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Livingston vs Motherwell - 9th April
YassinMoutaouakil replied to Phillips455's topic in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
Are Livi in financial bother? Why are you all so arsed about finishing Top Six? -
In the space of a year we've went from literally never scoring equalisers to needing one every week. Encouraging amount of spirit in the squad though, I still have no fucking idea what Alexander has been playing at for the last three months but at least he doesn't appear to have lost the dressing room.
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Like most folk my age who are too young to remember 98, this is the first genuinely good Scotland team I've ever experienced, apart from brief and fleeting moments under McLeish and Strachan. Aside from that, for the two decades I've been aware of the Scottish national football team, they've generally been shite. How did this happen? How did we manage to completely drop off a cliff from 1998 onwards from being perennial qualifiers before? Was it just a regression to the mean after a few decades of overachievment? Did we just stop producing good players randomly? Were we gradually getting worse but nobody noticed until it was too late? I've read a few Soccernomics-y explanations about the fall of Communism introducing about a dozen more countries that we had to compete with for qualification spaces, which makes at least partial sense to me, but you'd think there must be more to it than that.
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I think this is fair and it's definitely been blown out of proportion a bit but it still is something I've got a bee in my bonnet about. I could almost accept Slattery disappearing from the squad and would probably assume he'd done something grossly unacceptable to merit it. As it is it feels like our (IMO) best midfielder has been demoted to the bench for either petty personal reasons or another one of GA's weird footballing decisions. I'm leaning entirely into baseless speculation here but the "official" AGM version of events strikes me as a half truth from Alexander at best.