I'll just paste in what I replied to you on TDP, Wins. BEHOLD MY FURY!!!
Scottish football has stood still while the rest of the world moved on, progressed, evolved.
This country has fuck all facilities too for young people compared to somewhere like Norway for example and a culture that sees success as being for POOFS. Most kids, even talented ones, would rather be drinking Special Brew and smoking cigarettes and raping cats. Or playing X-Box.
Negativity plagues the people here too in my opinion. Few truly believe they can make something of themselves. Many of them probably don't give a fuck either. Compare us to countries of similar or even smaller size: Uruguay? Croatia? Denmark? Christ. Just about any country you can think of. They KNOW they can take on anyone.
Even San Marino seem able to pass and move better than our teams. Passing and moving ffs! We just can't do it. Statues. Surely movement is the easiest fucking skill to learn? All you need is a pair of legs ffs. But nooooooooooo. Our teams are like fucking Stephen Hawking clones but without the brains.
Also, our managers are mainly retarded fuckwits who play not to lose thinking that it's some great achievement. "Well it's a tough place to come... we'll be happy with a 1-0 defeat." Looking back on games over the years where the national side has HAD to win, we've turned in surprisingly impressive performances against sides which were apparently a lot better. The boys can play when they want to. Or when allowed to.
I say, God creates a massive flood, wipes almost everyone out except for... hmmm... someone positive and progressive who can build a boat where he can put the best coaches and young players in. And we start again. From scratch.
edit: The negative manager thing I'm also applying to the clubs. Walter Smith just had no faith in his boys at all although I always thought they were FAR more impressive when he went 2 up front. They're all the fucking same. Honestly, I'm so sick of Scottish football it hurts. Actually painful. And the the only way it's going to change is if we continue to get humped and embarrassed. No pain no gain. Or something.
I'm not sure what your point is though. If other countries have improved technically while we've stood still (or actually become a lot worse) it stands to reason we'd be less successful (not that we've ever had much success anyway - certainly not at international level).