Quote Originally Posted by Francis_begbie_HFC View Post
jardi where its went wrong on the producing of scottish players is defo as a result of the grass roots being killed off ,when i grew up every school had a football team ,i played for locharbriggs primary in a league of 14 schools from our region ,no primary schools leagues nowadays ,also secondary school i played for the highschool that was also quite a big league ,no secondary school leagues either in region ,thats where the sfa need to start ,sfa and the scottish government need to set up a network of school leagues again that way it will in time increase the class of scottish players that come through to see us once again getting to european finals like the great aberdeen and dundee united teams of the 80s .full of scotsmen ,not forgetting the celtic side of 67 that had every player within a 5 mile radius of celtic park all knowing and played against eachother in school days .
I was the same in that every free waking hour I was out playing football until you couldn't see the ball due to failing light. Reality is that these days are well gone and they will never return as society has become too soft as there are easier less strenuous options involving technology/screens which seemingly is much more attractive to most of the youth of today. Bobby Lennox was the exception for the Celtic side coming from Largs.