We are not robber

The direct fast flowing attacking football we have witnessed over the last few matches was exchanged for the usual qualifier match. Instead of playing our game we tried to contain the opposition’s game. In his new "quarter back" role, Charlie Adam was a mere passenger as our dynamic trio of attackers Naismith, Miller and Morrison were asked to pack the midfield. Adam has a weapon that simply wasn’t allowed to be used. His passing range can change defence into attack in seconds, yet time and again he looked up and saw nobody breaking forward.

Our display against the Czech Republic was nowhere near the performance that was expected of Craig Levein’s dynamic new Scotland era - but what do Scotland have to do to halt the run of bad decisions. Dutch referee Kevin Blom was conned by the theatrics of Jan Rezek and although Scotland probably hadn’t deserved the victory, but any hope of getting something from the game was stolen from them.Speaking as a true Tartan Army footsoldier, I think no other refereeing decision mattered - he got the crucial one badly wrong.Craig Levien was rightly angry after the match but he should absorb some of the blame for the result.The manager had caught the imagination of every fan in the build up to this match and I can honestly say that the excitement has never been greater than in recent months.

We now have a mountain to climb in this campaign but going forward Craig Levein must start to believe in his team.The past several friendlies have shown us what can happen when we play our own game, it is time to make the opposition worry about us.The fact we have had more failures than successes as a team makes the refereeing performance even worse to take.The Czechs, as they were in Prague, were beatable and we should have got away with this poor performance.