Roger Hannah

Well, Andrew, it's only five more sleeps for you and I. Six sleeps for Hugh Keevans because he'll need 40 winks in the chair before that 2am kick-off on Saturday night.

He's not the only one.

It's beginning to feel real.

Scotland were fantastic on Saturday night against Bolivia and New Jersey.

Four goals in the first half.

Four goals the previous week against Curacao.

We couldn't be in any better nick to take on Haiti and Boston on Saturday night.

Who on earth wants a stupid 60-minute bounce game in a field in Carolina four or five days before the World Cup?

The Norway manager would have had something to greet about had Grant Hanley smashed into Erling Haaland and put him out the World Cup five days before.

And this is the same Norway manager who let his players dress up as Vikings and sit on a beach next to a longboat.

So I'll take Steve Clarke's preparations all day long ahead of the Norway manager's preparations.

you sometimes Celtic move to their own beat not necessarily at the pace that others would expect them to operate at it will be announced to the London Stock Exchange I would suspect one day this week

I think it's great mind games by Steve Clarke, Ian's quite right, Finlay Curtis did well against Katsurisau, scored the equaliser, Steve Clarke told the media I think Thursday or Friday or last week he was maybe leaning towards starting Finlay Curtis ahead of Ben Ganondoke and then shoves Ben Ganondoke out against Bolivia on Saturday night to say on you go then

and I thought Ganon Doak was terrific and I also looked we're going beyond hating out to Morocco but I watched a bit of Morocco and Norway last night and Norway put on Oscar Bob Fulham in the second half and he gave the Moroccan left back a real tough time and I just kept thinking I wonder what Ben Ganon Doak can do to you you know in the second game so Ganon Doak's taking his chance he will start but

not a bad issue for Steve Clarke to have if he's choosing between whether Ben Garandoke and Finlay Curtis play this weekend or against Morocco or against Brazil I go back to his first game I think Cyprus at Hampden in 2019 and he started with James Forrest and Ryan Fraser and you thought yeah yeah he's got a couple of wingers there and just the way the squad evolved and the way the team evolved going to the back three so he could get Robertson and Tierney in was a sort of death nail for the Scotland wingers he didn't have any width in the team but when he's gone back to a back four he's

he's brought Widd Thin sometimes it's Gannon Doak recently it's been Curtis I tend to think it'll be Gannon Doak against Haiti at the weekend I think John McGinn will come back in I think he will go this game with the two strikers and it might be to the detriment of Ryan Christie he might just be the unlucky one who drops out to accommodate McGinn back in the team What was your next point you wanted to make Ian?

I think Ferguson will play I just wonder if Christy listen we might have all got it wrong he maybe just does go back to one striker and it's either Adams or Shanklin but I think given that they're in the goals just now given that we'll need goals to beat Haiti I wonder if Christy doesn't play this one and then comes back in for the second and third games in the group Andrew

Yeah.

listen maybe although I thought Dykes did well alongside Shanklin when he came on at Hamden against Curacao and set up one of his goals Shanklin has been used to playing with somebody all season he's a Claudio Braga up there at Hearts and I always think you know a lot of the time when Scotland played a back three some of the defenders looked awkward because they played a back four at club level and sometimes

you know the strikers play up top on their own and it doesn't suit them because they normally play in a two or vice versa I think it would help Shankland to have somebody with him whether it's Adams and I think it will be Adams or even if it had been Dykes I think they get the best out Shankland having somebody close to him the way that Braga's close to him in the hearts team that's when you see the best from him I thought Adams looked as if he enjoyed it as well having people around about him so many times during Shea Adams' Scotland career he's been away up there Andrew and everybody else has been away back here