Disaster Index: 4.1 Entry: The Long-Service Record Cause: Seven players surviving from Steve Clarke's first squad to the 2026 World Cup, a span of personnel continuity the record was not designed to accommodate. Category: Historical / Emotional Evidence: Clarke's first squad was named in 2019. The World Cup begins in 2026. Seven players have held on across that interval — through a pandemic, a play-off final, qualifying campaigns that required reclassification of what success meant, and the general administrative weather of Scottish football. The quiz exists. Historical precedent: Long service in the Scotland setup has historically produced two outcomes: the proof of institutional commitment, and the quiet question of what the system was doing while the same names remained in it. Affected parties: The seven players, who are now evidence. The thirty-odd who did not survive. The supporters who have been watching long enough to recognise all seven without prompting. Immediate outlook: A quiz about continuity in a squad that qualified for the World Cup is not a disaster. The Index notes it anyway — when the same names span seven years, something either went very right or very slowly.