Tony Watt has branded Derek Adams' recent comments about the Scottish game 'mind-boggling' and insists Morecambe would get RELEGATED from the top-flight.The Ross County boss slaughtered the standard of the game north of the border and his own team after they lost to Dundee via a dramatic 96th-minute winner in Dingwall.
He left England's League Two to return to the Staggies and incredibly said the team he had departed were 100 times BETTER.County then were hammered in the Scottish Cup at the weekend on their own turf by Partick Thistle as the Championship side gained revenge for their play-off heartbreak.
The Jags reached the fifth round at the expense of the top-flight relegation battlers, and that prompted Adams to deliver another controversial take as he admitted he may have had second thoughts over the role had he properly done his homework properly.Dundee United star Watt can't understand the reasoning behind Adams' comments on the standard of the game in Scotland and that players hearing his post-match comments are going to naturally perform less than they are if he tells them they aren't good enough.He told BBC Scotland: "I can't watch the interviews.
I've not watched the first one, I've seen the context of it, and I've not watched yesterday's (Saturday's). I just don't understand, when we build the game up and speak so highly of the game, why people bring it down like that."We played against Carlisle in pre-season, we're a Championship team who hadn't gelled yet, and we won 2-0 going on five or six.
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