Correct. In that case youth development should be taken as being a write-off regards them. I've been hearing noise from them since immediately after the Argentina 78 debacle. During that tournament they showed they couldn't run a menage so they're best ignored. No one can argue that whatever attempts they've made in the last 40 years have done anything good or even something approaching competent. They, as an institution, are useless dicks.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
That would leave the govt or some private money to provide the means to improve the game. Private money people lack all altruism these days unless its attached to a tax-break scheme/scam ao nothing doing there. There are no Carnegies around.
I don't think the govt are all that interested in football or even understands that it can be a positive thing in a countries culture. A nation wide programme would produce players, education in terms of health and just let kids let of steam. Don't think they have appetite to get involved though.
In short I'm not too optimistic.
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12-07-2018 06:06 PM #331
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12-07-2018 06:09 PM #332This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Maybe the Tartan Army get the team they deserve. Decades of mismanagement and dismal failure only enlivened by the occasional shock result against one of the world giants. If Scotland were a club side the fans would have been demanding change years ago. The Tartan Army were content to watch mediocre pish on the park as long as they were the centre of attention off it.
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12-07-2018 06:13 PM #333
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The only private individual I can think is Tom Hunter & there is no way he would get involved in the current set up, as for the Govt they don't give damn about football or sport in general unless there is a photo opportunity involved. What legacy did Scotland get from the Glasgow Commonwealth games ? Answers on a postcard.
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12-07-2018 06:25 PM #336This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote45 AND RISING
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12-07-2018 06:56 PM #337This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteEvery gimmick hungry yob,
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They at least have the genuine potential to improve and to go on and not just compete with the best in the world but realistically win an actual tournament.
Feeling quietly smug from the comfort of your amchair in Scotland is all very well, but what do you advocate our national team can do to get anywhere near the present England side in terms of quality?
What do you advocate our national team can do to not just comfortably qualify for the world cup (as they did) but get to the semi-finals (as they did) of the next World Cup?
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12-07-2018 09:53 PM #340This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
You do know this isn't a political forum, right?Last edited by Big_Franck; 12-07-2018 at 09:55 PM.
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I do apologise.
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12-07-2018 10:32 PM #345
I'll stick my head up in response to the posters who think we should all support Scotland. Hibs football fan, not a Scotland football fan.
They're different sports. In the same way that I'm not a Scotland rugby, badminton, cricket, rowing or elephant polo fan.
Although I am always happy to see a rangers, celtc or hearts player/manager lose at anything. I don't know many folk that are Scotland fans - in that they go to the games - and the few I do know, I don't particularly like. I can think of one guy in particular, big hearts and Scotland fan, and I enjoy winding him up whenever hearts or Scotland lose so to that extent I suppose I enjoy it more when the team loses than when they win.
I also think my view is probably coloured by the SFA/Scottish football media being so beholden to the old firm. In general if the Scottish football media/SFA/old firm are 'For' something, I'll be 'Against' it.
I don't understand why Hibs are expected to release our players to the national team. Why are our 'assets' exposed to the risk of injury - and the even bigger risk of tapping up by the old firm dominated set-up - without recompense? Club involvement with the national game should be entirely voluntary. I don't pay my gate money for Hibs to develop players for international football. There are posters here (even in this thread) who are against the Hibs women's team getting any resources from the club - that's exactly how I feel about the international team getting resources from the club (I'm pro the Hibs women's team though).
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13-07-2018 08:29 AM #346
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England got lucky with the group draw they got, the half of the draw they were in after qualification, and the state of the teams that they met when they got there. When they came up against Croatia they encountered superior players and came up short. I don't see how you can dispute this. Unless this is all about something else than football.
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13-07-2018 09:45 AM #350
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Absolute rubbish. They didn't blow it - they did their best and it wasn't enough, that's not blowing it.
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While i agree that they surpassed the public expectations before the tournament (mainly because their recent efforts in 2014 and 2016 have been utter embarrassments) the idea that are heroic underdogs is laughable. They’ve had a good tournament but they blew a massive opportunity.
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As a fan of Hibs and Scotland I'd like to think I know a thing or 2 about blowing it. That's not what they did the other night.
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13-07-2018 10:25 AM #355
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13-07-2018 10:30 AM #356
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That's my point exactly. It was a great opportunity with the easy draws/route to semi etc. but they were not quite up to it and that is definitely not blowing it. It's called going as far in a competition as you are able.
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13-07-2018 10:31 AM #357
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How much bigger than Croatia is Russia?
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