Craig Levin would have been my choice.
Walter Smith? His claim to fame is the dominance of Rangers in the Scottish Premier during their bank-busting years: buy big and once your team is in place, buy your oppoenets players and let them rot in the reserves: Rangers won many a title by buying out the opposition. It was good management (it won didn't it?) but not of the kinf Scotland needs. After all: look at Smith's record once he went to Everton. Hardly impressive.
Strachan? He's funny. Was a great footballer. Manager? He's achieved little if anything.
Alex Fergusson wouldn't take it and wouldn't be right of it anyway: again, his talents are with a diferent calibre of player to what Scotland has to offer.
What we need is a manger who is well aware of the paupicy of Scottish talent and who has the ability to make the best of the youth we have. Lets not go for a glamorous name: instead go for a manager who's talents match the requirements.
Originally posted by ToeJOHN LAMBIE!
Craig Levin would have been my choice.
Walter Smith? His claim to fame is the dominance of Rangers in the Scottish Premier during their bank-busting years: buy big and once your team is in place, buy your oppoenets players and let them rot in the reserves: Rangers won many a title by buying out the opposition. It was good management (it won didn't it?) but n ...[text shortened]... ets not go for a glamorous name: instead go for a manager who's talents match the requirements.
Originally posted by shavixmirThis makes perfect sense if England were allowed to field all 55 great players against Scotland's 5 players.
Another way to look at it is this:
Scotland has a population of 5 million. England has a population of 55 million.
Say 1 in every million people is a great footballer. That means Scotland has 5 (half a team) and england has 55 (which is basically 5 teams worth).
That means, to equal matters out England should be beating Scotland by 10 points pe ...[text shortened]... tistically, Scotland wins every match!
Not bad for a small nation of drugs absuing alcoholics.
As it is, they are limited to 11 great (hah!) players, Scotland get their 5, plus 6 space fillers.
Result: England should always win by about 2:1. Anything less than this is a statistical win for Scotland 🙂