Will Scotland ever qualify for a tournament using one striker?

Question is in the title, will we ever qualify for a tournament with the one striker, will we be playing with one striker every game for this qualifying? I missed the game on Saturday but seems it was for the best. I will not be watching if Leven is going in to these early games looking for a draw. It was good to see Hearts having a go at Liverpool it should be a blue print for all Scottish teams and the national side.

I wouldn't lay the blame at the feet of one man but every qualifying campaign since 2002 we have mainly used Kenny Miller as the lone striker and we've failed to come close to qualifying outright in that time

The game itself wasn't really bad, Scotland played alright, not great but not bad either, the problem is Levein, he isn't up to the task, he started with the wrong team, almost every "non qualified" idiot who watches football could see that, those un qualified idiots could also see we needed changes fast, however it took the qualified specialist until 20 minutes from time to make the changes, even then it was like for like, no change to the system, then he did try and change it through sheer desperation with 10 minutes to go

I've got no problem with using the one central striker, however its fundemental that the players behind him are pacy, creative and poossess a goal threat

On the plus side Paul Dixon had a great debut and Robert Snodgrass had fine games, Dixon was very good

For tomorrow's game I'd line up something like this

....................... McGregor

Hutton ...... Caldwell ... Berra ...... Dixon

................ Morrison ... Adam

Forrest ............. Maloney ........... Phillips

........................ Rhodes

Scotland haven't qualified, or been near to qualifying since '98.

To blame Levein is a bit short sighted. With all those other managers who would supposedly be better they haven't qualifed either.

Easy scapegoat, but he's only responsible for a very small part of that failing.

The SFA are far more culpable.

Definitely, however I believe we've got the best squad of players since 96, possibly earlier, we're desperately short at central defence but I believe we've got the players that can seriously compete in this group, under Levein and his negative outlook though I doubt that will happen

When is the last time we had so many players playing in the top flight down South?

A good point, and I was delighted to only see one player named in the starting line up playing in Scotland.
Levein at least has that right. I'd actually tell players that they won't be picked if they don't play in the EPL or Championship.

You know I'll disagree with that, James Forrest should be starting for Scotland, I also think whether we rate him or not Scott Brown will play every game if and when he's available for Craig Levein

It is quite ironic from my point of view though being a defender of the SPL is that one of the two players that shouldn't have been playing on Saturday, one of them was the guy from the SPL (the other being Kenny Miller)

Time they showed a bit more ambition then and signed for a decent club in a decent league. (not being a wum, just a fact)

If you're talking about Forrest he's at a very decent club, the league isn't particularly great but he's going to get the chance to play Champions League football, the boy is only 21, all in good time, he'll be sold for big money in 2 years time

I agree why isn't Maloney playing. He was superb for Wigan last season and is exactly what you need in behind a lone striker, someone quick and creative who can pick a pass and link up play. I actually thought Charlie Adam was the only one from Midfield who tried to make something happen in the game.

I hope Wales can beat Serbia tonight. It'll be a different Serbia in Serbia, but after seeing Scotland playing average and should have really beaten them, I'm confident Wales can get something tonight. Sorry for going off topic there Scots fans, we're in the same boat really

Serbia haven't scored a goal in their last 6 games, or so I think that's what SKY told me on Saturday, I don't think it'd be beyond the realms of possibility that Wales could beat them, they aren't a very good side and that's why I felt that for Scotland to qualify we'd need to take 4 points from those two games.

With Gareth Bale, particularly away from home I could see Wales sneaking a goal, I'd like to see the Welsh beat them

If leven plays with one upfront tonight I'll die

I don't think the one up top is a bad formation, what makes it or breaks it though is the players directly behind the central striker

Personally I'd like to see McCormack and Rhodes up top tonight with Forrest on the right and Maloney on the left drifting in with Morrison and Adam in the middle, think that would be a bit to attack minded for Levein though