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The Football Show · 1 October 2026
"There wasn't an SPFL player in the postcode last night." Hugh MacDonald, Gordon Parks and Peter Martin pick Scotland's team for North Macedonia after the 3-0 defeat to Switzerland.
The back line first: why Hugh doesn't get "the fixation" with Nathan Patterson (and the Alan Hutton theory), Aaron Hickey as first choice when he's fit, and Kieran Tierney, Binks and Steven Welsh ahead of Scott McKenna. Then Josh McPake's comeback from Stirling Albion to Hearts, Billy Gilmour ("a Gascoigne and a McStay"), and the big call: Scott McTominay in, Lewis Ferguson out. Plus Scotland's striker crisis ("What on earth are we doing at our academies?"), Oli McBurnie's pressure to score, and why not one starter came from the Scottish Premiership: "our standard in the Scottish Premiership is dire", or as Gordon puts it, maybe that's a good thing.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Three or four changes: the Patterson question
00:34 Nathan Patterson and the Alan Hutton effect
01:36 Aaron Hickey: first choice when he's fit
02:09 Kieran Tierney as one of the back three
02:39 Binks, Welsh or McKenna at the back?
04:09 Josh McPake: from wonderkid to Hearts
05:55 Billy Gilmour: "a Gascoigne and a McStay"
07:02 Andy Robertson's lesson, and goals from midfield
07:37 McTominay in, Ferguson out? "It's not blasphemous"
08:20 Oli Burke, the five-a-sides and "a good cog in the engine"
09:42 Who can play Pocognoli's way? Gilmour, McGinn and the free kicks
10:21 "I genuinely don't think we've got goalscorers"
11:12 Play football: North Macedonia away, Slovenia at home
11:37 The striker crisis: "What on earth are we doing at our academies?"
13:01 "There wasn't an SPFL player in the postcode"
13:54 "Our standard in the Scottish Premiership is dire"
14:20 The Journos' Scotland team for North Macedonia
14:53 McBurnie's pressure: 19 games without a goal?
15:18 "Well done, son, you grafted": every player's ceiling
16:04 Six points a minimum: the verdict on Pocognoli so far
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