Cyclical

Personally I dont get the whole doom and gloom surrounding the scottish game. These things tend to go in cycles. In our lifetime weve seen poorer teams and poorer european campaigns. We have risen the expectations with managers such as O'Neill, Strachan, Smith, and McLeish really doing exceptionally well.

Either way - if the premiership implodes the likes of Fletcher, and McCarthy would have stayed in the SPL at either their current club or Celtic or Rangers would have gone for them as the Burnleys and Wigans of this world would be playing their own young talent rather than offering those exorbatent wages and signing on fees that lure these boys down there. However, if the EPL/sky manage to work on the government to make footballers exempt from normal tax rates to compete with la liga, then the recent upturn in the number of British players forcing there way into EPL starting line ups will slide back and we'll see even more foreigners again