Wednesday 3 June 2015 18:38, UK
Mark McGhee confirmed that Stuart McCall has returned to his Scotland coaching duties this week after overseeing Rangers' failed attempt to secure promtion to the Premiership.
Rangers were beaten 6-1 on aggregate by Motherwell last weekend - and will have to settle for at least one more season in the Championship.
McCall took over at Ibrox in March until the end of the season but - with his club future yet to be decided - he has turned his attentions to international matters ahead of the Sky Live friendly against Qatar on Friday.
McGhee, Gordon Strachan's No 2 in the national set-up, said: "Stuart joined up and he is in good fettle. I don't think he is going back (to Ibrox) before the game on Friday, I think he is here for the duration although I can't answer that (if he is or not).
"It is good to have him back. Gordon and I discussed it on Monday, we felt we were just stretched a little in the last game, even as something as simple as the warm-up. I ended up taking both groups - the players starting and players not starting - in the warm-up. It was not ideal. It is better with three of us than two."
The match against Qatar will serve as a warm-up for the crucial European Qualifier qualifier against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin on Saturday June 13, and McGhee does not envisage having to do too much work with the players, unlike in his own day.
'Mentality'
The former Celtic and Aberdeen striker said: "I usually finished on cup final day, I have to say, which was always around the time of my birthday - and then we would have 12 weeks of drinking, but nowadays the boys have a totally different mentality.
"Look at the top players, Barcelona have a game on Saturday (Champions League final) and they will be back training and playing again at the beginning of July.
"It is the nature of the modern game. It is almost all-year round and they have to accept that is the case and have a totally different mentality from the time when we finished on the 20th of May and started again on the 13 of July, without doing anything in between.
"It is not like that anymore. I can see that (change of mentality), absolutely. Their attitude towards their own health and fitness is slightly different to what it was with us."
