Thanks guys.
I absolutely agree with what you've all said about Boyds behaviour.
Hes an absolute disgrace, a pettied little arrogant, lazy child who thinks he should just walk into the Scotland team and he should never play for Scotland again. I said the same thing about Davie Weir and Lee McCulloch.
I really started this thread because of the fact that there is a vast majority of people sticking up for Boyd in Scotland
, and I wanted to see what unbiased football fans thought.
They are all against George Burley. They have taken Boyds side simply because, imho, Burley has made some very bad decisions and the majority of people want him gone, even though they didn't want him in the first place, and its just another thing to throw at him.
There is a strong Rangers bias in the Scottish media, so I can understand where thats coming from. However, there are some ex-players, like John Hartson, who has defended his actions, and the majority of fans are taking his side.
I feel it quite shameful how some Scots, who are obviously meant to be more passionate about Scotland than the Irish, English, etc but yet they are taking Boyds side and are disrespecting their countrym whereas you can all see what Boyd is. And obviously your view is not biased.
Another thing is also that there are many Scottish players around Britain who would love to just get into the squad, never mind play, but yet he acts like this.
And what makes it worse is that the guy whos meant to be captain of Scotland has defended his actions.
piazza said:
Boyd is the best striker in the SPL.
No he isn't. Boyd is a crap player.
He scores the most goals because all he does is stand in the box.
Hes slow, lazy, immobile etc etc. Yes if you put a cross into the box theres a good chance of him getting on the end of it, but he can't do anything else.
Some people say Van Nistelrooy is just a box player. Well, Kris Boyd makes Van Nistelrooy look like Carlos Tevez.
Boyd has only scored 2 goals from open play since March. He doesn't get picked for the Rangers team, especially in the big games, so why should he walk into the Scotland team?
There are loads of strikers better than him in the SPL, Scottish or otherwise, and some of which abo has mentioned.
As for the Fletcher-Iwelumo argument, they deserved to get on. They are both far better players than Boyd, and are on better form than him this season. Iwelumo may have missed that chance, but hes scored 8 goals in 6 games this season, and played well when he came on apart from that miss.
He was winning everything in the air, and holding up the ball well. And talking about the miss, better players than Iwelumo have missed similar chances. Cristiano Ronaldo, the best player in the World, missed an open goal 2 years ago. Torres and Robinho both missed an open goal in the same game.
If Iwelumo had scored, nobody would have been talking about Boyd.
The only mistake Burley made with Iwelumo was that he didn't start with him upfront along with McFadden.
