(16-08-2015, 00:59)St Charles Owl Wrote: You guys and your refs!! It seems every team, every week in Scotland get a bias/dodgy/crap (delete as appropriate) ref at their game. Either the standard of refs is exceptionly poor or Scottish football fans are all conspiracy theorists at heart!!!
Aside from the ref, good win today and a very much needed 3 points!! Irrespective of the performance, the points were the important thing today.
A quick reply to your 1st remark, albeit a tongue in cheek one, Saint Charles Owl - this referee shouldn't be officiating even juvenile matches if that's his normal level of performance - it was unacceptable and you really had to be there to witness it - no common sense and no perceived decent standard whatsoever! These guys are being paid a decent match fee by both clubs. Therefore we should expect a bit better accountability than what was observed yesterday afternoon. There is a problem when a referee plays a big part in spoiling a football match as a spectacle and that should not be happening!! The standard of refereeing is generally poor in Scotland and I believe it's that way because we don't have a great pick of referees in this country - there is not enough folk interested in progressing up the ranks and refereeing football matches and who can blame them! That leaves a limited choice for the Scottish Football Association and consequently the overall standard of refereeing is likely to be poor. I wish the official ref observer's system was far more proactive than it appears to be, the onus being to demote poorly performing referees and replace them with potentially better ones! That's at least a formal method of improving the standard of refereeing and that would be to the benefit of football at the top level and indeed at the levels below that as well.