllister.

The problem is that the youngsters are not there. Mark Burchill had the potential to be, for example, Celtic's McCoist, but the Scottish League is such that the couple of decent youngsters that are around cannot get a game, and end up being packed off to sub-standard Nationwide sides in England. Craig Brown has done an admirable job of finding any talent possible (Matteo and Sullivan anyone?), and extracting the very best possible from them.

Cast your mind back to the Scotland-England playoff at Wembley. Scotland had spent all week in training formulating a battle plan around Don Hutchison playing in 'the hole' with one striker up, to combat the Keown-Campbell partnership in defence. When the Scots arrived at the ground, though, news filtered through that Keown was out injured, and Keegan's tactics had changed completely. In any normal situation, a manager would be completely ruined, his plans torn to shreds. Instead, he moved Hutchison into the centre-forward position and played 4-3-3, and the result was the best tactical performance that Scotland have pulled off in a long time. Brown is by no means a bad manager, by no means whatsoever. He most certainly has tactical knowledge, make no mistake.

Finally though, according to reports, Brown, the Scottish Manager AND Technical Director, is paid around £150,000 a year. Just stop a second and let that filter through. £150,000. For two jobs.
Compare that to England, with Eriksson's £1,200,000 a year, and Wilkinson's £500,000 a year to do the Technical Director's job. England are paying more than 11 times what Scotland are to fill these positions. If Scotland want to sign up a replacement manager, they are going to have to make massive cuts elsewhere on their budget to afford the top names - maybe in youth development, which would then take the Scots back to where the problem started in the first place, lack of talent.

So, having taken all this into account, who should the Scots go for?

Perhaps George Graham, the disgraced, expensive yet tactically solid man?

Perhaps Jim Jefferies, the lesser-known and slightly untested manager at the top level?

Perhaps Alex McLeish, the man who would require a huge capital investment to prise him out of his managerial contract?

Or perhaps they'll go for a charming, unassuming Scot, with proven experience, tactical nous, and popularity with the players, available at a bargain price?

Craig Brown it is, then.

Originally posted by Dragan T
so i'd never be good enough to play for even the San Marino squad


I think anyone can join the San Marino squad for 5 bucks.:D

Drinky I might as well tell you that Jim Jefferies acheived god status down Gorgie way in 1998.Also well renowned for bringing out the very best in our youth academy (only for them to be sold off to everton for Peanuts)

Also,Hearts cheif executive Chris ''Pieman'' Robinson is on the SFA executive commitee(well known for bringing us into serious financial worries,forcing us to sell players like Naysmith,Cameron,Niemi almost certainly next out the door,followed by Flogel,Pressley,Tomaschek,which he sells the players for half their value) which probably makes division 1 this year a mere formality,despite the gaffers best attmepts:(

so the SFA are majorly buggered who are run by ex-school teachers,no clue about the game+ the pieman:(

Ally McCoist was a legend, in the same realm as Ian Wright :D

( I worship them both :p )

Originally posted by Can't stop the rush...



I think anyone can join the San Marino squad for 5 bucks.:D

5bucks? i though that was the price for one of your hos? :D