Anyone clued up enough to know whether Meekings can be retrospectively punished by the compliance officer? 

 

I can handle having only Warren missing, but the thought of Meekings also being out fills me with dread! 

 

Major props to Nick Ross for what seems to be him taking responsibility for the yellow card in an effort to clear Draper to make the final, whilst ruling himself out in the process. 

Great news. Now go and score the winner,Josh.

Only decision to be made, ends a rotten week for a truly superb young footballer    

Fully expecting Josh to score og in Final now...

Great news thoughs. Lets get this Party started!!

Superb! Now let's get back to looking forward to an historic event in our history. Move on - nothing to see here.

Now all go and watch the highlights and get that feeling back. 

Great news- what a farce it's been though.

Brilliant news. I wonder how Specsavers reacted!

I think most football fans will agree that this was a waste of time and money, and it did take a bit of shine of one of the best results, if not the best result in our history. Josh has been through the ringer, and would probably not have had to go through this without those Celts with a chip on their shoulder and the conspiracy theorists, such as John Collins. Celtics lack of respect has brought the game into disrepute, and the SFA jumped when told to by Celtic and those "best fans in the world" cough cough ( always easy to support a team that wins things )

 

Celtic and their glorious fans have proved in the last few days that they are indeed far from that quote. Wonder what they expected from the SFA in reply to their letter. Dear Celtic, we write to confirm that the officials at the semi final were all hand picked blue noses, as we at the SFA could not stand that you had the chance of winning a treble. Down at the Lodge a few weeks back we all agreed that the best way to stick it right up Celtic was to have the ref upset your glorious legions of conspiracy believing fans that they was robbed. We prefer that Celtic Football Club have more conspiracy theories than trophies, so here's another one for you.

 

Wonder if the condemnation from varying officials from the game influenced their decision, or was it ICT who defended most successfully?

 

All we hope now is Josh enjoys playing in the final, and we enjoy supporting him to the hilt. 

Fantastic news !!!! Thankfully the three panelists had a brain !!!

We can all now get back on track and look forward to the best

day out in ICT s history with no Celtic involvement .Delighted

for Josh and Well Done to all involved in getting justice for him .

But the can of worms is still open n'est ce pas? The incident was still looked at so therefore others will have to follow....................or am I wrong?

 

Brilliant news!!

Now all go and watch the highlights and get that feeling back. 

doing a search for Tony McGlennan - the compliance officer - turned up this little witty ditty .... 

http://grahamspiersdiary.blogspot.ca/2014_08_01_archive.html

Brilliant news and justice served. Delighted for the boy. Its a real shame this has overshadowed the best result, imo, in the clubs history.

I've lost a lot of respect for Celtic and what little I had left for the SFA. If anything good comes of this, it'll be P45s for those clowns that continually make a hash of the running of the game in this country.

Let's get back to celebrating the deserved victory and enjoy the run in to the end of an amazing season.

Fantastic news !!!! Thankfully the three panelists had a brain !!!

We can all now get back on track and look forward to the best

day out in ICT s history with no Celtic involvement .Delighted

for Josh and Well Done to all involved in getting justice for him .

Don't know how true it is but one of the local journalists on Twitter naming Adams Snr as a panel member. Thanks to the panel for their common sense anyway.

Hope Josh has to wear a giant affro sized bandage for the final !

Fantastic news !!!! Thankfully the three panelists had a brain !!!

We can all now get back on track and look forward to the best

day out in ICT s history with no Celtic involvement .Delighted

for Josh and Well Done to all involved in getting justice for him .

Don't know how true it is but one of the local journalists on Twitter naming Adams Snr as a panel member. Thanks to the panel for their common sense anyway.

He was on Radio Scotland just now and was speaking in favour of Josh

So you could be right .Maybe we owe him one

Fantastic news !!!! Thankfully the three panelists had a brain !!!

We can all now get back on track and look forward to the best

day out in ICT s history with no Celtic involvement .Delighted

for Josh and Well Done to all involved in getting justice for him .

Don't know how true it is but one of the local journalists on Twitter naming Adams Snr as a panel member. Thanks to the panel for their common sense anyway.

He was on Radio Scotland just now and was speaking in favour of Josh

So you could be right .Maybe we owe him one

Think it was his dad.

Cue a Celtic backlash claiming this is proof of institutional anti-Celtic sentiment at SFA. It won't end here - the SFA put themselves in a no win situation.

Obviously we don't know why the panel reached their decision to dismiss the case. I've listened to the Sportsound debate with various theories as to why, but to me it is quite simple. The charge referred to deliberately handling the ball , there is no way that intent could be proved one way or the other, so the only possible outcome was , case dismissed.

Justice prevails......... eventually!

The panel has handled it very well 

cue string of rubbish puns.....

 

Great news!

Great news.

 

But I note that the outcome was described as the case having been dismissed whereas when Ciftci's appeal was successful the outcome was not proven.  Does this mean that the club's legal team argued successfully that the Notice of Complaint was not valid and therefore it was not actually put to a panel?  Either way, in line with the culture of openness that the SFA claim they operate in, I guess we will never know why the case was brought in the first case or why it was subsequently dismissed. 

 

I also note that Barry Robson was unsuccessful in his appeal.  I am really quite surprised at that but at least it means he won't be playing against us on Saturday

                                                  amen

The latest BBC report seems to suggest the case was dismissed because the incident had been seen by the match officials after all.

The article states "In his report, referee Steven McLean had explained he had sought the advice of Alan Muir - the official behind the goal - and was told by him that he thought the ball had struck the defender's head".

This being the case, should the CO have even been involved? Officials saw the "offence" but got it wrong. I thought the CO could only cite for things missed by the match officials?

Great news.

 

But I note that the outcome was described as the case having been dismissed whereas when Ciftci's appeal was successful the outcome was not proven.  Does this mean that the club's legal team argued successfully that the Notice of Complaint was not valid and therefore it was not actually put to a panel?  Either way, in line with the culture of openness that the SFA claim they operate in, I guess we will never know why the case was brought in the first case or why it was subsequently dismissed. 

 

I also note that Barry Robson was unsuccessful in his appeal.  I am really quite surprised at that but at least it means he won't be playing against us on Saturday

Quite right, DD. It sounds like the incident was in the ref's report and Muir said he thought it hit his head. On that basis, the compliance officer should not have taken this forward because the process is for incidents not seen. The finding was that it was an "honest mistake by the officials". Shambles!