SHUT UP GUYS - WGS IS NOT THE PROBLEM AND CHANGING MANAGER IS NOT THE ANSWER

THIS will be a very short post – I have only one message, which I direct to the numpties in the Scottish Football Writers Association.

The message is: “Be careful what you wish for, and it would help if you SHUT UP”!!

A bandwagon is building to get rid of WGS and get a new Scotland manager in place. The question is who do we go for?

The reality is, no manager today could make a silk purse out of the sow's ear that is Scottish football. If not Strachan – who? Name one credible contender?

The SFA is a failed organisation – Theresa May's government has more of a clue about Brexit than the haddies on the sixth floor at Hampden have about running a football association, and the Tories are making it up as they go along.

Let's be clear about this. As of now, WGS's overall record as Scotland manager reads:

Played 32 – won 16 – drawn 6 – lost 10; this equates to winning 50% of the games, and garnering 56.25% of the available points.

I admit, his record in friendlies is better than in competitive games, but, overall, Strachan's record is about average for a Scotland manager. 

By the way, his current record is better than Jock Stein's overall record – won 42.64% of the games, took 49.02% of the points. And nobody will convince me that Strachan is a better manager than Stein. Similarly, nobody would dare to try to tell me Strachan has better players at his disposal than Stein had.

Stein capped (admittedly not all at the same time): Jim Leighton, Sandy Jardine, Danny McGrain, Graeme Souness, Alex McLeish, Willie Miller; Jimmy Johnstone, Denis Law, Kenny Dalglish, Jim Baxter and Davie Cooper. Pick an XI from the players Strachan has at his disposal to give that XI a game – and, I'll give you three goals of a start.

Strachan is not the problem – Hampden is the problem, the set-up in Scottish football is the problem. We need to change that, before we need to change the manager.