by Ian Royal »
16 Jan 2013 23:21
celticbhoy17 SapperBRoyal Money and Champions League football (now your only viable rivals are playing in your fourth or fifth tier) are obviously what has swung the deal. Granted. SPL better standard than EPL? Jog on, clown.
What I actually said was SOME SPL games this season that I've watched have been of a better standard than some games in the EPL. As in, when Inverness were 3-0 down to Dundee United within 8 minutes then clawed it back to 4-3, then conceded a last minute penalty and the game ended 4-4, that was a better game than a QPR - Spurs game I watched the other day. The SPL is obviously no where near as high a standard as the EPL simply because the finance is not there. Celtic and Zombie FC would be the 2nd and third biggest teams in the EPL if they were there, Aberdeen would be quite a big club also. I quite like watching Reading play, but you surely must admit that playing Celtic in the league is much more exciting than QPR, Sunderland or Stoke.
You seem to misunderstand. Entertainment factor of individual games is not an indication of comparative quality of the league. A good indicator is that most SPL players can't cut it anything about PL relegation level.
SPL quality varies from maybe bottom end PL right down to about League One standard. Celtic are, of course, a bigger side than Reading. But that's not hard when they've only got one team to compete with. But the SPL is vastly inferior to the PL. You have to stand out as clearly superior to everyone else to get a big move out of the SPL and lets face reality, Celtic and the Scottish league are small fry compared to the likes of the PL, La Liga, Bundasliga etc which is where the money are real trophies are.
It's easier to get picked up by a bigger club and progress your career by going to a struggling PL club and performing well despite that. And the Championship is regularly dredged by PL teams. If Rogic was good enough, we'd be a better bet for his long term career than Celtic, but as he probably isn't, far better for him to go to Celtic, win nailed on pointless trophies, play comfortably in a piss poor league and have a European jolly each season.