Jimbo Ram Posted August 29, 2022 Posted August 29, 2022 As a lover of Scottish football I really enjoyed Celtic's narrow win over Dundee United yesterday. Got me thinking of how you might compare SPL clubs with teams in England. Here are my equivalents: Celtic-Norwich City Rangers-Sheff Utd Hearts-Portsmouth Aberdeen-Sheff Wednesday Motherwell-Northampton Town St Mirren-Notts County Livingston-Wrexham Hibs-Charlton Kilmarnock-Tranmere Rovers St Johnstone-York City Ross County-Oldham Athletic Dundee United-Bradford City Thoughts???? Have a go yourself......
IslandExile Posted August 29, 2022 Posted August 29, 2022 (edited) Rangers = Torquay United. Edit: more serious answer: Rangers & Celtic are probably Championship level now. With the extra exposure they'd get playing in England, I'd expect them to be challenging for promotion to the Premier. Once there, with even more exposure and their gates, they'd settle somewhere in the middle. Edited August 29, 2022 by IslandExile RadioactiveWaste 1
richinspain Posted August 29, 2022 Posted August 29, 2022 I'd have thought that Celtic are mor like our six fingered neighbours. After all they did win a European cup a hundred years ago.
bimmerman Posted September 2, 2022 Posted September 2, 2022 Celtic-Saints Rangers-Fulham Hearts-Boro Aberdeen-Bristol City Motherwell- Rotherham St Mirren-Port Vale Livingston-Plymouth Hibs-Bristol Rovers Kilmarnock-Carlisle St Johnstone-Exeter City Ross County-Newport County Dundee United-Barnsley Fun fact-i know a player who turned down Hibs once and stayed at his league 1 club as they were a step down in terms of facilities and paid less in salaries
Bris Vegas Posted September 2, 2022 Posted September 2, 2022 No way does a Championship side reach the Europa League final. Rangers and Celtic are both PL quality. But the rest of the league is lower League One or League Two standard. Reggie Greenwood and Rammy03 1 1
RadioactiveWaste Posted September 2, 2022 Posted September 2, 2022 There is a real big drop off after the old firm I'm sad to say.
CWC1983 Posted September 2, 2022 Posted September 2, 2022 Here's my attempt with some rationale. Rangers - Chelsea. Both sets of fans have similar values. Union Flags galore, a political way of thinking. Celtic - Liverpool. Tend to play attacking football and both fans like a political sing song. Hearts - Villa. Both like a season in a lower division every so often. Hibs - Spurs. For all their attacking "philosophy" they don't win anything. Aberdeen - Arsenal. Never been relegated Livingston - Bournemouth. Get back to a lower division with your rubbish crowds and stadiums Dundee utd - Forest. European pedigree. Clough and McLean, 2 peas in a pod. Killie - Newcastle. Stripes obviously, and both managers seem to like their reflection in a mirror Ross County - Brighton. Extreme North & South of the country. An away trip between these 2 would take ages.... Motherwell - Leeds. Both hammer throwers. Risdale and Boyle went to the same business school in the 90's. St Johnstone - Leicester. 1 City teams, Collecting trophies against the odds and becoming very thrifty in recent times. St Mirren - Palace. South London, South Glasgow. You require trainers to run round the athletics stadium and require trainers to run away from the locals in Paisley. Derby's equivalent? Must be Falkirk. Languishing 2 leagues below where they want to be, good supporter base, full of potential but have flattered to deceive for 2 decades. RadioactiveWaste 1
Jimbo Ram Posted September 2, 2022 Author Posted September 2, 2022 6 hours ago, Bris Vegas said: No way does a Championship side reach the Europa League final. Rangers and Celtic are both PL quality. But the rest of the league is lower League One or League Two standard. But they are SPL sides with SPL revenue, no way can they compete with prem clubs…..
Rammy03 Posted September 2, 2022 Posted September 2, 2022 10 minutes ago, Jimbo Ram said: But they are SPL sides with SPL revenue, no way can they compete with prem clubs….. If they were in the championship, they would almost certainly win the league
Jimbo Ram Posted September 2, 2022 Author Posted September 2, 2022 6 minutes ago, Rammy03 said: If they were in the championship, they would almost certainly win the league Why, they would be up against the likes of Burnley, Watford and Sheff Utd who have parachute payments. Top 6 Championship agreed ?
maxjam Posted September 2, 2022 Posted September 2, 2022 Rangers - Derby They've got Tom Lawrence scoring the occasional good goal, big crowds and have recently recovered from financial armageddon. Their SPL recent haul is probably equivalent to our Brian Clough trophy - only two teams compete for that as well ?
Rammy03 Posted September 2, 2022 Posted September 2, 2022 1 hour ago, Jimbo Ram said: Why, they would be up against the likes of Burnley, Watford and Sheff Utd who have parachute payments. Top 6 Championship agreed ? Because they have better players
Jimbo Ram Posted September 3, 2022 Author Posted September 3, 2022 7 hours ago, Rammy03 said: Because they have better players Really ? How come no prem teams were in for Tom Lawrence? A case in point. He had the choice of Sheff Utd or Rangers. Rangers compete with Championship teams for players, can’t compete with prem teams on the budget they have. Like most things, all down to money ?
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