Stewart Regan has confirmed that there will be no Fast Track Disciplinary panel hearing before Wednesday’s SPL card.
The much acclaimed Fast Track procedure has come under scrutiny recently with Rangers and Motherwell highly critical of the system.
With no procedure in place to hear appeals against decisions at the weekend Rangers are certain to appeal against Lee McCulloch’s red card at St Mirren knowing that regardless of the outcome the midfielder will be free to play against Celtic on Wednesday night.
Responding to the question of appeal hearings the SFA chief used his twitter account to clear up the matter saying: “There is not enough time between fixtures for Scottish FA and club to have allotted time to consider their position. So it will roll over until next panel.”
While most of the country returns to work tomorrow it seems that the SFA are unable to operate during the busy festive programme.
For the benefit of all players and clubs surely it shouldn’t have been too difficult to have half a dozen panel members on standby by to review incidents from Saturday ahead of the Wednesday card.
UPDATE At 4pm Monday Rangers confirmed that they will appeal against McCulloch’s red card with January 5 the first available date for the appeal to be heard.
If the appeal is rejected McCulloch will miss the Scottish Cup tie away to Arbroath.
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U mean to say McThug might be able to play against us on Wed night…..well thats great news, music to my ears , I truly hope so. He’s a complete waste of space!!!
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Ah another decision made for aunt sally great job if you can get one fast track when it ok to appeal so double or treble the lenth of ban if you appeal and don’t win easy I think the panel should have been put on standby for monday if not dont play games til it will be
How did the panel not foresee something like this happening? They have undermined their own system by using it when it fits their holidays. You can’t pick and choose what rules to apply, depending on your paperwork. You are not Michele Selby!!!
Like jhimmy said good news the guys a mug just hope he doesn’t hurt anyone. Got the feeling of a 3 or 4 zilch to the bhoys hailhail
Elbows will kick everything in Green & White that moves, oh and elbow also.
Can’t wait to see how Alex Salmond blames Celtic when ragers kick and elbow their way through Wednesday night.
We all know the social consequences when they lose.
The SFA are amateur & show their incompetence in being unable to do normal business on a normal workday.
Surely if fans and players can participate in games over the festive period they can too, that’s assuming they want to have a hearing of course!!
We should have a winter shut down anyway. Mcelbows dosnt bother me i still think gollum with be our biggest problem.
Never underestimate our Mankie cheating honest mistake referees.
Well I don’t know about all of you but I am shocked to hear this! Yeah, right! This fast track system would have been in place had it been Scott Brown or Kayal. Looking like the old “one rule for rangers, one rule for everyone else”.
the fast rack procedure would have definitely been on if it had been jelavic who got the card.
the sfa know, like many on here, that mcculloch is clearly an advantage for celtic.
and there is absolutely no doubt that it was the current celtic man at the sfa bellowing under no circumstances would an appeal take place to recind mcculloch’s card before wedensday!
yes, conspiracy – it aint a theory no more, is it!!!
Heard a rumour from a stats mad pal of mine that gollum hasnt sent a player off playing against us and doubts whether we’ve had a penalty from him, clarification anyone?
Who cares who is available for selection for any of our opponents or who is about to officiate in our fixtures. We do our job right, it doen’t matter who is in the opposition line up or who the referee is.
Gerry D – so that you can sleep at night, WC has sent off 2 Celts and 5 opposition (yellow 14-30), gave Celtic 3 penalties and 3 to the opposition. Celtic have won 15 times from 20 with him in the middle.
I don’t know what are stats are on average but I would say we would normally have more than 3 penalties for us in 20 games and less than 3 penalties against us on average? Also I think a red card every 10 games would be more than average also, maybe Gollum wouldn’t be under such scrutiny if he didn’t give a penalty for an incident that happened BEHIND him! I’ve heard the Rangers fans insist he did see it, well if that’s true it is just as bad because it was never a foul and clubfoot BLATANTLY dived, either way the guys a cheat.
Thanks for clarification, wouldve slept well anyway!
Tam do you have stats for Collum’s Rangers matches?
Two of the opponents sent off against Celtic were Hamilton players in the last ten minutes of a game after James Forrest was sent off.
Elbows is useless, he is nothing but a diver and a cheat, loves dishing it out and then when someone blinks in his direction he drops to the floor, an embarrassment of a man. What I will say though is with Gollum as the referee diving and cheating could be a huge attribute to his team on Wednesday.
I get the impression lots of our fans are thinking Gollum will have to at least pretend fair, he can’t give outrageous decisions like the one with clubfoot, the reality is he is more than capable of the same, we had it for three ENTIRE seasons when Wally Smyth was at Ibrox, it was literally open bias, every single game V us we all said “it can’t happen again”, and it did, over and over and over again.