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The Scottish Football Association's board is likely to call a meeting for Monday to consider the post of the national manager.

BBC Sport believes it is a question of when and not if the SFA parts company with the German.

It follows three World Cup qualifiers without a win for Scotland and little prospect of reaching the 2006 finals.

SFA chief executive David Taylor has publicly insisted that there will be no immediate announcement on the manager's future.

However, an SFA board meeting planned for early next month has been brought forward to next week.

We're not in the market to be looking for a manager SFA chief executive David Taylor

BBC Sport believes that Taylor will retain the support of his board if he acts quickly to dismiss Vogts, but the decision has been delayed until president John McBeth, the former Clyde chairman, returns from business on Monday.

An SFA spokesman said of Vogts: "It was a pre-planned day off, he has not been told to stay away from Hampden and he is due back in the office next week."

Taylor had said earlier: "I spoke briefly to Berti after the game and I expect to speak to him over the next few days.

"We will sit down in the cold light of day and examine where we are and so that's what we are going to do.

"We're not in the market to be looking for a manager.

"Change for change's sake is never a great policy. Any change is on the basis that someone new would get more out of the resources at our disposal."

Taylor has always backed the German under intense criticism from the media during Vogts' two-and-a-half-year stewardship of the national team.

"The resources in terms of the depth of the squad we have available at the moment are very limited," he said.

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"It's a difficult job as not only Berti will tell you, but others that are involved in football management.

"We are three games into 10 and very few teams are knocked out after three games and we haven't been, but it would take some very, very good results to pull back from this position.

"It is arithmetically possible, but to start with two draws and one of them against Moldova and the other match being a defeat, it leaves us behind our competitors.

"It is obviously much more difficult now, but it is not impossible. Three matches in, it was not the start we were looking for.

"It was not the start the manager was looking for. The manager is as disappointed as anyone else."

Any sacking would require a substantial compensation package and could also result in the departure of Vogts' fellow German and Under-21 coach, Rainer Bonhof.