10-09-2015, 03:59 PM
(Edited 10-09-2015, 03:59 PM by shaun.lawson.)
(10-09-2015, 03:49 PM)Alan Partridge Wrote: Vogts had to clear the decks and start from scratch after being left with nothing from Browns time.
Exact same is going to happen once strachan and his pals are away.
Brown was under the same pressure as any other Scotland coach. Fuck building for the future; get results now. Hence his fear/ultra-conservatism towards the end of his time. Why would the same pressure not apply to any future Scotland coach? It will. That's a problem.
Wales are being cited on this thread as a success story. That they happen to have one of the greatest players in the world is pure chance; they're not doing anything fundamental that Scotland aren't. And until this tournament, Wales had qualified for nothing since 1958, contended for qualification just once a decade, and had been absolutely useless - just God awful - for a decade.
Had a Scotland coach overseen the results and performances which John Toshack did, he'd have been gone after one campaign. Anyone talking about "foundations" or "the future" would've been laughed at given how pathetic Wales' results under him were. Yet under a successor, now look. And the only reason he was able to lay certain foundations was expectations were literally zero; nothing was expected of him.
Rugby is Wales' national sport. Football only gets a look-in when the national team (or to be fair, Swansea) are doing well. But football is Scotland's national sport, meaning expectations will probably never end up half as low as they were in Wales.