You definitely don't park them. I still think about getting relegated at St Mirren. What I could have changed? What you could do better - these things never leave you. Everyone always says the highs in football make the lows worth it, but that's a lie, so it'll always be in the back of your head things you could have done differently both together as a team and individually.
We've come a long way as a nation to qualify for these tournaments. We didn't want that to just be enough, we all know we could have done better in the summer, but now there's a new batch of players coming in, a sort of different feel with the squad, and hopefully it'll re-energise all of us individually and hopefully everyone in the country as well.
Finishing in the top two of their group would send Scotland through to the quarter-finals. Third place would result in a relegation play-off while bottom place confirms relegation to League B. And the campaign could ultimately influence the Scots' hopes of qualifying for the 2026 World Cup, which would be their first since 1998.
We've got a couple of years now to try to get to a World Cup. We've not achieved that in a long time. This group's managed to achieve things and break the pattern of not qualifying for tournaments. We've obviously not built on that. Thursday, it's about us getting on the front foot, embracing being in the top division in the Nations League, which is a first.
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