QUOTE (kurtsimonw @ Aug 26 2011, 02:58 PM)
This is why Scotland are in big trouble.
This is there 07/08 co-efficient, that will be lost next season, and the total 5 year co-efficients. So basically Scotland are going to lose over half of their points for next season whilst alot of countries below them are only losing 2/3 points on average. They could literally drop 10 places. It won't change their European places, but it looks like they'll never get 2 CL spots back. Unless the league champions get through to the last 16 in the CL or one of the teams does the same in the UEFA Cup, they're pretty much going to earn no points every season.
Scotland - 10.250 - 19.516
Israel - 2.375 - 19.250
Czech - 5.125 - 19.100
Croatia - 3.666 - 18.874
Belarus - 1.833 - 17.708
Romania - 2.600 - 16.657
Poland - 1.666 - 16.166
Sweden - 5.400 - 15.700
Norway - 5.400 - 14.675
Slovakia - 2.166 - 14.624
Serbia - 2.625 - 14.250
Bulgaria - 2.750 - 14.250
The easiest way of looking at it is that the champions of Scotland lost to the minnows that are Maribor. Sorry Maribor, you're rubbish. And yes, that makes us even worse. The second placed team, Celtic, got horsed by mediocrity from Switzerland. And Hearts lost by an embarrassing amount to their English equivalent Spurs.
Scotland is struggling to perform, and it's bloody depressing.
I'll be amazed if a Scottish team gets back into the CL at all now, given we've lost our automatic place and have to go through qualifiers now.