DARREN: WE NEED CHANGE IN OUR ATTITUDE.

Byline: GORDON WADDELL

DARREN FLETCHER has warned his Scotland team-mates they're not good enough to think they can ever simply turn up and win.

The stand-in skipper was proud of how they stood up to be counted against Macedonia and Holland - but insists they failed boss George Burley when it mattered most.

And he reckons after a train wreck of a campaign that created as many headlines off the park as it did on it, they need a clean slate and attitude for the start of the next qualifying.

He said: "The incidents and situations that happened didn't help but we need to makes sure they're in the past now.

"We need a settled squad and to make sure everyone in the dressing room wants to be here and play for the boss.

"I look at the last two performances and see the way the players responded to criticism of the manager.

"He took the brunt of the criticism when we should lose as a team. It's not just the manager who loses. At times we've failed him. We've been disappointing.

Fighting "It's no good turning it on in the last couple of games - that needs to be there from the beginning of a group.

"In games like the ones away in Macedonia and Norway we need that performance level.

"As a country we can't go out going through the motions because we won't get results. We need to be up for it and fighting like we did against Holland."

Fletcher, 25, knows how far quality can take you from his day job at Manchester United.

But he said: "Sometimes character and attitude are more important. And these are things we need to have in every game.

"We're not as talented as nations like Holland. But we showed if you come in with the right will to win and determination we can match them.

"Whatever it takes to produce that we need to learn it quick or else these campaigns are just going to keep coming and going.

"Every player has to look at this campaign and learn it's going to take games like Wednesday and last weekend all the time if we're going to qualify for finals."

Fletcher (below) has clocked what's needed and he knows the Tartan Army have too. He said: "The crowd have been fantastic.

"There's been a lot of negativity and we've disappointed them with some performances.

"But the way they came out in the past two games, they're a credit to themselves and good to us.

"We've failed them again by not qualifying but we appreciate their effort so much."