No doubt this will seem contradictory, but I don't see it that way:
Pleased no Aberdeen players have been called up for the Scotland squad.
Fuck Strachan and the SFA for always ignoring Aberdeen players.
We're second in the league, in the League Cup Final, favourites for the Scottish Cup - having just beaten Celtic in Glasgow - and still no Aberdeen player is called up.
Meanwhile some kid from Utd gets thrown into the senior squad having never played at any younger age groups for Scotland. What is the point of our young players going and wasting their time playing (and getting injured) for the u21s if this guy is just going to get jumped ahead after playing six unremarkable months of senior football?
And it's a joke that May from St. Johnstone isn't in the squad. He's scored loads of goals this season and has scored goals for Scotland u21s. Wonder why he isn't even called up while Tony Watt once got a call up despite having done nothing except score a goal against Barca?
Still things become clearer when you listen to Strachan:
"We aren't a nation that has produced players who can eliminate people, go by them and score goals..."
Actually, that is precisely what Pawlett has been doing this season. Neil Lennon said as much before we played Celtic earlier in the season and he went to great lengths to shape his team just to limit Pawlett's influence.
"I don't think the standard is as good as when I joined Celtic [in 2005]. Look at the Hibs team, what a team that was. Hearts were backed by a lot of money with top international players in there."
That Hibs side was good. I believe they managed to finish above Aberdeen once in the several years around that period when we were both strong. We also regularly finished above Hearts despite them having a stupidly big budget.
"When Walter Smith got his team to the Uefa Cup final and we had a Celtic team in the last 16 of the Champions League..."
No mention of the Aberdeen team that was still in the UEFA Cup past Xmas that year.
No doubt our players will get called up when half the current squad decide they can't be bothered playing in a Friendly.
Scotland can fuck right off.
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