Around 5,000 tickets sold for the glamour friendly with Canada at Easter Road tomorrow, Hampden half full at best for the visit of Slovenia on Sunday.
In the meantime club football takes a break at the time in the season when issues are building up and excitement high across the game.
The advances of international football over the last decade or two have eroded into the club fixture list with fans left at a loose end and wondering what to do with their weekend.
This break is the only one in the second half of the season, it’s much much worse when the new season kicks off with three batches of international matches between September and December.
As FIFA attempts to extend their influence with a 64 team World Cup planned the every day club supporter is suffering.
For the clubs some will welcome the break, a bit of a breather won’t do Celtic any harm after three off par performances which haven’t harmed their trophy prospects in any way.
GORDON STRACHAN
With all respect, he delivered three-in-a-row but his time as a manager was up when he left Celtic in 2009.
It never happened for him at Middlesbrough but he left off his own accord, one of the few managers to admit that it wasn’t happening and not hang on for a pay out.
As Scotland manager he is overly cautious, few players develop and improve with a complete fascination for players from the English Championship.
His prime years were a decade ago, steering Celtic into the last 16 of the Champions League, since then it’s been steadily downhill.
INJURIES
It’s 13 years since John Kennedy’s career was effectively ended by a knee injury picked on his Scotland debut- a ‘friendly’ against Romania.
Sure injuries can happen at any time but with players in unfamiliar surroundings away from their usual team-mates injuries are more likely to happen.
Club managers and medical teams dread getting a text through to tell them that one of their players is crocked. Add in the wait to discover the extent of the injury and the complications of travel and it’s a hassle clubs could do without.
FIXTURE LISTS
Scotland will play England on June 10, a month before Celtic start their most important games of the season- Champions League qualifiers.
In 2014 Fraser Forster had less than a week down time between finishing at the World Cup Finals in Brazil and starting Champions League qualifiers with Celtic.
It’s farcical the extent that the fixture list extends into the summer, for the six Celtic players in this squad being fresh for Champions League qualifiers is far more important than a likely defeat from England in the second week of June.