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So we are a NL club because we are a few hundred from the average of a L2 team? Do you know how averages work? And, as stated before, we had the 4th biggest attendance and budget in the league (out of 10 teams). As to whether or not this is impressive enough for Ross to get linked with bigger...

Those are NL clubs, St. MIrren (and others in the Championship) are not. If only you had realised this sooner you could have not wasted everyone's time. Show your working for this. St. Mirren don't even have the highest attendance in the league, we had a mid table budget.

Clearly, we lost to them at home (albeit in a friendly). This is a team that finished top of their group at WC 2014. Obviously, when analysing historical performance Costa Rica don't come close to Scotland but at the moment it certainly appears they are enjoying a blip. Fantastic country too...

So your intention was to waste my time? Hmm, interesting use of your time I guess. I see, however, the conclusion reached by other posters, based on the evidence, is that it is actually equivalent to L2 rather than National League. Indeed, the average attendance of most NL teams is less than...

Fair enough, per capita Glasgow is probably the most football mad place on earth so have contributed a great deal. There will be a bit of boys clubbing around it too (Fergie hiring Moyes as his replacement for example). As for your final point, you stated the nations were smaller or of similar...

Well, Serbia is quite a bit bigger than Scotland but anyway my point was about the quality of the football managers produced relative to population. Hence the statement below: "Historically, Scottish managers have always done very well relative to the size of the country they come from (only...

Really? You've been doing it for some time. And I expect you will post again after this. How many posts will you make before realising you haven't said anything? 5, 10? How much longer will you repeat yourself?

Yes, exactly. Not really, press in all major countries do similar to a certain extent. And it's especially focused on players who are second or third generation (or first) like Sterling. It's something France, the Netherlands and Germany all have an issue with. Similarly, in Brazil certain...

So....what point are you making? Are you actually saying anything? This post on the first page of the thread. I have comprehensively disproven that, as well as a few other misconceptions about Scottish football.

Yeah, it's a decent achievement, but it would certainly matter who they were playing before. With an easy route is far less impressive than beating Germany and Brazil to get to said QF. Brazil aren't the perennial failures, but they absolutely do go in to win every one and are bitterly...

Except population is a key factor in what the quality should be, whilst attendances are an indication of what it is. You may think population makes no difference to the quality of the domestic game. You'd be wrong. You might think high attendances mean nothing about the quality on show. This...

Do you expect them to come on here and post about how totally wrong they were in stating that Northern Ireland was a comparable level to the Scottish Championship? Of course not, people don't like admitting their ignorance - they will just slink off. It's only you that keeps posting long after...

How is thinking Lampard is intelligent a "hatred of everything English"?

Fair summary but Dick Advocaat wasn't manager the time - he left 7 years before and it was Walter Smith. Not at all, we're disproving a lot of the ignorance that surrounds Scottish football. You might not accept that and prefer to be ignorant, which is fine, most English fans struggle to...

Amusing because Rangers and Celtic are such awful clubs who are disliked by everyone in Scottish football. Failing against minnows is greeted with amusement, doing okay with a shrug, and doing well with a shrug (and occasional gritted praise). As for why Rangers are mocked - are you kidding...

Not sure England are really in a position to criticise the goalkepeers of other nations. He was POTY at his club last season, shouldn't be written off yet but there is decent competition for 3rd choice spot from SPFL keepers. A common misconception. Even discounting the OF entirely, Scotland...

Right, but from that list, the region where football is most prominent in England (versus the whole of Scotland) the number of professional teams is still quite a few higher in Scotland. Some bigger clubs sure, but it's not an apples to apples to comparison. A better comparison would be...

Not really, you think there is no way you can differentiate if Steven Hawking is more intelligent than Mike Tyson until you meet them. And you'll never stop posting that this is a valid statement so why bother? An indicator that Lampard is more intelligent than Gerrard is his far superior...

What's the overall population of that region, though? You can't really make a comparison otherwise. Certainly, as metropolitan areas Liverpool and Manchester won't compare to Glasgow. On the whole Scotland as a nation is far more interested in football than England (and, indeed, pretty much...

What proof would you want? Hearts and Hibs have a few players in and around the Scotland team whereas there was a lot of fans unhappy with Mulgrew, captain of a side who was promoted and who made team of the year, making the squad. Players from League 1 making it into the national side is the...