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He's on a working party not as an employee. I agree with that to an extent as it makes sense for those involved to be some of those who are highly critical or have been punished most ( individually or as a club), or have experience in improving such systems. He has been punished a fair bit, as have Rangers and our players, so I can understand him being involved and would expect a Rangers representative too.

So I'll wait for the explanation as to why the scum who are least persecuted by the system are represented by their Michael Nicholson whilst we have no one involved. I'm sure there's a genuine valid reason for it, .......

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The idea in principle is a sensible one, but as usual up here there is only one type of person involved.

There's no way that working party setup can or will be used for the good of the Scottish game as a whole. Fair enough, ask Lennon but then ask Levein or Gerrard to be involved for a bit of balance, not the self servers at the other side of the city. 

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SFA chiefs have called in sparring partner Neil Lennon to help them fix their broken justice system. Hibs boss Lenny has been on the receiving end of SFA punishments for aeroplane goal celebrations, withering blasts at referees and confrontations with rival bosses.

Now the poacher turned gamekeeper will join a working group aiming to end a disconnect between rulemakers, officials and clubs. SFA chief Ian Maxwell’s think tank will meet fully for the first time on January 29. MailSport understands Lennon, one of the fiercest critics of the regime and their working practices, will have a major say on the way ahead. He will be joined in the league’s contingent by celtic’s Michael Nicholson, Stenhousemuir chairman Iain McMenemy and SPFL secretary Iain Blair. PFA Scotland chief Fraser Wishart, referees boss John Fleming and whistler Kevin Clancy will also be there alongside Compliance Officer Clare Whyte, Head of Legal Heather Barton and reps from the Highland and Lowland Leagues, the juniors and the women’s game.

Warriors chairman McMenemy said: “This needs to be dealt with as a single piece of joined-up thinking. Tear down barriers. Work with each other. Take ownership. “When stories about referees become bigger than the game that has to be regarded as a failure of the system.

“When criticism of officials crosses a line into threats and intimidation then we need to act urgently. That time is upon us. “The whole process of match officiating, maintaining order and the aftermath of dealing with decisions has broken down. "Let’s drive behavioural change across all of football, rather than pretending it’s only an issue for one side of the problem, usually the referees. “Let’s look at VAR. Anything that takes us closer to getting things right more of the time is worth implementing.”

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There is only one solution in reality. Repatriate the immigrants!

There will always be incompetence and bias with ref's. There are already rules and reg's to manage and control breaches, by players, club officials and ref's themselves. There are laws of the land and punishments for the morons for those who insist in breaching them. As for VAR, apart from goal line technology, it is all up for someone's interpretation and who's to say it wouldn't be biased?! It solves nothing in the current context. Sure let's raise the awareness and all will be quiet for a while, maybe! Then it's back to business as usual. Them big bad Prod's done it.

The malcontents will remain malcontent, till death do us part.

 

 

 

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