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They've just redrawn the 3rd round of the Cup. Ball number 6 (Banks o' Dee) came out, but the blazer held it upside down and announced it as 9 (Brora Rangers). Later on ball 9 came out and the place collapsed in confusion. Rather than correct the incorrect earlier announcement they held a full redraw.
These people are in charge of the national game.
**** happens. Doesn’t really seem like something to get particularly worked up about though.
Should've taken rod Stewart out on a 48 hour bender, put his hands in a pair of boxing gloves and let him do the whole draw on his own. Couldn't be any more of a laughing stock.Quote:
Originally Posted by ballengeich
Scottish football is an industry that turns over serious money and it's regressing because it's run by a clique of self perpetuating erseholes who couldn't organise bingo in an old folks home.
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It's becoming the rule rather than the exception.
I'd agree if it was a one-off. It just seems to epitomise how the upper echelons of the game perform.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beefster
Surely just say the ball was 6 not 9, and leave it be. It’s not a one off either that’s the worst thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beefster
That happened for the quarter final draw, the year we won it I think.
Stubbsy pulled out a 6 and it was corrected quickly to a 9 (or the other way round). Presumably the year after we won it.Quote:
Originally Posted by B.H.F.C
They ****ed the LC semi final draw a few years back, had the incident with the open ball for the Scottish 2 seasons back, had Stubbs confuse a 6 and a 9 last season and now this.
Absolute amateur hour.
I'm sure there was a semi final draw when Hearts had to be redrawn as well and instead of Dundee United they had to play celtic.Quote:
Originally Posted by B.H.F.C
I'm sure the year we won it they had to scrap it and start from scratch. I think the same team/number got drawn twice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danderhall Hibs
I never bother with the draws in the early rounds.
I just wait to see who we play at Hampden...
I would have though that 6 and 9 in particular would be underlined so as to show the correct way to read them (e.g. 6 & 9) - either someone can't read or the SFA buggered it up big time.Quote:
Originally Posted by ballengeich
Would also have though that surely by now a software developer would have put out a program which would automate the draw so as to avoid the possibility of some idiotic human making that sort of mistake.
Writing an automated draw program would be an easy task for any software developer but of all the situations which would encourage conspiracy theorists, an automated draw ranks very high.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan91
The SFA can't cope with the responsibility of facilitating a draw. I'd like to see it outsourced to some Egyptian organisation and hieroglyphics introduced.
Hibs could be a harp.
There's an incompetence and conceitedness that pervades this 'old boy's network'.
The whole organisation needs restructured an restaffed from top to bottom to make it more inclusive and forward thinking to carry out the job of governance but I won't hold my breath.
They are a national embarrassment.
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Originally Posted by Spike Mandela
You'd really think they'd at least be able to get this right 6 and 9 are both prominent in 1690 which features frequently in many aspects of their lives.
They could maybe make the 6 blue and the 9 red?
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I thought they used the kinder surprise method when doing the draw these says. These things taken in Isolation are minor, but when you add everything up it shows them up to be complete amateurs, that aren’t fit to run the game.
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Originally Posted by Ryan91
Very easily done but... I can already imagine the conspiracy theorists going into overdrive
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My initial thoughts were about making any software open source, but then I realised that most football fans won't have a background in software development and even then they'd still cry foulQuote:
Originally Posted by Keekaboo
Is it just me, but surely the simple solution is to just have the words six and nine on the balls would fix this?
Or just not use the numbers 6 & 9 at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by blackpoolhibs
Can’t believe all the balls HAVE to be consecutively numbered - 1 to 16, 1 to 32 or whatever.
1 to 18 or 1 to 34 without balls 6 & 9 would work.
Too easy!!Quote:
Originally Posted by hibby6270
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How this is even still an issue is unbelievable. Just draw a line under the 6 and the 9 respectively to show which way up it should be read... If this is how it's done (I'm sure it is) and they still can't work it out then the folk drawing the numbers should be bulleted. It's not rocket science. Surely they are briefed before hand if this is the case. Would take 10 seconds to explain if somehow needed.