Alby wrote:
I wouldn’t say they’re awful to watch. It depends on your mindset... It’s not a good League. Nobody is more aware of that than the Scottish but I don't see the obsession with English people always moaning about it. They’re a third rate nation with a third rate League? What’s the surprise? But I can say with great confidence there are some players in Scotland who’d improve us. Jon McGinn at Hibs is better than Ben Reeves imo. Absolute baller. And Jason Cummings now at Forest would’ve been a class signing for us.
No, no, I'm
mourning not
moaning. I'm not criticising the Scottish game from any
superior English mindset. I have Scottish relations, spent many happy times up there, and have followed Rangers and Motherwell from afar for a number of years. My frustration with the current state of the domestic and international game is because I
want it to get better, and for the top-flight to get back to the higher standards of some previous eras. I've never compared it to the English Leagues, just to its own past. But it's all cyclical and hopefully there'll be another strong era soon.
You're right about McGinn and Cummings. Also Barrie McKay a good signing for Forest, while Celtic have Tierney and Dembele. And Pawlett and Nesbitt look good signings for us at league one level. So there's still
some talent there, but to a lesser level and amount than of old and that's all that I'm mourning.
Your point "I've never compared it to the English Leagues, just to its own past" is the key one for me, and why dragging the Welsh league in to the argument is irrelevent. The Welsh league has always been pony; the Scottish league used to be much better.
Scottish football is further proof that trickle down economics doesn't work and actively harms the majority.