Oh, it’s highly performative 
Anyway, I am just joking around. I don’t actually walk around rowing in the air randomly 
3 Likes
And half of them belong to Peter Murrell.
Are they really knocked out. Isn’t third with three points possibly enough to get through, depending on other results?
Anyway, I feel a bit sad about the Canada-Switzerland match. I couldn’t watch it, but if I’m honest, I’d have preferred Canada to win the group and stay in Canada. It would have felt right. Now, it feels wrong, especially as I read that a late equalizer wouldn’t have been an injustice, given the respective performances of the teams.
Sorry lads for pooping your party. 
2 Likes
Well, football is a game of mistakes. Unfortunately, we made one too many mistakes and got punished for it (players jogging back and not properly covering their positions), plus the unusual keeper spilling the ball for a sure save.
Anyways, we are still glad that we got through to the knockout stage. Go Canada Go!
2 Likes
I would like to see heads roll at Canada Soccer for accepting a hosting fornat that forces Canadian supporters across the US border anywhere short of a semi-final
6 Likes
Especially as there are already 2 second round games in Canada. I think its reasonable that a home game couldnt be supported with a qualification through one of the third placed spots, but to have had two games in this round in Canada and not allocated them both to the top 2 from Canada’s group is utterly stupid.
5 Likes
Canadian Soccer Association recent track records have been pretty awful. Spygate and all that. Like you’ve said, a proper re-org is required.
Spygate is not a big deal from an organizational point of view, it is a team level failing. The absolutely dire financial structure of the past 6-7 years is a much worse problem.
1 Like
You’re right. There were headlines everywhere about the CSA on “Where does the money go?” last year or 2. No transparencies, poor financial management, favouritism. Oh, that also sounds like FIFA, but we don’t have the dirty money!
The irony is the last 25 minutes was the best Scotland have played.
Haiti was terrible and slightly lucky, all the punditry bigging it up should have been concerned. Morroco was pants and after the early goal they should have played like that last 25 it was also relatively cool if I remember.
Brazil they handed the first half to them. Also I’d rescind that Clarke contract extension. Fine to play for a draw but they were doing that when already behind.
1 Like
I haven’t looked at it in detail, but hopefully there’s still a chance Scotland can squeeze through to the knockout stage. With their goal difference and only having 3 points, I know it is hanging by a thread, but fingers crossed.
Beyond the team, the fans have added a lot to the World Cup. (Other countries too). Fair play for that.
A Germany win/draw over Ecuador probably is enough for Scotland to go through. Senegal could catch Scotland, but Congo is the worrisome one, with their fairly soft match versus Uzbekistan coming up. I am assuming Belgium gets past NZ to take the 7th spot, but a result for NZ would be big for Scotland.
2 Likes
Cheers for that. It seems they have a more solid path than I realized. Good!
There are also some other teams that could jump from 4th up to 3rd and get past Scotland. But most of them are fairly unlikely.
Got this from reddit…
3rd Place standings after June 24th. Bosnia Herzegovina, Korea Republic, and Scotland have played three matches. All others have played two.
(credit Moose4KU)
1 Like
Regardless of where the ball was struck, if the ball reached a certain velocity it would fly faster. This, the researchers from Seoul Women’s University and the University of Tsukuba found, was down to an effect called “drag crisis”. This occurs when an object flying through the air reaches the point where the air flow around it shifts from a smooth state (known as a laminal flow) to a turbulent one. When the flow is turbulent, it disrupts the drag behind a moving object, allowing it to move faster.
1 Like
Apparently opta had them at 43% after the game. Not sure how that shifted with South Africa winning as that’s probably one they had hoped to benefit from.
Definitely would have shifted it down, as South Africa was out otherwise, while South Korea is pretty safely in.
1 Like
having watched all the Scotland games so far,
as much as it pians me to say,
i’d prefer Scotland to not go through,
its embarrassing watching us
2 Likes