Police officers in Scotland will today take the "most overt demonstration of action" in more than 100 years by withdrawing their "goodwill" amid an ongoing dispute over pay.
13.06.2022 - 14:17 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Kris Commons has questioned why Scotland look a shadow of the side they were before losing Kieran Tierney to injury.
And the former Celtic star can’t understand why Steve Clarke is rigidly sticking with the formation devised to get both Tierney and Andy Robertson in the team when that’s not an issue right now.
Clarke arguably oversaw the nadir of his reign at the weekend as Scotland were battered 3-0 by Ireland in Dublin.
Their opposition hadn’t won in 12 Nations League games and had last won a competitive game at home against Gibraltar in 2019.
But they made Scotland look like the side in the doldrums and could have won by more.
Commons reckons Clarke got just about everything wrong, but most worrying was how long he took to change things when it was clear the initial game plan had to go out the window long before it was ditched.
He wrote in his Daily Mail column: “You could see it coming. Not, perhaps, in the build-up to the match but certainly in the early exchanges as it took shape.
“Everything about Scotland in Dublin was flawed from the off. From the formation to the strategy to the attitude, they were heading for a grim defeat even before Alan Browne put the Irish in front.
“The really troubling thing is that nothing was done by anyone to change the outcome. Did we honestly expect that by plugging away and being second-best all over the park throughout 90 minutes that we'd somehow pull it out of the fire?
“We stuck with Plan A when the outcome of that was inevitable. I don't even begin to understand that.
“The approach was just all wrong. When you are playing an Irish team that's a wounded animal, you have to expect them to come at you from the first whistle to try and give their crowd something to cheer about.
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