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Originally Posted by Pogue Mahone
Oh, one last point (and apologies for banging on and on in this thread) does anyone think the performance of the Scottish national team, in the WC qualifiers is probably linked to the young lads at Rangers and Celtic playing Champion's League football on a regular basis?
By all accounts, Hutton was quite shite at Rangers up until a couple of seasons ago. But Rangers were able to stick with him and he managed to get some exposure to football at the highest level. Sure enough, a couple of seasons later, he's blossomed as a footballer and is marauding down the wing against Italy.
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don't apologize. I think this is a great thread because it gets to really a large number of important issues in English football -- and, because they are issues that are very hard to think about, it's nice to have a thread to discuss them, bounce ideas off one another, etc.
Can you quantify, even in some vague way, the impact you think some of its players playing CL football has had on the Scottish ntl team? My first instinct is that it's one of those things that looks like it matters but, if you were to break down all the factors about what makes a player good, it wouldn't loom very large.