What is a realistic response we can expect from the SFA?

so they have admitted fault by banning the caly player

 

I don't think they ever denied that it should have been a penalty, have they? The general consensus is that the official made a mistake.

 

I'd just love it if one day, a good guy of the officials came out and said that there were dodgy deals and secret handshakes behind the doors. Full disclosure of the cheating *.

The SFA should be run by Buddhist monks rather than the current bullshit monkeys.

 

This letter is embarrassing,scottish football is *,the officials are *, the * that run the game are *,moaning about it makes us look like *,C T should never have beat us no matter how many dodgy decisions there are

 

It won't get any better until someone highlights the glaring problems and challenges the people in a position to Improve whatever aspects of the game need improved.if this letter puts pressure on referees to get more decisions right it can only be a good thing

 

Don't like the statement by Celtic, let them deal with it and move on. Now they put out a public statement about the letter to the SFA, they then offered a 1 game ban. Since when has anyone been retrospectively banned for a handball, no matter the circumstances, just making themselves look even more pathetic. Someone needs to go into the SFA with a set of balls, tell refs if they make * ups like that then they won't get Premiership or cup games, fine them and force to take more training etc. Then sort out the appeals process, if you can get off with kicking someone in the face where is the * point in dishing out bans?
The whole system is *, this time I don't think it's corruption just sheer incompetence.

 

We haven't had many so far so there may well be some that need finding .

 

No way should that * be banned. When has anyone ever been banned after a game for a handball ? I'd be calling him a hero if he was a Celtic player.

 

McLean seems to be one bad apple in the barrel that has to be dealt with by the SFA. He has * us over three times this season and got away with it until now.Sunday he went just too far.

It's one thing holding private views on your football allegiance. It's quite another thing carrying it over into your professional career, and causing it to damage the legitimate interests of others unfairly.That is reprehensible behaviour.

 

I see Meekings is being offered a one match ban over the incident.

Honestly not convinced he deliberately handballed, but given the position of his hand it's a penalty and probably a red nonetheless.

Regardless, it's an absolutely shocking performance from the authorities; referee and other officials * up so they let the player involved take the fall for it. How about making the officials or themselves accountable? Why is the player being punished for someone else's mistake, and and how will banning the player properly punish or appease anyone (i.e. if they're doing this to show they're doing something in response to a justified outcry, how does punishing anyone but the officials solve anything)?

Ridiculous as usual.

 

The referee was absolutely shocking. The handball was an unforgivable decision and Zaluska taking out the boy in the box was also a stonewall penalty. The * had an absolute shocker.

Yet the centre half is the one being offered a ban !? Don't see why poor refereeing perfomances aren't punished when everyone else is

 

I agree with this. I mean, everyone of us who either has had a job or is in a job knows that if they * up there is some sort of reprimand for it. The exact same should go for referee's especially when they * up on such major decisions like Sunday.

I remember a referee in the English Premiership got suspended for a MONTH for not showing Barry Bawbag, when he played for Blackburn Rovers, a red card after giving him a 2nd yellow. That referee got punished for that yet what do the Scottish referees get when they make major * ups? A pat on the back as the SFA tell us that they have a hard job.

I'll be extremely surprised if the SFA do anything at all, even when Regan came out with this comment...

Stewart Regan ‏<s>@</s>StewartMRegan <small class="time"> Apr 19 </small> <s>@</s>J0hnCassidy just watched it back on TV John and I agree it was a handball. AAR missed it.

EDIT: Just read the news about Meekings being served with a notice of complaint, so I'm surprised the SFA even done that.

 

Can't believe they r handed retrospective ban to meekings. What about the actual officials who * it up?

Handballs not being given happens all the time...its just the high profile of it and the blatantness of the officials not doing their jobs.
Conning the ref by diving fair enough but officials being incompetent? They should be hammered

 

Where do you stop with the blame-game though? We had players on the pitch who made more basic mistakes than the Officials did!

Does Commons (just for example) get punished for his awful performance? He's a full-time VERY highly paid international athlete who was truly rotten at the weekend. He completely failed to do his job properly during that particular shift, yet no-one's writing letters of complaint to Celtic about him.

There's a reasonable argument that if he (and others in Hoops) had done his job properly, then Celtic would have progressed to the final.

I'm not buying that it was some sort of conspiracy - the Officials *-up... pure and simple. Lets dry our eyes and move on because all this greetin is embarrassing! * happens and sadly * happened here. Sometimes it works for you (and there's not a peep), and sometimes it doesn't (and by * don't we get to hear about it from the permanently offended brigade).

 

John Collins statement on the 'letter' is interesting. To me, it's his way of saying, "the fitba men at the club are embarrassed to be a part of this, but I acknowledge it had to be done to appease the more vocal of our dummy-spitters!".

 

Commons probably will get punished. I dare say he won't play tonight. But this is a different issue. Commons was *, no doubt. That happens, players have off days. The referee gave a decision despite clearly being able to see that it was the wrong one. If there was any indication that it was just a mistake, we would still want the ref to face some punishment for it (suspended for a game, for instance.) But when it's so obvious that he saw what happened, we have a right to demand an explanation.

 

So players can be excused for having 'off days', but the (part-time) Officials have to be infallible?

Clearly the referee didn't see it was the wrong decision because he never called the foul. He made a mistake. It happens! Are you suggesting there was some sort of conspiracy going on between the Officials?

And there likely will be consequences for the Officials. Just because you don't know what those consequences are (demoted for next few games, remedial training, etc.) doesn't mean it won't happen.

Sounds like the sort of thing ra peepul would say!

 

i would delete that mate. You aren't allowed to copy and paste * from hun forums.

 

It's not like these things are unique to Scotland - you see huge mistakes in evey league and every tournament. Video is the only solution IMO