FOR so long, simply getting to a major tournament was the goal for Scotland. But if anything, that taste of being back in the big time last summer made their World Cup play-off defeat to Ukraine sting all the more for both players and supporters.
The ambitions have now shifted, and even though Scotland will once again be relegated to a watching brief when the action gets underway in Qatar this November, the aim must now to be to make qualification to major tournaments the bare minimum requirement.
