The Transparent Mr. Regan: The Game's Up

[ian1964 10,547]

Lifted from FF:

 

 

It can't be easy running a popular sport in a country where reasonable opinions and calm discussion aren't popular or common.

 

But I think today may be a big day: it's surely the day that the fans and the Club alike have to consider that Stewart M. Regan is unfit for purpose. There's a lot of emotive things to discuss - and indeed dismiss - but the reason for this lack of faith - were it ever fully present - should not be too difficult to follow, follow.

 

Stewart,

 

Itâ??s not the blocking on Twitter of almost every Rangers fan who has, politely or otherwise, had the gall to ask difficult questions of you.

 

Itâ??s not the way you facilitated the invitation of Peter Lawwell onto an SFA board as a reward for the way in which his Club guaranteed that your officials had to go on strike and accused you through their resident QC McBride of institutional bias.

 

Itâ??s not the muddled and bizarre comments and statements attributed to you which suggest that you donâ??t understand the game and donâ??t even know why people are shaking their heads.

 

And itâ??s not even the fact that your new â??transparentâ?? SFA regime seems to run in accordance with a definition and understanding of the term that is denied the rest of us mere mortals.

 

No, Stewart, itâ??s because youâ??re incompetent and now guilty of admitting you cannot offer clubs fair treatment.

 

In response to a comment regarding todayâ??s Aluko ban and the similarities it may or may not have had with previous â?? weâ??ll call them Oâ??Connoresque â?? incidents, the SFA Chief Executive had this to say:

 

"Separate panels sit for every case and consider the evidence. You cannot compare one case directly against another."

 

Defending the implementation of a two-match ban for simulation judged after the event he explains why this severe punishment is necessary:

 

"If a referee makes a decision that has an impact on a game, because of simulation, then that is why it is not just a yellow card."

 

He further clarified the reasoning behind the two-game suspension in the Aluko case thus:

 

â??It changed the game.â?

 

Where do you start with this?

 

Does the punishment not apply if the alleged incident occurs when the scoreline is seven-nil? If Jelavic had fallen on his Croatian coccyx and ballooned it over the bar it wouldnâ??t have mattered?

 

Given that â?? in this case â?? Alukoâ??s team were already one goal up what exactly does it mean to say â??it changed the game.â? It didnâ??t change the result and we certainly cannot presume that the final score would have been one-one had the penalty not been awarded and converted. Every decision taken changes the game. In this context it is a nonsensical, worthless phrase.

 

When fans see one player dive and go unpunished by a sitting panel and another panel agree in another case with the ref that there is contact yet upholds the decision to ban the player what conclusion, exactly, are we supposed to draw? There is nothing more certain in Scottish football this season than a future SFA panel clearing a player of simulation. All we need for this whole situation to get worse is for that player to be an unfortunate member of a Celtic team presently doing rather well in the discipline stakes.

 

The single biggest problem facing the SFA is the clear evidence that points towards the media â?? BBC production/editorial teams for Sportsound and Sportscene in particular â?? being the ones responsible for deciding what is and what is not worthy of being considered and acted upon by Vincent Lunny. That is something missing from todayâ??s otherwise excellent response from an incandescent Rangers manager. Those questions â?? how an unaccountable person or persons can have so much influence on a procedure supposedly made less open to legal action â?? have to be answered and the Club has to do what the fans cannot accomplish.

 

And all the while SFA CEO Regan blocks fans asking questions and SFA communications chief Darryl Broadfoot gets into arguments with people about how much weight they can bench?

 

It would be funny were it not so sad.

[craig 5,199]

I do actually think that it is time for the Club and fans to unite in their condemnation - not of the Aluko banning as that is no better than contentious. But most definitely in the inconsistent, non-transparent application of this review panel.

 

SFA = Stupid, Farcical, Arseholes

[metlika 0]

Stewart Regan has never met with my approval and he is further proving me correct.

 

O'Connors penalty was a game winning goal and Regan has the audacity to say they are different scenarios.

 

Man is totally out of his depth.

[Danny 0]

SFA hasn't had an adequate CE pretty much for as long as I can remember. From Taylor, to Farry, To Smith, Regan etc - all have been poor and incompetent. It's clearly a job which brings the worst out in people.

[craig 5,199]

SFA hasn't had an adequate CE pretty much for as long as I can remember. From Taylor, to Farry, To Smith, Regan etc - all have been poor and incompetent. It's clearly a job which brings the worst out in people.

 

Or the selection panel need sacked

[Guest Dutchy]

I heard that comment of Regan's reported on the radio. Apparently it was a 'tweet', so not transparency for those of us that have no time for that medium of information distribution.

 

I was listening to the part where he said," Seperate panels sit for every case and consider the evidence. You cannot compare one case directly against another." Which got me thinking how to you even begin to formulate a rule book if there is no similarities between cases. The only diffirence I could see between the O'Connor case and the Aluko case was Hibs assistant manager said that O'Connor did dive and the 'panel' decided he didn't on appeal. Aluko strenuosly denies diving, and the panel agree there was contact, but don't allow the appeal.

 

Rangers always seem to get the raw end of the stick whenever anything new comes into the rules.

 

The SFA under Regan are not only liars, they're corrupt. Much the same as the rest of this country we live in I suppose.

 

Is there anyway to suspend him?