Have you tried watching dutch football?? Next to the SPL the Eredivisie is one of the poorest leagues in Europe... ffs Steve McLaren is on the verge of winning the title there with FC Twente :025:
Our football's got no worse, if Mowbray hadn't made a c*ck up of the money Celtic gave him then we don't even have this conversation. Robbie Keane is playing for celtic, which is just as, if not more impressive than Gascoigne or Laudrup.... and Larsson wasn't bought at his peak he was picked up from some 2nd rate swedish team for peanuts.
I think the best way to gauge our league is by looking at the players that have been bought by the EPL and compete on a regular basis...
Gordon (Sunderland)
Hutton (Sunderland)
McFadden (Birmingham)
Ferguson (Birmingham)
O'Connor (Birmingham)
Berra (Wolves)
Fletcher (Burnley)
not to mention the likes of Dorrans and Adams in the Championship
...stick them back into the SPL and we make it a much more competitve league.
We are still producing the same talent but we don't have the money to compete with the likes of Championship clubs so they are leaving Scotland early.
There definitely has to be changes to the division though, at the moment with such a small division and only 1 promotion spot from the first division the bottom 6 sides are playing with a constant fear of relegation because they have such a limited oppertunity to get back... you only need to look around us at Dundee, Dunfermline & Partick. It's a win or die attitude from the first game of the season which leaves no space to try and play football...
if the SPL is increased and the promotion places increased then you would have more variety in managers, players and most of all standard in football