Amato

Stranger things have happened in football. 
It will still be a tough ask, as we've yet to show the consistency needed to gain ground if Lennon drops points. 
Just need to go one game at a time. Hopefully more of the last 2 games tonight from us. 

Until it’s out of our hands we can win it however up until now we have shown no consistency. Lost count of the number of posts talking about the next 3 or 4 games we will take maximum points etc. We are more at the mercy of injuries or suspensions to key players than them also. I still believe there is a slim chance that by taking one game at a time this could go to the wire.

If we win all of our remaining games we'll win the league. Never going to happen but it should be a motivation to put everything into it

Just heard it.
Oh Saint Brenda what have you done!

Just heard it.
Oh Saint Brenda what have you done!

Was in the news here that he is planning to watch him on Wednesday because he is in Europe to watch alot of our players to see how they are because he is only new for the job and only in this moment have 2 friendly game to choose a team. 

Our national team manager Carlos Quieroz will be at Dundee game Wednesday to watch him play. He is in Europe going to many different games in this moment to watch our players in Europe for example James in Bayern, Falcao in Monaco, Bacca in Villarreal and probable in Italy for Duvan Zapata and Muriel. There is opportunity for him to score a goal or more to impress to get opportunity to play in the friendly games next month in Japan and South Korea. 

Don't talk nonsense!! There's been players already moved for more than that and with that big Diddy moving in the summer for 20 Mil there's no doubt Morelos will go for something similar. 

Yet six subs?  I realise it's a pumping and they probably just want the game done but what if we had another goal in us and it costs us at the end?  Or vice versa Hamilton score a consolation and it costs them relegation?  Surely in this country we know better than anyone what goal difference can mean at the end.

Just listened to it, and he is pretty spot on.
Love his wee comment at the end about the licence fee.

Apologies if posted elsewhere.
Traynor to give him credit is giving the biased bbc both barrels.
 

They're basically using a different set of rules every time depending on what outcome they want.

The CO must be asked to explain why an elbow to the face is not a red card. The rules of transparency must be changed. It’s becoming stupid.

It’s not truly sectarian, we’re not fighting over differences in communion or any other theological matters. It’s football rivalry. For real sectarianism see Sunnis and Shias.

Nobody actually cares about sectarianism.

Would definitely be my back 4 from the current options

Gerrard and his team set the benchmark on the 29th of December, the OP was nowhere to be seen for about 2 weeks after that, now he is all over the football threads, funny that.

Our shooting is also attrocious. How many times do we see the ball being blazed over the bar from inside or just outside the box. 😫

Do our players actually practice shooting in training cause it doesn't look like any of them are able to hit a shot from the edge of the box or even inside it for that matter.

Send out the bat signal

On a par with that one, as I said, first time I saw it was on the thread. Point being that regardless of other examples, it’s an ‘intended’ tackle of a nature that there is basically no defence in either committing or reviewing at a later time (especially) after the headlines of the last few days...

