Andy Little scored 6 goals in 29 appearances in the league 1 season. Was that really good enough to get us back into the Premier league?
Why would Andy Robertson have signed for us to be understudy to Lee Wallace in league 1 rather than go and be first choice in the Premier league?
We were not at attractive proposition for quality youth at that point in time, and any that were any good would just have been sold, cut price
The top youth prospects at the time were Jamie Ness, Rhys McCabe and John Fleck and they all buggered off when admin happened, and rightly so.
You also are overlooking the fact the scum in control of the club were spending our money as fast as they could on purpose, so had money not been spent on players it would have been wasted on something else.
Andy Little was regularly shunted around and moved all over the place to accommodate others, would he have been good enough, who knows, but for context 6 goals in League 1 was one less than a guy who cost more than Tav, Morelos or Kamara, almost like the manager didn't really know how to get the best out of talent even he rated. It is almost like the manager over complicated every situation we found ourselves and made players look less than, and every league look more difficult than it actually could look.
We didn't need "quality youth", people didn't expect "quality youth" why would they? we didn't have a quality first team, fans were smart enough to be aware of our situation, and knew it wouldn't be the next Mo Salah, but it would be different to watching what was at the time, the current Ian Black.
Even if players had been sold at a cut price it seems more logical to me than a coach would have at least you know, tried v the reality.
Robertson would have got a game even with Lee Wallace TBH, McCoist would have played him LW, or maybe not, maybe just played Steve Smith there instead
I can think multiple things about things TBH
Spivs = c*nts, they can be that and should be judged as that it doesn't simply excuse a coach to even attempt to apply some form of standards, it is possible to think multiple things about a situation.
I find the attitude of aucht it was shite anyway so what the f*ck can you do a bit strange in all honesty. McCoist didn't mismanage funds with reckless abandon as a way to get it up the Spivs, he spent money on p*sh because it was the easy option, attempting to develop youth was just for the most part too much a pain in the arse for him, he would f*ck kids off after games and go back to trusted pish often, it is why simply listing a big muckle list of names doesn't mean much.
List the absolute f*cking much he played during those years if you think lists validate a point, it will be a fair old bit bigger, with more games, minutes, appearances and chances than those you listed before got