The SFA will looking to host an end of season VAR summit.
With the second half of the season running from mid December through until the end of May most managers will be heading off on holiday to get a break.
Only five Premiership managers have survived the course of the season with the issues and stresses increased by the introduction of VAR and the lack of transparency from the SFA as conflicting decisions occur on an almost weekly basis.
On January 7, Football Scotland reported Ange Postecoglou saying:
I’ve always felt that with human beings involved, errors will happen and things will even out over the course of the year. But if you look from the introduction of VAR, we’ve had some, I think, pretty rough decisions against us, and that’s not going to even itself out over one year: no chance are we going to get three [questionable] penalties in our favour.
Typically there was no reply to those comments with most Premiership bosses saying similar at different times of the season, at the weekend it was Malky Mackay of Ross County.
Maxwell and referee chief Crawford Allan have barely been heard but after meeting the media yesterday the Daily Mail reports the SFA chief saying:
When we implemented it, we used the World Cup break and we got the chief execs and some of the managers on the call and we had a chat about the first four or five weeks.
We said we would do the same at the end of the season to have a bit of a review. That hasn’t changed. We will organise that and do that and it’s right that we do it because it lets us hear from clubs and it lets clubs hear from us. We need to keep that dialogue open.
A conference call is going to sort out VAR?!
What a pitiful PR effort from the SFA.
There needs to be a full blown review with managers, with statistical analyses and
VAR coaching given to match officials – using last season’s ‘confusing’ decisions.
A conference call just means more of the same VAR confusion next season.
…and still no penalties against a certain club!
Forget VAR. The source of the problem is still the referees in the Scottish game. Until they change the recruitment methods (expand the gene pool) and improve the training and development of the referees they are just taking the piss.
Stop the dog and pony show!
Why do they bother with the smoke and mirror show pretending that they care what the clubs think?
The sfa/spfl are what they are. They are a very corrupt organization who have no shame in the way they favour the youngest club in the spfl, DESPITE the fact that this particular club have continually opposed every big decision made to advance the profile of the league!
They have allowed this single tail to wag the whole dog for years!
So we KNOW this is never going to change!