scottish footy

Scottish football is poor technically. Craig Levein said it best when he described it as a siege mentality of 'us against them' and this is represented on the pitch when you see 20 players all chasing the ball. At times it's like a school game when you see everyone just running after the ball, leaving huge gaps all over the pitch and having no tactical sense or awareness at all.

There have been a few occasions when teams have played to a higher technical level and punched above their weight, such as Hearts finishing 2nd in 05/06 and Motherwell finishing 3rd last season.

The league structure badly needs reviewing as we don't need 4 leagues in Scotland. And the split is a stupid idea - every season apart from last year the team finishing 7th have more points than the team finishing 6th.

On the same note, refereeing is appalling in Scotland too (something I thought would have been mentioned already). At one stage (pre 2000) we used to have some really good refs who were not afraid of making the big decisions and own up to any mistakes they made. Now we see big mistakes being made regularly by refs and there is no system in place to demote them to lower levels for a few weeks (as is the case with the FA).

On a final note, there is a huge gap not only in terms of league standards but footballing standards between SPL/SFL and our European counterparts. The Infirm would not last a season in the EPL!!! Besides wouldn't they have to start at the lower tiers in English football? Do you think Ibrox or Celtic Park would be full to capacity to watch games against Aldershot? Both teams might even struggle in the Championship as the quality of opposition they would face weekly would be far greater than anything ICT, Falkirk and Hamilton can offer.

TL;DR Scottish football poor

i agree mate i go and see stirling albion and i got to say the refs u get there r shit no other word for them, and the league system is shit aswell in my opinion all scottish teams from highland, east of scotland and junior leagues should be involved in the league somehow

i dislike celtic because of the way Gordon Strachan etc, take decent young players from the other teams and destroy their careers.

Derek Riordan, Chris Killen the list goes on. it sickened me wen i saw riordan get shit on the way he did it was disgusting.

I'd like to see Scott Brown and Aiden McGeady in the premiership, they look like tidy players whenever I've seen them play..

scott brown is possibly the best player ive seen from my country in the last few years he is fucking intense. derek riordan could have been the same.......but the bright lights of the tims was too much for his young passionate heart lmao

JohnnyChrist Wrote:scott brown is possibly the best player ive seen from my country in the last few years he is fucking intense.

He's a tough bastard too! Do you remember when that black player tried breaking his leg in the champions league a year or two ago? Dunno how he carried on playing!

JohnnyChrist Wrote:scott brown is possibly the best player ive seen from my country in the last few years he is fucking intense. derek riordan could have been the same.......but the bright lights of the tims was too much for his young passionate heart lmao

This is a fact. Derek Riordan is a fucking wankstain. My family and his family grew up in the same area years ago and he's always been a little dickhead... thinking he's above everyone, which is why he is now banned from every nightclub in Edinburgh.

he only thinks that because he was!!!!! best player to come out of Hearts or Hibs in recent years. better than Berra,Driver,Neilson, etc etc

So you think he has the right to walk into a nightclub and start causing trouble? Just because he's the "Almighty Derek Fucking Riordan"? I know from personal experience that the guy is a fucking tossbag. Can you also tell me how you can compare him to Berra, Driver and Neilson when all the players mentioned play completely different positions? The player with the biggest reputation and the biggest transfer fee to leave the SPL came right out of the Hearts team.... Craig Gordon.

yea ok sorry i guess the personal level is a bit gay to him, wanker is a wanker, but hes still a cracking footballer.

and biggest fee, but not the best. hes been found out by the premier league lol, and i rate msgregor now as Scotlands number one