Having Great Scottish Players Is More Important Than Great Scottish Managers

 Having Great Scottish Players Is More Important Than Great Scottish Managers.

Scotland have had some great managers over the last 30 years. Yet the best Scotland performances tend to be when we have the best players rather than the best managers. 

We need for the male Scotland side to develop great players, so that a good decent manager can make them perform well. 

Of course we always need to produce good managers. But the priority is good players. 

In the last 40 years Scotland has produced some of  it's greatest and most successful managers like Sir Alex Ferguson, Craig Brown, George Graham, Kenny Dalglish, Walter Smith, Jim McLean, Tommy Burns, Alex McLeish, Graeme Souness, Gordon Strachan, and David Moyes. Some of who managed Scotland. Some of whom manged teams to good European runs. Some of whom did well in major European leagues. Yet it has not resulted in the male senior Scottish international sides qualifying past the group stages of a major tournament. And in fact Scotland even went a 20 years without qualifying for major tournament, because Scotland did not have a huge selection of great players. 

The better priority is for Scotland to produce great players who can play for major European sides, including in Scottish club sides. 

We need to continue to produce decent mangers who can develop good players, and we need to produce good managers to manage the international side. But the priority is to produce great players in each generation. 

We need club sides to do well in Europe, and we need the Scottish national team to do well. 

The Scottish women's team have done well. But the male side need to develop great players. 

We produced the greatest manager in the World, in Sir Alex Ferguson, but it did not make Scotland do incredibly well in international football. 

It is great Scotland produced Sir Alex Ferguson. But it would have had more of an impact on the international side if Scotland had produced the greatest players.