THE Scottish FA should follow the lead of the FA in England and invest more money into their disciplinary department in order to quell the growing unrest over retrospective punishments in the wake of some high-profile controversies. That was the advice from Graham Bean, the FA’s first ever compliance officer and a football consultant who advises Premier League clubs, managers and players down south on disciplinary matters, yesterday.
celtic released a statement last month expressing their surprise that Alfredo Morelos, the Rangers striker, had not been cited following a series of incidents in the Ladbrokes Premiership match at Ibrox at the end of December.
And both Steven Gerrard, the Rangers manager, and Steve Clarke, his Kilmarnock counterpart, last week expressed a desire to see consistency in the sanctions handed out by the governing body.
Bean, who is also the chief executive of National League club Chesterfield, feels Clare Whyte, the current SFA compliance officer, would be helped in her role by having improved infrastructure and urged her employers to consider expanding her department.
“The FA system in England is a lot more consistent than the FA system in Scotland,” he said. “That is for a number of reasons. One of them is you only have a sole compliance officer. I can appreciate the difficulties she faces.
“When I joined the FA back in 1999 I was the only compliance officer. Now the whole compliance department at the FA in Londonnumbers about 30 staff.
Consequently, it is a lot more structured and that means they can deal with a lot more incidents in a far more consistent manner.
“There aren’t as many inconsistent decisions. That is quite good because it means everybody is getting a fair crack of the whip. I can understand why players and managers get upset at the lack of consistency because, quite simply, it is an unfair system.
“That comes down to the fact there is a lack of investment from the Scottish FA in developing the department. They could take a leaf out of the English FA’s book. They could go and visit them and see how they have developed their department over a number of years.
Nowadays, in fairness to the FA, there is a level of consistency that is acceptable. “There will always be cases which slip through the net, but the reality of it is the English FA do get the vast majority of the decisions right in terms of the consistency and application of the regulations.
With some investment the Scottish FA could make sure it gets to the same level.
“I probably suffered what the SFA compliance officer is suffering. Because there was only one of me I couldn’t review every single incident of every single game.  A lot of the time you were having to react to issues rather than being proactive on issues.
“I remember when I was the compliance officer having a meeting with Davie Moyes when he was the manager at Preston North End. The English FA had taken action against one of his players.
He had a list of half a dozen incidents where we hadn’t taken any action and he questioned me why that was. The reality was we didn’t have the manpower to deal with it.”
Whyte, who succeeded Tony McGlennan as SFA compliance officer back in August, regularly consults with her counterparts at all of the Home Nations associations and the extensive changes which were made to the judicial process last year were heavily influenced by those of the FA. She is also assisted extensively by other members of staff in the disciplinary department in her daily duties.
But Bean added: “The problem comes down to manpower and the fact the compliance officer in Scotland is effectively a one woman band. If the Scottish FA want to be serious about this they have to invest in it very much like the English FA did by bringing in a more structured system that is consequently a more consistent and fair system for the game as a whole.
“It has been proven that if you invest money in discipline and compliance areas, in the right people and the right training, then you do get consistent results out of it. Clearly that is what the Scottish FA need to do.
“It isn’t a criticism of the incumbent compliance officer. She is working with the tools she has been given. The Scottish FA need to put some money into this and build the department.
Look at the success the English FA have had. They could get that consistency in their organisation.
” The SFA compliance officer initiates retrospective disciplinary action against a player if an incident, or an exceptional part of an incident, has been missed by the match official at the time and once three independent experts have all unanimously agreed it constituted a sending off offence.
However, Bean is vehemently opposed to “re-refereeing” games and believes that only off-the-ball incidents that have been missed by the referee and his assistants should be looked at once the final whistle has blown.
“What you are essentially doing is re-refereeing the game and I don’t agree with that,” he said. “It isn’t in the spirit of the game, it doesn’t respect the authority of the referee. I am not a fan of retrospective action.
“If we are going to deal with incidents retrospectively and re-referee the game – and effectively a group of football administrators with no experience of playing the game at a professional level are re-refereeing a football game – there must be a high level of consistency about it. And the simple fact is that there isn’t.”
Bean continued: “Given the referee’s expertise at professional level, you would expect then to get the decisions right. If he gets it wrong it is a big thing to for a referee to say: ‘I got that wrong, I need to rectify it’. I would suggest he is covering his own reputation.
“Even if you review it it still comes down to people’s interpretation and opinion. The difference being they can look at it from different angles and in slow motion until they come to a decision.
“In terms of off the ball incidents that take place when a referee isn’t watching, like somebody punching another player, then of course there needs to be punishment for that.
“If the referee has failed to apply the laws of the game correctly then it should be him who is dealt with by the football authorities. He should face penalties, suspension from the game or whatever. It shouldn’t just be a player or a club who suffer because of a referee’s incompetence.
“I am firmly of the view, and always have been, that a challenge should be judged by the referee at that time. We shouldn’t be revisiting it. It is a minefield.”

Can a FOI request be issued on the SFA?

Is there a compliance officer in the English Premier League?
The more I think about it, the concept of a single person (even worse, an unqualified person) having the authority to pick and choose what incidents are cited and imposing bans after a match is fucking bonkers. The lack of consistency in the decisions she is reaching is staggering.