
The System
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"Poor decisions based on inherent bias and misassumption have been well covered by books such as Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Moneyball by Michael Lewis - both of which are referenced here - and Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. But McDowall must be one of the first to have applied such thinking to how 'talent identification and development' is practised - or perhaps more correctly mis-practised - in Scottish football... The national side's success may have papered over the cracks for the time being but The System is an important book that should be reached for the next time a round of soul searching in the national game begins." * The Daily Mail *More details
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- A vision for Scottish football
- Preface
- About the book
- Introduction - Defining the landscape
- Section 1 - Past
- 1. The modern history of Scottish football - phase 1
- 2. The modern history of Scottish football - phase 2
- 3. Environment, identity and managers
- Section 2 - Present
- 4. Review of 'the Review of Scottish Football' - Part 1: Talent, talent, talent
- 5. Review of 'the review' - Part 2: The rich get richer, the poor get poorer
- 6. Talent identification and selection
- 7. Getting in, staying in and making the grade
- 8. Time to close the first-team pathway!
- 9. Review and beyond
- Section 3 - Future
- 10. Reversing the RTB and levelling the playing field
- 11. The fallacy of small numbers and the cracks in the system
- 12. The best possible environments
- 13. Not the last word
- Bibliography
- Photos
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