The Widow's Son 399 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 I often wonder will there ever be another golden age of Scottish football. Top European clubs coming to Glasgow to play in top tournaments, the finest Scottish players facing up against the finest continental stars, big crowds. Perhaps not. To think that in 1972, Glasgow had two European semi-finals in the same night. Makes me hungry for the early 1960's when we had a very strong team that could compete with the best of them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTMLivo 149 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Never in the current football world. Unless the Sky money stops were going to have to continue to scrape by with what we have. Maybe if a British league is brought and we get a fair share of the money then maybe. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMRFC 4,851 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Well seeing as the biggest club in England can pay £89m for one player and it be nothing to them and all money can be recouped in shirt sales and then the biggest team in Scotland would struggle to pay £1m for a player, then I would guess no. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanoli 4,628 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Fuck no. Damage control until it dies. Rangers and Celtic will go on when football reforms somewhere down the line, we might actually have a 'golden' age for the two clubs, but Scottish football won't survive. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broxi 11,683 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Quite possibly. So much changes can change over time. Football today is a lot different to football 30 years ago. However something will have to change, right now football isn't moving forward together. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. If we get a hefty Sky deal at some point in the future with real money pumped in then maybe. However at this point it looks unlikely. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CF2 WINNIE 1,006 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Scottish Football is finished. 6 games for the champions to get into the champions league group stages only going to get worse. We could have been a lot better off but diddy clubs wanted setanta money rather than thinking with their heads. Taking sky out was what fucked us monetary wise.then sky came back and picked up the pieces for pennies. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.T.G 10,773 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 See if we qualified for the Champions league for 6 season straight not spending any of the money we still couldn't afford Pogba's fee and wages Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangersMedia 35,961 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Something has to change. Some of the biggest and most famous clubs in Europe, cannot compete due to simple geography. In Scotland we need to compete within the same enviroment as the English clubs.... same tax laws, same broadcasters, etc. Even if the SFA did a fantastic job, we would still be pissing in the wind. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUEDIGNITY 33,715 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Absolutely no chance, would you give millions, sorry billions to crazy jealous haters who tried to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs ? Naw ! Me neither ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
minstral 5,375 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Best days have gone which is sad, the only thing i can say is, that i was part of the good days, and seen some great teams, and days when we held our own against some of the best teams in Europe. In my opinion money has killed football, as gone are the days players signed because the loved our club. All the love now is the money which is sad. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BridgeIsBlue 66,654 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 No. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Godfather 72,674 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Not a chance. Scottish football is dying on it's arse and if it wasn't for us and the taigs it would be already dead. It will limp on until the day something changes and we can get to fuck out this league. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill8972 479 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Not in my lifetime, but hey, I'm an auld bear. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NABear 11 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Money controls the game nowadays and its in England where the money is, don't see it happening any time soon Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cushynumber 25,178 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 After the nuclear fire, football will be the last thing on peoples minds.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaddistonKnight 1,572 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Course not. Diet, lack of application, drink culture, lack of finance, arrogance when you are only actually slightly better than the shit around you, not listening to people who know better than you. All point towards us failing time and time again. Some on here actually reckon its acceptable for a professional player to "have a wee drink, they're only young lads". A fucking nonsensical way to look at a job were your fitness is paramount, an approach which any professional athlete would treat with the disdain it deserves. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inigo 32,676 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Nope. Not unless something unforeseen and pretty remarkable happens. The Sky Sports, The EPL and The CL ensure we're kept where little nations belong. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianferguson 2,619 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Financial disparity ensures Scotland has no longer a league of any credibility. This won't ever change unless the old firm either capitalise on the very attractive OLD FIRM games TV potential or are invited into a different league. I won't hold my breath on either so we'll just have to content ourselves with a backwater league . Ps The playstations and x box's have also ensured we'll struggle to produce home grown talent in anything like the numbers of the past. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudrup1984 25,100 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Unlikely but not impossible. Financially we will never compete but money doesn't always mean better. You look at the amount of money spunked in the EPL and I genuinely struggle to see the value or improvement in the majority of teams. Yes teams are spending money like no one's business but they're very rarely getting better as a team. So much money is being spent on average players. Now I'm not saying any of our team would walk into EPL teams but I just feel the overall standard and product of the EPL has declined significantly and has been deteriorating for a long time. Even the stars of the EPL are not quite what they once were. We have a heck of a long way and it won't be easy but I don't see why we can't aim for the last 16 on a regular basis or extended European runs. Who knows maybe one day something special can happen. Good organisation, management, work ethic and a bit of luck go a long way. I think to get better value and to enhance our chances though we need to broaden our scouting to a global scale. There is so much talent out there for great value that I think we are missing out on. I know the farcical scouting situation the new team inherited has been addressed significantly in the short term but I feel if we were to grow our scouting network globally we would reap the rewards. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Reynolds 3,359 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 No Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
corkinator 611 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 the country has a population of 5 million, no one outside of it gives a shit about our football. this is just a slow death, Scotland will never compete they was it used to up until about 10 years ago. ITS DEAD, leave it be. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
centenarystand 2,229 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 In recent weeks Scottish teams have been beaten in European competition by teams from Gibraltar, Luxembourg and Malta. Just a wild guess but id say Scotland is a million miles away from a golden age. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muz333 361 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 The disparity between what we can afford and what the EPL can afford will only grow larger. I think one day Rangers and Celtic will join a newly formed league and the rest of Scottish football will then die without being able to hold onto our coat tails. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billscott 2,463 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 no chance of that happening apart from the money mentioned in other threads the structure in scotland is all wrong firstly the wrong people are running the game here. i am not being anti english but why are 2 english guys running our game when their track records were dismal secondly we need to get back to what made us good boys playing for the school team then in the afternoon or next day playing for the boys clubs. all that has died now we have academies where boys play their own age group in a non competetive fashion. young guys have to be playing to win all the time and if they are good enough then they got thrown in against older and experienced players Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
harlands plater 17,065 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 17 minutes ago, billscott said: no chance of that happening apart from the money mentioned in other threads the structure in scotland is all wrong firstly the wrong people are running the game here. i am not being anti english but why are 2 english guys running our game when their track records were dismal secondly we need to get back to what made us good boys playing for the school team then in the afternoon or next day playing for the boys clubs. all that has died now we have academies where boys play their own age group in a non competetive fashion. young guys have to be playing to win all the time and if they are good enough then they got thrown in against older and experienced players Was Liewell not behind Regan's appointment? Sure there were some links between them exposed a while back. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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