Here was a striker snarling with intent, a player who looked ready to fulfil his promise and become a true world star.
Strachan has sought to maximise the attacking intent of players such as Steven Naismith, Shaun Maloney and Ikechi Anya, but also ensure that Scotland are not easily over-run.
Emerging evidence points to repeated days of match-play affecting the physical condition and tactical intent of players.
Now, alongside season-defining decisions on whether the ball has crossed the line, the intent of a player handling the ball and so on, he has to decide whether a player falling to the ground has been fouled, or has in fact "gone down like Jimmy Krankie".
That rule tries to address the intent of a player, a murky area that the N.F.L. is likely to avoid to make a rule clearer for officials.
Somehow, Everton remain "confident" that he will sign for them – on what basis is unclear – but with the player intent on leaving, they hope to reach a compromise somewhere between the asking price of £35m and their opening bid of £25.5m.
An example of a property for an entire scenario is a location, of a property for a statement is an intent of a player, and of a property for a virtual character is a name.
"Hopefully common sense will prevail again in the future and I for one hope not to see consistency in sendings-off and suspensions when the intent of a player is to win the ball.
Belichick is so intent on keeping players' minds from straying that after the Patriots lost a game in 2002, Green said, one player remarked to reporters that the team had lost its swagger.
Rutgers Coach Mike Rice has received letters of intent from three players for next season.
"The intent of the players is to stay; they don't want to be anywhere else.
