LET’S FLY HIGH LIKE THE GIRLS

FROM BACK PAGE a record crowd when they beat Jamaica at the National Stadium last week in their final World Cup warm-up.

And McKenna said: “The women’s team got 18,500 so it’s up to us now to try to get a crowd through the door, put in a good performance and bring that feelgood factor to the men’s team as well.

“It’s all very positive with the new manager and a good few boys in the squad have had great ends to the season. We’re all delighted Andy Robertson has won the Champions League, John McGinn and Kenny McLean have been promoted to the Premier League and all the Celtic boys have just done the treble Treble.

“So there’s a lot of positivity here and hopefully we can carry that on for the next couple of weeks. Hopefully we can get that winning mentality into the Scotland squad.”

McKenna shared in the overwhelming majority view the SFA got the selection of Alex McLeish’s successor spot on.

He said: “I was delighted. We all saw what he had done with Kilmarnock and we hope he can bring that to us. Killie punched above their weight and hopefully we can do that too.

“They were very organised and difficult to break down. If one thing wasn’t working you had to try a couple of different things.

“There were very few goals in the games between Kilmarnock and Aberdeen this year and obviously with the season they had his tactics clearly worked for them.

“Keeping clean sheets is a great platform to try to do well in campaigns and with that implemented hopefully we can do that in the games coming up.

“Everyone has been a lot sharper than I expected. Some boys have been off for three or four weeks but training has been sharp.”