'No pace, no passion' - Scotland fans have say on loss to Greece

Scotland are relegated to B level in the Nations League after losing their play-off with the Greeks
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Midfielder John McGinn called it "embarrassing", while head coach Steve Clarke said it was "a bump in the road".
We asked Scotland supporters for their views on Sunday's 3-0 home defeat by Greece and here's a selection of your replies.
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'Probably the worst performance under Clarke'
Colin: Once again this team underperformed and let us supporters down. How a manager can continually pick players who are not playing weekly club football is unacceptable. This team is slow all over the park, no players with pace or dribbling skills, not one can beat a player one on one. We all can see who needs to go, there must be young hungry players out there with pace and determination. As soon as we concede a goal, we are in trouble. No creativity whatsoever, too many midfielders playing the same way.
David: Clarke got it all wrong. I was his biggest fan but he's not making it easy to support him. His stubbornness is costing us games. Ralston gets targeted every match, yet he keeps playing. Che Adams was terrible both games, losing possession constantly - no sub at half time. Christie was way off it - subbed too late. Meanwhile, Greece made changes as that what you need to do to get a different performance, and it worked. Clarke did nothing, not even at half-time which was criminal. Then he took off Gilmour, our best in midfield, and everything fell apart. His refusal to adapt is holding us back.
Michael: That's probably the worst performance under Clarke. After the initial 10 minutes, we were totally devoid of ideas for how to break the Greeks down, physically lacked the pace and strength to compete, didn't pass or break with any speed or conviction and worst of all had absolutely no passion to lift the crowd.
Tony: Scotland were absolutely hopeless. Their long balls went nowhere or out of play. There was no energy or class on display. They were well and deservedly beaten.
Peter: We made it so easy for Greece. A team with really decent players who punished us for a truly woeful performance. Instead of moving forward, we have fallen down another hole... Embarrassing!
Patrick: I hate that phrase bump in the road. This was a pot hole.
Steven: Confidence was high ahead of the game, but what a shocking performance after a great result in Greece. Could barely string two passes together. Congratulations to Greece. They looked better than us all over the pitch. It could've been more than three.
Kenny: It looked as though we were playing with 10 men and they had 12 as every time we had the ball there was nobody to pass to other than backwards. Also they looked fitter and sharper and with an plan of attack. We looked clueless and had Christie who is left footed playing on the right which further exposed Ralston in the first half.
Henry: Manager is hopeless. Fails to retain Lewis Ferguson (our best player in the first leg), plays Christie out of position. Continues to pick McLean, who is obviously not international class. Failure last night all down to midfield but essentially we need a new leader on the touchline.
Alan: Playing Adams up front on his own with no other Scot within 30m of him is never going to work. The midfield needed to be nearer to him.
Allen: Most of Clarke's trusted players let themselves down. He should play players in their club positions not try to shoehorn them into systems they don't fit.
William: Clarke must go. Totally negative football, boring to watch. Gone backwards in my opinion. No fight or passion.
'A bad day but let's move on'
AliG: Okay, we were well beaten. But focus is required, we lost over two games to a team ranked well above us. It's a fact of life that football teams can be beaten. The plus for me from all the negatives is, you can see as plain as day the players were hurting, so was the back room staff. So we examine what worked for us and how Greece undid us. It's called experience. Let's make good use of it. Only the negative sling the mud. The players and staff have some points of learning to work on so we are better in the world cup games, where it really counts.
Scott: We really needed to rotate and make better use of the squad. We also never had an effective plan to deal with Karetsas after he changed the game in Athens. There were large gaps opening up as our players looked jaded. I still like Clarke but he needs to make full use of the squad. IMO McKenna and Tierney should have started. Hopefully we have learnt something for the WC qualifiers. A bad day but let's move on...
Ryan: Maybe a blessing in disguise, dropping to league B could help improve our world ranking and give us a chance for Euro 28 play offs. Was a poor performance and makes me less confident going into the qualifiers. However, wide players missing from the camp is a big loss and the distance between midfield and defence Greece exploited multiple times. Hopefully this can be fixed. Rather lose the tie now and learn than in the autumn when games really matter.
Gerald: What Scottish football deserves. Top clubs in Scotland don't develop players and the SFA is more worried about Hampden as a status symbol than ploughing funds into football itself. The current SPFL set up is part of the problem. One bigger professional league with better financial balance would eventually lead to better home grown players. Not the manager's fault.