gkneil Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 SFA's yearly quota of decision overturns already been busted by Collum i'd expect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim999 Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 They've had to close ranks. There's been that many crap refereeing decisions and rescinded reds lately the beaks would've decided they can't undermine yet another crap referee. Saw this coming and I think AFC should've as well. On the actual tackle itself from where I was sitting it initially looked harsh then the lad next to me had it on his phone, 3 of us saw it again and laughed as it wasn't a red. I do however get why the ref initially gave the red due to the speed of Hayes, the Celtic lad's over reaction and the referees poor positioning but it was too much to ask that they even look at it from a players point of view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutz_the_Squirrel Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 deal with it and move on Straight out of the 'things Celtic never do' book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerrdavidson95 Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Extra game added for the appeal failing, a practice which I absolutely don't understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Cort's Hamstring Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 While I was raging about it, it's a decision you can argue either way, ones like that are never going to be overturned. Frankly I think we're fortunate that McLean isn't being pulled up with for his stupidity as well. Although on the flip side Brown got away with a standard piece of thuggery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonBairn Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Why does it cost £1000 for an appeal? It's anyone's guess this one Even worse for the likes of Aberdeen or Inverness. They have to prepare their case, travel to Glasgow, which may include an overnight stay All to prove how incompetent a referee is and how shoddy a corrupt football association is run Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 It costing money for an appeal (I assume the money goes to the players' association or some such charitable donation but it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if Regan sat lighting cigars with it during the hearing) and an extra game to the suspension for it failing just smacks of despotic spite from the folk in charge. Oh, and, Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayseed Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Why does it cost £1000 for an appeal? Succulent Lamb doesn't come cheap. Surprised a sheep shagger couldn't work that out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve McQueen Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 The £1000 fee is supposed to discourage frivolous claims like this one. You would appeal everything without it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim999 Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 This pishy procedure could be sorted if there was a panel of ex players and ex refs who met up every Monday to look over contentious decisions. All top league games have cameras now. Even better if they came out and explained their findings. It would be more transparent, the fans would know why a decision was reached so even if they didn't agree they'd get an explanation. It may even drag refereeing standards up as they'd have nobody to hide behind. I doubt there's any Scottish fitba fan who doesn't think refereeing standards are pretty low just now. Even though seeing it live I thought it was no more than a yellow card I can still see why at the time the red was given. So we've a player who now has a two game ban for a tackle which wasn't even the worst in the match. On a slightly different slant I look forward to Yogi going head to head with the compliance officer after reading his views in the local rag this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 This pishy procedure could be sorted if there was a panel of ex players and ex refs who met up every Monday to look over contentious decisions. Most ex-players are morons though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Frivolous? St Johnstone fans seem to be really touchy when it comes to Aberdeen at the moment. Hopefully you don't suffer due to incompetent refereeing, £1000 is a huge amount of money to a club like st Johnstone. We have, many times. My favourite was when our manager once got sent off for being angry a Celtic player who'd been off the pitch injured was allowed straight back onto the pitch directly into where we were heading with the ball, pretty sure he came on and took the ball straight away and started a counter attack they almost scored from. Not sure when we actually last appealed anything though, maybe when Anderson was sent off for a "last man tackle" on the halfway line in a previous season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim999 Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Most ex-players are morons though. Struggling to argue with that!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloPerth Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 I was a bit surprised at Aberdeen contesting the Hayes one, with the risk of an increased ban. I thought he was a bit unlucky to be sent off but it was a wee bit wreckless. One of those where you feel aggrieved at the time but then move on. I always thought the appeal procedure was more for blatant refereeing mistakes - maybe where a player goes down injured and a lad is sent off who never actually touched him. Having said that, if hearts can get away with the Patterson one then possibly aberdeen felt it was worth a go as there wasn't much between them. The trial by sportscene thing still grates with me. They analyse the McLean kick to death, and don't even mention Browns challenge. Saints had 3 players cited and banned last season because of sportscene showing incidents over and over, and then would completely ignore similar incidents weeks later by others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7-2 Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Do clubs get the £1000 back if they win the appeal? They should do but it is the SFA we're dealing with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberDon Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Do clubs get the £1000 back if they win the appeal? They should do but it is the SFA we're dealing with. I believe that the £1000 is payable upon rejection of the appeal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7-2 Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 I believe that the £1000 is payable upon rejection of the appeal. Ah right. Thought every appeal had to pay to lodge it and the only penalty for frivolity was the extra game. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergie's no1 fan Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 There was enough justification for the referee to give a red card and for the panel to uphold it. If it was a Saints player I'd be complaining Scott Brown got away with one just as bad though, looked like a 2 footed stamp. McLean's was just about an assault. Can't believe he got away with booting the guy on the head! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williemillersmoustache Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Maybe if Lustig hadn't wrapped himself around the ball he wouldn't have been in a position to headbutt MacLeans boot. Hate that, demanding a free kicking pish. Having said that, if hearts can get away with the Patterson one then possibly aberdeen felt it was worth a go as there wasn't much between them. This. Well worth challenging, thought Patersons was totally out of control and could see why it was given. Hayes was a mistake but it was a different panel to Patersons (one assumes a panel that didn't have to travel very far to get to hampden) so as usual we are left with a total lack of consistency on and off the park in terms of decisions/punishments etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenlantern Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 It was a 50/50 ball, Hayes had every right to go for it. It was the way in which he executed the tackle that got him the red. I can see why the beaks rejected the appeal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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