Quote Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee View Post
I see some parallels with us under Mark Hughes. We had a calendar year when we were invincible then our form slipped drastically and we were lucky to finish with a playoff against Ukraine. I've always reckoned that, had we beaten them, we'd have been battered in Euro 2004 as we were playing poorly. Sadly, Hughes started the next campaign, which started disastrously, and that was the end of him.

Perhaps Scotland have had their spell where everything has been great and now it's back to normal, as we did back then?
Was it not Hughes managing the team that went to Montenegro (who had just sacked their manager) for a draw and came a copper by losing late on?

If he'd have just gone for the jugular we would not have needed the playoff game.

Wasn't that against Russia, or am I mixing up my Wales failures?