McCoist Shocked By Aluko Ban

[der Berliner 4,165]

I think relations to the SFA have now gone very icy indeed, while they get polar with the BBC. Long may it (finally) continue.

[craig 5,199]

Not so sure about Ally going down this road....ok Sone dived so what? Two game ban, take it, we can moan about justice AFTER this decision.

 

We will certainly have bullets.

 

Huh ?

 

McCoist DID wait till after the decision

[Danny 0]

I'm all for Ally defending his players, but while the process is flawed, the outcome wasn't. Every time I see the incident it looks more and more blatant and quite insulting. There was zero contact in any of the clear replays I've seen.

 

I think Ally should just have kept quiet, unless stating fairly that similar cases aren't being similarly punished.

[calscot 0]

A two game ban when there WAS contact is not the right outcome. I think if the ref had the benefit of magical, instant TV replays in his head, at the time the result should have, IMO, been play-on, not a sending off or even a booking. If we ended up drawing the game fair enough, but if the officiating had been 100% fair all season, we'd still be in a better position than now and Celtic would be in a worse one.

 

In fact, if you could retrospectively deduct points for cheating in games for the last five years, we'd be odds on for five in a row.

 

If we're using technology like this now, why can't we have instant replays at the match like Rugby? We could even make it three challenges like tennis to reduce the number of times it is used. I have no problem with increasing the fairness of officiating as long as it does so across the board. We may suffer from TV replays but on past history I think we'd massively benefit. Even if we didn't in future, I'm the kind of person who doesn't see the attraction of winning by cheating.

 

There are very few of us who really think we had a proper shout for a penalty but what we're complaining about is not only a stupid system but what looks to be a corrupt one which only punishes Rangers for the same type of incidents.

[Gazza_8 233]

I love all the comments complimenting McCoist on his statement. If Lennon came away with someone like this we'd be wanting him hung out to dry!

 

[Gazza_8 233]

A two game ban when there WAS contact is not the right outcome. I think if the ref had the benefit of magical, instant TV replays in his head, at the time the result should have, IMO, been play-on, not a sending off or even a booking. If we ended up drawing the game fair enough, but if the officiating had been 100% fair all season, we'd still be in a better position than now and Celtic would be in a worse one.

 

In fact, if you could retrospectively deduct points for cheating in games for the last five years, we'd be odds on for five in a row.

 

If we're using technology like this now, why can't we have instant replays at the match like Rugby? We could even make it three challenges like tennis to reduce the number of times it is used. I have no problem with increasing the fairness of officiating as long as it does so across the board. We may suffer from TV replays but on past history I think we'd massively benefit. Even if we didn't in future, I'm the kind of person who doesn't see the attraction of winning by cheating.

 

There are very few of us who really think we had a proper shout for a penalty but what we're complaining about is not only a stupid system but what looks to be a corrupt one which only punishes Rangers for the same type of incidents.

 

Doesn't mean a player should go down. Contact happens all over the park and players stay on their feet. Contact doesn't automatically mean a foul.

[Danny 0]

I'm being honest, not only was the dive after he went past Hardie, but for the life of me I just can't even see the slightest of contact between them.

[Gazza_8 233]

I'm being honest, not only was the dive after he went past Hardie, but for the life of me I just can't even see the slightest of contact between them.

 

I think there was a slight touching of arms. Hardly enough for a grown adult to collapse to the ground though!

[calscot 0]

Doesn't mean a player should go down. Contact happens all over the park and players stay on their feet. Contact doesn't automatically mean a foul.

 

I see players fall over all the time. Sometimes it's a foul, sometimes it's a dive and sometimes it's neither. And there are a lot of grey areas in between those three. When you're jinking around at speed, it doesn't take much to put you over.

 

It always looks like less contact on telly and players are castigated for lying in agony at what looked like a mild contact - however I've seen loads of guys be injured for weeks at 5-a-side for something innocuous looking at close quarters and it's happened to me too.

 

Contact doesn't automatically mean a foul, I agree, but it does cast some doubt on whether a fall is a dive. Falling and not getting a foul doesn't automatically mean a dive.

[Danny 0]

I think there was a slight touching of arms. Hardly enough for a grown adult to collapse to the ground though!

 

I've seen the photo with Hardie's hand on Aluko, but when you watch the replay it's close to invisible. End of the day, it was a dive, I think most are agreed on that, even if we disagree on the extent of it and the contact.

 

But it's a shambles at the SFA to ban him for 2 games when O'Connor got away with it entirely despite admitting guilt.

 

The SFA continues to be woefully run. But then, how many football organisations are well run? Look at FIFA? Even Uefa's a mess at times.