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I, like many who regularly attend Scotland games, long for my team to be more successful. A team GB wouldn’t be my team and I wouldn’t care less how successful they were, and international football would mean nothing to me without Scotland.

I can just see thousands of Scotland fans, kilted up, belting out the proclaimers and “we’ll be coming” to get to the ground and observe god save the Queen before getting right behind an England team under the guise of team GB.

I’m not saying you’re demanding I agree with it. But the notion that it’s a fix for our long for success is ludicrous.
Yeah, I get that. Of course. I've been to European Championships and World Cups with Scotland myself (many years ago!). I won't deny, though, that there was always a bit of a disconnect there compared to supporting Hibs and, I guess, an element of complacency in the sense that we regularly qualified back then. Since then, as the years of exile from tournaments started to mount up I began to feel that for a lot of fans (especially those who have never seen us qualify for anything) the whole kilted/Proclaimers/we'll be coming aspect you mention was becoming a more exciting focus than whether we actually achieved anything on the park - which is fine if all you're really after is a fun/boozy day out/trip abroad. The sad fact is, though, that we've not been "coming" for 20-plus years (although the World Cup exile will SURELY end if the plans for a 48-team tournament come to pass!) and my opinion of the Scotland national team, and the way it's run, has lowered with each passing year - hence my perhaps dispassionate view of how international success might be best achieved. I don't think it's a ludicrous notion, just not one that would ever be acceptable to those for whom going to Scotland games remains important.