Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Kua whakawhiwhia ki a Matt Ritchie te karanga ohorere ki a Gordon Strachan's Scotland squad mo te upoko takirua o tenei marama ki a Northern Ireland me Gibraltar. I whanau te 25-tau-tau i Gosport engari he tohu mo te Dark Blues na tana papa i whanau mai i Scotland a Alex. Kua whakahokia mai te kaikawe o Fulham a Ross McCormack me te kaikawe o Blackburn a Jordan Rhodes ki te kapa 26 o Strachan - engari kaore he waahi mo te tokorua hou o Celtic a Stuart Armstrong me Gary Mackay-Steven. Kua whakawhiwhia a Matt Ritchie ki tana karanga tuatahi ki te kapa Scotland. Ko te 25-tau-tawhito tetahi o nga 26 o Gordon Strachan's squad; rite ki a Fulham's Ross McCormack (tuarua maui) I tiimata a Ritchie i tana umanga i Portsmouth engari i utua ano ia ki Dagenham & Redbridge, Notts County me Swindon i mua i te hainatanga pumau mo nga Robins i te 2011. I neke ia i nga tau e rua i muri mai i tana whakawhiti ki Bournemouth a kua whai waahi nui ia i te taha o Eddie Howe kua eke ki te tihi o te SkyBet Championship. E 11 ngā piro a Ritchie mō te kapa Cherries i tēnei wā, tae atu ki te rua i te wikitoria 5-1 ki Fulham i te rua wiki ki muri. Ka tūtaki a Strachan Scotland ki Ireland ki te Raki i tētahi tukinga hoa me tētahi tukinga tohu ki Gibraltar i te mutunga o Maehe. Ka whawhai a Scotland ki a Northern Ireland i te whakataetae hoa i Hampden i te wiki i te Wenerei i mua i te manaaki i a Gibraltar i te Rātapu, Poutu-te-rangi 29. Ko te taha o Strachan te tuatoru i te Roopu D me nga tohu e whitu mai i nga keemu e wha, i te wa ko Gibraltar - te mema hou o UEFA - kei raro kaore he tohu mai i te maha o nga whakataetae, kaore i taea te eke ki te whaainga kotahi i te wa e 21 ana.
Kua karangahia e Gordon Strachan te winger a Matt Ritchie ki tana kapa Scotland. Ko te tangata 25 tau te pakeke o Bournemouth e tohu ana mā tōna pāpā a Alex. E 11 ngā piro a Ritchie mō Bournemouth i tēnei wā. Ka whawhai a Scotland ki a Northern Ireland me Gibraltar i te mutunga o Maehe.