Wales v Scotland: Wales Players' Ratings (Substtutes)

12. Jason Brown – I was hoping Jason might get a run-out as he hasn’t been in the squad for so long. But Wayne Hennessey was having such an amazing game and as he wasn’t either carrying an injury (like Aaron Ramsey) or needed for the Under-21 squad (like Ched Evans and Simon Church), how could you take him off?

13. Sam Vokes – Sam came on as a substitute after half-time. He might have scored if the Scotland goalkeeper hadn’t handled outside the area – in a competitive match, this would have been a red and I don’t really see why things should be different in friendly.

14. Jermaine Easter – Poor Milton Keynes Dons. They allowed Jermaine to join the Wales squad instead of playing for them against Charlton Athletic. What happened? Charlton won 5-1. But it was good of MK Dons to let him go through and great that Jermaine is putting country before club. It’s just a shame he didn’t get the chance to play.

15. Andy Dorman – I was really quite annoyed Andy didn’t get the chance to play. He wanted to play so much. I hope all the others did too though.

16. Daniel Gabbidon – Danny looked a bit rusty but that’s hardly surprising after his recent injury lay-off, following two years without a football match. Not long ago there was a question of whether he would ever play professionally again so it really is good to see him back in the side and I just hope he can have a long injury-free run now for Wales and West Ham. Huge applause for Danny as he came on.

17. Robert Earnshaw – Rob has also been injured recently and in fact he was left out of the original squad because he wasn’t expected to be fit. But a return to action for Nottingham Forest and the withdrawal of Craig Bellamy saw him back in the side. He too was a bit rusty but he got into some good positions and I think when he is fully match fit again he’ll be putting those chances away.

18. Adam Matthews – Some thought Adam might have a chance of playing after Chris Gunter withdrew but he stayed on the bench. He has been playing well for Cardiff though, even out of position on the right wing, so there’s no doubt he will be a part of Wales squads in the future.

19. Darcy Blake – Darcy – who didn’t appear in the programme - stayed on the bench too but I’m sure he too will play for Wales in the future. Cardiff have loaned him out to Plymouth but he still looks like a good prospect and a lot of Cardiff and Wales fans rave about him.

20. Andy King – Andy’s profile wasn’t in the programme so I assumed his wrist injury was considered too severe for him to play. But he was on the bench and he came on as a substitute. I wonder why he wasn’t in the programme, which included not only players who had withdrawn (Chris Gunter) but also players who had never been part of the squad due to injury (David Vaughan). I have heard some twats saying Wales is a backward country but that’s definitely not true so I wonder why they didn’t have time to change the programme. They were able to make a chance to include Andy Dorman, who was also called up late, but not Andy King.

21. David Cotterill - David came onto the field very late on. Wales seemed more than happy with 3-0 and Scotland had given up hope even of a consolation. David played very well when he came on and it was good to see him play after missing several matches for personal reasons but in some ways I wish they’d brought on someone to fire things up a bit and go for a 4th goal. How greedy of me.

22. Joe Allen – Joe did not deserve to be booed. It was probably difficult enough for himn already, replacing Man of the Match Aaron Ramsey but it didn’t seem to affect him at all and he played well. Interestingly, one report said that Aaron was replaced by ‘young’ Joe Allen… who is more than three months older than Aaron! Yes, he is young but that does kind of imply Aaron is older.