Crawford Allan to step down

[Mon Dieu4]

At the end of the season, loved this bit of gaslighting in their announcement about it

"We must work together to alleviate the unsustainable pressure on match officials and VAR operators, to remove the convenient blame culture attached to subjective or unpopular decisions, and to ensure more focus is placed on the entertainers rather than the on-field facilitators"

[Stubbsy90+2]

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At the end of the season, loved this bit of gaslighting in their announcement about it

"We must work together to alleviate the unsustainable pressure on match officials and VAR operators, to remove the convenient blame culture attached to subjective or unpopular decisions, and to ensure more focus is placed on the entertainers rather than the on-field facilitators"

That really is an incredible take.

[HoboHarry]

Not before time and he can stick his statement where the sun doesn't shine. Until they can become a professional and transparent organisation who are clearly working for the good of the whole game instead of the closed clique that they currently are they can expect nothing except stick from all quarters.

[Rumble de Thump]

His attitude sums up the massive problem with Scottish refereeing and the lack of any willingness to accept responsibility for it, let alone correct it.

[weecounty hibby]

Arrogant ****** in charge of a bunch of arrogant ******s

[NORTHERNHIBBY]

We all get the point that the officials aren't the stars of the show. I'd gently break that news to some of the officials and see where we are after that.

[MWHIBBIES]

What a ****ing idiot. Deserve all the grief they get.

[HoboHarry]

Between Hibs raising the strict liability issue up and this dinosaur stepping down I wonder if the SFA have recognized how badly Scottish football has stagnated and decided to address the fact. I'm more hopeful than confident mind you. Curious to see if they promote from within or bring in someone from outside, that'll be telling.

[Pedantic_Hibee]

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At the end of the season, loved this bit of gaslighting in their announcement about it

"We must work together to alleviate the unsustainable pressure on match officials and VAR operators, to remove the convenient blame culture attached to subjective or unpopular decisions, and to ensure more focus is placed on the entertainers rather than the on-field facilitators"

I’d have had more respect for them if they said “we realise we are absolutely hopeless at this”

[staunchhibby]

If the match officials were more honest them maybe i would believe in them

[Diclonius]

Good. **** off!

[007]

Never trust anyone who has a surname for a 1st name and a 1st name for a surname.

Hopefully the replacement is an improvement.

[Smartie]

Hidden in there is a fair point about the subjective nature of decisions.

If it wasn't buried beneath a load of terrible attitude then you might think we'd have a chance at improving matters.

The second they stop being so secretive and defensive and actually start working towards improving the situation themselves, we'll actually have reason for hope.

Maybe this idiot's resignation is a step in the right direction?

I've actually quite liked what Bobby Madden has had to say on Twitter in recent months. Free from the shackles of being on the inside, his thoughts have been interesting and insightful, even if you don't necessarily agree with him. He's not been afraid to call out what he's seen as wrong, he has on occasion tried to explain the process to those of us who don't necessarily know how it all works and sometimes defended controversial and much criticised decisions that he's agreed with. It's plain daft that you need to be on the outside to do so.

[Unseen work]

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At the end of the season, loved this bit of gaslighting in their announcement about it

"We must work together to alleviate the unsustainable pressure on match officials and VAR operators, to remove the convenient blame culture attached to subjective or unpopular decisions, and to ensure more focus is placed on the entertainers rather than the on-field facilitators"

Can they all get banned for a game like a manager would? Just let the third choice coach of each team be the linesman and another coach to take 45 mins each as ref.

[ElginHibee]

Referees should be made available to the press and have to explain their decisions after games. Maybe some press accountability will help, there's obviously none internally. Don't both clubs have to provide the manager and a player for the press? Can't see why a little transparency with the other major player in the match would be a bad thing.

[HoboHarry]

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Never trust anyone who has a surname for a 1st name and a 1st name for a surname.

Hopefully the replacement is an improvement.

Or someone who has numbers for a name......

[LunasBoots]

What a statement that is, maybe if they used common sense and understood football they wouldn't be under that pressure, still actively costing clubs points and money with poor calls.

Its telling that the SFA think VAR is working but almost all clubs and fans think otherwise. Arrogance.

[bod]

Excuse the ignorance but who is he ?

[ElginHibee]

Cheat-in-chief (head of refereeing).

[overdrive]

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At the end of the season, loved this bit of gaslighting in their announcement about it

"We must work together to alleviate the unsustainable pressure on match officials and VAR operators, to remove the convenient blame culture attached to subjective or unpopular decisions, and to ensure more focus is placed on the entertainers rather than the on-field facilitators"

Maybe if they didn’t have guys like Clancy and Napier who think it’s all about them, then the focus would be on the “entertainers”

[Donegal Hibby]

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At the end of the season, loved this bit of gaslighting in their announcement about it

"We must work together to alleviate the unsustainable pressure on match officials and VAR operators, to remove the convenient blame culture attached to subjective or unpopular decisions, and to ensure more focus is placed on the entertainers rather than the on-field facilitators"

With the way everything has been going on with dodgy decisions and all the rest of the other stuff they aren't getting half enough pressure put on them .

As to Crawford Allan stepping down it won't make any difference as they will just probably appoint another one from their club . Jobs for the boys so to speak ! .

[bod]

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Cheat-in-chief (head of refereeing).

Cheers

[overdrive]

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With the way everything has been going on with dodgy decisions and all the rest of the other stuff they aren't getting half enough pressure put on them .

As to Crawford Allan stepping down it won't make any difference as they will just probably appoint another one from their club . Jobs for the boys so to speak ! .

Yep. It wouldn’t surprise me if Willie Collum retires and he takes over.

They should be making an appointment from abroad

[we are hibs]

That quote is from Ian Maxwell. A guy who has been an unmitigated failure in his role at the SFA and should also resign.

[Centre Hawf]

Bye Allan, take a few of other ****wits you preside over with you if you can as well pal.

[Caversham Green]

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Yep. It wouldn’t surprise me if Willie Collum retires and he takes over.

They should be making an appointment from abroad

Someone from England would do fine - Graham Poll or Mike Dean might be available. Both have had controversies but were actually very good refs for the most part.

[LunasBoots]

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Excuse the ignorance but who is he ?

He was a former ref and not a very good one at that.

[HoboHarry]

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Someone from England would do fine - Graham Poll or Mike Dean might be available. Both have had controversies but were actually very good refs for the most part.

Mike Dean or Mark Clattenburg were my first thought but it would depend on their administrative skills obviously.

[Bobby's Cinema]

That's an incredible tone to take. Several of the biggest gripes with VAR are absolutley operator error - nothing convenient about getting an apology after an incorrect decision that won't change anything!!

- consistency of decisions (Boyle non-award v Celtic / Rangers pen at ER)
- VAR lack of intervention for blatant errors to send officials to the screen (pittodrie handball I still can't fathom)
- If it takes several minutes to reach a decision then it's not clear and obvious.

I find at boring as **** going on and on about decisions. I hate when pundits describe it as VAR drama - because it doesn't add anything to my enjoyment of a game. But if you're going to apply it incorrectly, people are going to talk about it.

[HoboHarry]

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He was a former ref and not a very good one at that.

Who was then promoted way above his station.