'Clarke must go' or 'only a friendly defeat' - Scotland fans react

It is just to accidental galore Scotland fans are raging with Friday's 3-1 location decision by Iceland.

We asked for your views and the statement is that Steve Clarke has mislaid his mode arsenic caput coach, adjacent past his sell-by date, with the players underachieving considering the endowment astatine his disposal.

As their squad hole for Monday's affable successful Liechtenstein, the Tartan Army privation him to freshen up his squad, alteration his tactics, oregon conscionable go...

Much of the spotlight connected Friday was connected goalkeeping errors from debutant substitute goalkeeper Cieran Slicker, but astir fans deliberation the 22-year-old should not beryllium blamed for what are seen arsenic much wide problems.

Alan: An implicit shocker of a show against Iceland, with the horrific goalkeeping concern coming to the fore. Only George Hirst came adjacent to walk marks. World Cup qualification hopes look slim astatine champion and Clarke's aboriginal surely has to beryllium successful doubt. The squad look to beryllium lacking immoderate ambition and inspiration.

Weegiedoh: Put Slicker successful the adjacent game. It was not his responsibility Scotland were poor. They ne'er protected the young guy. We had thing to play for and it looked similar the players were conscionable going done the motions. Clarke is not the antheral to instrumentality america into the World Cup games.

Franny: That is arsenic atrocious a show arsenic I person witnessed successful six decades arsenic a Scotland fan. We person been woeful recently. Creatively barren and boring. Time for a caller coaching squad with caller ideas? Definitely.

Jim: Clarke should person gone aft the Euros and should spell present earlier the World Cup run starts, oregon we decidedly won't qualify. That was atrocious again and for however overmuch longer is the SFA going to beryllium backmost and expect fans to wage bully wealth to ticker abject performances similar that?.

Ian: Scotland looked similar an ageing squad coming to the extremity of their cycle. Clarke has to realise it's clip up for Grant Hanley and the Kieran Tierney/Andy Robertson set-up is done. A younger injection was needed aft the past Euros. I spot nary accidental of reaching the World Cup.

Jarek: Very disappointing and uninspiring. We request to find a mode to onslaught acold much efficaciously arsenic we look toothless. As for the defending and goalkeeping - don't get maine started. Only redeeming grace is we thin to beryllium acold amended successful qualifying matches.

Some of you fearfulness for Scotland's chances should Clarke inactive beryllium successful complaint for the commencement of the World Cup qualifying run successful September.

Keith: Clarke has to go. He is devoid of ideas and the players are not motivated immoderate more. He has 1 of the strongest midfields successful Europe but can't bash thing with it. His lone decent results precocious were wholly down to Ben Doak. He is holding the players backmost alternatively than processing the squad.

Duncan: How tin players beryllium doing truthful brilliantly for their clubs and truthful severely for their country. Some of the older players request to beryllium retired, but the squad indispensable find immoderate occurrence and passionateness for the World Cup campaign. Clarke should alteration oregon go.

Scott: It's not the team, it's the management. Experience and loyalty, specified arsenic Clarke has showed with Hanley and Robertson, is not a atrocious thing. But erstwhile the manager has mislaid that edge, arsenic Clarke intelligibly has, it's clip to go. The young keeper was astatine fault, but the ambiance and deficiency of absorption successful the team, nary uncertainty affected him.

Alexander: I truly consciousness we request to commencement playing younger players. Grant Hanley is intelligibly astatine the extremity of his vocation and it's shown successful each planetary since the Euros.

David: Clarke conscionable isn't inventive. He is perfectly devoid of immoderate ideas and should've walked aft the Germany debacle.

Martin: The excavation of players successful the Scottish squad person each been palmy astatine their clubs. And yet they are incapable to play a co-ordinated organised crippled for Scotland. However, Scotland was having occurrence with these players successful the past, truthful what has changed? I deliberation the basal of the occupation lies with the coaching staff, the tactics employed, and mediocre preparation.

Scott: Clarke has to spell - now. How galore excuses for insipid performances? He sticks with radical who are not delivering. His selections are unadventurous and uninspiring. The assemblage present expects failure. He cannot get a show retired of these players - spot the Euros. Time for a alteration present earlier we suffer the archetypal 2 World Cup qualifiers and person thing to bash for the adjacent 2 years.

There were, however, a fewer dissenting voices among the Tartan Army.

Steve: These are affable games wherever we larn astir our strengths and weaknesses, which person been highlighted. Agreed, the performances are worrying, but if we tin get them correct, the lone games that volition beryllium important volition beryllium the World Cup qualifiers. If Scotland larn from this past we tin person a bully accidental of qualifying and hopefully bash good successful the radical stages successful in 2026.

Ryan: Tough 1 to instrumentality but is lone friendly. Not large for momentum but spot of an overreaction from fans successful my opinion. Luckily, erstwhile it comes to qualifiers, Clarke has a large grounds and volition instrumentality close backmost to basics successful September - our champion accidental successful qualifying for sometime.

Callum: Dire worldly astatine the moment, but support the faith. Only 1 much affable past the existent football.