rbr 1,247 Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 remember it wasn't that long ago when we were the only team getting c/l football that we had a much better team and squad , yet continually getting horsed by Auxerre , grasshoppers , strasbourg etc etc etc back then NIAR was the only game in town , how times have changed 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super_Ally 0 Posted August 28, 2009 Author Share Posted August 28, 2009 Asked in another thread if Hearts win at Dinamo would help at all. Obviously not a great deal, but with most teams getting papped out we need all the points we can get. for this season, Scotland has so far aquired 9 points. Rangers, who haven't kicked a ball yet have 4 of those points, over 44%. The others have contributed; Motherwell 2.0 Falkirk 1.0 Celtic 1.0 Hearts 1.0 Aberdeen 0.0 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super_Ally 0 Posted September 18, 2009 Author Share Posted September 18, 2009 Thought the OP was worthy of a wee bump considering this European midweek. When will the rest of Scottish football start pulling their weight? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super_Ally 0 Posted September 18, 2009 Author Share Posted September 18, 2009 Update of post 12: Rangers 5.0 Motherwell 2.0 Falkirk 1.0 Hearts 1.0 Celtic 1.0 Aberdeen 0.0 Total 10. Average just 1.66. Thats what gets added to the countries coefficient so far this year due to the number of teams who competed but barely contributed. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazza_8 233 Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 When will the rest of Scottish football start pulling their weight? To be fair, we did pish last season and Celtic were in the CL group stages. We got to the UEFA Cup Final in Madchester and so did Celtic in 2003. I'd like to see our co-efficient points compared to Celtics since 2003. The rest of the teams are pish, I'll agree with you there. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norris Cole 0 Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 You have to laugh. Rangers players get abused playing for Scotland by fans of clubs who don't provide any players for the national team. Rangers players get abused when they play in Europe by fans of clubs who ruin the coefficient. Only in Scotland. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super_Ally 0 Posted September 18, 2009 Author Share Posted September 18, 2009 To be fair, we did pish last season and Celtic were in the CL group stages. We got to the UEFA Cup Final in Madchester and so did Celtic in 2003. I'd like to see our co-efficient points compared to Celtics since 2003. The rest of the teams are pish, I'll agree with you there. Check the OP mate. Takes into account the same 5 year period UEFA use for ranking teams. So even accounting for the disaster of Kaunus we've still contributed over 50% of the total coefficient points for Scotland. When you consider Kaunus the numbers are even more damning for the rest of Scotland, not us. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexscottislegend 2,090 Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 remember it wasn't that long ago when we were the only team getting c/l football that we had a much better team and squad , yet continually getting horsed by Auxerre , grasshoppers , strasbourg etc etc etc back then NIAR was the only game in town , how times have changed A very good point. When we had the likes of Laudrup and Gascoigne we under-achieved big-time, much more proportionally than now. I also remember a bad defeat by AEK Athens. Not quite sure what all this proves though. Was Europe not important to us then? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super_Ally 0 Posted September 19, 2009 Author Share Posted September 19, 2009 A very good point. When we had the likes of Laudrup and Gascoigne we under-achieved big-time, much more proportionally than now. I also remember a bad defeat by AEK Athens. Not quite sure what all this proves though. Was Europe not important to us then? What might the Walter of now do with the team of then? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UCF2008 0 Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 A very good point. When we had the likes of Laudrup and Gascoigne we under-achieved big-time, much more proportionally than now. I also remember a bad defeat by AEK Athens. Not quite sure what all this proves though. Was Europe not important to us then? I think for the majority of the time, based on our dominance of the domestic scene, we were just too cocky going into Europe. Our best players failed to make their mark in the Champions League on too many occasions. We did manage the odd great result in between the dismal failures, but overall we were tactically naive to say the least. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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