We must learn from past mistakes and move on, says Scotland captain Darren Ferguson

By Roddy Forsyth Published: 9:00PM GMT 02 March 2010

On message: Scotland captain Darren Fletcher faces the press Photo: PA

However, nobody in Leveins patrol has larger equates to to watch bar colleagues come and go from general avocation with a some-more sad eye than the Scotland captain.

"The World Cup is the apex and a lot of my team-mates will be there, but not Scotland after a unsatisfactory campaign," pronounced the 26-year-old Manchester United midfield player. "While we are examination it we will feel unhappy not to be there and blank out on such an occasion.

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"Ill be wishing England well Im not the sort not to, since the not the approach I was brought up and wishing a lot of my own team-mates well, too.

"I know what Scotland are able of we usually need to put a unchanging run together. Whenever a physical education instructor has finished well with us, similar to Walter Smith or Alex McLeish, he has left on to a big bar job. It would have been good to have one after another a run with them, since we gained movement with them.

"Under George Burley, it patently didnt unequivocally occur for us, but this is a new begin right away underneath a new manager, and I idea ruin be in it for the prolonged haul. If we grasp things and get a run going, hopefully no one will come seeking for him and ruin stay with us."

Burley was frequency in the pursuit when it became clear that a coterie between the Scotland patrol was not prone to accede to him apply oneself a organisation larger in series than the Rangers party of Kris Boyd, Lee McCulloch, Barry Ferguson and Allan McGregor, who finished their feelings well known or were in conclusion burning out but Levein has already finished his symbol on the stream group, according to Fletcher.

"He put over how most being Scotland physical education instructor equates to to him and how a little things that happened in the last debate cant occur again," pronounced the captain. "He wants everybody to be together, and has brought in new rules.

"We all need to pull in the right direction. He wants to put together a Scotland group that the fans will instruct to come and see and that will be tough to beat.

"I think he wants to emphasize what needs to be finished off the representation as most as on it, in sequence to take us forward. Everyone knows about sure things that happened in the last campaign, but the idealisation idea is to have the group successful on the pitch."

The freedom postulated by Levein to Boyd, Ferguson, McCulloch and McGregor has widely separated the fans their reply to Boyd tonight will be a underline of the dusk but Fletcher has no qualms about welcoming any or all of them behind to the fold. "I know these guys privately and I know that they are good guys," he said.

"OK, may be things have happened that they instruct they had rubbed in a opposite approach but I know that they are good characters and that they give the place a lift. So I do acquire them back, I think they merit a second chance, and are good players.

"Maybe they will sense from the past, and think that may be they should have finished things a opposite way, but we need those players to assistance us validate and they competence be an e.g. to alternative players in the squad, younger guys, to whom they can say: "Look, I chose that option, but it competence not have been the most appropriate one. So dont do that.

"You can usually sense from the past. If you do it any alternative approach it is usually going to be a hindrance. We all need to be together since we all instruct to grasp success for Scotland."