Quote Originally Posted by BCram View Post
Heard some of that. Gave up because the guy was defending the indefensible. Our refs are rubbish because they are actually in the driving seat. They don't get paid much, aren't full time, bit like volunteers and if you don't like the way they do the job who is going to sack them and get someone good in?

People are getting increasingly annoyed by the incompetence at best, blatant bias at worst, of our referees. Having their decisions regularly laughed at every week is making it a cheats charter now in football. The ruling body has got to bring in VAR, it is going to happen and will be a stipulation shortly from Uefa/Fifa, so we may as well bite the bullet and get it done for all the clubs in the SPFL. Should be paid for out of the money from the TV companies because they are the current source of all the howlers we see each week.
Premier League referees in Scotland are well paid for two hours work per game. I recently read that they received £850 per game compared with £195 for refereeing games in the Championship.
Steven McLean is employed by the SFA during the week and a couple of years ago I read that his job was to explain to players in each club the laws of the game.
If Steven McLean and his fellow referees make deadfful refereeing decisions every week how are players going to be bothered listening to him.
Unfortunately Steven McLean, Willie Collum and Andrew Dallas (thanks to his father) are all fireproof and no matter how many dreadful mistakes they make they will never be handed their P45.