Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
What’s happened to Scotland? Eighteen months or so ago, they were one of Europe’s form sides, but this result has not come out of the blue, their results have been poor and I think Steve Clarke would have been under pressure in different circumstances. It’s hardly as if they’re an old side going over the top together - this time last year I would have backed them to get through the group they’re in and they still could, they’re not a great side, but they should be better than they’ve been showing lately.
I see some parallels with us under Mark Hughes. We had a calendar year when we were invincible then our form slipped drastically and we were lucky to finish with a playoff against Ukraine. I've always reckoned that, had we beaten them, we'd have been battered in Euro 2004 as we were playing poorly. Sadly, Hughes started the next campaign, which started disastrously, and that was the end of him.

Perhaps Scotland have had their spell where everything has been great and now it's back to normal, as we did back then?