WE asked yesterday if you thought that the Scottish FA was fit fir purpose. Responses came via email and also by posting on Celtic Noise, the Celtic fans forum. Here’s some of your replies, starting with some from Celtic Noise and then some of the email replies to The Celtic Star…

Shamateur Stumbling and Bumbling

Scottish football, across all levels, has underperformed due to non-footballing people making football decisions.

Our own club has had it’s own issues with non-footballing people being far too involved in areas that they have no specialist expertise in, and when you look at the make up of the SFA and their shamateur stumbling and bumbling – then it’s no wonder that Scottish football has been in disarray for (at least) the last 30-years.

For an organisation which is so in love with rule by committee, surely it is not beyond the wit of man to invite appropriate former football men to formulate another committee and a plan for the development of grass-roots football and a re-structuring of Scottish football throughout the leagues.

This country cannot sustain the amount of senior teams it currently harbours and the production line of talent that our streets used to create by the truckload are a dim and distant memory.

The SFA, SPFL and Scottish League must surely realise that they are as relevant as a fart in a hurricane? Their decision making processes are an insult to parody and to have three organisational bodies producing the mother of all clusterf*cks has made us little more than a footballing backwater.

Leave business matters to businessmen, political matters to politicians, and football matters to footballers.

Those clowns running our game wouldn’t even get a gig at a kids party.

Spherical Planet, a well-known member on Celtic Noise

Res 12 Persistence

Fair play to Auldheid and the Res 12 crew for their persistence, but I fear for whatever reason our board will do hee haw. As for the Scottish Freemasonry Association, they can get tae phuq!”

Michael Duffy

Scotland Freeloaders Association

Lot of unhappy Tartan Army on the various message board’s, demanding change within SFA, corruption and freeloading has to stop. Monies that should be going into the game, is paying for up to 120 freeloading members costing £5,000+ for every away game.

SFA = Scotland Freeloaders Association.

Tartantim

Nail on the Head

Thought the first article was pretty informative. It seems the SFA, to put it as diplomatically as possible, constantly operates on autopilot. Completely agree with this conclusion:

“Scotland will not flourish until this lot are cleared out once and for all.”

It’s hard to argue against David Potter in the second. I think he hits the nail on the head in that one, especially about Scotland needing a “Green Brigade”, that’s an interesting thought.

Icafiero

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Moving on to some of your emails sent into The Celtic Star yesterday…

Cabal of cowards, charlatans and colluding cheats

Great article. Personally speaking, I haven’t been back at Hampden since the LNS decision and I won’t be going back. I won’t give a penny or a shred of authenticity to that cabal of cowards, charlatans and colluding cheats.

This has hurt me obviously, with the Triple Treble but I made my decision and I’m sticking to it.

The same goes for Scotland. I used to go to the vast majority of internationals and support my country. Not anymore. The dark blue jersey and the lion rampant badge that I used to love are now sadly just symbols of the cheats at Hampden.

These guys care nothing for football in this country. These guys have failed every football fan in this country. They give the managers job to their pals and in the past have overlooked better men like Tommy Burns.

They’re not fit for purpose and a clear out is long overdue. Do that, and overturn the lie of the ‘same club’ shit and I may reconsider. But I won’t be holding my breath.

Chris McDougall

Stevie Clarke’s View

No they are clearly not fit for purpose, unless the purpose is to have committees of small minded wee men living off free lunches. They have done nothing to help football in Scotland develop.

Stevie Clarke (no not that one, we don’t so think anyway)

Waiting room somnolents

Waiting room somnolents for their turn to get on the gravy train. Turnbull Hutton summed them up to a tee. Southern puppets like Regan and Doncaster willing to be manipulated by the m*sonic cabal.

George Sheridan

Discombobulation of the cognitive dissonance type

The SFA are sh*tebags. I got blocked for asking them every Monday to reopen the LNS inquiry as EBT’S were NOT legal the way David Murray used them. I also asked for a copy of the way agreement.

As being a season ticket holder I feel we are obliged to see what the governing sports body is doing with our money.

My last question was can you buy TITLES if you have been liquidated? I’m still waiting on answer.

That’s the problem the SFA have no one to answer too.

DISCOMBOBULATION of the cognitive dissonance type.

Brian Connor

Unpunished Crimes and Cheating

The SCOTTISH FA are a joke. It needs cleaned out from top to bottom, Doncaster, Petrie, McRae, Maxwell, Ogilvie and the rest are only interested in assisting one club/clubs. That is a fact and why those clubs have never been punished for their crimes and cheating for over 25 maybe 30 years.

Hopefully the Res 12 guys get their investigation and the truth gets out.

John Mcghee

A ‘Celts for Change’ View

I love football debates, I strongly believe in honesty, fair-play, transparency accountability & with an agenda that is inclusive to all stakeholders of the game.

As one of the Celts For Change Bhoys, not raising your head above the parapet was never a consideration or you might have never have got involved. In the Scottish game their are too many closed doors, too many agendas and too many cowards.

Celtic FC from word go have been in a no win situation Re RFC 1872, there is a but and that is they have a duty care to The Entire Celtic Family and Scottish Football(not the SFA) to challenge anything that is brought into the public domain that is unjust and must be challenged and legally if need be.

Celtic FC is the powerhouse of Scottish Football on and off the field, the threat of a bloody nose when chasing fair play should very be much a weapon of choice if fair play is not administered or evident, yet we have not flexed our muscles to the detriment of all other stakeholders of our game and none more than Celtic Supporters.

For too long Scottish fans have been short changed, defrauded and misled by too much underhandedness by oldco and newco and assisted by SFA and SPL administrators (one would almost believe as there cohorts).

The Scotland National Team is dying on its feet with out doubt it will not progress mostly due to deep rooted agendas and administrators of the poorest kind.

When Celts For Change asked fans to question their hearts Re financing a corrupt old board, in other words “a boycott” it was after much deliberation and with a heavy heart that we went public.

Heads well and truly above the parapet to shot down. Sir Robert Kelly & Co stood up to some of these people in the past we are now stronger than we have ever been. This current board have to take a stand for the better of Scottish Football.

HH, Colin Duncan

And we play Belgium on Monday!

And it doesn’t get any easier for Steve Clarke and his Scotland side. Tomorrow night Belgium, currently ranked No 1 in the World come to Hampden to play in the Euro Qualifying campaign which for Scotland is turning into am embarrassing nightmare – thanks to the Scottish FA.

There’s still time to express your own thoughts on the shambles at the Scottish FA. You can post on Celtic Noise (signing up is quick and easy and it’s a friendly Celtic space on the internet) or email editor@thecelticstar.co.uk